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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.
Thursday, 2 February 2012
The End of Charity
by Theodore Dalrymple (February 2012)
A short while ago in Sao Paulo I witnessed in a restaurant something that moved me. Among the waiters, dressed in the same uniform as the others - that is, white shirt, black trousers and burgundy bow tie – was a young man with Down’s Syndrome. He ...Read More...
Posted on 02/02/2012 3:02 PM by NER
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
We Have a Winner!
Congratulations to George Elphinstane of Glasgow, Scotland for completing our January crossword puzzle correctly. He will receive a copy of Emmet Scott's new book, Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy.
Good work, George and keep playing everybody!
...Read More...
Posted on 02/01/2012 3:19 PM by NER
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
A Prayer for Peace
by Thomas Ország-Land (February 2012)
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PEACE CONFERENCE
Alone, behind a splendid table, trembling,
man holds a gun against his aging head
observing, quite detached although with dread,
his seeds of self-spite silently assembling. more>>>
...Read More...
Posted on 01/31/2012 4:41 PM by NER
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Never Judge a Book by Its Mother
by Esmerelda Weatherwax (February 2012)
My daughter came home from school before Christmas with a reading list. Not a list of set texts for an exam; more suggestions from her teachers of novels by authors whose writing was, regardless of their genre, of high quality when reading for pleasure. mo ...Read More...
Posted on 01/31/2012 4:34 PM by NER
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
A Gumshoe Conspiracy?
by Richard Kostelanetz (February 2012)
I’ve written before that the most deflating “rejection letters” ever to come my way were written by unidentified factotums at the FBI and CIA, both declaring, in response to my Freedom of Information requests, that they had no files on me. ...Read More...
Posted on 01/31/2012 4:26 PM by NER
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Why The Grandparent Spoon Stirs Me
by Thomas J. Scheff (February 2012)
The end of WWII was in 1945, when I was 16. It brought rejoicing in my family, but also a shocking sadness. Through my father’s inquiries, we learned that all of his family in Vilna, Lithuania, had been killed in the Holocaust. His father, mother, and ...Read More...
Posted on 01/31/2012 4:19 PM by NER
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
The Devolution of American Lit
by Malcolm Unwell (February 2012)
English class has devolved. It went from the passing on of our rich literary heritage, to its present form; a dumping ground for multiculturalism, self-esteem building, and therapeutic self- expression. Below, I will deal with just one aspect of how English ...Read More...
Posted on 01/31/2012 4:12 PM by NER
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Indices of Divinity in Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well
by David P. Gontar (February 2012)
I. Introduction
What does Shakespeare think about God? These pages present a modest contribution to the discourse concerning this question. It is not our purpose to delve into the private views and practices of the poet. They are unavailable, and ...Read More...
Posted on 01/31/2012 3:48 PM by NER
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Ponzi Politics and Public Choice
by G. Murphy Donovan (February 2012)
“Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.” – Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY)
Social theory and political philosophy are now shot through with paternalism – ...Read More...
Posted on 01/31/2012 3:35 PM by NER
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
The Iraqi Jews – The Oldest Diaspora, Now Safe in Israel
by Norman Berdichevsky (February 2012)
In the December issue of NER, I wrote the first article (on the Yemenites) of a planned 8 part series to examine that segment of Israeli Jewish society that is often neglected or misrepresented – the Oriental or Eastern communities, sometimes referred ...Read More...
Posted on 01/31/2012 3:27 PM by NER
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Imperialist Islam Unveiled: A wide ranging interview with Dr. Mark Durie
by Jerry Gordon (February 2012)
Dr. Mark Durie is an Australian Anglican minister, human rights activist and theologian. An academic linguist by training, he was honored in 1992 as one of the youngest elected fellows in the Australian Academy of Humanities for his research and development of ...Read More...
Posted on 01/31/2012 3:18 PM by NER
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
From Teacher to Tutor: Solving Israel’s School Crisis
by Geoffrey Clarfield (February 2012)
According to a recent report from the Taub Center for policy analysis there has been a 41% increase in students who graduate from high school in Israel. In addition, they found that teachers' knowledge had improved. This may sound wonderful but anyone who ...Read More...
Posted on 01/31/2012 3:11 PM by NER
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
The Mystery of the Capriccio Papers
by Lucy Beckett (February 2012)
John Eliot Holmes, his wife Jane, and their daughter Claire, all died in a car accident in Australia in 2010. I never got the chance to know him well, but I certainly liked him. He worked with me briefly as a legal consultant at Glasgow City Council in Scotland, and ...Read More...
Posted on 01/31/2012 3:04 PM by NER
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Who Destroyed Classical Civilization?
by Emmet Scott (February 2012)
For centuries scholars assumed that the civilization of ancient Rome, the civilization we now call “classical,” was destroyed by the barbarian tribes of Germany and central Asia who, during the fourth and fifth centuries swarmed into the Empire and destroyed ...Read More...
Posted on 01/31/2012 2:55 PM by NER
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Jacques Barzun, Wisdom and Grace
by Rebecca Bynum (February 2012)
Jacques Barzun: Portrait of a Mind
By Michael Murray
Frederic C. Beil (2011)
384 pp.
Jacques Barzun is a towering scholarly intellect, a perceptive and incisive historian as well as one of the most graceful and witty writers of Twentieth Century ...Read More...
Posted on 01/31/2012 2:47 PM by NER
Friday, 27 January 2012
VERITAS NIHIL VERETUR NISI ABSCONDI ("Truth fears nothing but to be hidden")
George Aaron writes of his ongoing battle with UCLA Law School:
In response to a series of open letters to the UCLA Law Faculty re Prof. El Fadl [ http://tinyurl.com/8538gko ], I received this reply from a law professor (who will go unnamed):
Dear Mr. Aaron,
Later today, or perhaps tomorrow, ...Read More...
Posted on 01/27/2012 6:02 AM by NER
Monday, 23 January 2012
McCarthy: Islam is Islam And That's It
Andrew McCarthy sends us the following from National Reivew (Jan. 23 dead tree edition):
The tumult indelibly dubbed “the Arab Spring” in the West, by the credulous and the calculating alike, is easier to understand once you grasp two basics. First, the most important fact in the Arab world ...Read More...
Posted on 01/23/2012 7:10 AM by Andy McCarthy
Sunday, 15 January 2012
Al Kitab reviews The Left is Seldom Right
Ibn Sufi al Kitab reviews Norman Berdichevsky's book, The Left is Seldom Right, in Western Civilization.
Norman Berdichevsky has written an important book on the perversion and rather useless innuendo around the political terms 'Left and Right'. In 'The Left is not always Right', ...Read More...
Posted on 01/15/2012 3:09 PM by NER
Saturday, 14 January 2012
Prof. Khaled Abou El Fadl -- Pernicious peddler of poisonous piffle?
George Aaron recently wrote to the UCLA School of Law Faculty Members:
As you may know, I have begun a campaign to discourage law school alumni from donating money to the law school until the longstanding and well documented charges of academic misfeasance and malfeasance against Dr. El Fadl are ...Read More...
Posted on 01/14/2012 1:24 PM by George Aaron
Saturday, 14 January 2012
Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited in Stock at Amazon
The official release date for Emmet Scott's excellent Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy is tomorrow, the 15th, but it is now in stock at Amazon. Here is the first customer review:
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Devestating ...Read More...
Posted on 01/14/2012 5:33 AM by NER
Sunday, 8 January 2012
Islam, Democracy and the Arab Spring: An Interview with Raphael Israeli
by Jerry Gordon and Michael Bates (January 2012)
Professor Raphael Israeli, retired Professor of Islamic and Chinese History at Hebrew University spoke at a private luncheon and a formal talk in Pensacola, Florida on January 5, 2012. The formal presentation was before an audience at B’nai ...Read More...
Posted on 01/08/2012 10:30 AM by NER
Saturday, 31 December 2011
Suggestions for a New Years Eve
by Esmerelda Weatherwax (January 2012)
It’s New Year’s Eve and a night at ones local pub is as good a way as any to spend it.
My preference would be for a nice glass of beer and, as you can imagine, there are many pubs named for, or with signs celebrating the brewing process. ...Read More...
Posted on 12/31/2011 2:08 PM by NER
Saturday, 31 December 2011
Games of Survival
How Some Holocaust Children Learned To Conquer Death
　
by Thomas Ország-Land (January 2012)
Many child survivors of the Holocaust owed their lives to the deadly serious business of games played collectively or alone, that enabled them to adjust to dangerous situations, ...Read More...
Posted on 12/31/2011 2:02 PM by NER
Saturday, 31 December 2011
My Mother Told Me the Whole Story
In Yiddish: Mein Mutter Hat Mir Gesagt die Ganze Geschicte
by Thomas J. Scheff (January 2012)
My mother came from a poor Jewish family who had emigrated from Russia to New Orleans. When their father disappeared in the Alaska Gold Rush, all the children ...Read More...
Posted on 12/31/2011 1:57 PM by NER
Saturday, 31 December 2011
The Golden Renaissance of English Music
by Em Marshall-Luck (January 2012)
“These people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for piano playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. Nothing on earth is more terrible than English music, save English painting,” wrote the German poet Heinrich ...Read More...
Posted on 12/31/2011 1:48 PM by NER
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