An op-ed by Charles Krauthammer in the August 24 edition of The Washington Post: "The Cordesman criteria"

A book review by Tobias Grey in the August 24 edition of The Wall Street Journal:"In Hitler's Germany, He Kept His Head" The book is "Not Me" by Joachim Fest; Translated by Martin Chalmers, Atlantic,  £20, 304 pages 

A book review by Peter Pesic in the August 18 issue of The Wall Street Journal: "The Man Who Changed the Way We Write" The book is "Ballpoint"  by György Moldova, New Europe, $14.95,  198 pages "Ballpoint" tells the remarkable story of the two Hungarians who invented the pen as war broke out in Europe.