‘Nihilistic Violent Extremism’ Isn’t a Thing, and I’m Tired of Pretending It Is
The catch-all category is misleading and a mistake.
The Week That Was
Your weekly summary of everything on the site.
Harsh Confinement
A review of W. Fitzhugh Brundage, “A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the…
Scaling Laws: “The God Test” AI as Cosmic Reckoning, with Robert Wright
Alan Rozenshtein, Research Director at Lawfare, spoke with Robert Wright—author of Nonzero, The Moral Animal,…
Open-Weight Model Advances Make the Mythos Debate Moot
The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare.
At a Mosque in San Diego, Trump’s Counterterrorism Strategy Falls Flat
The administration’s strategy trades an accurate assessment of the threat landscape for political rhetoric.
Lawfare Live: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 22
Join the Lawfare team at 4 pm ET for a discussion of the litigation surrounding…
Lawfare Daily: Excavating Arctic Frost
Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes and Senior Editor Michael Feinberg discuss the methods and…
The Missing Resistance in China’s AI Debate
As Washington negotiates AI guardrails with Beijing, it must understand why the AI debate in…