links for 2007-07-07 Matthew Yglesias: Shockingly enough, there continues to be a substantial quality control problem with the blogging that occurs under The New Republic's banner written by the magazine's editor in chief Eric Rauchway has a review of Amity Shlaes Tom Slee: Happy Shoes IV - Activists and Consumer Magazines William Arkin: The last thing America needs is to capitulate to the Iran war party and accept the false proposition that Iran is the next Iraq. Underbelly: And Speaking of Haircuts: Has there ever been a more unreservedly joyous piece of music than Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia—written, be it noted, when the composer was 24. Here at Il Teatro Buce, we have been idly considering that quest Gene Healy is the Last Real Conservative: That in turn is a good jumping-off point for examining how inconsistent post-Watergate conservatives’ affinity for powerful executives is with conservatism, properly understood. Dana Milbank - Through the Looking Glass, Darkly: The president and his aides have been trending toward the margins of reality for some time now, but with this week's commutation of Scooter Libby's prison term, the administration's statements dissolved in Justin Fox: China has lots of perfectly decent reasons to link its currency to the dollar. What we should probably be spanking it for is sending us lead-coated toys and toxic catfish, pirating American intellectual property and repressing dissent. But, as Ross Douthat: One last point on Colin Powell: He may be self-serving and strategically incoherent, but he remains an eloquent and attractive figure Kate G.: I'm on the sidelines of several divorces just now and though its true that, in some sense, a good divorce beats a bad marriage the actual impoverishment of women and children that results from even a "good divorce" is hard to watch Kiss Me Deadly Drew Westen: The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation The First Ever Acephalous Caption Contest AP Program Report
