Articles

• Jimmy Carter’s Presidency Was Not What You Think

  2023-02-26

  Jimmy Carter’s Presidency Was Not What You Think

  
  

• Victor Navasky: An Avatar of the American Left, 1932–2023

  2023-02-26

  Victor Navasky: An Avatar of the American Left, 1932–2023

  
  

• Why Are U.S. Jews Still Calling Jimmy Carter an Antisemite?

  2023-02-26

  Why Are U.S. Jews Still Calling Jimmy Carter an Antisemite?

  
  

• The Enigma of Bhutan

  2018-08-22

  Two decades ago, nearly one-sixth of the population was forcibly expelled. How did King Wangchuck escape any real censure? By Kai Bird MARCH 7, 2012

  
  

• The Case for Disengagement in the Middle East

  2018-08-22

  It is time to walk away and leave the region to its own bad behavior. By Kai Bird MARCH 23, 2015

  
  

• Freeman Dyson’s Life, Through His Letters

  2018-08-21

  As a reader, I was enthralled by this collection of Freeman Dyson’s letters. But as a biographer, I am most annoyed with him for having squirreled all these missives away.

  
  

• An Acclaimed Biographer Takes On Her Grandfather, the Atomic Scientist James B. Conant

  2018-08-21

  Biography is a notoriously arduous affair. Typically, the biographer spends years in the archives, sifting through documents, folder by folder, box by endless box.

  
  

• Some 'October surprise' conspiracies turn out to be true

  2018-08-21

  We Americans love conspiracies. They are like good spy stories: entertaining, intriguing and tantalizing. But historians learn to hate conspiracy stories.

  
  

• How to Keep an Atomic Bomb From Being Smuggled Into New York City? Open Every Suitcase With a Screwdriver.

  2018-08-21

  This is a strangely captivating book — dark and utterly frightening, despite or perhaps because of the author’s dispassionate tone.

  
  

• New York Times Op Ed on Dec 25, 2014

  2015-01-01

  Israel: A Jewish Republic? by Kai Bird