The Iconoclast

My Non-Woke Personal Library and Its Saving Virtues: An Essay Series for Readers

July 22, 2024
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Geoffrey Clarfield

By Geoffrey Clarfield Part 1 Introduction I have written this extended essay for those of you who want to broaden your minds, escape the straight jacket of a “woke” education/indoctrination, […]

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Those Trump-Hating Wine Moms

July 22, 2024
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Bruce Bawer

By Bruce Bawer My interest in politics began way before Trump. In fact it goes back at least to Election Day 1964. I had just turned eight. Somehow I had […]

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Saving Europe from the Europeans

July 22, 2024
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Bruce Bawer

By Bruce Bawer The other day, Clive Lewis, who has been a Labour Party member of the House of Commons since 2015 and who was returned to office in this […]

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Masha Gessen Tells Big Lies About 10/7 Rapes

July 21, 2024
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Phyllis Chesler

By Phyllis Chesler In the New Yorker, Gessen, a freakish anti-Zionist, claims that the #IDF also allegedly rapes Arabs, that all wars involve rapes–there’s nothing to see here. Move right […]

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President Biden withdraws from the election and endorses Kamala Harris as Democrat nominee

July 21, 2024
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Esmerelda Weatherwax

My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very […]

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Ouch! She Who Must Be Obeyed

July 21, 2024
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Reg Green

By Reg Green As of Sunday morning, President Biden is still saying he won’t go unless the Almighty speaks. But She has spoken (in a stage whisper) to all the […]

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The Nobel Prize Winner Who Failed Her Daughter with the Help of Many Others

July 21, 2024
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Phyllis Chesler

Even powerful celebrities, such as ‘Gothic Feminist’ writer Alice Munro, are not immune from the prejudices of the day. By Phyllis Chesler Many Media Mavens were shocked — shocked! — […]

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Inducing antisemitic evil in the soul

July 21, 2024
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Matthew Hausman

By Matthew Hausman The misuse of language induces antisemitism, to paraphrase Socrates. Opinion The philosopher Socrates once wrote that “the misuse of language induces evil in the soul” and this […]

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‘It is time for change’ claim ahead of protest against handling of Harehills riots

July 21, 2024
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Esmerelda Weatherwax

By Esmerelda Weatherwax From Leeds Live A protest by the local indigenous residents of Leeds is taking place this lunchtime in Coldcotes Circus against the poor policing of the riots […]

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The Marine-Life Era on Urantia

July 21, 2024
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Rebecca Bynum

This paper deals with the early evolution of life on our planet, the geologic layers laid down over many millions of years and where these layers are found today. As […]

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Donald Trump, the survivor, will make a great president

July 21, 2024
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Conrad Black

By Conrad Black The renomination of Donald Trump makes him only the second president who could win nonconsecutive terms. This induces me to return to my annual attempt to explain […]

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A Waste of Energy

July 21, 2024
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Theodore Dalrymple

By Theodore Dalrymple Electoral politics, particularly in Western Europe, is a toxic amalgam of power-madness, low cunning, and moral grandiosity. Of these, as St. Paul said of charity, moral grandiosity […]

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Democrats’ ultimate dilemma: who will be to blame?

July 20, 2024
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Lev Tsitrin

By Lev Tsitrin The New York Times recently published a detailed report on who wants Biden out. The roster is long and distinguished. Headed by Obama, it boasts the names of […]

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Is Being Reasonable a Failed Strategy?

July 20, 2024
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Carl Nelson

By Carl Nelson I always liked the sales admonition that “reasonable people always agree”. What a wonderful, harmonious existence that prefigures! But existence – especially, at present – is neither […]

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Adidas drops Bella Hadid from campaign referencing 1972 Munich Olympics

July 20, 2024
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Esmerelda Weatherwax

From Al Jazeera  The Telegraph  and Jewish News. It may be my imagination but I felt Al Jazeera was taking this more seriously than the Guardian and the Independent.  Adidas […]

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Compared to What?

July 19, 2024
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G. Murphy Donovan

By G Murphy Donovan “Less is more.” – van der Rohe Donald J. Trump is often his own worst enemy. The recent assassination attempt followed the Republican convention in  Milwaulkee […]

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