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Kenneth R. Rosen

Kenneth R. Rosen is the journalist in residence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a senior editor at Newsweek. His work has appeared in Wired, The New York Times, and Pacific Standard, among other places. He is the author of Bulletproof Vest, which was published this spring.

You Can’t Go Home Again

You Can’t Go Home Again

American volunteers joined western allies in the fight to dismantle the Islamic State in Syria. What happened when they came back?

by Kenneth R. Rosen | Thursday, September 24, 2020

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The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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