One striking feature of the U.S. Constitution is the number of procedural rights guaranteed to individuals accused of criminal behavior before they can be deprived of life, liberty, or property.Ā The overall guarantee of due process of law contained in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments constitutes the basic foundation, but there are many other protections.Ā ...
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Game of Chicken
Dan Cathy, the CEO of the successful chain restaurant Chick-fil-A and a devout Baptist, has made the mistake of insisting that a spade is in fact a spade, and that can mean only one thing: He and his delicious chicken have to go. If only he had played by the rules of the Game!Ā Here...
Butch Cassidy, Part 2
A station agent tried to telegraph Price, Utahāthe direction the outlaws were headedābut Butch Cassidy and Elzy Lay had cut the wires.Ā The paymaster had the trainās engine uncoupled.Ā Men grabbed a variety of weapons and jumped aboard.Ā The locomotive steamed down the narrow gorge of Price Canyon right past the unseen robbers, who were...
Desperado
The Western setting of this closely focused narrative is a confirmation of the authorās identification with a region, as we know from his Western novels Desert Light and The Homestead and other nonfictional books relating to the West and to the border with Mexico.Ā The text itself, however, insists that this Western setting is more...
Where the Blacktop Ends
Itās springtime once again in Rockford, when a young manās fancy turns to bailing out his basement.Ā The old downtown and the residential neighborhoods built up through the 1940ās sit on clay soil, on top of rock.Ā The effect, when the spring rains come and the dry clay cannot absorb the water quickly enough, is...
Books in Brief
The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War, by Peter Guardino (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; 512 pp., $39.95). This is an excellent accountāpart social, part military, and part politicalāof the Mexican-American War, fought between 1846 and 1848 and concluded by the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1849 that ceded, essentially, the northern half of...
Pandoraās Box
Globalization is remaking the world in ways that will profoundly affect how people do business, govern themselves, and even make war.Ā We may debate what the driving force behind globalization isācapitalism or technology, for exampleābut there is no doubt that capital goods, services, people, and ideas cross borders with increasing speed, frequency, and ease.Ā Actions...
Against the Obscurantists
It was a muggy day in late July, and I had gone to the back of the church to rest on crutches and take some pressure off my sprained ankle.Ā Taking advantage of my condition to stand in the way of one of the churchās too-few fans, I noticed a woman feeding candy to her...
Sleepwalking in America
For the third time in our generation, independent voters could be the balance of power in this year’s presidential election. In 1968, Alabama Gov. George G. Wallace, standardbearer of the American Independent Party, received 13 percent of the popular vote, a sum greater than the difference between Hubert H. Humphrey and the victor, Richard M....
Many Tiers
R. Clay Reynoldsā āFrom Castro to Cancunā (Correspondence, May) presented a number of observations that contradict much of what has been documented with regards to Cuba.Ā For the sake of brevity, I am only highlighting some of the most glaring. First, the claim that there is āno urban blightā in Cuba ignores the crumbling reality.Ā ...
Last of the Taft Republicans?
Bob Dole is the last of the Taft Republicans, according to Murray Kemptonāif only it were so! Isolationists (that is, Middle Americans who do not want our sons or brothers sent to die or kill on foreign sands) cherish Dole’s remark in his 1976 vice presidential debate with the dreary Mondale: “I figured up the...
Hitting the Wall
On October 8, Americans awoke to government reports that the domestic economy had shed another 95,000 jobs in September.Ā Despite the billions of dollars mailed to select citizens in the form of stimulus checks and the politicized bailouts of protected industries, U.S. policymakers have failed to resuscitate the moribund economy or coax unemployment down from...
A Client State Pushes Eighty
The U.S. occupation and reconstruction of Japan began nearly 80 years ago and is considered by many to be an unqualified success. But Japan's national character was hollowed out in the process; what remains is a shell of a country still obedient to its conquerors.
The Wasted Century
The Great War and its inevitable successor have been called Europeās civil war, and there is some truth in this characterization.Ā Divided by language, religion, and culture, the nations of Europe were nonetheless united in a common civilization that developed out of the ruins of the Christianized Roman Empire.Ā Despite the strains brought on by...
Jekyll and Hyde in a Box
Mr. Brooks Produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer StudiosDirected by Bruce A. EvansScreenplay by Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon Last month, the Wall Street Journal gleefully doted on billionaire wonderboy Stephen Schwarzman of the aptly named Blackstone Group, a firm dealing in private equities and leveraged buyouts. Schwarzman, George W. Bushās roommate at Yale and...
Tax Credits and Education Reform: No Simple Task
Over the last decade, the state of Arizona has made ground-breaking attempts at K-12 education reform.Ā A 1997 law allowing taxpayers to steer a portion of their state income-tax liability toward a student at a private school now provides significant scholarship aid each year to 22,500 of the 54,000 students enrolled in private schools.Ā With...
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...
Ron Paulās Last Hurrah
At this point it is clear that Rep. Ron Paul is not going to be the presidential nominee of the Republican Party.Ā Yet it seems likely that he will outlast all his rivals but for Romney, and that he will have a substantial bloc of delegates at the convention.Ā Paul ...
Memories: Glimpses of Notables
In my senior year I was editor of the high-school newspaper.Ā (We even won a prize from the Columbia University School of Journalism.)Ā What I remember most is the literary progeny on my staff.Ā It included the daughter of Burke Davis, a well-known writer of the time; the daughter of the historian Richard N. Current;...
Answering Pop Musicās Malaise this Christmas
A culture is characterized by its public rites. Western culture today shows itself most clearly in popular song and what we hear is in need of an antidote.
Angela Merkelās Bid for a Tighter European Union
Ā Addressing the annual congress of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Leipzig on November 14, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for further politicalĀ integration within theĀ European UnionĀ as a means to ending the sovereign-debt crisis. āThe task of our generation now is to complete the economicand currency union in Europe and, step by step, create a...
Sailing Ships and Troubled Waters
The ship captain as Nietzschean superman, in the 1941 film adaptation of Jack London's The Sea Wolf
Dumbo Univeristy
As George W. Bush famously asked, āIs our children learning?ā Apparently not in the twin capitals of liberalism, D.C. and New York. In a ranking of 50 states and D.C. by how much each spent per pupil in public schools in 2005, New York ranked first; D.C. third. The state spent $14,100, and New York...
Factualism
Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film by Erik Barnouw; Oxford University Press; New York. Cinema in our society serves, for the most part, to entertain. This is not to deny the existence of training filmsāeducational tools, which are served by a sizable industryābut to take note of the fact that the cinema is almost...
Annus Horribilis
The year 2010 was a depressing one in the foreign-policy world; the decline and fall of a world empire, no matter how well-deserved its fate, should be seen only as a tragedy.Ā The sheer scale of its fatal gigantism portends a Stentorian scream as it falls into the abyssāand we heard the first painful groans...
The Maastricht Mystique
Even an expert must be mystified by the legal structures of the European Union Parliament and the European Commission. The EU Parliament has roughly 620 deputies, elected every five years from 15 Western European states. Voters from ElU countries have no decision over the election of other countries’ deputies to the EU Parliament. The president...
If Pigs Could Fly
The day after Christmas 2006, the U.S.-military death toll in Iraq overtook and then surpassed the total number of Americans killed on September 11, 2001.Ā Some Democrats, even before the symbolic number was reached, were calling for a withdrawal, either immediate or gradual, of U.S. forces.Ā President Bush, although he had abandoned his signature tune...
A Certain Knack
Even at first dip, this book gives the impression of being unreadable to any but the tweediest Anglophile.Ā There are still such people in the world, you know, and some of them have even been born in Britain.Ā For them, hearing the names āLady Diana Cooperā or āSt. Pancrasā is like a drop of lime...
Making the Whole
As a race, the British are considered neither the most intellectual nor the most artistic, Britainās role in the invention of modern physics (Newton) and modern painting (Turner) notwithstanding.Ā Yet their ability to make cultural icons of near-universal appeal is second to none.Ā Quite apart from the philosophical contributions of Locke and Burke and Hume...
A Trip to Smart-Mouth College
āIf the King James Bible was good enough for the Apostle Paul, itās good enough for me!ā Over the years, there have been many errors identified in the various printings of the so-called Authorized Version (it was never officially āauthorizedā by anyone) of the Bible, the most beloved translation of the Scriptures into English.Ā H.A....
Of Baseball Bats and Tax Reform
The coming fight over tax reform highlights distinct and seemingly irreconcilable views of government. We might want to reflect on them, as the major players ready the armament: brass knuckles, baseball bats, Fox News and New York Times commentaries. The two warring views: 1. Government knows more than you do. 2. On many topics, you...
A (Re)Movable Feast
“A morality which has within it no room for truth is no morality at all” āFlaubert ” . . . But the thing is, you know, let’s face it, there’s a whole enormous world out there that I don’t ever think about, and I certainly don’t take responsibility for how I’ve lived in that world....
Letter From Germany: A Witch-Hunt in a Wounded Land
The capitulation of Germanyās elite to the Woke Empire led by the U.S. could mean a dark future of deindustrialized insignificance for the country.
2020: Socialist America or Trump’s America?
In the new Democratic Party, where women and people of color are to lead, and the white men are to stand back, the presidential field has begun to sort itself out somewhat problematically. According to a Real Clear Politics average of five polls between mid-March and April 1, four white menāJoe Biden, Bernie Sanders, “Beto”...
Why Tell It Straight?
Matewan written and directed by John Sayles Cinecom Entertainment Group In 1920 Matewan was a little town on the western edge of Mingo County, West Virginia, right on the Kentucky border. It was a town owned and run by the Stone Mountain Coal Company, and when the miners tried to bring in the union, the...
The Easiness of Being Liberal
Liberals are keen to sniff out and condemn āprivilege,ā by which they mean the superior education, the affluence, the influence, and the comfort enjoyed by well-connected, well-born people, usually imagined by them to be political conservatives.Ā None of this has anything to do with privilege in the historical sense of the word, of course, but...
Election Year Smoke and Mirrors Magic from the LeftĀ Ā Ā Ā
A notable decline in the antics of far-left oddballs suggests theyāve received an order from on high to cool it.
A Story of the Days to Come
Early in December of last year, while President-elect Clinton was trying to come up with a Cabinet that would “look more like America,” the U.S. Census Bureau published a report that told us what America really looks like and what it will probably look like 60 years from now. Presumably, Mr. Clinton will have departed...
Robert Hanssen and the New Meaning of Treason
A year ago, Robert Philip Hanssen apparently felt the need to explain to the Russians his motives for supplying them with thousands of top-secret U.S. intelligence documents over the preceding decade and a half. The veteran FBI agent wrote them a letter, confessing that he is neither insanely brave, nor merely insane, but “insanely loyal”...
An American In Great Britain
George Goodwinās new book on Benjamin Franklin explores the 18 years Franklin spent in England working as a printer (1726-28) and as an agent representing the Pennsylvania assembly and other American colonies (1757-62, 1766-75).Ā The author of this excellent book is an Englishman who offers fresh insights into the period from a British perspective. Benjamin...
The Unnatural History of Giant Ideology
Born in a Parisian coffeehouse during the first year of the 19th century, Ideology has grown gigantic in our time. Infant Ideology was consecrated to an educational reform; the colossus Ideology that now bestrides the world is engaged successfully in the extirpation of culture. There comes to my mind often, when someone innocently utters such...
The Impact of Immigration on Hispanic-Americans
As American migrant workers took to the fields in the first harvest season after the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (the sweeping new federal law to control illegal immigration), Herminio MuƱoz, a sixty-five-year-old Mexican-American from Progreso, Texas, told the Dallas Times Herald: “We think there is going to be a...
Spy Novelist John le CarrƩ Experienced Espionage Firsthand
The man whose books redefined the spy novel genre, David John Moore Cornwell, died of pneumonia on December 12 at the age of 89. Author of such intricately woven yarns asĀ Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,Ā The Honourable Schoolboy,Ā andĀ Smileyās People, Cornwell was better known by hisĀ nom de plumeĀ John le CarrĆ©, and often dealt with the timeless issues of...
Wokedom Westernizes Russia to Malign Her
By describing Russia as an heir to the habits of Western imperialism, the current woke psychosis, combined with crisis escalation in Ukraine, has the potential to destroy the remnant of our common European civilization.
Judging the Past
Joshua Tait, who is completing a dissertation on the American conservative movement at the University of North Carolina, is a virtue-signaling expert on his object of study. Never does Tait hold back in judging past conservatives by his super-duper progressive standards. For example, he offers this on one particularly revered conservative icon: ā[Russell] Kirk was...
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...
LIBERAL ARTS
Fraud and deception among society’s heroes draw attention to contradictions and inconsistencies in its value systems. Because American culture applauds entrepreneurship, independence, and ambition, for example, scientists have been encouraged to develop independent imaginations and innovative research, to engage in intense competition, to strive for success. Ironically, Americans also want their whitecoated heroes to be...
Doll Studies
In 1954, the Supreme Court held in Brown v. Board of Education that the state-sponsored segregation of children in public schools was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, and thus unconstitutional. The Court reasoned that segregation “generates a feeling of inferiority . . . that may affect their [black children’s]...
Racial Triage
The medical concept ofĀ triageĀ became widely employed during World War I. In the industrialized warfare of the Western Front, casualties soon overwhelmed available medical care. New weapons like machine guns, high explosive artillery, and poison gas produced thousands of casualties quickly. There were only so many doctors and beds to go around, so a quick decision...
Fiddling on the Brink
A standard theme in the literature on the Great War is that hardly anyone expected it at the time.Ā Europeās last summer, balmy and idyllic, suddenly brought the guns of August.Ā This view is not historically accurateāGermany willed the war, and her leaders engineered the July crisisābut for most other actors the catastrophe did come...