Contents
NEW DEMOCRACY FORUM
In the National Interest
A new grand strategy for American foreign policy Stephen
M. Walt
With Richard
Falk, Joseph S. Nye Jr., Ervand
Abrahamian, Khalil Shikaki,
Naomi Chazan, Robert
Vickers Jr., Mahmood Mamdani,
John Tirman, Ivo
Daalder, James Lindsay,
Mary Kaldor, and Anne-Marie
Slaughter
Response
by Stephen M. Walt
ESSAYS
Hungry
for Air
Learning the language of torture Deborah
Stone
The
Blemish of Conquest
Moshe Dayan questioned
American goals in Vietnam. What would he say about Iraq? Martin
van Creveld
The
Good Empire
Should we pick
up where the British left off? Vivek
Chibber
Cold
War Casualties
How our claim
of victory distorts American foreign policy Neta
C. Crawford
American
Soup
Are we all
Anglo-Protestants? Claudio Lomnitz
Truth
in Numbers
Moral values
and the gay-marriage backlash did not help Bush Stephen
Ansolabehere and Charles Stewart III
NEW FICTION FORUM
My
Good Man FICTION Eric
Gansworth
New
Jews from the Old Country
David Bezmosgis, Gary Shteyngart, and others Val
Vinokur
Longing
for God
On writing Milk Darcey Steinke
ON POETRY
Strange Relations
Jesse Ball's March Book, Spencer Reece's The
Clerk's Tale, and Srikanth Reddy's Facts for Visitors DeSales
Harrison
An Unillusioned Life
Donald Justice's Collected Poems Stephen
Burt
The
Ethics of Language
Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely Alan
Gilbert
Microreviews
ON
FILM
For God and Country
Two versions of Henry V Alan
A. Stone
POEMS
Sunday Afternoon Stephen
Berg
Cloud of Witnesses G.C.
Waldrep
Corridor Honor
Moore
Disparu Honor
Moore
No Dream James
Longenbach
Love Poem Danielle
Pieratti
saints & or: notes
in the form of sonnets (millay effects) Michael
Farrell
Poet's Sampler: Stacy Szymaszek introduced
by Lisa Jarnot
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |