Tag Archives: terrorism

TERRORISM AND INEQUALITY

Here’s an obvious question that doesn’t get asked enough: if there were not so much economic inequality in the world would we have to worry as much about terrorism? At the Nuclear Security Summit recently concluded, Obama warned again about nukes getting in the hands of terrorists. Pretty scary. It would, as he emphasized, make […]

April 5, 2016 – 12:54 pm | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Email terrorism

On December 15th our two largest cities get emails threatening their school systems. New York decides it’s clearly an amateurish prank and does nothing about it. LA takes it seriously and cancels about 1000 schools. Most of a million kids stay home, confounding parental expectations, throwing how many workplaces off when at least some of […]

December 18, 2015 – 10:41 am | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged | Comments (0)

To be or not to be Paris

“We are Paris” is the headline these days. (Sometimes even in French to show just how serious we are about our solidarity.) But I imagine a lot of us are expressing thanks this holiday, at least under our breath, that we are not Paris—that we are an ocean away and well buffered from all that […]

December 6, 2015 – 6:42 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , | Comments (0)