--- title: We’re Having the Wrong Conversation About Terrorism description: How we're having the wrong conversation about terrorism, why you should let your kids be bored this summer and more. canonical: https://time.com/4369859/terrorism-conversation/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-15T16:00:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:53.193Z article:section: Ideas og:title: We're Having the Wrong Conversation About Terrorism og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4369859/terrorism-conversation/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: We're Having the Wrong Conversation About Terrorism twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # We're Having the Wrong Conversation About Terrorism by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 15, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 15, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**We’re having the wrong conversation about terrorism.**](http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/06/13/terrorism-wrong-conversation-orlando-shooting/) By Masha Gessen in the New York Review of Books **2\.** [**This summer, take psychologist’s advice: Let your kids be bored.**](http://qz.com/704723/to-be-more-self-reliant-children-need-boring-summers/) By Olivia Goldhill in Quartz **3\.** [**Scientists created an endlessly rechargeable battery.**](https://news.uci.edu/research/all-powered-up/) By the University of California, Irvine **4\.** [**“Anti-politics” are all the rage, but we should improve our political system, not replace it.**](http://thesmartset.com/against-anti-politics/) By Michael Lind in the Smart Set **5\.** [**Foundations like to support high-profile work. But they should be paying to keep the lights on.**](http://ssir.org/up%5Ffor%5Fdebate/article/pay%5Fwhat%5Fit%5Ftakes%5Fphilanthropy) By Jeri Eckhart-Queenan, Michael Etzel, and Sridhar Prasad in the Stanford Social Innovation Review  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4369859/terrorism-conversation/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4369859/terrorism-conversation/"},"headline":"We're Having the Wrong Conversation About Terrorism","datePublished":"2016-06-15T16:00:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:53.193Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4369859/terrorism-conversation/","keywords":["Innovation","Parenting","politics","Terrorism","battery"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4369859/terrorism-conversation/","name":"We're Having the Wrong Conversation About Terrorism"}}]}] ```