Lee Smith in Tablet chronicles the discovery of two apparent Pakistanis (probably working for Iranian intelligence) who spent nearly two years in a Washington, D.C. building literally filled with U.S. law enforcement employees from multiple agencies. Which is the more disturbing: the men’s possible mission as an advance party for assassins, or the fact that it took a U.S. postal agent to uncover their plot?

When the Waves Turn the Minutes to Hours
John R. Grove commemorates the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald with a moving meditation on Gordon Lightfoot’s song memorializing the disaster and its 29 forever-lost victims. Lightfoot’s poetry and melody in The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald not only hauntingly convey the tragedy’s essential elements but, Grove writes in Law & Liberty, open a window to the sublime.


