Volume Two, Number Two

CONTENTS

From the Editor

Senior Editor Nick Schulz introduces the latest issue of THE AMERICAN.

The American Scene

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

Interview

Geoffrey Allan, CEO of biotechnology firm Insmed, hopes to capitalize on a proposed change in law that would open biologic drugs to generic competition.

The Young Economist

Why has executive compensation exploded in recent years? New York University's Xavier Gabaix gives one answer.
BY LAURA VANDERKAM

DataPoints

The Atlantic Divide: Americans and Europeans on religion, happiness, government and war.
COMPILED BY KARLYN BOWMAN 

Q&A

Giving in the USA: the surprising charitable habits of Americans.
BY ARTHUR C. BROOKS

Techno-Ideas

Three entrepreneurs are hoping to combat the world's worst environmental and humanitarian crisis.
BY NICK SCHULZ

Geopolitics

Americans are growing world-weary: a look at the dangers of turning our backs.
BY VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

American Seen

FEATURES

Automobility

Vroom! Better technology and the need for speed go hand in hand.
BY RALPH KINNEY BENNETT

Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?

Women are earning most of America's Ph.D.'s but they are lagging in the physical sciences. Politicians and academics are itching to repair the 'problem.'
BY CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS

Lone Star Rising

How a combination of ambition, enterpreneurship, trade and tolerance made Houston America's booming opportunity city.
BY JOEL KOTKIN

The Show Must Go On

Many think the struggling music industry's future is in live performances. But aging acts like The Rolling Stones account for the lion's share of revenue. What happens once they are gone?
BY JILLIAN COHAN

Cuckoo for Switzerland

A small country with a skilled workforce, growing exports, and enormous prosperity has become the envy of Europe.
BY JOHN FUND

Counterterrorism: Oui!

A look at how France—of all countries!—became the most accomplished practitioner of counterterrorism in the world, and what the United States can learn from her experience.
BY REUEL MARCH GERECHT AND GARY J. SCHMITT

Our Broken Senate

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