Out of Iraq: The rise and fall of one man’s occupation
The Architect of 9/11
A month after 9/11, Fouad Ajami wrote in the New York Times Magazine, “I almost know Mohamed Atta, the Egyptian [at] the controls of the jet that crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center.” While the Middle East scholar had never met the lead hijacker, Ajami knew his type: the young Arab male living abroad, tantalized by yet alienated from Western modernity, who retreats into fundamentalist piety. Eight years after 9/11, we still almost know Mohamed Atta. We can almost see him, a gaunt and spectral figure making his way through Hamburg’s red-light district en route to his radical storefront Al-Quds Mosque. We still vividly recall his ominous visa photograph. But the man in that photograph remains a cipher, his eyes vacant. How did those eyes see the world? #Sept11
Bill Clinton, Then and Now: The Esquire Interview
In a sprawling discussion of his past and our common future, the former president compares his administration’s early years with Obama’s and talks about what he believes — in health care and next year’s midterms — is about to happen
Advertising: The Mammoth Mirror
Couch Warfare
Jay Leno may now dominate prime time, but David Letterman has triumphed by doing something more interesting: He’s grown up.
A Bar on North Avenue
Overdose
The health-care crisis no candidate is addressing? Too many doctors
Waiting for the Weekend
A whole two days off from work, in which we can do what we please, has only recently become a near-universal right. A history of leisure
See Baby Discriminate
Kids as young as 6 months judge others based on skin color. What’s a parent to do?
Happy Feet
Inside the online shoe utopia.
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