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I'm going to Providence, RI, for Labor Day, and plan on eating shellfish. Not a big fan, having seldom eat such things as a child when I...

I'm reading Marc Sageman's Leaderless Jihad now, at a slow pace. The academic discussion between Sageman and Bruce Hoffman is brough...

What books have I read recently? Well, what books have I started? Corrections, Jonathan Franzen The Stillborn God, Mark Lilla The Pleasure o...

Along the lines of earlier posts, an article in NY Review of Books on Islam , including a new book by Hans Kueng, the German religologist. H...

An interesting article about the Italian Red Brigades' newfound interest in the radical Moslem community. This reminded me of discussion...

A friend asked me yesterday why fighting terrorism was so important when so many people in the world died every day from so many other cause...

A few more comments on Power and the Idealists. There was a small final thought at the end of one of the chapters, holding a lot of meaning ...

After looking at this book sit on the shelf for a long time, I picked up Paul Berman's Power and the Idealists , which tries to map how ...

I am rereading The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco ; it's surprisingly easy to pick up and read from wherever you happen to open the bo...