As war clouds loom over the political landscape and the propaganda wafts thickly from the major news media, we have to ask: Where does all of this come from?Ā Who is behind the rush to war? Pat Buchanan has utilized a useful phrase to describe the origins of this bloodlust: the War Party.Ā This term...
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Being Bill O’Reilly
Some celebrities seem born with a natural star power that radiates from them like an angelic halo. Alcibiades had this kind of “charisma” that made him adored even by people who disliked him. To be a celebrity, as Willy Loman would say, it is not enough to be liked: You must be well liked. Musicians...
Throughly American Healthcare
You would have thought that, at 17 percent of the U.S. economy, the healthcare industry would be much better understood than it apparently is by our Washington brethren.Ā I canāt help but look back and smile at the image of Nancy Pelosi standing at a podium and opining on how she couldnāt wait to get...
A World Safe for Stalinism
Long ago, a British veteran of World War II offered this sober moral judgment on the war: It was just such a sunny, breezy Mediterranean day two years before when he read of the Russo-German alliance, when a decade of shame seemed to be ending in light and reason, when the enemy was plain in...
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...
Love and Work in the Modern Age
My mother would call Allan Carlson a man gifted with “common sense.” In her eyes this was high praise. She was right in this as in so many things. Carlson’s most recent entry into the seemingly interminable debate about “whither the family?” or even “whether the family?” is marked by a refreshingly clear writing style:...
Remembering Slavery
The topic of slavery and reparations has been much in the news of late and might feature prominently in next yearās presidential elections. Slave ownership taints the reputations of historical figures, to the point of provoking campaigns against their commemoration. Modern dismay over slavery is quite justified, but a couple of reality checks might be...
The Pavarotti Effect
I have been told that there is something called the āPavarotti Effect,ā and that this phenomenon is observable and definable.Ā Perhaps sometimes the Pavarotti Effect was an affect, or perhaps it was subsumed by the āSuperstar Effect,ā as Sherwin Rosen called it in a paper published in The American Economic Review in 1981.Ā Rosen insisted...
On Unjust Peace
The Ukrainian invasion may not have happened if the American government had not tried to push NATO to the borders of Russia. Conflict happens in international relations and does not require woke ideological hysteria as a response.
Roll Over, James Madison
To anyone who has spent some time with the Framers and ratifiers of the U.S. Constitution, most current talk about that document seems not about the Constitution at all but about some fanciful construct of wishful thinking, accumulated misunderstandings, and successful usurpations. This is certainly so in regard to the recent discussions of the Electoral...
Hemingwayās Men at War: Anthology of an Obsession
Despite structural flaws, Men at War, edited by Ernest Hemingway, offers fascinating insights into Hemingway's views on fiction-writing, war reporting, and war itself.
The New White Moors
On February 22, an article in Londonās Sunday Times reported on a survey of white British converts to Islam.Ā The survey was conducted by Yahya (formerly Jonathan) Birt, the son of former BBC director-general Sir John Birt.Ā Having examined the 2001 census figures, Birt concluded that there were around 14,200 white converts to Islam in...
Medieval Modernism
Unlike certain 19th-century poets of difficult character or seemingly foredoomed, whom Paul Verlaine called maudits (accursed)āRimbaud, GĆ©rard de Nerval, CorbiĆØre, Verlaine himselfāGuillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) was a pleasant, cheerful fellow.Ā He, too, suffered misfortune, including illegitimate birth and absence of a father, unrequited love, wounding in the Great War, and premature death during the influenza epidemic...
Keep Your Powder Dry
President Obamaās latest executive order, announced as we send this issue to press, is hardly surprising.Ā Having failed to convince Congress three years ago to pass new gun-control laws requiring background checks on all gun purchases, the President had used every mass shooting sinceāincluding the jihadist attack in San Bernardinoāto rail against the current state...
Books and Lovers
Back in 1839, an Englishman by the name of Alexander Walker wrote a manual by the name of Woman, in which he quoted Hume: āAmong the inferior creatures, nature herself, being the supreme legislator, prescribes all the laws which regulate their marriages, and varies those laws according to the different circumstances of the creature.āĀ So...
Mayhem and Civility
Joker Directed and written by Todd Phillips ā¢ Produced by Creative Wealth Media Finance and DC Entertainment ā¢ Distributed by Warner Brothers Downton Abbey Directed by Michael Engler ā¢ Screenplay by Julian Fellowes ā¢ Produced and distributed by Focus Features The Conversation Directed and written by Francis Ford Coppola ā¢ Produced by The Coppola Company...
Blowing Bubbles
Between 2000 and 2005 I found myself spending an increasing amount of time scratching my head.Ā I had been researching and investing in financial-services stocks since 1992, but what I saw during that five-year span confounded me.Ā Banks offered āninjaā mortgagesāno income, no job, no assetsāto any borrower brazen enough to walk into a branch...
The Continuing Revolution
In his critical work about the bicentenaire of the French Revolution, Le Grand DĆ©classement, French historian Pierre Chaunu explores the first stages of the unraveling of the glorification of France as a revolutionary nation conceived in 1789.Ā By the time Chaunuās book was published in 1989, however, the official celebrations had been both scaled back...
Unreal Bodies, Unholy Blood
The vampire, possibly the most enduring mythic figure of the modern age, emerged out of the shadows of the Enlightenment.Ā To be sure, folkloric accounts of lamiae, strigae, and incubi predate the Christian era and continued to haunt the European imagination throughout the Middle Ages, when vampirism was generally associated with witchcraft.Ā But early in...
Whither Europe?
That Europe is in mortal danger from the ongoing, overwhelmingly Muslim immigrant deluge and from its ruling elitesā spiritual degeneracy is beyond dispute.Ā This phenomenon of world-historical significance has several causes, but the most important one is in the divorce of reason from faith.Ā As a result, post-Christian Europe is rapidly sinking into self-destruction. The...
Obama’s Republican Collaborators
The GOP swept to victory in November by declaring that this imperial presidency must be brought to heel, and President Obama’s illicit seizures of Congressional power must end. That was then. Now is now. This week, Congress takes up legislation to cede His Majesty full authority to negotiate the largest trade deal in history, the...
Classic Colonialism
Almost alone among the peoples of the world, the United States has largely been sparedāat least until recentlyāthe bitter conflicts that plague countries whose citizens do not share a common language. Since the early 17th century, immigrants from diverse backgrounds have settled here. In the past, it was understood that in exchange for enjoying opportunities...
The Plight of the Homeless
In one of Douglas Adamsā very silly books, Zaphod Beeblebrox, the egocentric two-headed president of the universe, is condemned to undergo the ordeal of the Total Perspective Vortex.Ā It is an excruciating form of torture that exposes the criminal to a sense of the infinite size of the universe and his own small place in...
On Excluding Muslims
Srdja Trifkovicās call to exclude āMecca from Americaā (āTo Lose a War,ā American Interest, November) brings to mind Protestant-nativist attempts to āexclude Rome from Americaā a century ago.Ā Dr. Trifkovicās reasons for excluding Islam from American society can be applied to the case of pre-Vatican II Catholicism in the United States.Ā Anti-Catholic literature often expressed...
Children of Fortune
“Each social class has its own pathology.” āProust Going by the tide and subtitle alone, it would appear that this is either a book about the lies rich people tell each other, or a book transforming the jingle of coins into the crash of magical cymbals. Having read it through, I am happy to report...
Distortionsāor Truths?
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Hillman writes of “the governance of the gods.” It is morenreasonable to assume that both men are attracted to the Buddhistnconcept, according to which there is no self, only a flux ofnsensations cut up into discrete and illusionary consciousnesses.nThis view was shared by philosophers from Heraclitus to Nietzsche,nand it has had decisive influence on devotees...
As the Boomers Head for the Barn
Ā When the April figures on unemployment were released May 4, they were more than disappointing. They were deeply disturbing. While the unemployment rate had fallen from 8.2 percent to 8.1 percent, 342,000 workers had stopped looking for work. They had just dropped out of the labor market. Only 63.6 percent of the U.S. working...
Ethnic Cleansing
Some memories of auld lang syne on New Year's Day 2010. This Rockford Files first appeared in the August 2002 issue of Chronicles. Family traditions often get started by accidentāespecially, perhaps, those that center on food. On the second New Yearās Eve after we were married, my wife and ...
The Best Government Money Can Buy
All of our history is now āindoctrination by historical example.āĀ The academicians who write the officially approved, politically correct distortions of it have failed history, and us.Ā They are of two types: the courtiers, smiling sycophants such as āpresidential historianā Michael Beschloss and the insufferable Doris Kearns Goodwin; and their envious colleagues, politically correct pedants,...
Unpatriotic Liars
Ā Here is poor David Frum pretending to have second thoughts about the Iraq War for which he shilled. Ā Obviously, the only people who are capable of having Ā second thoughts had to have first thoughts, and there is no sign that Frum has ever done anything but pound a keyboard and recycle other people’s lies....
Roger Stone, Jeffrey Epstein, and the Crackup of America’s Leadership
Roger Stone was recently convicted in federal court on seven felony charges, stemming from the since-closed Russian collusion investigation. Stone’s main crime was lying to Congress about who he had, or had not, spoken to about Russia. By the time Stone’s trial began in Washington, nobody was talking about WikiLeaks anymore. Nobody cared. Yet prosecutors...
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.
Thoroughly Modem Monarchy
The pace of cultural redefinition in Britain is steady and strong. Since the day in 1991 when Prime Minister John Major refused to veto the Maastricht treaty, a new picture has emerged. To put it crudely, the Tories and the monarchy are looking unprecedentedly vulnerable. The only good argument for their continued survival is that...
Return to Short Creek
Recently, the state of Texas undertook a police action that amply demonstrates the radical transformation of public attitudes to family, children, and the role of the state over the past half-century.Ā In April 2008, Texas authorities staged mass raids on a polygamist compound near San Angelo, in which they took custody of several hundred children.Ā ...
The Great American Disintegration
When a former colleague sent me a snippet from The New Yorker of September 22, 2014āa piece called āAs Big As the Ritz,ā by Adam Gopnikāthe attention therein given to two recent books on F. Scott Fitzgerald caught my eye, not only because I had already acquired one of them, but because I was repelled...
Remember Katyn
I arrived in Poland just as the television announced the tragic death of President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, Maria, and many of Polandās military and political leaders in an airplane crash at Smolensk in Russia.Ā A week of mourning followed throughout the entire country. The president had been traveling to Smolensk for a joint commemoration...
Playing Favorites With Liz vs. Marjorie
Last Sunday, Chris Wallace solemnly called attention to what he regards as a growing embarrassment in Congress: A Georgia representative, Marjorie Taylor Greene, whom Democrats have now stripped of all assignments in their august body because she refuses to keep her mouth shut. Congresswoman Greene thinks the presidential election on Nov. 3 was full of...
Hillary’s Watergate?
After posting Friday’s column, “A Presidency from Hell?,” about the investigations a President Hillary Clinton would face, by afternoon it was clear I had understated the gravity of the situation. Networks exploded with news that FBI Director James Comey had informed Congress he was reopening the investigation into Clinton’s email scandal, which he had said...
Tariffs: The Taxes That Made America Great
As his limo carried him to work at the White House Monday, Larry Kudlow could not have been pleased with the headline in the Washington Post: “Kudlow Contradicts Trump on Tariffs.” The story began: “National Economic Council Director Lawrence Kudlow acknowledged Sunday that American consumers end up paying for the administration’s tariffs on Chinese imports,...
The Politics of Race
The politics of raceāmayoral candidate Rudi Giuliani realized after the September 12 primary that to win as a Republican in a Democratic town like New York, he would have to get a large chunk of liberal and centrist Jews to desert David Dinkins’ ticket. As soon as the primary was over, therefore, the Giuliani campaign...
The Dean Delusion
What is wrong with Howard Dean?Ā Not much, if you listen to many Republicans and some conservatives.Ā Republicans are salivating over the prospect of a Dean nomination because it seems to be the best way to ensure that President Bush stays where he is.Ā Some conservatives, however, are saying that they may vote for the...
Patriarch Alesky, R.I.P
Aleksy II, Patriarch of Moscow and head of the Russian Orthodox Church, died of heart failure on December 5, 2008, at the age of 79. Born in Estonia in 1929 into a pious family of Russian ƩmigrƩs of German extraction, Aleksei Mikhailovich Ridiger was ordained a priest in 1950, completed his theological studies in St....
Heavenly Windows
Recently, I read some words that were spoken by Saint Macarius, a fourth-century monk who expresses so powerfully what God in Jesus Christ came and continues to come to do among us: When man falls under the power of the darkness of the devilās night, he is troubled and distressed by the dreadful wound of...
Should We Fight for the Spratlys?
Trailed by two Chinese warships, the guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen sailed inside the 12-nautical-mile limit of Subi Reef, a man-made island China claims as her national territory. Beijing protested. Says China: Subi Reef and the Spratly Island chain, in a South China Sea that carries half of the world’s seaborne trade, are as much ours...
Since Iām Jewish, This Must Be Judaism
When religion becomes a matter of personal opinion, cultureāwhich by definition is public and corporateāno longer defines what is eternally at stake in man’s relationship to God. Ethics and morality give way to impulse and whim, and sentimentality rides. Private religion appeals to the feeling of the moment, and, under such conditions, learning and tradition...
Is US Bellicosity Backfiring?
U.S. threats to crush Iran and North Korea may yet work, but as of now neither Tehran nor Pyongyang appears to be intimidated. Repeated references by NSC adviser John Bolton and Vice President Mike Pence to the “Libya model” for denuclearization of North Korea just helped sink the Singapore summit of President Trump and Kim...
Scouting and Sin
[This article first appeared in the January 1992 issue of Chronicles.] The Case Against the Boy Scouts The Boy Scouts of America have recently been accused of sins against Democracy, in the form of discrimination against atheists, homosexuals, and women. Four recent lawsuits have challenged the organizational prerogatives of the Scouts. The families of nine-year-old...
The Long Sadness
William Ball was just shy of 19 and living in the town of Souris on the prairies of Canada when war erupted in Europe in August 1914.Ā The region was still something of a frontier, devoted to trapping and trading with Indians, and inhabited by hearty, adventurous types, Ball among them.Ā On a bet, he...
Transgressing the Pieties
As every alert American has noticed, feminist leaders have jumped to the defense of President Clinton ever since he was first accused of sexually abusing a young woman who thought she was invited to see the then-governor for a talk, perhaps about a job. In doing so, they have made a remarkable reversal of the...