Revilo P. Oliver

by Revilo P. Oliver GOD’S PEOPLE whine about being persecuted as automatically as a mosquito whines about your ear before he alights to suck your blood. Whenever the Middle Ages are mentioned, we are told how the bigoted Europeans cruelly confined the righteous Jews to those awful ghettos. The…

This is very likely to have actually happened, just like Jews really look like that. by Revilo P. Oliver A FRIEND has sent me a page from the March 1986 issue of a periodical called Retirement Life. I hope — I most earnestly hope that what is said in the article is not true, but I am so pessimistic about…

by Revilo P. Oliver I HAVE just received, by air mail, the latest issue (Vol. 13, No. 7) of the valuable little periodical, News of the New World, published in South Africa (P.O. Box 830, Honeydew, 2040). It is printed in a reduced and less expensive format, because, as the editor explains, the support…

by Revilo P. Oliver IN 1932, when I was an undergraduate in college, I purchased from the manufacturer a very useful piece of office furniture. It is a frame of light steel that supports twenty-seven fairly shallow drawers of the same material. I used it to file bulky manuscripts and to accumulate materials…

by Revilo P. Oliver I ALTHOUGH American Conservatives hope to restore the American Republic, they generally oppose change in all other matters, and hold steadfastly to their old faith in “democracy.” They must therefore derive satisfaction from the assurance that all is normal in their…

by Revilo P. Oliver IF YOU like to collect odd books, you may look forward to acquiring a real curio, a polychrome “New Testament.” According to Christian News, a consortium of “Bible scholars” is now going through the five hundred or so statements attributed to Jesus ben…

by Revilo P. Oliver (1985) AS everyone knows, a small band of dedicated members of the Shiah hijacked in Athens a large passenger plane and, as I write, are holding as hostages some forty citizens of the Jews’ great colonial possession in North America. Our boob-tubes exhibited the chief pilot…

by Revilo P. Oliver THE EDITOR of Liberty Bell noticed the discrepancy between the spelling of ‘Maranos’ in my quotation from the Jewish encyclopaedia on p.7 of the June issue and the form ‘Marranos’ in my comments and in a quotation from a later Jewish compilation. The distinction…

by Revilo P. Oliver AROUND THE middle of the eighteenth century a Puritan holy man named Eleazer Wheelock set out to bring his gospel to the Indians in the yet unsettled parts of New Hampshire and Vermont. His undertaking was not the mischievous meddling that is the usual occupation of missionaries.…

Offices of the Duverus cult and The American Sunbeam circa 1977, from a collection by Jewish photographer Max Hirshfeld, who was allowed to spend three days photographing and interviewing the workers and residents there. by Revilo P. Oliver (1986) THE American Sunbeam has ceased publication. This…