What my fascination with Aileen Wuornos taught me about the strange relationship between violent offenders and their many fans. by Phyllis Chesler Ted Bundy I once befriended a serial killer—but I was not your typical fan. Like the late, great, Ann Rule, who wrote about Ted Bundy, I was, ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler Lisa Montgomery is about to be federally executed on December 8th for having committed a truly grim and heinous crime – killing a young mother and cutting her unborn baby from the womb in order to claim the child as her own. She did so in a psychotic episode. Between 1976 ...Read More...

Think about Europe's looming demise as Islamist migrants turn to terror and violence. It can happen here, in the USA. by Phyllis Chesler As Americans vote, probably only a handful are noting Europe’s demise in progress and what that might portend for America and elsewhere. The awful terrorist attacks ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler 2020 is the year in which hundreds of thousands of human beings died in a plague unleashed by Communist China and mishandled by dazed and un-informed countries everywhere.  The horrific global death toll had been a statistic, too overwhelming to process personally.  And ...Read More...

What does a be-heading mean? It is an act meant to terrorize, paralyze, and silence onlookers and a signature form of Islamic murder.  by Phyllis Chesler We all know that truth has died and hate speech has triumphed in the West—and both in the name of free speech; that writers, the media, ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler In 2017, Bruce Gilley’s work on colonialism was cancelled by Taylor and Francis. Just now, in 2020, after a typically vicious social media campaign, Gilley’s work has again been cancelled by Rowman and Littlefield; his book series has also been cancelled by Lexington Books. My ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler Renovation required redecoration and gone is the dark and lovely Spanish table, gone is the round brass coffee table from Jerusalem via Greenwich Village, gone—but where?—is the caricature of myself that once I treasured. I came across an old photo of this side of the living ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler The FBI-led Dallas Violent Crimes Task Force captured Yaser Abdel Said Aug. 26, 12 years after he allegedly murdered his two teenage daughters in 2008. Yaser's son and brother, Yassein and Islam Said, were also arrested for "harboring a dangerous fugitive." Yaser Said's ...Read More...

We talked about if, whether, and when we should leave New York City.  by Phyllis Chesler We sat in their brownstone garden on a glorious fall day in New York City, surrounded by sweet birds, trees in full flower, small, clambering squirrels, greenery galore—and a table laden with iced tea, ...Read More...

We fear what may be coming but also feel passive about changing this awful scenario. by Phyllis Chesler I recently watched a documentary about the amazing British suffragists narrated by Lucy Worsley. As the government and police clamped down on their peaceful, and increasingly mass protests, ...Read More...

The fight against racisim and prejudice is the only issue given the front page in US media, but one phobia is missing somehow.  by Phyllis Chesler How the subject du jour—race—has turned into an everyday, round-the-clock issue. Will this focus turn into revolutionary, structural change ...Read More...

Ye Olde woman-specific issues are no longer academically trendy by Phyllis Chesler ‘Western governments do not (yet) execute people for their ideas but an Orwellian-style policing of ideas is taking place among academics and activists, especially on internet list serve groups.‘ — Phyllis Chesler, The ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler This is the third time in about two weeks that I’ve lost someone: Dr. Diana Russell (July 28th); Helen Freedman (August 12th); and now a younger brother, Jack, on August 14th. Jack will be buried today in Florida at a gravesite funeral which his children and his siblings, perhaps ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler  The samoyeds, Mishka and Dino, have the sweetest temperaments and the most problematic stomachs. Dino escaped down to the pebble beach and had to be found and herded back up the bluff. He’d made a friend, Enzo, from the next house over, and together they splashed in the surf ...Read More...

You do not challenge any part of this politically correct madness without risking everything. I recommend that more of us do just that by Phyllis Chesler  Perhaps contemporary ‘cancel culture’ officially began in 1989, when Khomeini issued his fatwa against Salman Rushdie for having ‘defamed’ ...Read More...