Graeme Wood
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Richard Drew / AP The National Security Adviser Has No Heart
Tucker Carlson called John Bolton a “bureaucratic tapeworm.” Is his wrath justified?
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Piroschka Van De Wouw / Reuters Are Politics Regressing to Premodern Forms?
The sultan of Brunei has proposed stoning as a punishment for male sodomy.
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters I Wrote to John Walker Lindh. He Wrote Back.
The American jihadist thanked me for my interest in the Islamic State.
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Yoan Valat via Reuters Trump Was Right Not to Sign the Christchurch Call
The pledge to eliminate extremist content online is antithetical to the American understanding of free expression.
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Richard Drew / AP Harvard’s Feast of Grievance
The Ronald Sullivan affair is about everything—and nothing.
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Associated Press Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Is Alive. Now What?
The Islamic State released a video today of the most wanted man in the world.
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Chamila Karunarathne / AP Why Sri Lanka Was Probably Not Retaliation for Christchurch
Even if the retribution argument were consistent with prior ISIS doctrine, which it is not, the timing is off.
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Reuters Why Sri Lanka Silenced Social Media
Information blackouts almost always turn into authoritarian tools, whether or not they start that way.
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Edgar Su / Reuters After Christchurch, Commentators Are Imitating Sebastian Gorka
Everyone seems to have discovered at once that belief systems are behind individual atrocities.
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Edgar Su / Reuters A Repulsively Casual Terrorist Manifesto
The New Zealand shooter’s text is unoriginal, but the ideology is potent.
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Philip Montgomery Will John Bolton Bring on Armageddon—Or Stave It Off?
The national security adviser could be our best hope for protecting the world from Donald Trump’s impulses.
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Reuters Don't Strip ISIS Fighters of Citizenship
Shamima Begum and Hoda Muthana are products of their own societies—they can’t just be disowned.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Two Amy Klobuchars
In light of the revelations about the senator’s temper, let’s revisit her interrogation of Brett Kavanaugh.
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Reuters The Vatican and the Gulf Have a Common Enemy
The meaning of the pope’s historic visit to the United Arab Emirates
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Osman Orsal / Reuters Jamal Khashoggi's Murder Remains a Mystery
The conventional account leaves major questions unanswered.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Gods That Will Fail
If voters are freighting politics with religious significance, we need to drain it of the expectation of transcendence.
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Younis Al-Bayati / AFP / Getty Don’t Shut Down the Internet’s Biggest Jihadist Archive
Jihadology.net is a valuable resource for researchers, even if terrorists make use of it too.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Brutal Truth Behind Trump’s Love Affair With Saudi Arabia
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has done what America has asked, and the president has assured him their relationship is safe.
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Vincent Kessler / Reuters In Europe, Speech Is an Alienable Right
A human-rights court upheld an Austrian woman’s conviction for disparaging the Prophet Muhammad.
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Osman Orsal / Reuters Why Won’t Turkey Release the Khashoggi Tapes?
If Turkish officials really have the grisly recordings, they must share them—and soon.
