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From the Editors: Seekers 26 Jul 2012 | 08:00 pm
There is no easy way to say it: Our new Summer issue is the last print edition of The Wilson Quarterly. Beginning with the Autumn issue, the WQ will appear in digital form only—as an app available fo...
Current Books: The Color of Friendship 23 Jul 2012 | 08:00 pm
SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE BLACK: The Strange Story of Integration in America. By Tanner Colby. Viking. 294 pp. $27.95 In 1992, after a jury acquitted Los Angeles police officers who had viciously b...
In Essence: Immigration Policy’s Backfire 23 Jul 2012 | 08:00 pm
THE SOURCE: “Unintended Consequences of U.S. Immigration Policy: Explaining the Post-1965 Surge From Latin America” by Douglas S. Massey and Karen A. Pren, in Population and Development Review, March ...
From the Editors: What We re Reading 23 Jul 2012 | 08:00 pm
Cullen Nutt: Yesterday I finished the last line of Alan Jacobs’ slim but satisfying book The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction. Though it’s a mere 150 pages, it took me several months to f...
In Essence: Tehran’s Iraq Headache 16 Jul 2012 | 08:00 pm
THE SOURCE: “Iran’s Declining Influence in Iraq” by Babak Rahimi, in The Washington Quarterly, Winter 2012. From Saddam Hussein’s fall in 2003 until 2009, Iran rapidly increased its influence in Iraq...
Current Books: The Powers that Be 13 Jul 2012 | 08:00 pm
THE DICTATOR’S LEARNING CURVE: Inside the Global Battle for Democracy. By William J. Dobson. Doubleday. 341 pp. $28.95 “Do these people in Egypt really understand what freedom means?” a well-meaning ...
In Essence: How to Bring Back the Constitution 13 Jul 2012 | 08:00 pm
THE SOURCE: “Restoring the Constitution” by James W. Ceaser, in The Claremont Review of Books , Spring 2012. Can a return to constitutional principles help address the immense economic and political ...
In Essence: The Birth of English 101 10 Jul 2012 | 08:00 pm
THE SOURCE: “Browning in Hackney” by Alexandra Lawrie, in Times Literary Supplement, Jan. 20, 2012. For all its dubious practicality, English is still one of the most popular college majors around. B...
Current Books: A Genius for Languages 2 Jul 2012 | 08:00 pm
BABEL NO MORE: The Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Language Learners. By Michael Erard. Free Press. 306 pp. $25.99 A welter of tongues erupted from the assembled crowd, in speech so rapid t...
In Essence: Hashtag Heroics 2 Jul 2012 | 08:00 pm
THE SOURCE: “Social and News Media Enable Estimation of Epidemiological Patterns Early in the 2010 Haitian Cholera Outbreak” by Rumi Chunara, Jason R. Andrews, and John S. Brownstein, in The American ...
