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...roots of Islamic rage are unflattering to Islam and to Muslims. In his 1981 book Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, V.S. Naipaul suggested that anger and dispossession are endemic to Islam and easily spill over into fanaticism. For others, Islamic terrorism is the most extreme expression of an age-old conflict between Islam and the West. In a 1990 essay, Princeton historian Bernard Lewis wrote that Muslim anger against the West "is no less than a clash of civilizations-the perhaps irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancient rival against our Judeo-Christian heritage, our secular present...
...military has already proved false an age-old Burmese saying, "The night cannot get darker after midnight." Poverty, fear, the paucity of opportunities, the remorseless persecution of the best and the brightest, the slow extinguishing of hope: what was once unimaginably bad in Burma has grown worse with each passing year. And yet, while writing this, I receive an e-mail sent at great risk by Ko Myo in which he has listed the names of 10 men, women and children, aged 13 to 70, along with their professions: housewife, merchant, student, mother-to-be. These people, he says, were...
However, the development of technology, like the atomic bomb, used in this age-old combat have new and serious environmental consequences...
...nonetheless an extremely useful proxy in the immediate task of "bleeding the Soviets." But in the eyes of the "Arab Afghans" themselves, the experience had revived the idea of the unity of the world's Muslims across the national boundaries imposed on them by the West, honoring their age-old religious obligation to wage war against "infidel" armies on Muslim soil...
Hauser studies the human mind—its evolution, its processes, its judgments, its nuances—with the eyes and tools of a scientist. It is an integrative approach to an age-old question. If we share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees, thinkers have long wondered, what is it about humans that makes us truly different? In particular, Hauser asks, what about humans makes them moral...