The Jewish people, as a group, engage in the study of the same portion of Torah every week. This is a beautiful idea. Based on “And they walked for three days in the wilderness and did not find ...
It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.