
2011
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Read all about it
Pressed to keep up… In late September 1978, the news agency for which I worked sent me to St. Peter’s…
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State of play
Yemen in the mix. A naïve and constricting vision of regional power permeates mass media and online chatter in response…
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The Russia house
When national defects became cardinal virtues. Two centuries ago, Russian historian Nikolai Karamzin traveled to Europe and returned a changed…
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The wolf and the lamb
Bin Laden: The hunt meets the man. Give a manhunt long enough and the hunt meets the man, with almost…
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Vermi d’inchiostro
“I have a difficult time speaking precisely,” said Calvino. What a shy man. We sat like perfunctory diplomats on the…

Essays
A collection of writings spanning 2004 to 2025, originally published in The American Magazine.











