Features

The Terror Fringe
The deterritorialized tail of jihad
Thomas Rid, Marc Hecker

The Root of the Financial Crisis
A dearth of knowledge at the nexus of decisions
Arnold Kling

How China Won and Russia Lost
Two dissimilar economic paths
Paul R. Gregory, Kate Zhou

Bottom-up Nation Building
Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq
Amitai Etzioni

Primary Care’s Dim Prognosis
The hard choices that health-care reform overlooks
Philip Alper

The False Promise of Public Pensions
How do you pay those “defined” benefits?
Frederick Hess, Juliet Squire

Books

Putting Fowler Back in Fowler's
Liam Julian on A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by H.W. Fowler and edited by David Crystal
Liam Julian

Breakdown in the Academy
Peter Berkowitz on The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University by Louis Menand
Peter Berkowitz

Eurasian Exploration
Lloyd Richardson on Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher Beckwith
Lloyd Richardson

The Naughty Professor
Henrik Bering on Maurice Bowra: A Life by Leslie Mitchell
Henrik Bering