Translated from the Hungarian & Edited

by Thomas Ország-Land (October 2016)

György Faludy (1910-2006), a Jewish-Hungarian humanist, was a towering figure of 20^th century European literature and a dominant voice of the anti-Soviet and anti-Nazi resistance. His work in English translation is just beginning to take its rightful place in the bookshops, lecture halls and libraries of the West.  more>>>

by David Solway (October 2016)

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue

                                                                   Psalm 120

Slander is like a missile

that smites from afar.

When it is spoken in Mecca

it kills in New York  more>>>

by Dilip Mohapatra (October 2016)

Poised at the centre of singularity

at the doorway to the bottomless

black hole  more>>>

A Poem in Six Movements

by Evelyn Hooven (October 2016)

          I

Sunlight through the picture doors.

Coffee, a spoon gleams

Against porcelain—  more>>>

by Michael Curtis (October 2016)

The Choice of the Jews under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance
Adam Rayski
University of Notre Dame Press, 2015

The actions of Jews during World War II and the years of Nazi control of or influence in European countries has given rise to a copious and controversial literature on the general subject in both French and English, and also on the fate of Jews in Vichy France.  more>>>

by Richard Kostelanetz (October 2016)

“Black Lives Matter” is a misnomer, because the real purpose for those parading that slogan is holding police officers, usually Caucasian, responsible for killing black men disobeying the law. Cops don’t go to work planning to shoot some one; they are provoked. Remember that cops don’t even want to draw their guns, if only because they later must write a report explaining why.  more>>>

by Lorna Salzman (October 2016)

A respected historian and scholar, Amadeus Nihilis, has concluded after years of research that the Judeo-Christian god bears ultimate and full responsibility for the institution of slavery in the United States.  more>>>

by Joe Bissonnette (October 2016)

Cars, single family suburban homes and churches are the physical expressions of much of what is great about America.  more>>>

by G. Murphy Donovan (October 2016)

“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra

I had dinner the other day with a family that was about to launch their son towards college. As the evening drew to a close, their first born asked me if I had any words of wisdom about school to share as he left home for the first time.  more>>>

by A. Human Being (October 2016)

Muhammad’s encounter in the Cave of Hira is exceptional in Islam, because it is in this experience that Muhammad first received revelation from Allah, through the intermediary of the Archangel Gabriel. This encounter, therefore, is understood as the pivotal human event of Allah communicating the Islamic message to all mankind through the agency of Muhammad.  more>>>

a demi-Rant

by James Como (October 2016)

Whether good or bad, socio-cultural entropy has neither an end nor a beginning, and for it there is always a price to pay (i.e. the Civil War brings a substantially botched Reconstruction, the fall of Communism brings the Russian plutocracy and Putin).  more>>>

by Paul Austin Murphy (October 2016)

Let the UK Independent introduce us to contemporary conspiracy theories. Nick Harding writes: 

“The number of people who believe conspiracy theories is staggering. According to various recent surveys, a third of Brits believe Princess Diana was murdered (a Daily Mail survey), a quarter believe the moon landings were faked (from Engineering and Technology magazine), nearly half of all Americans do not believe global warming is man-made (a Yale University survey) and 84 per cent of them believe 9/11 was an inside job (a New York Times/CBS poll).”

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by Joe Bissonnette (October 2016)

Among animals there are predators and prey. The first seeks and the other eludes. Obviously prey should try to make themselves as inconspicuous as possible so as to avoid the attention of predators, and yet prey often form into large groups which are easily detected.  more>>>

by Jerry Gordon (October 2016)

George Soros

The UN General Assembly held a two day Summit on Refugees, September 19^th & 20th^, 2016. President Obama was busy trying to respond to terrorist incidents in Minnesota, New Jersey and New York that occurred  on Saturday, September 17, 2016.  more>>>

by Mirza Ismail (October 2016)

Ladies and Gentlemen

Good morning. My name is Mirza Ismail. I am a Yazidi. I was born and raised in what is now called Iraq. But you and I know that the land of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers has only been called Iraq during the last one hundred years. Before that it was once called Mesopotamia, Assyria, or Babylonia, or Chaldea, or Akkad or in the earliest of times, Sumeria.  more>>>

by David P. Gontar (September 2016)

Consider the following academic argument.

Premise 1:   

It didn’t require an advanced education to produce the Shakespearean corpus.

Premise 2:

Anyone venturing an opinion about “Shakespeare’s” identity must hold a Ph.D. in English literature.

Premise 3:

All Ph.D.’s affirm Premise 1.

Conclusion:

“Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare.”  [This is a recording.]  more>>>

by David P. Gontar (October 2016)

[An extended version of this interview first appeared in NER in 2012. In light of the current discussion of Islamophobia and Mrs. Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” the discussion is timely and is re-presented in abbreviated form.]
 

Hyde Park in the Windy City is one of the most dangerous places in America. The University of Chicago’s Department of Safety and Security warns pedestrians about its risks on their website.  more>>>

by Norman Berdichevsky (October 2016)

Frequent reference has been made in the current presidential campaign to Donald Trump as almost uniquely lacking experience in the political arena and not formerly having held elective public office. Comparisons are drawn with the last non-politician to run for the presidency, General Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952.  more>>>

by Jerry Gordon and David J. Baldovin[1] (October 2016)

On September 9, 2016, the American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC) presented a first in a projected series of presentations at Vanderbilt University. The event was hosted by the Vanderbilt Muslim Student Association chapter.  more>>>

by Alexander Murinson (October 2016)

Despite numerous denials that Obama administration had wide-ranging dealings with the Muslim Brotherhood, it was indeed this administration with Hillary Clinton as its Secretary of the State Department which expanded a network of relationships with the Islamists. Donald Trump, by clearly identifying Radical Islam as America’s chief enemy, brings clarity into this debate.  more>>>

by Jerry Gordon and Agent X (October 2016)

New Jersey Terrorist Bomber and Manhattan Bombing Site

In the wake of the shootout and apprehension by Linden, New Jersey police on September 19, 2016 of New York/ New Jersey terrorist bomber, Afghan émigré Ahmad Khan Rahami, questions arose as to why DHS and the FBI hadn’t connected the dots identifying him as a potential terrorist? After all he had traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan four times between 2005 and 2014, where he sojourned for a year.  more>>>

Non-Binary Humans: The TransHuman

by Cynicus Americanus (October 2016)

A Mirabilary

Signs And Wonders of The Devolution Of Man And The Decline Of Western Civilization In The Time Of Obama In The Age Of the Gnostics In A Republic of Dunces, A Federation of Twits, An Accommodation Of DumbAsses.  more>>>

by Alexander Zubatov (October 2016)

Johann Gottfried von Herder is not exactly a household name, and many of the few who know him may think of him chiefly as the eighteenth century philosopher who originated the nationalist conception of “the Volk” that the Nazis ran with and turned into their notion of Aryan racial purity.  more>>>

by Louis René Beres (October 2016)

Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin receiving the Nobel Peace Prize following the Oslo Accords

If anyone had thought that the core premises of Oslo might still be valid, and that there was still room for a meaningful "Two-State Solution," Mahmoud Abbas recently offered a sobering response.  more>>>

by Conrad Black (October 2016)

President Barack Obama, in his address to the annual opening session of the United Nations General Assembly, said that it would be desirable for the Israelis not to develop Palestinian land (settlements) and for the Palestinians to accept the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state. This is true, but also a truism.  more>>>