Middle East What is going to happen in Iraq? It is not the assertiveness of new entities that is driving change, but the collapse of the old national constructions. By Isaac Chotiner
“Marx? I never really managed to read it” – an interview with Thomas Piketty An interview with the left’s rock star economist, author of the smash hit Capital in the Twenty-First Century. By Isaac Chotiner
Malcolm Gladwell has found God (and Glenn Beck) On Beck’s show Gladwell went well beyond anything he said in his book. By Isaac Chotiner
Richard Dawkins interview: On Pope Francis, poetry and why Jews win so many Nobel Prizes The controversial biologist Richard Dawkins talks unrepentantly to Isaac Chotiner about Muslim scientists, the uses of literature, Pope Francis,… By Isaac Chotiner