FEBRUARY 2008

IRAN AFTER THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE Christopher de Bellaigue Prospec

I WILL SURVIVE The myth of American decline

POLITICS ESSAYS ARGUMENT

THE END OF THE BOOK REVIEW William Skidelsky

THE FINANCIAL CRISIS EXPLAINED Charles Goodhart

By Michael Lind

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In this issue:

TOM CHATFIELD on Martin Amis’s barren political imagination

BEN ROGERS Charles Taylor vs the dogmatic atheists

DEREK BROWER on Canada’s great oil rush

LINDA MELVERN Who triggered the Rwandan genocide?

DAVID FLUSFEDER Why sleep is the meaning of life

JONATHAN POWER meets Zbigniew Brzezinski

PAUL SKIDMORE The logic of political apathy

KISHWER FALKNER Why Pakistan has failed and India hasn’t

DAVID ANDERSON The frailty of African democracy

DON BERRY I like the Daily Mail . I’m sorry

FICTION by Aravind Adiga