I reviewed it for The Daily.
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29 January 2012 • 1:13 pm 0
Cullen Murphy’s new book on the Inquisition
27 January 2012 • 4:32 pm 0
Death of a Poseur
Jonathan “Jack” Idema, the pseudo-mercenary who was jailed after being convicted of operating a private prison in Kabul, died of AIDS in Mexico last week.
For the International Herald Tribune, I visited his semi-abandoned office building in Fayetteville, N.C., and found chains on the doors. Idema’s adjoining apartment, where he allegedly conducted his assignations, had a poster for the Broadway musical Urinetown on the wall and a single cowboy spur rusting in the grass outside.
Filed under: International Herald Tribune, Afghanistan, Mexico, military
1 January 2012 • 5:09 pm 0
Freed Press
Late last year, USAID hired me to teach a seminar about journalism to Libyan journalists. I wrote about the experience in the current Atlantic.
Filed under: Atlantic Monthly, Libya, Middle East
1 January 2012 • 4:43 pm 0
A Turkish Assad?
Which is scarier: a government that hunts down and kills dozens in cold blood, or a government that hunts down and kills dozens by accident?
Read more at the IHT.
Filed under: International Herald Tribune, Turkey
