The Iconoclast
Paper Boats
by Dilip Mohapatra (March 2015) Monsoon descends and the clouds split open the gutters running parallel on both sides of the narrow village gully more>>>
Love Down the Millennia: Three Poems by Heinrich Heine
Translated from the German and edited by Thomas Ország-Land (March 2015) 1 MY BROTHER THE DREAMER Trundling across this withering landscape, I see from my stagecoach a roadside […]
The Water Wheel of Love
by Gopikrishnan Kottoor (March 2015) I want to load my boat/ with those waiting, thirsty ones/Who are left behind: And carry them by the opal pool/ of iridescent joy– Whispers […]
"We’ll Always Have Paris,” Or, Thanks Is Not Enough
by Sam Bluefarb (March 2015) “Paris is forever…” –Ernest Hemingway In this late fall of my life, Juanita and I–she, some twenty-plus years younger than me–flew to Paris. What were […]
The First Orthodontist of Secunderabad
by David P. Gontar (March 2015) I was straining at the oars of a wayward dinghy on Gandipet Lake. Meena, the exquisite queen of teens, was primping at the prow, delicately […]
Conclusions: Kosti’s Menck & Nat (Part II)
by Richard Kostelanetz (March 2015) In memory of the great American writer Benjamin de Casseres (1873-1945), who authored Mencken and Shaw (1930) Long interested in rewriting classic American literary works, […]
Crisis and Creativity in Jewish History
by Moshe Dann (March 2015) As much as the Jewish people have been defined by faith, they have been shaped by their response to tragedies. No other group of people […]
Skepticism Checks Its Coat at the Door of Science
How the new secularists and skeptics do Monsanto’s dirty work by Lorna Salzman (March 2015) Skepticism is in short supply these days even, paradoxically, as paranoia and conspiracy theories spread. […]
The Wind and the Lion – Hollywood’s Defense of Radical Islam in the Shadow of Vietnam
by Norman Berdichevsky (March 2015) Anyone viewing The Wind and the Lion on Netflix might think that it was produced today by Hamas, Hizbollah, or CAIR – the Council of […]
Relativism and Truth
by Stanislav Solomovich (March 2015) The idea that truth is a relative concept, that what is true for one person at one time in one place may not necessarily be […]
I Cry for You Argentina!
by Anónimo Argentino (March 2015) The recent shocking revelation that the late chief Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman, investigating the terrorist bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish Community Center in July […]
Virtual Hot Pots and Brain Rot
by G. Murphy Donovan (March 2015) “Science is becoming more pervasive and invasive” – Susan Greenfield Who says that peers of the realm are anachronistic? Who claims that the House […]
Did President Obama’s Violent Extremism Conference Fail?
by Jerry Gordon (March 2015) Prelude to a Conference A three-day Conference “Countering Violent Extremism” was held from February 17 to 19, 2015 sponsored by the Administration with venues at both the White […]
But Wh…Wh..What about….!?: Islam and Finding Something Else to Worry About
by Thomas Samm (March 2015) Whataboutery is a slim quiver in the bows of adolescent debaters. High on the rush of self-importance granted by the lectern, they revert to the […]
Obama’s Self-Organizing Rhetoric
by James Como (March 2015) Consider the following: The president opines that the world is not messier now than under his predecessors but just seems messier because of the amplifying […]
A Clash of Cultures at Charlie Hebdo
by Joseph S. Spoerl (March 2015) In a recent article, Cinnamon Stillwell documents the absurd lengths to which many American college professors have gone to shift blame for the Charlie […]
