ET VITAM VENTURI SAECULI. The Chicago Tribune editors (registration required) take stock, see gains and losses. Stanley Kurtz suggests the heavy lifting is ahead, as does R. James Woolsey. (These observations at Cal Pundit bear careful reading.) Perhaps history has not yet ended, is the subtext of this Francis Fukuyama essay. There is soul-searching in Araby, and perhaps recognition of certain myths on these shores, in the academic echo chamber.