RealAudio format. "A Visit to Iraq" The Calm Before a Second Desert Storm? by William R. Polk, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, April 2003, pages 24–26. "What is to Be Done in Iraq?" by William R. Polk April 24, 2004. "Thoughts on Torture" guest editorial in Informed Comment, May 26, 2004. "A Time for Leaving" by William R. Polk, American Conservative, January 17, 2005. "The Lessons of Iraq We Refuse to Learn" by William R. Polk History News Network, April 4, 2005. "Could a New Dictatorship Arise in Iraq?" interview of Polk by NPR April 28, 2005 (RealAudio or WMA audio formats). "Concerning Public Ignorance" What America Needs to Do to Achieve Its Foreign Policy Goals, by William R. Polk History News Network, August 29, 2005. Interview of Polk on writing The Birth of America June 19, 2006. "The Way Out of War" A blueprint for leaving Iraq now November 8, 2006. 1929 births 2020 deaths People from Fort Worth, Texas Writers from Texas Polk family Harvard University alumni Harvard University faculty University of Chicago faculty Middle Eastern studies in the United States American people of Scotch-Irish descent