The Iconoclast
Lines Composed in Meadows Near the Black Forest
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 […]
Heaven Knows
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, […]
“Invisible” White Man
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 […]
Besieged by Hate
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 […]
A Tiresome Occupation: Cleansing the Syllabus
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 […]
Marxism’s Opportunistic Interpretation of the National Question
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 […]
Scottish Nationalism – The Rancour of the Meek
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 […]
Invisible Sephardim
by Richard Kostelanetz (August 2015) Rereading Ilan Stavans’
Across the Borderline with Rabbi Stephen Leon
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 […]
Will Erdogan’s Turkey Frustrate Kurdish Recognition in the War Against ISIS?
by Jerry Gordon (August 2015) A series of suicide bombings in Suruc, Turkey July 20, 2015 triggered a major change in the Erdogan AKP participation in the US-led coalition effort […]
Reform Islam? Recognize Kurdistan!
by G. Murphy Donovan (August 2015) Nations create illusions for the same reasons that men pursue fantasy. Reality is often so ugly that wishful thinking becomes a defense mechanism. […]
How Best to Overturn the Iran Nuclear Pact
by Jerry Gordon (August 2015) July 28th, Secretary Kerry was asked at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing by Wisconsin, Rep. Reid Ribble (R-WI) why the Iran nuclear deal […]
Peace Processing Iran
by Nidra Poller (August 2015) The principle is similar: faced with an enemy that repeatedly declares its genocidal hatred, acts on it wherever possible, constantly strives to improve its ways […]
The Iran Nuclear Deal: A Pandora’s Box
an interview with Omri Ceren and Shoshana Bryen by Jerry Gordon and Mike Bates (August 2015) Tuesday morning, July 14, 2015, the P5+1 announced in Vienna, Austria the culmination of […]
The Iran Deal: What You Need to Know and Aren’t Being Told
by Joseph S. Spoerl (August 2015) Iran and the negotiations surrounding its nuclear program are in the news a lot lately, but much of the reporting remains quite superficial, […]
The Return of the Silent Majority
by Rebecca Bynum (August 2015) On Nov. 3, 1969, President Richard M. Nixon first called on the “silent majority of Americans” to support him and his plan for “peace with […]
