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Gitmo in the present millennium is no departure at all from the American tradition in Guantánamo Bay.
The body of the church of Scientology is not well. Will its main legacy be its contribution to US tax law?
To see humanitarianism everywhere is not to see it at all.
Is Deng Xiaoping’s legacy of modernization without political reform one that no contemporary Chinese official can control?
In Mañana Forever? Jorge Castañeda chronicles the growth of the middle class to argue that Mexico is not a failed state.
Janet Malcolm can be brutal in her judgments, but it is the casual brutality of keen observation.
The Social Animal is a deep and public embarrassment, a lumpy hybrid of fable, neuroscience and social engineering.
John Kenneth Galbraith was a satirist of economics as much as a practitioner of it.
Ahmed Chalabi’s daughter recounts the family’s saga and the ancien regime.
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The article reviews the book "New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan," by Jill Lepore.
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Reviews three books about Saudi Arabia. "House of Bush, House of Saud," by Craig Unger; "Inside the Mirage: America's Fragile Partnership With Saudi Arabia," by Thomas W. Lippman; "Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis," by John R. Bradley.
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Reviews two books about Iran. "Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran," by Azadeh Moaveni; "In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran," by Christopher de Bellaigue.
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Reviews the books "The Day of the Owl," "Equal Danger" and "The Moro Affair" by Leonardo Sciascia.
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Reviews the books "The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response," by Peter Balakian, and "Modern Armenia: People, Nation, State," by Gerard J. Libaridian.
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Reviews three books. "Caught in the Middle East: US Policy Toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1945-1961," by Peter L. Hahn; "Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East," by Salim Yaqub; "American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945," by George Little.
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Reviews the book, "Scum Manifesto," by Valerie Solanas.
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Reviews the books, "North Korea: Another Country," by Bruce Cumings; "The North Korean Revolution: 1945 - 1950," by Charles K. Armstrong;"Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies," by David Kang and Victor Cha; "Crisis on the North Korean Peninsula: How to Deal With a Nuclear North Korea," by Michael O'Hanlon and Mike Mochizuki. "North Korea, South Korea: U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis," by John Feffer.
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Reviews the book, "Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan," by Philip Lopate.
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Reviews the books, "Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied," by Toby Dodge; and "The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy, or Division?" by Liam Anderson and Gareth Stansfield.
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