The Iconoclast
Bone Yards
by Gopikrishnan Kottoor (October 2015) You must give birth to my love After all this. Not a demand, Just a feeling, that you must. more>>>
The Last Wish
by Sutapa Chaudhuri (October 2015) Promise me the monsoons When the summer-heat swelters In a pitch-melting afternoon more>>>
The Sparrow
by David Solway (October 2015) And again with their wings against your windows… Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, “Rima LIII,” Book of the Sparrows It sat on the edge of the […]
The Man From The Airplane
A Dramatic Monologue by Evelyn Hooven (October 2015) An impersonal airport hotel on the outskirts of a major city in the Caribbean. It is after a severe storm that […]
Mauritz ’Come Muhayissa
by A. Human Being (October 2015) October 14, 2014: Baghdad, Iraq “One should not mix curses with prayers, lest, as they drift heavenward, one forgets which is which,” the Iraqi police […]
The Obama Doctrine Explained
by Dr. Yasser Dasmabebi (October 2015) September 8, 2015 – Headline – Washington Post: Turkish Jets Strike Kurdish Rebels in Iraq Turkey, America’s NATO ally whom America is treaty-bound to support […]
What If It Doesn’t Work Out Like That?
a review by Mark Gullick (October 2015) No stronger retrograde force [than Islam] exists in the world. – Winston Churchill, The River War Islam is a religion of peace. – […]
End Antisemitism in Football
by Michael Curtis (October 2015) Antisemitism is a foul disease seemingly incurable, whose virus makes those infected lack any moral sensibility or civilized behavior. Hatred of Jews, the most global […]
Intuition, Belief and Lostness
by Ankur Betageri (October 2015) A fact that never ceases to amaze me is how some of the most celebrated religious texts of the world, which claim to be the […]
Resolved: Science Has Made God Redundant
by James Como (October 2015) As I write I am invited to speak at the Belfast C. S. Lewis Festival in November. The gig may yet fall through, but if […]
Chapman, Our Chapman!
by David P. Gontar (October 2015) Jonathan Bate is apparently not doing too well these days. Provost at Worcester College, Professor of English Literature at Oxford University, and co-editor with Eric […]
The Unintended Consequences of Specific Policies in the Middle East
by Samir Yousif (October 2015) Introduction The complexities of the political and the mutually-interrelated indigenous forces of the Middle East necessitate a multi-disciplinary approach. There are many interest groups, ethnic […]
State Sovereignty, Human Rights and the Responsibility to Protect
by Lorna Salzman (October 2015) I hate getting articles on the issue of state sovereignty, such as one from The Bruges Group a few years ago urging the UK to […]
Can States Prevent Release of Iran Sanctions through Federal Litigation?
by Jerry Gordon (October 2015) President Obama achieved what ultimately could become a Pyrrhic victory when Senate minority Democrats blocked two resolutions offered by the Senate Republican Majority. They rejected […]
At Bitburg: The SS, Reagan. . . und Ich
by Samuel Hux (October 2015) Günter Grass’s death in April 2015 (as I observed my birthday) reminds me that in June 1984 I drove from Normandy to Brittany in order […]
There Are No Flies On Us
by Theodore Dalrymple (October 2015) Good will is necessary but not sufficient: a painful lesson in life and one that has often to be relearned because it is so easily and […]
