What We’re Reading
James Forsyth Plan B For Iraq By Eliot Cohen, The Wall Street Journal God returns to Europe by Eric Kaufman, Prospect Patronising Turkey is a dangerous game for Europe by Denis MacShane, The Financial Times Raise the Gas Tax by Greg Mankiw, Greg Mankiw’s Blog Where the Right Went Wrong David Brooks reviews Andrew Sullivan’s ...
- Plan B For Iraq By Eliot Cohen, The Wall Street Journal
- God returns to Europe by Eric Kaufman, Prospect
- Patronising Turkey is a dangerous game for Europe by Denis MacShane, The Financial Times
- Raise the Gas Tax by Greg Mankiw, Greg Mankiw’s Blog
- Where the Right Went Wrong David Brooks reviews Andrew Sullivan’s new book, The New York Times
- The Good Solider By Joseph Lelyveld, The New York Review of Books
- Campus Jihad By Anthony Glees, The Wall Street Journal
- A Test of Power By David C. Hendrickson and Robert W. Tucker, The National Interest
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An Argument for a Trans-Atlantic Free-Trade Zone By Gabor Steingart, Der Spiegel – How should the West respond to China and India’s growing economic clout? Set up a trans-Atlantic free-trade zone from Alaska to Austria. - The Internet Black Hole That is North Korea By Tom Zeller Jr., The New York Times – That North Koreans aren’t plugged into the Web isn’t surprising. But this DoDsatellite image, which shows just how disconnected the country is, is remarkable.
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- The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan And the UN in the Era of American World Power By James Traub – Traub has done the next-to impossible…made a book about the United Nations a page turner.
- The Economist’s new International section – The Economist unveiled a new section in this week’s issue, which is meant to “provide a home for stories that span many regions.” It’s a worthwhile experiment.
- Anything by Chuck Klosterman…in particular this month, his An Argument for the NBA in the November issue of Esquire 2006
- Rough Guide to Outsourcing in China By Al Mudrow, Design News – From the electronics bazzars of Shenzen, to the factory landscape of Guangzhou, an engineer give a first-hand account of his experiences setting up a complex manufacturing process in China.
- Doonesbury’s War, By Gene Weingarten, Washington Post Magazine -I’ve never been religous about reading Doonsebury. From now on I will be.
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