Weekly SPI Fellows Update
by Deanna Cantrell
SPI Fellow Mark Juergensmeyer is director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, professor of sociology and global studies, and affiliate professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Who was the intended target of the attacks?  He offers poignant perspective on the attacks in Paris in his newly published article, Why ISIS Attacked Paris.
ÔÇ£ÔǪracism isn’t over just because of some key legislation 50 years ago, and that making a better world means making some noise.ÔÇØ Says SPI Fellow John McWhorter on his CNN post entitled, Note to protesters: Rage wonÔÇÖt work.┬á How can students improve their protests to avoid their message falling on deaf ears?┬á Are millennials perpetuating racism?┬á McWhorter answers this and more.
SPI Fellow Ian MorrisÔÇÖ book Why the West RulesÔÇöFor Now is featured in the article, Stop-and-Seize Turns Police Into Self-Funding Gangs
.┬á ÔÇ£All of our home towns are sitting on a tax-liberating gold mine,ÔÇØ Deputy Ron Hain of Kane County, Ill., wrote in a self-published book under a pseudonymÔǪHainÔÇÖs book calls for ÔÇ£turning our police forces into present-day Robin Hoods.ÔÇØ┬á Writer Noah Smith makes a compelling argument in this piece.