Annie Lowry:We should stop calling them pirates and start calling them something like "maritime terrorists," to end any remaining romanticization. It would be better if we simply thought about pirates in less romantic ways, rather than discarding the term altogether. To refer to them as...
terrorism
Debates about the meaning of "terrorism" often feature some odd assumptions, including:(1) Killing 500 civilians while making some attempt to avoid killing them is less morally problematic than killing five.
Having been in Israel while the possibility of exchanging Samir Kuntar for the bodies of two IDF soldiers was being widely discussed, I had considered writing a post about the.
Much rumness afoot in and around the Palace of Westminster these days. Gordon Brown, the mean, one-eyed Scotsman who took over from the Teflon-coated, happy-clapping Blair as Prime Minister has been lurching from one crisis to another, ever since failing to call an election* upon...