Seven Myths of the Crusades by Alfred J. Andrea and Andrew Holt, eds. Cambridge, Mass.: Hackett Publishing, 2015. 248 pp. $54 ($19, paper). As the editors make clear in their preface, Seven Myths of the Crusades is presented as an antidote to the “outpouring of exaggerations, misperceptions, errors, misrepresentations, and fabrications” that proliferate in popular discourse […]
Prof debunks widely publicized study that claims “right-wing extremists” deadlier than Islamic jihadis
Contrary to media myth, you’re actually 62 times more likely to be killed by an Islamic jihadist than by a “right-wing extremist.” Professor Andrew Holt shows that not only did the New America Foundation wildly exaggerate the threat of “right-wing extremists,” and fudge the data to do so, it also ignored several murderous Islamic jihad […]