From The National Interest, Richard Perle on being Ambushed on the Potomac. Body Count Nation: It may finally be 2009, but in some ways, given these last years, it might as well be 800 BCE. American Rimbaud: An interview with Steve Richmond, meat poet. The standard story is that prevention saves health-care dollars, but if we're to get better at averting illness, we're going to have to spend more. Savings and Moan: Americans are finally stashing more money away — and that’s a bad thing. An interview with Stephen Baker, author of The Numerati. Of course Tintin's gay. Ask Snowy. Watching Plain People: Among the busloads of tourists that spill every day into Pennsylvania Dutch country. More on Benny Morris' 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. An interview with Matt Miller, author of The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go Of The Old Ways Of Thinking To Unleash A New Prosperity. A review of The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age by Neil Harris. Time for a cull in the art world: The art world is plunging, along with the rest of the economy — hooray. Moguls of Winnipeg: Two books examine the controversial Asper media legacy. Clive Thompson on how YouTube changes the way we think. Is the Web helping us evolve? The truth lies somewhere between "Google is making us stupid" and "the Internet will liberate humanity".
