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Ben Taub is a contributing writer at The New Yorker.\n\n \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s my place to be cynical because I\u2019ve observed some of the horrors of the Syrian War through these various materials, but it\u2019s Syrians that are living them. It\u2019s Syrians that are being largely ignored by the international community and by a lot of political attention on ISIS. And I think that it wouldn\u2019t be my place to be cynical when some of them still aren\u2019t.\u201d\n\nThanks to MailChimp, Audible, and Squarespace for sponsoring this week's episode.\n@bentaub91\nTaub on Longform\n[02:45] David Remnick on the Longform Podcast\n[08:45] "Was U.S. Journalist Steven Sotloff a Marked Man?" (Daily Beast \u2022 Sep 2014)\n[28:00] Taub on The Voice (YouTube)\n[33:00] "Journey to Jihad" (New Yorker \u2022 Jun 2015)\n[49:00] Rukmini Callimachi on the Longform Podcast (Part 1)\n[49:00] Rukmini Callimachi on the Longform Podcast (Part 2)\n[50:30] "The Shadow Doctors" (New Yorker \u2022 Jun 2016)\n[50:30] "The Assad Files" (New Yorker \u2022 Apr 2016)\n[52:00] "\u2019They were torturing to kill\u2019: inside Syria\u2019s death machine" (Guardian \u2022 Oct 2015)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices