In a blog post today, Arnold Kling cites Robert Nozick's term "normative sociology." The idea is that many people point to what they want the causes of something to be rather than trying their best to find what the causes are. It's a clever term and the idea it refers to is important.

Despite terrorism in Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring, the democracy movement in the Arab world lives on. But its successes are fragile.

Jessica Stern, a member of Hoover’s Task Force on National Security and Law, shows how ISIS uses a slick, media-savvy campaign to lure vulnerable youth to its end-times army.

I am very pleased to announce a new feature on Lawfare and a new feature as well among our staple of podcasts.