For Europe, tackling the root cause of terrorism means getting serious about security, global aid and the connection between the two.

Journalist Jason Burke sorts out the hype from the truth about al Qaeda and the jihad ideology. Plus, Foreign Policy parses the language of bin Laden's recent truce offer and highlights OBL's political savvy.

First, it was that silliness about Reagan replacing FDR on the dime. Now, Nancy Reagan is again the rational one by nixing the idea of a Reagan University.

Sam Huntington's recent bombshell about Mexican immigration gets a really bad review from Alan Wolfe in Foreign Affairs.

They're the bright-eyed young Ph.D's who actually teach college classes. They're the underpaid, overburdened people whose only solace is a shot at tenure. They're the adjunct professors of the ivory tower.

Right now it costs 9 bushels of wheat to pay for 1 barrel of oil. It's not a sustainable ratio in both environmental and economic terms.

Has the study of philosophy lost its way? After all, where would philosophy be without religion, and where would religion be without philosophy?