Good news: Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy, edited by our own Robert Kagan and William Kristol, is now available. The volume, published by Encounter Books, consists of essays by 15 luminaries ranging from James Ceaser and William Bennett to Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, on topics ranging from China to the Middle East to morality and American foreign policy. If there is a Bush administration, this book should be its policy planning bible. If there is a Gore administration, perhaps they'll do better than they would otherwise if they read the essays in Present Dangers. The book is available from bricks-and-mortar and online booksellers, or it can be ordered directly from the publisher at www.encounterbooks.com.