This tribute to Owen Harries presents thirty-five of the 270-odd articles he published in journals of record including Quadrant, National Interest, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Foreign Affairs and New Republic. It also includes a chapter from Harries’s Boyer Lectures for 2003. Tom Switzer and Sue Windybank have selected his sharpest, wittiest and most durable pieces, cutting some for length and accessibility. The essays are bookended with a fine introduction by Michael Easson, one of the instigators of this book, and an absorbing interview with Harries by Windybank. These are fitting bookends: the interview exhibits the erudition and discernment…
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