Juan Cole

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor in the History Department at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

Published! In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis: Activism and the Struggle for Academic Freedom

The book situates Davis’s legacy within today’s threats to free inquiry, examining the recurring dangers of political repression and censorship

This wine jug was once, like me, a miserable lover — captive to the tresses of a heartthrob

The horrid Bill Maher and his guest Van Jones even guffawed about dead Gaza babies.

At a 2.7º C. increase, northern Australian areas such as Darwin, Broome and Port Hedland will become uninhabitable by the end of the century

the “residents of Bonaire were wrongly treated differently from residents of the European Netherlands.”

It gave its mouth to mine and whispered, / Have some wine, since once you’re gone, you won’t be back.

Occupied people do not have rights, and they do not even have the right to have rights. They are lesser.

Andersen said, “I mean, you can’t really fathom that this is actually something that is being said out loud. It just seems too crazy.”

The thousands of ISIL fighters imprisoned by the Kurds in 14 detention centers had terrorized western and northern Iraq and eastern Syria