Weekend Linkage

By Ross Douthat
Christine Rosen on social networking and narcissism. The Derb explains why he is not an Islamophobe. Peter Galbraith on Iran's strategic victory. If you missed the Labash-Ferguson one-two punch in the last two issues of the Standard, you should remedy that oversight. And while I'm definitely on the "Hillary probably can't be stopped" bandwagon, and I think the parallels between 1980 and 2008 can be counted on the fingers of Homer Simpson's left hand, it is remarkable how quickly conventional wisdom can get up-ended in American politics.

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