JJRI
THE PRESS ROOM
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS ON MATTERS OF INTEREST
Power and
Weakness by Robert Kagan
- It
is time to stop pretending that Europeans and Americans share a common view of
the world, or even that they occupy the same world. On the all-important
question of power — the efficacy of power, the morality of power, the
desirability of power — American and European perspectives are diverging. (read
article)
Too diverse by David Goodhart - Is Britain becoming too diverse to sustain the mutual
obligations behind good society and the welfare state? (read article)
The Man
Behind Ben Laden by
Lawrence Wright - A profile of Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bin Laden's supposed
right-hand man, and perhaps the "brains" behind Al Qaeda. (read article)
The Crash of EgyptAir 990 by William Langewiesche - Two years
afterward the U.S. and Egyptian governments are still quarreling over the
cause—a clash that grows out of cultural division, not factual uncertainty. A
look at the flight data from a pilot's perspective, with the help of
simulations of the accident, points to what the Egyptians already know: the
crash was caused not by any mechanical failure but by a pilot's intentional
act. (read article)
Tales
of the Tyrant by
Mark Bowden - What did Saddam Hussein see in himself that no one else in the world
seems to see? The answer is perhaps best revealed by the intimate details of
the Iraqi leader's daily life when he was in power. (read article)