Islamic fundamentalism

Only an Apocalypse Can Save Us Now

By Mark Lilla,

On the politics of nostalgia

A Special Relationship

By Andrew Cockburn,

The United States is teaming up with Al Qaeda, again

The Ultimate Terrorist Factory

By Scott Sayare,

Are French prisons incubating extremism?

Modest Proposals

By Asma Ghribi,

From a list of rules the Islamic State has imposed within territories it has claimed since 2013. Translated from the Arabic by Asma Ghribi. Read More

The Joke

By Justin Smith,

By Justin E. H. Smith, from “The Fundamentals of Gelastics,” a work in progress. Smith’s latest book, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference (Princeton), will be published in June. In…

Guns and Poses

By Sarah A. Topol,

Smuggling and subterfuge in the North African desert

The Pious Spy

By Mujib Mashal,

A Taliban intelligence chief’s death and resurrection

How Timbuktu Saved Its Books

By Tristan McConnell, on February 4, 2013

Behind the rescue of Mali’s historic manuscripts

This is not an Islamic revolution

By Olivier Roy, Translated by Jonathan Derbyshire,

Tough Luqman

From an October 27 federal criminal complaint against Luqman Ameen Abdullah and ten other alleged members of Ummah, a radical Islamic separatist group based in Detroit. On October 28, after…

The War We Can’t Win

By Andrew J. Bacevich,

By Andrew J. Bacevich, in the August 15 issue of Commonweal. Bacevich is a professor of international relations at Boston University and the author, most recently, of The Limits of…

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