[Articles, essays and other bits used or referred to by original pieces in the Notebooks. They're cited here as footnotes to ensure as much sourcing as possible.]

• Wolfe v. Wolfe, by J. Bottum, The Wall Street Journal, April 16, 1999]
• Country Music As England Sees It, The Economist, Dec, 19, 2006
• Chinese Figh Crime with Torture and Executions, Craig Smith / The New York Times, September 9, 2001
• God's Justice and Ours, Antonin Scalia / First Things, May 2002
• Renovating Home Depot, Business Week, March 6, 2006
• Denmark, the Model, Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic, January 15, 2007
• Looking at Ourselves, David Grossman / New York Review of Books, January 11, 2007
• Does the Future Really Belong to China?, Will Hutton / Prospect, January 2007
• For America's Sake, Bill Moyers / The Nation, January 22, 2007
• How War’s Expense Didn’t Strain Economy, Deborah Solomon / Wall Street Journal, February 5, 2007
• How the West Will make a Killing on Iraqi Oil Riches, Danny Fortson / UK Independent, January 7, 2007

• Will Fight for Oil, Ted Koppel / The New York Times, February 24, 2006
• The Timely Death of Gerald Ford, Frank Rich / The New York Times, January 7, 2007
• A Chance for a Safer World, The Economist / January 4, 2007
• Saddam Hussein: An Obituary, Curtis F. J. Doebbler / Al-Ahram Weekly, December 28, 2006
• Troops Arrive at Base in Cuba to Build Jails, Katharine Q. Seelye / The New York Times, January 2, 2002
• For the First Time, a Real Blueprint for Peace in Iraq, Ali Allawi / UK Independent, January 5, 2007
• March of Folly, Robert Fisk / The UK Independent, January 11, 2007
• If We’re Going to Torture, I Want Proof It Works
• Not Sweet, and Not a Science, Dan Barry / The New York Times, November 26, 1995
• Pepe, 1910-2007, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie / Daily Star, January 17, 2007

• Thomas Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition (1803)
• Revisiting Affirmative Action, With Help From Kant, Stanley Fish / New York Times blog, January 14, 2007
• On God, Christianity and Islam, Steven Weinberg / Times Literary Supplement, January 17, 2007
• He Takes Bach Personally, Barrymore Laurence Scherer / Wall Street Journal, January 16, 2007
• Islam and the West, Gudrun Krämer / Der Spiegel, January 23, 2007
• Recasting Bush Isn't Easy, Baker and Aides Discover, Maureen Dowd with Thomas L. Friedman / The New York Times, September 6, 1992
• Condoleezza Rice Is Not the Woman She Once Was, Lexington / The Economist, January 20, 2007
• Enlightenment fundamentalism or racism of the anti-racists?, Pascal Bruckner / Perlentaucher, January 24, 2007
• Twenty Years of Change in the Sub-Continent, Jeremy Warner / The Independent, January 29, 2007
• How Rich People Control Politics, Bradford Plumer / The New Republic, January 30, 2007

• Korean Emigres Find Success Amid the Stress of New York, Molly Ivins / The New York Times, December 8, 1981
• Spare Me the Word “Terrorist”, Robert Fisk / The Independent, February 3, 2007
• Eubie Blake, Ragtime Composer, Dies 5 Days After 100th Birthday, JOHN S. WILSON / The New York Times, February 13, 1983
• Adlai Stevenson: The Nature of Patriotism, August 27, 1952
• Sunni vs. Shia, Zaki Chehab / The New Statesman, February 12, 2007
• U.S. Is Said to Fail in Tracking Arms Shipped to Iraqis, James Glanz / The New York Times, October 30, 2006
• Why Do Writers Write?, Stanley Fish / Times Blogs, February 11, 2007
• Laissez-Faire Aesthetics, Jed Perl / The New Republic, February 5, 2007
• 50 Shots, Joseph D. Mcnamara / Wall Street Journal, November 29, 2006
• Seven Dirty Words, George Carlin

• Where Were You That Summer of 2001?, Frank Rich / New York Times, February 25, 2007
• Pakistan Lets Tribal Chiefs Keep Control Along Border, Ismail Khan and Carlotta Gall; Ismail Khan Reported From Pesha War For This Article, and Corlotta Gall From Kabul, Afghanistan / The New York Times, September 6, 2006
• How the war on terror made the world a more terrifying place, Kim Sengupta and Patrick Cockburn / UK Independent, 28 February 2007
• On Henry Adams and Democracy, Arthur Schlesinger / New York Review of Books, March 27, 2003
• Folly's Antidote, Arthur Schlesinger / The New York Times, January 1, 2007
• Eyeless in Indochina, Arthur Schlesinger / New York Review of Books, October 21, 1971
• Eyeless in Iraq, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. / New York Review of Books, October 23, 2003
• Reinhold Niebuhr's Long Shadow, By Arthur Schlesinger Jr / New York Times, June 22, 1992
• The Opening of the American Mind, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. / The New York Times, July 23, 1989

• The Responsibility of the Intellectual, Noam Chomsky / New York Review of Books, February 23, 1967
• Iraq Deserves One More Chance, Michael O'Hanlon / The Wall Street Journa, March 1, 2007
• Valor and Squalor, Paul Krugman / The New York Times, March 5, 2007
• Officers Say U.S. Aided Iraq in War Despite Use of Gas, Patrick E. Tyler / The New York Times, August 18, 2002
• Tapes Show Johnson Saw Vietnam War As Pointless in 1964, The New York Times, February 15, 1997
• What L.B.J. Knew, Russell Baker / The New York Times. March 18, 1997
• A Country Drenched in Blood, Patrick Cockburn / The Independent, March 20, 2007
• Children of Working Poor Are Day Care's Forgotten, Sara Rimer / The New York Times, November 25, 1997
• Iraq War Costs Could Top $2 Trillion, Tom Regan / Christian Science Monitor, January 10, 2006
• Iraq War Debate, US Senate / March 27, 2007

• The Conscience of the Colonel, Jesse Bravin / Wall Street Journal, March 31, 2007
• Philadelphia Toll at 11 As Officials Debate Fire Cause, By Robert Hanley / NYT, May 16, 1985
• Two Palestinian Suspects Held in Death of Arab Real Estate Dealer, Joel Greenbergierre / NYT, May 16, 1997
• 6 Year Olds Under Arrest, Bob Herbert / NYT, April 9, 2007
• The Bush War Plan for Baghdad, Robert Fisk / UK Independent, April 11, 2007
• Myth of Tal Afar, Beacon of America's "Success", Patrick Cockburn / The Independent, April 11, 2007
• Why the Joking Had to Stop, Kurt Vonnegut / NYT, April 22, 1990
• “The Big Space Fuck”, Kurt Vonnegut / ”Again, Dangerous Visions,” Harlan Ellison, ED., 1972
• The Prospect of All-Female Conception, Steve Connor / The Independent, April 13, 2007
• Everybody Hates Don Imus, Frank Rich / NYT, April 15, 2007

• Funeral Blues, W.H. Auden
• Massacre Is Just a Part of Everyday Life in America, Rupert Cornwell / UK Independent, April 18, 2007
• America's Tragedy, The Economist / April 25, 2007
• On Oliver Stone's “Platoon”, David Halberstam / NYT, March 8, 1987
• An Island Made By Global Warming, Michael McCarthy / The Independent, April 24, 2007
• Jessica Lynch Demolishes Jessica Lynch Myth, Jessica Lynch / Candide’s Notebooks, April 24, 2007
• Town Destroyed in Air Attack, George Steer / The London Times, April 27, 1937
• Pakistan: The Taliban Takeover, Ziauddin Sardar / The New Statesman, April 30, 2007
• A Failure in Generalship, Lt. Col. Paul Yingling / Armed Forces Journal, May 2007
• Virginia Tech and Our Impoverished Language for Evil, Gregg Easterbrook / The New Republic, May 7, 2007

• Olmert Undone by Hezbollah, Robert Fisk / The Independent, May 3, 2007
• Syrian Endgame, Michael Young / WSJ, May 2, 2007
• City Police Spied Broadly Before GOP Convention, Jim Dwyer / NYT, March 25, 2007
• When Activists Are Terrorists, Judith Miller / WSJ, May 3, 2007
• "Let Us Show Our Greatness: Vote No On This Resolution", Nacy Pelosi / US House of Representatives, October 10, 2002
• Euthanize Me, Jeremy Laurance / UK Independent, May 8, 2007
• True Blue Americans, Paul Krugman / NYT, May 7, 2002
• Iraq Attacks Stayed Steady Despite Troop Increase, James Glanz / NYT, May 17, 2007
• The Rev. Falwell's Heavenly Timing, Frank Rich / NYT, May 20, 2007
• The Secret US Plot to Kill Moqtada al-Sadr, Patrick Cockburn / UK Independent, May 21, 2007
• The G.O.P. Won the Cold War? Ridiculous, George F. Kennan / NYT, October 28, 2002

• A Front-Row Seat for This Lebanese Tragedy, Robert Fisk / UK Independent, May 22, 2007
• The Assault on Reason, Michiko Kakutani / NYT, May 22, 2007
• A Drive for Global Domination Has Put Us in Greater Danger, Al Gore / The Guardian’s Comment is Free, May 24, 2007
• In Lebanon Camp, a New Face of Jihad Vows Attacks on U.S, Souad Mekhennet and Michael Moss; Mark Mazzetti Contributed Reporting From Washington, and Margot Williams From New York / NYT, March 16, 2007
• Gaza: The Jailed State, Zaki Chehab / The New Statesman, May 28, 2007
• Israel's Wasted Victory, The Economist / May 26, 2007
• NATO's Afghan Graveyard, William Pfaff / May 22, 2007
• Failed Presidents Ain't What They Used to Be, Frank Rich / NYT, June 3, 2007
• As Allies Turn Foe, Disillusion Rises in Some G.I.'s, Michael Kamber / NYT, May 28, 2007