Leaderless Jihad: The War That No Longer Needs An Army

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A term coined in 2003 keeps becoming more of a reality

In 2003, I first coined the phrase “Leaderless Jihad” to describe how highly structured terrorist organizations would give way to loosely aligned groups and individuals motivated by ideology and directed only by the desire to attack any target they could, to create as much death and destruction as possible.

9 Big Banks, One Yuge Problem

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Their association with the Southern Poverty Law Center may make them a deep pocket

Reuters reported, “A ​top U.S. bank regulator issued a report on Wednesday finding some of the country’s largest banks unfairly denied services to ‌some clients on political, religious or other grounds, but stopped short of imposing penalties.

Kosovo 3: The Road to Ukraine Crossed the Sava River

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In December 1995, an American armored column crossed the Sava River into Bosnia to enforce a peace agreement. Nobody in those tanks was starting a war with Russia—but they were crossing into a new post-Cold War world. Over the next few years NATO would expand eastward, bomb Yugoslavia, and move into Kosovo while Moscow watched the strategic map change. The road to Ukraine didn’t begin in 2022. Trace the tracks backward far enough, and eventually you arrive at a muddy floating bridge across the Sava.

El-Sayed PRESSED over alleged Muslim Brotherhood ties

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National Review columnist Caroline Downey joins ‘The Evening Edit’ to discuss Michigan candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s denial of ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and a federal probe connected to the Ilhan Omar investigation.

The Population Bomb That Never Exploded: When Government Tried to Manage Humanity

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In the 1970s, the experts warned that there were simply too many of us. Governments listened, population control became policy, and frightening projections were treated as scientific certainty. The catastrophe never arrived—not because resources were infinite, but because the models underestimated their most important variable: human ingenuity. The population pessimists counted mouths. Genesis counted hands. And history left us a useful warning: you don’t need a global conspiracy when everyone believes the same experts.

You know what I don’t understand?

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I don’t understand how criminals can be so boneheadedly Stupid. There is no publicly available information on what course of study Barak Steelmon was pursuing at the University of Kentucky, but I suspect that if he was attempting to become a rocket scientist or brain surgeon, if the allegations against him are true, he might …

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Kosovo 2: Four C’s on the Wall: The Symbol I Saw but Didn’t Understand

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I remember seeing it painted on buildings as we moved through Bosnia and Kosovo—a cross surrounded by four strange C-shaped marks. I knew it meant something Serbian; I didn’t realize somebody had managed to cram centuries of Byzantium, Orthodox Christianity, Ottoman conquest, Kosovo, nationalism and war into four little squiggles. The Serbian cross and its famous motto, “Only Unity Saves the Serbs,” taught me something I wouldn’t fully appreciate until years later: American soldiers arrived in the Balkans carrying maps, but the people who lived there were carrying centuries of memory.

History Isn’t Safe—And That’s the Point: Why Modern Revisionism & Censorship Weakens Classic Literature

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Amid the noise of judging yesterday on today’s morals, a far more pervasive and intellectually dishonest form of censorship is being overlooked: the ongoing sanitization of historical fiction and classic literature.