IN THE November 23, 2009, ISSUE
Neatherworld
‘Would it not be easier,” wrote Bertolt Brecht after the East German uprising in 1953, “for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?”
Magazine
Also In This Issue
Articles
Dazed and Confused
Israelis suspect that the administration’s approach to world politics is simply naïve
The View From Man Bear Pig
On the ground in Afghanistan, it’s still a question of power, not politics
Correan War
With help from an old friend of President Obama, Ecuador declares war on capitalism
Features
Books, Arts & Manners
A Rising And Not a Setting Sun
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815, by Gordon S. Wood (Oxford, 778 pp., $35)
China Alone?
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order, by Martin Jacques (Penguin, 576 pp., $29.95)
Time Travel In a Melting Pot
Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York, by William Grimes (North Point, 384 pp., $30)
Be Careful What You Ask For
Point of No Return portrays middle-class life with a sympathetic honesty that is both unromantic and uncommon
Dark and Wild
This is a film about childhood that can be appreciated by pretentious, nitpicky grown-ups, it will find its fiercest fans among the Maxes of the world
Driveway Drama
When the kids have left home, we’ll rent a nice little apartment somewhere
Sections
Just Because Stories
Do not ask from whom freedom of opinion has been stolen. It has been stolen from thee.
Neatherworld
‘Would it not be easier,” wrote Bertolt Brecht after the East German uprising in 1953, “for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?”