Flag-Shaming in Response to Terrorism Reflexive expressions of solidarity signify an internalized Western understanding that life is precious and not cheap. Jamie Palmer 16 Jul 2016 · 4 min read
The Regressive Left and Its Word Games When government officials and legislators omit any mention of Islamism as an antecedent to violence, they are inoculating dangerous ideas from the searing eye of rational criticism. Gregory Gorelik 10 Jul 2016 · 5 min read
Free Speech and Islam — In Defense of Sam Harris If you discount Islamic doctrine as the motivation for domestic violence and intolerance of sexual minorities in the Muslim world, you’re left with at least one implicitly bigoted assumption. Jeffrey Tayler 21 Apr 2016 · 12 min read
Why Charlie Hebdo Was Right to Address the Brussels Attacks Charlie Hebdo is suggesting that once individuals change their ways as a product of fear, they go down the road of sanctioning demands which impinge on other people’s rights. Tehmina Kazi 8 Apr 2016 · 5 min read
Ferguson Effect Detractors Are Wrong The violence surge continued into fall. Homicides in Baltimore reached their highest per capita rate in the city’s history. Heather Mac Donald 21 Mar 2016 · 12 min read
What Does Science Tell Us About the So-Called Ferguson Effect? A substantial segment of the American public is questioning the legitimacy of police actions, including the use of force. This attention is a Ferguson effect in itself. Scott E Wolfe Scott H Decker and David C Pyrooz 1 Mar 2016 · 9 min read
Tutors and Examiners of the Mind: German Media and the Migrant Crisis In the wake of the Cologne crisis (as we can now rightly call it — again, without exaggeration) many worrying trends in German society came to light. Phillip Mark McGough 15 Feb 2016 · 6 min read
After Cologne, Feminism is Dead After Cologne, feminism is dead. Europe must now focus on the more important issue of women’s rights. Phillip Mark McGough 18 Jan 2016 · 7 min read
Inaction is an Active Choice A large section of the critics of intervention today are making similar assumptions in both the moral and practical assessments of the choices before us. David Paxton 28 Nov 2015 · 6 min read
The Next War Will Be an Information War, and We're Not Ready For It Information warfare combines electronic warfare, cyberwarfare and psy-ops (psychological operations) into a single fighting organisation, and this will be central to all warfare in the future. David Stupples 27 Nov 2015 · 5 min read
To Defeat Jihadism, the Battle Over Sacred Values Must Be Won If traditional warfare is one of the culprits of increasing radicalization, then such an approach is the only viable one. Gregory Gorelik 20 Nov 2015 · 4 min read
Paris Aftermath: Conflating Daesh with Refugees won't Stop Terror As political positions have crystallised in the week following the attacks, there is increasing conflation of these three elements within the debate. Zack Pyzer 20 Nov 2015 · 6 min read
What Next After Paris? Much has been said about the attacks that does not require repeating. Yet it is worth bearing out that the Paris attacks may indeed be an inflection point in this century’s history. Claire Lehmann 19 Nov 2015 · 3 min read
