Recommended: Mubaraks, Mamelukes, Modernizers and Muslims

We in America are too often ignorant of the historical context within which today's events are occurring. This may be a failing of other nations as well, but it is certainly a failing of our own society. With respect to the recent events in Egypt, Walter Russel Mead has a long and informative and thoughtful article entitled Mubaraks, Mamelukes, Modernizers and Muslims that is well worth reading and thinking about.

And by the way, Mead is part of an ongoing seminar on Grand Strategy being taught at Bard College, and one can follow the discussion and see the syllabus here. I am finding the discussion quite interesting and thought-provoking.