The Iconoclast

by Hugh Fitzgerald Further down the street, there was a flurry of activity. A woman was surrounded as she opened a huge bag full of phones, shoes, sunglasses and handbags — clearly stolen from tourists or Parisians. The goods were quickly sold and the crowd melted away. Unemployed or underemployed ...Read More...

From the French edition of The Local Cherif Chekatt the gunman on the run since he killed three people at Strasbourg's popular Christmas market was shot and killed by police in the Neudorf area of the city. Police sources have told French media that Chekatt was shot dead during the operation that ...Read More...

Jamie Glazov's book shows how Jihad Denial is allowing Military Jihad, Stealth Jihad (via mass immigration), and Institutional Jihad (the takeover of institutions by Islamic supremacists) to destroy the West. No, he is not Islamophobic. by Phyllis Chesler In Andrew Roberts’ new biography of ...Read More...

by Conrad Black The sudden death of the unutterable nonsense of collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and the Russian government, announced as it was in the hand-off to the Southern New York U.S. Attorney of the shabby fruit of Michael Cohen’s plea bargaining, has divided onlookers into three ...Read More...

Section 1 Islam is not a religion or a philosophy of life but a violent, totalitarian ideology. English version here. ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald The British journalist Andrew Malone some time ago visited the Muslim enclave of Seine-Saint-Denis northeast of Paris. His report on what he rightly called a “state within a state” was hair-raising — so much so that the Daily Mail ultimately removed it after charges of “Islamophobia.” ...Read More...

On Britain’s ever-more expansive search for hate crimes by Theodore Dalrymple The Times of London recently informed us that “the number of hate offences recorded by police jumped after the terror attack by Khalid Masood at Westminster in March last year.” The paper continued by noting that ...Read More...

Is this the return of the Thought Police? by Phyllis Chesler In 1984, George Orwell wrote: “The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. When people ‘disappear’ no one is allowed to mention ...Read More...

by Michael Curtis Rudyard Kipling Fools rush in where angels fear to tread where wise men never go, but the pounding of student snowflakes has become an ocean's roar, a thousand drums, expressing an anti-colonial and anti-racist ideology, in English and in French. This precipitation, pennies ...Read More...

From the Telegraph A suspected terrorist is on the run after killing at least three people and injuring 11 more in the eastern French city of Strasbourg near its Christmas market.  Around 350 people, including police, troops and helicopters were on the heels of the attacker who had "sowed terror" ...Read More...

From the Guardian, who are being blunter than other newspapers.  French police say at least 11 others injured by gunman, who has ‘been identified’ but remains at large.  Police said the lone gunman started his attack in the city centre just before 8pm where the market, which attracts millions of ...Read More...

His probe has yet to uncover evidence of actual criminal acts by the president. by Conrad Black Robert Mueller on Capitol Hill in 2013. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) The revelations of the last few days are, though disguised, the crash in ignominy of the Robert Mueller putsch. But they are far from ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse Israeli security forces and emergency personnel work at the scene of a shooting attack, near the Israeli settlement of Ofra, in the occupied West Bank, Dec. 9, 2018. On Sunday, seven Israelis were shot and wounded  as they waited at a bus stop near the West Bank settlement of Ofra. ...Read More...

Published today! #1 new release in existentialist philosophy. Fantastic audiobook version coming soon! ...Read More...

by Michael Curtis Few people will have read the whole 1500 pages of Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables, but millions have seen the  stage and film adaptations of the novel, illustrating, as the author said, progress from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsehood to truth. Inherent ...Read More...