May 2019

Daum Marries her Pedantic Automaton George in May 1920, John Heartfield is Very Glad of It, George Grosz, 1920-22

Houellebecq and the Popularity of the Crisis of Meaning
THEODORE DALRYMPLE

Glass, Germs, and Steel: Why Mayor
De Blasio’s Draconian Public Health Policy will Fail
SARAH DILLINGHAM

Disbelief About Belief:
Why Secular Academics Do Not Understand
the Motivations of Religious Fundamentalists
MAARTEN BOUDRY

Why Was Netanyahu Elected
to an Unprecedented Fifth Term?
An Interview with Mordechai Nisan
JERRY GORDON AND ROD REUVEN DOVID BRYANT

Light Thoughts on Kingsley Amis
SAMUEL HUX
 

Plumbing the Depths

STEPHEN SCHECTER
 

Emily

JAMES COMO
 

Beauty and the Nature of Matter:
The Legacy of Christopher Alexander
NIKOS SALINGAROS

If TV’s So Good For You
JEFF PLUDE

Hope Not Hate‘s 2019 Report on the Right and Conservatives
PAUL AUSTIN MURPHY

Intuition and Virtue in Miguel Delibes’ Las Ratas
PEDRO BLAS GONZÁLEZ

Children and the Great Blur
GUIDO MINA di SOSPIRO

The Beatles and the Dark Side of the Road
KENNETH FRANCIS

Jewtown: Poems of the Rise and
Decline of Cork’s Jewish Community
SHAI AFSAI

Codicils for Coffins: Trump vs. McCain
G. MURPHY DONOVAN

Dysfunction Junction
DANIEL MALLOCK

The Monstrous Evil that is Sudan’s Bashir:
Killing One-Third to Rule Two-Thirds
JERRY GORDON, ABAKAR M. ABDALLAH, and DEBORAH MARTIN

STORIES & POETRY

Shored Up
PETER LOPATIN

Statue of Liberty
KIRBY OLSON

Self Help Poems 35, 41 AND 45
CARL NELSON

Revenge
ARMANDO SIMÓN

A Threnody for My Grandfather
AND On Bouguereau’s Pietá
JEFFREY BURGHAUSER

My Daughter
MICHAEL SHINDLER