Paul Berman has written two recent pieces for the Times that are worth a read: a profile of the late Sayyid Qutb, a philosopher who has become a Che Guevara figure for Islamist terrorists, and an op-ed piece about the "Report on the Transition to Democracy in Iraq," a report written by Iraqi exiles about post-war plans.
What I like about Berman's work is that he's digging into source material -- Qutb's books, the Iraqi report -- to better understand what's going on here. He has a book coming out in April called Terror and Liberalism that sounds intriguing.
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