Chasing Beirut's Ghosts | Robyn Creswell
Rabee Jaber’s novel, The Mehlis Report, published in Arabic in 2005 and now expertly translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid, takes place in the summer and fall following Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri’s assassination. The novel evokes this unsettled period with frightening precision. It reads like a historical novel that happens to be about the very recent past. Lebanon’s Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was
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Three Decades of Mistakes and Mistrust (Published 2012)
For the United States and Iran the 1979 Iranian revolution — which replaced an American-allied monarchy with a virulently anti-American theocracy — has proved to be the geopolitical divorce from hell. For over three decades, as the two sides have engaged in an ugly battle for patronage over a volatile Middle East, Washington has hoped in vain that Tehran would change its ways. “The Twilight War,”
From the Ruins of Empire, By Pankaj Mishra
Thank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in From the Ruins of Empire, By Pankaj MishraThis sharp account of the West's decline takes an equally astringent view of Asia's rising powers
What Makes Countries Rich or Poor? | Jared Diamond
The fence that divides the city of Nogales is part of a natural experiment in organizing human societies. North of the fence lies the American city of Nogales, Arizona; south of it lies the Mexican city of Nogales, Sonora. On the American side, average income and life expectancy are higher, crime and corruption are lower, health and roads are better, and elections are more democratic. Yet the geog
Why Won’t They Listen? (Published 2012)
You’re smart. You’re liberal. You’re well informed. You think conservatives are narrow-minded. You can’t understand why working-class Americans vote Republican. You figure they’re being duped. You’re wrong. This isn’t an accusation from the right. It’s a friendly warning from Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia who, until 2009, considered himself a partisan liberal.
A Mission to Restore a House and a Man (Published 2012)
Anthony Shadid, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, in the Mansour neighborhood of Baghdad in 2010.Credit...Peter Van Agtmael The pain and allure of departure, more than the satisfaction of arrival, run through the stories told in “House of Stone,” Anthony Shadid’s elegiac, heartbreaking memoir of the year he spent restoring a long-abandoned family home in southern Lebanon. The book’s
Historian Who Influences Both Obama and Romney (Published 2012)
In "The World America Made," Robert Kagan emphasizes military power as a measure of a country's health and global sway.Credit...Goran Tomasevic/Reuters One thing Barack Obama and Mitt Romney seem to have in common these days is an appreciation for the neoconservative historian Robert Kagan. The Romney campaign has retained Mr. Kagan as a foreign-policy adviser, and according to news reports, Presi
One Man’s History (Published 2012)
Tony Judt was known to many people as the public intellectual who aroused a firestorm of criticism for an article he wrote in The New York Review of Books in 2003, calling for Israel to become a binational state and to lose its specifically Jewish character. That essay, as well as biting critiques of the Iraq war and the Israel lobby, earned him considerable enmity in some quarters, mitigated perh
Things Fell Apart: Tony Judt's 'Twentieth Century'
"Without history, memory is open to abuse," writes Tony Judt in Thinking the Twentieth Century. Perhaps more than anything else the late British-American historian wrote, that could have been his credo — his work, especially toward the end of his career, was marked by an almost activist concern for morality, what he called an "explicit ethical engagement." That approach made Judt, author of the cr
Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt – review
In this marvellous book, two explorers set out on a journey from which only one of them will return. Their unknown land is that often fearsome continent we call the 20th century. Their route is through their own minds and memories. Both travellers are professional historians still tormented by their own unanswered questions. They needed to talk to one another, and the time was short. Tony Judt, au
Thinking the Twentieth Century | Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder | Review by The Spectator
Age of ideas 21 January 2012 Sam Leith Thinking the Twentieth Century Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder Heinemann, 413pp, £25 When the historian and essayist Tony Judt died in 2010 of motor neurone disease, among the books he had planned was an intellectual history of 20th-century social thought. As the disease robbed him of the ability to write, his friend Timothy Snyder proposed making this book —
Opinion | The Rise of the New Groupthink (Published 2012)
SOLITUDE is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people skills above all. Lone geniuses are out. Collaboration is in. But there’s a problem with this view. Research s
War No More
As Steven Pinker observes, we recall the twentieth century as an age of unparalleled violence, and we characterize our own epoch as one of terror. But what if our historical moment is in fact defined not by mass killing but by the greatest levels of peace and safety ever attained by humankind? By way of this provocative hypothesis, the acclaimed psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist aims to l
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