From World Affairs Journal, Robert Kagan on Neocon Nation: Neoconservatism, c. 1776; and Jacob Heilbrunn on Rank-Breakers: The Anatomy of an Industry. Tip-of-the-tongue states yield language insights: Probing the recall of those missing words provides a glimpse of how we turn thoughts into speech and how this process changes with age. From Forward, okay, fine, there really are no good Jewish men out there. Waste not: Here's a steamy solution to global warming. An interview with Thomas Bender, co-author of American Higher Education Transformed, 1940-2005. Does Asia exist? Rivals, by Bill Emmott, suggests we are witnessing its creation. An interview with Steven M. Teles, author of The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement. Computers have much better memories than people do — can we learn from them? Jurgen Habermas has spoken in support of the Archbishop of Canterbury on the subject of Shariah. When brain death isn't terminal: The case of a revived "brain-dead" accident victim raises some disturbing issues. A review of Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath by Michael Paul Mason. Colm Toibin reviews R. F. Foster’s Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change from 1970. How sportswriting lost its game: Down with celebrity profiles, the steroids saga, and blow-by-blow business news — let’s bring back good storytelling.
