This week’s articles of note

"Wanted: a grand strategy for America," Newsweek, by Niall Ferguson [on "Obama's Egypt debacle"]

"The politics of the new middle America," The American Prospect, by E.J. Dionne

"Why isn't Wall Street in jail?" Rolling Stone, by Matt Taibbi

"Daniel Bell, master builder," New York Times Book Review, by Sam Tanenhaus

"How we know," New York Review of Books, by Freeman Dyson [review of The Information, by James Gleick]

"'Daybreak gray and dim': how the Civil War changed Walt Whitman's poetry," Humanities, by Randall Fuller