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Good Muslim, Bad Muslim

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, The Cold War, and the Roots of Terror by Mahmood Mamdani (NY: Pantheon, 2004)

A very smart book that should alter how we think and talk about the war and world politics. Unlike the ceaseless prattle that passes for analysis in the mainstream news, and even in the liberal left […]

Fortress of Solitude

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Winners!

A title like that doesn’t usually get my interest, but by odd serendipity I was called by a publicist for Eric Martin’s new novel and asked to speak for 5 minutes before a couple of his upcoming bookstore gigs to introduce the historical context of his book. OK, I agreed without reading the book or […]