The Ambiguous Revolt
DISPUTATIONS: Darkness at Noon?
Click here to read Stephen F. Cohen's letter, and click here to read Paul Berman's original article. READ MORE >>
The Prisoner Intellectuals
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth Century Skeptic By Michael Scammell (Random House, 689 pp., $40) I. READ MORE >>
John Patrick Diggins, 1935-2009
The TNR Primary: Part Five
The contempt and insults thrown at Hillary Clinton have always loomed in my eyes as flattering celebrations of her virtues, which, for some reason, have been presented upside down, with their feet waving in the air. Devious, is she? Unprincipled? Out for Number One?--so many ways of saying, a canny politician. I cannot imagine that, in American politics right now, canniness is something to dread. READ MORE >>
Who’s Afraid of Tariq Ramadan?
To Be a European Muslim By Tariq Ramadan (Islamic Foundation, 273 pp., $19.95) Islam, the West, and the Challenges of Modernity By Tariq Ramadan (Islamic Foundation, 352 pp., $35) Western Muslims and the Future of Islam By Tariq Ramadan (Oxford University Press, 272 pp., $16.95) READ MORE >>
Learned
ONE: We have learned that Saddam Hussein's Baathist dictatorship was just as bad as everyone said, and worse. We have learned about the 300,000 Shia killed after the 1991 war, the perhaps 30,000 people buried in a single grave, the 40,000 marsh Arabs killed, the millions of refugees, and so forth--mass destruction with and without weapons of mass destruction. We have learned about the survivors. In Baghdad, a woman schoolteacher approached George Packer of The New Yorker and said, "Please, sir, can you help me? ... READ MORE >>
Resolved
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A Child of His Century
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