Here are the Blogs in the NER category.
Saturday, 31 December 2011
Thoughts on American Exceptionality
by Mark Anthony Signorelli (January 2012)
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
– Edmund Burke, Reflections
In 1880, at the ceremonies surrounding the unveiling of a monument to Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky delivered a speech on the greatness of the poet. This greatness
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Posted on 12/31/2011 12:22 PM by NER
Saturday, 31 December 2011
The Fate of the Roman Cities of the Near East and North Africa
by Emmet Scott (January 2012)
The great Roman cities of the Middle East and North Africa some of the most iconic archaeological sites on earth. There are literally hundreds of them, in various states of preservation. In most cases the pillars of temples and public buildings still stand, like the
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Posted on 12/31/2011 12:17 PM by NER
Saturday, 31 December 2011
Forgiveness Is a Kind of Wild Justice
by Theodore Dalrymple (January 2012)
Recently I was asked at a public discussion of crime and punishment at which I was a speaker whether I thought it was right that the government (in Britain) had made it illegal for an employer to ask a prospective employee whether he had a criminal record and,
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Posted on 12/31/2011 12:14 PM by NER
Friday, 30 December 2011
Norman Berdichevsky on Paul Revere Radio show
Listen to the podcast here.
Today we hear the terms Left Wing and Right Wing thrown around with abandon. Very few of us truly understand the history of these terms.
Tonight we will speak with Dr Norman Berdichevsky about the history of "right wing" vs. "left wing" political
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Posted on 12/30/2011 6:10 AM by NER
Sunday, 18 December 2011
Mohammed & Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy Available on Kindle Now
New English Review Press is pleased to announce the publication of our fourth book, Mohammed & Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy by Emmet Scott. Although the print version won't be ready until next month, we have released the Kindle version in time for Christmas.
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Posted on 12/18/2011 4:54 AM by NER
Friday, 16 December 2011
What's Love Got To Do With It? - Now in Paperback
Composer/conductor David Amram writes:
"Thomas Scheff's new book, What's Love Got To Do With It, successfully addresses the seemingly impossible task of analyzing the lyrics selected from decades of American popular music as way to show the reader the cultural and social ramifications
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Posted on 12/16/2011 5:44 AM by NER
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
An Advent Tale, Or, Christmas Miracles Do Happen
by John M. Joyce (December 2011)
Peter Mark Lignarius was a woodworker in my Parish, more precisely he was the woodworker in my Parish. He was a late thirty-something, tall and handsome woodworker with gray-green eyes and a head of curly dark brown hair. A plain gold wedding band graced his digitus
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Posted on 12/06/2011 1:59 PM by NER
Friday, 2 December 2011
A Muslim Apostate Defends the West: An Interview with Ibn Warraq
by Jerry Gordon (December 2011)
Ibn Warraq, a leading apostate from Islam, author of numerous critical works on the subject, is best described as a skeptic. Born a Muslim in India at the dawn of the partition of the British Raj into the modern nations of India and Pakistan, his family like millions
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Posted on 12/02/2011 8:18 AM by NER
Friday, 2 December 2011
Discriminate Thinker Reviews Berdichevsky's The Left is Seldom Right
The Discriminate Thinker writes:
It is undeniable that the Left is a great success in the United States and throughout Europe: from rebelling boomers who instigated the age of Aquarius to today's teenagers who wear Che Guevara tee-shirts, a large number of people identify themselves with the Left
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Posted on 12/02/2011 6:00 AM by NER
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
I Want to Celebrate Winter
by David Asia (December 2011)
I want to celebrate winter,
Celebrate the cold
Laying like iron
On the land,
To wrap myself in colored layers
Of cotton, fleece, and wool, more>>>
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Posted on 11/30/2011 4:14 PM by NER
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
The Jolly Joker of Jerusalem
by Thomas Ország-Land (December 2011)
First things first when
the holy books burst
and lime pits are planned
in this thirsty, troubled
land of passion
and beauty and flavour,
and the mind is mined
for the Cruising craze
and the neighbours pray more>>>
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Posted on 11/30/2011 4:11 PM by NER
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Two Poems
by Martin Burke (December 2011)
WATCHING ICARUS FALL
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Verse is what it is and is what you are
The world a proposition you cannot avoid more>>>
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Posted on 11/30/2011 4:05 PM by NER
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Who Do You Like the Best of Us?
by Mary Jackson (December 2011)
It is a measure of Islam’s intrusiveness that, in the midst of some very English and very enjoyable pursuit, I am pulled up short by the thought of how un-Islamic it is. Where two or three are gathered in the name of pleasure or profit, the Prophet, Peace Be
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Posted on 11/30/2011 4:02 PM by NER
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
The Conservative Idea of Architecture: Conservation and Restoration
by David Hamilton (December 2011)
Progressives assume that I am opposed to change. I am not: I suggest change should grow out of what has developed through time not spring out of the blue, as it were, like incongruous eruptions ruining the ambience of whole areas. “You can not turn the clock
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Posted on 11/30/2011 3:56 PM by NER
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
The Niqab and the Kneecap
by Esmerelda Weatherwax (December 2011)
The woman in the niqab, burka, yashmak or whatever you want to call a veil that covers the face is a very common sight around east London. I am not the only one who has written at this site on the way being unable to see the face cuts such women off from the
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Posted on 11/30/2011 3:51 PM by NER
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Shakespeare’s Snobs
by David P. Gontar (December 2011)
I. The Issue
As the idea of snobbery often arises in contentions over Shakespeare, it may be well to pause to take stock of precisely what it is. The entry in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language is helpful and illuminating.
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Posted on 11/30/2011 3:46 PM by NER
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Reviewage: The Culture of Online Opinions
by G. Kim Blank (December 2011)
“pfft, she actually made the students teach the class, she's not a human, she's a bat who lives in her office.” So writes an anonymous university student reviewing her Humanities professor. “Good movie. It was emotional and entertaining.
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Posted on 11/30/2011 3:40 PM by NER
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
The Yemenites
Part 1 of Israel’s Diverse “Oriental Jewish Communities”
by Norman Berdichevsky (December 2011)
A central tenet of Zionism is that Jews share a common heritage and destiny. Nevertheless, the reality of Jewish society in the state of Israel is marked by four prominent social and
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Posted on 11/30/2011 3:31 PM by NER
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
In the Court of the Tsadik
by Geoffrey Clarfield (December 2011)
"Geoffrey, it's Shlomo. Meet me at Bathurst and Eglinton in thirty minutes. We're going to play for the Sufis!"
This was not the first time I had received what I used to call "the call." I do not mean Max Weber's theory of the
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Posted on 11/30/2011 3:24 PM by NER
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Casablanca: The Bogart-Hemingway Nexus
--With a brief digression on the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League
by Sam Bluefarb (December 2011)
“We’ll always have Casablanca. . .” In 2004, an American woman, Kathy Kriger, a former diplomat, posted to Morocco, opened up the first “Rick’s Café Casablanca.”
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Posted on 11/30/2011 3:20 PM by NER
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
The Bee and the Lamb
(Part 2)
by Takuan Seiyo (December 2011)
A societal prescription of living a saintly life in the Jesus mode welcomes the looting of everything the West has and is by the great masses of the Third World with two feet already in the door. It cannot fend off global jihad, North Korea or China. It
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Posted on 11/30/2011 3:09 PM by NER
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Will Israel Win the Energy Prize in the Levant Basin?
by Jerry Gordon (December 2011)
In the Middle East, the world’s attention has been diverted by the threat of Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the turmoil of the Arab Spring turning into winter in the Arab Muslim heartland. However, another conflict is rapidly emerging over development
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Posted on 11/30/2011 2:57 PM by NER
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Why the West is Best
by Rebecca Bynum (December 2011)
Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy
By Ibn Warraq
Encounter Books, 2011
286 pp.
Ibn Warraq’s latest book may be best viewed as a follow up to his excellent 2007 critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism, entitled
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Posted on 11/30/2011 2:50 PM by NER
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Collectivist Dreams
The Russian Soul - A Turbulent Priest - Marx and Engels - Insouciance and Despair
by David Wemyss (December 2011)
In Tolstoy’s short story “The Three Hermits”, a Russian Orthodox bishop hears rumours about three old hermits on an island. He goes to visit them. His ship drops
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Posted on 11/30/2011 2:45 PM by NER
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
God and King in Sumeria
by Mark Anthony Signorelli (December 2011)
No longer did they sacrifice the court retinue upon the death of a king. That such practices occurred among the Sumerians we know as a result of the discovery of the famous Royal Tombs at Ur; several burial chambers there revealed an arrangement of human
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Posted on 11/30/2011 2:40 PM by NER
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