Stephan Salisbury

Stephan Salisbury is cultural writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer. His most recent book is Mohamed’s Ghosts: An American Story of Love and Fear in the Homeland.

From Aurora to Anaheim, Guns Are Going Off Everywhere

From Aurora to Anaheim, Guns Are Going Off Everywhere From Aurora to Anaheim, Guns Are Going Off Everywhere

Who is being killed by firearms, and in what numbers?

Jul 30, 2012 / Stephan Salisbury

How to Fund an American Police State How to Fund an American Police State

The government is spending real money on an imaginary war.

Mar 5, 2012 / Stephan Salisbury

Islam-Baiting Doesn’t Work Islam-Baiting Doesn’t Work

Far from winning votes, “Muslim-bashing” alienates large swaths of the electorate—even as it hardens an already hard core on the right.

Jul 18, 2011 / Stephan Salisbury

Extremist Killing is as American as Apple Pie Extremist Killing is as American as Apple Pie

Gunned down in Tucson, shot to death at the Pentagon and blown away at the Holocaust Museum, as well as in Wichita, Knoxville, Pittsburgh, Brockton and Okaloosa County, F...

Jan 18, 2011 / Stephan Salisbury

Politics in the Terrordome, 2011 Politics in the Terrordome, 2011

The next Congress will see terror in everything.

Dec 15, 2010 / Stephan Salisbury

Surveillance, America’s Pastime Surveillance, America’s Pastime

In a relentless effort to watch and hear everything, government and law enforcement agencies today are actually casting a far broader surveillance net in the name of security than...

Oct 4, 2010 / Stephan Salisbury

Mosque Mania Mosque Mania

There is a distinct creepiness to the controversy now raging around a proposed Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan.

Aug 10, 2010 / Stephan Salisbury

Stage-Managing the War on Terror Stage-Managing the War on Terror

On the home front of the war on terror, we are largely fighting ghosts and phantasms, some helpfully conjured up by the government itself.

Jul 6, 2010 / Stephan Salisbury

Being Muslim Is No Crime Being Muslim Is No Crime

Since 2001, the treatment of the Muslim community in America, especially by law enforcement authorities, has made no sense at all.

May 24, 2010 / Stephan Salisbury

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