By Con Coughlin
The world waits for U.S. leadership and firepower, after candidate Obama promised to diminish both.
BOOKSHELF
By Paul Genders
In another portrait of capitalism in the raw, David Szalay gives us the miseries of the last days of the boom.
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A Chicago judge issues the year's biggest plaintiff smackdown.
Smearing journalists who disagree with them.
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By rushing, the military could empower the Muslim Brotherhood.
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By John Steele Gordon
As a break from the burdens of office, they've hunted, fished, played poker and read Latin—and even invented new sports.
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St. Augustine of Hippo on the difference between kingdoms and robberies.
Is technology making sabermetricians obsolete? The paradox, says Marchman, is that as information becomes scientifically accurate and widely available, subjective predictions will again become paramount.
Toby Wilkinson's "The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt," combines traditional scholarship with up-to-date archaeological discoveries. Joseph Manning reviews.
Doug Saunders's "Arrival City" makes a case for urban migration, arguing that good transport and security can turn "arrival cities"—the shantytowns of Mumbai and the banlieues of Paris—into prosperous hubs of economic activity. Melanie Kirkpatrick reviews.
Novelist Jerome Charyn recommends novels dealing with despair and horror, from the Midwest to the mad vividness of Hollywood.
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DECLARATIONS
By Peggy Noonan
Lesson from the front: It's easier to start a war than to finish one.
By James Taranto
"Push back hard," the New York Times advised. Government union backers have done so.
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New York's Democratic senator finds a scapegoat for gas prices.
JOHN FUND ON THE TRAIL
A video exposé reveals George Soros's significant donations to NPR.
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By Christopher Stephens
New reactor designs are safer, but how to retrofit old power plants?
Thomas Sully's "Passage of the Delaware" masterfully—and accurately— captures a moment of supreme importance to the American Revolution.
By James Gattuso
From the Heritage Foundation
The White House thinks that more regulations will create more jobs.
Is technology making sabermetricians obsolete? The paradox, says Marchman, is that as information becomes scientifically accurate and widely available, subjective predictions will again become paramount.
New York's Democratic senator finds a scapegoat for gas prices.
Thomas Sully's "Passage of the Delaware" masterfully—and accurately— captures a moment of supreme importance to the American Revolution.
Wrestling coach Paul Giamatti and Amy Ryan score takedowns, while the desert documentary "Light" simply glows and Eva Green runs mad through "Cracks."
The well-trodden tale of a former champ looking to make a comeback comes vividly alive in FX's "Lights Out."
Only time will tell whether "Arcadia" is Tom Stoppard's masterpiece, but David Leveaux's Broadway production certainly makes it no easier to comprehend.
After helping to get one critic fired, the Cleveland Orchestra now has a "critic-in-residence." Only the new guy isn't much of a critic.
Whether it's about the decline of individualism, the dehumanization of the recording studio or the incompetence of music editors, pianist Rudolf Buchbinder has a lot to say. Ask him about historical 'correctness' at your peril.
The genre is the offspring of digital technology, yet its directors prefer raw stories, keeping electronic toys from dominating human experience.
Through his five novels and column in the Irish Times, Flann O'Brien built a cult following that included the likes of Samuel Beckett, James Joyce and John Updike.
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