After careful consideration, I have decided to give being a hermit a try—at least for the rest of today.  To that end, I’ll leave you with this, which I call “The Hermit’s Haiku”: **** update:  the novice hermit emerges, momentarily, to ask that you please support the single-testicled arts. Now, GET OFF MY LAWN!

Ruth Wisse, Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and professor of comparative literature at Harvard, in today’s WSJ Opinion Journal: The resignation of Lawrence Summers as president of Harvard turns the spotlight on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), which has consecrated more time and energy to his ouster than to any other project of the past five years. Until now, all blame has been leveled at the president:

From Gallup: More Americans consider Iran the United States’ greatest enemy today than any other country, according to Gallup’s annual World Affairs survey. Iraq, North Korea, and China are also mentioned frequently by Americans as the United States’ greatest enemy. This poll marks the first time that Iran has topped the list as the United States’ greatest enemy; in previous years, Iraq or North Korea ranked first. Republicans are more

From “A Failure of the Press,” today’s WaPo oped from Bill Bennett and Alan Dershowitz: We two come from different political and philosophical perspectives, but on this we agree: Over the past few weeks, the press has betrayed not only its duties but its responsibilities. To our knowledge, only three print newspapers have followed their true calling: the Austin American-Statesman, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Sun. What have