I reviewed Janet Reitman’s Inside Scientology in the Wall Street Journal.
Filed under: Wall Street Journal , books, religion
30 June 2011 • 7:36 am 0
The latest from Tahrir
I filed a post for TheAtlantic.com from Tahrir.
Filed under: Atlantic Monthly , Egypt, Middle East
26 June 2011 • 1:38 pm 0
Trotsky and Tahrir
12 May 2011 • 12:20 pm 0
Running the Asylum
For The Atlantic, I profiled Maj. Gulzar Wazir, mental health activist in Peshawar.
Filed under: Atlantic Monthly
1 May 2011 • 12:09 pm 0
Far-Future Shock
In the Boston Globe Ideas section, I consider what will happen to the human species a billion or more years from now.
Filed under: Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News , philosophy, science
8 April 2011 • 12:13 pm 0
The British Invasion of Mesopotamia
17 March 2011 • 10:18 pm 0
A Boom Behind Bars
In the current Businessweek, I have a piece about the private prison industry and immigrant detention.
Filed under: Businessweek
11 March 2011 • 1:16 am 0
The Taliban Shuffle
Originally appeared in The National.
There are writers, and I am one of them, who believe that no book can be serious if it cannot also make you laugh. Permanent sobriety is no more trustworthy than permanent buffoonery. Why trust an author to tell you what’s grave and terrible when that same author seems to think everything is grave and terrible? Some critics may object that there is no comedy in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan. These are exactly the people one can safely disregard.
Filed under: National , Afghanistan, books, Pakistan
