Every country has an information environment, a kind of shared immune system for public conversation. When it is healthy, citizens can tell the difference between a reliable news report and a rumour, between an expert’s opinion and a partisan guess, and between a genuine debate and a coordinated attack. For a long time, Denmark has been one of the places where that immune system works unusually well. People trust one another, institutions are open, and the press is strong. But according to a new comprehensive threat assessment published by TjekDet, the Danish member of the NORDIS network, that strength cannot…

For tens of thousands of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the morning after October 7 felt like the start of something extraordinary, something they had never experienced before in quite the same way. Dan McClellan, a practicing Mormon and a Bible scholar with an enormous online following of his own, had just appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience, a podcast that reaches an estimated eleven million listeners per episode. For a faith community that has long felt misunderstood, dismissed, or simply ignored by mainstream American culture, seeing one of their own sitting across from the…