Al-Qaeda Books & Reviews

Terror In Extremis

A Ticking Bomber

There is no simple answer to the causes of terrorism. But three books offer insight into the complexities of man and his motivation to kill. These explanations come not from academic tomes, nor expositions by the burgeoning cottage industry of ter

Killing to Make a Killing

Suicide terrorism may be more rational than meets the eye.

How to Fight Terrorism

Radical Islam is its own worst enemy. It will marginalize itself unless the United States overreacts.

Pride and Prejudice

Anti-Americanism takes many forms -- most of them unfair. But as long as it strives to be a City upon a Hill, America Must learn to live with it.

Prudence and the Prince

Carnes Lord Takes the gloves back off Machiavelli and gives us something we can use.

Recovering Our Nerve

"Getting the wind up", is an old British expression for panicking.

A People of Extraordinary Contradictions

A history of the Hungarians, by a Hungarian, for everyone.

Davos Man Meets Homo Balcanicus

Sumantra Bose, Bosnia After Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 352 pp.

The Beginning of Economic Wisdom

Two primers on economics reveal a lingering philosophical divide in the intellectual imagination of our time.

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May 25, 2012