Black America is bereft of leaders, and it's a good thing, too, says linguist and scholar John H. McWhorter.

Grozny in the desert? If or when America invades, Saddam is going to take the war from house to house, and, as the AP reported, he;; try to enlist his nations' children in the fight.

Veil of Impotence: The Wilson Quarterly has a good article looking at Rawlsian liberalism as articles of faith. You don't have to agree with the late Robert Nozick's critique of Rawls' Theory of Justice to recognize that there is a subtle disjoint destabilizing the entire project to rescue Kant on grounds beyond the parochially deontological.

I've been remiss in posting over the past week or two, and -- superficial economic summits, brilliant birdbrains, and the NYT aside -- it'll be another week or so until I'm going to have enough free time to get back into the saddle. I've at least one piece that I'd like to get out the door before the weekend, but we'll see how it goes. So, at worst: see you next Wednesday!