David Rieff

David Rieff is a Senior Fellow of the World Policy Institute and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West (Simon & Schuster, 1995), A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis (Simon & Schuster, 2002), and At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention (Simon & Schuster, 2005).

Concerts and silly seasons

Another concert! First we had the idea of a concert of democracies propounded by such Democratic Party foreign-policy luminaries as Ivo Daalder and Morton Halperin and taken up by the

By David Rieff

/ 23 Feb 2007

Eppur si muove

In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. Forty-nine of openDemocracy’s distinguished contributors, from Mariano Aguirre to Slavoj Zizek, Neal Ascherson to Jonathan Zittrain – offer their predictions for the com

By David Rieff

/ 22 Dec 2005