The Iconoclast

Streets Are for People – An Israeli Case Study
By Geoffrey Clarfield As an undergraduate I studied anthropology and music. At the university bookstore in the anthropology section, I discovered the work of Bernard Rudovsky, an eastern European émigré […]

Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor Shabana Mahmood visits Southport Mosque after riot.
The first newspaper I saw this in the a Scottish local paper, the John O’Groat Journal, but it is syndicated from PA News. I searched further expecting to find that […]

CDC’s Redfield Could Be Most Powerful Trump Endorsement Yet
By Roger L Simon I was impressed Elon Musk, RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard all climbed aboard the Trump Train. Even Mark Zuckerberg, once the former president’s bête noire, seems […]

Is Reform UK the Real Deal?
By Bruce Bawer For many people in the U.K., and for not a few of us outside of the U.K., Tommy Robinson was for a long time the only person […]

Democratic Campaign Has Become a House of Cards
By Conrad Black Seen with a little perspective, it is clearer than it has ever been that the bipartisan political establishment that governed at Washington after the retirement of Ronald […]

Criminalizing Science Fraud
And other ideas for promoting scientific integrity. By Glenn Harlan Reynolds Should we criminalize fraud in science? Some people are saying so. As Chris Said writes: In 2006, Sylvain Lesné published […]

A modern pogrom through history’s lens
By Phyllis Chesler (Sep. 25, 2024 / JNS) Can anyone really evaluate Oct. 7—the genocidal pogrom that took place barely a year ago and is not yet over? After all, scholars are […]

Alberta’s Independent Schools Initiative Could Lead the Way in Reversing the Decline in Canada’s Educational Standards
By Conrad Black The recent announcement that the Alberta government intends to provide funding in its education budget for new independent schools is entirely welcome news in every respect. This is […]

Wagenknecht and the rest need to remember who helped Germany rebuild
By Conrad Black It is a hackneyed cliché to say about Germany that it was too late unified, took too long to decide whether it was an Eastern or Western-facing […]

Almost a year later and…
By Phyllis Chesler #Hamas’s 10/7#pogrom is still happening, it’s not over yet–and already I’m overwhelmed by the number of 10/7 films, plays, songs, pop-up museums, gatherings, memorial services, that are […]

A Discussion of Tripping Over the Truth…
By Carl Nelson A Discussion of Tripping Over the Truth/ How the Metabolic Theory of Cancer Is Overturning One of Medicine’s Most Entrenched Paradigms – by Travis Christofferson, MS “Cancer therapy […]

Microaggressions are hateful unless used against the Jews
By Matthew Hausman Negotiations with Hamas were exposed as hollow farce when six hostages were executed to prevent their rescue – in tunnels built with humanitarian aid provided by the […]

Our So-called ‘Experts’ and their Silly Group-speak Letters
From Victor Davis Hanson One of the most preposterous recent trends has been the political use of supposed expert letters and declarations of support from so-called “authorities.” These pretentious testimonies […]

Why I am Voting for Trump
Unattributed Someone recently asked me why I like Trump. My answer was that I don’t really like a lot of things about Trump. But this election is not about choosing […]

Shame on the Writers Who Refused to Appear at a Book Festival with Elisa Albert
From Phyllis Chesler. This is Neal Pollack writing in the Book and Film Globe “Shanda” is a word in Yiddish, that most useful of languages, that means an action that’s […]

Trump Finally Correct about Jewish Vote
By Roger L Simon Last week Donald Trump created a bit of a brouhaha—doesn’t he always?—when he spoke to the Israeli-American Council in Washington regarding the Jewish vote. The former […]