The New Caliphate: What Should Be Done about the Islamic State? Part II “The occupation of Iraq by the U.S. and allied forces created a zone of direct contact/conflict between the Western and Islamic civilizations—a metaethnic frontier, to use my terminology. And metaethnic frontiers, as we have seen, are the breeding grounds of empires, such […]

Private Protection Co. Puts Govt. Police to Shame “Believe it or not, violent criminals hate video cameras because it takes away anonymity, and proves that they’re the ones doing something… I slowly changed out, over many years, from guns to cameras. A broke camera was more effective at getting rid of drug-dealing gangs than actual […]

Could Mothers’ Immune Systems Be Behind Autism? “Autism’s cause remains an open question, but a new theory — that faulty immune system responses might affect a fetus’ brain development — is gaining traction. Lydia Denworth takes a look at the science and at why the theory remains controversial. “

To establish the rule of law, cut off elites’ purses and power “Scholars often treat the rule of law as a prerequisite for market-oriented economic policies such as liberalizing prices and trade and eradicating wasteful subsidies. They’re getting it backward. Instead, first eliminate the subsidies and purge the compromised bureaucrats who stand in the rule […]

The Obama Doctrine: President Obama’s Interview With Jeffrey Goldberg on Syria and Foreign Policy