The Iconoclast
Alright Already, We Get The Picture — They Have What It Takes Every Which Way
Except, of course, in making their case and in negotiating agreements with the Arabs. But in the life-as-it-is-lived aspect, all of their advances, heralded and unheralded, in so many different […]
Swimmers On The Eisbach
by William Ruleman (June 2015) (Munich, Englischer Garten, 8 June 2014) You let yourself be swept upon Time’s swirling stream In couples, pairs, or all alone As in a […]
The Voyage
by David P. Gontar (June 2015) The three rows of tarnished gas lamps were already roaring at the dock when she arrived. Clouds of ephemeral insects twitched and chittered in the […]
Skepticism About Single-Winner Prizes
by Richard Kostelanetz (June 2015) My opinion of the practice of giving a medal to any poet over the age of ten is not high. — Northrop Frye, The Bush […]
The Sick and the Well: Playing at Life in "Daisy Miller"
by Janet Tassel (June 2015) Even after more than a century, Henry James’s 1878 story, “Daisy Miller,” retains its central problem: How to respond to Daisy, with pity or contempt? […]
Mea Culpa, Dos: A Reconsideration of John Dos Passos
by Samuel Hux (June 2015) Almost forty years ago I reviewed John Dos Passos’s last (and posthumously published) novel, Century’s Ebb, which was subtitled The Thirteenth Chronicle. In the 1950s […]
Atheism as a Value System
by Ankur Betageri (June 2015) We atheists, children of reason and science, have been judged harshly and unfairly. We have been seen as monsters and brutes: as coldblooded unemotional psychopaths […]
SoHo Zuked Again & Me Exploited
by Richard Kostelanetz (June 2015) Since Rutgers University Press has recently published a “25th Anniversary Edition” of Sharon Zukin’s Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change, I want first […]
The Oslo Abomination: Israel’s Socialist Peacemakers
by Sha’i ben-Tekoa (June 2015) One benefit of the bloody fiasco that became the Oslo Peace Process launched on the White House lawn on September 13, 1993 by President of the […]
Agitprop On The Internet
Here. The names thought up and distributed to the bloogers are imaginative: koka-kola23, green_margo and Funornotfun. That could be a party game: think up the best bloggers’ names in the […]
How One Southern California Jewish Federation Undermines Student Zionism at a State University
by Jerry Gordon (June 2015) Imagine a well-paid Jewish Federation head bullying Jewish students and faculty on a major California university campus about demonstrating support for Israel, all while currying […]
Christian Zionism: The Antidote for the World’s Oldest Hatred
by Tricia Miller (June 2015) In what was an historic, precedent-setting event, the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) sponsored a conference titled “People of the Land: A Twenty-First Century […]
Mahal – The Third International Brigade When Israel Was the Darling of the Left
by Norman Berdichevsky (June 2015) For the third time in the mid-twentieth-century, an international cohort of idealistic volunteers without thought of personal compensation, or safety formed an International Brigade in […]
A Dispatch from the New Labour Wasteland
by Henry James (June 2015) In my home town on the east coast of Scotland there was no shortage of graffiti in the run-up to last year’s referendum on independence. […]
The Ghosts of Eldorado
by Geoffrey Clarfield (June 2015) We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure. — Hernan Cortes, Spanish Conqueror of the Aztecs, 1485-1547 Once Again to […]
Trojan Horse Federal Refugee Program Brings Jihadi Threat to America: An Interview with Ann Corcoran
by Jerry Gordon and Mike Bates (June 2015) According to the Pew Research Religion and Public Life Project (Pew Research) there are an estimated 2.7 million Muslims in America. Pew […]
