Wednesday morning roundup

Rothkopf thinks a Trump backlash will bring on a civil, substantive election season.

I find some of these momoirs blah, but at least one made me smile.

Don't think the flooding has nothing to do with the way we treat the land. My favorite sentence:

Farmers in the floodway are suing the corps for damaging their property, as if their federally subsidized corn and soybeans in a federally protected floodplain would have survived had nature had her way.

By the way, excellent New Yorker piece on man-made meat--really gets into the harm done by factory farming.

A children's book some of you might identify with.

Judith and Maureen Dowd on Strauss-Kahn case. This one by Stephen Clarke is good, too.