A Summer Night, London, 2017
Understand the character of an insurgency. An insurgency is a movement. Insurgency need not be coordinated or centrally planned.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
Security
A collection of 89 posts
The EU's Cosmopolitanism Gap
Ben Sixsmith
· 6 min read
Anti-Russian Hysteria, American Hypocrisy, and the Risk of Nuclear Confrontation
“Things will work out fine between the U.S.A. and Russia. At the right time everyone will come to their senses & there will be lasting peace!”
Jeffrey Tayler
· 12 min read
Denying Encryption To Terrorists Is A Fantasy
The Home Office could demand more surveillance abilities for law enforcement, but here it is difficult to see what they could ask for that they don’t already have.
Matthew Mott
· 5 min read
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Explains How To Combat Political Islam
If Hirsi Ali’s critics are tempted to cite statistics minimizing the threat, they will have to explain at what point – after how many more deaths – they will consider it necessary to take action.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 14 min read
When Good Men Fail to Stand Up to Danger
If we teach men and boys that simple chivalry is a form of sexism that must be opposed, how do we convince them to commit to the braver, more difficult chivalrous demands?
Charlie Peters
· 6 min read
The Troubles and The Terror
Ben Sixsmith
· 4 min read
Platitudes About Terrorism Are Not Helping
How about the Inquisition? Not a real reflection of Spanish Catholicism in the early modern period, right?
Derek Hopper
· 4 min read
The Hypocrisy of Sweden's Feminist Foreign Policy
Sweden was the first state to acknowledge Palestine, antagonising what is the only democratic power in Middle East and steadfast Western ally, Israel.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
Terrorism Denial on the Left
Claiming that the war on terrorism is 'fictitious' is conspiratorial and irresponsible.
Andrew Glover
· 5 min read
Artificially Inflating the Threat From Russia Does Nobody Any Good
Their foreign policy record understandably looks chaotic at first glance, but we can nonetheless detect a pattern to it.
Sumantra Maitra
· 5 min read
The Berkeley Riots and the Tyranny of the Righteous Minority
The entire narrative of the Western left is one of structural, systemic exploitation by the forces of patriarchy, economics, and social-conservatism.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
The BuzzFeed Fiasco Shows Us Why Trust in Institutions Is Dying
If this information about an American leader were true, it would be frankly unprecedented. At the same time, the information is also extremely suspect.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
Free Speech and Terrorism – Whatever you do, don’t mention Islam!
Freedom of religion also means freedom from religion; free (critical) speech about religion has the effect of freeing people from religion.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 8 min read
Merkel's Meaningless Mea Culpa
Angela Merkel is apologizing. Not for her policies, but for a whole lot of other things.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read