Adam Gopnik | New Yorker | 22 October 2012 Historians and military strategists develop new respect for geography after bungled invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan. "Our desires as nations, like our desires as individuals, are rooted in the unchanging features of our terrain" Comments Shehrbano Taseer | Newsweek | 22 October 2012 "What the attack on Malala makes clear is that this is really a battle over education. A repressive mindset has been allowed to flourish in Pakistan because of the madrassa system set up by power-hungry clerics." It has to end Comments Hussein Agha & Robert Malley | NYRB | 19 October 2012 "Was the last century an aberrant deviation from the Arab world's inherent Islamic trajectory? Is today's Islamist rebirth a fleeting, anomalous throwback to a long-outmoded past? Which is the detour, which is the natural path?" Comments Elizabeth Day | Observer | 20 October 2012 In the 1990s, Thomas Quick confessed to more than 30 murders, making him Sweden's most notorious serial killer. In many cases his confession was the only evidence. And now he says those confessions were fake. Here, he explains why Comments Joe Queenan | WSJ | 21 October 2012 On a lifelong love affair with reading. "I once read 'Tortilla Flat' from cover to cover during a nine-hour Jerry Garcia guitar solo at Philadelphia's Spectrum; by the time he'd wrapped things up, I could have read 'As I Lay Dying'" Comments Emily Witt | LRB | 19 October 2012 "I answered the questions indicating an interest in casual sex in the negative, but that’s fairly common for women. The more a dating site leads with signifiers of (male) sexual desire, the less likely women are to sign up for it" Comments | 
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