When NBC’s Lester Holt asked President Joe Biden what might prompt him to send U.S. troops to rescue Americans fleeing Ukraine, Biden replied: “There’s not. That’s a world war when Americans and Russia start shooting at one another.” “It’s not like we’re dealing with a terrorist organization. We’re dealing with one of the largest...
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Full Force
Full Metal Jacket directed by Stanley Kubrick screenplay by Kubrick, Michael Herr, and Gustav Hasford based on the novel The Short-Timers by Hasford; Warner Bros. Funny, that a film about “Vietnam as it really was,” as Platoon was touted, should fall so wide of any mark of merit, and that Vietnam films with a surreal...
Republicans Must Make a Laser-Focused, Issues-Based Case to the People
If Republicans can successfully frame the 2024 election as boiling down to the actual issuesāand above all, the economy, inflation, immigration and crimeāthen they stand a strong chance of prevailing.
Territorial Bliss
One consequence of the Cold War has gone unnoticed. Before the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States had already ceased to exist. To fight the Cold War and in the name of national security, Washington had destroyed the political structure created by the U.S. Constitutionāthe well-defined union of states, which...
What We Are Reading: August 2024
Short reviews of I Believed by Douglas Hyde, and Primal Screams by Mary Eberstadt.
Gangbusters
In The Killer Angels, Michael Saara’s novel about the battle of Gettysburg, there is a character named Colonel Arthur Fremantle, a British military observer attached to the Confederate forces. In part a comic figure, Fremantle is perpetually perplexed by Americans in general and Southerners in particular, and he painfully worries himself and others with his...
Loom of the Jackboot: Obama Gives Military Extreme Powers
Ā Too bad Kim Jong-il kicked the bucket last weekend. If the divine hand that laid low the North Korean leader had held off for a week or so, Kim would have been sustained by the news that President Obama had signed into law a bill that puts the United States not immeasurably far from...
Utopian on the Dole
An afternoon’s reading of Bolo’Bolo by “P.M.” leaves the reader wondering what the New York State Council on the Arts is doing giving public money to Columbia University to publish such books. A futuristic Utopian tract, Bolo’Bolo is as inane as it is self-indulgent. Its author, P.M., a slave to every cliche of the untutored...
An Episode in Chianti
Still sealed in the gray velvet envelope of night, early morning in the Florentine countryside offers the June insomniac stray, loud cars, merciless crickets, and doomsday frogs. These supplant the earlier nightingales, thrashing a capella, as if lured by the glowworms whose light illuminates an equally desperate vanity. By daybreak, a storm begins; not the...
Four Questions: Freddy Gray
The revolt against globalism is itself a worldwide phenomenon. Reporting for Chronicles from the United Kingdom is Freddy Gray, who also serves as the deputy editor of The Spectator, Britainās premier political magazine. As an observer who has worked in the United States and has family connections to France as well, Freddy is attentive not...
Politics of Weakness
In the 1980’s the doctrine of sexual equality is increasingly being misapplied. The current discussion of women’s sports provides a graphic illustration. The central premise of the sexual egalitarian is simple: It is unjust to reward or support a woman less than a man, when the woman performs on the same level. Many would agree...
With Nixon in ’68: The Year America Came Apart
On the night of Jan. 31, 1968, as tens of thousands of Viet Cong guerrillas attacked the major cities of South Vietnam, in violation of a Lunar New Year truce, Richard Nixon was flying secretly to Boston. At 29, and Nixon’s longest-serving aide, I was with him. Advance man Nick Ruwe met us at Logan...
The Vanishing Adult
In Fatal Attraction (1987), a woman jilted by her one-night stand strikes back: she leaves his six-year-old daughter’s rabbit boiling on the stove, pours sulfuric acid on his car, harasses him with vitriolic and abusive cassettes, stages an aggressive suicide, makes anonymous phone calls to his wife, kidnaps his daughter, and, half-crazed, stalks his wife...
“I’m a Republican, But…”
At a recent dinner party, a Republican senator in the Wyoming legislature remarked that the most common personal call she receives from her constituents begins with, āIām a Republican, but . . . ,ā and ends with a request for some or another government benefit or service. Americans are fond of complaining that their political...
On Nationalism
Though current discussions of nationalism are incredibly confused and Wayne Allensworth in “The Nationalist Imperative” (February 1996) does a pretty good job in showing the fragility of the modernist version, what he proposes as the “primordial” counterpart is ridiculous. Let me register a few objections. The Bowie anecdote is amusing but highly misleading. What follows...
Empire of Nihilism
By any reasonable measure, the policies carried out by the U.S. government since 1990 toward the Muslim countries of the Middle East (democracy promotion, regime change, political stabilization, āpeace process,ā antiterrorism) have failed disastrously.Ā Not only is nothing better over there, but everything is worse over here, the home of the not-so-brave and ever-less-free.Ā Every...
Filmlog: Liliom
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 ...
Okinawa Occupied
Okinawa is a beautiful island in the Pacific.Ā Although part of Japan, it is culturally and historically distinct, having a long list of diverse occupants and occupiers.Ā The Allies won a decisive victory at the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.Ā Following a massive amphibious invasion by U.S. forces, the battle was one of the bloodiest...
The Wolf Week in Review: The Great Political Christian Contest
Another week has come and gone, and here are some highlights and cultural trends. Celebrity Apprentices Hereās a lede you didnāt imagine five years ago: The Pope and Donald Trump are engaged in a public feud over illegal immigration.Ā Trump is ānot Christian,ā says the pontiff.Ā This latest brouhaha comes with Pope Francisās visit to...
The Middle East: The Current Score
“Peace in the Middle East” is like the unicorn: we can envisage the beast, paint it in detail even, but we can’t groom a living specimen. The problem transcends geopolitics and ideology, it is also metaphysical. The people inhabiting the region are vying for limited resources, such as land and water. In addition, many also...
Reaganism and the External Threat
āThereās a bear in the woods,ā warns ad man Hal Riney, as a grizzly appears on screen.Ā āFor some people, the bear is easy to see.Ā Others donāt see it at all.Ā Some people say the bear is tame.Ā Others say it is vicious and dangerous.Ā Since no one can really be sure whoās right,...
Fruitless Grain
The great American story for at least 100 years has been a tale like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington or Hawthorne’s “My Kinsman Major Molineux”: the rube who comes to the city and loses his innocence. Like Jack in the fairy tale, we are eager to trade in the family cow for a chance to...
Homage to Edward Abbey
The March issue of Chronicles coincides with the 30th anniversary of the passing of novelist, essayist, poet, and conservationist Edward Abbey.Ā This column appears as a chapter in The Hundredth Meridian: Seasons and Travels in the New Old West (Chronicles Press). It may or may not make sense for the living to think in arbitrary...
The Leading Man
On June 16,1956, Ted Hughes married Sylvia Plath in London. He was a recent graduate of Cambridge University, working for the J. Arthur Rank Organization; she, a Smith College graduate at Cambridge on a Fulbright scholarship. Both were poets. The marriage lasted six years and produced two children. In late summer 1962 the couple separated,...
J. Evetts Haley, American Cato
According to family records, ten of Great-Grandmaās twelve sons died in the Civil War. Ā Thus it was that Allie Johnson Puett, the girl who became my Grandma Evetts, learned the lessons of self reliance, the duty of the defiance of illegitimate authority, the comforts of firearms, and the necessity of knowing how to shootāwherein...
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...
Making a Killing
Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton is breath-ing new life into the popular perception of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as a ādiseaseāāa chemical imbalance that requires a stabilizing, ācounter-balancingā agent such as Ritalin, Adderall, Concerta, or another name-brand amphetamine to correct a defective brain.Ā An example can be found in his recent syndicated column: āManaging ADHD Once...
California Apocalypse Now
Just about everybody I know, especially Republicans, is planning an exit strategy from California. A Los Angeles County firefighter I met at a party said all those guys, too, are planning to leave, despite their high salaries and pensions. Many grousers no doubt will stay, in particular those whose children remain. But the calamities hitting...
Hey, Elon Musk, You May Have a āDeep Stateā Problem
Is āX,ā the media company formerly known as āTwitter,ā still experiencing deep state interference and silencing of conservatives? The evidence suggests that it is.
Aid and Comfort to the Enemy
According to an April 2 report published by Intelligence Online, for some months now, Washington has been putting out feelers to various Islamic activists who spearhead the opposition to the Syrian regime.Ā According to this source, American diplomats are also cultivating contacts in Qatar with TV preacher Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, āwith whom they frequently discuss...
Is Scarborough Shoal Worth a War?
If China begins to reclaim and militarize Scarborough Shoal, says Philippines President Benigno S. Aquino III, America must fight. Should we back down, says Aquino, the United States will lose “its moral ascendancy, and also the confidence of one of its allies.” And what is Scarborough Shoal? A cluster of rocks and reefs, 123 miles...
Returns
The Godfather Part III Produced by Francis Ford Coppola Written by Mario Puzo and Mr. Coppola Directed by Mr. Coppola Released by Paramount Pictures Awakenings Produced by Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker Written by Steven Zaillian Directed by Penny Marshall Released by Columbia Pictures Alice Produced by Robert Greenhut Written and directed by Woody...
Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants
Amnesty for illegal immigrants is an idea whose time not only has ]3assed but, like Elizabethan collars and virginity, can hardly be imaginedāunless what Peter Brimelow calls “immigration enthusiasts” are more fanatical still than the Muslim terrorists who struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11. Then before the strike, a major...
The Living Constitution and the Death of Sovereignty
As this is written, the United States and its NATO allies are bombing the Serbian forces of Slobodan Milosevic. This is the first offensive action for NATO, and the first time that jellied armed forces have been unleashed against a sovereign nation with which the United States is not formally at war without an express...
The Hidden Costs of āNational Securityā
You wouldnāt know it, based on the endless cries for more money coming from the military, politicians, and the president, but these are the best of times for the Pentagon.Ā Spending on the Department of Defense alone is already well in excess of half a trillion dollars a year and counting. Adjusted for inflation, that...
Nursing the Nationās Population Replacement
America has a real nursing shortage but itās not due to a shortage of immigrant healthcare workers or any of the other reasons routinely given by the oracles of respectable opinion.
Britain’s Leftists: Allies of the Islamists
The people of England, after very considerable provocation, have lately come to fear Englandās Muslims.Ā Britainās leftists have shifted in the opposite direction.Ā From an entrenched hostility to the mores of their own country and out of sheer perversity, the leftists have intensified their attacks on the Catholic Church, while making a point of defending...
WikiLeaks Latest: A Minefield in Eastern Europe
An interesting batch of WikiLeaks documentsāprobably the most disquieting to dateāwas published by the Guardian earlier this week. Some concern the decision, made by NATOās Military Committee less than a year ago, āto expand the NATO Contingency Plan for Poland, Eagle Guardian, to include the defense and reinforcement of the Baltic States.ā Others indicate that...
Culture Politics
“The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope for or their foes fear.” āT.H. Huxley In political circles, it has become fashionable to talk about “culture wars.” The discussions usually touch on the issues of abortion, euthanasia, sexual orientation, school prayer, gun control, and welfare, among others. These are issues...
War in Ukraine, Two Years Later
The war in Ukraine reflects an ongoing revolution in military affairs that started two decades ago but which needed a major conflict to become fully apparent. To put it in a nutshell, the battlefield pendulum has swung in favor of defense
The Zhirinovsky Phenomenon
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, one of President Yeltsin’s most formidable opponents, is not well known in the West. In the former Soviet Union, though, he is despised and feared by both political camps: the reformers and the “patriots.” Even Leonid Kravchuk, president of the Ukraine and a former communist, considers Zhirinovsky extremely dangerous. “Do you want to...
Syria: Interventionistsā Relentless Hypocrisy
Ā The Syrian scenario, as concocted in Washington with some help from London and Paris, is proceeding with almost comical predictability. Amnesty InternationalĀ has just issued a reportĀ accusing government forces of ācrimes against humanityā and calling on the UN Security Council to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court. The report, āAll-Out Repression: Purging Dissent in...
What the Editors Are Reading: December 2020
Richard Holbrooke was the mostĀ shameless self-promoter in Washington D.C., a town that specialized in self-promotion, as George Packer writes inĀ Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century. He was a social climberĀ par excellence, a sycophant who embarrassed Barack Obama with his flattery to such an extent that he was banned from the...
Too Big to Fail: The Underlying Cause
āWe need radical change,ā Lord Turner, chairman of Englandās Financial Services Authority, said recently.Ā āAnd parts of the financial services industries need to reflect deeply on their role in the economy, and to recommit to a focus on their essential social and economic functions, if they are to regain public trust.āĀ The British are engaged...
Low-End Education
Not too far from my house in Phoenix, Arizona, stands a Christian school that may just say everything about the educational reform debate in this countryāand why it is so often impossible to make any sense of it, in particular. One assumes that what this school has to offer is back-to-basics education, superior teachers, a...
The Courage to Defy Prudence
On February 22, the South Dakota Senate, by a vote of 23-12, approved legislation banning nearly all abortions in the state.Ā On February 24, the vote in the South Dakota House of Representatives was 50-18 (H.B. 1215).Ā Twelve days later, Gov. Mike Rounds signed the measure into law.Ā President Bush criticized the law as too...
Unholy Dying
“In the midst of life we are in death.” The old Prayer X Book’s admonition has never been more true or less understood than it is today. Modern man, despite his refusal to consider his own mortality, is busily politicizing all the little decisions and circumstances that attend his departure. Death penalty statutes, abortion regulations,...
Will Democrats Pay a Price for Their Cynical, Crumbling Lawfare Strategy?
The Democratsā strategy is failing. But it is up to the American people to make them pay for it.
Black Op, Black Humor
What is it with people? Offing themselves like deathās going out of fashion! First Litvinenko poisons himself with green tea in a sushi restaurant in the middle of London and blames radioactive polonium. Then Berezovsky strangles himself with a scarf and drags his own corpse to the bathroom to make some kind of political point....
Does Iran Really Want a Bomb?
America, we have a problem. In the blood-soaked chaotic Middle East, with few exceptions like the Kurds, our friends either can’t or won’t fight. The Free Syrian Army folded. The U.S.-armed Hazm force in Syria has just collapsed after being routed by the al-Nusra Front. The Iraqi army we trained and equipped fled Mosul and...