Table of Contents: March/April 2008
Volume Two, Number Two
CONTENTS
From the Editor
Senior Editor Nick Schulz introduces the latest issue of THE AMERICAN.
The American Scene
The Venti Effect, Goldman Sachs on the "Hispanization" of America, the myth of off-shoring pollution, etc.
Interview
Geoffrey Allan, CEO of biotechnology firm Insmed, hopes to capitalize on a proposed change in law that would open biologic drugs to generic competition.
The Young Economist
Why has executive compensation exploded in recent years? New York University's Xavier Gabaix gives one answer.
BY LAURA VANDERKAM
DataPoints
The Atlantic Divide: Americans and Europeans on religion, happiness, government and war.
COMPILED BY KARLYN BOWMAN
Q&A
Giving in the USA: the surprising charitable habits of Americans.
BY ARTHUR C. BROOKS
Techno-Ideas
Three entrepreneurs are hoping to combat the world's worst environmental and humanitarian crisis.
BY NICK SCHULZ
Geopolitics
Americans are growing world-weary: a look at the dangers of turning our backs.
BY VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
American Seen
FEATURES
Automobility
Vroom! Better technology and the need for speed go hand in hand.
BY RALPH KINNEY BENNETT
Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?
Women are earning most of America's Ph.D.'s but they are lagging in the physical sciences. Politicians and academics are itching to repair the 'problem.'
BY CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS
Lone Star Rising
How a combination of ambition, enterpreneurship, trade and tolerance made Houston America's booming opportunity city.
BY JOEL KOTKIN
The Show Must Go On
Many think the struggling music industry's future is in live performances. But aging acts like The Rolling Stones account for the lion's share of revenue. What happens once they are gone?
BY JILLIAN COHAN
Cuckoo for Switzerland
A small country with a skilled workforce, growing exports, and enormous prosperity has become the envy of Europe.
BY JOHN FUND
Counterterrorism: Oui!
A look at how France—of all countries!—became the most accomplished practitioner of counterterrorism in the world, and what the United States can learn from her experience.
BY REUEL MARCH GERECHT AND GARY J. SCHMITT
Our Broken Senate
The expanded use of formal rules on Capitol Hill is unprecedented and is bringing government to its knees.
BY NORMAN ORNSTEIN