The Iconoclast
Conclusions: Kosti’s Menck & Nat (Part II)
by Richard Kostelanetz (March 2015) In memory of the great American writer Benjamin de Casseres (1873-1945), who authored Mencken and Shaw (1930) Long interested in rewriting classic American literary works, […]
Crisis and Creativity in Jewish History
by Moshe Dann (March 2015) As much as the Jewish people have been defined by faith, they have been shaped by their response to tragedies. No other group of people […]
Skepticism Checks Its Coat at the Door of Science
How the new secularists and skeptics do Monsanto’s dirty work by Lorna Salzman (March 2015) Skepticism is in short supply these days even, paradoxically, as paranoia and conspiracy theories spread. […]
The Wind and the Lion – Hollywood’s Defense of Radical Islam in the Shadow of Vietnam
by Norman Berdichevsky (March 2015) Anyone viewing The Wind and the Lion on Netflix might think that it was produced today by Hamas, Hizbollah, or CAIR – the Council of […]
Relativism and Truth
by Stanislav Solomovich (March 2015) The idea that truth is a relative concept, that what is true for one person at one time in one place may not necessarily be […]
I Cry for You Argentina!
by Anónimo Argentino (March 2015) The recent shocking revelation that the late chief Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman, investigating the terrorist bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish Community Center in July […]
Virtual Hot Pots and Brain Rot
by G. Murphy Donovan (March 2015) “Science is becoming more pervasive and invasive” – Susan Greenfield Who says that peers of the realm are anachronistic? Who claims that the House […]
Did President Obama’s Violent Extremism Conference Fail?
by Jerry Gordon (March 2015) Prelude to a Conference A three-day Conference “Countering Violent Extremism” was held from February 17 to 19, 2015 sponsored by the Administration with venues at both the White […]
But Wh…Wh..What about….!?: Islam and Finding Something Else to Worry About
by Thomas Samm (March 2015) Whataboutery is a slim quiver in the bows of adolescent debaters. High on the rush of self-importance granted by the lectern, they revert to the […]
Obama’s Self-Organizing Rhetoric
by James Como (March 2015) Consider the following: The president opines that the world is not messier now than under his predecessors but just seems messier because of the amplifying […]
A Clash of Cultures at Charlie Hebdo
by Joseph S. Spoerl (March 2015) In a recent article, Cinnamon Stillwell documents the absurd lengths to which many American college professors have gone to shift blame for the Charlie […]
Nuclear Deterrence is a Deadly Game
by Louis René Beres (March 2015) Traditionally, successful national strategies of deterrence require enemy rationality. In the absence of such rationality – that is, in those more-or-less residual circumstances where […]
Israel Facing a Perfect Storm
by Jerry Gordon and Mike Bates with Dan Diker and Shoshana Bryen (March 2015) A perfect storm is threatening Israel. While the world’s attention is focused on the rise of the […]
And Death Shall Have His Dominion
by Theodore Dalrymple (March 2015) There are many ways of dividing humanity into two other than those who divide humanity into two and those who don’t. For example, there are […]
The Historical, Legal, and Political Contexts of the Russian Annexation of Crimea
by Lawrence A. Howard (March 2015) An Introduction to Current Events The legislative action was nothing new in the short, modern history of independent Ukraine. It had been proposed as […]
Bearing the Cross: A Letter to ISIS
by Mark Durie (March 2015) The Islamic State sent me a letter last month. This letter was in the form of a short film produced by the Islamic State’s Al-Hayat […]
