In the work of Professor Germino’s prime mentor, Eric Voegelin, and that of Hannah Arendt, the subject of Professor Young-Bruehl’s biography, we have the head and the heart of a theory of man that understands politics as phenomenality, as self-disclosure in a space of appearances, originating in the “experiential locus of humanity.” This locus is...
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Sociology and Common Sense
The “Common-Sense Sociology Test” made its first appearance in the mid-1960’s. The test is now a familiar fixture in introductory sociology courses and textbooks, but in the beginning its exciting novelty instantly captured the hearts and minds of graduate students and young professors facing their first lecture hallsālecture halls filled with a student skepticism that...
Puppets for Nippon
The Japan Economic Journal reported in 1980 that “influence in Washington is just like in Indonesia. It’s for sale.” It still is. Today, more than 100 foreign governments and hundreds of foreign corporations are running on-going political campaigns in the United States, as though they were a third major political party. Mexico, for instance, is...
What Is Wrong With Ideology?
Ideology is an intellectual pathology that has gripped the West for about three centuries.Ā At times, we have been told that ideology is at an end.Ā This was said after the close of World War II, when the most ideological age yet, the Cold War, was just beginning.Ā After its collapse, some 50 years later,...
How Do You Know?
How much is actually known and not just supposed or imagined? A lot more, surely, than it is fashionable to think, at least in the world that moral and literary theorists seem to inhabit. So much more, that it is easy to forget how much by which we interpret the world and its texts is...
Witnessing at The Hague
All history is to some extent contemporary, but none more so than that analyzed, interpreted, and sometimes constructed by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague. ...
Abuse Your Illusions
Walter Block is a libertarian without guile, a theorist who refuses to confine his classical-liberal analysis to strictly economic questions. Ā Liberty is liberty, he would argue, and value is value, whether we are deciding a ...
Shadowmetrics
The public opinion poll has become an ubiquitous feature of modern life. Seventy years ago, there were no professional pollsters. Fifty years ago only a handfulāGallup, Roperāserved as takers of the public pulse. Today, thanks to computer and telephone technology, thousands of public opinion seers and sages are for hire. The explosion of practitioners is...
Jews Without Judaism
Certainly no confusion of the ethnic with the religious presents more anomalies than the mixture of ethnic Jewishness and religious Judaism that American Jews have concocted for themselves. But the brew is fresh, not vintaged. For nearly the entire history of the Jews, to be a Jew meant to practice the religion set forth in...
On ‘Common-Sense Sociology’
Steven Goldberg’s “Sociology and Common Sense” (March 1991) contains some bits of wisdom, but its central premise is badly flawed. I first encountered the “Common-Sense Sociology Test” as a graduate student in the early 1960’s, and by then it was at least a decade or two old, so its ancestry is considerably older than Goldberg...
Up From Television
“I came to cast fire upon earth; and would that it were already kindled!” āLuke 12:29 In order to mark the 15th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s election to the Papacy, Italian Radio and Television commissioned Vittorio Messori to conduct a live television interview with the Pope. It must have seemed a good idea...
George Soros, Postmodern Villain
George Soros was born in Budapest in 1930 but, today, spends most of his time in New York City.Ā Not much is known about his early years.Ā He is the only eminent āholocaust survivorā who has been accused of collaboration with the Nazis.Ā In 1947, he managed to sneak through the Iron Curtain, and, the...
The Puritan and the Profligate
John Lofton Interviews Allen Ginsberg Lofton: In the first section of your poem “Howl” you wrote: “I saw the best young minds of my generation destroyed by madness.” Did this also apply to you? Ginsberg: That’s not an accurate quotation. I said the “best minds,” not “the best young minds.” This is what is called...
The Spiritual Meaning of Philosophy
In 525 A.D. the Lady Philosophy reminded Boethius, in his death-cell, that true philosophers must think body, rank, and estate of less importance than their understanding of what was truly their own. This understanding of philosophy, which is also Epictetus’s and Aurelius’s, as something more than a pleasant enough word game, has been neglected by...
Can American Legal Education Be Fixed?
Something has gone radically awry with legal education and maybe even legal practice. For about a decade now, the loudest wailing over the state of affairs has come from Chief Judge Harry Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, who wrote a landmark article in the Michigan Law Review...
Hard Cases and Bad Law
During the next four years, the Clinton administration will appoint dozens of federal judges, in addition to (perhaps) two or three Supreme Court Justices. In the confirmation procedures for these individuals, issues of gender politics are likely to predominate. Abortion will obviously be one such question, as may sexual harassment, but we should also hear...
What the Founders Didn’t Count On
“I assert that the people of the United States . . . have sufficient patriotism and intelligence to sit in judgment on every question which has arisen or which will arise no matter how long our government will endure.” āWilliam Jennings Bryan As citizens it is fitting that we engage in acts of civic piety...
Economic Science and Catholic Social Teaching
Even among otherwise orthodox Catholics in the United States there is generally little knowledge of or interest in Catholic social doctrine, that body of Catholic teachings which concerns man in society, especially with reference to the political and economic orders. Since Leo XIII began vigorously to develop and apply this teaching to the changing conditions...
Solzhenitsyn and Democracy
The name of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has fallen on hard times. My many public lectures on this author convince me that his sympathetic admirers are legion, but even these admirers are troubled that the press commentary on him seems to be fairly consistently negative. While almost all of his Western critics allow that Solzhenitsyn is a...
Temporizing on the Thames
It is one of the chief distinguishing features of the philistine that he thinks himself, above all things, “openminded.” While the converse of this proposition is untrue, modern culture having witnessed an explosion in the doctrinaire varieties of philistinism, it is nevertheless a fact that the trueblue, classic philistine, of the kind described by the...
Vocation and the Humane Economy
I once sat on the honors orals of an economics major who had applied a standard mathematical model to immigration.Ā The mathematics and data collection were well done, but the thesis was premised on the assumption we can understand immigration by analyzing a sufficiently large sample of economic data with a reputable mathematical model.Ā Were...
The Uses and Abuses of Public Opinion Polls
The Case of Louis Harris and Associates The most important principle underlying democracy is that the majority should rule. But until relatively recently, Americans have been poorly equipped to communicate their wishes to elected representatives. The principal means for doing so has always been elections. But elections occur relatively infrequently, and they provide no means...
Consensual Citizenship
The customary division of national laws of citizenship into the “principles” of jus soli (place of birth) or jus sanguinis (line of descent) denotes the objective criteria most often used to determine one’s citizenship. But the conceptions of political membership that have vied for supremacy in Anglo- American law implicate a different, more fundamental dichotomyāone...
What Is the Good?
“We know the good but do not practice it.” āEuripides These two unusually interesting collections of studies are in sharp contrast to the contemporary Anglo-Saxon style of academic scholarship. Both authors take seriously the pertinence of classical thought to contemporary discussions of the good. Strauss is even less professorial than Gadamer in that he takes...
Old Testament, Yes; New Testament, No
U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth Kovachevich here in Tampa ruled in January that it is all right to teach the Old Testament but not the New Testament in public high schools. Concerned that the state not sponsor religion, Judge Kovachevich permits “the history of the Bible” but not “the Bible as history.” So far so...
A Doctor in Spite of Himself
On December 3, 1989, the London Telegraph included a piece of academic news from the United States: “Researchers in his native Georgia must soon decide whether to reveal that the late Dr. Martin Luther King, murdered in 1968, wasāin addition to his other human failingsāa plagiarist. There is now much doubt as to whether his...
Bias in the Questions
Girl’s SAT scores are lower than boys because of bias in the questions, charges a Center for Women Policy Studies report. Nationally, boys score higher on 4 of the verbal questions and 17 of the math, and the fact that they do better is alone prima facie evidence, according to Phyllis Rosser, that the Educational...
Reproductive Tyranny
Absolute control of women over fertility has been the unparalleled dream of radical feminists for decades. Millions of women now view this aspiration as their sacrosanct right and have, with the advent of anti-fertility and other reproductive technologies, exercised this new right vigorously. This feminist dream, however, is fraught with irony. Many of the very...
The Doctors and the Bomb
The furor caused by the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize to the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, represented by its two leading sponsors and leaders. Dr. Bernard Lown of the United States and Dr. Yevgeny Chazov of the Soviet Union, provides a fine opportunity to review the revival of the politics of nuclear...
H.R. 3313 and the Imperial Judiciary
On July 19, three days before H.R. 3313 was debated, the ACLU issued notice of an āUrgent Briefingā entitled: āHow the Marriage Protection Act (H.R. 3313) Will Harm Civil Rights, and Violate the U.S. Constitution.āĀ The flyer explained: āThe bill would shut the federal courthouse doorsāincluding the door to the Supreme Courtāto an entire group...
The Doors of Deception
One of the many sociological uses of Hollywood is its dramatic availability when things go wrong in America. Michael Satchell, for instance, has raised the question in Parade of whether the movies by too often glamorizing drugs and alcohol encourage their use among young people. He cites Goldie Hawn, Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin,...
Protectionism as a Path to Piety
FrĆ©dĆ©ric Bastiatās Candlestick Makersā Petition, an open letter to the French Parliament written in 1845, gets trotted out by free-trade fundamentalists every time anyone says the word tariff.Ā Bastiatās goal was to take the protectionistās position to its logical extreme in order to mock protectionism via satire.Ā He distinguishes between free-traders who seek low prices...
The Politics of Scientific Fraud
“Smuggler, embezzler, art forger, scientist.” Before the recent controversy over scientific fraud, that list might have been used on an SAT: “The first three deal in deception, the fourth deals in truth.” Today, however, science’s cultural image is not so unambiguously positive: scientists no longer seem immune from the moral lapses that can inflict people...
Practical Distributism
Distributism is a Catholic social philosophy that, as Thomas Storck writes, āseeks to subordinate economic activity to human life as a whole, to our spiritual life, our intellectual life, our family life.āĀ Unfortunately, distributism is frequently debated or discussed in terms of macroeconomicsāa national economic system.Ā But the more important activity is already occurring at...
Social Contract Theory as Feathered Serpent
How Enlightenment thinkers created a mythology for the modern world.
Socialist Realism from Giotto to Warhol
In the 1960ās, a fashionable subject of conversation among the Russian intelligentsia was Mikhail Sholokhovās plagiarism.Ā Sholokhov, it was alleged, had found the manuscript of And Quiet Flows the Don among the personal effects of a certain Cossack, published it as his own, and eventually pocketed the 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature.Ā Just look at...
Between the Lines
“He whom nature has made weak and idleness keeps ignorant may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.” āSamuel Johnson Not too long ago we devoted an issue to the death of serious art. While there may be many objections to the thesis that popular culture has replaced painting, the symphony, and...
Family Feud: The Biden Crime Family Edition
Now that Biden is out of the 2024 presidential race, is Congress just going to pretend this is a game show and ignore the impeachment investigation they voted to advance?
Cui Bono?
You cannot hope to bribe or twist / (thank God!) the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do / unbribed, thereās no occasion to. āHumbert Wolfe The June issue of Chronicles was literally on the press on May 7, when local radio talk-show host Chris Bowman announced that Bishop Thomas Doran of the...
Toward a Secular America
America is finally joining the secularism of the other nations of the West. In this transition to secularism one key lesson emerges: faith is inextricably bound up with family.
Psalms of Lament
“Why did God let my puppy die?” āAnonymous “The first thing to understand is that we are all practical atheists,” Stanley Hauerwas once declared in a phone conversation. “So when we ask, ‘Why does a good God allow bad things to happen to good people?’ what we really mean is, ‘Why doesn’t modern medicine cure...
Terms of Empowerment
Imagine, if you can, thousands of parents last January insisting that the Fairfax County, Virginia, school board distribute a 169-question sex survey to their 13-, 15-, and 17-year-olds.Ā Envision legions of taxpayers falling all over themselves to divert $60,000 earmarked for educational purposes to ask students about oral sex, number of sexual partners, depression, and...
Let Me Count the Ways: What to Make of Survey Research
“Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will he what they will he: why then should we desire to be deceived?” āJoseph Butler, Fifteen Sermons No doubt many of us could think of an answer or two to His Grace’s rhetorical question, but the case for social scienceāany science, for...
Tyranny and Sloth
When I say that I thank you for asking me here to speak to you, that I thank you I am here, I have to confess that I am flying in the face of the latest status ritual practiced by many of my colleagues in the scribbling professions. The latest thing, as you may already...
Man and Nature
Is mankind no more than a part of nature, subject to her laws like every other species? Or has the human race transcended natural limits and set itself apart as master of creation? Since the dawn of the 19th century, the debate in the West on these questions bas been heavily influenced by the proposition...
Remembering Herbert Butterfield
Herbert Butterfield formulated a political theory of limited liberalism around his Augustinian Christianity, which tempered personal liberty with the recognition of man's fallen nature.
A Bowl of Stew: A Story
IĀ canāt forget the sorrow of my lodge brothers when the doors closed to our beloved home.Ā We had to pay a bill for a new roof, then the ice machine in the bar went on us.Ā When the jukebox broke, we couldnāt play āPoland Shall Not Perish While We Live to Love Her.āĀ Neighbors around...
Uncle Samās Harem II
Christian Marriage Christianity, although it did not overturn the basic pagan view of marriage, strengthened and disciplined the institution. Christian marriage is as much a break with Jewish traditions as with the somewhat easy-going pagan customs of the Empire.Ā Polygamy had been taken for granted in the OT, and even an ...
The Eurabian Revolution
The modern age is the age of revolution, and the Eurabian Revolution is but a continuation of a process that hearks back to before the French Revolution of 1789. Todayās Eurocrats are on the verge of accomplishing what previous generations of revolutionaries, with all their evil genius, failed to bring about: the destruction of Europe...
It’s Stupid, the Economy
Why should “a magazine of American culture” take so keen an interest in the question of immigration? That question has been posed all too frequently by journalists who can only think of one answer: bigotry. Sometimes the word is xenophobia or nativism or even anti-Semitism (apparently on the grounds that the bottom-line of all discriminations...