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A Bible Student
by Revilo P. Oliver
I HAVE been sent a very interesting booklet, The 5th Kingdom, written and published by Elmer Arthur (4902 N.E. Thirtieth Avenue, Portland, Oregon). Properly considered, it is more significant than most of the books that are today spewed in such horrendous quantity from the presses…

Bible Myths from Arabia Felix
by Revilo P. Oliver
AS I WRITE, a new book by Dr. Kamal Salibi of the American University in Beirut has not yet been published in this country, and I owe notice of it to Der Spiegel, which will publish portions of it in German translation, and to an article by Jim Muir of the Sunday Times, an English newspaper…

The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Julia Ward Howe, circa 1870
by Revilo P. Oliver
and John J. Synon IN ‘Populism’ and ‘Elitism’ (p. 25, n. 27), I commented briefly on the morbid envy, malice, and blood-lust that inspired Julia Ward Howe to write the words of “one of the most terrible songs ever sung,”…
and John J. Synon IN ‘Populism’ and ‘Elitism’ (p. 25, n. 27), I commented briefly on the morbid envy, malice, and blood-lust that inspired Julia Ward Howe to write the words of “one of the most terrible songs ever sung,”…

Another View of Puritans
Unitarian abolitionist Theodore Parker
by Revilo P. Oliver
I HAVE frequently mentioned the Puritans with asperity and commented on their baneful influence on our history. It is only fair, therefore, to notice a little periodical, The Pilgrim, published by the Reverend Mr. Louis F. deBoer in Collingswood,…

An Overgrown Story
by Revilo P. Oliver
OVER THE PAST year or two, several correspondents, one of whom enclosed a copy of a published newsletter, have enlightened me about the true origin of the famous colossal statue of the goddess Eleutheria, who, most inappropriately wearing the radial crown of Apollo Helios, stands…

Amelia Earhart
by Revilo P. Oliver
IN A Postscript, “When the Twain Do Meet,” in Liberty Bell, December 1984, I summarized the evidence presented by Vincent Loomis in his recent book, Amelia Earhart, the Final Story, and drew certain conclusions from it. Mr. Philip Roddy, of Salem, Oregon, (who permits…

2 x 0 = 0
Daniel Bel’s sculpture Beowulf
by Revilo P. Oliver
IN ONE OF THESE Postscripts, published in May 1986, I described briefly one ominous symptom of the growing epidemic of unreason among scholars, an attempt to Christianize the oldest monument of English literature by atrocious mutilation…

Zealous (Pseudo) Scientists
“Nessie,” as the slob press have named her: The New York Post used this artist’s conception to illustrate their 2018 story “Scotland’s plan for when the Loch Ness Monster is caught.”
by Revilo P. Oliver
ANGELS ARE creations of the imagination; such beings never…

Your Taskmasters
Best-selling novelist Taylor Caldwell (1900-1985; born Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell) was a prominent member of the John Birch Society in the 1960s, as was Dr. Oliver, and the two were acquainted. In 1931 she married her then-boss, Marcus Reback (an “immigrant from Russia”),…

Yiddish Arithmetic
Part of the remains of Herculaneum overlooking the Gulf of Naples
by Revilo P. Oliver
AS IS WELL known, the earliest Christian sects were followers of a Jewish christ named Jesus, who, although he had bungled his attempted revolution and had been executed, was said to have promised that he would return…