Two opinions on rebuilding New Orleans:
On Salon: We need our city back. It will cost billions, and we should pay for it -- and here's why.(You have to sit through an advertisement to get to the article, but it's worth it, and hey, I just found out that way that Roman Polanski had made a new version of Oliver Twist.
On Slate, Jack Shafer thinks it would be a mistake to raise the American Atlantis.