February 2018

Portrait of a Man with a Newspaper, André Derain, 1911-14
 

Butterfly Mind
THEODORE DALRYMPLE

Boredom Eats the Soul
KENNETH FRANCIS

WTF! Swearing and the Development of Human Language
C. R. HALLPIKE

Sticky Labels
ROBERT GEAR

Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina: Pope Francis and the Caring Society
SAMUEL HUX

Rebuttal to Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina
DAVID J. THEROUX

The Left’s Puritan Theater
CHRISTOPHER DEGROOT

It’s the Person, Stupid!
FRIEDRICH HANSEN

A Matter of Life and Death
MARTIN HANSON

Czechoslovakia’s Crucifixion of 1938
NORMAN BERDICHEVSKY

Color and Cliterature
G. MURPHY DONOVAN

Protests in Iran and Erdogan’s War Against the Kurds in Syria
JERRY GORDON and ROD BRYANT

Protests Erupt in Sudan Creating Bashir Government Crisis
LT. GEN. ABAKAR M. ABDULLAH, JERRY GORDON, AND DEBORAH MARTIN

Wonder at the Renwick Gallery
GUIDO MINA DI SOSPIRO

Jewish Memories and Visions: A Review of Two Books
SHMUEL BEN-GAD

Twisted Threads of Reading: A Tradition of Implication, Inference, and Indirection
NORMAN SIMMS

STORIES & POETRY

Tales of Rulx: Liberty and Death
JAMES COMO

Togetherness and Erring: A Cycle of Poems
CHRISTOPHER DEGROOT

Notes After the Interview
EVELYN HOOVEN

The Man Who Bought Things in Threes
JAMES LEPORE

On a Verse from the Dead Sea Scrolls
JEFFREY BURGHAUSER

The Nebulous Menace
ERIC NORRIS

Joshu & Miriam by Miklós Radnóti
THOMAS ORSZÁG-LAND

We’re Almost Home
DANIEL MALLOCK

Noble Warrior
BRANDON MARLON

Politicians: Two Poems
KIRBY OLSON