Aziz Z. Huq

Scalia’s opinion in the ruling overturning D.C.’s gun ban shows the flaws of his trademark judicial thinking.

Two new books consider the modern and historical separation between religion and politics in the Western world.

A newly updated book on telecom surveillance shows how the president’s expanded intelligence-gathering powers go way beyond tapping phone lines — and why we should all be very, very concerned.

Two new books show that reckoning with suicide bombing means not just taking account of the tactic itself, but also the reactions it purposefully provokes.

Two new books assess the nature of our alliances and what containment could mean today.

Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts by Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule (Oxford University Press, 328 pages) Talk of emergencies and their consequences has been thick in the air since 9/11. The Bush administration insists that the current fight against terrorism — a situation it has an interest in […]

In the run-up to last month’s Dutch election, Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk, known locally as “Iron Rita,” declared her intention to pass a ban on religious garments that cover all of a woman’s face. According to one Dutch parliamentarian, full face covering is so rare that the ban would apply to less than one hundred […]

The United States has two main resources to combat terrorism: The hard power of military might, and the soft power of diplomacy that comes from convincingly claiming the moral high ground. Five years after the 9/11 attacks, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the Bush Administration has gutted both. On the one hand, the military […]

Terrorism penetrates the psyche by being unpredictable. Terrorists rely not only on the element of surprise but also on a second-level uncertainty to strike so deep: The difficulty of knowing exactly who the terrorist might be. Background is no guide. Many of the 9-11 plotters had tertiary educations. Others, like the self-starting (and foiled) millennium […]