Scott Atran

Scott Atran is an anthropologist at France’s National Center for Scientific Research, the University of Michigan and John Jay College in New York City, and the author of Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists (Ecco, 2010).


Reviews

Society

Sam Harris's Guide to Nearly Everything

| 02.23.11

Contrary to Harris’s latest screed, there is no such thing as a science-based universal morality. And abolishing religion will do nothing to rid mankind of its ills.

Commentary

Society

The Sacred Rules of War

| 04.12.11

Washington's murky and confusing justifications can't seem to answer one simple question: what are we fighting for in Libya?

Politics

Calling the Muslim Brotherhood

| 02.02.11

After interviews with the Muslim Brotherhood and people on the ground in Cairo, it's clear a peaceful transition hinges on the Egyptian military.

Follow The National Interest

May 19, 2013