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The The Dawn of Wilson MarkeT UrbanisM The CaMpaign Quarterly TriUMphanT beyonD The brain Americ A n Vist American A s Vistas s ummer 2012, Vol. 36, Vol. ummer 2012, Summer 2012 $7.95 n o. 3 o. The WIlSon Quarterly Summer 2012 volume xxxvi, number 3 The Wilson Quarterly Published by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Features www.wilsonquarterly.com COveR Story 16 The Dawn of Market Urbanism By Witold Rybczynski | America’s cities and 35 AMERICAN VISTAS suburbs are going to get denser, and private Twelve years into a new century, a kind developers rather than traditional city planners of grimness pervades the United States. will control how they are reshaped. Is it just the postcrisis hangover of a 20 The Campaign Triumphant stagnant job market, or have the era’s By Gil Troy | Campaign ’12 has barely heated upheavals and uncertainties, at home up, yet complaints about its length and tone and abroad, changed something funda- are already being voiced. Are America’s presi- mental? To find out, we enlisted some of dential contests too messy? Only if you don’t S our longtime contributors. like democracy. 36 America’s Edge | By Martin Walker 28 Beyond the Brain By Tanya Marie Luhrmann | Twenty years ago, / corbi terry tim d AN , , 42 The Withering of the Affluent medication was believed to be the cure for schizo- S Society | By Robert J. Samuelson phrenia and other psychiatric illnesses. Scientists are now realizing that social factors also play tim power , 48 The Tocquevillean Moment . N an important role in successful treatment. gto and Ours | By Wilfred M. McClay N ON THE COVER: Miss Liberty Celebration (1987) © 2012 Malcah Zeldis/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. ABOVE: The SpaceX 56 Open Doors | By Steven Lagerfeld Falcon 9 rocket lifts off. The views expressed herein are not necessarily those of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. wetheri / rick NASA 2 Wilson Quarterly n Summer 2012 Departments 04 EDITOR’S COMMENT 70 RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY 88 College: The Scatological Luther, from What It Was, Is, and Should Be. 16 LETTERS Word and World By Andrew Delbanco Reviewed by James Morris 10 AT THE CENTER In Defense of Scholasticism, from The American Historical Review 90 Some of My Best Friends Are Black: 12 FINDINGS 72 ARTS & LETTERS The Strange Story of Integration The emperor’s New Clothes, in America. IN essence from Lapham’s Quarterly By Tanner Colby our survey of notable Reviewed by Emily Bernard articles from other Glossed in Translation, from journals and magazines Harper’s Magazine 92 The Passage of Power. By Robert A. Caro 59 POLITICS & GOVERNMENT Gertrude Stein’s Buried Beliefs, Reviewed by Aaron Mesh How to Bring Back the Constitu- from Humanities tion, from The Claremont Review 94 Internal Time: of Books Linguists at War, from The Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, Hanging Together?, from PS: Chronicle Review and Why You’re So Tired. Political Science and Politics By Till Roenneberg 75 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Reviewed by Rob Dunn Why Felons Can’t vote, from Denying the Deniers, from The Yale Law Journal Geophysical Research Letters 96 Psychology’s Ghosts: The Crisis in the Profession and 62 FOREIGN POLICY & DEFENSE The Russian Math Deluge, from the Way Back. Will Iran Defeat Itself?, from The NBER Digest By Jerome Kagan Foreign Affairs Reviewed by A. J. Loftin 77 OTHER NATIONS Obsolete Observers?, from A Change of Heart in Britain, 97 Diaries. The Journal of Politics from Prospect By George Orwell edited by Peter Davidson Not Just Window Dressing, from Don’t Blame Madrasas, from Reviewed by Michael O’Donnell American Journal of Sociology Current History 99 Words Like Loaded Pistols: 64 ECONOMICS, LABOR & BUSINESS Bad Medicine for the Congo, Rhetoric From Aristotle Frayed in the U.S.A., from from African Affairs to Obama. The American Interest By Sam Leith Chinese Name Puzzles, from Warming in My Backyard, Reviewed by Darcy Courteau American Journal of Physical S from Daedalus Anthropology 100 America the Philosophical. By Carlin Romano 66 SOCIETY Immigration Policy’s Backfire, Reviewed by Troy Jollimore from Population and Develop- CURRENT BOOKS d tim terry / corbi terry tim d ment Review 102 The Juvenilization of AN , , 81 The End of the Holocaust. American Christianity. S A Prescription for Health Care?, By Alvin H. Rosenfeld By Thomas e. 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Complete article businesspeople and financial supporters, have helped make index available online at www.wilsonquarterly. com. Microfilm copies are available from Bell the WQ what it is. But it is you, our readers, who have been the & Howell Information and learning, 300 N. ultimate sustainers of the whole enterprise. The greatest re- Zeeb road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106. ward for me and my colleagues has been our sense of serving Please direct all editorial correspondence to [email protected]. a great community of restless, intellectually curious people— advErtiSing: Suzanne Napper, Business seekers. We hope you will seek us out on the other side of the Director, digital divide. Tel.: (202) 691-4021 Fax: (202) 691-4036 —Steven Lagerfeld e-mail: [email protected] 4 Wilson Quarterly n Summer 2012 Change and Motion: Calculus Made Clear, 2nd Edition Taught by Professor Michael Starbird IM ED T E O IT FF E IM R L 1. Two Ideas, Vast Implications 70% 2. Stop Sign Crime—The First Idea off of Calculus—The Derivative O 4 3. Another Car, Another Crime—The 1 RD Y Second Idea of Calculus—The Integral ER JUL BY 4. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus 5. Visualizing the Derivative—Slopes 6. Derivatives the Easy Way— Symbol Pushing 7. Abstracting the Derivative—Circles and Belts 8. Circles, Pyramids, Cones, and Spheres 9. Archimedes and the Tractrix 10. The Integral and the Fundamental Theorem 11. Abstracting the Integral—Pyramids and Dams 12. Bu on’s Needle or π from Breadsticks 13. Achilles, Tortoises, Limits, and Continuity 14. Calculators and Approximations 15. The Best of All Possible Worlds—Optimization 16. Economics and Architecture 17. Galileo, Newton, and Baseball 18. Getting o the Line—Motion in Space 19. Mountain Slopes and Tangent Planes 20. Several Variables—Volumes Galore 21. The Fundamental Theorem Extended 22. Fields of Arrows—Di erential Equations 23. Owls, Rats, Waves, and Guitars Get a Grip on Calculus 24. Calculus Everywhere Calculus has made it possible to build bridges that span miles of river, to travel to the moon, and to predict patterns of population change. Yet for all its computational power, calculus is the Change and Motion: exploration of just two ideas—the derivative and the integral—both Calculus Made Clear, 2nd Edition of which arise from a commonsense analysis of motion.