Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.

Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and can thus be adequately explicated through the methodological analysis of scientific procedures.

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act