From New Statesman, a special report on what the world expects from Obama. Obamalot: Jed Perl on how the new president can boost high culture. From TNR, exit, pursued by history: How Bush treated Clinton and how Obama should handle Bush. A review of Citizen-in-Chief: The Second Lives of the American Presidents by Leonard Benardo and Jennifer Weiss. Jacob Weisberg on the top 25 Bushisms of all time. How to rate the Bush years? (Seriously) An article on how Bush should spin his legacy. From CQPolitics, Richard Connor on how history may see Lincoln-like greatness in George W. Bush. Patrick Keller & Dustin Dehez on how Bush got the big things right: History will be kind to the forty-third president. Andrew Roberts on why history will show that George W Bush was right. Here's a list of the the 43 who helped make Bush the worst ever. Here are 10 times the Doomsday Clock time has been adjusted. Ralph Gamelli on how he survived the various apocalypses. A review of L'Apocalypse dans l'Islam by Jean-Pierre Filiu. From Mind the Campus, Ward Connerly on market-based universities; and an essay on the campus and the Nanny State. Are the Army's days of the future past? A look at what went on at the 26th Army Science Conference. A look at how novels help drive social evolution. An article on Edgar Allan Poe at 200: Eerie after all these years.
