Here's an article from the Wall Street Journal on the radical Islamist reaction to the allegedly sacreligious cartoons. And everybody who's following the Mittal Steel takeover bid for Arcelor will want to read this piece on Lakshmi Mittal.

Arts and Letters Daily has three excellent links: a think-piece by Theodore Dalrymple on the decline of Europe, an article from Der Spiegel on the Islamists and the cartoons, and a fascinating interview with Milton Friedman.

Here's Victor Davis Hanson from National Review on the West and the Middle East. And here's Christopher Hitchens in Slate on the same subject.

Slate has another piece on magician-comic-freethinker Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller, one of my personal heroes up there with James Randi and Martin Gardner.

This is a history piece by David Pryce-Jones in the New Criterion on whether Islamists can integrate into Western society or not.

Here's Mark Steyn on guess what, the Islamist rioting against Denmark, of all countries. Steyn's website also links to this column from last November on whether multiculturalism can work in Europe.