The American dollar will be displaced as the global reserve currency by 2040, and the unipolar superpower of the United States will be but one player in a multipolar world.
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Are Americans All-In for a Long Coronavirus War?
“It’s a war,” says President Donald Trump of his efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic, and likening his role to that of “wartime president.” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo welcomed the president’s claim to his commander in chief role in the crisis and his resolve: “The president and I agreed yesterday… we’re fighting the same...
Disintegrating
In the space of a few months in 1989, the Soviet imperium in Eastern Europe began to disintegrate like a soda cracker in salt water, and even within the U.S.S.R. itself, long dormant national, ethnic, and religious passions began to sputter and whine. The Beriin Wall was turned into a collection of pet rocks, and...
The End of Liberalism Nears
In his latest book, Francis Fukuyama sees liberalism under threat from extremists on both the populist right and the identitarian left.
White Like Me
Race is the American religion, which is why no one can talk about it truthfully. I do not mean that no one speaks his mind on the subject. Well-indoctrinated liberals can talk all day on why race does not matter, why the whole concept means nothing; and racialists can talk even longer on why it...
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...
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...
Has Trump Found the Formula?
Stripped of its excesses, Donald Trump’s Wednesday speech contains all the ingredients of a campaign that can defeat Hillary Clinton this fall. Indeed, after the speech ended Clinton was suddenly defending the Clinton Foundation against the charge that it is a front for a racket for her family’s enrichment. The specific charges in Trump’s indictment...
More Crime, Fewer Cops
Some of you oldsters will never believe this, but London is no longer the place where The Blue Lamp and other black-and-white golden oldies were made.Ā During the postwar years, with rationing still on and the empire unraveling, England made some of the best movies ever.Ā They were intelligently scripted, underplayed, and beautifully acted by...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Perfect Republic
Augustin Cochin (1876-1916), a French historian little known today, sought to provide a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of the French Revolution with an eye to discovering the reasons for the terror and butchery that arose in its course.Ā The nature and depth of his motivations and concerns can be gleaned from his judgment that...
The Christian Question
David Novak, Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the University of Virginia, sets out to argue the case for what is called Jewish-Christian “dialogue.” Unfortunately, the author never gives us anything but the most offhand idea of what he means by the term, but we can assume he means the activity carried out largely by...
Frontier Taliban
To understand the impact of the event known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre, it is useful to focus on the date of that atrocity: September 11, 1857.Ā On that Friday morning, Mormon militiamen lured the members of a California-bound wagon train into an ambush.Ā Collaborating with Paiute Indian allies, the Mormons slaughtered 120 people.Ā Many...
The One Over the Water
Ā The latest scandal among the British royals will doubtless reenergize the long-running argument over the usefulness of monarchy in these times. Surprisingly often, here and in other fora, one encounters Americans so affronted by the manifest defects of ādemocracy,ā that they declare themselves to be āmonarchists.āĀ This has always seemed a little strange to...
Putting Policies Before Personalities
A candidateās character matters, of course, but what matters most at this moment in history is which candidate proposes policies that will build a better America.
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...
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...
Our Government is an Unfaithful Spouse
We need a nation of citizen-activists who demand more from their government. The first demand should be simple: prioritize the needs of the citizens already here over those whom the government is recklessly pressing to get into the country.
General Pierre-Marie Gallois, RIP
General Pierre-Marie Gallois, who died on August 23 in Paris at the age of 99, will be remembered primarily as the architect of Franceās nuclear deterrence doctrine in the 1950s. He was the last in a long line of European geopolitical thinkersāfrom Clausewitz and Jomini to Liddell Hart and Guderianāwho have combined superbly honed analytical...
Treasure Mountain
In the elation and excitement produced by HĆ©ctorās interview with the curandera, he and JesĆŗs āEddieā could barely resist the impulse to start at once for Ladron Peak.Ā A late-winter storm of unusual force for central New Mexico restored them to their senses, blanketing the peak and the mountains to the southwest and east in...
War Is Hell on the Homefront, Too
Depending on whether you like them thin and greasy or thick and meaty, the two best purveyors of french fries in Rockford are Uncle Nickās Gyros on East State Street and Altamoreās Ristorante on North Main.Ā Neither the mythical Uncle Nick nor the very real Alberto Altamore, Iām happy to report, has fallen prey to...
The Redemption of Saint-Saƫns, 100 Years On
āI am merely a genius, not a god,ā mystery writer Rex Stoutās fictional detective Nero Wolfe said. āA genius may discover the hidden secrets and display them; only a god can create new ones.ā Such a genius was French composer Charles-Camille Saint-SaĆ«ns, who was born in Paris in 1835 and died at age 86 in...
The New Yorker Under Glass
The first issue of The New Yorker (February 21, 1925) showed on its cover a dandy in top hat, high collar, and morning suit gazing through his monocle at a butterfly.Ā The drawing is reproduced yearly, and butterflies became a cover motif.Ā Whatever tastes, affectations, or snobbery the artist, Rea Irvin, wanted to suggest, it...
The Tower of Skulls
“You’ve never been to Nish?!” My friend was incredulous. How can someone who has traveled, it sometimes seems, every inch of Montenegro, Bosnia, and Kosovo not have found the time to go to Nish? The lady is far from being a local chauvinist, but when I first met her and asked (as I had been...
The Roads Both Taken
“Sin maketh nations miserable.” āProverbs 14:34 In “On the Reading of Old Books,” C.S. Lewis bemoans the fact that so many modern readers study recently written books rather than the classics, which have stood the test of time. This is true even of theology students, about whom Lewis writes: “Whenever you find a little study...
DOMA
President Bush, in his State of the Union Address, repeated a campaign promise: āBecause marriage is a sacred institution and the foundation of society, it should not be re-defined by activist judges.Ā For the good of families, children, and society, I support a Constitutional Amendment to protect the institution of marriage.āĀ The President must know,...
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...
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...
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....
Exclusive Institutions
Mills College recently repulsed the male invasion invited by the college’s board of trustees, and it will remain all female, for the immediate future at any rate. At the same time, in the once proudly independent Commonwealth of Virginia, the state’s attorney general, a woman, is attempting to defend the prestigious Virginia Military Institute against...
The Shadow of Sodom
Allyn Walker's audacious Long Dark Shadow is a thinly veiled attempt to normalize pedophilia.
The Big Chill Generation
The Big Chill generation came bouncing into town with all of the hoopla you could imagineābright, in-your-face articulate, self-righteous, and pompous enough to remind us that they were people more likely to be found in bus stations than in airports and that this, in itself, somehow demonstrated their moral superiority. During their second week in...
Baby, It’s Crazy Outside
As Cole Porter slyly reminds us: “In olden days a glimpse of stocking / Was looked on as something shocking / Now heaven knows / Anything goes. . . . “ Well, you know, depending on the state of Puritan politics at a given moment. The Puritan habit of scoldingāand gazing sourly uponāothers for improper...
A Bear in Sheep’s Clothing
The oft-used term “America’s European allies” is one of the greatest oxymorons of our time. “America’s European vassals” would be more appropriate, for American policy is virtually destroying our so-called “allies,” while aiding multinational corporations. This is not unlike the Soviet bear’s treatment of its Eastern European “allies” (read: minions), only more perfidious. The American...
The Pitfalls of Ambiguity
The conventional history of President George W. Bushās foreign policy has traced the ascendancy of the neoconservative ideologues in his administration to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and the ensuing āWar on Terror,ā the invasion of Iraq, and regime-change schemes in the Middle East.Ā The common assumption among analysts is that,...
The LCMS: A Triumph for Conservatism
Conservatives may be tempted to wonder whether itās worth fighting.Ā In this soundbite, instant-dislike, tl;dr, flashsnipe, banal, fractious, impressionistic, politicized culture of ours, our instinct can be to retreat, to separate fully, to disengage.Ā Iāve been there, and when I have, Iāve been wrong.Ā So long as we are alive, there is ground to be...
Progressive Pilgrim
One week after the 1984 Presidential election, while Ronald Reagan was still basking in the afterglow of a victory he takes as evidence that “America is feeling good about itself again,” the National Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting in Washington finally got a look at the 136-page draft of a “Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social...
A Free Ride to Clown College
Not content to suffer quietly under a $352 billion state debt, a crumbling post-World War II infrastructure, and a $65 billion unfunded pension liability in its largest city, the state of New York hastened its impending financial devastation this spring by announcing the latest Blue State special: free college tuition.Ā Under its preposterous Excelsior Scholarship...
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)...
Pelosi’s Warning
Nancy Pelosi is warning that, if Trump declares an emergency over the border, a future Democratic President could declare an emergency over gun violence. This argument is intended to frighten Republicans from taking action to prevent millions more potential Democrats streaming from Latin America into the United States. Republicans should not let themselves be frightened....
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...
Women and Biographers First!
“One would suffer a great deal to he happy.” āMarly Wortley Montagu To be really successful a modern writer must reach and hold a huge audience, and there seems to be essentially two ways of doing it: the journeyman (or tradesman-like) and the heroic-histrionic. Scott, Trollope, Agatha Christie, and P.G. Wodehouse represent the first way,...
Conservatives Cry Racist
The only thing worse than a leftistĀ screaming āracistā and āhaterā because he doesnāt like the facts ā oft coming from a conservative source ā is a conservative screaming the same thing for much the same reason: facts coming from a liberal source. The latest on this front hit last week, when Vice President Biden...
Serbia Degraded
“Serbia delenda est,” declared our postmodern, post-civilized rulers in the spring of 1999. Most European countries went along with the verdict. Like Muscovites in 1938, they were thankful that the nocturnal knock was not on their door, and prayed that acquiescence would absolve them of the suspicion of disloyalty. The alternative is to get Serbianized,...
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...
The Statecraft of Stooges
The speaker of the House of Representatives negotiates cordially with a Marxist dictator at the very time when the American government is sending aid to an armed resistance movement fighting to overthrow his regime; a political preacher flies to the Middle East and discusses the most sensitive foreign policy issues with unfriendly heads of state;...
How IĀ Single-Handedly Spiked a Hollywood Hit JobĀ
Think one pissed-off conservative canāt take on leftist Hollywood and win? Read on.