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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: Ensnared by Islamist Ideology, Driven to Murder

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to death for the murders he committed when he and his brother blew up the 2013 Boston Marathon. Judging by the case that the government presented against Tsarnaev and its visible effect on the jury, his odds of escaping the needle seemed early on to be less than even. But did the attorneys defending Tsarnaev make a major mistake that cost him his life by failing to tell the jury the entire story of how he decided to do what he did?

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Boko Haram Fuses with ISIS in Dangerous New Alliance

After swearing allegiance to ISIS in March, the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram has now gone a step further, adopting the new name of the “Islamic State’s West Africa Province,” or ISWAP. The title change is more than semantic, and galvanizes the radical Islamist forces in Africa and the Middle East.

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A Postmodern Guide to Shutting Down Speech, and the Truth

In his contribution to the famous 1949 collection of essays by ex-Communists titled The God That Failed, Arthur Koestler carefully illustrates how set language binds thought to ideology at the expense of evidence. Koestler, author of the unparalleled novel of Stalin’s show trials, Darkness at Noon, describes a conversation he had early in his Communist career with “Edgar,” his Party contact, in which they discuss the front page of a Communist newspaper.