The Iconoclast
The Merchant of Scarsdale
by David P. Gontar (February 2016) There was once a successful financier of Scarsdale who had accumulated a sizable fortune in the commodities market. As his health was good and […]
The University Talk that Cost Ali Wheatley His Career
by A. Human Being (February 2016) September 13, 2013: Arkham, Massachusetts, USA If Western scholars must bury the fact that Muhammad was a mass-murderer, then something is deeply wrong with […]
The Faces of Love
by Sam Bluefarb (February 2015) “There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the face of doom, which invariably compels human beings to linger around […]
Glimpsing a Revolution through the Chinks of the Text: Deconstructing Mrichchhakatika
by Ankur Betageri (February 2016) Poverty and the effect it has on the psyche of man is a central theme in Shudraka’s play Mrichchhakatika. Poverty forces the characters to […]
Thornton Wilder: Two Laments
by James Como (February 2016) These days the American reading and theatre-going public pays little attention to Thornton Wilder, and that sporadically at best, as when David Cromer’s marvelous production […]
The Making of Anti-Muslim Protest – Grassroots Activism in the English Defence League
by Esmerelda Weatherwax (February 2016)
Bernard Kops, Poetry & Peril
Peace Will Come, Anne Frank Insists, You Will See by Thomas Ország-Land (February 2016) Bernard Kops, the doyen of Anglo-Jewish letters, has responded to a global resurgence of violent anti-Semitism […]
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise
by Norman Berdichevsky (February 2016)
“Thank you Donald”
by Lorna Salzman (February 2016) TO: Donald Trump FROM: Pres. Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee SUBJECT: in appreciation for your racist rants Dear Donald: We are really […]
Attila the Hen
by G. Murphy Donovan (February 2016) “If I hadn’t started painting, I would have raised chickens.” – Grandma Moses It all began as a bit of an experiment. Three neighbors […]
Reconsidering Literary Blacklisting
by Richard Kostelanetz (February 2016) Allan H. Ryskind’s
Boko Haram burns kids alive in northeast Nigeria: witness
Reuters reporter said after counting bodies at a hospital morgue. A Nigerian military spokesman, Colonel Mustapha Ankas, said that Boko Haram militants attacked the community of Dalori, about 5 km (3 […]
Russian Intervention in Middle East Conflicts
a discussion with Dan Diker and Shoshana Bryen by Jerry Gordon and Mike Bates (February 2016) In the waning months of the Obama Administration, its lack of effective leadership in […]
The Genius of the Multilingual Swiss and Their Confederal Republic (CH)
by Norman Berdichevsky (February 2016) Switzerland represents a remarkable set of opposite circumstances. It is a country with diverse peoples, languages and religions. Yet it has united all its citizens […]
Outgrowing the Past
by Bradford Tuckfield (February 2016) I recently read an interview with a musician I admire who described a time in his youth when he had been a devout Christian. He […]
Patriotism Is Not an Optional Extra
by Robert Henderson (February 2016) 1. What is patriotism? By patriotism I mean the sense of belonging to a people, of owning a land, of instinctively favouring your own country’s men […]
