The Gallic Gadfly

One interpretation of the anti-government demonstrations that have been roiling Turkish cities is that they are a massive protest against political Islam. What began as a rally against official plans to raze a small park in the center of Istanbul to ...

Michael Ignatieff, Canadian author, university professor and former politician, has been appointed Cleveringa Professor for the 2013-2014 academic year at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Professor Ignatieff will deliver the Cleveringa lecture on ...

We swear by the almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone: We must fight them as they fight us, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. This was Michael Adebolajo, age 28, born in the U.K. to a devoted Christian family ...

A study based on interviews with Japanese war criminals is also a larger meditation on the nature of atrocities Several years ago were not told exactly when James Dawes, a professor of English at Macalester College, in Minnesota, travelled to ...

Jory Fulcher of LCCVI lets a discuss fly on the first day of the SWOSSAA Track and Field Championships Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at St. Patrick's Catholic High School in Sarnia, Ont. Fulcher won the junior girls discus with a toss of 30.58 metres.

In my daily paper (Svenska Dagbladet) the journalist Mr Johan Myrsten told his readers about the glorious future awaiting Japan, because the new prime minister (Mr Shinzo Abe) has the support of between 60 and 70 percent of the electorate. Although ...

Barring any unexpected new revelations, there is not much to be learned from the Tsarnaev brothers, better known as the Boston bombers. We can dig into their family histories in strife-torn Dagestan, or examine, once again, the lethal appeal of ...

The activist and author reflects on childhood memories and the traffic of India's Pink City. Image from Flickr via Eric Parker Barely twenty-four hours after my wife Angélica and I arrived in India, we found ourselves recklessly jaywalking across ...

In my new energy economics book (2013), the words "lies" and "misunderstandings" are found several times in almost every chapter. I may also have mentioned (once again) that many years ago I took a stroll through wonderful Vienna with some sort of ...