What We’re Reading

• 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

Mike Boyer

• 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

  Kate Palmer

• 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.   

Will Dobson

• 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

Travis Daub

• 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.