News You Can Chew On

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• The Bush administration has turned Woodrow Wilson's "community of nations" idea on its head by setting up terrorists as a threat to our power rather than to humanity in general. Obama needs stress the need to restore collective security. [World Affairs Journal]
• What do the humanities really do for us? Among other things, they provide contextualization of our knowledge, which can serve as a corrective in some situations. [Wilson Quarterly]
• Biofuels are not to blame for rising food prices, and we should even create a global market for them. [The New Atlantis]
• Mark Twain redefines patriotism. [Harpers]