Articles from Washington Monthly (November 1, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Admired, not read: marketing "Great Books" to the masses may have been a silly idea. But requiring college students to read them isn't.	Carey, Kevin	Book review	1770
Last secrets of the Bush administration: how to find out what we still don't know.	Homans, Charles	Cover story	7843
Open society: the rules of the digital era aren't clear, even to the generation that has grown up in it.	Taussig, Doron	Book review	1955
Paradox of deregulation: why market fundamentalism eventually leads to more government, not less.	Anrig, Greg		1317
Sunk costs: why, after $24 billion in upgrades, the Coast Guard still deploys a fleet of rustbuckets.	Axe, David		4336
The big night: what Obama's victory looked like in Washington.	Homans, Charles		772
The next FEMA: Barack Obama must begin rebuilding federal agencies fast--or risk seeing his entire agenda undermined.	Donahue, John D.; Stier, Max		3475
Tilting at windmills.	Peters, Charles		3413
Told ya.	Glastris, Paul		1046
Too small to fail: while the behemoths of Wall Street stumble and fall, humble local banks are doing just fine, thank you. Their surprising resilience holds a key lesson for twenty-first-century global finance.	Longman, Phillip; Frank, T.A.		3537
Transformation 101: technology is driving down the cost of teaching undergraduates. So why are tuition bills going up?	Carey, Kevin		3825