{"id":199348,"date":"2026-04-16T14:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199348\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:12:12","slug":"why-this-war-the-new-york-review-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199348\/","title":{"rendered":"Why This War? | The New York Review of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New York Review\u00a0contributors Pankaj Mishra, Ben Rhodes, and Suzy Hansen come together for a wide-ranging conversation on the consequences of America\u2019s war in Iran.<\/p>\n

Pankaj Mishra\u00a0is an essayist and novelist, a frequent contributor to\u00a0The\u00a0New York Review of Books,\u00a0London Review of Books\u00a0and\u00a0The\u00a0New Yorker, and the author of two books of history,\u00a0From the Ruins of Empire and Age of Anger: A History of the Present.\u00a0His most recent book is\u00a0The World After Gaza: A History of the Present. He is a cofounder of\u00a0Equator, a new magazine of politics and culture.<\/p>\n

Ben Rhodes\u00a0is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, co-host of Pod Save the World, a contributor to MSNBC, and the author of two New York Times bestsellers\u2014After the Fall: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We Made\u00a0and\u00a0The World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House\u2014as well as the upcoming book\u00a0All We Say: The Battle for American Identity. From 2009 to 2017, he served as Deputy National Security Advisor and speechwriter to President Barack Obama, participating in all of the President\u2019s key foreign policy decisions. His work has also been published in\u00a0The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic,\u00a0and\u00a0Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n

Suzy Hansen\u00a0is a journalist, author and editor. She is the author of\u00a0From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul and a Neighborhood in the Age of\u00a0Erdo\u011fan, which is being published in April 2026. Her first book,\u00a0Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World, was a 2018 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the Overseas Press Club\u2019s Cornelius Ryan award. She has taught writing at Bard College and Princeton University, and in 2020, she was a fellow at New America. She lives in New York.<\/p>\n

About this series<\/p>\n

The New York Review of Books\u00a0is pleased to announce a series of virtual events on the most pressing issues emerging from the second Trump administration. In each conversation\u00a0Review\u00a0contributors and esteemed guests discuss critical subjects, including immigration, political violence, the rule of law, the state of the left, and more. Each event, held on Zoom, will last ninety minutes and include an audience Q&A session. All events are pay-what-you-wish (with a suggested fee of $10) and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Review\u00a0contributors Pankaj Mishra, Ben Rhodes, and Suzy Hansen come together for a wide-ranging conversation on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-199348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}