āJapan didnāt fight wars of aggression.Ā Only China now says so,ā declared Yuko Tojo, the granddaughter of Japanās wartime prime minister, Gen. Hideki Tojo, in an interview with the Japan Times in late June.Ā Yuko was half right.Ā Although Japan fought several wars of aggression, only China seems to raise the issue today.Ā America dropped...
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Democracy and God
Since at least the 1960ās, federal judges in the United States have overturned a number of state and federal laws dealing, broadly speaking, with marriage, sexuality, and the familyāmost notoriously in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision on abortion.Ā And numerous commentators have pointed out the constitutional absurdity of these decisions, based on no clear...
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...
Making It Close
Following the publication of Wise Blood in 1952, whispered speculation commenced among the novelistās relatives, who wondered how an innocent Catholic girl from a genteel Southern background could have acquired the worldly experience to write the early scene in which Hazel Motes enters a stall in the menās room at the local train station, reads...
On Covering Islam
As a paleoconservative and traditional Catholic, I greatly enjoy Chronicles and look forward to every issue.Ā I am, however, increasingly disturbed by the consistent and growing demonization of Muslims in the magazine.Ā I think it is quite reasonable to accept that Islam has some extremely rough edges.Ā It has bloody borders, most terrorists are Muslims,...
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...
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The road to hell, I was taught as a child, is paved with good intentions. Surely no one could fault the intentions of the Reverend Ralph David AbernathyāMartin Luther King’s right arm and successor in the Southern Christian Leadership Conferenceāas revealed in this fascinating and moving autobiography. Inspired by faith in Divine mercy, by a...
The Benefits of Solitude
Solitude can offer a blissfulĀ disengagement from the horrors of modern-day life, even if itās forced upon us by a government lockdown. Enforced solitude could even be a spiritual blessing, but for the escapism of television, that medium of absolute rubbish, vulgarity, and violence that Hollywood calls entertainment. As long as we avoid sabotaging diversions, we...
The Other Black History
On May 13, Florida Governor Lawton Chiles signed into law a measure requiring public schools to teach black history. The black history law requires lessons on slavery, the passage of slaves to America, abolition, and the contributions of blacks to American society. “The history of African-Americans must not be minimized or trivialized,” Chiles said. “The...
Papal Soap
The domiciliary organ of the host to which I have now attached myself is the cavernous Renaissance of every spiritual parasite’s dreams, most of it still inhabited, in that Cherry Orchard kind of way which keeps grand English country houses tottering but not always falling to the National Trust, by the descendants of the Florentine...
Lincoln and God
Before the first shots were fired in the U.S. Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln had begun to style himself as an instrument of the Lord.Ā But as William H. Herndon, a law partner and Lincoln biographer, wrote, ā[t]he very idea that he was in the hands of an invisible, irresistible, ...
Backtracking for Home
I was gone from Wyoming less than two years, not so long as to forget, just enough for the shock of recognition to be poignant. The cold northern skies, the tilted mesas tinged green with sagebrush and purple with lupin, and how they smell after rain; the dark, distant mountains whose mottling snows above timberline...
Mencken and the World Warmonger
As World War I is remembered in this year of its hundredth anniversary, one rivalry continues to resonate across America.Ā It isnāt between the Allies and the Central Powers, or between two houses of European royalty, but between two countrymen: President Woodrow Wilson and H.L. Mencken, the Bad Boy of Baltimore. Despite a couple of...
A Constant Plague
Immigration problems continue to plague Europe. In France the Front National is finally fed up with the Gaullist right, which expects the support of the and-immigrant nationalists but treats them with contempt. Jacques Chirac is alarmed enough to begin borrowing the Front National’s rhetoric. When the Prime Minister, ditzy socialist Edith Cresson, called for a...
Sunni Arab Prisoners Freed
American soldiers stumble upon a secret dungeon and discover dozens of emaciated prisonersā173 of them, to be preciseāwho had simply vanished from the face of the Earth over the previous weeks and months.Ā Horrified GIs walk wide-eyed through the stinking chamber of horrors whose inmates grasp with difficulty that their ordeal is over.Ā Most of...
Of Monkeys and Mermaids
February 3, 1843 My Dearest Sabrina, Having momentarily sated what you once aptly termed my āHerculean appetite for lethargy,ā I rouse myself dutifully to pen this somewhat belated missive, all too aware that you, my beloved sister, must be starved for news of your Charleston friends.Ā Everyone inquires about you, of course, & I invariably...
Obama on Foreign Policy: A Mysterious Work in Progress
The central theme of Sen. Barack Obamaās campaign for the presidency has been his call for āchangeāāalbeit often with few details about the nature of that change.Ā There is certainly a pressing need for change in U.S. foreign policy.Ā During the Cold War, Washingtonās strategy led to security free-riding by allies and clients, caused the...
Trade Without Frontiers
“Trade without frontiers”āwhen the European Economic Community talks about barrier-free trade, the wall begins at Spain and the US is left on the wrong side of it, as the Bush administration, which has supported the coming federation of Europe, is beginning to discover. In October the EEC voted 10 to 2 to adopt a set...
The Enemy of My Enemy
The forces that do not want a U.S. nuclear deal with Iran, nor any U.S. detente with Iran, are impressive. Among them are the Israelis and their powerful lobby AIPAC, the Saudis and their Sunni allies on the Persian Gulf, a near unanimity of Republicans and a plurality of Democrats in Congress. Is there a...
Wantum and Quantum
W. Produced by Emperor Motion Pictures Directed by Oliver Stone Screenplay by Stanley Weiser Distributed by Lionsgate Quantum of Solace Produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures Directed by Marc Forster Screenplay by Paul Haggis and Neal Purvis Ā Itās too bad W., Oliver Stoneās satiric biopic of his Yale classmate and our 43rd President, didnāt...
HĆ©ctor Agonistes
For more than a week after his encounter with Jacinta Ruiz, HĆ©ctor avoided the Pink Store, finding an excuse to drive JesĆŗs āEddieā to Geronimoās Bar & Grill in Demingāwhich JesĆŗs much preferred anywayāinstead.Ā All this time, the Centaurās statue stood on the top shelf of his computer hutch, where he had to make the...
Taking America Back
The music business is the latest battleground in the p.c. warāand recent events indicate that dissident or controversial musicians have no defenders in the media establishment that now controls the industry. In yet another instance of censorship by the “free-speaking” left, singer Steve Vaus has been stifled in his efforts to “Take America Back,” even...
Where the Demons Dwell: The Antichrist Right
Those blissfully ignorant of right-wing soap opera will have never noticed the Antichrist Right, a loose coalition of writers who regard the Church as the worst thing that ever happened to Western civilization.Ā If I understand correctly, the Antichrist Right would describe Christianity much as Christianity defines evil: a shadowy, parasitic negation that possesses no...
To See the World and Man
Truthfulness and rationality are essential priorities in the discussion of public issues. Only by renouncing the strait jacket of ideology can we begin to see the world and man.
Sublime Misrule
X.J.Ā Kennedy can be said almost to be a popular literary figure.Ā (A New Jersey native, Joseph Charles Ken-nedy, born in 1929, adopted his pen name upon settling in Massachusetts.)Ā This is not at all to say that he belongs to popular, or mass, culture.Ā But his accomplishments in verse have been widely recognized, and deservedly...
Evangelical Antifederalists
The Arlington Group, a powerful association of Christian Right leaders, is, to borrow from the author of the Book of Virtues, picking a pony.Ā Some ponies, such as Arkansasā Mike Huckabee, just donāt look like they can make it to the final stretch.Ā Fred Thompson, on the other hand, could go the distance.Ā The problem...
The Nation-State Is Back
Over the past two or three decades it has been fashionable for international relations theorists, politicians, and mainstream media pundits to claim that the Westphalian nation state was moribund, obsolete, and rapidly diminishing in importance. They claimed that various transnational and regional mechanisms and institutionsāthe European Union being a prime exampleāwere irreversibly taking over its...
Screen
Goodbye, Peter Pan The Big Chill; Directed by Lawrence Kasdan It is unique in that it has something for virtually everyone to hate. Consider the characters, all eight. They are the types of people that our parents warned us about in the late 60’s and early 70’s: not the drug pushers who lurked behind bushes,...
Beating the Left at Their Own Game
Leftists love to obsess about hate.Ā It seems to be on their tongues all the time, and it may have already surpassed racist as their expletive of choice to hurl at conservatives, traditionalists, Middle Americans, and other folks they detest.Ā You donāt have to be a psychologist to understand the meaning of projectionāthat, when people...
That Hideous Absolutism
To the modern mind, religion and magic are related.Ā Both are based on superstition, and both have been proved false by science.Ā C.S. Lewis thought otherwise: Magic is more closely related to science.Ā Both function as alternatives to religion, both lack skepticism, and, most importantly, both desire to control the world.Ā Science, not religion, is...
The Creaturely Myth
James O. Tate reviews Courage and Consequence: My LifeĀ as a Conservative in the Fight ā¢Ā by Karl Rove ā¢Ā New York: Threshold Editions ā¢Ā 608 pp., $30.00 There isāthere must beāall the difference in the world between an autobiography and a novel written in the first person. Are we clear? Hillary Rodham ...
The Language of Literature
“Poets who lasting marble seek Should carve in Latin or in Greek.” When I last quoted those lines of Edmund Waller, I was put down as a hopeless reactionary trying to restore Latin as the language of literature. In the case of the conservative journalist who missed the point, it would have been enough to...
A US-Turkish Clash in Syria?
The war for dominance in the Middle East, following the crushing of ISIS, appears about to commence in Syriaāwith NATO allies America and Turkey on opposing sides. Turkey is moving armor and troops south to Syria’s border enclave of Afrin, occupied by Kurds, to drive them out, and then drive the Syrian Kurds out of...
The Book of Judith
As 2005 drew to a close, the scandal over the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame potentially threatened to overwhelm leading figures in the Bush White House.Ā Meanwhile, editors and journalists have been struggling to keep a straight face while affecting shock at the central revelation of the caseānamely, that major news stories commonly derive...
Liberalism in the Headlights
The murder of five white police officers in Dallas, immediately following the fatal shootings of a black man in Louisiana and another in Minnesota, gave President Obama the opportunity to engage in still another of the flights of soaring clichƩs and wafting banalities for which his admirers celebrate him; Hillary Clinton the chance to demonstrate...
Books in Brief: February 2023
Brief reviews of Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations, by Benedict Beckeld, and The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845ā1872, by Daniel J. Burge.
Revolting Parasites
Movements are always based on lies, and the lies begin with the titles and slogans that are chosen to advance āthe cause.āĀ Here in the United States, so-called liberals are really nonrevolutionary Marxists, while the people who call themselves conservatives are, at one extreme, libertarian capitalists who reject any principle or experience that cannot be...
The Heart of the Life Debate
The present rift between the United States and Europe on the war in Iraq has overshadowed widening divergences in other realms.Ā One of these is the attitude toward crucial life issues; whereas the Bush administration is often reprimanded by antilife groups for such initiatives as the ban on partial-birth abortion, the European Union is busy...
Ici On Parle Anglais
When Canada’s federal government committed the country to two official languages, it set the scene for the social revolution that has since been foisted upon the Canadian majority. That was in 1969, when Pierre Trudeau’s Official Languages Act declared English and French to be the official languages of Canada, possessing and enjoying “equality of status...
Death in Disguise
The 1950’s were the high point of D.H. Lawrence’s critical reputation. In those days university English professors were keen teachers of Lawrence’s message of “life” and emotional honesty, and he was a popular subject for undergraduate theses. He now appears less frequently on reading lists, and the other day I heard a highschool teacher say...
What Cause Was Lost?
The War for Southern Independence reminds us of many things, not least of which that there were once many men who were willing to take up arms to defend what they believed to be their birthright as Americans. It was not by chance that the Great Seal of the new nation featured George Washington, for...
Mussolini’s Unnatural Alliance
āAlthough I deal with the Italian attempt to build a fascist state,ā Chronicles editor Paul Gottfried wrote in response to an obtuse critic of his latest book, Antifascism: Course of a Crusade, āI am also quite critical of Mussoliniās career, especially his involvement with Hitlerās Third Reich and the unfortunate anti-Semitic laws that Il Duce...
Fighting the Dragon With Solzhenitsyn
Do great men make history?Ā Or does history make great men?Ā One thingās for sure: History sometimes smothers great men, as Thomas Gray suggests in his famous elegy written in a country churchyard, and as the rows of endless graves from Arlington to the Somme demonstrate with brutal candor. āSome mute inglorious Milton here may...
The Art of Regicide H.R.H.
The Duchess of York wore a blue and black top, with a navy-blue belt, over a black, knee-length leather skirt. The female figure which stood before her was wearing a ball gown consisting of a bodice and skirt of pale eau-de-nil panne velvet decorated with vertical stripes of sequins and lace inserts embroidered with jewels;...
When Incarnation Is Considered Idolatry
In his trenchant 1919 Introduction to Scott Montcrieffās translation of The Song of Roland, G.K. Chesterton was especially stirred by the Old French epic poemās final stanza, after āCharlemagne the Christian emperorā had already victoriously fought on the Spanish March against encroaching Islam and seemed, at last, to have āestablished his empire in quiet.āĀ But...
Letter From Appalachia: Home, Sweet Home
Coal miner. What’s that bring to mind? Someone dumb and dirty? I used to think so, and I’m born, raised, and living smack in the middle of Virginia’s Appalachian coalfields. Well, actually not the middle. More like the fringe. Virginia has 95 counties but only seven that are coal-producing, and all seven are in the...
Spying on the American Remnant
As a boy, your author lived in a working-class neighborhood just outside Houstonās city limits. My parents were the children of rural people who had come to Houston looking for work during the Great Depression. They lived in frame houses sitting on cinder blocks in Houstonās West End, a community of people Larry McMurtry called...
Irelandās Forgotten Genocide
Despite much handwringing about British colonial misdeeds in Africa and the Caribbean, the systematic, purposeful extermination of more than a million Irish during the potato famine of the 19th century gets little attention.
A P.C. Little Christmas
Christmas is a time of wonder, when the best and the worst of our sputtering culture is on display.Ā For every magnificent four-part rendition of Stille Nacht, we seem destined to endure umpteen episodes of godless grinches screaming about tolerance and diversity in order to keep authentic Christmas symbols out of the public square during...
The Return of ‘Fellow Feeling’
You might say it has not been much of a month for the human race. I might myself contend that signs of life float on the flooded streets of Houston, Texas. People are acting the way people used to act, back before we were all required, seemingly, to stake out a political position and hate...