It Can Always Get Worse

It Can Always Get Worse

Home
History
Contemporary
Argument
Terrorism
Intelligence
Book Review
Film Review
Archive
About

Terrorism

Is Trump Willing to Pull the Trigger on Iran?
Leaks say the U.S. is planning a “more existential” campaign against the Islamic Republic. Trump’s record raises doubts.
 • Kyle Orton
Is Al-Qaeda Fifty Times Larger Now Than on 9/11?
Maybe. But the statistics going around do not prove that.
 • Kyle Orton
What HAMAS Did To Israel’s Hostages
The brutality of 7 October 2023 lasted two more years for many
 • Kyle Orton
The Internal Politics of the Islamic Revolution Behind the Seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Iran
Khomeini’s problem was that U.S.-Iranian relations were improving
 • Kyle Orton
The Palestinian Matrix of the Islamic Revolution in Iran
The consequences of 1979 are with us still.
 • Kyle Orton
The Islamic State’s Global Terrorism Campaign and the Bondi Hanukkah Massacre
The main editorial of Al-Naba 526
 • Kyle Orton
Trump, Nigeria, and the Islamic State
Can a domestic political gambit become a security policy?
 • Kyle Orton
Jews Pay the Price for Australia’s Failures to Adequately Confront Islamism and Antisemitism
The Hanukkah Massacre on Bondi Beach was a long time coming.
 • Kyle Orton
The Soviet Campaign Against Pinochet’s Chile
Moscow’s propaganda networks and global terrorism apparatus worked right down to the end.
 • Kyle Orton
The Downfall of Salvador Allende
Fragments from a Cold War life
 • Kyle Orton
The Russian Terrorist-Revolutionary Movement, 1866 – 1876: Nihilism, “The People”, and Defining Terrorism’s Purpose
Sergey Nechayev, the “Going to the People” Experiment, and Pyotr Tkachov
 • Kyle Orton
The Most Infamous Russian Revolutionary Manifesto of the Nineteenth Century
“The Revolutionary Catechism”, by Sergey Nechayev
 • Kyle Orton
© 2026 Kyle Orton · Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start your SubstackGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture