Paris Attack

Shame on you, Niall Ferguson

by Paul B. Sturtevant

He elected to throw gasoline on the fires of Islamophobia after the Paris attacks.

The Paris Attacks Are Giving the Great Powers Opposed to ISIS an Opportunity

by Mark Jarrett

A history lesson shows what happens when an opportunity like this is missed.

How Will Our Response to the Paris Attacks Look Like from the Perspective of History?

by John Dickson

The deplorable suggestions that Syrians should be excluded from America won’t look good 50 or 100 years from now.

First, Stop the Civil War in Syria

by Robert Brent Toplin

And that won’t be easy, as history shows.

This Is How Paris Fits into ISIS’s Long-term Strategy

by William Polk

What we need to do is not fall into their trap.

Hollande proposes that Syrian antiquities be brought to France for safekeeping

His plan, he said, would protect artifacts from "fanatics who are attacking the living and the dead, all who have humanity today and tomorrow, and those of yesterday."

Before Paris Attack, the Bataclan Had Long History in Music and Politics

From the early 2000s until 2009, when the majority owner was a Jewish family, pro-Palestinian activists held several demonstrations outside the hall to protest an annual benefit held there for the Israeli border police.

‘From Paris with Love': A short history of the United States’ affinity for decorating bombs

The tradition goes back to World War Two.

President Obama’s Striking Embrace of Military Solutions

by Cody J. Foster

And he won the Nobel Peace Prize?

Tens of Thousands of People Thought It Was a Tribute to Paris. They got duped…

A rumor was spreading on Twitter that the lights on the Eiffel Tower had been shut off in honor of the victims of the attack. There was just one problem: The lights are always shut off every night at 1am.

The Endless Cycle of Terrorism

by Ivan Eland

In the wake of the heinous attacks on civilians in Paris, the French are now prone to repeating the same mistakes the United States made after the even more barbaric 9/11 attacks.

Paris Attack: Fall of Rome should be a warning to the West

by Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson warns that the West could fall -- and it could happen quickly. 

From "Freedom Fries" to "We are all French!"

by Brian Glyn Williams

The Paris Tragedy and the American Right’s Vilification of France.

Paris at Midnight

by Juan Cole

Is this an attempt to push France out of the anti-ISIS coalition in Syria?

Why the Paris Massacre Will Have Limited Impact

by Daniel Pipes

The Establishment denies that these attacks have anything to do with Islamists. They're wrong. But the public understands.

Paris attacks: A history of terror attacks in modern France

Terrorist attacks in France are not a 21st century phenomenon, with the country seeing royal assassination attempts and anarchist bombings among the bloody history of the last 200 years.