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b'Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower and Going Clear, is a staff writer for The New Yorker.\\n\\n"If I had the chance to interview Osama Bin Laden, should I kill him? It\\u2019s a fair question. Suppose we\\u2019re having dinner \\u2014\\xa0should I stab him with the bread knife? Do I have a moral obligation to kill him? Or do I have a moral obligation as a reporter to simply hear him? \\u2026 It\\u2019s sometimes difficult to take away the judgements that you naturally have. But when you do that, when you strip yourself and you\\u2019re morally naked, it\\u2019s sometimes surprising how infectious the relationship can become."\\n\\nThanks to TinyLetter and Pillpack.com for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n\\nShow notes:\\nlawrencewright.com\\n@lawrence_wright\\nWright on Longform\\n[6:00] Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Knopf \\u2022 Jan 2013)\\n[6:00] The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Knopf \\u2022 Aug 2006)\\n[7:45] The Siege (Twentieth Century Fox \\u2022 1998)\\n[14:45] "The Apostate" (The New Yorker \\u2022 Feb 2011)\\n[30:15] My Trip to Al-Qaeda (Jigsaw Productions \\u2022 Apr 2010)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'