NY Times: 2010: The Year in Pictures
A more poetic version of the year appeared in:
Spiegel Online: 52 pictures of 2010
Picture: Child in Africa inspired by the World Cup!
Charles Krauthammer: Obama’s New Start
Charles Krauthammer, the conservative editorialist of the Washington Post, warns his Republican friends that Obama is not to be written off. It is useful to remember that in politics, just like in any sport or busines, you don’t have to be perfect. You only have to be better than the compeitition.
Riding the lamest of ducks, 
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WikiLeaks Exposing the Psychology of America
It is difficult for individuals to change their personalities; it also also difficult for countries to change their personalities. Derek Leebaert desribes the lens through which American diplomats have thinking about the world for a long time.
Our Envoys, Ourselves (NY Times)
A GLOBAL power’s diplomatic archives are inevitably full of caustic dispatches. In Britain, a 
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[Read More] Rainer Maria Rilke: First Duino Elegy
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic
Orders? And even if one were to suddenly
take me to its heart, I would vanish into its
stronger existence. For beauty is nothing but
the beginning of terror, that we are still able to bear,
and we revere it so, because it calmly disdains
to destroy us. Every Angel 
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[Read More] The Darjeling Limited
This is Wes Anderson’s best film to date. It reaches the same depth of Rushmore, but instead of staying in the same Chicago suburb, the director takes us on a wonderful road trip to India. Unlike Life Aquatic, which also wanted to be an adventure film, The Darjeling Limited is never boring because even when 
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Hich 22: If you can hold it down on the smokes and the cocktails you may be well advised to do so
Christopher Hitchens recently was diagnosed with cancer. More often than not I disagree with his positions, but I am never bored by what he has to say. He is also a superb writer. I wish I could write so quickly and eloquently as he can. Andrew Anthony interviewed the pugnacious and hard-driking author this fall 
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[Read More] The Social Network
When historians sit down to write the history of first decade of the 20th century, they would have likely used a few years ago labels such as the Rise of the Internet or Googlemania. If Facebook continues to grow and add functions at its current pace (email will soon be integrated with its message 
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