The Iconoclast

In Gethsemane
The Urantia Book, Paper 182: 182:0.1 (1963.1) IT WAS about ten o’clock this Thursday night when Jesus led the eleven apostles from the home of Elijah and Mary Mark on their […]

New Documentary Tells the Stories of Six Detransitioners
Once they see the error of their ways, they have to deal with the trauma of having mutilated their bodies. by Bruce Bawer Their number may not be legion yet, […]

Glasgow Airport suicide bomber’s brother acquitted on terror charges
From the Herald Scotland The doctor brother of Glasgow Airport suicide bomber Kafeel Ahmed has been acquitted of terrorism charges in India. Ex-NHS doctor Sabeel Ahmed was arrested by police […]

The re-writing of Roald Dahl
“Words matter,” begins the discreet notice, which sits at the bottom of the copyright page of Puffin’s latest editions of Roald Dahl’s books. “The wonderful words of Roald Dahl can […]

We Need More ‘Toxic Masculinity’
by Armando Simón (first published in Issues & Insights January 7, 2022) “Nature doesn’t ask your permission; it doesn’t care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or […]

Taliban bans contraception calling use a ‘western conspiracy’
This was first reported in the Afghan women’s website Rukhshana last week and taken up by western newspapers such as the Mail and the Guardian yesterday and today The Taliban […]

Who’s Too Old to Be President?
by Roger L. Simon During the first big interview of her presidential run, Nikki Haley had no response when asked by Sean Hannity how she differed from Donald Trump in […]

Starstruck
by Reg Green The Latin phrase ‘Per ardua ad astra‘ (‘Through struggle, to the stars’) is, fittingly, the motto of the Royal Air Force, in which for twenty months of compulsory […]

School massacre plots foiled in Britain, counter-terror police reveal
There is a VERY nasty fact in this article from the Telegraph, but it isn’t the headline. School massacre plots inspired by US rampages have been repeatedly thwarted by British […]

We Are All Psychoanalysts
by Theodore Dalrymple Immediately on reading of the recent mass shooting in Monterey Park that resulted in eleven deaths, or twelve if you count the perpetrator of it, I looked […]

Shabbat Mishpatim Shalom
by Phyllis Chesler Here are some of the many laws we are commanded to obey. I cry out against those concerning forced/arranged marriage, even though it was the best of […]

The Kittens Are Home
by Phyllis Chesler Coal-black, small, elegant, sinewy, playful, and kitten-frisky—they are, they are—and only eight weeks old. I am talking about our new rescue kittens. I named one Minette. In […]

Barry Shaw The View from Israel: Zionism and the Black Christian Church
ZIONISM and the BLACK CHRISTIAN CHURCH. ISRAEL finds an ally and friend in the INSTITUTE for BLACK SOLIDARITY with ISRAEL. BARRY SHAW (IISS) in his first conversation with PASTOR DUMISANI […]

The Heavy Lifting: A Boy’s Guide to Writing Poetry by Jeffrey Burghauser
New English Review Press is pleased to announce the publication of our forty-eighth title: The Heavy Lifting: A Boy’s Guide to Writing Poetry by Jeffrey Burghauser. In The Heavy Lifting: A […]

Lying to Ourselves
by Theodore Dalrymple One of the peculiarities of our age is the ferocity with which intellectuals and politicians defend propositions that they do not—because they cannot—believe to be true, so […]

The Idle Contrarian: Racial Reparations
by James Como Doctors often ask patients to measure their pain from one to ten, but some pain can have no rating, so beyond calculation is it. Such is the […]