How Economic Inequality Makes Terror Attacks More Likely

Economist Thomas Piketty says income inequality plays a big part in fueling radical Islamic terrorism that originates in the Middle East.

Piketty, famous for his best-selling book Capital in the 21st Century, which argues global inequality has massively widened in recent decades, wrote in French newspaper Le Monde last week that "it's obvious: terrorism feeds on the powder key of Middle Eastern inequality, that we [the West] have largely contributed to creating." (The article was picked up by The Washington Post on Monday.)