The Iconoclast

Listening to and recent speech about Islamic extremism in Britain, I realized why I could never be a practicing politician. Its mixture of good sense, half-truths, evasions, political correctness, and […]

From Anjem Choudary says “Without any proof the UK regime & papers try to criminalise Muslims” I reckon he is trying to justify the fact that he and his family are […]

Translated from the Hungarian & edited by Thomas Ország-Land (August 2015)   1. FLAMES FLUTTERING…   Small flames are fluttering and slowly and forever dying – along the bright meridians, […]

by Dilip Mohapatra (August 2015) The eyes that we see and the eyes that see us in pairs are not simple windows to our mind to let the light in […]

by Sutapa Chaudhuri (August 2015) The upturned blank eyes of the street children, like little dried up pools thirsty for a drop of love, mirror the wrath of the loveless […]

by Bibhu Padhi (August 2015) The mind likes to wander among younger things. It hasn’t grown old over thinking things thrown all over time and space, like seeds.  more>>>

by David Solway (August 2015)   Best off-tackle rusher in the history of the Conference, he’s come to receive the chronicled prize of the hero at home in his heavy-traffic […]

by William Ruleman (August 2015) (Breitenberg, Neuweiler-Hofstett, Germany; 30 September 2010)   The distant tractors lull us with their drone. A quilt of brown and green adorns the slopes. Across […]

by James Como (August 2015) He found the angel Raphael standing before him, though he did not know that this was an angel of God. – The Book of Tobit, […]

by Richard Kostelanetz (August 2015) Reading about the “outing” of the chief of the Spokane NAACP, who was induced to resign because her parents told the world that she was […]

by Shai Afsai (August 2015) Catch the Jew! By Tuvia Tenenbom Gefen Publishing House, 2015, 467pp.       Near the end of Catch the Jew! Tuvia Tenenbom repeats a […]

by Mark Gullick (August 2015) Student occupations, like the poor, will be always with us. There was one at my own university in the 1980s, protesting a slight increase in […]

by Norman Berdichevsky (August 2015)   In his only authentic and original contribution to Marxist theory, Stalin wrote an essay in 1913 that won the praise of Lenin and made […]

by Fergus Downie (August 2015)   There has always been a bittersweet flavour to the adage that Scotland’s greatest export is its people, for if it permits scots to hold […]

by Richard Kostelanetz (August 2015) Rereading Ilan Stavans’

by Geoffrey Clarfield (August 2015)   In The Crypt of Ferdinand and Isabella In 1492, the army of Ferdinand and Isabella, Catholic Kings of a united Christian Spain, defeated the […]