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Perhaps that’s to his credit. 31 GERMANY ADRIFT Martin Walker • Steven Bach • John Hooper Little more than a decade after reunification, Germans are feeling the sting of truth in the old saying that the real problems begin when you finally get what you’ve always wanted. 52 THE PHILOSOPHER OF MONEY by Jerry Z. Muller Nineteenth-century capitalism produced many harsh critics—and a penetrating thinker named Georg Simmel who saw how, for better and worse, modern capitalism was creating a new kind of human being. 61 TWO FACES OF GLOBALIZATION Amy Chua • Tyler Cowen Two friends of globalization take different views of the process—one warning that the current formula for universal free markets and democracy is spurring ethnic violence around the world, the other optimistic about a flowering of the world’s cultures. departments 2 EDITOR’S COMMENT 111 CURRENT BOOKS Richard A. Posner 4 CORRESPONDENCE on George Orwell 9 FINDINGS Tom Lewis on Philip Johnson Wedding Bell Blues? Calibrating Regret Reviews by Robert J. Samuelson, Furry Art Ken Adelman, Mark Kingwell, Jorge I. Domínguez, Ben Yagoda, Max 85 THE PERIODICAL OBSERVER McCoy, David J. Garrow, and others One Year Later The Postmodernism Debate 128 PORTRAIT: 1952 cover: Detail from Diego Rivera’s Garantías (Guarantees—Debris of Capitalism), a mural at the Secretaría de la Educación Pública, Mexico City. Reproduced by permission of the Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust. Design by David Herbick. The views expressed herein are not necessarily those of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. USPS 346-670 | Volume XXVI, Number 4 | Printed in the U.S.A. Editor’s Comment or an intellectual, there’s an advantage in being something of an outsider. A degree of alienation may even be a requirement for the Fprofession. Without standing in some way outside the society one is examining, it’s almost impossible to gain a unique angle of vision. This small truth threads through several pieces in this issue. In The Periodical Observer, it colors the Chinese writer Gao Xingjian’s reflections on the unexpected benefits of exile. In Jerry Z. Muller’s profile of German thinker Georg Simmel, it emerges as a defining characteristic of Simmel the man and his intellectual legacy. Wealthy and well known throughout Europe at the turn of the 20th century, Simmel nonetheless stood apart because of his Jewish ancestry. In his penetrating analysis of capitalist soci- ety, Simmel also showed that it’s possible to combine sympathy and critical distance. Amy Chua brings those same qualities to her cautionary essay on glob- alization, which is drawn from her forthcoming book World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability. Chua’s is a more modern story than most. She was born in America to immigrant parents, but her take on globalization is strongly informed by her being the child of other regions of the world. As a young girl visiting her parents’ native Philippines, and later as an American student studying in China, her family’s ancestral home, she says she had an acute sense of being both an insider and an outsider. Seeing the world in this way has helped Chua to spot something that seems to have escaped other observers of globalization: the crucial but potentially explosive role of economically successful ethnic minorities and their antagonists. Her views are those of a critic and a friend, and they are likely to spark lively debate. Editor: Steven Lagerfeld The Wilson Quarterly (ISSN-0363-3276) is published in Managing Editor: James H. Carman January (Winter), April (Spring), July (Summer), and October Senior Editors: Robert K. Landers, (Autumn) by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for James M. 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