Tawfik Hamid writes: Politicians and scholars in the West have taken up the chant that Islamic extremism is caused by the Arab-Israeli conflict. This analysis cannot convince any rational person that the Islamist murder of over 150,000 innocent people in Algeria–which happened in the last few decades–or their slaying of hundreds of Buddhists in Thailand,… Continue reading

Scott Carson has a thoughtful (and funny) assessment of Cardinal’s Schönborn’s latest puzzling attempt to further confuse Catholics about the Church’s attitude to science. The editors of First Things are not idiots, either, and yet they seem to fall victim to a kind of ideology of their own at times, especially when it comes to… Continue reading