In the July 25-26 edition of The Wall Street Journal, a review by David Lehman, under the series Masterpiece: “Slouching Towards the Apocalypese”. The masterpiece is “The Second Coming” (1919) by Willliam Butler Yeats.  ‘A poet’s fearful vision of the future based on the moral anarchy of the present.’

In the July 26 issue of The Washington Post, an op-ed by columnist Anne Applebaum: “Rescuing Russia’s journalists”.

In the same edition, an op-ed by human rights activist and former political prisoner Natan Sharansky: “A refusenik’s answer to Iran”