The New Republic

Illuminations By Arthur Rimbaud Translated by John Ashbery (W.W. Norton, 167 pp., $24.95) I. READ MORE >>

Barack Obama’s policy toward the Libyan struggle for freedom is no longer a muddle. It is now a disgrace. READ MORE >>

In the circles in which I move there are many people who are quite snarky about Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman. I've never really understood why. Maybe it’s just because he wants higher taxes than they do. But as an explicator of economic realities he as good as they come. And in a New York Times Magazine essay about the grim financial status of contemporary Europe he has made it all crystal clear. READ MORE >>

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Maybe it's an admission of her utter irrelevance as kind-of foreign minister of the European Union, maybe she just wants her own show. READ MORE >>

As someone who, like Luke, grew up in England and now thinks of himself as an American, I can sympathize with his decision not to watch on Saturday, out of a feeling that there's just Too Much There.  READ MORE >>

Actually, the insolvency of Greece also made rough waves in America. Shortly before 3 p.m., the major stock indices (S & P, Dow and NASDAQ) were about to register 10% southwards. Not good news. And the fact they all ended the market day at roughly 3.5% down was only relatively good news, very relatively. This was not a good week for Wall Street. READ MORE >>

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We hadn't heard from Jean Asselborn, the foreign minister of 
Luxembourg. But the European Union was still meeting in Brussels, and the Baroness Ashton was still talking.

 Asselborn wanted to be heard. So he was. He told the government of Israel
that “Jerusalem is not Tel Aviv.” Doesn't the foreign minister understand that Luxembourg is
nothing? Nothing but a footnote to the emerging nothingness of the E.U. itself.
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