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Jonathan Foreman is an editor and writer. He was the executive editor and co-founder of the new Mumbai-based magazine Indian Quarterly (IQ), and is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Civitas Institute for the Study for Civil Society in London for whom he wrote the book “Aiding and Abetting” (2013). With a background in law his primary areas of interest are foreign aid, urban policy, security and defence, South Asian affairs and film (He is a former film critic for the New York Post and chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle). He is a frequent contributor to a variety of magazines in the UK, US and India.

Latest Articles:

• Terror & the Failure of the Liberal Imagination (Commentary July/Aug 2017) Three attacks in Britain highlight the West’s inability to see the threat clearly The real lesson of the recent terrorist attacks in the UK is not that all open Western societies are frighteningly vulnerable. It is not that our homegrown terrorists have finally realized that low-tech attacks using vehicles and knives are easy to carry out ...
• Lionel Shriver is Out of Line (Commentary Dec. 2016) Before she was accused of thought- crime, the London-based American writer Lionel Shriver was best known for her 2003 bestseller, We Need to Talk about Kevin, an epistolary novel about a mother’s efforts to understand why her son had carried out a Columbine-like school massacre. She has published five novels since Kevin, to wide acclaim, but it was ...
• The School Runners (Commentary April 2016) Review of “The Last Thousand” by Jeffrey E. Stern A 2015 exposé on the Buzzfeed website created a stir by savaging the notion that the massive expansion of education in Afghanistan has been one of the triumphs of the international military effort. It was titled “Ghost Students, Ghost Teachers, Ghost Schools.” “As the American mission faltered, U.S. ...