The Kaiser’s jihad.

But more reform is still needed.

Time to stop blaming the West.

A review of Not in God’s Name.

Whatever Thomas Piketty believes.

The 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate.

They have encouraged cooperation between Israel and Egypt.

Answer: religious quietism, draconian security, and the trauma of civil war.

So claims a recent, disputable New York Times article.

The deeply intertwined histories of Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism.

The newly-crowned King Salman is being heralded in the press as a reformer and a moderate. What about his numerous ties to extremist groups, including. . .

Despite the vicious browbeating of Israel, the world still privately gravitates to winners and distances itself from losers.    

Why are Western-educated Muslims volunteering for war against “infidels”? The lure of radical Islam is one answer; so is our own lack of conviction in. . .

Controlling some of the most strategic territory in the Middle East, a group more radical than al-Qaeda has brutally exposed Washington’s ignorance and miscalculation.