Illiterate Libya

My World Affairs colleague Ann Marlowe has spent more time in Libya than I have, and this week she brings our attention to problems that have been thus far completely ignored.

“Our life was chaos,” Loui Hatem el-Magri said the other day in Benghazi. The young architect continued, referring to Qaddafi, “He ruled us by chaos.” No one knew from one day to the next how any aspect of life would work.

Libya’s new government has struggled to break free of the old way. Dr. Iman Bugaighis, a Benghazi ac...