The Iconoclast

LAMPADUSA AHOY!
by Ralph Berry ‘Lampadusa ahoy!’ is the cry from the hardy seafarers who have made landfall there. They have survived the perilous voyage from Libya and Tunisia, which has […]

The elephant in the avant-garde
by James Stevens Curl “Kitsch” means rubbishy pretentious trash — anything that is shoddy, tawdry, mawkishly sentimental and in bad taste. When applied to any of the arts, it suggests […]

The Arrogance of Pakistan
by Gary Fouse On Friday, Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, the interim prime minister of Pakistan, addressed the General Assembly of the UN in New York and demanded that member nations pass legislation outlawing Islamophobia. This […]

The Seven Supreme Spirit Groups
The Urantia Book paints a picture of creation that is very different from the Bible or any other religious text. To recap what we have read so far, there are […]

Rupert Murdoch was my fiercest competitor
by Conrad Black “I’m calling to celebrate the demise of Maxwell,” said Rupert Murdoch down the phone to me on the morning Robert Maxwell’s private effects were being auctioned in […]

Menendez Indicted Again: American Politics, the Corrupt Road to Riches
by Roger L. Simon I’m almost embarrassed to quote journalist H. L. Mencken’s famous remark once again: “When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.” But […]

Former Debenhams worker Roma Iqbal who shared Islamic State documents is jailed
From the Leicester Mercury Photograph Thames Valley Police An “intelligent” woman who shared documents supporting the terrorist group so-called Islamic State, after becoming infatuated with an American terror suspect, has been […]

Professor Ivan Pavlov on Professor Dov Waxman
by Lev Tsitrin A few seconds can be enough to reveal all about oneself that really matters. Consider, for instance, this tweet: “Yesterday, Biden and Netanyahu finally met to discuss […]

Islamists are ‘weaponising’ claims of Islamophobia to shut down debate on hijabs, report finds
From the Telegraph Islamists are “weaponising” claims of Islamophobia to shut down debate on head scarves and veils, a think tank has found. A new report by Policy Exchange suggests that […]

THE PATRIARCHY IS A MYTH
by Armando Simón For several centuries, right up to the end of the 1800s in fact, an ocean of ink was spilled discussing concepts like the ether, humours, spontaneous generation, […]

GILAD ERDAN—C’EST MOI. ZEH ANI. ZEH ANACHNU.
by Phyllis Chesler For an Israeli Ambassador, with full diplomatic immunity, to be “brutally detained,” by the UN police/goon squad, merely because he held up a photo of Iranian martyr, […]

EISENSTEIN’S RUSSIA
by Ralph Berry Nobody knows anything about Russia. This truism has the additional virtue of being true. Churchill said it best: ‘Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery lnside […]

Purge of the Pentagon Deserves To Be a Priority of the Next President
by Conrad Black One of the great mysteries of the current correlation of strategic forces in the world is the apparently large advantage that both China and Russia have over […]

Mask Up and Don’t Ask Questions
by Armando Simón “We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but […]

Stonehenge was built by black Britons, children’s history book claims
To quote David Bowie “This ain’t rock and roll. This is genocide!” Taking my history and destroying it; whether through jealousy, greed or hatred, is as much a description of […]

Constitutional Advice for the United States From a Canadian Perspective
by Conrad Black On Sept. 14 I gave a speech in Washington for Hillsdale College, the prestigious Midwestern American conservative university that has a campus in Washington. I was asked […]