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Eli Lake is a senior reporter for The
Washington Times, where he covers national security and
foreign policy. In “The 9/14 Presidency” (page 24), Lake outlines
the convergence between the policies of George W. Bush and Barack
Obama regarding wartime powers and civil liberties. Lake notes with
pride that he has “reported from all three members of the Axis of
Evil”—Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. He just completed a senior
journalism fellowship with the East-West Center in India and
Malaysia and is a contributing editor at The New
Republic.
Contributing Editor Michael Young is
opinion editor at the Beirut Daily Star. In this issue, he
reviews Lee Smith’s The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the
Clash of Arab Civilizations (page 50). “I’m less of a
pessimist on Arab democracy than Smith is,” says Young. “He sees
violence and the lack of democracy as something inherent. I agree
that violence is all over, but I’m not an essentialist when it
comes to such characteristics in the Arab world.” Young, who has
lived in Lebanon since 1970, has a book of his own coming out in
April: The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of
Lebanon’s Life Struggle (Simon & Schuster).
Tom G. Palmer, a senior fellow at the Cato
Institute, is the vice president for international programs at the
Atlas Economic Research Foundation. He spends much of his time
traveling the world “helping out colleagues and friends to connect
their struggle for classical liberty to roots within their own
cultural context.” In reviewing James Scott’s The Art of Not
Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
(page 54), Palmer found similarities between the historical
pitfalls described in that book and current international efforts
in Afghanistan. “It doesn’t occur to so-called nation builders that
there are reasons why centralized states have trouble imposing
their rule on those regions,” he says. “Having social structures
makes it hard to subjugate people to centralized states.”
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