Featured speakers:
Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum
Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute
Flemming Rose, culture editor of Jyllands-Posten
Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch
Peter Schwartz, author of The Foreign Policy of Self-Interest: A Moral Ideal for America
John Lewis, assistant professor of history, Ashland University

Subtitle: The Real Threat and the Right Response

A distinguished panel of Middle East experts has been assembled to answer the most important questions of our time, including: Who are the terrorists and what do they actually want? What can and must the West do to ensure victory? While the experts will answer these complex questions from different points of view, they all agree on one thing: the real threat is Islamic totalitarianism and the right response necessitates engaging in a principled, ideological battle to defend the West from the jihad declared against it.

This series, recorded in October 2006, includes seven events, concluding with Yaron Brook's lecture at Boston's Ford Hall Forum.

Contents:

• "No Substitute for Victory": Military Offense and the Defeat of Islamic Totalitarianism
  Opening remarks by Yaron Brook
  Lecture and Q & A by John Lewis
• Muhammad and His Relevance Today
  Lecture and Q & A by Robert Spencer
• Radical Islam and the War on Terror
  Lecture and Q & A by Daniel Pipes
• Jihad Against the West: The Real Threat and the Right Response
  A panel discussion featuring Yaron Brook, Daniel Pipes and Flemming Rose
• Islam and Europe after the Cartoon-Crisis—Clash of Cultures or Coexistence of Civilizations?
  Lecture and Q & A by Flemming Rose
• Defending Freedom: The Principled vs. the Pragmatic Approach
  Lecture and Q & A by Peter Schwartz
• Democracy vs. Victory: Why the "Forward Strategy of Freedom" Had to Fail
  Lecture and Q & A by Yaron Brook