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Terror and Liberalism
Paul Berman, The American Prospect
The Men Who Would Be Orwell
Ron Rosenbaum, The New York Observer
Looking the World in the Eye
Robert D. Kaplan, The Atlantic Monthly
In the Eigth Circle of Thieves
E.L. Doctorow, The Nation
Against Rationalization
Christopher Hitchens, The Nation
The Wall
Yossi Klein Halevi, The New Republic
Jihad Versus McWorld
Benjamin Barber, The Atlantic Monthly
The Sunshine Warrior
Bill Keller, The New York Times Magazine
Power and Weakness
Robert Kagan, Policy Review
The Coming Anarchy
Robert D. Kaplan, The Atlantic Monthly
England Your England
George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn
Published Articles
Lebanon's Enemy Within
Commentary Magazine - October 27, 2008
Are You Going to the American Side?
Wall Street Journal - August 22, 2008
Report from Tbilisi
City Journal - August 20, 2008
A Perilous Peace
Commentary Magazine - July 29, 2008
The Truth About March 14
Commentary Magazine - July 18, 2008
Is the War Over?
Commentary Magazine - July 16, 2008
How Kosovo Created its Own Liberal Islam
Standpoint Magazine - July, 2008
No More Gazas
Commentary Magazine - June 17, 2008
Lebanon's Future
Commentary Magazine - May 16, 2008
The Real Iraq
City Journal - May 16, 2008
This is a Kosovar Muslim
Commentary Magazine - May 7, 2008
The Case of Bilal Hussein
Commentary Magazine - April 22, 2008
Hope for Iraq's Meanest City
City Journal - Spring 2008
Blasphemers Unite!
Commentary Magazine - April 4, 2008
Between West and East
New York Times - March 30, 2008
The Israel of the Balkans
Commentary Magazine - March 20, 2008
What I See Every Day in Iraq
New York Daily News - December 2, 2007
No Friends but the Mountains
Azure Magazine - Fall 2007
The Next Iranian Revolution
Reason Magazine - October 2007
Front-line Lessons from the Iraq Surge
New York Daily News - 8/29/2007
Welcome to Hizbullahland
The Jerusalem Post - 4/5/2007
Power, Faith, and Fantasy in the Middle East
Pajamas Media - 2/20/2007
The Kurds Go Their Own Way
Reason Magazine - August/September 2006
Across the Attila Line
TCS Daily - 3/29/2006
The Kurd Way
The Bulletin - 2/22/2006
The Enemy of Your Enemy is Sometimes Your Enemy
TCS Daily - 1/18/2006
Cyprus: NATO's Internal Cold War
TCS Daily - 1/11/2006
The Slow Rot of Hosni Mubarak
TCS Daily - 1/6/2006
Lebanon the Model
Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal - 1/3/2006
In the Land of the Brother Leader
LA Weekly - 12/30/2005
Guess Who's Coming to Iftar? A Meal to Remember with Hezbollah
LA Weekly - 12/16/2005
Car Bombs Return to Beirut
TCS Daily - 12/13/2005
No Peace Without Syria
Tech Central Station - 11/27/2005
The Source of the Chaos
Tech Central Station - 10/24/2005
Old School Terrorism in Lebanon
Tech Central Station - 10/18/2005
The Bosnia of Our Time
Tech Central Station - 8/22/2005
It's Not All About Us
Tech Central Station - 8/12/2005
Lebanon and Iraq: Partners in Freedom
The Daily Star - 7/22/2005
The Logic of Pacifism
Tech Central Station - 7/21/2005
Withdrawal Under Fire
Tech Central Station - 7/08/2005
Third Wave Gentrification
Tech Central Station - 6/23/2005
Thanked or Damned
Tech Central Station - 6/09/2005
Resolving the Clash of Civilizations
Tech Central Station - 5/25/2005
A Beirut Diary
LA Weekly - 5/13/2005
Our Friend, the Arab Street
Tech Central Station - 3/16/2005
Second Thoughts in Both Directions
Tech Central Station - 2/21/2005
They March for Themselves
Tech Central Station - 2/08/2005
Welcome to the Hotel Rwanda
Tech Central Station - 1/18/2005
Where The Communist Manifesto Meets The Koran
Tech Central Station - 1/04/2005
Marching Towards a Democratic Iraq
Tech Central Station - 12/21/2004
Crossing the Fossa Regia
Tech Central Station - 11/19/2004
Bomb My House...Please
Tech Central Station - 11/11/2004
Turkey and the Problem of History
Tech Central Station - 10/25/2004
Believe the Hype
Tech Central Station - 10/20/2004
The Liberal Case for Bush
Tech Central Station - 10/07/2004
Hawks and the Presidency
Tech Central Station - 9/20/2004
An American in Tunisia
Tech Central Station - 8/11/2004
The Berkeley Intifada?
Tech Central Station - 6/10/2004
Spinning for Al Qaeda
Tech Central Station - 5/26/2004
Saud-Free Arabia
Tech Central Station - 5/17/2004
Naming the Enemy
Tech Central Station - 5/5/2004
The New Neutrality
Tech Central Station - 4/15/2004
The Small Pleasures of Trade
Tech Central Station - 3/30/2004
Are the Jacksonians Sated?
Tech Central Station - 3/22/2004
Liberalism in the Balance
Tech Central Station - 3/08/2004
Kill Saddam
Tech Central Station - 2/19/2004
Iraq is not Vietnam
Tech Central Station - 11/18/2003
The Crucial Alliance
Tech Central Station - 10/27/2003
An Open Letter to the Party of Wilson and Roosevelt
Tech Central Station - 9/22/2003
The Globalization of Gaza
Tech Central Station - 7/28/2003
The Hindsight Effect
Tech Central Station - 5/30/2003
Builders and Defenders
Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal - 5/12/2003
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