From The Atlantic Monthly, Robert D. Kaplan on what Rumsfeld got right; with the Chevy Volt, General Motors—battered, struggling for profitability, fed up with being eclipsed by Toyota and the Prius—is out to reinvent the automobile, and itself; intrigued (and alarmed) by the new science of "neuromarketing", Jeffrey Goldberg peers into his own brain via an MRI machine and learns what he really thinks about Jimmy Carter, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Bruce Springsteen, and Edie Falco; a look at why stop signs and speed limits endanger Americans; and the 11 1/2 Biggest Ideas of the Year: Here's a thumbnail intellectual history of the year. Candidate Paul is gone, but not really. Justin Raimondo on libertarianism’s divergent roads. Why she lost: An interview with Mark Penn, Hillary's message man. An article on

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