Two excellent and serious looks at the UN (on the day it becomes totally irrelevant?).
Jeff Jacoby tells us: "Shed no tears. For all the beautiful words in its charter, the UN has never lived up -- never even tried to live up -- to its founding ideals. The UN Charter venerates justice and human rights, but dozens of UN members states routinely pervert justice and crush human rights."
Robert Bartley offers a comprehensive historical comparison to The League of Nations in "When America Left Peace to France"