Table Of Contents

The Editors

1

Once More, With Feeling!

Putting the care back in health care reform.

TRB From Washington

Jonathan Chait

4

Mind the Gap

What the right wing really thinks about inequality.

Howard Jacobson

7

The haunting of Gordon Brown.

Suzy Khimm

9

When a Ben Nelson prank gets out of hand.

Benjamin Wallace-Wells

10

Learning the wrong lessons from David Halberstam.

Jonathan Cohn

11

The HMO is back. Shhh!

Noam Scheiber

14

Tim Geithner's Wall Street consigliere.

Andrew Rice

16

Doubt

A professor, a genocide, and NBC's quest for a prime-time hit.

Michael Crowley

24

The Decider

Who runs U.S. foreign policy?

Stanley Kauffmann

28

FILMS

Being Human

Nanni Moretti's understated grief; modern-day gamboling.

Jed Perl

29

ART

Generations For an anthropologist of the American art scene, younger-than- Jesus New York this spring was a melancholy revelation.

Jennifer Michael Hecht

32

POEM

Split

Jerry A. Coyne

34

BOOKS

Creationism For Liberals

The Evolution of God

by Robert Wright

Tom Sleigh

40

POEM

In Another Sector

Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule

43

BOOKS

Outcomes, Outcomes

The Constitution in 2020

edited by Jack M. Balkin and Reva B. Siegel

Washington Diarist

Leon Wieseltier

48

Leszek

Cover photo illustration by Anastasia Vasilakis

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