June 23, 2008

This issue featured a major cover story by Claudia Anderson exploring the striking parallels between the lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born activist and former Dutch politician, and Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century American abolitionist and orator. Both figures were examined as champions of individual liberty who had escaped oppressive systems and used their voices to challenge injustice. The issue also included analysis by Max Boot on international diplomacy and summit negotiations.