Tuesday evening roundup

Judith Warner looks at the post-DSK reckoning in the land of Simone de Beauvoir. And while she writes that French women had been lulled into complacency by a semblance of progress, LZ Granderson offers compelling evidence that Americans shouldn't get too comfortable, and that it's not like we, as a nation, have nothing to be ashamed of in terms of some of the rhetoric about rape spewing from politicians.

Are birthers turning on the GOP?

Stephen Walt's reading list.

Babies are smart. Raise yours to be bilingual.