historical perspective

I should probably start putting all this non-Terri-and-Ezra-related stuff in a different place, but this will have to do for now. There's a good interview in Salon with Paul Berman, who contends that Islamism is another totalitarian ideology born out of World War I, like fascism and communism. There's more good stuff in there, too.

In my opinion, thought does much more for liberal values than "protest" (and there is actually a great deal of anti-liberal content to the protests I've seen).