Go back, if you will, to what you were thinking and feeling about Afghanistan around October of 2001 – or in any case, what you were thinking and feeling if you had any sympathy for the US-led war against the …
In his pathbreaking (but pre-Internet) book After Virtue, the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre asks us to [i]magine that the natural sciences were to suffer the effects of a catastrophe. A series of environmental disasters [is] blamed by the general public on …
Consider the following claims about American and Israeli foreign policy, all of them fairly typical of left discourse on foreign affairs [1]: (1) ‘The violence of the Iraq War, the chaos that has come to Iraq, can be traced directly …
Since 9/11, Americans have desperately wanted, or at least have claimed to want, to understand the workings of ‘the Islamic fundamentalist mind.’ Nothing seems more inscrutable to them than the sense that someone out there could so dislike them as …
The war on terrorism presents any thinking person with what appears to be an irresolvable dilemma. [1] On the one hand, as citizens, we claim to have inalienable rights that protect us against force, whether initiated by terrorists or by …
