Today’s edition of Inside Higher Ed features a Scott McLemee piece on the new English translation of Michel Tardieu’s Manichaeism.

“Manicheaism regards the world as a battlefield occupied by the forces of light and darkness, good and evil, with combat headed fast towards a final reckoning. This outlook is alive and well along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan — not to mention certain holdouts in Thinktankistan, a province of Washington, D.C.”