Imperial Roundup

Joshua Micah Marshall, the Talking Points Memo blogger, writes in the New Yorker about recent books on the prospect of American Empire, both for it (David Frum & Richard Perle) and against (Chalmers Johnson). He also mentions last year's Niall Ferguson, Empire (get the digested read), but not the upcoming Colossus, which makes the comparisons of previous empires to current American events explicit.