IN THE September 19, 2011, ISSUE
The Department of Sharia
Islam’s good cop proved cannier than its bad.
Magazine
Also In This Issue
Articles
His Father’s Son
Moammar Qaddafi has been rich in sons, in a culture that especially prizes sons. He has seven of them, and one daughter. Some of the sons, it’s true, are nothing ...
What Constitutionalism Means
Not a reluctance to amend the Constitution, but a willingness to follow its rules.
Features
The Innocents Abroad
Obama’s foreign policy is characterized by naïveté and distaste for America.
Books, Arts & Manners
Translucent Truth
A review of Apricot Jam and Other Stories, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Kenneth Lantz and Stephan Solzhenitsyn.
God and Man in the Boardroom
A review of The Pope & the CEO: John Paul II’s Leadership Lessons to a Young Swiss Guard, by Andreas Widmer.
Reality Shows
A review of Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from Kennedy–Nixon to Obama–McCain, by Jim Lehrer.
Trailer Park
But after the exhortations and the timewasters and before the show come the trailers.
Sections
Postcards from the Continent
The vacation is over, and I am fully qualified to make broad, shallow generalizations about Europe.
From the Archives of the New York Times . . .
Why all of the God talk? What do these ‘Founders’ mean with all of these statements?
