The Iconoclast
Words May Salve the Holocaust Wounds that Refuse to Heal
An interview with Thomas Ország-Land (February 2015) The wounds inflicted by the Holocaust are still refusing to heal. Commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz 70 years ago on January 27, the Catalan […]
Hisham Melhem: He Still Can’t Bring Himself To Recognize The True Source Of The Problem
Here. He sees Arab countries disintegrating — Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen — with others possibly to follow. He mentions, in passing, the Islamic State, but cannot identify Islam as the […]
Overcoming Literary Anti-Semitism in America
by Richard Kostelanetz (February 2015) Having exposed the egregious absence of Jewish writers in anthologies of American Literature published before 1950, most notably in my The End of Intelligent Writing […]
Moses and Pharaoh: Who was the Hero?
by Moshe Dann (February 2015) The confrontation between Moses and Pharaoh is one of the greatest dramatic moments in recorded history. The most powerful figure in the world confronts an […]
On Safari
by Geoffrey Clarfield (February 2015) “It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more […]
“Fanny and Alexander” and Contemporary Swedish Antisemitism
by Norman Berdichevsky (February 2015) Although 1983 may not seem that long ago by the calendar, the Swedish film “Fanny and Alexander” represents what might be termed Pre-Modern History in […]
A “Completely Good Man” is Hard to Find: Welles’ Defective Falstaff
by Carl C. Curtis (February 2015) Whether Chimes at Midnight1 is Orson Welles’ greatest film remains a matter for debate. That it suffered from the usual post-RKO Welles problems is […]
Good Poetry, Bad Poetry, and Good Poetry Read Badly
by G. Kim Blank (February 2015) “One great poet is a masterpiece of Nature which another not only ought to study but must study.” —Percy Shelley, from the Preface to […]
The Golan Ablaze: Are Hezbollah and Iran Behind It?
by Jerry Gordon and Ilana Freedman (February 2015) The Golan is suddenly ablaze with rocket and anti-tank missiles launched from Lebanon and Syria incurring IDF casualties. Israel Hayom reported on […]
The Herr Schultz Syndrome
by Richard Butrick (February 2015) Berlin, 1931. Despite: Jack-booted Hitler Youth marching through the streets of Berlin smashing in Jewish stores. Huge Nazi rallies claiming Aryan supremacy. Attacks on Synagogues. […]
Exposing A Radical Jihad Training Network in America: an Interview with Ryan Mauro of The Clarion Project
by Jerry Gordon (February 2015) Wall Street Journalist Danny Pearl was on his way to a meeting with Jamaat ul-Fuqra (JF) founder, Sheik Mubarak Ali Gilani, a radical Sufi cleric, in […]
The Age of Musterbation
by G. Murphy Donovan (February 2015) “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” – E. R. Murrow Media icons are often given credit for thoughts that originated […]
The Silence of the Lambs: Kristof and Buruma Put Women in Their Place
by Lorna Salzman (February 2014) For writers like Nicholas Kristof and Ian Buruma, it would seem that it is perfectly all right to tolerate “overheated” language in talking of social […]
Lunch Conquers All, Part 2
by Theodore Dalrymple (February 2015) There is no such thing as a free lunch, they say, and perhaps this is so in the abstract: but no doctor really believes it. […]
An Interview with Professor Richard L. Rubenstein in The World & I, 1991
The following interview appeared in The World & I in February 1991, twenty four years ago. W&I: Could you speak on the Jewish Islamic issue from the point of view of […]
Israel’s Nuclear Strategy: The Importance of Doctrine
by Louis René Beres (February 2015) Oddly, perhaps, especially at a time of expanding existential peril, Israel has yet to make any substantive policy disclosures about its nuclear deterrent. To […]
