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Nobel per la pace a Obama? Bah... Perché non lo rifiuta? Come auspica Ross Douthat sul nyt, "This was Barack Obama’s chance. Here was an opportunity to cut himself free, in a stroke, from the baggage that’s weighed his presidency down — the implausible expectations, the utopian dreams, the messianic hoo-ha."

Randy Cohen, The Ethicist del New York Times Magazine (spiritosissimo, una rubrica da non perdere) sul caso Letterman. nytmag.

L'America è in declino? Charles Krauthammer discute la questione con argomenti molto intelligenti e provocatori, "...my thesis is simple: The question of whether America is in decline cannot be answered yes or no. There is no yes or no. Both answers are wrong, because the assumption that somehow there exists some predetermined inevitable trajectory, the result of uncontrollable external forces, is wrong. Nothing is inevitable. Nothing is written. For America today, decline is not a condition. Decline is a choice. Two decades into the unipolar world that came about with the fall of the Soviet Union, America is in the position of deciding whether to abdicate or retain its dominance." weeklystandard.