‘Jihad Joe’ and the Radicalization of American Muslims

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  August 31st at 06:00 PM  | 

AT A TIME when so many books on politics, religion, and world events are little more than puffed-up pamphlets which are simultaneously high on hyper-partisanship and low on facts, J. M. Berger‘s Jihad Joe, a treatment of the radicalization and actions of American Muslims who have dedicated themselves to “violent jihad” (the author’s chosen term), is a breath of fresh – and troubling – air.  | Read More »

On This Day of the CIA Memo Release, a Polemic

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  April 16th at 06:06 PM  | 

The faux outrage over “torture” during the Bush War on Terror (I refer to it as the “Bush” war because, under Obama, we’re apparently replacing the “Global War on Terror” with the “Multiple-Day Standoff on Man-Caused Disasters”) is no more becoming of the left now than it was two, three, or four years ago. Co-opting the word “torture” to include methods far less offensive than | Read More »