For a quick fix on how a particular organization sees itself and its purposes, inspect its official name, especially if the organization dates from a more forthright and transparent time, when assorted reformers wore their hearts on their letterheads. The purpose, the raison d’ĆŖtre, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded...
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Now Korea Is Cleaning Our Clock
Ā “The entry into force of the U.S.-Korea trade agreement on March 15, 2012, means countless new opportunities for U.S. exporters to sell more made-in-America goods, services and agricultural products to Korean customersāand to support more good jobs here at home.” Thus did the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative rhapsodize about the potential of...
The United States, In Congress Assembled
āAll legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States . . . āĀ Thus run the first words of Article I, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution, clearly laying out the Framersā understanding of the nature and the role of Congress.Ā Everything else enumerated in Article Iāthe various powers...
Shoot the Losers
The novelist F. Reid Buckley once told a story about a Mexican woman who worked for his family as a maid or nanny during the 1930’s. The woman knew that Buckley’s father, William F. Buckley, Sr., was a strong opponent of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential campaign. When she learned that Roosevelt had...
A Proto-Puritan Robin
A review of Robin Hood; produced and distributed by Universal Pictures; directed by Ridley Scott; screenplay by Brian Helgeland. Since his earliest appearances in folk ballads of the 13th century, Robin Hood has been a slippery fox of a hero. Heās a man who thumbs his nose at the powerful while going his merry way...
The Grass Is Not Greener
The outcome of last Novemberās mid-term elections reminded us for the umpteenth time that democracy in America is a corrupt ādemocratic processā controlled by an elite class that conspires to make secondary issues important and to treat important issues as either irrelevant or illegitimate.Ā One party may be in; another, out; but the regime is...
In Thrall
American professors of literature (or a large number of them) have been in thrall for some time to a body of “literary theory” exported from Europe in the late 60’s. The basic masters are Marx and Freud, followed by de Saussure and Levi-Strauss, and the developers of this property now most in vogue seem to...
Citizen Murdoch
If Rupert Murdoch gets his way, all Earthlings will read one newspaper and watch one television station. And Murdoch will own both. So even before the Media Monster That Ate New York and London had the Wall Street Journal for dessert, the ...
How Cosmopolitan Can One Become?
A friend of mine who worked for more than 30 years for the ILO (International Labor Organization) in Geneva was standing in a post-office queue one day when he noticed that the man just in front of him was in a curiously agitated state.Ā āMais cāest impossible, intolerable!ā he kept muttering.Ā He turned out to...
Everything In Its Place
On December 9, 2008, as I read through the federal criminal complaint against the latest Illinois governor to be indicted for the merest portion of his crimes, I could not help but feel uneasy.Ā Sure, it was great fun to imagine Governor Hot Rod sweating it out in his holding cell, awaiting arraignment later in...
Will President Bush Resist the Global Interventionists?
In the second presidential debate last October, George W. Bush warned Vice President Gore that it is not America’s role to patrol the planet and to arrange other peoples’ lives in its own image. The United States must be proud and confident of our values, he said, “but humble in how we treat nations that...
Why Does the GOP Elite Hate Its Own Base?
The scorn of the GOP elite for rank-and-file Republicans is simply unsustainable for the party.
The Greatest Revolution
Most people throughout the industrial world see cheap and readily available food as simply another modern amenity, such as electricity or running water.Ā Few understand that agriculture has always been political, because it is tied to human survival.Ā Even fewer know that the world is currently undergoing one of the greatest agrarian revolutions in history:...
The Lessons of Boston
Ā Three weeks after the bombings it is possible to make some firm and a few tentative conclusions. The most important fact is that the outrage was an act of Islamic terrorism. The attackers were Muslims, but the U.S. elite classāby ignoring that fact or denying its relevanceāmakes a comprehensive anti-jihadist strategy less likely than...
A Problem with Creating Politically Correct Holidays
Juneteenthāor June 19āis not a good choice for celebrating the end of slavery.
Talking to Strangers
“Black History Month, sometimes called February . . . ” Sam Francis’s witticism has been repeated ad infinitum, by friend and foe alike, usually with little appreciation of the broader implications. Ever since the French Revolution, Jacobin reformers conceived it their duty to redesign the calendar. If they cannot always get away with dating the...
Moonie Gold
Last December, the Weekly Standard, in an article by Matt Labash on a mass wedding conducted by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon at RFK Stadium on November 9, offered a feast of vilification and innuendo. Though the Washington Post and the New Republic both lampooned the same event, Labash’s polemic had a more vicious edge....
Themselves Alone
āOur sympathy,ā said Gibbon with his usual acuity, āis cold to the relation of distant misery.āĀ You do not need to know very much about human nature to agree with the great historiographer that it is often very difficult, or even impossible, to sympathize with the woes of strangers. And if it is difficult to...
K Is for Vendetta
And it came to pass that fear did grip all of the Swamp, from Foggy Bottom to DuPont Circle; and it did spread unto all of the region beyond the Potomac.Ā For behold, Steve Bannon had come. Or, if we prefer not to use the familiar āSteve,ā Stephen K. Bannon.Ā The K must not be...
The World De-Dollarized
A de-dollarized world, where the U.S. dollar is not the preeminent global currency, approaches quickly but this is nothing newāhistorically speakingānor is it bad.
The Suez Files
One reads this book almost with nostalgia. The 1950’s, and the dramatic events that occurred during that decade in the Middle East, are the subject of these historically important recollections by Mohamed Heikal, confidant of Gamal Abdel Nasser and distinguished editor of the Cairo newspaper Akhbar el-Yom. Heikal reminds us that during the 1950’s relations...
Little Yellow Bastards
One of lifeās safest bets is that, following a visit by a Japanese premier to the shrine that honors the nationās war dead, a lot of Chinese megacrooks and inheritors of the greatest murderer of all time will cry foul, and lots of buffoons of the neocon and liberal persuasion over here will echo them.Ā ...
Christmas With the Devil
āThe true meaning of Christmas gets lost when we believe contrary worldviews,ā the prisoner writes. Ā āOur beliefs determine our views in a world where absolutes are fading away.ā Ā The prisoner is dictating this for his newsletter.Come-to-Jesus (or -Allah) experiences abound in prisons, so itās always wise to take conversion stories with a grain of salt....
Neocon Pitfalls for Trump 2.0
Former Trump advisor Robert C. OāBrien began campaigning for a spot in the next Trump admin by penning an unhinged neocon manifesto. Unfortunately, OāBrien may soon find his way into the second Trump admin.
A Balkans Policy for the New Administration
American policies in the Balkans over the past decade have come to embody all that is wrong with the fundamental assumptions of the decisionmakers in Washington. A thorough revision of those policies would be an important step toward a more pragmatic American strategy in world affairs based on the national interest. This is no longer...
From Good War to Bad Social Engineering
The United States has been at war in Afghanistan for more than eight years. That is longer than our involvement in both world wars combined. Yet the end of the conflict appears to be further away than ever. It is not even clear what would constitute victory. Afghanistan began as the āgood war,ā receiving near-unanimous...
What We Are Reading: October 2022
Short reviews of Days of Rage, by Bryan Burrough, and All the World's Mornings, by Pascal Quignard.
Eating Cake
I made my way to Florence from Cortina dāAmpezzo, where for the past half-century the Italian bourgeoisie had pretended to ski while in reality merely promenading in opulent furs in front of the Hotel de la Poste in postprandial stupefaction.Ā This year, however, the resort was a ghost town, and not only on account of...
New Wine in Old Bottles
Suppose a wife is dying or has been lying for years in a coma: Who has ultimate authority to decide what medical treatments will be used to prolong or not to prolong her life?Ā Suppose a child of divorced parents is taken out of the country by his mother, who then dies, leaving the child...
From Good War to Bad Social Engineering
The United States has been at war in Afghanistan for more than eight years.Ā That is longer than our involvement in both world wars combined.Ā Yet the end of the conflict appears to be further away than ever.Ā It is not even clear what would constitute victory. Afghanistan began as the āgood war,ā receiving near-unanimous...
Christmas 2015: A Time For the Introspection Our Society Desperately Needs
The following article by Allan C. Brownfeld is reprinted with permission. Christmas approaches at a time of increasing turmoil in the world and in our own society. The hope, once widespread, that with the end of the Cold War, we would embark upon an era of peace and tranquility, has long since been proven to...
The Way Home
Wendell Berryās latest harvest of essays contains characteristically wise observations on mobility, industrial agriculture, and other maladies of our age, but it also displays a Berry seldom glimpsedāthat is, Wendell Berry as a rural Kentucky Democrat reluctant to quit a party that long ago quit rural America.Ā He even titles one short piece āSome Notes...
A Man for No Season
“It is not merely that speeches, statistics, and records of every kind must be constantly brought up to date in order to show that the predictions of the Party were in all cases right. It is also that no change in doctrine or in political alignment can ever be admitted.” āGeorge Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four Harry...
Gross National Greed
Editorās Note: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which President Bush signed into law on July 30, is designed to increase corporate responsibility.Ā It is a step in the right direction, but it fails to address the central role played by Wall Street.Ā Some CEOs and CFOs may go to jail, but, as usual, the people...
Dialoguing With Douthat
Surely, the defining characteristic of the paleoconservative temperament is disgustāwith the current state of the country, the culture, and (most of all) the āofficialā conservative movement.Ā On this last point, there can be no compromise: Eight long years of Bushism, with a foreign policy energized by neoconservative democratism, has bankrupted the country financially and bankrupted...
Who Was Watching the Watchers?
One cannot reasonably assume that the attacks of September 11, 2001, were a seamless conspiracy.Ā Even a successful plot is not a well-oiled machine, and, whatever the plotting behind the scenes, as Shakespeareans say about Romeo and Juliet, the skyjackings of September 11 were, in some ways, tragedy snatched from the jaws of comedy. Take,...
Serbia Humiliated
On October 5, 2000, in an almost bloodless coup by the security forces staged against the backdrop of massive street protests, Slobodan Milosevic was removed from power in Serbia. Ten years later, many of those who cheered his downfall then (this author included) have nothing to celebrate. In the run-up ...
A Morbid Quest
Paul Wolfowitzās nomination by President George W. Bush as the new president of the World Bank has caused a storm of protests from abroad, but the news is good.Ā At his new post, Wolfowitz will not be able to do nearly as much damage as he has done at the Pentagon. That damage has been...
What Is Paleoconservatism?
Paleoconservatism is the expression of rootedness: a sense of place and of history, a sense of self derived from forebears, kin, and cultureāan identity that is both collective and personal. This identity is missing from the psychological and emotional makeup of leftists of every stripeāincluding “neoconservatives”āand is now disavowed by mainline conservatives of the Republican...
The North American Meat Grinder that Used to Be the USA
Stories about immigrant workers being chewed up by machinery are used by todayās globalist propagandists to browbeat readers into embracing a world without borders.
An Austrian Frame of Mind
Professor Janek Wasserman, to his credit, is not a polemicist. His new book is indeed a leftist critique of the broad school of economic thought now colloquially referred to as āAustrian,ā but it is not only that. It is also a lively and well-paced history of the astonishing influence pre-war Viennese intellectuals had on the...
Holding On to a Culture
For a political party that celebrates diversity, it is certainly an odd choice.Ā The Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party of Minnesota, like the Democrats nationwide, has celebrated its role in promoting multiculturalism and massive immigration.Ā Yet the ticket the DFL has nominated to run for governor and lieutenant governor this fallāState Senate Majority Leader Roger Moe and...
Jungle Excursions
Certain frontline soldiers in Vietnam, Michael Herr has written, went off to battle in the jungle whistling the themes to the television shows Combat and The Mickey Mouse Club, making Vietnam the first television war in more ways than one. Brian Alexander, a journalist, carries a different television talisman into the jungle in Green Cathedrals,...
The Untold Story of Kosovo Negotiations
Vojislav Kostunica, Serbiaās prime minister for the past three years, has one of the most challenging jobs in the world. He nevertheless seems at ease with that burden, and appears more confident than while he was Yugoslaviaās last president (2000-2003). When we met in ...
Confidants of Blood
“If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.” āPsalm 137:6 This troubling memoir of James Dickey by his son, Christopher, is troubling as well for me to review because I knew James Dickey a little, and I greatly admire his work. Whether all the scenes in it...
Against the Rainbow Capitalists
Broad swaths of conservative opinion today would have it that the enemy of the right is some variant of Marxism. But this does not accurately describe people like Facebookās Mark Zuckerberg, Amazonās Jeff Bezos, or CNNās Jeff Zucker. All the tech and media executives who are censoring and deplatforming voices on the right can hardly...
Joe Biden, 20 Years Ago, Blocked the Potential First Black Female on the Supreme Court
Joe Biden repeatedly blocked the path of Janice Rogers Brown when she was being considered for the Court.
The Way We Live
“Self, self, has half filled Hell.” āScottish Proverb James Lincoln Collier is the descendant of well-to-do New Englanders, mill-owners “who lived in a grand house on a hill, overlooking a row of . . . the cottages of the- workers [they] . . . employed.” Nevertheless, his new bookāwhich could as well be called The...
Revolution and the American Mind
“The world has never had a good definition of liberty.” āAbraham Lincoln Food lines lengthen in Moscow; show trials continue in Beijing; bicycles replace motor vehicles in Havana. As the Warsaw Pact and Berlin Wall crumble, so does the standing of Mao and Che, even on college campuses. The closing of this millennium may not...
Our Terror Sanctuary
The āFort Dix Sixā may not be the smartest group of would-be jihadists we have seen, but their story should tell us something about how lax immigration and border-security policies put this country at risk. The six Muslims were arrested in New Jersey in May, for plotting to attack Fort Dix, which is known as...