Back on July 1, just a few days before the military ousting of Mohamed Morsi in Egypt, I wrote a politically incorrect post about the pre-modern character of much of the Muslim Brotherhood cadre. I did so because it was directly relevant to the fact that a very large number of Egyptians were in the […]

With the current crop of Via Meadia interns moving on, we’re looking for the next batch of ambitious young people to help us research and write for the site. Former interns have gone on to jobs in journalism, tech startups, the State Department and the US military, and have gotten their own clips at The American […]

Here’s another California first: it’s the first state in the nation to pass a law protecting transgender kids from discrimination. At long last they can use any bathroom they want: State Assembly Speaker John Perez said it put “California at the forefront of leadership on transgender rights”.Massachusetts and Connecticut have state-wide policies granting the same […]

British Prime Minister David Cameron made an appeal to the British public in Monday’s Telegraph to embrace fracking, outlining the benefits of exploiting the UK’s shale gas reserves and seeking to dispel what he called the “myths” surrounding the polarizing topic. No. 10 has been mounting a public relations campaign this summer to convince Brits that fracking is in […]

Damir Marusic, The American Interest’s associate publisher and general web wizard, has created a Javascript version of my program Creatures.

American higher education is older than the nation itself and a magnet to aspiring students at home and throughout the world. Millions enroll in its institutions, learn from its professors, and benefit from its energy, research findings and intellectual sophistication. It affords employment to more than 3.8 million people, full and part-time (with about three-quarters […]

Twelve people were injured and three remain hospitalized after a mob of Sri Lankan Buddhists attacked a mosque in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, on Saturday night. The mosque was built only a month ago after local unrest and sporadic attacks against Muslims forced the mosque leaders to relocate. Now the new mosque will close […]

Law professors, brace yourselves: tenured positions are about to get a whole lot more competitive.Until now, the American Bar Association has required law schools to maintain a high number of tenured positions as a condition of accreditation. This worked fine when legal education was expanding, but now that enrollment is on the wane, law schools are […]

Let’s just get this out of the way: the oil being extracted from Canada’s tar sands is dirty. The energy source is extremely energy-intensive to extract and refine; one study estimates that tar sands oil emits 8 to 37 percent more greenhouse gases than conventional crude. The tar sands are also leaking, so far having spilled […]

Last week we reported that Spain’s scandal-hit administration was trying to prop up its popularity at home by stirring up a territorial dispute with the UK over Gibraltar. Despite Spanish threats and painfully long lines at the Gibraltar-Spanish border crossing, though, the British have shown no interest in opening any sort of negotiations on Gibraltar’s […]