May 2020

Landscape with Green Trees, Maurice Denis, 1893

The Pandemic of Authoritarianism
THEODORE DALRYMPLE

China’s Expansive Strategy
ENZO REALE

Encounters of the Hyper-Urban Kind: Architecture can Resist Pandemics—or Succumb to Them
JOHN HENRY

Rediscovering Joan Peters in Israel
GEOFFREY CLARFIELD

Plague and the Tragic Sense
R. J. SNELL

Erdogan’s Foot Soldiers in America
KARYS RHEA AND BENJAMIN BAIRD

The Bombay Plague of 1896-1897
CHETAN SAINI

Good Night, Sweet Prince
JEFF PLUDE

Remembering ‘Bites Yer Legs’ Norman
KENNETH FRANCIS

Reactionary Cuisine
G. MURPHY DONOVAN

I’m Optimistic Towards the End of Life
CARL NELSON

Chapman Pincher’s Not With a Bang and Coronavirus
PEDRO BLAS GONZÁLEZ

Darwin Down
ROBERT LEWIS

Covid-19: Bedtime for Spanish Rule of Law
JORGE VILA LOZANO
 

The Party Never Sleeps: Coming of Age in Mao’s China (Part 2)
MANYIN LI

Rewarding Radical Education
MARTHA LEE

The Coronavirus Conundrum
JERRY GORDON AND ROD REUVEN DOVID BRYANT

Dissipatio H.G. in the Time of the Virus
GUIDO MINA di SOSPIRO

The Return of the Sudan Elite Islamist Regime
ABAKAR M. ABDALLAH

I Have Left the Fold
ANTHONY MAZZONE

We Almost Had a Communist in the White House
ARMANDO SIMÓN

STORIES & POETRY

Communion of Saints
JAMES COMO

The Snow Baby
PETER GLASSMAN

Now in the Stillness
EVELYN HOOVEN

Dali’s Second Call
KIRBY OLSON

Three Ghazals
JEFFREY BURGHAUSER

Four Poems of Gabriele D’Annunzio
MICHAEL SHINDLER

Helen After Troy
THOMAS BANKS

The Gatherers
PETER LOPATIN

La Bahia AND Stylite’s Temptation
MICHAEL SAVIGNANO

Insomnia AND Hundred Acre Wood
DAVID SOLWAY

Three Poems
JUSTIN WONG

Kinding AND Hymn to a Rocking Horse
OISIN BREEN