Latin America has repeatedly failed to achieve the kind of settled distribution of property that could support a middle-class society.Ā This is a disjunction of subtle but increasing cultural importance as the United States becomes more of a Latin country.Ā With Jeb Bush running for the 2016 Republican nomination based in part on his ties...
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Look Away, Dixieland!
Black migration from the rural South to the cities of the North is an important chapter in 20th-century American history. What began as a steady trickle developed into a flood as blacks left the land in response to the promises of the factory. The decade of the I920’s alone saw nearly 250,000 blacks make the...
The Israeli Prescription
“Moderation lasts.” āSeneca The American public has fallen victim in recent years to a propaganda assault, launched and coordinated by the Israeli Likud party and their American partners, whose theme is clear and simple: the long-term security of the Jewish state lies in its ability to maintain control over the West Bank and the Gaza...
Civil War Cinema
Life is short.Ā Although I am a devoted, if amateur, student of Hollywoodās treatment of the great American War of 1861-65, I intended to spare myself the ordeal of Spielbergās Lincoln.Ā However, the honored editor of Americaās bravest and best journal instructed me to go.Ā I have always found such instruction to be wise.Ā And...
Lilliput vs. Leviathan
There are lots of freckles, red hair, and Celtic names in Catron County, New Mexico. Though almost everyone in the county has some Indian or Mexican blood, this is home to the families and culture which David Hackett Fischer describes in Albion’s Seed as Scotch-Irish, double distilled, first by the Highland clearances and then by...
Foreigners No More
They are coming: on trains, on buses, on foot, all the way from Central America, where they meet up with smugglers who take them across our nonexistent border.Ā This has been happening for decades, but thereās one big difference in the recent wave of illegal immigration: These are children, many under ten years of ageā50,000...
An Illusion of the Future
Barely a week after, the Tiananmen Square massacre, Ronald Reagan showed up in London to deliver himself of some post-presidential opinions. As the nation’s newest elder statesman, Mr. Reagan received international headlines for his speech, which turned out to be a long variation on his best-known line from Death Valley Days: progress is our most...
A Conciliar Critique, Etc.
It is significant but notĀ surprising that Ross Douthat in his bookĀ The Decadent SocietyĀ and reviewer John M. DeJak (āA Decadent Diagnosis,ā August 2020Ā Chronicles) both overlooked the pivotal impact of Vatican II and Catholic social doctrine. These two liberal landmarks changed the religious and cultural focus from duty to freedom; from truth to inclusiveness; from repentance to...
Rise of the Brexit Party
āRegardless of their doom, / The little victims play.ā All eyes are on the impending fall of Theresa May, whose tragedy is hyperbolically termed āShakespeareanā by scribes who are yet to acquaint themselves with more than his titles. We are not looking at a Lear, or Othello, or Coriolanus. The failure of May is on...
Taking the Mickey
In an English court of law 21 years ago, I had the opportunity to discover firsthand how touchy judges can be when challenged from the dock.Ā It was a case of libel that caught both the tabloid and broadsheet imagination, not to mention the BBCās.Ā I had referred to a very rich old woman as...
Why We Don’t Like Politicians
“The polls” have it that Americans in 2014 expect virtually nothing from the 2014 style in Washington politicians. Amid the horrors we trip over every morning when evacuating our beds, this revelation may count as very, very, very good news. We don’t want to expect much from our politicians, of whatever sex, party, creed, and...
Should Speculative Bankers Be Put to Death?
Ā The latest spectacle of disgusting posthuman monsters in expensive suits squandering other peopleās billionsāwhile displaying nothing but studied contempt forĀ hoi polloiĀ whose blood is their sustenanceāis sickening and infuriating. DĆ©jĆ vu all over again. Never mind the regulators and government officials with whom they are in existential cahoots; the bastards will continue doing their thing...
Star, Dusted
Sometimes I wonder why I spend the lonely night dreaming of a song, but mostly I donāt.Ā Mostly I donāt, because the nightingale doesnāt tell his fairy tale unless he hopped a ride on the Cunard or the White Star Line.Ā No, the real problem is what does happen every day or night, and Jon...
China: Pelosi Trip to Taiwan a Provocation
Nancy Pelosiās recent trip to Taiwan has provoked Beijing. Relations between the U.S. and China will likely suffer.
To Defeat the Islamic State
The decisions that determined the fate of the great nations and empires that failed to survive the 20th century are well known. For the Kaiser’s Germany, it was the “blank cheque” to Austria after Sarajevo. For Great Britain, the 1939 war guarantee to Poland. For the Third Reich, it was the June 1941 invasion of...
The European Kerensky?
“Prodi, the Italian Kerensky?” was the intriguing headline of a full-page ad by a Christian-inspired group, Centro Culturale Lepanto (CCL), in two major Italian dailies, Il Giornale and Il Tempo, on May 14, 1996. In that manifesto, CCL president Roberto de Mattei, professor of modern history at the University of Cassino and one of the...
The Attempt to Hoodwink the U.S. Into a Cold War With Russia
For years conservative movement figures haveĀ engaged in āvalue talk,āĀ a rhetorical means of winning acceptance for pet causes that often have little to do with conservatism or traditional morality. Such value talk has often been usedĀ as a way of prodding Washington into foreign entanglements.Ā Leon Aronās recent article forĀ The Dispatch, āWelcome to the new Cold Warā...
Afghanistan: Opium Market to the World
āFor more than two millennia, Afghanistan has been at the crossroads of civilizations and a major contributor to world culture,ā declared the U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in 2003.Ā Exactly what Afghanistan has contributed to world culture is not so clear, but the desperately poor, primitive, war-torn state is important in another way.Ā ...
Imitation of Life
āYou shall have life and that abundantly.ā What did Jesusā followers make of this bold promise?Ā He had shown them that he could cure the diseases that afflict both body and mind, and, in bringing Lazarus back from the dead, He lifted the veil to reveal a part of the mystery of His own being.Ā ...
Muslim Murder in London
Last May, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, two Muslim converts, both Christian apostates, deliberately ran down an off-duty British soldier, Lee Rigby, in their automobile on a main street in the London suburb of Woolwich.Ā In front of eyewitnesses, they then repeatedly stabbed him and tried to behead him with a machete.Ā Their trial and...
Remembering R. L. Dabney
Robert Lewis Dabney was an American theologian and seminary professor. He was also a philosopher who wrote extensively on cultural and political issues of the second half of the 19th century. In our own day, when there is much confusion over what defines conservative political theory, we would do well to look to the writings...
Republicans Must Make a Laser-Focused, Issues-Based Case to the People
If Republicans can successfully frame the 2024 election as boiling down to the actual issuesāand above all, the economy, inflation, immigration and crimeāthen they stand a strong chance of prevailing.
The Third Iconoclasm
The two roots onto which Western Christendom was grafted proposed very different notions about depicting the gods.Ā The Greeks famously made images of Athena and Zeus, always depicting them as man writ large, and were untroubled by this glaring anthropomorphism.Ā Hebrew tradition, on the other hand, said nothing about making or worshiping images of God.Ā ...
On Race, Can We All Lighten Up?
On a beautiful Sunday morning, I was out of town for a business meeting in the city of Santa Barbara, California, an affluent area where the rich and famous live. Demographically, it isn’t exactly Wakanda. Before getting on the 101 Freeway for the long drive back to Los Angeles, I pulled into a gas station...
Correcting a Legal Transgression
The trial was fixed.Ā The judge knew it.Ā The rancher had the town buffaloed.Ā The jury would deliver the verdict the rancher wanted. The judge was concerned that the rancherās rowdies would use the verdict for a lynching.Ā The rancher didnāt want any more nesters around.Ā The nesterās wife was a good-looking woman, and the...
Going Through Changes
The CIA underwent several changes at the close of 2004, and the resignations of a number of high-ranking CIA officers in November, as well as the content of a memo by new CIA Director Porter Goss to agency employees, appear to confirm a claim by Newsday that the White House was planning a purge at...
Churchillās Home Front
Winston Churchill is one of the most closely examined (and lionized) of all politicians, and it is accordingly difficult to think of new angles from which to view him and his legacy.Ā But now here are two original and complementary studies coming at once, one profiling his wife, Clementine, the other examining the impressive public...
Education, Schooling, Learning
IĀ do not like the word educationāespecially when it is not only confused with but mistaken for learning.Ā Originally, education in English meant ābringing up.āĀ That is not identical with schooling.Ā A man or woman who āhas been well brought upā (alas, an almost obsolete phrase nowadays) suggests something about good manners, mental or physical manners,...
Limping to Hell With Good Intentions
A History of Violence Produced and distributed by Neil’ Line Cinema Directed bv David Cronenberg Screenplay by Josh Olson from the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke Film titles do not come more portentous than A History of Violence. Entering a Manhattan theater to view David Cronenberg’s latest cinematic lesson, I was half...
The Kemp-Darman Battle
Jack Kemp was the great champion of freedom, according to official conservatives, whereas Dick Darman was the “Prince of Darkness.” In fact, whatever was wrong with Darman (President Bush’s budget director), Kemp was far worse. The Kemp-Darman battle came down to this: Kemp, a leftist Republican, constantly sought to expand the budget for his “war...
Establishing the Worst
My young German friend Karl-Peter Schwarz, a political correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, sent me an essay last month that was earmarked for his newspaper, about an Italian Christian Democrat and nominee for the post of E.U. commissioner of justice, Rocco Buttiglione.Ā In early October 2004, the Berlusconi government nominated Buttiglione as part of...
Grey Lady in Rainbow Panties
My family lived, while I was growing up, at 29 Claremont Avenue between Riverside Drive and Broadway, in an elaborately decorated apartment building of ivory-colored stone directly overlooking the Barnard College campus and the copper roofs, weathered to a lichenous green, of Columbia University beyond.Ā Lionel and Diana Trilling and their son, my schoolmate at...
Adios, Rio Nido
I moved to Rio Nido, a tiny hamlet in the middle of a redwood forest, in the winter of 2008, just a day after the Big Crash.Ā I had found my sanctuary in a world of trouble.Ā What I didnāt count on was a new form of trouble. Rio Nido is a resort community, founded...
What the Fall of Ramadi Means
The fall of Ramadi, capital of Anbar, largest province in Iraq, after a rout of the Iraqi army by a few hundred ISIS fighters using bomb-laden trucks, represents a stunning setback for U.S. policy. When President Obama declared that we shall “degrade and defeat” the Islamic State, he willed the ends, but not the means....
Oresteia V: The Eumenidesāthe Conclusion
Before going on the Eumenides , let us reflect a little on the theme.Ā The Greeks regarded homicide with awe.Ā Like Montenegrins and Albanians until recently, the brother or father of a murder victim felt a physical burden.Ā The would-be avenger could not eat or sleep until revenge had been ...
From the Mountains Above Batumi
The Black Sea city of Batumi used to be beautiful, and, under a foot of freshly fallen snow, Batumi is beautiful again.Ā Stuccoed terraces of tired 19th-century buildings sit doorstep-deep in white.Ā Chuckling gutters trim the softness draped over corrugated iron roofs.Ā Concrete tenements fade out of focus, their drabness merging with the gray of...
Sociological Balderdash
The Supreme Court’s recent Casey decision on abortion is a memorable example of sociological balderdash. The joint decision began, “Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt,” to which Justice Scalia fired back in his dissent, “Liberty finds no refuge in this jurisprudence of confusion.” Scalia’s observation becomes painfully clear when one reads the...
Remembering the Southern Agrarians
In 1920 a group of writers gathered at the home of playwright Sidney Hirsch in Nashville for bi-weekly sessions of reading and dissecting each otherās prose and poetry. It was the beginning of an outpouring of creativity from a group that would try to defend and restore the traditional Southern way of life against the...
Going Beyond Tink and Tank
Charles Edward Eaton, in New and Selected Poems, as elsewhere, is a remarkable poet, a fine metrist and stylist, and a close disciple of Wallace Stevens in artistic skill and finesse as well as in theory and topics. Many a poet who buys whole hog and pen Stevens’ often-prevalent view of poetics (and thus poetry)...
The Habsburgs and the Balkans: A Rich, Uneven Tapestry
Ā Much ill-informed and superficial nonsense has been published in recent weeks on the Habsburgs in generalĀ and on their role in the Balkans in particular. This is a pity because that role is genuinely interesting, often filled with drama and heroism, and in its final stages marked by hubris, folly, and tragedy. Well worth a...
Jacques Derrida, R.I.P.
Passing away in a Paris hospital on October 8, philosopher Jacques Derrida (born in Algeria in 1930) has exited a scene in which he was once a conspicuous actor.Ā Prominent in America since his poststructuralist lecture of 1966 and his following books, Derrida was perhaps the best-known literary theorist in the world for a quarter...
Barack Backhands Bibi
Did the community organizer from Harvard Law just deliver some personal payback to the IDF commando? So it would seem. By abstaining on that Security Council resolution declaring Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem illegal and invalid, raged Bibi Netanyahu, President Obama “failed to protect Israel in this gang-up at the UN,...
Cannibal Statistics
In debate, it is always possible to be right for the wrong reason.Ā For instance, in supporting the proposition that cannibalism is immoral, I might argue that, historically, cannibalism encouraged the killing of human beings who might otherwise have been kidnapped by Arabs or rival African tribesmen and sold into slavery in the southern United...
Is Mitt Serious About Condi?
Ā The first criterion in choosing a vice president, it is said, is that he or she must be qualified to be president. Ā Yet there is another yardstick by which candidates measure running mates. Do they bring something to the table? Can they help with a critical voting bloc? Can they bring a crucial...
Merkelās Flawed Legacy
Angela Merkel announced on October 29 that she would make a two-stage exit from the political scene. She is first giving up her chairmanship of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which will select a new leader at its party congress on December 7-8. She is to step down as chancellor next, but not before the...
Are Democrats Ceding the Center to Trump?
Since the Democratic debates in June, the tide seems to have receded for the party and its presidential hopefuls. In new polls, only Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump comfortably. The other top-tier candidatesāSens. Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren, and Mayor Pete Buttigiegāare running even with Trump, a measurable drop. A Washington Post-ABC...
The Myth of Red Brotherhood
Second only to the myth of Indian as ecologist is that of red brotherhood.Ā Although physically similar, the Indian peoples of what is today the United States were a diverse lot.Ā There was no common language, culture, or identity.Ā A few groups of Indians evolved political organizationsāthe Iroquois League of the Five Nations was the...
Fighting Among the Hedgerows
As a young college student, I accepted implicitly all the goals of the Civil Rights revolution.Ā I believed firmly that schools should be integrated, even though the nearest thing to integration I had ever experienced was going to school with a part-Ojibwe in Superior, Wisconsin, a lily-white town in which black people were not allowed...
On Media Conspiracies
Samuel Francis sounds like a Clintonoid in his column āWill Europe Survive?ā (Principalities & Powers, August).Ā He chides the few Republicans who sought the truth about the serious crimes allegedly committed by the Clintons as āconspiracy mongers,ā while avoiding such major policy issues as immigration and affirmative action. While Dr. Francis is correct to criticize...
Sanctions: War on the Cheap
The modern weapon of “sanctions” seems made-to-order for the foreign policy of Bill Clinton. Remarkably evasive and unprincipled even for a modern politician, Clinton is possessed of a horror of commitment in both his personal and his political life. The armamentarium of minute differentia in sanctions allows Clinton to posture at length as a man...