The Iconoclast
Ouch! Moveable Holiday
By Reg Green Travel for Thanksgiving, with its airport chaos, long car journeys and the disruption of every household routine, reminded me of a cartoon showing a camel buckling at […]
Butterfield’s glorious vindication
By James Stevens Curl The Master Builder: William Butterfield and his times by Nicholas Olsberg with photographs by James Morris (London: Lund Humphries, 2024) ISBN: 978-1-84822-371-4 (hardback) 430 pp., many col. […]
The Violet Race After the Days of Adam
The Urantia Book portrays race and culture as being intertwined — race and culture spread together from their ancient cultural centers. Below you will find the story of Noah and […]
Sandra Gilbert and Feminism’s Endless Rage
By Bruce Bawer The recent death of Sandra M. Gilbert at the age of 87 sent my mind reeling back decades to the first time I came across her name. […]
Sue ICC prosecutor and judges — in Israel
By Lev Tsitrin When attacked from Gaza and Lebanon, Israel went on a counter-offensive; but when the International Criminal Court attacked it by issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, […]
Trump and Canada
By Conrad Black President Trump’s threat to impose 25 per cent tariffs on American imports from Canada is not appropriately answered with Justin Trudeau’s booster-ish nonsense about Team Canada. To […]
Primed to Hate
By Theodore Dalrymple Speech is silvern, said the old proverb, but silence is golden; and notwithstanding the recent disgraceful attacks on free speech, I more often find myself longing for […]
The Wages of Woke
By G Murphy Donovan The BBC is “something half way between a girl’s school and a lunatic asylum.” – George Orwell ————————————– If you control the coast-to-coast pulpit, you can control […]
Germany: Muslim Seminar To Prepare 13-Year-Old Girls For Marriage Sparks Backlash
From the European Conservative, an English language version of the reports in Bild and NiUS An invitation by a mosque in Germany for girls as young as thirteen to take […]
Zionists leave Britain or be slaughtered: Leaflets distributed in London Jewish neighbourhood
From GB News Leaflets with the writing “every Zionist needs to leave Britain or be slaughtered” were found spread around the streets of Hendon, a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood in north […]
Universities Have a 2025 Rendezvous With Reality
By Victor Davis Hanson Universities have suffered a cataclysmic decline in public approval and support. A Gallup poll taken this year found that only 36 percent of Americans polled either expressed […]
Trump and Thanksgiving
By Bruce Bawer We’re always living in history, of course, but there are times when we’re more aware of it than usual. In the years after 9/11 – two terms […]
DOJ Orders DEA to halt airport searches
By Gary Fouse This week, the Department of Justice ordered the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Anne Milgram, to discontinue a controversial enforcement program that had come under renewed […]
Russian anecdote; Anton Chekhov; and Golda Meir reflecting on Israel-Lebanon ceasefire
By Lev Tsitrin Just as Greek slaves developed the genre of fable to communicate their grim view of the world and its powers that be, the almost equally downtrodden Russians […]
Trump team bomb threats came with ‘pro-Palestinian message’
From the Telegraph Donald Trump’s proposed Cabinet has been targeted with a series of hoax bomb threats with one member suggesting it was the work of pro-Palestinian activists. Pete Hegseth, […]
Brighten Up – It’s Thanksgiving!
By Roger L Simon First, Happy Thanksgiving to all readers of this still rather new Substack! We have plans for 2025, unique to the format, we sincerely hope will make […]
