A while back, my father an I got into a discussion about the denunciation of terrorism per se; that is, the idea that terrorism is wrong simply because it is terrorism.
I agree, of course, but a problem arises when one attempts to define “terrorism”. Most reasonable people will agree that soldiers killing each other on [...]

Unni Wikan, a professor of social antoropology (who else) at the University of Oslo (where else) has something to say about recently-released statistics which suggest an astronomically high prevelence of sexual assault in Oslo. It appears that the high numbers have something to do with the cultural background of the offenders. To her, however, the [...]

Actually, no, I don’t. But these people sure do. From their profile on MySpace:
This group is for people who recognize the fact that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. inhibits freedom of the press by claiming ownership of a significant percentage of global media. How can we have diverse opinions if one man declares his messager to [...]

As usual, the Hitch has penned an especially elegant analysis of recent events in the Middle East: From Beirut to Baghdad: The ghastly predictability of nihilist violence.
Many considerations, including intense inter-Islamic Shiite-Sunni hatred, divide Ahmadinejad and Assad from the forces of al-Qaida, which would also prefer to see Iraq, Lebanon, and Afghanistan in ruins than [...]