A weekly conversation about what's new in The New Yorker: Burkhard Bilger talks about the rise of extreme beer; George Packer on what to look for in the next Administration, and whether the Internet's pro-Obama movement will continue to support him as President; John Lanchester on why derivatives are like modernist art and what his father, a banker, would have thought of what finance has become; Bruce McCall on his drawing for the Cartoon Issue, his artistic process, and his career; Ke[...]