The Iconoclast
"Life Reeked With Joy"
Anders Henriksson’s classic compilation of sentences from student papers, re-posted here.
Pierre, Or The Ambiguities
Or if you prefer: Felix Krull, Confidence Man. The latest group of sheep to be taken in, by the latest wolf, a mysterious someone with a black Maserati, and a […]
A Musical Interlude: What’s The Use (Isham Jones Orch., voc. Frank Sylvano)
Listen here.
Let’s Ask The Country That Question — No, Let’s Ask The World
The rank stupidity of that supposedly standard interview question — “where do you see yourself in five years” — a question which merits something like death, or at least being […]
Did New Israel Fund Donations to Israeli BDS NGOs trigger Orange Boycott?
Misleading New Israel Fund Banner at New York Israel Day Parade, June 1, 2015 In our NER review of Manfred Gerstenfield’s latest book, The War with a Million Cuts, we […]
A Yemeni Stamp From The Early 1960s
Nasser got bogged down in Yemen, in 1962-63, fighting the “royalists” backed by Saudi Arabia, and the Yemenis celebrated their victory philatelically. Now other Yemenis, mostly with rifles, have fought […]
Jihad Against Jihad, Now And Forever
In Libya, the murderous madness ever multiplies. The sides keep splitting up into ever smaller groups, ending up not quite as numerous as the Libyan sands — quam magnus numerus […]
Not For An Age But For All Time
One more tragic loss, here.
At The French Lycee In Kuwait, The Blacking-Out Factory
The pictures show what happened. The bare breasts of Liberty, in Delacroix’s famous painting of the Revolution, Liberty Leading The People, have been blacked-out in the French schoolbook. Blacked-out, too, […]
Core Synergies in Israel’s Strategic Planning
To best serve Israel, the country’s strategic studies community should favor more conceptual or “molecular” assessments of expected security perils. Going forward therefore, it will not suffice for this community […]
Suicide bomber attacks Egypt’s Luxor temple tourist site
Justice, Lawyers and the Mob
A friend of mine was a key prosecution witness in the trial of Victorino Chua, the nurse of Filipino origin at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport who has just been […]
Put Your (Palestinian) Dreams Away for Another Day
Sigmund Freud once wrote that artists’ creations were imaginary gratification of unconscious wishes, just as dreams are. He would not have been puzzled by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of […]
Australia Foolishly Grants Citizenship to a Muslim Man Who Beat His Sisters
As reported by the ABC just this week. A story to boggle the mind, especially as right now all over social media people are pushing the meme that because to […]
Ernesto Galli Della Loggia: The Immigrant Earthquake
Here.
Uzay Bulut On How Turks View Israel
Here.
