From Edge, here's the World Question Center 2009: "What will change everything?" Still revered for The Catcher in the Rye and the Glass Family, J. D. Salinger remains elusive at 90. A review of Objectivity by Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison. From NYRB, Marcia Angell reviews books on drug companies and doctors: A story of corruption. The Prophet: Ari Berman on how Howard Dean's fifty-state strategy remade the Democratic Party — what comes next? Francis Fukuyama remembers Samuel Huntington (and more and more). Children of the Revolution: Eve Fairbanks on House Republicans, now even more conservative. Auto Destruct: Jonathan Cohn on the tragic nobility of Detroit. International bright young things: The next generation of economists do their best work somewhere between the field clinic and the

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