From Foreign Affairs, Walter Russell Mead on Change They Can Believe In: To Make Israel Safe, Give Palestinians Their Due; a review of Innocent Abroad: An Intimate History of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East by Martin Indyk; Roger Altman on The Great Crash, 2008: A Geopolitical Setback for the West; and a review of Fixing Global Finance by Martin Wolf. The introduction to The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century by G. John Ikenberry, Thomas J. Knock, Anne-Marie Slaughter and Tony Smith. From Michigan War Studies Review, the 2008 George C. Marshall Lecture in Military History: "History, and the History of War" by John Shy. The first chapter from Thinking of Others: On the Talent for Metaphor by Ted Cohen. How Jewish is Hollywood? A poll finds more Americans disagree with the statement that "Jews control Hollywood", but here's one Jew who doesn't. A review of Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist by Bill Ayers. The Time of the Book: The chain bookstore, the bloated publishing house, and the specific corporate way of publishing are in peril. At magazines, it's 2.0 steps forward, 1.0 step back: The Web may be the future for magazine publishing, but in the present, ready revenue is winning out and Web writers are getting laid off left and right.
