The simple fact is that Iran has never balked at attacked embassies. And far from bombing or...
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When it comes to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, media warps cause and effect through misrepresentation and decontextualization.
A morally justifiable act isn’t always a morally preferable. That’s an important distinction frequently overlooked in thought...
A friend's favorite book from last year, which describes a terrorist attack that either happened or did...
Suspected enemy combatants at Gitmo were not permitted rights afforded to US citizens. But with Hamdi, the...
President Trump announced that the overnight rumors were accurate that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in an...
If certain kinds of violence demand more from us, defining and describing violence becomes charged with power.
Horrible news out of New Zealand, where an attack on two separate Mosques in Christchurch have left...
War and rumors of war and like things.
It is exceedingly difficult to get people to tell each other new and different stories than they...
Sympathies and prayers to the people of Belgium and Turkey.
A must-read interview with author and NYT reporter Charlie Savage on President Obama and terrorism, by OT...
Burt Likko wonders whether, despite the unmitigated human rights awfulness that is the nascent would-be state forming...
The New York Times ran a story that took Burt Likko's breath away in outrage when he...
There’s a frequent exchange that appears in one form or another throughout Plato’s dialogues. It focuses on...
The APs Kimberly Dozier reports that two anonymous officials and one unnamed “lawmaker” believe terrorist groups have altered how...
Edit: Reposted with a new date so that people can comment on it and stuff. Note: This...
As my isolation from the chattering classes continues, I’m inclined to go into hypotheticals and counter-factuals. One...
News connected to Pakistan is a bit like reading a George RR Martin novel. It’s grim. It’s...
Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic has a widely read explanation of why he cannot, on moral grounds,...
