Al-Qaeda

What the anxious West has failed to recognize in the Arab Spring is that the political transformations of the Middle East are the coming of age of a new Islamism.

That nobody wanted bin Laden’s body provides hope that we may finally distinguish between what he and his followers did with what Islam teaches.

Many analysts misunderstand the jihadi message.

Otherwise you might as well send a message to al-Qaeda entitled “You’ve won.”

Come donkey, it’s time to pray.

What was the spiritual harvest of the month of fasting, prayer, deep reflection, and discipline?

Are we playing right into al Qaeda’s hands?

Ironically, the president’s Nobel acceptance speech reestablished many of the (flawed) Bush justifications for war. Are we, or are we not, in a religious war?

Two eminent physicists have hypothesized that the Higgs boson might be hated by God to such an extent that if one occurred it would go back in time and stop itself from being made.

A gathering of senior scholars in the field agree that the US presence in South Asia invokes a colonial legacy and undermines peace.