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Today in Times Comment

• Gordon Brown: 42-day detention; a fair solution
• Camila Batmanghelidjh: Ways to be sure the kids are alright
• Libby Purves: Fear, loathing and performance targets
• Melanie Reid: Entertainment is smarter than ever
• William Rees-Mogg: Jefferson: a lesson for Europeans
• Michael Gove: What Gordon and I have in common...
• Anatole Kaletsky: Stone Age lesson on taming the oil price

And from the rest of the papers...

• Janet Daley: (The Telegraph) - The death throes of 20th-century ideology
• Philip Johnston: (The Telegraph) - Labour's youth crime policy is a farce
• Michael Lyons: (The Telegraph) - Why Jonathan Ross is worth the money
• John Harris: (The Guardian) - Instead of reviving New Labour, the party must now drop this Blairite rot
• Jackie Ashley: (The Guardian) - Ageism is no more tolerable than any other prejudice
• Michael Tomasky: (The Guardian) - Unify America? Obama had better start with Democrats
• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: (The Independent) - A lament for the death of the left as a political force
• Bruce Anderson: (The Independent) - We are destroying the very values which could save us in our battle against Islam
• William Gumede: (The Independent) - Silent African leaders are accomplices in these crimes
• Peter Hitchens: (The Daily Mail) - Why does it take Bishop Nazir-Ali to tell us how it really is?
• Clive Crook: (The Financial Times) - The Fed’s year of living dangerously

And from around the world...

• William Kristol: (The New York Times) - What Obama left out
• Paul Krugman: (The New York Times) - A Return of That ’70s Show?
• Sebastian Mallaby: (The Washington Post) - The audacity of growth
• Guy Sorman: (The Wall Street Journal) - How Sarkozy Lost France
• Brian Greene: (International Herald Tribune) - Put a little science in your life
• De Spiegel: Skyrocketing oil prices threaten prosperity

Comments

[Candadai Tirumalai]

Willaim Rees-Mogg on Thomas Jefferson, a man of many parts and accomplishments. Like Franklin, he founded a university (Virginia), whose buildings he designed. His personal collection of books, assembled with care and at considerable expense, became the foundation of the Library of Congress. He was, after Washington, the second Virginian to be a two-term president. He believed that slavery, the "peculiar instituiton" of the South, would fade away with time. Accused by enemies of atheism, he compiled his own selection of the thoughts and sayings of Jesus. The more conservative "Founding Fathers" were relieved that Jefferson was away in Paris as the Constitution was being drafted in Philadelphia. John Kennedy once said to a gathering of Nobel Laureates, "This is the greatest collection of talent assembled at the White House except when Jefferson dined alone."