For many analysts the world is now a less stable place than it was during the Cold War.

BBC: How did we forget about mutually assured destruction?

That is, if anything, less dismissive than the last time the MTA threw cold water on the notion of sending the subway system across city and state borders for the first time.

WSJ: N.J. Subway Idea Lives

Institutional and economic interests are bound to be hurt when a behemoth like the Pentagon re-orients itself to deal with a world that is much less predictable, but no less dangerous, than that of the cold war.

ECONOMIST: New wars and old

Of the many slight flaws in this picture it is, for instance, overlong, overdecorated, overplayed, and scripted with less coherence than a Scrabble board the most troublesome is the evolution of old, cold houses, which were barely scary in the nineteen-sixties, into lumps of real estate.

NEWYORKER: Haunting, The