When he set out to write Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India 18 months ago, William Dalrymple hoped to find a Bengali man legendary for his skull collection.
Archive for June, 2010
Peter Beinart
Posted By Zócalo On June 22, 2010
Peter Beinart is a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, and a Senior Political Writer for The Daily Beast. He is author of The Good Fight: Why Liberals – And Only Liberals – Can Win the War on Terror and most recently of The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris. Before he took the stage to talk about the limits of American power, he sat down for our In The Green Room Q&A.
Benjamin Schwarz
Posted By Zócalo On June 22, 2010
Benjamin Schwarz is literary editor and national editor of The Atlantic. Born in New York City and raised around the country, Schwarz has written for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, The National Interest, and The Nation. Before he interviewed Peter Beinart about the limits of American power, Schwarz sat down for our In The Green Room Q&A.
The Limits of American Power
Posted By Zócalo On June 21, 2010
After transforming from an advocate of the Iraq war to an opponent, Peter Beinart knew he had to make sense of the ideas “that led me to this pretty massive mistake.”
Is American Foreign Policy Too Ambitious?
Posted By Zócalo On June 20, 2010
In The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, Peter Beinart argues that an overestimation of power has led the U.S. into three wars. We asked four scholars of foreign policy — Princeton’s Julian Zelizer, UCLA’s Kal Raustiala, American University’s David Vine and Temple University’s Richard Immerman — for their responses to a question sparked by Beinart’s argument: Is American foreign policy too ambitious? Read their distinct takes below.
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