The Iconoclast
Dog Day Afternoon
by Theodore Dalrymple (June 2016) Most days a dog called Alfie walks past our house (with his master, of course), and I have to resist the mad impulse to rush […]
Why Johnny Still Can’t Write
by Samuel Hux (June 2016) It is a common lament that most American college students don’t write very well. (It was a common lament fifty years ago—but believe me, it didn’t […]
Brown University Around 1960
by Richard Kostelanetz (June 2016) When two book-length memoirs of Yale University around 1960 arrived, I naturally recalled my experience around that time at another Ivy League university situated between […]
Brexit to Brentrance: Why Britain Should Switch Membership from the EU for the EEU
by James Buckham (June 2016) 2018: The world’s press gather in London to watch Prime Minister Boris Johnson ratify the United Kingdom’s membership of the Eurasian Economic Union. Addressing Tigran Sargsyan, […]
Israel at 68 – Growth, Progress, Prosperity and Defiance
by Norman Berdichevsky (June 2016) The 68th anniversary celebrations of Israel’s independence were emotional and impressive for all those like myself who first visited Israel more than 50 years ago […]
Lies and Jew hatred in east London; What The Schoolgirl Represents And Why Her Lies Must Be Met With Truth
There is a well regarded philanthropist in east London and Essex named Jack Petchey. He’s 90, was born into a huge poor family in the east End, made some money […]
Mahometanism, Ahmadi Islam and the Third Way
by Richard Butrick (June 2016) Jefferson, Adams and many commentators of their time referred to the Sunni/Shia version of Islam as Mahometanism and their followers as Mahometans. In today’s parlance […]
Convenience Conversions and an Inconvenient Truth
by Hugh Fitzgerald (June 2016) Prisoners at Kariong Prison in New South Wales (Australia) have recently complained that they have been threatened by Muslim inmates with violence unless they convert […]
The Myth of the Primeval Matriarchy
by Emmet Scott (June 2016) Origin myths are of tremendous psychological importance; in many respects they inform our attitude to the world, to life and to the future. That is […]
The Shakespearean Moment
by David P. Gontar (June 2016) “my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars” — Romeo Many there are who find the Shakespearean moment in the intersection of man […]
CAIR: “Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me”
by Hugh Fitzgerald (June 2016) The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, the Hamas-linked Muslim organization which in 2007 was named as one of the unindicted co-conspirators in a case […]
Why Bernie Loses
by G. Murphy Donovan (June 2016) “The good is oft entered with their bones.” – WS, Julius Caesar Monday morning quarterbacks are like book critics, they often confuse bestsellers with […]
The Incoherence of the Obama-Clinton Foreign Policy
by Conrad Black (June 2016) It is a little disappointing that no one seems to have taken up Donald Trump’s challenge, in his foreign-policy address three weeks ago, to explain […]
Renan Revisited
by Theodore Dalrymple (June 2016) My wife and I were browsing in a bookshop at Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris recently when she called out to me ‘Here’s the […]
Katy Waldman’s Button: “Kiss me, I’m a liberal."
Katy Waldman: “If you want to become well-versed in English literature, you’re going to have to hold your nose and read a lot of white male poets. Like, a lot. […]
Up a Lazy River
Blue skies up above, everyone’s in love…
