July 29, 2016
Hisham Matar’s new memoir The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between is several books at once, depending on which way you hold it to...
podcast
February 2, 2016
Eric Reidy is the lead reporter for Ghost Boat , a project produced by Medium investigating the disappearance of 243 Eritrean refugees en...
Opinion
December 2, 2015
In a recent essay for Dissent entitled “The European Crisis,” Michael Walzer offers a case study in liberal imperialist ideology. The...
Reportage
January 19, 2012
August, during the fall of Tripoli, amid revellers and looters at Qaddafi’s conquered Bab al-Aziziya complex, I came across a rebel group...
Reviews
December 26, 2011
This March's Libyan spring revealed to the Libyan people and the world the falsity of the regime that Qaddafi had worked hard to hide. Some...
Opinion
December 12, 2011
In an unfortunate twist of fate, the deciding elements of the future of the International Criminal Court will occur almost simultaneously...