March/April Magazine Contents — The American, A Magazine of Ideas

Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?

Women earn most of America’s advanced degrees but lag in the physical sciences. Beware of plans to fix the "problem."

Why has executive compensation exploded in recent years? New York University’s Xavier Gabaix gives one answer.

Americans are remarkably charitable. But what sorts of people give the most? And how do we compare with the Europeans?

France is the world’s most sophisticated practitioner of counterterrorism. The U.S. can learn from her experience.

How a combination of ambition, entrepreneurship, trade, and tolerance made Houston America’s booming opportunity city.

Geoffrey Allan, CEO of biotechnology firm Insmed, discusses the benefits of generic competition for biologic drugs.

Americans are growing world-weary. But they may regret isolationism and protectionism tomorrow.

Americans and Europeans on religion, happiness, government, and war.

Better technology and the need for speed go hand in hand.

A small country with a skilled workforce, booming exports, and enormous prosperity has become the envy of Europe.

Aging acts account for most of the music industry's live performance revenue. What happens when these acts are gone?

Three entrepreneurs are hoping to combat the world’s worst environmental and humanitarian crisis.

The Venti Effect, Goldman Sachs on the "Hispanization" of America, the myth of off-shoring pollution, etc.

The expanded use of formal rules on Capitol Hill is unprecedented and is bringing government to its knees.