After Years of Friction, Turkey Is Trying to Mend Fences with Syria
Erdogan’s latest reversal of course.
September 16, 2022
The British Museum Tries, and Fails, to Recast Paganism as Female Empowerment
“In view of the sex-soaked Egyptian phallocracy, no wonder monotheistic women shook their timbrels in celebration when they left.”
The exhibit Feminine Power: The Divine to the Demonic, currently on display at the British Museum, contains images of goddesses and other supernatural female beings from across the globe and throughout history. To Matthew J. Milliner, it appears a throwback to the “goddess movement” that originated in the 1970s, and imagined a primitive past of matriarchal cultures that worshipped female divinities and stood in contrast to the patriarchal societies of the modern West, with their male clergy and paternal God. But this view of the past never held up to scholarly scrutiny, as is self-evident from the artifacts themselves:
September 16, 2022
Mahmoud Abbas May Have Chosen to End His Career in Violence
His attempt to blackmail Israel and the U.S. could backfire.
The War in Ukraine Demonstrates the Necessity of American Power Rather Than the Potential for European Unity
What Germany’s foremost philosopher doesn’t understand.
The British Museum Tries, and Fails, to Recast Paganism as Female Empowerment
“In view of the sex-soaked Egyptian phallocracy, no wonder monotheistic women shook their timbrels in celebration when they left.”
A Rare Coin from 1st-Century Judea Found in the U.S.
Plundered, taken West, and located.