New York Magazine: December 7, 2009 Issue

Table of Contents

December 7, 2009

Cover Story

Obama Lost, Obama Found

The president’s cool and his advisers’ skill at building his serene image have created a power vacuum in Washington. By John Heilemann

On the Cover: Urethane shadow portrait by Michael Murphy.

Features

The Cinemascope Spectacular of Books

A volume big and obsessive enough to contain Stanley Kubrick’s never-made masterpiece, Napoleon.
The Abortion Distortion

Just how pro-choice is America, really?
Tim Keller Wants to Save Your Yuppie Soul

The evangelical Christian preacher says the secular holy trinity of money, ambition, and achievement is the root of all evil.

Strategist

Departments

Intelligencer

Culture

Columns

No Holding Back This Holliday Season

As in Matt Holliday, the free-agent slugger—the Yankees ought to renounce sentimentality and break out the bills for him.

Agenda