Terrorism's Mask of Sanity
Azure Magazine - Autumn, 2009
A Third Lebanon War Could Be Much Worse Than the Second
Commentary Magazine - November 20, 2009
The Show Needn't Go On
Commentary Magazine - November 13, 2009
Hezbollah Isn't a Model for Afghanistan
Commentary Magazine - October 14, 2009
Did Hezbollah Kill Hariri?
Commentary Magazine - May 26, 2009
The HuffPo's Lonely Planet Foreign Policy
Commentary Magazine - May 21, 2009
A Third Lebanon War?
Commentary Magazine - February 19, 2009
The Mother of All Quagmires
Commentary Magazine - January 27, 2009
Kosovo's Moderate Muslims
Wall Street Journal - December 29, 2008
The (Really) Moderate Muslims of Kosovo
City Journal - Autumn 2008
Iraq at the End of the Surge
Commentary Magazine - December 8, 2008
Iraq is Still Iraq
New York Daily News - December 8, 2008
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