I should note, in reference to my TRB column, that Conor Friedersdorf has written some great items about legal due process and detainees. Check them out.

--Noam Scheiber on Rahm Emanuel

--George Packer on Mitch Daniels' shameful Iraq history

--Conor Friedersdorf fillets Victor Davis Hanson

--Peter Beinart on the peril posed by Charles Rangel

--David Runciman's fascinating essay on the social and political consequences of inequality

--William Deresiewicz's review of Margaret Atwood (Deresiewicz's fantastic piece on Jonathan Lethem in this week's TNR is here).

Conor Friedersdorf again makes the point that, although conservatives outside of Washington are largely correct that their inside-the-Beltway brethren can be divided into hackish, careerist sellouts and people who write and say what they actually believe, their conception of which is which is almost exactly reversed--that is, the moderate heretics and iconoclasts tend to fall into the latter category, and the down-the-line partisan warriors into the former.