Photo by RichSeattle, used with permission 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.......

The long-running Demoulas family squabble, in which two branches of a Lowell family (one of them originally headed by a man named Telemachus, who disappointingly preferred to be called Mike) battle for control of a supermarket empire, has been appealed to the Supreme Court. That gives Bostonist a good opportunity to wax poetic about the actual subject matter of the dispute, Market Basket grocery stores. Bostonist loves Market Basket above all other supermarkets and wants......

Today the Red Sox will attend the traditional recognition ceremony at the Whitehouse for the World Champions. The players, owners, managers and president of the Sox will meet President G. W. Bush. He’s the first President since Woodrow Wilson that has seen the Red Sox win the World Series while sitting in office. Bush has some special connections with the Sox. Where the Curse befell the Sox after trading the Babe to the Yankee’s, Bush......