An April 21 article in The Wall Street Journal (subscription only) reports that religious issues increasingly divided the Tsarnaev family.

An April 22, 2013 post at New York magazine that rounds up various stories exploring the family dynamics that may have contributed to the radicalization of the Tsarnaev brothers, especially Tamerlan.

Read an April 22, 2013 column by Akbar Ahmed at National Geographic News. Ahmed is Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington, D.C.

Read an April 22 interview in The New Republic with terrorism expert Olivier Roy, who argues that the Boston suspects are more like the Columbine or Sandy Hook shooters. Roy says they have minimal connections to Islam as a religion but “are self-radicalizing in a Western environment.”

In a Religion Dispatches column, Mark Juergensmeyer argues that religious motivations are not central to “lone wolf” attacks like the bombings in Boston.

Read a May 3, 2013 Time magazine essay about what the latest neuroscience says about the biological origins of evil actions.

Survey results released Aug. 6, 2013, by the Pew Research Center indicate that most Americans would not choose to dramatically increase their life spans even if scientific breakthroughs made that possible. A slim majority, in fact, said radical life extension would be bad for society. Pew also released two companion reports, “To Count Our Days: […]

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