Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan
 
It turns out many of my colleagues know a lot about Bob Dylan. Who knew? So, after his Nobel Prize for literature this week, almost everyone had something to say, and it was all interesting and often amusing–even for someone like me, who’s not a Dylanphile (Nor, for that matter, am I a Dylanphobe–I’m mostly a Dylignoramus). In any case, whether you’re a Dylan fan or not, you’ll enjoy the online pieces by Lee Smith, Chris Caldwell, Tom Donnelly (taking a brief break from the foreign policy of Elizabethan England), as well as Andy Ferguson’s masterful treatment of the laureate in the magazine.
 
Indeed, I was so inspired by all this Dylanesque productivity that I even used some Dylan lyrics as a peg in my editorial. But you’ll be reassured that, even if I began with Dylan, I ended with Churchill…
 
Speaking of editorials, you really should read Fred Barnes’s “All Hands on Deck,” where Fred makes the case for the importance of a Republican Congress in 2017. However dispiriting this campaign; however much the GOP presidential candidate may be, as I think, insupportable and inexcusable, there are important reasons to avoid Democratic control of the legislative branch. So a GOP Congress is something important to work for over the next three weeks, and to root for on election night.