Summer 2009

Articles

Not Ready for Mt. Rushmore

Matthew Dallek

Reconciling the myth of Ronald Reagan with the reality

Shock Waves

Bethany Vaccaro

A blast in Baghdad tests the endurance of a soldier and his family

The Devil You Know

John B. Renehan

Keeping the peace in Ramadi calls for a little moral dexterity

Blue-Collar Brilliance

Mike Rose

Questioning assumptions about intelligence, work, and social class

Enough Already

Mark Edmundson

What I'd really like to tell the bores in my life

Words Apart

Witold Rybczynski

A writer in Quebec finds that language creates an unbridgeable divide

Any Way You Slice It

Rob Gurwitt

Sundays at the community oven aren't just about the pizza

Fiction

Précautions Inutiles

Thornton Wilder

Driving to the Moon

Jill McCorkle

Poetry

Gary Snyder's Long View

Langdon Hammer

Four Poems

Gary Snyder

Star Picture Tipi of Black Magpie

Dolores Hayden

Arts

The Meaning Behind the Lines

Wendy Smith

How Ibsen's toughness and Chekhov's tenderness transformed American playwriting and acting