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The Literary Culture of France
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Hamlet Made Simple and Other Essays
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Farewell Fear
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The Eagle and The Bible: Lessons in Liberty from Holy Writ
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The West Speaks
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Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy
Emmet Scott |
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Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy
Ibn Warraq |
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Anything Goes
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Karimi Hotel
De Nidra Poller |
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The Left is Seldom Right
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Allah is Dead: Why Islam is Not a Religion
by Rebecca Bynum |
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Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays
by Ibn Warraq |
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An Introduction to Danish Culture
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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The New Vichy Syndrome:
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Jihad and Genocide
by Richard L. Rubenstein |
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Second Opinion
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Defending The West:
by Ibn Warraq |
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Nations, Language and Citizenship:
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Romancing Opiates
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Which Koran?
by Ibn Warraq |
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Our Culture, What's Left of It
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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What The Koran Really Says
by Ibn Warraq |
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Life at the Bottom
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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The Origins of the Koran
by Ibn Warraq |
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Why I Am Not Muslim
by Ibn Warraq |
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Spanish Vignettes: An Offbeat Look Into Spain's Culture, Society & History
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Leaving Islam
Edited by Ibn Warraq |
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The Danish-German Border Dispute, 1815-2001: Aspects of Cultural and Demographic Politics
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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What's Love Got to Do with It?: Emotions and Relationships in Pop Songs
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Here are the Blogs in the NER category. Thursday, 31 July 2008
by Theodore Dalrymple
One of the advantages of rehearsing your thoughts (or, more accurately, some of your thoughts) in public is that you often enter into friendly correspondence with interesting people. Of course, you also expose yourself to cranks and pedants, the latter ready to pounce upon ...Read More...
Posted on 07/31/2008 5:52 PM by NER
Sunday, 20 July 2008
by Jerry Gordon
The mainstream media has copped out on an important story that, post 9/11, is a threat to the counterterrorism effort. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other Muslim Brotherhood (MB) front groups, cited by the U.S. Justice Department as unindicted co-conspirators ...Read More...
Posted on 07/20/2008 5:29 PM by NER
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
by Ibn Warraq I shall begin with a joke; and it is essential that you laugh, you will see why in a minute. The time: 1950s (which is important). Place: The Holy Land. Two archaeologists are working on a site they believe is the true location of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Golgotha or Calvary ...Read More...
Posted on 07/09/2008 5:22 PM by NER
Thursday, 3 July 2008
by Mary Jackson
It’s very nice to go trav’lingTo Paris, London and Rome
In search of a post-theatre drink a couple of months ago my fellow playgoer and I found ourselves in the bar at the recently re-furbished St. Pancras station. I always liked this station, which, but for ...Read More...
Posted on 07/03/2008 1:24 PM by NER
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
by Esmerelda Weatherwax The family and I attended the Salute to Israel Parade on Sunday 29th June to celebrate 60 years of the modern State of Israel, 1948 - 2008. full report with pictures ...Read More...
Posted on 07/01/2008 8:31 AM by NER
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
by Mary Jackson
In February this year, Christian evangelists Arthur Cunningham and Joseph Abraham were doing what Christian evangelists do: handing out Bible extracts. They were stopped by a representative of the law, threatened with arrest if they carried on preaching in “a Muslim area” ...Read More...
Posted on 07/01/2008 8:26 AM by NER
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
by Ares Demertzis
It was a small, very expensive, and lavishly appointed bar on the corner of 49th and Madison, the heartbeat of the mendacious and provocative advertising business in New York City. It was referred to as the “Watering Hole” by the “yuppies,” those young, ...Read More...
Posted on 07/01/2008 8:20 AM by NER
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
by Christopher Orlet
Leibniz never married. He had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married. — Bernard Fontenelle
In a 1994 New Yorker piece commenting on a report that the ...Read More...
Posted on 07/01/2008 8:16 AM by NER
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
by John M. Joyce
Thomas Carlyle is said—possibly apocryphally—to have
once been dining with a businessman who tired of Carlyle’s
loquacity and turned to him with the reproach,
“Ideas, Mr. Carlyle, ideas, nothing but ideas!”
Carlyle replied, “There ...Read More...
Posted on 07/01/2008 8:13 AM by NER
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
by Jerry Gordon
This article focuses on the controversy generated by a report of the Congressionally chartered group, The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). The report spearheaded by Nina Shea of the Hudson Institute. The USCIRF reviewed the Saudi-sponsored Islamic ...Read More...
Posted on 07/01/2008 8:09 AM by NER
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
And a Glaring Example of a No-Go Area in Denmarkby Norman Berdichevsky I recently returned from a short trip to Denmark. I spent a week on the island of Funen and a week in Copenhagen. In nearby Faaborg, a charming town with a beautifully preserved medieval city-gate, just twenty miles to ...Read More...
Posted on 07/01/2008 8:05 AM by NER
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
by Hugh Fitzgerald
The fate of the Christians in Iraq should not have come as a complete surprise. It is true that some believed that the kind of Iraqis in exile they met, the soft-spoken thoroughly westernized chalabis and makiyas, who were Representative men, and would, with others like them, ...Read More...
Posted on 07/01/2008 8:03 AM by NER
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
by Rebecca Bynum One who, as non-specialist observes contemporary philosophical trends, may discern two opposite and contending views of reality which chiefly concern the location and genesis of evil. One the one hand, is the traditional Judeo-Christian view, but which may also encompass, broadly speaking, ...Read More...
Posted on 07/01/2008 8:00 AM by NER
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
by Theodore Dalrymple
As someone who has spent much of his life investigating the darker sides of human existence, either as a tourist of civil wars, or as a doctor working among criminals and misfits, I have a weakness for books with the word ‘evil’ in their title. I am still trying to ...Read More...
Posted on 07/01/2008 7:56 AM by NER
Sunday, 8 June 2008
by Jerry Gordon and Joseph Shahda
U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman, chair of Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, is trying to take down hundreds of terrorist videos on YouTube operated by Google many showing violent actions against US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. ...Read More...
Posted on 06/08/2008 7:09 AM by NER
Sunday, 1 June 2008
by Rebecca Bynum
One of the most striking results of modern democracy has been the gradual but steady erosion of all classes of distinction and the subsequent leveling of society to the point where everyone is expected to treat everyone else in exactly the same way. We must make no distinction ...Read More...
Posted on 06/01/2008 9:43 AM by NER
Sunday, 1 June 2008
by Hans Allhoff The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations WorseBy Richard Thompson FordFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
In the book Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era, the legal scholar Frederick Schauer has an essay titled “First Amendment Opportunism.” ...Read More...
Posted on 06/01/2008 7:51 AM by NER
Sunday, 1 June 2008
by Esmerelda Weatherwax A new magazine was launched in the UK this week – Standpoint. I am still reading my paper copy, in which there is a great deal to read, most of it so far very interesting and there is also an on-line version. Some articles are web exclusive, others are not available ...Read More...
Posted on 06/01/2008 7:42 AM by NER
Sunday, 1 June 2008
by Mary Jackson
Second prize - pearly boys. Third prize - Pearly Queens.
Welcome to the Religion of Prizes. Fabulous celestial treats to be won. Nothing to lose but your life. more...
...Read More...
Posted on 06/01/2008 7:38 AM by NER
Sunday, 1 June 2008
by John M. Joyce
I stated in my last essay that democracy has incorporated freedom and liberty into its very fabric and made them essential components of that type of government selection process. Obviously, I must now justify that statement but before I do it is important to understand ...Read More...
Posted on 06/01/2008 7:35 AM by NER
Sunday, 1 June 2008
by Bill Warner
Have you ever heard someone say: “What we need is a new translation of the Koran.” What they really mean is that we need a Koran we can read and understand. The difficulties of reading the Koran are notorious and common. The Koran is repetitious and chaotic. Who do you ...Read More...
Posted on 06/01/2008 7:32 AM by NER
Sunday, 1 June 2008
by Norman Berdichevsky
Five best sellers from the fields of geography anthropology, sociology and political science have examined one of human geography’s major themes, the idea of place. Authors, Alvin Toffler, John Naisbitt, Leopold Kohr, Joel Garreau and Robert Ardrey have provided a popular ...Read More...
Posted on 06/01/2008 7:29 AM by NER
Sunday, 1 June 2008
Will it burst or can we deflate it?by Jerry Gordon
"I can calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies,but not the madness of people" ---Sir Isaac Newton, comment on the South Seas Bubble of 1720
Many Americans this Memorial Day experienced ...Read More...
Posted on 06/01/2008 7:26 AM by NER
Sunday, 1 June 2008
by Hugh Fitzgerald The Golem of Hebrew legend is a creature who is formed of inanimate clay, but is wonder-working and beneficent. However, in modern Hebrew slang the word “golem” is used, presumably because only the “made from inanimate clay” part is implicated, to refer to ...Read More...
Posted on 06/01/2008 7:19 AM by NER
Sunday, 1 June 2008
by Theodore Dalrymple
We are enjoined, when we suffer or feel unhappy (which are not necessarily quite the same thing, of course), to consider those who are yet worse off than ourselves. This is supposed to relieve and console us, but it rarely does. The most that it achieves is to make us feel ...Read More...
Posted on 06/01/2008 7:16 AM by NER
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