'Luciferina': An Interview with Amanda Knox Even the usually staid BBC saw fit to wonder “what was really going on behind [the] smile” of “the beautiful young murderess.” Jeffrey Tayler 29 Nov 2018 · 7 min read
Resolving the Venezuela Crisis: Is There a Case for Outside Military Intervention? Venezuelans have been voting with their feet to escape the ruin the regime has inflicted on them. Jeffrey Tayler 1 Oct 2018 · 8 min read
Speaking Out About Islam – Lubna Ahmed, Rebel With a Cause What is he? A man or a woman? Why should women wear headscarves, that is, the hijab? I ended up asking, Was the Prophet Muhammad real?” Jeffrey Tayler 20 Feb 2018 · 12 min read
Femen’s Inna Shevchenko: Fear of Causing Offense Has Cost Too Many Innocent Lives Her life story presents a challenge to religious communities. Do they want to reform [Islam] or give it up?” Jeffrey Tayler 30 Dec 2017 · 12 min read
Leftist Hypocrisy about Islam: Setting the Stage for Violence The progress we as a society have made in recent decades—in women’s rights and in gay rights, for starters—largely stems from our overcoming religion-based prejudices. Jeffrey Tayler 18 Jul 2017 · 10 min read
Manchester’s Children and the Regressive Left So adherents to an ideology constitute a race? Islam is a faith-based ideology, with nothing biologically inherent about it. Jeffrey Tayler 4 Jun 2017 · 10 min read
Anti-Russian Hysteria, American Hypocrisy, and the Risk of Nuclear Confrontation “Things will work out fine between the U.S.A. and Russia. At the right time everyone will come to their senses & there will be lasting peace!” Jeffrey Tayler 20 Apr 2017 · 11 min read
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Explains How To Combat Political Islam If Hirsi Ali’s critics are tempted to cite statistics minimizing the threat, they will have to explain at what point – after how many more deaths – they will consider it necessary to take action. Jeffrey Tayler 31 Mar 2017 · 14 min read
On Betrayal by the Left – Talking with Ex-Muslim Sarah Haider There’s nothing to do but keep on going, or else nothing will change. If we allow these threats, these fears, to shut us down, things won’t change. Jeffrey Tayler 16 Mar 2017 · 11 min read
The Deal Trump Should Strike with Putin The NATO alliance was founded in 1949 to counter Soviet military might. Jeffrey Tayler 17 Feb 2017 · 15 min read
Free Speech and the Regressive Left — the Road Back to Reason A unified progressive opposition to Trump can come about only via a return to true progressive principles. Jeffrey Tayler 3 Feb 2017 · 11 min read
Free Speech and Terrorism – Whatever you do, don’t mention Islam! Freedom of religion also means freedom from religion; free (critical) speech about religion has the effect of freeing people from religion. Jeffrey Tayler 6 Jan 2017 · 8 min read
The Hijab and the Regressive Left’s Absurd Campaign to Betray Freethinking Women By no means does freedom of religion, however, confer on religion or religious customs exemptions from criticism, satire, or even derision. Jeffrey Tayler 7 Dec 2016 · 9 min read
Free Speech and Islam — In Defense of Ayaan Hirsi Ali A woman whose life story, by any rational, humane standards, should win encomia from, and the admiration of, decent people everywhere. Jeffrey Tayler 17 Jun 2016 · 18 min read
Straight Talk about Religion: Reza Aslan Peddles False Wares to Influential Dupes Aslan, when not teaching creative writing at the University of California at Riverside, authoring books about religion, or producing television shows, has for years served as a media go-to person for Islam. Jeffrey Tayler 27 May 2016 · 13 min read