IN THE February 6, 2012, ISSUE
Let Us Now Praise Private Equity
To create new jobs, you must destroy old ones.
Magazine
Also In This Issue
Articles
Features
Books, Arts & Manners
The Virtue Deficit
A review of Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010, by Charles Murray.
The Writer’s Life
A review of But What Do You Actually Do?: A Literary Vagabondage, by Alistair Horne.
Sections
Mr. Hitchens and I
“Pen pals” is much too hearty and well-adjusted for either of the difficult personalities involved.
The Gilded Choo-choo
Aside from the used diaper in the sleeping-car compartment, it wasn’t a bad train trip.
Paul the Parochial
Greta Garbo can say “I vont to be alone”; great powers don’t get the option.