From LARB, it’s the emotions, stupid: Robert Zaretsky reviews The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution by Timothy Tackett. Seven steps toward enlightenment: Eli Zaretsky on the case of the French killings. For Europeans, terror attacks are still a tragic part of life: Ana Swanson on how the attack on Charlie Hebdo ranks among European terror attacks. Adam Taylor on the free-speech hypocrisy of some world leaders marching in Paris. Elizabeth Winkler interviews Flemming Rose, the Danish editor who published Mohammed cartoons in 2005: “This idea that Charlie Hebdo had an anti-Islamic bias is stupid”. Ron E. Hassner on six lessons from the Danish cartoon protests about fundamentalist wrath. The French far-right party's platform gets one big thing absolutely right. Fear, far right among roots of Germany's anti-Islam rallies. The limits of liberalism: Liberal responses to the Paris killings are fuelling a cycle from which both the right and the terrorists will gain, argues John Rees. Linda Besner on the bright side of individualism: In an increasingly fragmented world, the debate around “Je Suis Charlie” reminds us there are reasons to avoid collectivity. Ahmed Rashid on waking up to the new al-Qaeda. Inspired, networked and directed: Clint Watts on the muddled jihad of ISIS and al Qaeda post Hebdo — “The jihadi movement may have finally become what its original luminaries always wanted it to be, and in Paris of all places”.
