Articles that I've written recently are available below; I hope to add older items in the near future. Unless otherwise noted, the copyright is held jointly by me and the publication where the piece in question appeared.
Indiana Alumni Magazine -- November/December 2007
The profile I wrote on former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., is available below as a PDF. I'll add the full text here in the page as soon as I can dig up a file with the final edits.
Op-Ed, WashingtonPost.com
With less than a week to go until the 2006 elections, the campaign trail is as muddy as ever. Conservatives claim a Democrat-controlled Congress would cut and run in Iraq, raise taxes at home, and engage in partisan payback across the board. Liberals warn of Rove-ian schemes and election-day dirty tricks. And campaign ads from both sides have alleged everything from racism and corruption to womanizing and smutty writing. Yet when the votes have been counted, and a new Congress convenes in January, there's the very real chance that Washington might actually accomplish something.
Op-Ed, The New York Times
Washington -- In 2000, in the wake of the disputed presidential election, a Republican tchotchke-maker printed parodies of the Democrats’ bumper sticker, replacing “Gore-Lieberman” with “Sore-Loserman.” And while Al Gore has generally been a good sport in the years since -- his standard line is “Hello, I used to be the next president of the United States” -- Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut may soon prove there was some truth in that label.
Book Review, NationalJournal.com
As this week's other review makes clear, managing a common resource for the greater good is no easy task. And as William Sargent shows in "Crab Wars," these shared commodities can take on surprising (and smelly) forms.
Book Review, NationalJournal.com
Few Americans understand post-traumatic stress disorder, much less choose to read entire books on the subject. Combine disturbing clinical accounts of Vietnam veterans' psychological and emotional damage with an allegorical reading of Homer's "Odyssey," and one could be forgiven for assuming the target audience is a half-dozen classically educated psychiatrists.
Book Review, NationalJournal.com
After George W. Bush's victory over über-wonk Al Gore in 2000, one might assume that "intellectual" had become a dirty word in presidential politics. After all, Bush repeatedly made it clear that he had no interest in "reading a 500-page book on public policy or something," while Gore seemed to downplay that fact that he had written such a book.
Book Review, NationalJournal.com
To develop a thorough understanding of the dangers terrorists still pose to the United States, one would need to religiously scour the national and international press reports, read between the lines of the government's various threat advisories, and file countless Freedom of Information Act requests for documents both past and present.
Or one can simply read Rohan Gunaratna's new book.
Book Review, NationalJournal.com
When Bill Clinton and, later, to a lesser extent, George W. Bush were questioned about their efforts to avoid Vietnam, the underlying pretext was that a president must understand the culture and capabilities of the military he commands. And while the politics may not have always been pretty, the point is a valid one.
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