When it comes to jazz served up in a small club, played by very good local performers, you can find it throughout Greater Boston, despite the recent closing of some of the region's best-known venues. Below is a select list of clubs and arts centers – from trendy to traditional, in the city and the suburbs – that feature jazz.
Beinart and the President would do well to read this article by Beinart's Atlantic colleague, Graeme Wood, titled, "What ISIS Really Wants," published last March. The article is far from perfect. Wood implausibly confuses Sunni legal doctrines with the Judeo-Christian scriptures, and misses other obvious differences between the world's major religions. But his understanding of ISIS is grounded in research and in the statements and assessments of ISIS members, whom he allows to speak in their own voices.