Winter 2008 (Archive): In This Issue

Peter Collier examines the meaning of the political debate raging among liberal intellectuals about Islam’s role and influence in the West. Collier questions whether some on the left have “lost confidence in the West’s ability to combat illiberalism, even its homicidal strains.”
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One day in the summer of 2004, while I sat in the western Baghdad studio of Radio Dijla, Iraq’s first all-talk station, listening to a deputy interior minister being interviewed, a man named Haithem called in. His story sounded garbled and frantic: late at night bandits had forced him off an unlit highway...
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