Sublime

But as its detractors fear and they themselves understand, the New Right might be more akin to al-Qaeda in its structure. Killing Osama bin Laden was symbolically important, and it prevented him from further plotting mass murder. Al-Qaeda is by all accounts a shadow of its former self. Yet terrorist attacks continue unabated, and instead of al-Qaed

Now Syrians were learning just how cynical Assad’s goodwill gesture had been. Among the inmates discharged over the spring and summer were a number of radical Islamists who belonged to known terrorist organizations. Some were jihadists who had been picked up while attempting to cross into Iraq to join the insurgency there. Others were suspected al-

To be a good liberal means to criticize, not cancel. But it also means that you stand up for liberalism—when you see cancel culture happening, you try to stop it. This is what Popper’s Paradox calls for.

First came the Patriot Act and the post-9/11 spawning of a global surveillance industry. Then the AT&T whistleblower came forward to tell us of secret rooms where data about global internet traffic was being forwarded to the National Security Agency. Then came Edward Snowden’s harrowing leaks and the confirmation of this massive data dragnet, f