Two excellent essays

Bruce Bawer:
Hating America

A long essay from the perspective of an ex-pat, Bawer examines the theories of several authors on the subject of anti-americanism in Europe.

Mark Steyn:
Media shockingly ignorant of Muslims among us

Our fourth estate sees our Eastern neighbors as bosom buddies, as long as they're living as victims in sqalid, bone crushing poverty and civil unrest, that is. Steyn asks why our Western media curiously can't (or won't) take into evidence the actions of Easterners living here.

(The first is from Jeff, the other from Ace.)