The Iconoclast
Evening, Winter
by Bibhu Padhi (May 2015) Between day and night the sky is softening. The earth is softening too, as if a river of dusky, translucent water had washed it […]
At Coole Park
by William Ruleman (May 2015) (14 May 2013) Rain kept its distance while We hiked the Seven Woods’ trail, Pondering, with a smile, more>>>
I Am Trudy Besser
by David P. Gontar (May 2015) “I am Trudy Besser. Identify yourself.” “711419543-120.” “Formerly?” “Benjamin Grant.” more>>>
Corrections
by Richard Kostelanetz (May 2015) I. Virgil Thomson’s “Antisemitism” In a recent issue of the ultra-Jewish weekly Forward, the music writer Benjamin Ivry (b. 1958) thinks that he discovered […]
The Essay Jonathan Franzen Should Have Written
by Lorna Salzman (May 2015) The whole American birding community, which numbers in the millions if you count backyard bird feeder watchers, has its collective knickers in a twist over […]
A Whisper in the Wind – An HBO Scenario
by Geoffrey Clarfield (May 2015) “An Imaginary Event” Home Box Office-HBO. When we all thought TV was on its way out, along came the many Home Box Office created series, […]
A Case Study in Cultural Decline: Rock Music
by Bradford Tuckfield (May 2015) Many people, especially cultural conservatives, are concerned about what they perceive as the decline of Western or American culture. However, since it is very hard […]
Victims of “Affirmative Action”: Bam, Tom, & Dubya
by Richard Kostelanetz (May 2015) The principal problem with this short-sighted policy commonly called “Affirmative Action” is that, in the interests of equal results rather than equal opportunity, it victimizes […]
Mr. And Mrs. Macbeth, And Their Secretive Cash Cow And Foundation
The Clinton Canadian Foundation, which few even knew about,m did not disclose the names of 1100 donors. In that case, the Clintons could claim that Canadian law supposedly prevented disclosing […]
Stemming the Surge of Deadly Illegal Migration Across the Mediterranean
by Jerry Gordon (May 2015) The EU is in the midst of another refugee crisis in the Straits that separates Sicily from North Africa. The flash point of the humanitarian crisis […]
Overwhelmed By The Numbers, Gilles De Kerchove Can Think Of Nothing But "Prioritizing" Cases To Prosecute
Here. Gilles De Kerchove seems to think that the governments of Western Europe are obligated to admit back into their midst those who have gone to fight, or otherwise help, […]
ISIS Threat to America: an Interview with Erick Stakelbeck
by Jerry Gordon and Mike Bates (May 2015) When we reviewed Erick Stakelbeck’s latest book, ISIS Exposed: Beheadings, Slavery and the Hellish Realities of Radical Islam, we wrote: Tens of thousands […]
Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and The World It Made
a review by Ron Capshaw (May 2015)
The Other Forgotten International Brigade
by Norman Berdichevsky (May 2015) The Left in all its various shades – Marxist, New, Romantic, Dogmatic, Innocent continues to wistfully pine in nostalgic innocence over the memorabilia and songs […]
Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide and the Polish Jew Who Criminalized It
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 […]
Hillary’s Jewels
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 […]
