The Biggest Lesson Learned From the US War in Afghanistan is How Little We’ve Learned
Twenty years ago, in the immediate aftermath of the September 11th attacks, President George W….
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Refusing the Monsters on Maple Street: A First-Person Commentary from the Mass Hysteria at JFK
The mainstream discourse in the West describes the “War on Terror” as a “geopolitical” mission….
Read MoreFighting Terrorism Without Drones?
Sure terrorism is a battle of arms and ideas. But the ideas must come from some context.
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Barack Obama: High Priest-in-Chief?
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?
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Nonviolence: Between Our Safety And Our Ideals
Nonviolent resistance movements were part of the 20th century’s eternal contribution to human history; can those ideals be sustained and reinvigorated for a new era?
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The War On Terror Is Over
First of all, the phrase “war on terror” needs to be retired. As a war, it is largely imagined, and as an idea it is ill-conceived. The effect of thinking in terms of global war is to make enemies out of millions of Muslims who would otherwise have been our friends.
Read MoreTerminal 5 is a Product of the New Post-9/11 Realities
We simply took a page from the Israeli anti-terror playbook (“hit them ten times as hard as they hit you”), and we now live in a world as permanently destabilized as the world most Israelis so grimly inhabit.
Read MoreTerror is as Terror Does
It is not terrorism which should occupy our attention, so much as the dangerous proliferation of new and indiscriminate weapons…
Read MoreAP: “Bush: Soldiers Live Out Gospel”
Deconstructing the systematic political theology in the president’s Easter address; are American soldiers merely imitating Christ?
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