The Rise of Totalitarian Islam

POST by The Editors | View All Posts October 05, 2017

Now available free online for the first time, here is Yaron Brook’s four-lecture course recounting the origins of totalitarian Islam.

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Elan Journo on The Federalist Radio Hour: Fighting Islamic Totalitarianism [Audio]

POST by The Editors | View All Posts September 22, 2016

What is ARI’s distinct view on foreign policy? Does the U.S. suffer from a “self-esteem” problem? What is the nature of the threat of Islamic totalitarianism? Is Iraq a “military failure”? What does rational egoism look like in foreign policy? Should the U.S. be the world’s policeman? These are some of the questions that Elan Journo covers during his interview on The Federalist Radio Hour.

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How a Little-Known Movement Succeeds in Demonizing Israel [Podcast]

POST by Elan Journo | View All Posts July 31, 2015

Unless you visit a college campus regularly, chances are that this may be the first time you’ve heard of the so-called boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to pressure Israel to change its policies toward Palestinians.

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How the World Turned against Israel [Podcast]

POST by Elan Journo | View All Posts February 12, 2015

Last summer, you might remember the street protests, the op-eds, the academic denunciations, the UN statements all rebuking Israel’s retaliation against Hamas-controlled Gaza. Rewind a couple of years to an earlier Israel-Hamas war, and the international reaction was similarly vociferous. Going back many years, the pattern holds firm. But if you go back far enough, the picture is radically different.

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Freedom of Speech, “Islamophobia,” and the Cartoons Crisis [Podcast]

POST by Elan Journo | View All Posts December 18, 2014

Is there a climate of self-censorship regarding Islam? Has fear led artists and writers to avoid discussion and criticism of Islam? So it seemed to the journalists at Jyllands-Posten, Denmark’s largest daily paper, in the fall of 2005.