In Defence of Christians
Ben Sixsmith
· 3 min read
Security
A collection of 89 posts
Flag-Shaming in Response to Terrorism
Reflexive expressions of solidarity signify an internalized Western understanding that life is precious and not cheap.
Jamie Palmer
· 4 min read
The Regressive Left and Its Word Games
When government officials and legislators omit any mention of Islamism as an antecedent to violence, they are inoculating dangerous ideas from the searing eye of rational criticism.
Gregory Gorelik
· 5 min read
Free Speech and Islam — In Defense of Sam Harris
If you discount Islamic doctrine as the motivation for domestic violence and intolerance of sexual minorities in the Muslim world, you’re left with at least one implicitly bigoted assumption.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 12 min read
Why Charlie Hebdo Was Right to Address the Brussels Attacks
Charlie Hebdo is suggesting that once individuals change their ways as a product of fear, they go down the road of sanctioning demands which impinge on other people’s rights.
Tehmina Kazi
· 5 min read
Ferguson Effect Detractors Are Wrong
The violence surge continued into fall. Homicides in Baltimore reached their highest per capita rate in the city’s history.
Heather Mac Donald
· 12 min read
What Does Science Tell Us About the So-Called Ferguson Effect?
A substantial segment of the American public is questioning the legitimacy of police actions, including the use of force. This attention is a Ferguson effect in itself.
Scott E Wolfe Scott H Decker and David C Pyrooz
· 9 min read
Tutors and Examiners of the Mind: German Media and the Migrant Crisis
In the wake of the Cologne crisis (as we can now rightly call it — again, without exaggeration) many worrying trends in German society came to light.
Phillip Mark McGough
· 6 min read
After Cologne, Feminism is Dead
After Cologne, feminism is dead. Europe must now focus on the more important issue of women’s rights.
Phillip Mark McGough
· 7 min read
Inaction is an Active Choice
A large section of the critics of intervention today are making similar assumptions in both the moral and practical assessments of the choices before us.
David Paxton
· 6 min read
The Next War Will Be an Information War, and We're Not Ready For It
Information warfare combines electronic warfare, cyberwarfare and psy-ops (psychological operations) into a single fighting organisation, and this will be central to all warfare in the future.
David Stupples
· 5 min read
To Defeat Jihadism, the Battle Over Sacred Values Must Be Won
If traditional warfare is one of the culprits of increasing radicalization, then such an approach is the only viable one.
Gregory Gorelik
· 4 min read
Paris Aftermath: Conflating Daesh with Refugees won't Stop Terror
As political positions have crystallised in the week following the attacks, there is increasing conflation of these three elements within the debate.
Zack Pyzer
· 6 min read
What Next After Paris?
Much has been said about the attacks that does not require repeating. Yet it is worth bearing out that the Paris attacks may indeed be an inflection point in this century’s history.
Claire Lehmann
· 3 min read