Twenty-eight essays, sections include: '9/11 and the New World Order' (7 essays), 'Israel, the Holocaust, and the Jews' (8), 'The Way We Live Now' (5) and obituaries of Francois Furet (1927-1997), Amos Elon (1926-2009), and Leszek Kolakowski (1927-2009); edited and introduced by Jennifer Homans.