Playing Catch (up)

Just a few interesting items from the news:

Gen Wes Clark (Washington Post) on "Surging" in Iraq here,

A Book Review by Allan sloan, "Capitalist Punishment" ('On "The Wealth of Nations"' by P.J. O'Rourke, Atlantic Monthly Press) here,

"Sea of Thunder" (First Chapter, this is about American animosity toward Japan(ese) and where that all came from, by Evan Thomas)

"Insecure Nation" (an editorial series by Adam Cohen of the NYT)

NYT Editorial: "Imperial Presidency 2.0"

Meet NYT Editorial Board here,

Ryan Lizza/NYT (usually writing for The New Republic) on "Alpha Male Dems"
On the phenomenal Asians on Campus, Timothy Egan reports for The Times from the West Coast. He won a 2006 National Book Award for “The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl.”