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The Literary Culture of France
by J. E. G. Dixon |
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Hamlet Made Simple and Other Essays
by David P. Gontar |
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Farewell Fear
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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The Eagle and The Bible: Lessons in Liberty from Holy Writ
by Kenneth Hanson |
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The West Speaks
interviews by Jerry Gordon |
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Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy
Emmet Scott |
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Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy
Ibn Warraq |
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Anything Goes
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Karimi Hotel
De Nidra Poller |
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The Left is Seldom Right
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Allah is Dead: Why Islam is Not a Religion
by Rebecca Bynum |
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Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays
by Ibn Warraq |
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An Introduction to Danish Culture
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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The New Vichy Syndrome:
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Jihad and Genocide
by Richard L. Rubenstein |
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Second Opinion
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Defending The West:
by Ibn Warraq |
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Nations, Language and Citizenship:
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Romancing Opiates
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Which Koran?
by Ibn Warraq |
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Our Culture, What's Left of It
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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What The Koran Really Says
by Ibn Warraq |
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Life at the Bottom
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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The Origins of the Koran
by Ibn Warraq |
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Why I Am Not Muslim
by Ibn Warraq |
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Spanish Vignettes: An Offbeat Look Into Spain's Culture, Society & History
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Leaving Islam
Edited by Ibn Warraq |
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The Danish-German Border Dispute, 1815-2001: Aspects of Cultural and Demographic Politics
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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What's Love Got to Do with It?: Emotions and Relationships in Pop Songs
by Thomas J. Scheff |
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Here are the Blogs in the NER category. Wednesday, 15 May 2013
by Jerry Gordon (May 2013)
The Boston Marathon Massacre
Bostonians may be relieved that the week of terrorism perpetrated by the Tsarnaev brothers which began at 2:49PM April 15, 2013 at the Boston Marathon Finish Line ended dramatically on April 20, 2013 with the capture of surviving younger ...Read More...
Posted on 05/15/2013 4:01 PM by NER
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
by Bibhu Padhi (May 2013)
Give me back my rags
-- Vasco Popa
You are the morning.
The moment I go out,
the smell of your skin and possessions
pervade the invisible air. more>>>
...Read More...
Posted on 04/30/2013 10:04 AM by NER
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
by Moshe Dann (May 2013)
Outside my window, overlooking Eighth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street, three cars joined fenders in holy communion and traffic backed up for several blocks, honking in celebration. Next door, my Puerto Rican neighbor was having a fight with her boyfriend, or maybe they were ...Read More...
Posted on 04/30/2013 9:59 AM by NER
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
by Esmerelda Weatherwax (May 2013)
In some cultures the religion bans alcohol. Methodists and strict Chapel disapprove – Islam forbids entirely. No religion condones drunkenness and alcohol abuse. But with Christ Himself offering wine at the last supper and the wedding at Cana and St Paul’s ...Read More...
Posted on 04/30/2013 9:53 AM by NER
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
by NB Armstrong (May 2013)
There are numerous imperfect but telling shorthand filters for judging a society. A people's general driving standards, the nature of the bureaucratic processes involved in starting a business, its foreigner visa restrictions, or even its pornography might all be semi-seriously ...Read More...
Posted on 04/30/2013 9:48 AM by NER
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
by Richard Kostelanetz (May 2013)
I’ve written before about my recurring inability to evaluate standard biographies of cultural figures. From commercial publishers they appear in roughly the same size, I guess contractually prescribed, 6” x 9”, 500-plus pages, ...Read More...
Posted on 04/30/2013 9:44 AM by NER
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
by Norman Berdichevsky (May 2013)
Zohar Argov (1955-1987) is a name that only provokes a blank stare from an overwhelming majority of American Jews. He was more than a popular singer and represented the underprivileged, under represented Mizrahi (Oriental) face of Israel. He was called the King ...Read More...
Posted on 04/30/2013 9:39 AM by NER
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
by John Broening (May 2013)
The Place des Vosges is the coziest and most expensive square in Paris. Identical, high-ceilinged 17th century apartments on four sides. An arcade that runs all the way around and houses a Michelin three-star restaurant where lunch can run you a thousand Euros. A gated ...Read More...
Posted on 04/30/2013 9:33 AM by NER
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
by Michael Zebulon (May 2013)
“If we take a horse’s tail and call it a leg, how many legs will the horse then have?
“The correct answer is four.
“You see, gentlemen,” Mr Lincoln went on to say…
“…you can call a horse’s tail a ‘leg.’
“But ...Read More...
Posted on 04/30/2013 9:29 AM by NER
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
by David P. Gontar (May 2013)
And will you, being a man of your breeding, be married
under a bush like a beggar? Get you to church and have
a good priest that can tell you what marriage is: this fellow
will but join you together as they join wainscot; then one of you
will prove a shrunk ...Read More...
Posted on 04/30/2013 9:24 AM by NER
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Revisiting Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”
by Louis Palme (May 2013)
There is a concerted ideological battle going on between the defenders of liberty and those who would impose “Allah’s laws” on all of society – the latter group better known as faithful ...Read More...
Posted on 04/30/2013 9:18 AM by NER
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
by Robert Wolfe (May 2013)
For a long time now I have been saying that the long term survival and growth of Israel depends in large measure on the gradual democratization of the political culture of the Arab and Muslim world. As if to confound me there have been a series of pro-democracy uprisings ...Read More...
Posted on 04/30/2013 9:13 AM by NER
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
by Paul Cliteur (May 2013)
“Military fervor on behalf of faith has disappeared. Its only souvenirs are the marble effigies of crusading knights, reposing in the silent crypts of churches on their tombs,” writes John William Draper (1811-1882) in his History of the Conflict between ...Read More...
Posted on 04/30/2013 9:09 AM by NER
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
by Jake Neuman (May 2013)
The media is covering up, or at least ignoring, Islam’s direct role in the Boston Massacre by creating the myth of "self-radicalization." This myth revolves around the idea that a Muslim who is peaceful, peace loving and a good citizen magically “self-radicalizes” ...Read More...
Posted on 04/30/2013 9:05 AM by NER
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
by G. Murphy Donovan (May 2013)
“Presumption is the pride of fools, and it ought to be the scholar's pride not to presume.” – Elie Kedourie
Institutions are the product of good ideas. Unfortunately, over time, the institution often becomes ...Read More...
Posted on 04/30/2013 9:01 AM by NER
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
by Theodore Dalrymple (May 2013)
When, many years ago, I started regularly to review books for profit and pleasure (my profit and pleasure, that is), I thought it would be fun to write destructive reviews of bad books. I was beguiled into this idea by having read Macaulay’s eviscerating essay-review, ...Read More...
Posted on 04/30/2013 8:50 AM by NER
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
by Fergus Downie (May 2013)
They have their little pleasures for the day, and their little pleasures for the night, but they have a regard for health."We have discovered happiness,"--say the last men, and blink
What is the price for this carnival of amusements – the descent ...Read More...
Posted on 04/30/2013 8:44 AM by NER
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
by Martin Cloutier (May 2013)
Recently, I was talking with a colleague who claimed to be ashamed at the lack of gender parity in his personal reading choices. “I ran my reading numbers and found them embarrassingly skewed,” he said. “And fixing that required a conscious effort: ...Read More...
Posted on 04/30/2013 8:40 AM by NER
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
by Emmet Scott (May 2013)
George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, two of England’s foremost literary figures of the last century, each wrote a compelling description of a future dystopia, both of them nightmare visions of society totally under the control of a ruling clique whose only purpose is ...Read More...
Posted on 04/30/2013 8:35 AM by NER
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
by Theodore Dalrymple (May 2013)
Not long ago at a conference I was asked whether I thought that boredom was an important cause of bad, and worse than bad, behaviour. I said that I thought that it probably was, though I could not positively prove it. At any rate, those who behave badly often claim ...Read More...
Posted on 04/30/2013 8:30 AM by NER
Friday, 12 April 2013
by Jerry Gordon (April 2013)
American Law for American Courts (ALAC) is ground breaking legislation seeking to ensure that courts have the requisite instructions to protect individual rights guaranteed in both State and Federal Constitutions. It is non-discriminatory and does not contain an ...Read More...
Posted on 04/12/2013 5:57 AM by NER
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
The Journal for the Study of Antisemitism has awarded Dr. Richard L. Rubenstein their lifetime achievement award.
For more than half a century, Richard L. Rubenstein has been a unique voice in Holocaust and genocide scholarship. His first work, After Auschwitz, caused considerable controversy ...Read More...
Posted on 04/02/2013 1:48 PM by NER
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Once again two people have successfully completed our crossword puzzle for March. Guilherme Kramer of São Paulo, Brazil and Keith Simmonds of Crayford in the UK will recieve a copy of J.E.G. Dixon's The Literary Culture of France.
Several people left comments along with their entries:
Another ...Read More...
Posted on 04/02/2013 1:31 PM by NER
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
by Jerry Gordon and Mike Bates (April 2013)
While sports fans in the US were pre-occupied with the NCAA basketball competition commonly referred to as March Madness, a different version was playing out in the Middle East. It was set against the background of the first Presidential visit by Obama ...Read More...
Posted on 04/02/2013 9:33 AM by NER
Sunday, 31 March 2013
by Robert Tilewick (April 2013)
It didn’t have to start out this way.
In the beginning we both believed in . . . more>>>
...Read More...
Posted on 03/31/2013 8:55 AM by NER
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