The Iconoclast

Gypsy Gab
By Theodore Dalrymple Often on Saturdays, outside a small supermarket in the town in which I live in England, stands a swarthy woman in her 30s who wears a black […]

The Optimistic, the Realistic, and the Pessimistic Scenarios for Iran
By Victor Davis Hanson We’re in the midst of about the seventh to eighth day of this Iranian-Israeli conflict and we’re getting all sorts of information. It’s not disinformation or […]

Jaws Turns 50
By Bruce Bawer It was called the Golden Age of Hollywood, and it gave us such enduring creations as It Happened One Night (1934), Gone with the Wind (1939), Casablanca (1943), All about Eve (1950), From Here to […]

A Moment in History That Will Never Be Forgotten
By Phyllis Chesler We are privileged to be alive at this time, one that will never be forgotten, one in which the fate of nations will be decided. Psychologically, it’s […]

The Ciceronian Society Podcast with Albert Norton
Josh Bowman talks with Albert Norton, a practicing attorney and author of several books on the tension between religion and postmodernism. His most recent book is The Discovered Self, just […]

VILE EXCUSE Migrant who raped girl, 15, after arriving in UK on small boat claims he was not aware of ‘cultural’ differences
From The Sun A MIGRANT who raped a 15-year-old girl after arriving in the UK on a small boat claimed he was not aware of the “cultural” differences. Sadeq Nikzad, […]

Pro-Palestinian protesters damage RAF planes at Brize Norton
From the Telegraph This is an act of domestic terrorism and should be dealt with severely, plus a disciplinary matter concerning the lax security that permitted such an attack. Pro-Palestinian […]

Saving Persia From Iran
By G Murphy Donovan “I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.” US Grant I’ve been following US Naval ship movements in the Mediterranean, Red Sea and […]

The West Stands With Israel – Except for Norway
By Bruce Bawer Writing the other day in the Jerusalem Post, Mette Johanne Follestad – who is associated with both Palestine Media Watch and the Norwegian organization With Israel for Peace (Med Israel […]

Time for America to Act
By Phyllis Chesler Iran has been firing missiles directly at residential areas in Israel without any advance warning. Iran has begun to specifically target hospitals. Israel has been targeting only […]

The ‘Donald Trump Is Evil’ Routine Isn’t Going to Cut It Anymore
By Victor Davis Hanson We’re in very troubled and chaotic times. We’ve got a theater-wide war in the Middle East with the Iranian theocracy on the ropes. We’ve had mass […]

Can the Left Ever Stop Its Craziness?
By Victor Davis Hanson California Senator Alex Padilla recently crashed a press conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. He deliberately wore no identification. He gave no advance warning that […]

The MAGA Split that Wasn’t
By Roger L Simon For forty-eight hours, more or less, the media drumbeat was nonstop. There’s a split in MSGA over Iran. There’s a split in MAGA over Iran. Trump […]

Rochdale grooming gang cannot be deported after tearing up Pakistan passports
From the Telegraph Offenders exploit loophole by renouncing citizenship, meaning UK cannot make them stateless. I’d quite hapily make the whole bally lot stateless. Pakistan is refusing to take back […]

Israel Dismantles Iran’s Defenses, but Will It Be Enough?
By Victor Davis Hanson We are at a historic time in the Middle East. Never in our lifetimes have we been closer to a complete revolutionary fervor that gives promise […]

On Death Cults and Decadence
By Bruce Bawer If you haven’t read Douglas Murray’s latest book, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization, you’ve very likely read about it. Released in April, it’s […]