In a historical context, the actions of President Barack Obama demonstrate that he is the most radical president in American history, advancing a secular-socialist ideology.

How reformists can stop the Islamists who have chipped away at Turkey's secularism.

How will religion affect the future of America and the West in the twenty-first century and beyond?

What to think about the Arab Spring? Dour pundits insist that spring is a misnomer. Many are less preoccupied by the odd pairing of spring and death and more troubled by the fact that the spring seems, well, springier for Islamists than it does for secular democrats.

This is the season of generational twaddle. At graduation ceremonies across the country, politicians, authors, actors, and businessmen take to the stage to tell young people they are fantastic simply because they are young. This year, the ritual is more pathetic than usual because there’s a presidential election in the offing.

Until the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the American view of radical Islam and its many discontents was shaped more by the Middle East than South Asia. The U.S. has long been at odds with the raging Ayatollah in Iran, the murderous truck bomber in Lebanon and the masked Palestinian "freedom...

The present war is not a war between a secular nation and a Muslim nation; ours is not a secular nation.

Discussion of what shapes the new governments and the new Middle East will take, what role secular democrats and Islamist movements will play, and what it all means for American policy and American interests.