None of what Putin said is new to those who have closely followed the sad saga of post-Soviet Ukraine, but the tens, perhaps hundreds, of millions of people who will watch this interview because of the identity of the interviewer, are unlikely ever again to accept uncritically the standard narrative spewed out by Western regimes and their media lapdogs.
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It Aināt My Fault
IĀ am trying to lose a few extra pounds and have been reasonably good as of late.Ā The other day, however, some Brachās chocolate eggs began calling out to me: āEat me, eat me.āĀ I was powerless to resist, so strong is my addiction.Ā In just an hour, I had devoured a pound of them.Ā Iāve...
The Goddess and the Bride
“And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. . . . And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam” (Genesis 2:18, 21). In between the Lord’s observation that it is not good for man to...
The Cuban Cash Cow
When the Cuban air force shot down two unarmed civilian planes, killing four men, there followed yet another round of senseless debate over how to handle Fidel Castro and his aging revolution. Cuban exiles renewed their call for vindication of still more deaths, while Time magazine ran Castro’s justification of the “defensive” act. The Clinton...
Stupid but Secure
Last year, the Board of Education for the Zanesville, Ohio, City School District was handed a hammer capable of striking a blow for the forces of good in the battle over the direction of public education. Unfortunately for this community, the board dropped the sledge squarely on its foot, seeking immediate relief by planting the...
Invocations of Malebranche
“The great issues don’t need to be vulgarized,” observes the narrator of David Slavitt’s 15th work of fiction. “They are vulgar, for they are exactly those things that everybody worries about.” Of those great issues, perhaps the most inscrutable is the one most poignantly summarized in the title of Rabbi Harold Kushner’s 1982 bestseller, When...
The Fort Hood Massacre
It makes no sense to see Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, as represented in at least one family account, as the victim of
Classic Colonialism
Almost alone among the peoples of the world, the United States has largely been sparedāat least until recentlyāthe bitter conflicts that plague countries whose citizens do not share a common language. Since the early 17th century, immigrants from diverse backgrounds have settled here. In the past, it was understood that in exchange for enjoying opportunities...
Who Was Vladimir Nabokov?
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) is not one of my most favorite writers, but then my most favorite writers are Pope and Swift, Dante and Corneille, Goethe and Tolstoy (not mentioning Theocritus, Vergil, and Marcus Aurelius) compared to whom any modern writer looks rather like a peculiarly dressed dwarf; however, when Nabokov is accused of some artistic...
Trump vs. the Spy Chiefs: Who’s Right?
To manifest his opposition to President Donald Trump’s decision to pull all 2,000 U.S. troops out of Syria, and half of the 14,000 in Afghanistan, Gen. James Mattis went public and resigned as secretary of defense. Now Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, in public testimony to Congress, has contradicted Trump about the threats that...
Liz Truss Takes Britainās Helm Amid Stormy Seas
Britain's new Prime Minister Liz Truss, of the Conservative Party, has her work cut out for her in a country poised to undergo a difficult winter.
On Excluding Muslims
Srdja Trifkovicās call to exclude āMecca from Americaā (āTo Lose a War,ā American Interest, November) brings to mind Protestant-nativist attempts to āexclude Rome from Americaā a century ago.Ā Dr. Trifkovicās reasons for excluding Islam from American society can be applied to the case of pre-Vatican II Catholicism in the United States.Ā Anti-Catholic literature often expressed...
A Forgotten Centennial: The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Last week saw one-hundredth anniversary of an event which greatly impacted the destinies of Europe and America for decades to come. It passed unnoticed by the media. On March 3, 1918, the Bolsheviks signed a peace treaty with the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk. Far from sealing the Kaiserreichās historic triumph in the East, its brutal...
What the Editors Are Reading
As a means to a brief escape from the (so far) miserable 21st century I picked up and began reading The Reason Why, an excellent work of nonacademic history published in 1953 by Cecil Woodham-Smith (in England, the sexes share the name āCecil,ā as they do āEvelynā) that tells the background story of the famous...
A Methodist Revival
Methodism, America’s third-largest religious denomination, eagerly embraced the Social Gospel nearly a hundred years ago. It supported labor unions, civil rights, and a moderate welfare state. By the 1960’s, the church was supporting Third World revolutions and abortion rights, while opposing school prayer and U.S. military defense efforts. Not surprisingly, Methodist theology became as wacky...
Uncle Sam’s Classroom
Yolanda and Raul Salazar of Miami, Florida, naturalized citizens who escaped Castro’s Cuba, are finding out the hard way that Uncle Sam’s classrooms are not about proficiency at anything, or literacy, or basics. America’s schools aren’t extensions of the home, where families are held sacred and parents are valued. Instead, American education is about “mental...
A Watch in the Marches
āOh, the wild hills of Wales, the land of old renown, and of wonder . . . ā Ā Ā Ā Ā āGeorge Borrow, Wild Wales I step silent across the flagged floor below weathered slates and beams, sleep-held family breathing behind, the only other sounds the scratching of terriersā claws as they push past...
Catholics in America: An Uneasy Alliance
At first, it may seem Catholicism contributedĀ little to the American founding. The Founding Fathers were Protestants or deists and had themselves mostly arrived from the formerly Catholic kingdoms of England and Scotland, many as dissenters from the initial dissent of King Henry VIII. They had little obvious sympathy for Catholic doctrine or political thought. Among...
Farewell to My Fellow Traveler
Whatever libertarians and Marxists say, human experience is neither the pursuit of self-interest nor is it class struggle. Man is made for the worship of God and for human friendship. Anyone who knew Aaron Wolf knows this truth. Aaron and I shared laughter, conversation, adventure, not a little stress, and an abundance of joy. Writing...
Could Trump Win?
The American political class has failed the country, and should be fired. That is the clearest message from the summer surge of Bernie Sanders and the remarkable rise of Donald Trump. Sanders’ candidacy can trace it roots back to the 19th-century populist party of Mary Elizabeth Lease who declaimed: “Wall Street owns the country. It...
There’s No Stopping Progress
The recent war in the Persian Gulf has at least had the merit of dissipating one or two myths, even if it has also helped to generate new mirages. One of the most pernicious of these myths was the belief, shared by France’s former defense minister, Jean-Pierre Chevenement, and other members of the Franco-Iraqi Friendship...
Rockefeller Republicans
Is the Republican establishment losing it? Is the party leadership capable of uniting a governing coalition as Richard Nixon did before Watergate and Ronald Reagan resurrected in the 1980s? Observing the hysteria and nastiness of Karl Rove and the GOP establishment at the stunning triumph of Tea Party Princess Christine OāDonnell, the answer is no....
Roger Stone, Jeffrey Epstein, and the Crackup of America’s Leadership
Roger Stone was recently convicted in federal court on seven felony charges, stemming from the since-closed Russian collusion investigation. Stone’s main crime was lying to Congress about who he had, or had not, spoken to about Russia. By the time Stone’s trial began in Washington, nobody was talking about WikiLeaks anymore. Nobody cared. Yet prosecutors...
Message From Ukraine – Nukes Do Deter
When he arrived at Christ the Savior Cathedral to pay his respects to the ultra-nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who had died of COVID-19, Russian President Vladimir Putin carried a clutch of red roses. The man beside him was carrying a briefcase. That briefcase appeared to be Russia’s version of the “football” that is carried by a...
Ukraine Ceasefire: Cui Bono?
There are two incompatible narratives on the meaning of last Saturdayās agreement in Minsk. There is also, as usual, the complex reality which the partisans of the warring sides refuse to recognize, and which escapes the attention of major Western media commentators. The Ukrainian nationalists accused Petro Poroshenko of surrendering to Putin. Kievās New Times...
Caribbean Vacation
Christmas was approaching, and I was getting homesick. I’d been in honduras for a year and a half, teaching school for peanuts at a small, bilingual parochial school in Puerto CortĆ©s. Ok, ok. I was teaching school for lempiras, not for peanuts. But the difference is so slight that it isn’t worth arguing about. In...
Buchanan 92 āCulture Warā Speech Still Provokes
I canāt think of a political speech in recent decades that more rattles around the back of the conscious of the American mind than Pat Buchananās āCulture Warsā speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention in Houston. It even overshadows Reaganās last major speech at the same convention before he slipped into the night of...
Putin Versus the Kremlin on the Potomac
Vladimir Putinās United Russia party scored an overwhelming victory in the countryās parliamentary elections last Sunday, winning almost two-thirds of the vote and 315 of the 450 seats in the Duma. The election was widely seen as a referendum on the past seven years ...
Finding a Perfect Mate Starts With Self
The online world is negatively affecting the American dating scene. If you didnāt suspect that already, an experience recorded by Villanova professor Anna Bonta Moreland over atĀ First ThingsĀ will make that clear. Moreland explains how she gave her students an online discussion assignment to share their dating experiences. The results were very moving and revealed how...
Danger and Disgrace on Inauguration Day
On Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2021, 25,000 National Guard soldiers will be assembled in Washington D.C., ostensibly to protect our nationās capitol from rioters and insurrectionists. Various federal agencies requested the Guard, and governors from across the United States complied with that request. Hundreds more federal and local law officials will also stand watch in...
Who Commissioned Us to Remake the World?
Ā U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul, Obama’s man in Moscow, who just took up his post, has received a rude reception. And understandably so. In 1992, McFaul was the representative in Russia of the National Democratic Institute, a U.S. government-funded agency whose mission is to promote democracy abroad. Ā The NDI has been tied to color-coded...
Modi and the Art of Realpolitik
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is an unabashed realist who has been using the crisis between Russia and the collective West to increase his countryās global clout.
Is McCain Hijacking Trump’s Foreign Policy?
“The senator from Kentucky,” said John McCain, speaking of his colleague Rand Paul, “is working for Vladimir Putin . . . and I do not say that lightly.” What did Sen. Paul do to deserve being called a hireling of Vladimir Putin? He declined to support McCain’s call for a unanimous Senate vote to bring...
Wyoming Peak
It is 145 road miles from Belen to Gallup, New Mexico, a railroad town immediately east of the Arizona border on old Highway 66 and adjacent to the Ramah and Big Navajo Indian Reservations where my grandmother Williamson taught school early in the century, returning to Ohio after a semester or two when an amorous...
After Vatican II; Drinking the Holy Spirit Neat
It’s Charismatic Prayer Sharing, Thursday nights at 8:00 P.M. in the Community Room of the large Catholic church I attend with my family. Because I’ve been wanting to learn to pray better, I went recently. Lou, the man I’d talked to on the phone, walked over and greeted me. Another, Stan, a seraphic, unkempt. round...
Is Putin the New King of the Middle East?
“Russia Assumes Mantle of Supreme Power Broker in the Middle East,” proclaimed Britain’s Telegraph. The article began: “Russia’s status as the undisputed power-broker in the Middle East was cemented as Vladimir Putin continued a triumphant tour of capitals traditionally allied to the US.” “Donald Trump Has Handed Putin the Middle East on a Plate” was...
Proposition 187
Proposition 187, California’s famous (or infamous) proposition to deny public services to illegal immigrants and their offspring, encouraged at least one member of Virginia’s General Assembly to propose similar legislation in this year’s session. The stout-hearted fellow’s name is Warren E. Barry, and he represents Fairfax County in Virginia’s Senate. For some time now, the...
That Bestial Visor
“Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse will not hold.” āWilliam Shenstone In the popular memory the interwar years in Western Europe were a period of instability, inertia, and poverty or, as Auden described the 1930’s, “a low dishonest decade.” One seldom hears about the interesting fact that during those interwar years, in...
Remembering Learned Hand
The name Learned Hand may not leap readilyĀ off the tongue if one were asked to list the conservative luminaries of the 20th century. Few people today outside the legal profession have any idea just how profound his influence as a jurist was and continues to be more than half a century after his death. His...
Classical Liberalism and Christianity
If asked to choose one word to define the basic creed and catchword of Western modernity, I would not hesitate: That word would be freedom, provided one understands that, for a modern, there can be no freedom where there is no equality.Ā If endowed with a minimum capacity to express himself, the average citizen would...
L’affaire De Man
“Colleges and books only copy the language which the held and the work yard made.” āRalph Waldo Emerson There is mention in the English annals of the 14th century of syphilis as “the malady of France.” Inevitably, blame was bilaterally distributed and the French of the same period called the disease “la maladie d’Angleterre.” A...
The Georgia Atrocity
Michael Stokes Paulsen, a learned professor at the University of Minnesota, is a connoisseur of legal atrocities.Ā In a recent article in the Notre Dame Law Review, he tries to award the palm for āThe Worst Constitutional Decision of All Time,ā while he teaches a course on āAtrocious Cases.āĀ In the spirit of Dr. Paulsenās...
Pop Idols
The English middle orders from Ruskin onward have had an inbred prejudice against America.Ā True, they may dress like mutant versions of Kurt Cobain and bundle themselves and their cloaca-tongued broods off to Disney World, but when you say āU.S.A.,ā much of the professional class still thinks of headlines like āNEW JERSEY BABY BORN WITH...
Returning to Reality
And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesarās, and to God the things that are Godās. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost . . . On February 28, as Pope Benedict...
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 ...
Scouting and Sin
[This article first appeared in the January 1992 issue of Chronicles.] The Case Against the Boy Scouts The Boy Scouts of America have recently been accused of sins against Democracy, in the form of discrimination against atheists, homosexuals, and women. Four recent lawsuits have challenged the organizational prerogatives of the Scouts. The families of nine-year-old...
Doubting Thomas
Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell by Jason L. Riley Basic Books 304 pp., $30 It is hardly surprising that an economist and historian of ideas who spent a long career arguing against the conventional wisdom of politicians and policy wonks would have a biography about him titled Maverick. It is much more surprising...
Christ and History
In theory, it seems like a good idea.Ā The corpus of historian John Lukacsās work is so rich and has grown so large that those who have just discovered it may be uncertain where to start.Ā His magnum opus, Historical Consciousness, alone has gone through three editions, all of which are worth reading as separate...
Our Special Relationship
Con Coughlin is the defense and security editor of Londonās Daily Telegraph and the author of several books on Middle Eastern themes: Hostage, about Lebanon in the 1980ās; A Golden Basin Full of Scorpions: The Quest for Modern Jerusalem, a presentation of the city through the voices of residents; and Saddam: King of Terror, a...
A Little List, 1
Ā As Some day it may happen that a victim must be found Ā Iāve got a little list, Iāve got a little list Ā Of society offenders who might well be under ground Ā And never would be missed, who never would be missed. A recent comment of Robert Peters (a pleasure, as always,...