Table of Contents: November/December 2006
Volume One, Number One
Departments
From the Editor
An introduction to The American, from Editor-in-Chief James K. Glassman
The American Scene
Vanishing hurricanes sink a hedge fund, the ten best business movies of all time, the rich do Congress, and more.
The Young Economist
Ulrike Malmendier, at 33, has already published significant research on why CEOs and health-club jocks don’t always act rationally.
By Lizbeth Scordo
the american Interview
Craig Barrett of Intel worries about declining American dominance in science—and offers solutions.
Q&A
What's the truth about climate change? Fourteen questions separate fact from distortion.
By Kenneth Green
Geopolitics
How terrorists exploit globalization.
By Victor Davis Hanson
Techno-Ideas
Spooky serendipity: When you use its shuffle feature, the iPod seems to know what is going on around it.
By Nick Schulz
Entrepreneurs
A Rwandan who left after the genocide is back with a coffee company.
By Mauro De Lorenzo
Americana
Andrew Mellon gave America its greatest museum. Why?
By Amity Shlaes
Features
Why Do We Underpay Our Best CEOs?
The Secret Life of Lou Dobbs
America’s New Economic Map
In the Great Dispersion now reshaping our economic geography, the losers are “hip” coastal cities and the winners are the hinterlands and the exurbs.
By Joel Kotkin
COVER STORY
The Glorious Art of Business
The Heirs to Sheeler
Who’s doing the best industrial art today?
By Nord Wennerstrom
Learning to Love Charlie Rangel
With the Democrats’ victory, the Harlem congressman will run the House Ways and Means Committee—in charge of taxes, Social Security, Medicare, and trade. Does Rangel have hidden virtues?
By Duncan Currie
Patriots vs. Redskins
When it comes to the economics of football, one team has it right, the other dead wrong.
By Kevin Hassett
The Devil Wears Kiton
Naples, a city of tradition, energy, and decadence, has become the center of global high fashion for men.
By Michael Ledeen
Mitt Romney: Mister PowerPoint Goes to Washington
American Dreamer
A murder at Big Moose Lake 100 years ago helped create an elusive national myth.
By James Bowman
Organs for Sale
Eleven Americans die each day because they can’t get a kidney transplant. Here’s how a market might solve a lethal problem and meet moral objections.
By Sally Satel
The Perils of a Late Landing
Big political shifts often occur when money is tight—that is, when interest rates exceed growth rates by a lot. Such a scenario may be in the cards for 2008.
By David Malpass