Introduction: deciderization 2007 - a special report / David Foster Wallace
The freedom to offend / Ian Burma
Iraq: the war of the imagination / Mark Danner
Fathead's hard times / W.S. Di Piero
An orgy of power / George Gessert
What the dog saw / Malcolm Gladwell
Afternoon of the sex children / Mark Greif
Operation Gomorrah / Marione Ingram
Name that tone / Louis Menand
Out from Xanadu / Cynthia Ozick
Passion flowers in winter / Molly Peacock
In the Mosque of Imam Ali / Phillip Robertson
Disappointment / Richard Rodriguez
Rules of Engagement / Elaine Scarry
A carnivore's credo / Roger Scruton
What should a billionaire give - and what should you? / Peter Singer
Dragon slayers / Jerald Walker
Apocalypse now / Edward O. Wilson
