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Political Violence
The Making of a Teenage Terror Suspect
Extremists know which kids to target online: young, male, and isolated. An Ohio family never imagined their autistic son would be one of them.
Maya Sulkin
Watch: How Discord Radicalized Our Son
Maya Sulkin investigates how an Ohio teenager was raided by the FBI after he was targeted by jihadis online.
Maya Sulkin
17M
The Ghost of ‘Dreyfus’ Hits the Stage in New York
Bernard-Henri Lévy reflects on Jean-Claude Grumberg’s haunting play about antisemitism, memory, and political hysteria—and why its warnings now feel…
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Rod Dreher: What the San Diego Mosque Shooters Believed
The teenage killers’ manifesto contains ominous echoes of the past, and is a dark warning of our future.
Rod Dreher
Trump Takes Out Massie. The Evil of the San Diego Mosque Shooting. Plus. . .
Olivia Reingold on the Mangionistas. Did an AI-generated story just dupe a literary prize? Plus: Check out our new podcast, ‘The Lindbergh…
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The Evil of the San Diego Mosque Shooting
The actions of these two young men can never be excused. And our willingness to say so cannot falter or fail based on our politics or our differences…
David Ingber
Michael Shellenberger on the Psychology of Left-Wing Violence
The author of ‘San Fransicko’ on how progressivism has become a new religion.
Coleman Hughes
59M
Antisemitism Is Getting More Violent
An increase in physical assaults is proving that we can’t bet on returning to pre-war levels of antisemitism.
Josh Kaplan
The Terrorist Mind
There is literary and historical precedent for the normalizing of terrorism.
Gary Saul Morson
Plato’s Cave and the Rise of the Highly Educated Radical
Professors have taught generations of students to reduce individuals to the flat abstractions of identity groups, politics to zero-sum relations of…
Jacob Howland
What Will It Take for Britain to Confront Its Antisemitism Problem?
After two Jews were stabbed in London, many in the Jewish community feel let down by their government.
Josh Kaplan
Nothing Will Solve the Tragedy of Gun Violence in America
I believe in gun control, but it is a fairy tale to believe that tougher laws are the answer.
Mike Pesca
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