I'm Off Blog for a few days

I'll be in Saint Louis.  I'm taking three honors students to the National Collegiate Honors Council annual meeting.  In the meantime you will have to make do with Master Heppler and Professor Schaff, when he is not busy with trivial things like his "job."  While I'm gone, any readers who who follow my posts (assuming that such persons exist) may want to check out these pieces.  Robert Kagan, writing in the Washington Post, has an excellent piece on the New York Times.  It turns out that the Times was a major cheerleader for the view that Saddam Hussein had WMD.  On a deeper and more poignant note, look at George Packer's review in the New Yorker, about the writers Hemingway and Don Passos in the Spanish Civil War.