What We're Reading

Posted By Blake Hounshell Monday, July 9, 2007 - 5:08 PM Share

Preeti Aroon

  • Do Business and Islam Mix? Ask Him, by G. Pascal Zachary in the New York Times. A moderate Muslim billionaire, the Aga Khan, is using business and philanthropy to help people in some of the poorest parts of the world. 

Christine Chen 

  • Her Jewish State, by Roger Cohen, New York Times Magazine, July 8. A brilliant profile of Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. Not only do we get a sense of who this possible future prime minister is, but we also get a better sense of the conundrum of those who want a Greater Israel, a Jewish Israel, and a democratic Israel. faced with the facts on the ground, Livni realizes that it may be impossible to have all three.

Sam duPont 

  • The Taliban's Opium War, in last week's New Yorker. Jon Lee Anderson tells a heart-stopping tale of being caught in the crossfire of the joint U.S.-Afghan government assault on Afghanistan's poppy farmers and their Taliban guardians.

Blake Hounshell

  • Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. Tim Weiner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at the New York Times, has written a gripping—and extremely damning—history of America's spy agency. The best part? He used the CIA's own declassified records to do it.

Prerna Mankad

Kate Palmer

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