Natasha Simons writes about how conservatives and liberals perceive Mad Men differently. I perceive it as an enormously entertaining TV show.

Ralph Peters writes about a Christian backlash against radical Islam in Africa.

Paul Krugman gets something right when he asserts that, as far as electoral success or failure is concerned, its the economy, stupid.

Ross Douthat writes about the roots of White anxiety, and it really is all about working class, rural, Red State folks, discriminated against and despised by Eastern, urban, elite Whites.

Here is another way of expressing that anxiety.

Robert J. Samuelson writes about why the problems facing Massachusetts in the wake of their attempt at government expansion of health care is a cautionary tale as we contemplate the implementation of Obama's expansion of government-run and/or funded health care.