The Iconoclast
Brown University Apologetic but Puzzled
by Lorna Salzman (January 2016) The administration and board of trustees of Brown University remain puzzled at charges that the university has failed to achieve an acceptable policy that maximizes racial […]
Disappointed Literary Authors
by Richard Kostelanetz (January 2016) A few years ago I drafted an inventory that, though it has profound truths worth sharing, I could not figure out how to publish appropriately. […]
The Thousandth Anniversary of the Danish Conquest of England
by Norman Berdichevsky (January 2016) One of Hans Christian Andersen’s most beloved poems and the most often cited as a popular choice for a national anthem instead of the current […]
“Let’s [NOT] Kill All the Lawyers”
by David P. Gontar (January 2016) Courtier: Sire, the peasants are revolting. Tsar: Yes, aren’t they? – Ken Solin One of the most puzzled-over lines in Shakespeare is “The first thing we […]
Mass Humanitarianism is Suicide, Not Altruism
by Lorna Salzman (January 2016) A recent reading of Richard Moore’s “Escaping the Matrix” (chapter 2), from the 2005 Cyberjournal Project, had a welcome evolutionary perspective, which is rare these […]
Diversity Is Different
by J. E. G. Dixon (January 2016) “What do you mean, Diversity is different? Of course it is. That is what the word means.” “What I mean is that Diversity […]
Culturist Immigration Policy: It’s “Who We Are”
by John K. Press (January 2016) President Obama and the United States Congress are now fighting over whether or not to restrict the Syrian refugees the President wants to bring […]
Bar Ilan Overseas-For the Freedom of Israel and the West
by Geoffrey Clarfield (January 2016) NEW YORK – “Bar-Ilan University is the only Zionist university left in Israel,” proclaimed Prof. Efraim Inbar, director of Bar-Ilan’s Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, […]
Falling Towers
by Louis René Beres (January 2016) Falling towers/ Jerusalem Athens/ Alexandria Vienna London/ Unreal (T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land) Israel must brace itself against intermittent waves of more-or-less orchestrated Palestinian terror.[1] It would first seem […]
Watchdog on Washington Corruption: an interview with Christopher Farrell of Judicial Watch
by Mike Bates with an introduction by Jerry Gordon (January 2016) On December 8, 2015, a press release about a long sought Pentagon email sent to Secretary of State Hillary […]
Apostasy, Human Rights, Religion and Belief
by Ibn Warraq (January 2016) The very notion of apostasy has vanished from the West where one would talk of being a lapsed Catholic or non-practising Christian rather than an […]
Hillary & Evita and their Respective Banana Republics
by Norman Berdichevsky (January 2016) As First Lady of Argentina from 1945 to 1952, Eva Perón was generally regarded as the most powerful woman in the world and referred to […]
The ISIS Chemical Biological Threat to the West: a discussion with Dr. Jill Bellamy
by Jerry Gordon, Lisa Benson and Richard Cutting (January 2016) The Islamic State (IS) terrorism’s long arm reaches out from its self-declared Caliphate in Raqqa, Syria. It broke like a thunderclap in […]
Wisdom of Crowds Redux
by G. Murphy Donovan (January 2016) If you cannot appreciate the “wisdom of crowds,” you will never understand American democracy or the Trump phenomenon. Trial by fire builds character […]
The Treason of the Clerks
by Fergus Downie (January 2016) The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were […]
Looking For Orwell and Finding Gaudí
by Samuel Hux (January 2016) Passing through Barcelona years ago, during the waning time of the Franco regime, and knowing I would have twelve hours in my favorite of all […]
