From Time: Is al-Qaeda on the Run in Iraq? by Joel Klein. From RealClearPolitics: Is the Sky Falling on America?, by Victor Davis Hanson. From the Independent: Opium: Iraq’s deadly new export, by Patrick Cockburn. From Slate: e-Stonia Under Attack, by Anne Applebaum. From the Fourth Rail: Al Qaeda strikes a funeral in Fallujah, by Bill Roggio.

John Bolton delivers the Norman Podhoretz Lecture at Commentary‘s annual dinner last week.