Just as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces the beginning of his trial for the bombing of the Boston Marathon, Paris shakes from the assassination of French magazine satirists. “A New Era of Terrorism” has commenced, according to *The New York Times*. Governments emit loose talk of “fundamental values.” Patriotic slogans such as “Boston Strong” paper over global anxiety, as everyone prepares for further massacres and retributions. Welcome to the new world order. In this light, *The Baffler* magazine sponsored a neighborhood forum on the war on terror and the rule of law. **Noam Chomsky**, author of 9/11, and **Kade Crockford**, director of the [ACLU of Massachusetts’ Technology for Liberty Project](https://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/aclu-massachusetts-announces-technology-liberty-justice-all-initiative "ACLU-Liberty"), for a discussion moderated by Baffler editor **John Summers** in the heart of Inman Square—the very neighborhood in which Dzhokhar and his alleged co-conspirator and older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, lived, worked, shopped, and worshipped among us. (Image: Jane Flavell Collins / AP)