House intellectual. Laura Secor is one of the most talented journalists covering the world of foreign affairs ideas today. She can write circles around most of the rest of us, and the collection of profiles of some of the leading international policy intellectuals and foreign affairs thinkers, focused in particular on the 'clash' between Islamic and Western civilizations, she has published over the last year at Boston Globe Ideas section has been rivetting. Here's her latest, on Iranian reform movement "house intellectual" Abdolkarim Soroush.

Posted by Laura at March 14, 2004 09:13 AM