AMERICAN POLITICS

Obama's Shrinking Presidency (Richard Cohen, RCP)

Unlikely battleground of Wisconsin reflects Democrats' vulnerability in midterm elections (Karen Tumulty, WaPo)

Political fables (Thomas Sowell, RCP)

Sweep economists off their throne (Gideon Rachman, FT)

Countdown to the coming Republican tsunami (Mark Halperin, Time)

New polls point to tsunami (Mike Allen, Politico)

Early on, Obama was more polarizing than we knew (Dan Balz, WaPo)

A Tsunami Approaches: The Beginning of the Great Deconstruction | Newgeography.com

Democrats add fiscal austerity as a campaign issue (Shailagh Murray, WaPo)

The Revolt of the Bourgeois (Rich Lowry, RCP)


SOCIETY

Americans Wake Up to Islamism (Daniel Pipes, NRO)

Should Political Science Be Relevant? (Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed)

The Gospel of Wealth (David Brooks, NY Times)

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

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


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

Americans Wake Up to Islamism (Daniel Pipes, NRO)

Forget East and West, Europe is dividing itself into North and South (Anne Applebaum, Slate)

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)