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...bombers Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn [June 9]. If this association exposes Obama as a radical or "a man with terrible judgment," Kinsley writes, then the same could be said of many respectable people who have also not shied away from Ayers and Dohrn. But none on that "respectable list" proclaim their superior judgment, as Obama does. More importantly, they are not running for President. Jonathan Karsh, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania...
...Reading in China Since Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao claimed last November to have read Marcus Aurelius' Meditations nearly 100 times, the Roman Emperor's 1,800-year-old treatise on Stoic philosophy has become a hit in China, reaching No. 5 on China Book International's best-seller list. A tome extolling the importance of virtue may seem an unlikely must-read amid the country's go-go economic boom, but it suggests many are looking for deeper meaning in their lives--and getting frustrated with China's wide wealth...
...creations of oddball loners like Millar scribbling at drafting tables have also become the movie industry's most reliable development tool. Thanks to the box-office success of A-list superheroes like Spider-Man and the X-Men, Hollywood's appetite for comics-fueled material is insatiable. Titles from the darker corners of the genre, including gritty graphic novels like Wanted and Alan Moore's watershed deconstructivist superhero tome Watchmen are getting the big-screen makeover. Stories and characters first written for an audience of a few hundred thousand geeks at most are reaching, at the box office...
...little historical context or explanation. Why, for example, do Russians prefer powerful leaders over straight-up democracies? Why do Tanzanians like President Bush so much? Oh, and why does Turkey dislike America so much? More so than Egypt or Pakistan or Indonesia, the other majority Muslim nations on the list, Turkey holds an abysmally low opinion of the United States. Just 12% see America in a favorable light, and 70% of Turks surveyed see it as an enemy. That's fascinating. Please, Pew - tell...
...improve on Kerry's standing among white Evangelical voters by 5 to 10 points in November (essentially returning to Bill Clinton's level of support in the 1990s), he will win the election. And he might have a chance of doing that. More and more Evangelicals have broadened their list of priorities to include issues like the environment, the economy and health care. They're as frustrated about the war in Iraq as most Americans. And when they look at the G.O.P. - and especially McCain - they no longer see a solid political home. The fact that many Evangelicals consider...