What We're Reading

Kate Palmer

• Rules of Engagement, By William Langewiesche, Vanity Fair (Nov. 2006) - Langewiesche expands the Haditha deaths into a microcosm of the war in Iraq. It's typical Langewiesche—clear, methodical, and penetrating.

James Forsyth

• Confessions of a Hawkish Hack, By Matthew d'Ancona, The Spectator
• Rethinking Iraq, The Way Forward, By Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek (Nov. 6, 2006)
• Going Native, By Peter Beinart, The New Republic Online - Lou Dobbs Democrats?

Mike Boyer

• This is Baghdad. What could be worse? By Anthony Shadid, Washington Post (Oct. 29, 2006)
• Special Report: Strategy in Iraq, The Economist, (Oct. 26, 2006)
• Damage Control: Karen Hughes Does PD, By Shawn Zeller, Foreign Service Journal (Oct. 2006)
• Neither Madison Avenue Nor Hollywood, By Robert J. Callahan, Foreign Service Journal (Oct. 2006) 

Carolyn O'Hara

• "It's Morning in Nevada." The incomparable Dave Hickey goes on the campaign trail in Harper's November issue.
• Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, By Sir Nicholas Stern, former World Bank chief economist and senior UK civil servant. The report concludes that "climate change is the greatest market failure the world has ever seen." Worried yet? 
• If not, read Bill McKibben's take on climate change's science and solutions in Close to Catastrophe?, New York Review of Books (Nov. 16, 2006).
  
• I'm just finishing Rian Malan's classic memoir of apartheid South Africa, My Traitor’s Heart. In the October 14 issue of the UK's Spectator, Malan weighs in on Jacob Zuma's political future and what it means for South Africa in Not Civil War, But Sad Decay.

David Bosco

• Parliament of Man, By Paul Kennedy
• Law and Terror, By Kenneth Anderson, Policy Review (Oct/Nov 2006)
• Taking the Fight to the Taliban, By Elizabeth Rubin, New York Times (Oct. 29, 2006)

Travis Daub

• Over the weekend, I devoured the companion website for PBS Nova's 2004 documentary "Life and Death in the War Zone," which was reaired last week. Particularly interesting are the personnel profiles of four key figures from the doc. Their personal accounts of life in the CASH (combat support hospital), reveal the evolution of the war from late 2003 to early 2004 from a medic's point of view.