--- title: The Five Best Ideas: What ISIS Wants, and We Can't Give Them description: What ISIS wants but must be denied, how virtual reality will and won't change sports, and more. canonical: https://time.com/4398306/best-ideas-what-isis-wants/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-08T15:55:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:47.750Z article:section: Ideas og:title: What ISIS Wants, and We Can't Give Them og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4398306/best-ideas-what-isis-wants/ 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: What ISIS Wants, and We Can't Give Them twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # What ISIS Wants, and We Can't Give Them by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 8, 2016 3:55 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 8, 2016 3:55 PM UTC **1\.** [**ISIS wants the West to hate Muslims. If we do so, they win.**](http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/shadi-hamid-behind-isis-war-muslims-article-1.2701707) By Shadi Hamid in the New York _Daily News_ **2\.** [**How virtual reality will—and won’t—change sports.**](https://backchannel.com/how-vr-will-change-sports-and-how-it-wont-e2d1caa47700#.bevfgfjxk) By Mary Pilon in BackChannel **3\.** [**Missed out on your favorite summer concert? Blame Beyoncé, not ticket scalpers.**](http://www.aei.org/publication/ticket-scalping-a-market-that-only-exists-because-musicians-under-supply-and-under-price-tickets-to-their-concerts/) By Mark J. Perry at the American Enterprise Institute **4\.** [**A 16 year-old needs to pass a driving test. Why shouldn’t a self-driving car?**](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/07/opinion/a-16-year-old-needs-a-license-shouldnt-a-self-driving-car.html) By Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle in the New York _Times_ **5\.** [**We need a new generation of CEOs to reboot America’s free markets.**](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-we-find-our-own-paul-polmans-judith-samuelson) By Judy Samuelson in LinkedIn  [_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/4398306/best-ideas-what-isis-wants/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4398306/best-ideas-what-isis-wants/"},"headline":"What ISIS Wants, and We Can't Give Them","datePublished":"2016-07-08T15:55:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:47.750Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4398306/best-ideas-what-isis-wants/","keywords":["Innovation","Sports topic","ISIS","Virtual Reality","Leadership","concerts","self-driving cars"],"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/4398306/best-ideas-what-isis-wants/","name":"What ISIS Wants, and We Can't Give Them"}}]}] ```