On the plane, among other things, I read Christopher Hitchens’ review of several recent Kennedy-related books. As per usual, only a measly two paragraphs are online, but if you can dig it up, do read (there’s more in the issue, of course, and I’ve yet to crack the Fallows’ article on why he says we’ve won the War on Terror, etc…) – typical unpulled-punches Hitchens, laying the whole miserable, compromised presidency out in a fairly tight few thousand words.

I also have to tell you…this piece in the current issue of American’s onflight magazine, on Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, is one of the best I’ve seen on the place in the popular press. It’s informative, complete, first-hand reporting and totally respectful of the religious sensibility Gaudi brought and continues to shape the structure.