The Iconoclast
A Poem of the Barricades Refuses to Die
by Thomas Ország-Land (October 2015) One heady afternoon during the Hungarian Revolution of October-November 1956, I attended an editorial conference of The Independent (A Magyar Függetlenség), the flagship daily of the […]
Off Key
by James Como (October 2015) I could charm and speak compellingly, and I did. I was athletic and so moved gracefully. I was smart and could write fluently, cogently, so […]
Wilders’ PVV Vaults to Top Party in Latest Dutch Public TV Poll
France’s Marine Le Pen of National Front and Geert Wilders of Dutch Freedom Party (PVV) Source: Twitter/geertwilderspvv The great wave of largely Muslim immigration flooding the EU and the Netherlands […]
Nurturing a Wish for Things, Fondly
by Bibhu Padhi (October 2015) This time there are no excuses for not being what you promised to be. more>>>
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 […]
