What Sylvia Plath and Al-Qaeda Have in Common

“Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities”

The Pre-9/11 New York City Skyline (Photo Courtesy of the Historic American Engineering Record)

To give myself a break from practically staring at a screen all day, my pre-bedtime routine lately has been lying on the couch, closing my eyes while submerged in a hodgepodge of blankets, and alternating between the audiobooks…