Speaking at Mount Rushmore on Friday, and from the White House lawn on Saturday, July 4, Donald Trump recast the presidential race. He seized upon an issue that can turn his fortunes around, and the wounded howls of the media testify to the power of his message. Standing beneath the mammoth carved images of Presidents...
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Ignatius II
The Epistle to the Romans is in many ways the most significant contribution made by St. Ignatius to the formation of the early Christian Church. Before plunging into the text, though, I would like to sketch a little of what I think we can agree on. The Church begins ...
After Lee: Charlottesville and Beyond
Was it for this That on that April day we stacked our arms Obedient to a soldierās trust? To lie Ground by the heels of little men, Forever maimed, defeated, impugned? āDonald Davidson, āLee in the Mountainsā There are times when I feel as though Iāve awoken in a madhouse, a madhouse that cannot possibly...
The Gospel Humanity of MS-13
As I was finishing up an embroidery of a Maya Angelou poem while contemplating Jamie Smithās profound and almost mystical use of parentheses and italics, I almost split my PJs and spilt my latte when I read that not-my-president Trump called the MS-13 āgangā a bunch of āanimals.ā With deranged determination, I tweeted my #disgust...
Don’t Feed the War Machine
“His sympathies were for raceātoo lofty to descend to persons,” a wit once said of the abolitionist Senator Sumner. For how else could a man countenance the slaughter of his countrymen, not only rebel Southerners but noble Robert Gould Shaw and Berkshires boys, too? The most dangerous peopleāthe ones who will kill you for your...
Libya: A Non-Hostile War
Ā Only one spectacle in recent weeks proved more nauseating than the Commander-in-Chief fine-tuning the Afghan drawdown to suit his re-election timetable. It was Barack Obamaās attempt to justify continued American participation in the illegal and unnecessary war in Libya by claiming thatāfar from being aĀ warāit does not even merit the designation ofĀ hostilities. Back in...
How to Win at Tennis
Althea Gibson was a black American lady tennis player who won Wimbledon and many other major championships during the late 50ās.Ā She was also a very good singer and a friendly soul, carrying none of that anger and fury many of todayās blacks exhibit the minute the spotlight shines on them.Ā She passed away some...
The Crime of History
He who writes a nation’s history also controls its futureāso wrote George Orwell. During the Soviet reign over Eastern Europe, every citizen knew who was in charge of writing history, especially that dealing with the victims of World War II. Anyone professing to be a Slovak, a Croat, a Ukrainian, or a Russian nationalist was...
Pimp Dreams
Hustle and Flow Produced by Crunk Pictures and New Deal Productions Directed and written by Craig Brewer Distributed by MTV Films and Paramount Classics Bulletin: Pimps and rappers have hearts; they have yearnings; they have midlife crises, for heavenās sake!Ā Sure, they exploit and abuse women, deal dope, and occasionally shoot one another; but, hell,...
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...
A Man Among Mice
Lady Lytton probably summed up the aura of Winston Churchill most effectively when she said, “The first time you meet Winston you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues.” Those who have chronicled Churchill’s life have been liberal about providing a compendium of his faults. Churchill...
The Emerging Moscow-Ankara Axis
The United States has created āchaosā in its management of foreign affairs, Turkeyās foreign minister MevlĆ¼t Ćavusoglu said on August 13. āThere is confusion in the U.S. administration, and no one knows who is doing what,ā Ćavusoglu said after meeting his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Ankara. āWe are at a turning point in the...
BJU, R.I.P.
Although the Greenville, South Carolina, haven of fundamentalism is still holding classes, the New World Order’s steamroller has flattened the life out of Bob Jones University. I’m referring, of course, to the recent abandonment of BJU’s ban on interracial dating and marriage on campus. The school’s president, Dr. Bob Jones, III, granted the dispensation on...
Why Are We Here?
Where does life come from, and why is it what it is?Ā These are great mysteries.Ā Even so, Darwinian theorists tell us it is nothing but a mechanical process that in principle is entirely explicable by reference to biochemistry, and thus to well-known properties of matter. The key, they say, is random variation and natural...
Dead Monkeys and the Living God
Sir Elton John would like to āban religion completelyā because it stirs up āhatred toward gay people.āĀ Like so many giants of the entertainment industry, Elton John probably does not hate religion per se but only Christianity.Ā Christophobia is the religion of Hollywood.Ā Ask Barbra Streisand; ask the top brass at Disney or DreamWorks. The...
Is Seattle Dying?
Not long ago, I found myself sitting one sunny Friday afternoon in the Unity Museum in Seattle, notebook in hand, as a group of fresh-faced college undergraduates participated in a debate over whether or not their city is dying. The general conclusion of the affair and the grim message of the students was that it...
Capitalism the Enemy
By a margin of 63-56, the South Carolina House of Representatives voted on May 10 to pull down the Confederate battle flag that has fluttered above the state’s capitol dome since 1962 and to remove it to “a place of honor” on the capitol grounds. The vote was the grand (or perhaps the petty) finale...
College, Diversity, and the Middle Class
When my father died, I was eight years old, the third of four children.Ā Mother repeatedly made it clear that if we wanted to go to college like our parentsāand we mustāwe would have to study hard to obtain scholarships.Ā The notion became so ingrained that I grew up presuming excellent grades and college were...
Those Whom the God Would Destroyā¦
As life in the 21st century gets loopier and loopier, the truly deranged come out of the woodwork, passing themselves off as benefactors of mankind, candidates for sainthood, etc. Maybeāwho knowsācandidates for another Pulitzer Prize: something The New York Times hardly needs, but self-inflicted moral grandeur can do odd things ...
Raising Concerns
Child abuse has become a national issue. But close scrutiny of the problem raises doubts about the current crusade to combat it. Before expanding the power of the state to intervene in the home, concerned citizens ought to take a hard look at the evidence. While it is hardly possible to overstate the horror of...
Parietals Then and Now
As a Columbia University undergraduate in 1956, I resided in Hartley Hall, a stately building on the Morningside campus. During my orientation week I was introduced to my floor counselor who said in an unambiguous way that hijinks would not be permitted on his watch. He highlighted one rule which could never be disobeyed: women...
Peace in the Holy Land, Elusive as Ever
A year ago, the prospects for peace in Israel-Palestine appeared more promising than at any other time after Bill Clintonās failed Camp David initiative in 2000.Ā Arafatās death in November 2004 had removed a major cause of Palestinian corruption and incoherence, as well as the justification for Israelās refusal to accept direct talks.Ā Mahmoud Abbasā...
The Broken Promise of American Cities
It was my penultimate summer in California when two friends from Germany crossed the pond to visit. They rented a room in San Diego not far from the beach, nestled in a palm-tree lined suburb. At some point between setting their bags on the curb and checking in to their summer digs, a man was...
Western āColonialism,ā Israel, and Anti-Semitism
What really explains the repeated historical periods of hostility toward Israel and the Jews.
The Church of Money-Grubbing Toil
The Enchantment of Mammon:Ā How Capitalism Became the ReligionĀ of Modernity;Ā by Eugene McCarraher;Ā Belknap Press;Ā 816 pp., $39.95 Ā When the German thinker MaxĀ Weber visited the United States in 1904, he was intrigued by the marked tendency of Americans to think about economic activity against a backdrop of religious morality. He tells of an encounter with a salesman of...
The Land of Oil and Water
A sign above the cafe adjacent to the motel across the highway from the railroad tracks in Lordsburg, New Mexico, proclaimed the good news in faded red letters on a flaking white background. “Whiskey and water,” I told the waitress when she came with her pencil and pad. “No bar,” she explained. “But there’s a...
Vote Claudius: He’ll Leave Your Sons Alone
When Edmund Burke called perfect democracy “the most shameful thing in the world,” he was not referring to the mixed forms of popular government that had existed in ancient Greece and Rome, much less to the newly liberated English colonies that had been struggling to form “a more perfect union” on the Eastern seaboard of...
Importing Trouble, Exporting Hope
āOne scene of arts, of arms, of rising trade . . .ā –Ā Ā Ā James Thomson Ā Kevin P. Phillips: Staying on Top: The Business Case for a National Industrial Strategy; Random House; New York. Michael). Ā Fiore and Charles F. Sabel: The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity; Basic Books; New York. Ā David F....
Charlize Theron and the Tully Monster
Tully Produced by Bron Studios Directed by Jason Reitman Screenplay by Diablo Cody In the summer of 1998, a teenybopper friend and I went to see some big deal war movie. Afterwards, we walked back to her car with our minds full of weeping men and piles of guts. āDid you like that?ā she asked....
An American Life
It is not impossible, merely difficult, for the author of a highly praised first novel to produce a second worthy of its predecessor.Ā Perhaps paucity of imagination is responsible for the failure of many second novels; the writer emptied his quiver the first time or got lucky with a flash-in-the-pan and should not have tried...
The Making of Books
When I came to Chronicles, I looked forward to the arrival of a steady stream of books for review: new fiction and poetry, histories and biographies, and the occasional works of popular scholarship or science.Ā From the first I was disappointed in the quality of the books sent in āover the transom,ā and I turned...
The Curious Career of Billy the Kid
For most of the 19th century, the American West was a fairly tranquil place.Ā The myths of Hollywood and the wishful thinking of certain revisionist historians notwithstanding, throughout the region, for every gunfighter there were a hundred stockbrokers, and for every outlaw, ten-thousand farmers.Ā The West was urban as much as rural, settled as a...
Facing the Untoward in a Memphis Men’s Room
I guess I should have known it would be an odd trip when the pilot told us as we were approaching Memphis that we could expect “a little choppiness, but nothing untoward.” Untoward? I was going to Oxford, Mississippi, last spring to lecture at the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture....
Hillary Clintonās Arrogant Posturing
Ā Speaking in Dublin last Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that a new effort was under way by āoppressive governmentsā to āre-Sovietizeā Eastern Europe and Central Asia. She took a stab at Russia and her regional allies for their alleged crackdown on democracy and human rights, only hours ahead of meeting Russiaās foreign...
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.
The Geopolitics of Coronavirus
āNothing will ever be the same again!ā The clichĆ© is invoked whenever people think they are facing an event of metahistorical significance. Sometimes its use is justified: Sarajevo 1914, the Bolshevik Revolution, Hiroshima, and the fall of the Berlin Wall fit the phrase. More often it is not. Versailles 1919, JFKās assassination, Neil Armstrongās āgiant...
Handgun Culture
Bob Costas fired off a lecture during prime-time NBC coverage of the NFL that outraged some political commentators and fans.Ā The speech was in response to a murder-suicide committed by Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, 25, who killed Kasandra Perkins, 22, the mother of his infant daughter, before kneeling, making the sign of the...
#CallMeMilton
Like most individuals my age who have both X and Y chromosomes and a conventionally male sexual organ, I was assigned a specific identity at birth.Ā I obviously had no choice in the matter, though I can hardly blame the delivery-room doctor or my parents, since, in those benighted days, even the most enlightened members...
NEA’s Future
The NEA’s future has now been decided, the decision is by consensus, and the conservative position has prevailed. Chairman John Frohnmayer said so in a little-noticed appearance at the Newsmakers Breakfast at the National Press Club last September 17. Here is what he said: First, “I have argued all along that internal management reform and...
Book Diary
Ā 1 April 2011 Early Wodehouse A few months ago I decided I would look into some rather early Wodehouse to see how he developed. Ā I read, in no orderly sequence,Ā Mike and Psmith, Psmith in the City, Psmith Journalist, Picadilly Jim, Damsel in Distress, Ā andĀ The Coming of Bill.Ā They were all delightful, but the first...
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...
Marvin āPopcornā Sutton, R.I.P.
When Popcorn Sutton died in mid-March at the age of 62, the national press ran obituaries.Ā Though he was just an old moonshiner whoād plied his trade for half a century and done nothing else of consequence, a whole bunch of folks in Tennessee and North Carolina grieved more than they would have over the...
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...
Well Supplied
Kosovo Albanians have been well supplied with arms and money. Some of the support has come from Islamic fundamentalists in the Middle East, and some from the extensive heroin trade controlled by Albanians. More recently, as Germany’s Social Democrats and their Green coalition partners prepared to take over the reins of government in Bonn, evidence...
Toy Story
As federal cannon boom from the smoky ridge to the west, a rebel foot soldier darts through underbrush, scrambles over a fence and crouches warily behind a tree. Raising his rifle to fire, he takes a volley of grape-shot in the chest. Tumbling, tragically, from the coffee table, he lands on the floor among the...
Cultured Pearl
Late in October 1899, in the town of Deming, New Mexico Territory, the commander of Scarborough’s Rangers recognized a face familiar to him from the pages of Cosmopolitan magazine, one of many publications then devoting considerable media attention to the Bandit Queen, a youngish woman from Chicago. In the company of another small-time crook, she...
What Would Braveheart Do?
No matter how the vote turns out on Thursday in Scotland, either for independence or continued union with Britain, the disintegration of the Old Continent appears almost inevitable. Already the British government has conceded that, even if the Scots vote for union, Edinburgh will receive greater powers to rule itself. Cheering for the breakup of...
Perry Potestas
Rick Perry, believe me, is no more going to prison than Iām going to bounce into his office one fine day to sign him up for an Obama fundraising dinner (an occasion prospectively disadvantageous to the health and well-being of both statesmen, should they meet in the receiving line). The ins and the outs of...
The Life You Save Could Be Your Own
The thesis that modern ideologies are a secular replacement for transcendent religions is old hat even to the half-educated in Western society.Ā (The phrase āimmanentizing the eschatonā was coined by Eric Voegelin and popularized by William Buckley in the 60ās.)Ā And so a cursory glance at James Schallās book suggests that the author is simply...
Adolf Busch & Colleagues
Some two decades ago, I found myself preparing for a trip to Niagara Falls, where I was to meet a lady.Ā I had not been to Niagara Falls before, though I was familiar with the movie Niagara (Hathaway, 1953), which has sometimes been called the best Hitchcock movie not by Hitchcock.Ā I didnāt want to...