James Traub is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, where he has worked since 1998, and a regular columnist for ForeignPolicy.com. His books includeThe Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power (2006),The Devil’s Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square (2004), andCity on a Hill (1994), and he is the author, most recently, of The Freedom Agenda, which was praised by Gen. Wesley Clark as the most penetrating look yet at the historical and theoretical basis for democratization.”
