I was speaking yesterday in St. Louis on tensions between Muslims and the West, and I argued that Muslims in the U.S. tend to assimilate much more fully than in Europe. A short while later I heard about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan at Ft. Hood. I felt horrified, angered and...

Wayne Gretzky used to say that he never worried about where the puck was; he only worried about where it was going. For anyone who aspires to be relevant in publishing ten years from now, we spend much time mulling where that puck is speeding off to.

No doubt,...

Commentators on the hawkish right are furious that Barack Obama can win a Nobel Peace Prize only eight months into his presidency.

The same commentators were quite comfortable in blaming the 2008 economic meltdown on Obama even though he hadn't taken office yet. And only a month into his...

A full 59% of Pakistanis see the United States as the biggest threat to their country, according to Gallup Pakistan.

That's quite sobering, in the wake of a historic address to the Muslim world by an eloquent president with some Muslim roots and a distaste for neoconservative foreign policy...

Iran and Pakistan and North Korea -- places that the media recently cited as crucial to the future of the United States -- have obviously become less relevant to our fate since Michael Jackson passed away.

That gives us time to ponder, with Al Sharpton, whether the media...

[Co-written with Salman Ahmad, founder of the Pakistani rock group Junoon, a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador and author of the forthcoming book Rock and Roll Jihad (Simon and Schuster).

The Sarkozy opposition to burqas sends a mix of smart and dumb signals to citizens of France and the world.

Sarkozy has the full right to say, 'This is France and these are our ways and customs; if our ways are offensive to you and you consider us...

While attempting to make a mark on history and the record books, Coach Yahweh finds himself facing unprecedented criticism. The aging leader of Team Monotheism is accused of arrogance and complacence, and for allowing the game to pass him by. Even while some of Team Monotheism's fans have been staking...

We like war - there's no way around it. Whether we're fighting land wars or culture wars, and whether we're using bombs or words to destroy others' lives and chosen identities, we prefer to wake up to enroll in a holy cause against "those devils out there" than to reconcile...

The Taliban's forerunners stole the show from Salman Ahmad one evening two decades ago. He and a growing army of Pakistani artists and cultural leaders intend to take it back -- and in the process, to rescue their nation and renew the cultural vibrancy of their ancient heritage.

Ahmad's...

Conservative and hawkish pundits are still twittering -- in the pre-technological sense of the word -- about President Obama's "global apology tours" of recent weeks.

It is inappropriate for a president to act decently to leaders of other nations, they charge. Does he seriously think America will be rewarded...

The New York Times reported recently that David Kilcullen, an adviser to Gen. David Petraeus, worried that "within one to six months we could see the collapse of the Pakistani state."

That matters to me, because I have many relatives there, along with a school and hospital that...

As Barack Obama declares that the United States of America "is not and never will be at war with Islam," his peacemaking efforts are failing with precisely those camps in the Muslim world and the West who find a cosmic war to be far more profitable personally than a sober...

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