The Iconoclast
Uyghur fighters in Syria vow to come for China next
From the Telegraph A Uyghur militant group that helped to topple Bashar-al Assad has vowed to take the fight to China. The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) threatened Beijing in a video released […]
Vatican removes nativity display featuring baby Jesus lying on keffiyeh
From the Jewish Chronicle and the Catholic Herald Following a flurry of controversy, the Vatican has removed a nativity decoration that included a baby Jesus atop a black-and-white keffiyeh, a symbol linked […]
Axel Rudakubana’s next court appearance over Southport stabbings postponed
Axel Rudakubana the Muslim convert who is charged with the murder of 3 small girls, attempted murder of 8 more small girls and terrorism offences including production of ricin poison […]
Maria Callas: The Opera
By Phyllis Chesler Angelina Jolie’s “Maria,” and the real deal Last night I watched Jolie play Maria. The film was as much a pathography as Terence McNally’s play “Master Class” […]
First they came for the…
By Nikos Akritas Turkey’s rebel-backed intervention in Syria is not surprising. Not only has Erdogan been laying the groundwork for some time, Turkey’s long-term interests when it comes to the […]
The Evaporation of the Obama Mystique
By Victor Davis Hanson Barack Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Biden nomination—and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent lost Biden administration years. […]
Dorothy Parker in Hollywood: The Politics of Privilege
By Bruce Bawer At least among those increasingly rare souls who actually recognize the names of dead writers, Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) is probably most famous these days for having sat […]
Are Kurds under threat amid civil war resurgence in Syria?
Posted by Geoffrey Clarfield, from Defence of Democracies Over the past several days, a group called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has carried out a lightning-fast offensive, pushing the Syrian regime out of […]
Netanyahu: Under Fire and on Trial
By Roger L Simon People used to talk about how Bill Clinton was able to “compartmentalize,” go on with his presidential decision-making, during the highly-embarrassing Monica Lewinsky episode. But that was […]
Bidding Adieu to a Pioneering Poet of Racial Grievance
By Bruce Bawer I first encountered Nikki Giovanni, who died on Monday at the age of 81, in the pages of the 1973 edition of the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. It was […]
Collapse of Syria final death knell of 1919 attempts by Allies to build nations
By Conrad Black Whatever else it may be, the collapse of the Assad government in Syria must rank as the final unflattering death knell of the attempts at nation-building by […]
Sports inequity
By Theodore Dalrymple he following statement is to be found in an article in Scientific American about mankind’s prehistory and the assumption that men were hunters whilst women were gatherers: Inequity between […]
East London: School asks pupils to ‘fast’ for Gaza
From the Telegraph A London secondary school where more than half of pupils are eligible for free school meals has asked children to “fast for Gaza” on Friday. Staff and […]
Homosexuality and the Future of the US
By Paul Cameron The second of two large 2023 federal surveys of youth sexuality was released on November 13th. If what the student respondents claimed corresponds closely to their sexual […]
Could Setbacks in Iran Lead to the Eviction of the Ayatollahs and Their Repressive Regime?
By Conrad Black It is clear that Iran is rushing toward the most advanced stage of nuclear military capability it can achieve in the seven weeks before the second inauguration […]
The Clock Strikes Thirteen
And the Establishment gets washed away by a preference cascade. But it was a damn close-run thing. By Glenn Harlan Reynolds What happened? It’s like a spell broke. Since November’s […]
