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Vol. 10, No. 6, 2011

     
 
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Robert J. Lewis
 
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David Solway
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Sylvain Richard
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CONTENTS
  1. Editorial
THE WEAKNESS OF THE WEST by David Solway
Anti-cognitive guerillas have embarked on a campaign to undo the heritage of Western culture.
  2. Report
CORRECTIVE RAPE by Navi Pillay
South Africans do not lynch lesbians.
  3. Sexual Healing
HUMILIATION AND VIRILITY by Scott McLemee
Confessing the unconfessable, machismo's negation = freedom the hard way.
  4. Islam
ISLAMOPHOBIA IN AMERICA by Wahajat Ali
Who funds it and who writes the elegant hate literature.
 

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Cartoon
FROM "40 SHADES OF LAUGHTER" by Anthony Conlon
Eaux de Al-Qaeda. The perfect Xmas gift.


  5. Philosophy
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE PHILOSOPHER KINGS by Louis René Beres
"Sustained by banality, empty chatter and half knowledge" and the making of the celebrity politician.
  6. Well Being
DOES PLASTIC SURGERY HEAL THE MIND? by Alexander Edmonds
A plastic surgeon is a psychologist with a scalpel in his hand.
  7. Health
THE MYTH OF THE GREYING TSUNAMI by Alan Cassels
When information moves through a population like virus.
  8.

Film Review
A BITTER TASTE OF FREEDOM reviewed by Chris Barsanti
A Chechen journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, is gunned down for reporting the truth.


  9.

Book Review
WHY CATHOLICS ARE RIGHT (MICHAEL COREN) reviewed by Farzana Hassan
Defending the church's position on the holocaust and sex abuse scandals.


  10.
Report
RESCUING LANGUAGES by Emily Badger
Should languages in their death throes be allowed to die in peace?
  11.

Report
SHARIA AT LOGGERHEADS WITH CAPITALISM by Guy Sorman
Turkey thrives while the Arab world flounders. Why?


  12.

Essay
JUST WARRIORS by Deane-Peter Baker
Since mercenaries can serve both good and evil, why are they universally condemned?


  13.

Music
SIX DEGREES OF JAZZ
Cyrus Chestnut is one of the most important pianists of his generation.


  14.

Book Review
A DELECTABLE LIE (SALIM MANSUR) reviewed by David Solway
Multiculturalism says all cultures are equal. Are they?


  15.

Essay
WHY DON'T WE DO IT IN THE ROAD? by Robert J. Lewis
Who invented privacy?


     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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