How come the Soviet people never rose up against the communist regime that governed them for so long? Anne Applebaum will be speaking on the subject of her new book, Iron Curtain (Doubleday, October 2012), at Politics and Prose on tonight at 7 p.m.

David Ferriero has been named the new Archivist of the National Archives, the tenth such figure to hold the position. As such, he must regularly square off against Nicolas Cage, keep an eye out for Tom Hanks, and stay abreast of Ben Stiller’s whereabouts. This sure is the most horrifying story I’ve read in ages. The macaron is the new cupcake. If Metrocurean says so, I will believe it. Then I will continue to…