The Iconoclast
Descartes Winter
by Rebecca Bynum Oftentimes I mark time by what I’m reading and I remember time that way. Milton Spring, the year of Donne, Byron Autumn and now my Descartes Winter. […]
Isis plotting chemical attack on UK: Watch for the enemy within, says minister. "There are traitors"
From Sunday Times Islamic State militants have aspirations to launch mass-casualty chemical attacks on targets in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, the British security minister said in a newspaper interview […]
Dozens Dead In Multiple ISIS Bombings Across Baghdad
ISIS continues to attack the Shi’a in Iraq where and when they can. Laura Wagner writes in
Eight arrested in Istanbul as Isil claims New Year’s attack on nightclub
From the
New Year Speech to the Muslim World
by Nonie Darwish By Western standards, military rule is shunned as an oppressive form of government, but in the Islamic world it is the only buffer of protection from the […]
Prince Charles and Islam’s “Sacred Spirituality”
by Hugh Fitzgerald On December 13th, at Wilton Park, the Prince of Wales explained how the Muslim critique of materialism helped him to rediscover the sacred spirituality of Islam and […]
Like a Candle In Berlin
by Theodore Dalrymple A moment used to be defined as the amount of time between a Mexico City traffic light turning green and the sound of the first car horn, […]
Istanbul attack: 35 killed as gunmen ‘dressed as Santa’ opens fire at nightclub in Turkey
This is Reuters and
EXCLUSIVE PICS: London on Terror Lockdown for New Year’s Eve
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Phares: "UN attention needs to focus on global Mideast crises not just one"
Mideast Newswire Photo archive: Dr Walid Phares attending as an observer a session at the UN Security Council consecrated to the fate of minorities in the Middle East after […]
Democrats Have a Religion Problem, Or, Great Moments in Editing
He once drafted a faith-outreach fact sheet describing Obama’s views on poverty, titling it “Economic Fairness and the Least of These,” a reference to a famous teaching from Jesus in […]
A Letter to Our Readers and Contributors
by Rebecca Bynum As we come to the end of our eleventh year, I will be taking some time away from the arduous task of editing and laying out the […]
‘Depraved Indifference’ in the UN Security Council Resolution
The latest betrayal of Israel is potentially lethal in making Jews trespassers and criminals on their own land by Richard L. Cravatts The shameful and morally-incoherent December 23rd Resolution 2334 […]
Two suspected jihadists arrested in Madrid and weapons cache seized
From the Spanish edition of
About That Kerry Speech
by Gary Fouse It’s hard to find much logic behind lame-duck secretary of state
Congress Moving to Cut U.S. Funding to U.N. in Wake of Anti-Israel Vote
Adam Kredo writes in the first to disclose on Monday that senior Obama administration officials played a key role in ensuring the measure was passed unanimously by the U.N. Security Council. […]
