The Iconoclast
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 […]
Isis warns UK attack ‘ will turn children’s hair white’
From the Mail on Sunday This is thought to refer to a doomsday prophesy in the Koran. The terror group has warned the UK will suffer ‘the lion’s share’ of […]
Conversions from Islam to Christianity
by Ibn Warraq (February 2016) In the last fifteen years, there has been a spate of books, published in the West, by Muslims who have converted to Christianity, and many […]
Counterterrorism Impasse: a discussion with Col. Richard E. Kemp (ret.) CBE and Dr. Sebastian Gorka
by Jerry Gordon, Lisa Benson and Richard Cutting (February 2016) The New Year marks the 14th year in the conflict in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan with the Taliban. Following 9/11, […]
See Something, Say Something
(About Benghazi) by G. Murphy Donovan (February 2016) Clandestine Intelligence agents meet with the press for one of three reasons: to betray, to leak in support of policy, or spin […]
Daesh Jr. Strikes a Jew in Marseille
by Nidra Poller (February 2016) Yusuf, the young Turkish-Kurd who tried to kill a Jew in Marseille recently, was a baby when the al Dura blood libel triggered the plague […]
Notes From The Lower Education: The Looters and the Looting
by Samuel Hux (February 2016) Undergrads at Amherst College post signs calling for suspension of free speech; you never know who may say something hurtful. Probably-well-fed students at Oberlin are […]
Who Can Save Us From Western Civilisation?
by Fergus Downie (February 2016) Vanity made the revolution. Liberty was only a pretext. — Napoleon For the poor, every meal is a triumph and to struggle for your daily […]
American Injustice
by Conrad Black (February 2016) Two relatively recent articles in respected publications have piercingly reminded me of what a rotting carcass much of the American legal system has become. The […]
‘Jihadi Jack’ Letts interview: Former Oxford schoolboy calls on British people to convert to Islam as he brands David Cameron an ‘evil creature’
Exclusive: Mr Letts tells transcript.
