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	<title>Graeme Wood</title>
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		<title>Graeme Wood</title>
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		<title>Janet Reitman&#8217;s Inside Scientology</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/07/08/janet-reitmans-inside-scientology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reviewed Janet Reitman&#8217;s Inside Scientology in the Wall Street Journal.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&amp;blog=3047424&amp;post=611&amp;subd=gcaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The latest from Tahrir</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/06/30/the-latest-from-tahrir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I filed a post for TheAtlantic.com from Tahrir.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&amp;blog=3047424&amp;post=613&amp;subd=gcaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trotsky and Tahrir</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/06/26/trotsky-and-tahrir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The summer Bookforum features an essay by me about the Egyptian revolution and Trotsky&#8217;s History of the Russian Revolution.  Sadly, no link available yet.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&amp;blog=3047424&amp;post=609&amp;subd=gcaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Running the Asylum</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/05/12/running-the-asylum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 16:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For The Atlantic, I profiled Maj. Gulzar Wazir, mental health activist in Peshawar.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&amp;blog=3047424&amp;post=606&amp;subd=gcaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Far-Future Shock</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/05/01/far-future-shock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 16:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Boston Globe Ideas section, I consider what will happen to the human species a billion or more years from now.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&amp;blog=3047424&amp;post=599&amp;subd=gcaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The British Invasion of Mesopotamia</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/04/08/the-british-invasion-of-mesopotamia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reviewed Charles Townshend&#8217;s Desert Hell for The National. In the history of colonial Britain, the name Charles Townshend is usually said with a scowl. It wasn&#8217;t always thus. In 1895, as a young captain, Townshend led the besieged garrison at Chitral Fort and held out heroically until the arrival of reinforcements. But his reputation and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&amp;blog=3047424&amp;post=602&amp;subd=gcaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Boom Behind Bars</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/03/17/a-boom-behind-bars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the current Businessweek, I have a piece about the private prison industry and immigrant detention.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&amp;blog=3047424&amp;post=597&amp;subd=gcaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Taliban Shuffle</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/03/11/the-taliban-shuffle/</link>
		<comments>http://gcaw.net/2011/03/11/the-taliban-shuffle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s grave and terrible when that same author seems to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&amp;blog=3047424&amp;post=594&amp;subd=gcaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arab Revolutions Through the Wikileaks Lens</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/03/09/arab-revolutions-through-the-wikileaks-lens/</link>
		<comments>http://gcaw.net/2011/03/09/arab-revolutions-through-the-wikileaks-lens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Foreign Policy, a short essay about reading US diplomatic cables after the revolutions in Libya, Tunisia, and Egypt.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&amp;blog=3047424&amp;post=591&amp;subd=gcaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I am the Market</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/03/09/i-am-the-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reviewed Luca Rastello&#8217;s I am the Market: How to Smuggle Cocaine by the Ton in Five Easy Lessons in The Barnes &#38; Noble Review.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&amp;blog=3047424&amp;post=589&amp;subd=gcaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After the Fall</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/03/01/after-the-fall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally appeared in Caravan, edited from dispatches at TheAtlantic.com. Dispatches from Egypt&#8217;s revolution HOSNI MUBARAK with donkey ears, Hosni Mubarak with a Hitler moustache, Hosni Mubarak as Colonel Sanders—once the protesters started heaping on the scorn, they couldn’t stop. It had been a long time coming. The only other time I had heard anyone in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&amp;blog=3047424&amp;post=553&amp;subd=gcaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>With Mubarak Gone, Will Egyptians Divide?</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/02/14/with-mubarak-gone-will-egyptians-divide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally appeared in The Atlantic. CAIRO, Egypt &#8212; Hosni Mubarak with donkey ears, Hosni Mubarak with a Hitler mustache, Hosni Mubarak as Colonel Sanders &#8212; once the protesters started heaping on the scorn, they couldn&#8217;t stop. It was a long time coming. The only prior time I had heard anyone in Egypt express public contempt for Mubarak [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&amp;blog=3047424&amp;post=582&amp;subd=gcaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Hold Up Your Head!&#8221;  An Egyptian Festival</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/02/11/hold-up-your-head-an-egyptian-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally appeared in The Atlantic. CAIRO, Egypt &#8211; One longs to know what finally convinced Hosni Mubarak to relinquish his office. What, as of this afternoon, did he see that he could not have seen before? By the end of January, he must have known that his people were desperate to be rid of him. By [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&amp;blog=3047424&amp;post=580&amp;subd=gcaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Go Away!&#8221; Rage in Tahrir Greets Mubarak&#8217;s Speech</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/02/10/go-away-rage-in-tahrir-greets-mubaraks-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally appeared in The Atlantic. CAIRO, Egypt &#8212; Unless you count the dummies that they&#8217;ve been hanging in effigy from lampposts for the last week, the protesters in Tahrir Square have been remarkably nonviolent in the imagery they&#8217;ve used against Hosni Mubarak. Tonight that equanimity began melting away. Not long before Mubarak came on television [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&amp;blog=3047424&amp;post=578&amp;subd=gcaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Egyptian Revolution&#8217;s Coming Second Act</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/02/10/the-egyptian-revolutions-coming-second-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally appeared in The Atlantic. CAIRO, Egypt &#8212; The last week in Tahrir has taught a number of cruel lessons, chief among them that the old Marxist chronology of tragedy-then-farce is severely out of date. As my friend Graham Harman has observed, the spectacle of 21st-century camelborne cavalry charges against peaceful demonstrators is itself a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&amp;blog=3047424&amp;post=576&amp;subd=gcaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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