AMERICAN POLITICS

The Revolt of the Bourgeois (Rich Lowry, RCP)

None of Your Business: On Obama's Public Sector Cabinet (David Paul Kuhn, RCP)

The Small Business Tax Hike and the 97% Fallacy (Kevin Hassett and Alan Viard, WSJ)

Sixty days to go (Sabato's Crystal Ball)

Liberalism’s Existential Crisis (Peter Wehner, Commentary)

Outlook Dims for Democrats in Fall Races (Neil King, WSJ)

Bush's Shadow Looms Over the President (Mark McKinnon, The Daily Beast)

Simpson and the Sacred Cow (Jacob Sullum, Reason)

Why Obama doesn't get Glenn Beck (PostPartisan)

‘Clunkers,’ a classic government folly (Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe)


SOCIETY

The Online State of Nature (Alan Jacobs, Bug Questions)

Born in the USA is a misunderstood song, used wrong again (Ken Hoffman, Houston Chronicle)

The World Trade Center Mosque and the Constitution (Mark Helprin, WSJ)

Leo Strauss, Back and Better Than Ever (Brian Bolduc, WSJ)

Mass Held for First Time in 87 Years in Turkey's Sümela Monastery (Jonathan Lewis, EurasiaNet)


ARTS AND LETTERS

Al Qaeda and counter-terrorism (Brian Downing, Asia Times)

Tony Blair memoir: I'd do Iraq again, and I considered firing Gordon Brown (Robert Marquand, CSM0

Review of The Closing of the Muslim Mind (Spengler, Asia Times)

Who is Ayn Rand? (Charles Murray, Claremont Review of Books)

The danger of a government with unlimited power (George Will, WaPo)


INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

Al Qaeda and counter-terrorism (Brian Downing, Asia Times)

Brown allies describe Blair criticism as 'one-sided' (BBC News)

Tony Blair: I did not understand Islam at time of 9/11 attacks (Telegraph)

'We want to talk to the Taliban. But they would rather kill themselves' (Kim Sengupta, Independent)

Obama Is Still AWOL on Sudan (John Prendergast, WSJ)

If Saddam Had Stayed (Daniel Henninger, WSJ)

Tony Blair: Gordon Brown had 'zero' emotional intelligence (Heidi Blake, Telegraph)

What Mission Was Accomplished? (Jed Babbin, TAS)

Venezuela, More Deadly Than Iraq, Debates Why (Simon Romero, NY Times)

Georgia's mental revolution (Economist)