http://www.CommentaryMagazine.com/ en-us Copyright 2009, CommentaryMagazine.com. All Rights Reserved info@ecomsolutions.net info@ecomsolutions.net http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15257 The McChrystal way is the only way. Max Boot http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15260 From the Editor John Podhoretz http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15261 Letters in response to David Billet's "The War on Philanthropy.” Reader Letters http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15262 Algis Valiunas reviews Donald Kagan's "Thucydides." Algis Valiunas http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15263 Those politicians who charged their political rivals with failing to keep “their eye on the ball” are turning a blind eye to the consequences of defeat. Will Obama be one of them? Abe Greenwald http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15264 The curious case of Sandor Marai. Sam Munson http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15265 Louis Armstrong's heterodox views. Terry Teachout http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15266 Letters in response to Stephen Hunter's “Bonnie and Clyde Died for Nihilism.” Reader Letters http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15267 Pursuing the favor of global publics has not shown the results President Obama heralded; it may be making things worse. James Kirchick http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15268 A provocative and uncompromising polemicist. Norman Podhoretz http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15269 How the brazen, bulging, tough-guy city of my youth has subtly transformed itself into a resplendent, but very different, city of youth. Joseph Epstein http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15270 Four lessons for American conservatives from the political changes across the pond. David Frum http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15271 How, twice in a quarter century, upstarts in Israel revolutionized the world’s leading maker of computer chips. Dan Senor and Saul Singer http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15272 Liam Julian reviews "The Making of Americans," by E.D. Hirsch Jr. Liam Julian http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15273 Paul Rahe reviews "1688," by Steve Pincus. Paul A. Rahe http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15274 Michael Medved reviews "The Israel Test," by George Gilder. Michael Medved http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15275 She clung to him as if she wanted their cells to merge, and she keened—because it seemed like the end, and tragic; or, more tragic, still more tragic, not the end. If I can’t live with you, I’ll die. John J. Clayton