ARTICLES
CROSSING THE BORDER BETWEEN JOURNALISM AND ACADEMIA
UC Irvine China scholar Jeffrey Wasserstrom and I teamed up for this column in the Chronicle of Higher Education on the risks/rewards of writing books that straddle traditional boundaries. You can read it here.
REVIEW OF “THE PARTY” IN NYRB
I’m back in China and have a review of Richard McGregor’s insightful new book on the Communist Party. You can read it here at the New York Review of Books site or here on the ChinaFile site.
GROUND ZERO MOSQUE NEEDS MORE TRANSPARENCY
The debate about the ground-zero mosque has polarized Americans. Here's my take in USA Today on the topic.
NEW VIDEOS AND AUDIOS UP ON SITE.
I’ve put up a bunch of new video and audio links up on the site here.They range from a talk at the Carnegie Council to National Public Radio and Canadian Broadcasting. My favorite was with Jon Weiner, a funny, informed interviewer on a Pacifica affiliate in Los Angeles
9/11 MOSQUE IN HAMBURG FINALLY CLOSED
I guess we can debate why it took nearly a decade, but here’s my take, fwiw:
POST BOOK TOUR
The tour for a Mosque in Munich is over; see the new page of reviews and, coming soon, some videos and audios of some of the talks.
“MOSQUE IN MUNICH” BOOK TOUR: MAY-JUNE 2010
The book tour for A Mosque in Munich begins May 3 in Toronto, continuing on to New York, Washington, Charleston, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.