Graeme Wood’s recent Atlantic essay on “What ISIS Really Wants” is an exceptionally thoughtful assessment of Islamic State as a group bent on “medieval” violence. It should be required reading, and ...

After more than three years of fighting, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has announced the end of major military operations against ISIS. In a speech declaring victory over ISIS, Abadi said, “Our ...

Damnatio Memoriae — damnation of memory — was an ancient and infrequently practiced concept. It entailed the complete erasure of one from history: artworks defaced, names crossed out, statues ...

The ISIS assault on historical artifacts could extend to Palmyra. — -- Just five days after ISIS achieved one of its most significant victories in Iraq in the past year, militants reportedly have ...

His tools are different and the task is sometimes dangerous, but Fr. Columba Stewart's mission saving historic texts from the destruction of ISIS and the war against it follows a tradition practiced ...

“They came out of nowhere.” That was the common refrain when ISIS captured the world’s attention by seizing large swaths of Iraq, declaring an Islamic caliphate, and initiating a series of deadly ...

The terrible spectacle of Islamic State (ISIS) members destroying ancient Mesopotamian statuary in the Mosul Museum and at the Assyrian site of Nimrud has shocked the world, as intended. These actions ...

Fiorina has a bachelor’s degree from Stanford in medieval history, philosophy. — -- For over three decades, Carly Fiorina’s bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in medieval history and ...

In the early going of the second presidential debate, Anderson Cooper said to Donald Trump, “You bragged that you have sexually assaulted women. Do you understand that?” Trump responded by saying his ...

In “The Art of War,” Sun Tzu notes that “the whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.” ISIS is developing this logic in an obscene and seductive way, using ...

In the days immediately following 9/11, George W. Bush’s approval skyrocketed from the 50 percent range it had been hovering around to a stratospheric 91 percent. Now, the entire GOP field of ...