If the open-air killing of a priest by an Islamist doesn’t prompt a reckoning, it’s hard to see what will. — On Wednesday in Spain’s southernmost most outpost of Algeciras — a mere 30-minute boat ride from Morocco across the Mediterranean’s narrowest strip of water — 25-year-old Moroccan national Yassine Kaljaa left the squalid apartment he had been illegally squatting since first arriving to the city in 2019 headed towards the…

Why does nobody dare to state the connection between terror attacks and Muslim immigration? — As the city’s parishioners recited the day’s closing vesper towards 19h30 on Wednesday last week, a harrowing scene straight out of the Moors-and-Christians vignette took shape in Spain’s southernmost outpost of Algeciras, a mere 30-minute ferry ride from Tangiers (Morocco) across the Mediterranean’s narrowest strip of water. Djellaba-clad, armed with…

A new book argues that open conflict with China is growing likelier in the 2020s not because the country keeps rising, but precisely because of the anxiety produced by subpar growth. — Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China. By Hal Brands & Michael Beckley. Norton; 261 pages; $29.99. In forecasting the trajectory of China’s ongoing rise, America’s strategic discussion has erred on two related grounds, argues the American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI) duo of Sinologists — Michael Beckley and Hal Brands —…

A Pulitzer-prize winner chronicles Oswaldo Payá’s lifelong struggle to bring democracy to Cuba. — Give Me Liberty: The True Story of Oswaldo Payá and his Daring Quest for a Free Cuba. By David E. Hoffman. Simon & Schuster; 519 pages; $29.99. Ten years since he was murdered in a provoked car wreck still masqueraded as accidental, the life of Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas (1952–2012) appears…

A new book by Georgetown political theorist Stefan Eich locates money at the centre of politics. — The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes. By Stefan Eich. Princeton University Press; 344 pages; $35.00. These days, whenever a rising academic in the humanities sets out to de-construct a seemingly unpolitical object by highlighting the oft-ignored features of conflict and domination that object…

Jesus Christ died unlike he had lived — politically. D. L. Dusenbury urges us to reassess the gospels. — I Judge No One: A Political Life of Jesus. By David Lloyd Dusenbury. Hurst; 302 pages; $29.99. Was Jesus a politician? In a pathbreaking and meticulous reading of the gospels published last week under the title borrowed from John 8:15 I Judge No One (2022), Budapest-based scholar of religion David…