Kick of your week with a roundup of Encounter authors in print and online media:

Obama and Chicago Mores, Wall Street Journal, by John Fund
“On Tuesday, Barack Obama may well wrap up the Democratic nomination. Yet how he rose so quickly in Chicago’s famously suspect politics — and who his associates were there — has received little scrutiny…”

Master of Islamist Doublespeak, The Australian, by Melanie Phillips
“The fact that Australia is allowing Ramadan to enter the country at all will raise eyebrows in security circles elsewhere. Ramadan is the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood: the spiritual backers of al-Qa’ida and Hamas and whose goal is to Islamise the world…”

The Indispensable Man, New York Times, by William Kristol
“In my high school yearbook (Collegiate School, class of 1970), there’s a photo of me wearing a political button. (Everyone did in those days. I wasn’t that much dorkier than everyone else.) The button said, ‘Don’t let THEM immanentize the Eschaton.’…”

The Patton of Counterinsurgency, The Weekly Standard, by Frederick and Kimberly Kagan
“Great commanders often come in pairs: Eisenhower and Patton, Grant and Sherman, Napoleon and Davout, Marlborough and Eugene, Caesar and Labienus. Generals David Petraeus and Raymond Odierno can now be added to the list…”

God, Man, Buckley and Me, National Review Online, by Dennis Boyles
” I was having lunch with a friend who is a priest. We were talking about the public role of religion when he told me that once he left the church building itself, he never spoke aloud the name of Christ. He was shocked by his own admission, as though understanding what it meant for the first time. So I did for him what somebody did for me when I was 16; I gave him a copy of God and Man at Yale…”

David’s Bookshelf #66, Davis Frum’s Diary, by David Frum
“Encounter Books has rendered a great public service by translating and publishing in English Caroline Fourest’s important book on Tariq Ramadan, Brother Tariq…”

Time to Rechristen SCHIP, City Journal, by David Gratzer
“In January, Congress tried and failed for the second time to override President Bush’s veto of a Democratic proposal to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), a 10-year-old initiative that aimed to extend coverage to low-income kids. Congressional leaders promise another attempt in the coming weeks…”

Conrad Black, Justice Denied, Roger’s Rules, by Roger Kimball
“In Decemeber, I wrote a column in the space called “Conrad and Black and Saint-Just”, about the vendetta conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice against the Conrad Black, former proprietor of the London Telegraph, The Spectator, and sundry other media properties. As I wrote at the time, Black’s case marked ‘not only a private tragedy but also a dangerous public judicial trend’…”