November 14, 2005
How Myths Are Made
Juan Cole, the University of Michigan Arabist and soon-to-be President of the Middle East Studies Association, finally gets a good Fisking. Read the whole thing. For readers of my new book, Disinformation, who ask how are media myths made? Myriad means, of course. But Juan Cole has created his share.
Posted by Richard Miniter at 10:43 AM
July 24, 2005
Expect More Like This
David Warren is a Canadian who has lived in the non-Arab Muslim world and now lives in a scandal-plagued, quasi-democratic land that is dividing along ethnic lines—Canada. Though I have never met him, I am sure he is a serious person. And this is a serious article from a deeply non-politically correct point of view. If the secular liberal consensus that forms the basis for all current Western societies does not come with better arguments against the ideology of radical Islam (Sayyid Qattab and so on), Warren is right, it is doomed. And Europe will see it first.
Posted by Richard Miniter at 10:28 PM