The Iconoclast
The Dawn of Civilization
You will find no more clear-eyed assessments of the human condition than those found in the Urantia Book which may be a bit startling for some. This paper begins the […]
Israel Blamed for October 7; Pro-Israel Activist Blamed for Being Assaulted
From Phyllis Chesler Dexter Van Zile writes in Islamist Watch today. These are edited highlights; it is worth reading in its entirety On September 12, Caleb Gannon, 31, attacked a […]
Dishonourable Liberals keep turning on Israel
By Conrad Black The two principal foreign and strategic crises of this year, Ukraine and Israel, the federal government has a defensible record on the first but not on the […]
DHS/HSI Trying to Get Title 21 Authority (Federal Drug Statutes)
By Gary Fouse Recently, I posted an article in New English Review on how then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris and then-Governor Jerry Brown presided over the dissolution of the California Bureau […]
Trivial TV
By Theodore Dalrymple Twenty-seven years ago, a British newspaper discovered—I don’t know how—that I hadn’t watched television for twenty-five years. At the time, this seemed almost incredible, or at any […]
Christian preacher assaulted by Islamic mob chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ wins £10,000 pay-out after false arrest at Speakers’ Corner
Press release from Christian Concern A Christian preacher has won £10,000 in damages and costs from the Metropolitan Police after being arrested, strip searched and unlawfully imprisoned for wearing a […]
Running on Empty
By William Corden I just watched parts of the Harris sit down with Oprah! More “can’t we all just get along” rubbish and not a glimmer of policy specifics. Boy […]
A Blanket Of Darkness Is Falling Over The West
By Armando Simón From Sweden and Germany, to Australia and New Zealand, to France and Finland, to America and Canada, to Armenia and Italy, to Britain and Ireland, a network of censorship has been developing and steadily solidifying. Censorship has even been imposed on scientists. Ironically, this blanket of darkness has occurred in those countries […]
Police say 1 person has been killed and another seriously wounded in a stabbing in Rotterdam
From Associated Press and photograph from The Sun THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — One person was killed and another seriously wounded in a stabbing incident late Thursday in the Dutch […]
Nasrallah leaves Israel with no choice
Lev Tsitrin The story may be apocryphal since I am unable to retrace it, but I seem to remember reading that after hearing of an attack on Pearl Harbor and […]
Music: My Non-Woke Personal Library and Its Saving Virtues
By Geoffrey Clarfield Max Weber’s classic sociological study, The Protestant Ethic, and the Spirit of Capitalism, is still read today by serious students of society. There is an impossibly large secondary literature […]
Royal Exchange Theatre show was cancelled after pro-Palestine and trans rights row
From the Manchester Evening News A five-week run of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was cancelled following a row over pro-Palestine and pro-transgender rights at the Royal Exchange Theatre, the Manchester […]
Don’t Care for Poetry?
Read this anyway By Bruce Bawer This is going to be about poetry, but please don’t let that keep you from reading it. In fact the whole point of the […]
Can Harris’s Cynical, Run-out-the Clock Campaign Succeed?
By Victor Davis Hanson Cynically running out the clock has been the overarching principle of the entire abbreviated 105-day presidential campaign of Kamala Harris—ever since Joe Biden, at the 11th-hour, […]
The West Must Recognize That Beijing Is an Enemy of Western Civilization
By Conrad Black The arrest of Linda Sun, a former chief of staff to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and an aide to the previous governor, Andrew Cuomo, and of […]
The Transgender and Anti-Israel True Believers
By Phyllis Chesler Birds of a Feather … The transgender issue has become as toxic and as polarizing as that of the Israel/Palestine matter. A far-fetched comparison? Not really. The […]
