Here's a think-piece from the National Review's John Derbyshire on suicide.

This is Tunku Varadarajan from the Wall Street Journal on the greatest author of children's books ever, Dr. Seuss.

Arts and Letters Daily links to this December 2004 article from the Atlantic Monthly by James Fallows on wargaming the Iranian nuclear crisis. Among the wargamers are David Kay, Reuel Marc Gerecht, and other national-security Pentagon and CIA types.

Here's a review from New York magazine of Bernard-Henri Levy's new book, and here's another from the New York Sun on Harry Stout's history of the American Civil War.

Continental Europeans may not like this article from the National Interest by Lawrence Mead on why the Anglosphere runs the world.

Here's Mark Steyn's review of Ang Lee's gay cowboy movie from the Spectator.

All soccer fans will want to read this interview with Ronaldo from Sports Illustrated. It's three pages, so you'll need to click on "continue story" a couple of times. Among other things, he says he might never have left FC Barcelona "if the club's directors hadn't lied to him."