Is Islam a tribe or is it a force of globalization? Islam has certainly been studied as a local, tribalistic phenomenon. But Islam is also theoretica…

- Franklin Foer

I don't see tribalism ever really disappearing entirely. I just think that people are almost hardwired to identify as groups. And that sort of group …

- Franklin Foer

Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

- Franklin Foer

And I know that sounds outrageous, but it's true. Such monopolies as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple are trying to stay with us from the moment that …

- Franklin Foer

The New York Times and PBS are gatekeepers of a sort. And they perform that role of gatekeeping with a set of rules and aspirations about where they …

- Franklin Foer

Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve …

- Franklin Foer

I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam.

- Franklin Foer

Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple are among the most powerful monopolies in the history of humanity. So, the problem is, is that they have tremendous a…

- Franklin Foer

Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.

- Franklin Foer