The Iconoclast

Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide and the Polish Jew Who Criminalized It

April 30, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Jerry Gordon (May 2015) Pope Francis chose Sunday April 12, 2015 to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide by Young Turks of the waning Ottoman Empire. He called it […]

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Hillary’s Jewels

April 30, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by G. Murphy Donovan (May 2015) “If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage […]

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The Bloom Is Off the Clinton Rose

April 30, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Conrad Black (May 2015) The Hillary Clinton campaign is off to a surprisingly, and in some respects reassuringly, slow start. It has never been entirely clear what the source […]

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After Failing to Preempt: Israel, Iran and Nuclear War

April 30, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Louis René Beres (May 2015) Back in January 2003, the Project Daniel Group advised prime minister Ariel Sharon on the issue of Iranian nuclearization. In its then-confidential final report […]

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Facebook of Failure

April 30, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by G. Murphy Donovan (May 2015) “I like to watch.” – Chance the gardener, Being There Personality is seldom thought to be relevant to national security analysis. Yet in the […]

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Doing the Charleston

April 30, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Theodore Dalrymple (May 2015) ‘In stately old Charleston,’ ran a headline in a recent edition of the New York Times, ‘New Buildings on the Block Are Struggling to Fit In.’ […]

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“The Tongue is Also a Fire”: The Left, Madness, and Manners

April 30, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by James Como (May 2015) “Wait, hold on here. Is this a barbershop? If we can’t talk straight in a barbershop, then where can we talk straight? We can’t talk straight no where […]

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Falstaff the Brave

April 30, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Theodore Dalrymple (May 2015) I love to read about Shakespeare, in part because to do so is so perfectly pointless. A man cannot always be engaged in useful activity, […]

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Books Do Furnish A Mind, Part II

April 30, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Ibn Warraq (May 2015)   “Someday I will go to London and revisit all the places where I housed at the time of my greatest poverty. I have not […]

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Waiting for the Messiah: the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of Christianity

April 30, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Moshe Dann (May 2015) Who was the first Christian? What are the origins of Christianity? Most people would say, “Jesus.” What if that were not true? What if Jesus […]

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A Better Spring

April 30, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Rebecca Bynum (May 2015) Freedom and Truth are ever linked by those who ponder the depths of reality. False belief leads inexorably to spiritual bondage and, being mortal, we […]

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All Men Are Created Snobs

April 30, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Theodore Dalrymple (May 2015) It is a sad fact that many distinguished men, who in their time seemed to bestride the world like colossi and excited anything from extreme […]

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Seattle Slew

April 30, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

For the girl from Seattle who found the Solution To Everything in the Islamic State,and who is still not named, that ready nickname already exists. Here.  

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Fear of religious coercion as Muslims are told holy man endorses Labour

April 30, 2015
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Esmerelda Weatherwax

From witches but by a large Muslim community. The Labour candidate is Azhar Ali, a councillor and prominent Muslim; the Conservative candidate is Andrew Stephenson.  A test message is being circulated on […]

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The price that Ed Miliband is prepared to pay to win the Muslim vote

April 29, 2015
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Esmerelda Weatherwax

Allison Pearson writing words of truth in t

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With A Song In My Heart, Or, Making Baltimore Bearable

April 29, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

I can’t stand to see the scene in Baltimore, nor listen to anything other than forthright condemnation of the criminals having their moment. I’ve found it soothiing to repeat to […]

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