IN THE December 21, 2009, ISSUE
Shifty Shifting
Our changeable attorney general doesn’t do law; he does politics.
Magazine
Also In This Issue
Articles
But Now We Shout ‘No!’
Rising Republican fortunes reveal a backlash against the Democrats’ excesses.
The Fisherman’s Friend
A look at Art Pope’s distinctive, policy-centered brand of philanthropy.
Features
Books, Arts & Manners
Machine Dreams
Singularitarians believe that galloping progress in computer technology and brain science will, quite soon, lead to computers as smart as ourselves.
Sections
The Long View
Please delete all e-mails you’ve got in re: the Sun’s revolution around the Earth and our manipulation of the data to show that.
Silence Is Olden
There is no way we will ever have quiet libraries again, any more than libraries will ever put newspaper on sticks again.
