by Charles Cameron | Jan 29, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Ts learn from CTs learn from Ts learn fro.. ] . btw, this is a special format doublequote, yeah? ** Brachman and McCants note in the conclusion to Stealing Al-Qa’ida’s Playbook: Jihadi ideologues closely follow Western thought...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 11, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on one current comparative advantage of being human, and calling for the design of a ReSearch Engine ] . You may not like hymns — or thrash metal. Facebook, whose market value topped $100 billion about a year ago,...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 29, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — so IS is using waterboarding? meditating on copycattism as a jihadist strategy ] . ** Here’s the basic news, from Adam Goldman and Julie Tate, Captives held by Islamic State were waterboarded, in the Washington Post today: At least...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 20, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — “hatred of the other” viewed as a cognitive matter, and Richard Landes on the capacity for self-criticism ] . Credit: Amir Schiby ** Nicholas Kristof has a post today for the NYT Sunday Review, Who’s Right and Wrong in the...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 12, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — what does it mean to give a balanced view of an asymmetric conflict — when the asymmetry may be as much moral as material, pragmatic as idealistic, as viewed from either side of the fray? ] . The phrase “a fair and balanced...