Thirty-three years after the fatwa, the author of the Satanic Verses was grievously injured in an assassination attempt at a literary event in New York. The attack, by a 24-year-old man inspired by the forces unleashed by the late Ayatollah Khomeini, reminds the world how alive is the murderous fury of radical Islam against the freedom of ideas and imagination
The author recalls his meeting with the celebrated and charming author over a decade ago, his wit, scholarship and tremendous willpower
Conservative judges have inflamed the culture war by scrapping the constitutional right to abortion
Part of America’s outlaw tradition, he lets his fists and guns do the talking
Perhaps the most underplayed agreement in Tokyo is the Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA)