From Air Force magazine, Rebecca Grant on Iraqi freedom and the Air Force: The Iraq War changed the Air Force in ways large and small. 100 years of flying: Beale AFB's 1st reconnaissance squadron celebrates centennial anniversary. People who beat the odds aren't brilliant, just lucky: Succeeding once or twice on a longshot doesn't make someone a savant — overall, that person's predictions will probably be less accurate than average. From New York, Jonathan Chait on Obama, “leadership”, and magical thinking — and on what Obama can actually do about Congress. DB Grady on 10 things you didn't know about the president's secret army. Monsters and Dragons and Dinosaurs, Oh My: In the area of literary and linguistic studies, they misinterpret, misrepresent, and mistranslate Beowulf to fit their agenda. Ahmet T. Kuru on passive and assertive secularism.
