Martin Kramer’s blog, Sandstorm, features a long and important post today on a disturbing new development in the management of post-war Iraq. NYU law professor, Noah Feldman, is the fast-rising star who has been anointed by the mainstream press–and more disturbingly, taken seriously by the Bush administration–as the man to craft the constitution of a democratic Iraq. Feldman’s angle is that he is both an Arabist and a Jew, and expert on Islam, and a professor of American law. The problem is that Feldman is really a clone of John Esposito, about whose views I’ve warned repeatedly. Following Esposito’s apologetics for Islamism, Feldman is liable to make the mistake of allowing Islamists to take power in Iraq through elections. This is how not to bring democracy to Iraq. For a good scare, read Kramer on the new boy wonder of American Middle Eastern studies.