The Iconoclast
Survivors
by Dilip Mohapatra (August 2016) The serpentine candle march slithers along the streets near Jantar Mantar with pent up emotions more>>>
The Dare
by David P. Gontar (August 2016) Storming over the steep crest we bounded, a pack of slick, scorched faces charging the crazed foe, more>>>
The Extreme Verge
by Evelyn Hooven (August 2016) “You are now within a foot of th’ extreme verge. . . .” (King Lear, iv, vi) Karl Jaspers on “boundary situations” (Grenzsituationen): “Death, […]
The Illumination of Waraka
by A. Human Being (August 2016) Ali Wheatley of Arkham’s Miskatonic University translated the following manuscript, which was discovered in the remains of the library of King Harshavardhana in Kanauj, […]
The Hotel of Other-Worldly Delights
by James LePore (August 2016) I wasn’t on the side of the road long before a car pulled up behind me and a very pretty young man came over and […]
Emeritus
a jeu d’sprit by James Como (August 2016) Students – thousands – could no longer stand him, and so they had poisoned his vocation (for that is what teaching had […]
Poetry, Survival & The Holocaust
a review and interview with Thomas Ország-Land Making the Impossible, Possible by Frances Spurrier (August 2016) Can poetry confront the evils of our time? Frances Spurrier, Reviews Editor of the […]
Different Literary Worlds
by Richard Kostelanetz (August 2016) Let me suggest that in America today are several literary worlds so different and distant from one another that it’s possible for someone to be […]
Shakespeare’s Enduring Conservatism
by David P. Gontar (August 2016) “Now we speak upon our cue, and our voice is imperial.” -Shakespeare I. Introduction Shakespeare doesn’t change. We do. Not too long ago, in a […]
“I’m Like, That’s Crazy”
by Mark Zaslav (August 2016) Figures of speech capture current trends in popular thought and culture. They offer a linguistic snapshot of our times, and the ideas (or lack thereof) that […]
What Americans Should Know about Brazil’s Dual Legacy of Slavery and the Monarchy
by Norman Berdichevsky (August 2016) What do most Americans know about Brazil and what should they know? – a very pertinent question in the light of much recent headline news […]
A Comprehensive Response to Anti-Israel Tourist Activism Talking Points, Part II
Behind the selective criticism: Boycott advocacy for a one-state solution by Robert Harris (August 2016) This article addresses the propagandistic talking points of tourist activism, so designed to undermine the […]
Israel’s Optimistic Outlook
by Michael Curtis (August 2016) The brilliant historian David S. Landes was perceptive about the correct attitude in life. The optimists rather than the pessimists have it, he wrote, not […]
Guilt in An Age of Jihad
by Dexter Van Zile (August 2016) In late July, a Catholic priest, Rev. Jacques Hamel, had his head cut off by jihadists in Normandy, France. The killers, who were shot […]
Closer to Allah
by Richard Butrick (August 2016) Jack Jenkins, senior religion reporter for ThinkProgress, made an important point regarding the evaluation of religions: If you try to define a religion by what […]
See Something; Say Nothing: An Interview with DHS Whistleblower, Phillip Haney
by Jerry Gordon, Lisa Benson, Richard Cutting and Jeffrey Epstein (August 2016) Recent testimony before the US Senate Judiciary Committee revealed “willful blindness” by federal law enforcement and immigration agencies to the […]
