A collection of 29 posts
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to influential Israeli historian Benny Morris about Hamas’ acts of mass murder, the Israeli response, and the future of Gaza.
Ayman al-Zawahiri’s reign of pious terror is now over.
Even if the referendum turns out to be a complete failure, though, the Khalistanis seem unlikely to fade away.
Scott Z. Burns’s political thriller ‘The Report’ is a careful examination of the CIA’s interrogation methods.
The TSA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that was created as a response to the 9/11 attacks to make sure nothing like that ever happens again.
If we start to restrict civil liberties, spread panic and exaggerate the amount of hate and violence in our societies, we will give terrorists what they want: greater control over our political narratives and personal psychology.
The “Lorax” view of environmental problems as a consequence of greed has always been wrong and depressing.
Immigration, Islamism and integration are salient issues even in the happiest place on earth.
The best we can do in the short-term is to return again and again to the better angels of our nature and try to keep these horrific events in perspective.
This discrepancy, it is alleged, is evidence of ‘white privilege.’
Reflexive expressions of solidarity signify an internalized Western understanding that life is precious and not cheap.
John Pilger, Michael Moore, Tariq Ali, Arundhati Roy, and the Stop the War Coalition have shown their commitment to barbarism.
As political positions have crystallised in the week following the attacks, there is increasing conflation of these three elements within the debate.
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.