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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Defending History - Deborah E. Lipstadt and Holocaust Denial

  Professor Deborah E. Lipstadt became a household name when David Irving sued her for libel. The trial, Irving vs Lipstadt, in a sense, put the Holocaust on trial. Irving lost his case, with the court accepting that he had "persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence", and that he was an "active Holocaust denier". Lipstadt, in interview with Three Monkeys Online, discusses the persistence of Holocaust denial, methods of teaching the Holocaust, and 'soft-core denial'.

  
  
• Our man in Havana: introducing Leonardo Padura Fuentes and the quill of mystery

  Cuban Leonardo Padura Fuentes, novelist, essayist, and critic is probably best known for his series of detective novels based around the character of Mario Conde in Havana. Three Monkeys met the author on a recent visit to London (he still lives in Cuba) to discuss detective fiction, politics, and how he was misled by Hemmingway.

  
  
• Rocco Buttiglione Responds - The Moral Maze Part II

  Italian Minister Rocco Buttiglione brought the European Commission into crisis in 2004. In a recent interview in Three Monkeys Online, on ethics and morality, Dr. Richard Holloway criticised Buttiglione's decision to stand for the commission. In this interview Professor Buttiglione responds to the criticism, and gives Three Monkeys Online an alternative guide through the moral maze.

  
  
• ''Bush and Kerry: Contrasting Styles with the Same Results''

  While the two American Presidential candidates square up to each other, the American electorate, and the world at large, question 'what are the differences between the two?'. Dr. Michael A. Weinstein of the PINR looks at their respective decisional styles.

  
  
• Defining Protest - an interview with anti-war protester Ciaron O'Reilly of the Pitstop Ploughshares.

  In 2003, two weeks before the invasion of Iraq, five people broke into Shannon Airport in the west of Ireland. There, in an act of protest against the US Military use of the airport (Ireland is ostensibly neutral) they are alleged to have damaged a US war plane and part of a runway. They were subsequently arrested and are facing prosecution. Three Monkeys Online asks one of the protesters what they thought they were doing.