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JUN 2, 2004 Podcast

Inside the Mirage: America's Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia

Veteran Middle East correspondent Thomas Lippman traces the history of the U.S.-Saudi relationship and discusses its current state post 9/11.

The Catholic Revolution: New Wine, Old Wineskins, and the Second Vatican Council

JUN 1, 2004 Article

"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Andrew Greeley, "The Catholic Revolution: New Wine, Old Wineskins, and the Second Vatican Council"

Andrew Greeley reappears now at a moment when I, and I suspect others, really need him, addressing a question that has been bothering me for ...

Walter Russell Mead

MAY 27, 2004 Podcast

Power, Terror, Peace, and War

"We are creating new and ever more dangerous problems for ourselves simply by doing what it is that we like to do," says Walter Russell ...

Book "State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century" by Francis_Fukuyama

MAY 19, 2004 Podcast

State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

According to Fukuyama, we know less than we think we do about building political institutions, designing constitutions, and bolstering civil society in failed or weak ...