A new issue of Theme is out. From The Washington Quarterly, Giora Eiland (INSS): Israel’s Military Option. From The Atlantic Monthly, a cover story on The Point of No Return: The Iranian nuclear threat will soon come to a head, and a preemptive attack by Israel could be disastrous — it might happen anyway; and Robert Kaplan on how Henry Kissinger believes that containing Iran will depend on one thing: showing its leaders that we're willing to go to war. From The Threepenny Review, Philip Gourevitch on James Salter, a writer’s writer; and Arthur Lubow on Adam Mickiewicz, the last of his kind: Marginal in America, poets in Poland are lionized as authorities — not merely on syntax and scansion, but on political affairs. The Roadmap to a High-Speed Recovery: Forget a bigger stimulus or a smaller deficit — we need to blow up the fundamentals of our economy. Did Tigger and Donald Duck grope women at Disney World? From Time, a cover story on Jonathan Franzen, Great American Novelist. My Darklyng, a serialized novel unfolding in text and on Facebook and Twitter, illustrates how fictionalized teenagers are online. Contrary to the Machiavellian cliche, nice people are more likely to rise to power; then something strange happens — authority atrophies the very talents that got them there. Six essential questions about the deficit, Wall Street and Washington: Where is the Washington establishment's obsession with the deficit coming from?
