When I first began writing in this little box, the Sept. 11 attacks were five months away. The spring and summer of 2001 were an idyll before a great storm; there was speculation that we'd reached "the end of history," with the Cold War receding, peace prevailing and Western democracy triumphant. The internet and cellphones were just starting to transform our lives. The past 22 years have been a tumultuous, wondrous and terrible time in our history, and serving as The Week's editor-in-chief has ...
When I first began writing in this little box, the Sept. 11 attacks were five months away. The spring and summer of 2001 were an idyll before a great storm; there was speculation that we'd reached "the end of history," with the Cold War receding, peace prevailing and Western democracy triumphant. The internet and cellphones were just starting to transform our lives. The past 22 years have been a tumultuous, wondrous and terrible time in our history, and serving as The Week's editor-in-chief has ...
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