Features

The Child-Fat Problem
Overweight kids in home-alone America
Mary Eberstadt

The Place of Government
Setting the terms to promote competition
Sebastian Mallaby

What is "Multilateral"?
An abused term in the international relations debate
John Van Oudenaren

From Sarajevo to September 11
The future of globalization
John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge

Prevention Programs and Scientific Nonsense
A report from the field
D. Gorman

Books

Humans, Animals, and the Human-Animal
Steven Menashi on Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy by Matthew Scully
Steven Menashi

On the Fringe
Eli Lehrer on The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration by Carol Swain
Eli Lehrer

The Christian Future
Ross Douthat on The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity by Philip Jenkins
Ross Douthat

Letters

Education research; reproductive cloning