Good enough to read. Good enough to take:
Muse
Napoleon Bonaparte. A specter is haunting Europe.
Stimulus or austerity?
Inflation.
America or China?
America.
Arab Spring or Arab Winter?
Summer. The dog days are not over.
Reading list
The Charterhouse of Parma, by Stendhal; Civilization, by Niall Ferguson; Plato’s Fable, by Joshua Mitchell.
Best idea
Vice President Ron Paul.
Worst idea
Preventing people from becoming permanently unemployable by rendering them permanently employable only by government.