The ugliness displayed by the media and Democrats during the fight over Brett Kavanaughās nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court is yet another indicator of how far we have come from Hamiltonās conception of the federal judiciary as āthe least dangerous branch.ā Kavanaugh was nominated to replace Anthony Kennedy, who used his perch on the...
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In Praise of Toughness
“A system-grinder hates the truth.” āRalph Waldo Emerson During the 25 years of its existence, contemporary feminism has received a measure of gentle chiding for its excesses. Not even the most indulgent eye can completely overtook feminist comparisons of marriage to prostitution, childbirth to defecation, or the use of the pronoun “he” to Jim Crow....
The Better Way
A review of Winterās Bone: A Novel, by Daniel Woodrell. The Missouri Ozarks are the western outpost of Appalachia. The hills are not as high as their elder brothers to the east, but they plunge down into narrow, labyrinthine valleys, where streams of cool, green water run. The surrounding soil is mostly shallow and full...
Judging for the People
For just about the last half-century, since Earl Warren became chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the American legal academy has pondered something usually referred to as the ālegitimacy problem.āĀ Law-school professors have believed that there is a difficulty inherent in the fact that an unelected, isolated body of nine jurists working in a...
Obama, Relationship Therapist
The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, and did it very well. W.S. Gilbertās lines from Iolanthe seem applicable to President Barack ObaĀmaās four-day Middle East trip, which ended on March 23.Ā The tour was a ādiplomatic triumph,ā according to ReuĀters.Ā āObama returns . . . with diplomatic victory,ā declared CNN.Ā ...
Agatha Christieās Crime Canon Has Murder Mystery Staying Power
It seems unlikely that there will ever be another Agatha Christie. But itās not from want of trying.
Letter From Egypt: The Ongoing Plight of Christians
For the majority of Egyptās Christians, the Sisi government is far from ideal, but preferable to any likely alternative. The Copts (āCoptā being derived from the Greek Īį¼°Ī³ĻĻĻĪ¹ĪæĻ, āEgyptianā) still suffer from various forms of discrimination, but at least Christians are not formally reduced to the status of dhimmis, second-class citizens under Sharia, which was...
The Best of Our Time
Elected Provost of King’s College, Cambridge, in his 30’s and subsequently Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, Lord Annan is a delightful person who has given us a delightful book of scintillating erudition that ranges far beyond the confines of its subtitle. Indeed, there can hardly be a single English intellectual of significance in this...
Are You a Bigot?
A major function of liberal society is inventing new forms of bigotry.Ā You take an obvious ideaāsomething believed always, everywhere, and by allāand show that in fact it is not just false, but a vicious form of hatred and discrimination.Ā As a current case in point, I offer transphobia, which is defined as holding antagonistic...
Sir Roger Scruton: Britain’s Culture Warrior
I first heard Roger Scruton speak at the 1993 regional Philadelphia Society meeting in Dearborn, Michigan, organized to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Russell Kirkās The Conservative Mind. Scruton spoke on the topic of āThe Conservative Mind Abroadā in a soft but authoritative voice that gently drew and kept the listenerās attention. However, his professorial...
Politics Is the New Religion
The term āpolitical religionā designates the infusion of political beliefs with religious significance. Political religions involve grand plans to transform society into a new sacral order unrelated to how humans have lived beforehand. Political religions also typically divide people into the righteous and the evil based on whether they conform to its transformational vision. They...
Filmlog: Liliom
Ā Frank Borzage may well be the best film director born in the United States, and I havenāt forgotten John Ford, who was also a master. Ā Borzage, the son of Italian-Swiss immigrants, achieved much in his films that can only be understood as Catholic art, which is why his movies are now mostly unwatched or,...
Measuring Our Culture of Death
One side is celebrating, the other rending their garments, but both sides are wondering if the outcome of the November presidential election might signal a springtime for traditional moral values in America.Ā Rappers P. Diddy and Eminem doubtless turned more voters away from Kerry than they attracted, and, in all states where voters were asked...
A Third Way?
IĀ went into the 2000 presidential campaign an enthusiastic supporter of Pat Buchananās bid for the White House as a third-party candidate.Ā I emerged more convinced than ever that Buchanan would have made an outstanding president but skeptical that a serious right-wing party will be able to emerge, at least in the short run. I knew...
Notables ā Of Socialism and Sentimentality
“Socialism,” wrote Dostoevsky inĀ TheĀ Possessed, “spreads among us chiefly because of sentimentality.” He was, of course, writing about upper-middleĀ class, 19th-century Russian society, but a reading ofĀ Tmubled Journey: From Pearl Harbor to Ronald Reagan (Hill and Wang; New York) by Frederick Siegel suggests that the rise of the American New left during the 1960’s was also...
Massive Reductions
The great political project of our time is the rebellion against giantism: against the state, corporate, and professional leviathans that strangle individuals and communities. Of all the ways to injure those monsters, the single least effective one may be to write a book about it. Or, at least, to write the book that Thomas Naylor...
Buy Local
There seems to be a common theme in modern libertarian thought that stresses the merits of giant corporate enterprises, claiming that they are infinitely superior to smaller, less capitalized, local businesses.Ā One article that I read extolled the virtues of chain bookstores versus their benighted independent ācompetition.āĀ My interest here is personal: I work part-time...
Blowback: “Kosovars” Strike Again
TheĀ jihadist murder of two American servicemenĀ by a āKosovarā-Albanian Muslim at Frankfurt Airport on March 2 combines the fruits of the United Statesā criminally misguided Balkan policy over the past two decades and of Europeās suicidal immigration policy since the 1960ās. While it is probably too late to have either of them reversed, hope springs eternal:...
The Remainderman
Donald Trump won more votes in the Iowa caucuses than any Republican candidate in history. Impressive, except Ted Cruz set the new all-time record. And Marco Rubio exceeded all expectations by taking 23 percent. Cruz won Tea Party types, Evangelicals, and the hard right. Trump won the populists and nationalists who want the borders secure,...
A Quandary for Con Inc.: Karl Marx, the Civil-War Unionist
Karl Marx's support for Lincoln and condemnation of the South, both during and after the Civil War, create an awkward paradox for establishment conservatives.
On John Locke
To argue, as Paul Gottfried did in “Distrusting John Locke” (Views, January), that the writings of John Locke were not instrumental to the founding of this country is to suppose that the authors of the Federalist did not know what they were about. In philosophy, John Locke was sometimes an extremist, and he was wrong...
Storming the Castle Doctrine
Americans have been captivated by the February incident in Sanford, Florida, that resulted in the death of Trayvon Martin and the eventual arrest and charging of George Zimmerman.Ā If the case could be resolved today, Trayvon Martinās family would still be without a son, George Zimmermanāeven if exoneratedāwill never live a normal life, Sanford Police...
Manlio on Conflict Resolution
āThe problem with having a car is that one gets into accidents. However trifling, these may have unexpected consequences. āOne bright winter day my bumper grazed a pedestrian, who promptly fell to the ground. I got out to make sure he was all right, which he said he was, but all the same I offered...
The Chief and His Men
On June 1, 1945, Pope Pius XII met for three hours in private audience with his co-conspirator, the German lawyer Josef MĆ¼ller.Ā āI had hardly crossed the threshold into his study when the Holy Father approached me, and embraced me,ā MĆ¼ller later wrote.Ā āThe Pope said,ā writes the author of this remarkable tale of spiritual...
Inside History’s Dustbin
Ever since I committed the blunder, nearly 30 years ago, of signing up with the “conservative movement” during my first year in graduate school, a certain pattern of behavior has enforced itself on my decreasingly callow mind. The pattern, as a colleague of mine once remarked to me, is that there seems to be no...
Darren Wilson: Free At Last!
Eric Holder’s Justice Department has completed its investigation into whether Ferguson cop Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown in cold blood for racist reasons when he shot the black teenager last August. What did the massive six-month FBI investigation discover? According to the Washington Post, “after canvassing more than 300 homes and reviewing physical, ballistic, forensic,...
Gore’s Foreign Policy: More of the Same, Only Worse
We have always known that a Gore presidency would continue the flawed foreign policy of the Clinton administration; but now we know thatāunlikely as it may soundāthings may be even worse if the Vice President wins in November. On the last day of April, Al Gore gave his first major foreign policy speech of the...
Faces of Clio
[This view first appeared in the October 1986 issue of Chronicles.] The obscurest epoch is today. āRobert Louis Stevenson Taken together, these three books serve nicely as a kind of group portrait of Clio and her several faces. In reverse order we have the historian as diarist and memoirist, as documentarian, and as reflective sage....
Old Changelings and New Mutants
To focus some thoughts on current trends in American theatrical styleāas distinct from play writingāit may help to use a telescoping lens to zero in on a classic play, not itself American. The play I have in mind is one that was recently produced not in the bazaars of New York but in one of...
Democracy: The Enlightened Way
Before American readers embark on this inquiry into the particular democracy that was born in France with the French Revolution, I should warn them that they had better be prepared to enter a world of ideas so removed from reality as to make it almost impossible to believe there were people who actually took those...
The Real Meaning of Kim Davis
Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who was jailed for refusing to give out marriage licenses to gay couples, is out of the clink at last. But in political and cultural regards, her nation and ours is not in the clear. Moral consensus has broken down, resulting in the empowerment of the strongest, the best connected,...
A Political Career
Jean ChrĆ©tien, the prime minister of Canada, is perhaps the best embodiment of Coolidgeās statement that, when it comes to success, persistence is better than talent, intelligence, connections, or money. ChrĆ©tien was literally the man who wouldnāt leave.Ā Since beginning his political career in 1964 as a Liberal MP from Quebec, he has been around...
The State as Rabble-Rouser
Michael Mann has long been the most interesting exponent of what might be called British post-Marxist sociology.Ā In his essays in the Archives europĆ©ennes de sociologie, his Sources of Social Power (two volumes), and other writings, Mann has applied a four-power model (ideological, political, military, and economic) to historical studies, seeking thereby to overcome Marxist...
Latino āGuerillasā and the GOP
There is a picture in our family of my great-grandfather holding a Model 94 lever-action .30-30 carbineā”Treinta Treinta,” as it was affectionately calledāwith a cartridge belt strapped across his body. He fought in the Mexican Revolution with an American-made Winchester rifle. This little piece of family history pops into my mind now and then. Not...
Los Diablos Tejanos
AĀ Texas Ranger, it was famously claimed, ācan ride like a Mexican, trail like an Indian, shoot like a Tennessean, and fight like a very devil.ā Ā These days, such a bland presumption of ethnic attributes would merit a visit from the Sensitivity Police, and even respect for martial skills verges on political incorrectness, since progressive...
Between Sao Paulo and Tel Aviv
Sol M. Linowitz’s autobiography tells once again the classic story of the successful American. Son of a middle-class Jewish wholesale fruit dealer from New Jersey who was impoverished by the Great Depression, Linowitz attended Hamilton College on a partial scholarship, financing the rest of his education by waiting on tables, working in the college library,...
And Was the Mission Accomplished?
Ā For the Army and Marines who lost 4,500 dead and more than 30,000 wounded, many of them amputees, the second-longest war in U.S. history is over. America is coming home from Iraq. On May 1, 2003, on the carrierĀ Abraham Lincoln, the huge banner behind President George W. Bush proclaimed, “Mission Accomplished!” That was eight...
The Collapse of British English
The English language is in danger. It is being invaded and infiltrated by the vulgar slang, the horrid jargon, the grammatical errors and the nasal pronunciation of the United States. Such is the nightmare of those crumbling remnants of the British establishment who still prize the affected tones of what was once termed the Oxford...
Anti-Catholics & Elitist Bigots
Will Hillary Clinton clean out the nest of anti-Catholic bigots in her inner circle? Or is anti-Catholicism acceptable in her crowd? In a 2011 email on which Clinton campaign chief John Podesta was copied, John Halpin, a fellow at the Center for American Progress that Podesta founded, trashed Rupert Murdoch for raising his kids in...
Christianity and the Legitimacy of Government
The late Paul J. Tillich (1886-1965)ānot exactly a hero to conservative Christians, Protestant or Catholicāspoke of the rival impulses that cause agony in personal and community decisionmaking, which he defined as the clash between autonomy and heteronomy. In autonomyāliterally, “self-law”āindividuals think of themselves as a law unto themselves; in heteronomy, “other-law,” they see themselves as...
Whose Museum? What Nation?
Nations define themselves by what they choose to remember.Ā The growing complexity of the United States is suggested by the ever-expanding volume of her historical memories, the range of groups and events that are commemorated, often in the name of multiculturalism.Ā Just look at the changing landscape of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., with...
The Democrats Divide on Impeachment
The release of the Mueller report has left Democrats in a dilemma. For consider what Robert Mueller concluded after two years of investigation. Candidate Donald Trump did not conspire or collude with the Russians to hack the emails of the DNC or John Podesta. Trump did not distribute the fruits of those crimes. Nor did...
Hate the Sinner, Love the Sin
Ā Four-and-a-half months into Pope Francis’s pontificate, it’s become more than a little tiresome to hear both his admirers and his detractors compare him with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. “Benedict would never have done . . . ” rolls as easily off the lips of aging Call to Action types as it does off the...
Fly Boy
The Aviator Produced by Warner Bros. and Miramax Films Directed by Martin Scorsese Screenplay by John Logan Distributed by Warner Bros. From the late 1920ās to the late 1950ās, Howard Hughes seemed to own the world.Ā Backed by the wealth of his fatherās patented oil-drill business, he moved from Houston to Los Angeles in 1925...
Holding the Pass
It has been ten years since the death, at his home in the village of Mecosta, Michigan, of Russell Kirk, author of The Conservative Mind and one of the main spokesmen for organized American conservatism as it was known throughout his life.Ā While there were other architects of conservatism who were Kirkās contemporaries, almost all...
Shameless Venus Goes to Prom
Randy teenage boys and hyphenated man-loathing feminists can agree on one thing: Prom is no place for patriarchal body-shaming. In this context, by body we must read cleavage, midriffs, thighs, and intergluteal clefts; and by shaming, we are to understand that the aforementioned have been unjustly deemed unfit for public viewing.Ā To establish rules prohibiting...
Benjamin Franklinās American Dream
Todayās preferred way to think about immigration and the nation-state is exemplified in the title of a 1964 pamphlet that the Anti-Defamation League published posthumously under the name of John F. Kennedy: A Nation of Immigrants.Ā The next year, the martyred Presidentās brother Teddy had his name put on the 1965 immigration act of such...
Racially Aggravated Crimes and the New Hate
The social justice warriors are at war against Western civilization. They rail against āwhite supremacyā because they see white people as inextricably bound with that civilization.
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...
Are Bibi and Bolton in the Wheel House Now?
Brushing aside the anguished pleas of our NATO allies, President Trump Tuesday contemptuously trashed the Iranian nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions. Prime Minister Theresa May of Great Britain, President Emmanuel Macron of France and German Chancellor Angela Merkel were put on notice that their ties to Iran are to be severed, or secondary sanctions will...