Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. The sad thing about the post-communist countries is

For its March/April 2008 issue, The American has run an intriguing research by Arthur C. Brooks, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, who

The Making of a Financial Crisis is an impressive short documentary that shows why John McCain’s failed philosophy and poor judgment are a recipe for

If you were a Jew in the time of Holocaust, Richrd Rorty argues, your chances of being helped by your kind neighbors were greater if

To my knowledge, men often ask themselves “What is woman?” “When does a ‘girl’ become a ‘woman’?” At least, they do so in the mode,

There is no need to spell out that Islamist terrorism is not, and never was, an existential threat to Western civilization as a whole. But

The following is a letter written by a young Pakistani woman on my post entitled “Do Muslim women believe and desire what Western women believe

In discussing his notion of “the self,” Richard Rorty starts with a poem by Philip Larkin. Here is the final part of it: And once

Many Western scholars paint a gloomy picture of the present situation in the Middle East. Take Michael B. Oren, for example, who claims, “the possibility

The Iranian revolution was a product of the contradictions of combined and uneven development in Iran. It was not Islamic ideology and/or Shi’a discourse that

[Above photo: Sami Yusuf known as the Islamic Bono] It is tempting to suggest that in a culture in which political violence has publicly triumphed

Osama bin Laden’s attacks had a threefold purpose: The first was payback. The second goal was to use massive terrorist strikes to put fear in

The difficulty faced by a Western intellectual who is sympathetic to Islam yet dedicated to liberalism–one who thinks of himself as auxiliary to the politician

Why I Am a Destiny: I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous–a crisis without equal

Consider: if it were natural for women to cover their bodies, they would not need so many laws and sticks commanding them to do so.

Renowned Islamism scholar Oliver Roy has claimed that “One of the key questions in the U.S. presidential race is what will happen if U.S. troops

  چون قدرت یک مترسکی بیش نیست پس شکنجه تلاشی مذبوحانه برای احیای خشونت بار این مترسک محسوب می شود. شکنجه در چارچوب مراوده ای

Meninists are men who recognize and support the principles of women’s political, social, and economic equality. Meninist men do not need women, as once Virginia

For good reason: if social scientists agree on anything, it is that torture can never be defended on the grounds of military necessity. The object

“A picture is worth a thousand slogans and not just in Lebanon.” Via Tabsir: Backing an Islamic Party

what’s gone right in Iraq? This much is obvious: Saddam Hussien and his psychopathic crime gang, are out. He was a time bomb that threatened

Like a bad dream, Iran’s uranium enrichment program and sponsorship of Hezbollah continue plague the United States night after night, while no one really knows

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it is a way of looking at life through

“All the world’s a stage,” and that all men and women in it are “merely players” expressed Shakespeare’s deep conviction that we do not readily

Prayer in the Mosque, 1871 Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904) Oil on canvas; 35 x 29 1/2 in. (88.9 x 74.9 cm) In the fall of