The Iconoclast

The Universal Father
The Urantia Book, Foreword (redacted) and Paper 1: Foreword 0:0.1 (1.1) IN THE MINDS of the mortals of Urantia—that being the name of your world—there exists great confusion respecting the meaning […]

Uganda says 54 peacekeepers killed in Somalia attack
From AFP Some 54 Ugandan peacekeepers died when militants besieged an African Union base in Somalia last week, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said, in one of the worst recent attacks […]

Memory Lane
by Rebecca Bynum My husband, Hal Bynum, passed away one year ago yesterday and I’ve been thinking about what a wonderful life he gave me. I told Jeffrey Burghauser about […]

A crime gone tragically wrong
Which crimes go wonderfully right? by Theodore Dalrymple That bastion of upright British conservatism, the Daily Telegraph, evidently now believes in the legitimacy of gang warfare. How else to explain […]

Law professors “have earned a little contempt,” too
by Lev Tsitrin In the recent New York Times‘ “guest essay” titled “The Supreme Court Has Earned a Little Contempt” Georgetown University’s law professor Josh Chafetz accuses the justices of the […]

Breakfasts With Mao
by Reg Green My first interest when I started reading “Mao,” Philip Short’s huge biography, was to find out what he ate for breakfast. If this seems odd to you […]

Shabbat Naso Shalom
by Phyllis Chesler The years have become like months, so swiftly does time seem to fly as one gets older—and thus, all too soon, we find ourselves back again in […]

Buttercups and Daisies
As I was going to Strawberry Fair, Singing, singing, Butter-cups and Daisies I met a maiden taking her ware, Fol-de-dee! Her eyes were blue and golden her hair, As she […]

Rochdale grooming: Giving men sex was normal life for girl, trial hears
There is a reporting restriction on this trial at Crown Court Minshull Street Manchester but within that the BBC is confident that they can report this part of the prosecution […]

Matthew King, Islamic State teen convert given minimum six years for terror plot.
I pondered last month what on channel sentencing would be. It was live on BBC News 24. I was with my husband watching it on a large screen, via subtitles, […]

I fought for gay rights — but trans activists have destroyed the meaning of Pride
by Bruce Bawer I’m old enough to have been active in gay rights when you could be arrested in some American jurisdictions for a kiss. Back then, a rainbow flag outside […]

Women who fan the flames of hatred
Often it’s nothing but word salad—a stringing together of propagandized soundbites meant to elicit cheers, applause and return engagements. by Phyllis Chesler Have you noticed how many of Israel’s loudest […]

What’s the Problem Now? Black Grievances and White Guilt by Michael Brandow
New English Review Press is pleased to announce the publication of our fiftieth title: What’s the Problem Now? Black Grievances and White Guilt by Michael Brandow. Michael Brandow gives us a personal […]

Chris Christie’s Achilles Heel
by Roger L. Simon Apparently, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is going to run for president in the Republican primary, throwing another hat in the ring that will soon […]

State-Dependent Learning
by Armando Simón State-dependent learning was discovered decades ago, but is a phenomenon that is not well known outside the field of psychology, that is, not known as a formal […]

A Tale of Two Countries
Country music is going to the dogs. Let us pray for Alternative country and western singers and songwriters who can save it from the Left. If politics is downstream from […]