The Iconoclast

Austrian teens ‘wanted to be jihadi brides’

March 31, 2015
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Esmerelda Weatherwax

From the Austrian edition of

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Orwell and Hitler

March 31, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Ron Capshaw (April 2015) Throughout his life, George Orwell was labeled a fascist by the Communist Left. Reviewing 1984, Harry Politt, head of the British Communist Party, characterized Winston […]

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Islamic Terrorism and the Essentialism Canard

March 31, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Richard Butrick (April 2015) It is a term of real rhetorical power. To be accused of essentialism is to be variously, an adherent of an outmoded and dangerous metaphysics, […]

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Obama’s War on Israel

March 31, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Jerry Gordon and Ilana Freedman (April 2015) When the polls closed in Israel on March 17, 2015 for election of a new government, Israel’s Parliament, the Obama White House […]

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Broken Arrow

March 31, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by G. Murphy Donovan (April 2015)   Policy is a worldview, a kind of wishful thinking. Intelligence is the real world, a wilderness of untidy facts that may or may […]

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Blaming Bibi, Ignoring Abbas

March 31, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Joseph S. Spoerl (April 2015) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come in for what the New York Times calls an “unusually forceful and public condemnation” by President Barack […]

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Graves’ Disease?

March 31, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Theodore Dalrymple (April 2015) Robert Graves (1895 – 1985) was one of the few men who was able to read his own obituary, albeit sixty-nine years before he actually […]

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Remembering Falstaff

March 31, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by David P. Gontar (April 2015)??   I. Falstaff Dismembered In The Life of King Henry the Fifth there is no appearance by Falstaff. After all, he’s been irrevocably barred […]

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And Some Have Greatness Thrust From Them

March 31, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Theodore Dalrymple (April 2015) The past is another country where they do things differently: but how long past does the past have to be for the country to be […]

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Books Do Furnish A Mind, Part I

March 31, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Ibn Warraq (March 2015)  “…some covet to have libraries in their houses, as ladies desire to have cupboards of plate in their chambers, only for show; as if they […]

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The Decline of Religion is a Delusion

March 31, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Conrad Black (April 2015) Having spent a very enjoyable two hours in conversation with Dr. John Lennox, professor of mathematics at Oxford University and one of the most rational […]

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Of Chekhov, Dickens, Henley and Pascal

March 31, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Theodore Dalrymple (April 2015) Chekhov says somewhere that a writer should be able to write a story about an ashtray. Although I have not tried the experiment, I think […]

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In Nigeria, If Buhari Wins

March 30, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

If Muhamad Buhari wins, and does not immediately go after Boko Haram, and make its destruction the main event of his first months, isn’t it likely that more and more […]

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Bizarre Shooting Incident at NSA Fort Meade Maryland

March 30, 2015
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Jerry Gordon

Fort Meade, Maryland NSA Heaquarters Main Gate Shooting Incident A stolen vehicle attempted to breach the main gate of the NSA Headquarters at Fort Meade in Maryland resulting in a […]

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In Boston, Officer John Moynihan, Angelo West, And Black Lives Matter

March 30, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

A career criminal who had tried to kill policemen before, Angelo West was stopped for a traffic violation by a policeman, John Moynihan. West then shot Moynihan in the face, […]

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Hamid Dabashi: Ode To Edward Said

March 30, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Remember Edward Said? He’s the one who started a Permanent Jobs Program for the most primitive people who wanted to live in the West, and get jobs in universities,, and […]

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