--Christopher Caldwell on Bernard Kouchner

--Charles Siebert on whales (really)

--Martin Amis on John Updike

--Johann Hari on God and women

--Dahlia Lithwick on Sarah Palin

From our own site, be sure and check out Damon Linker on John Calvin and David Fontana on constitutions and Honduras.

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