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IMMIGRANTS in AMERICA & Them Immigrants in America Essays by Peter Skerry, G WQSum06.Final 6/20/06 2:09 PM Page 1 The Are Video India’s Path Getting a The “Bigger, Games Evil? to Greatness Grip on Better” WILSON By Chris By Martin Ourselves Nightmare Suellentrop Walker By Daniel Akst By James Morris The WILSON QUARTERLY SURVEYING THE WORLD OF IDEAS QUARTERLY Us IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICA & Them Immigrants in America Essays by Peter Skerry, G. Pascal Zachary, Blair A. Ruble, Stephen G. Bloom Summer 2006, Vol. 30. No.3 Summer 2006, Vol. SUMMER 2006 $6.95 ($9.95 CAN) The WILSON QUARTERLY SUMMER 2006 volume xxx, number 3 The Wilson Quarterly Published by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars www.wilsonquarterly.com FEATURES 14 Playing With Our Minds | By Chris Suellentrop Video games aren’t for adolescent geeks anymore—if they ever were. Now they’re powerful teaching tools, for better and for worse. DEPARTMENTS 22 India’s Path to Greatness | By Martin Walker 2 EDITOR’S COMMENT After decades as a backwater, India is jumping into the first rank of nations. Where it lands will shape Asia’s future—and America’s. 4 LETTERS 31 Who’s in Charge Here? | By Daniel Akst 11 FINDINGS Self-control is the new Holy Grail of virtues as the crimes of 75 Years Tall Dante’s Inferno become mere lifestyle choices. Damned Depressed The Smoke Hoods in the ’Hood 38 What’s New | By James Morris Puttin’ Off the Blitz The Next Big Thing could be bathtubs with diving boards. Notes on the great American quest for novelty. 69 In ESSENCE The Attack of the Killer Unknown 43 US & THEM: IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICA Race and Real Estate Today’s immigrants are not just more numerous than those of Does the Death Penalty Deter? the past. They are coming from different countries, making Turkey and the West their way to new U.S. destinations, and maintaining new kinds of ties to the lands they left behind. 91 CURRENT BOOKS 44 Mother of Invention | By Peter Skerry Max Byrd on the Battle of New Orleans 48 The Hotel Africa | By G. Pascal Zachary Florence King on not-so-good 56 Mélange Cities | By Blair A. Ruble cheer Albert Innaurato on the man 60 The New Pioneers | By Stephen G. Bloom behind the Met Brief Reviews: Nick Gillespie, Lawrence Rosen, J. Peter Pham, Max Holland, David Lindley, Amy E. Schwartz, and others ON THE COVER: Photographs by Chuck Savage/Corbis (left) and Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Design by David Herbick. 112 PORTRAIT The views expressed herein are not necessarily those of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Young Man Going West Summer 2006 ■ Wilson Quarterly 1 The WILSON QUARTERLY EDITOR’S COMMENT EDITOR Steven Lagerfeld After Immigration MANAGING EDITOR James H. Carman LITERARY EDITOR Stephen Bates SENIOR EDITOR Judith M. Havemann Assimilation has become one of those words one hesitates to use in ASSOCIATE EDITOR Sarah L. Courteau polite company. It is acceptable to talk about the assimilation of Jews, EDITORS AT LARGE Ann Hulbert, James Morris, Italians, and other ethnic groups in the past, but it is generally not OK Jay Tolson COPY EDITOR Vincent Ercolano to suggest that the assimilation—much less Americanization—of His- CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Daniel Akst, Martha panics and other groups is one of the big issues underlying the current Bayles, Linda Colley, Denis Donoghue, Max Holland, Stephen Miller, Walter Reich, Alan Ryan, anxiety about immigration. Yet no matter what the outcome of the Edward Tenner, Charles Townshend, Alan Wolfe, Bertram Wyatt-Brown debate over how many immigrants to admit to the United States and RESEARCHERS Flora Lindsay-Herrera, what to do about the millions here illegally, many more newcomers Mark F. McClay BOARD OF EDITORIAL ADVISERS will arrive and much anxiety will remain about how they fit into K. Anthony Appiah, Cynthia Arnson, Amy Chua, American society. Robert Darnton, Nathan Glazer, Harry Harding, Robert Hathaway, Elizabeth Johns, Jackson Nineteenth-century America did not possess a magic formula for Lears, Seymour Martin Lipset, Robert Litwak, Wilfred M. McClay, Richard Rorty, Blair Ruble, assimilation, but it did have something we lack: a rough consensus Peter Skerry, Martin Sletzinger, S. Frederick Starr, Philippa Strum, Martin Walker about what newcomers must do to enjoy the rights and privileges of FOUNDING EDITOR Peter Braestrup (1929–1997) citizenship and how to help them meet those responsibilities. Today, BUSINESS DIRECTOR Suzanne Napper we cannot even agree whether immigrants are fortunate newcomers CIRCULATION Cary Zel, ProCirc, Miami, Fla. The Wilson Quarterly full of potential to help make a better America or oppressed minorities (ISSN-0363-3276) is published in January (Winter), April (Spring), July (Summer), and who must be protected from a malign society bent on stripping them October (Autumn) by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 of their identity. The public schools, political parties, and other institu- Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20004–3027. Complete article index available online at tions that once guided the immigrant transition are in disarray. And www.wilsonquarterly.com. Subscriptions: one year, $24; while immigration policy, whatever its many complications, is almost two years, $43. Air mail outside U.S.: one year, $39; two years, $73. Single copies mailed upon request: exclusively a matter of federal law, there really can be no such thing as $8; outside U.S. and possessions, $10; selected back issues: $8, including postage and handling; outside assimilation policy, since assimilation is influenced by an immense U.S., $10. Periodical postage paid at Washington, D.C., and additional mailing offices. All unsolicited tangle of political, social, and economic forces. manuscripts should be accompanied by a self- The articles in this issue take a street-level look at how things are addressed stamped envelope. MEMBERS: Send changes of address and all subscrip- working out in everyday life. They offer a mixed picture. Here in tion correspondence with The Wilson Quarterly mailing label to Subscriber Service, The Wilson Washington we may get only a partial view of that reality, but it is Quarterly, P.O. Box 420406, Palm Coast, FL largely an encouraging one. Particularly when I visit the schools my 32142–0406. SUBSCRIBER HOT LINE: 1-800-829-5108 children attend, I marvel at the good fortune that has brought Amer- POSTMASTER: Send all address changes to The Wilson Quarterly, P.O. Box 420406, ica so much energy and talent. When we are finished with our latest Palm Coast, FL 32142–0406. Microfilm copies are available from Bell & Howell In- immigration debate, I hope we can still say, as George Washington formation and Learning, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106. U.S. newsstand distribution through BigTop did, that “the bosom of America is open” to people from abroad, along Newsstand Services, a division of the IPA. For more with “a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and information call (415) 643-0161 or fax (415) 643-2983 or e-mail: [email protected]. propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.” ADVERTISING: Sandi Baker, MKTG Services, Inc. Tel.: (215) 968-5020, ext. 152, Fax: (215) 579-8053, —Steven Lagerfeld E-mail: [email protected]. 2 Wilson Quarterly ■ Summer 2006 LETTERS HOW TO RETIRE to 64; by 2006, only 13 percent did. and the elderly. Swedes were willing to in “paying for it” [wq, spring People without these benefits are forced make compromises in public pensions ’06], Sylvester Schieber reminds us that to delay retirement until they reach 65 because they had confidence that poor the first wave of baby boomers has and become eligible for Medicare. elderly people like those described by turned 60 and asks how we will pay for These incentives for continued Beth Shulman [“Sweating the Golden their retirement, arguing that inertia employment are already having an Years,” WQ, Spring ’06] would not be has prevented the United States from effect. After a three-decades-long forced to work or middle-aged people addressing the impending crisis of pop- decline in the age of retirement, in 1992 forced to forgo care because they had no ulation aging. Yet we have had to make the trend began moving in the opposite health insurance. room for the baby boomers every step direction. From 1995 to 2005, labor Jill Quadagno of the way. When they entered kinder- force participation rates among men Author, One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. garten, playgrounds were littered with aged 62 to 64 increased from 46 to 51 Has No National Health Insurance (2005) trailers because classrooms were full. percent and among women from 33 Professor of Sociology When they reached college age, enroll- to 39 percent. In the same period there Florida State University ments soared. When they began pur- was also an increase in labor force par- Tallahassee, Fla. chasing homes, housing prices sky- ticipation among men and women 65 rocketed. Now that they are retiring, and older. can we handle the challenge? If economic growth continues at its despite intense debate over I suspect that we can. Several incen- present pace and the baby boomers Social Security reform, most recently tives, some planned, some inadvertent, retire later, the Social Security crisis prompted by President George W. are already in place to encourage later may never materialize. More likely, any Bush’s failed attempt at a fix, no signif- retirement. The first is the uptick in the future crisis will be triggered by health icant legislation has been enacted since age of eligibility for full Social Security care costs. These costs can only be con- 1983. Sylvester Schieber argues that benefits, from 65 to 67, which Congress tained through a program that guar- reform is necessary sooner rather than enacted in 1983.
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