The truly right-wing may wish for the demise of establishment conservative parties so that a real opposition to the left may emerge. They are fooling themselves and underestimating the danger of an unopposed left.
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Rise of the Trumps
Come November, Donald Trump may go down in flames.Ā Or he might continue to surprise and astonish us.Ā But the Trump children, regardless of whether their father is ever again allowed in GOP polite company, are another matter. The display of warm affection for their father during the Republican National Convention was not merely for...
Why Russia Resents Us
Friday, a Russian SU-27 did a barrel roll over a U.S. RC-135 over the Baltic, the second time in two weeks. Also in April, the U.S. destroyer Donald Cook, off Russia’s Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, was twice buzzed by Russian planes. Vladimir Putin’s message: Keep your spy planes and ships a respectable distance away from...
This Is Conservatism?
āIsnāt it pretty to think so?ā āErnest Hemingway There are two fictions that most American conservatives have taken to heart.Ā First, that the Republican Party stands for conservative ideas and principles; second, that there has been a conservative renaissance in the last several decades, a resurgence that culminated with the Reagan presidency and continues into...
Will Democratic Rebels Dethrone Nancy?
After adding at least 37 seats and taking control of the House by running on change, congressional Democrats appear to be about to elect as their future leaders three of the oldest faces in the party. Nancy Pelosi of California and Steny Hoyer of Maryland have led the House Democrats for 16 years. For 12...
The European Kerensky?
“Prodi, the Italian Kerensky?” was the intriguing headline of a full-page ad by a Christian-inspired group, Centro Culturale Lepanto (CCL), in two major Italian dailies, Il Giornale and Il Tempo, on May 14, 1996. In that manifesto, CCL president Roberto de Mattei, professor of modern history at the University of Cassino and one of the...
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...
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 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...
Unlike Nixon, Trump Will Not Go Quietly
On Aug. 9, 1974, Richard Nixon bowed to the inevitability of impeachment and conviction by a Democratic Senate and resigned. The prospect of such an end for Donald Trump has this city drooling. Yet, comparing Russiagate and Watergate, history is not likely to repeat itself. First, the underlying crime in Watergate, a break-in to wiretap...
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...
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...
Place of Asylum
The theater is dead, the novel dying, poetry extinct; biography is the province of graveyard ghouls, and history a battleground on which disheveled armies of academic theorists contend with hucksters and prostitutes for the fate of an entire civilization. These conclusions of a temperate man in a good humor pretty much sum up the business...
Delivering the Goods
My local post office in suburban Seattle seems to be rigged to discourage customers these days.Ā When you ask for the slightest bit of āconsumer assistanceāāas their cheerful mission statement on the wall promises theyāre only too happy to provideāthey seem to get ferociously cross.Ā I was once read the riot act by a young...
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...
On ‘Islam’
Tomislav Sunic’s (“The Gulf Crisis in Europe,” May 1991) proposal of an Islamic conversion for neo-pagan Western Europe as some type of alternative cultural synthesis is an eyebrow raiser. But to state that the Moslem religion’s “record of zeal and intolerance is no worse than that of other monotheistic beliefs” is a denial of the...
Academic Apathy Beyond the Rhine
We’re not supposed to like Germans or Germany, but I doāa lot. I found out just how much when, coming back to Frankfurt after a week of lecturing in Madrid, I found myself glad to be “home,” and happy to babble away in my pitiful German, after a, week of misery in my primitive Spanish....
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...
The Hollow Men
Debby Applegateās Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, treats a wide range of subjects: religion, politics, social upheaval, war, and clerical sex scandals.Ā And, while such a list might sound as if it were referring to contemporary America, the events recounted here occurred a century-and-a-half ago.Ā ...
Oil Spills and the Big Picture
The Little Pictureāthe picture of whatās happening right this minuteāis what you get from the media, and thatās to be expected. But the Little Picture has to fit inside a bigger one for news consumers rightly to appraise all the stakes and angles. The news of the ominous oil slick from the offshore rig explosion...
Fateful Choices
Minority Report Produced by 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks and Cruise-Wagner Productions Directed by Steven Spielberg Screenplay by Scott Frank from a short story by Philip K. Dick Distributed by DreamWorks Men in Black II Produced by Amblin Entertainment and Columbia Pictures Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld Screenplay by Robert Gordon VII from Lowell Cunninghamās comic-book series...
Biden Courts Islamists
Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden has vowed to end President Trumpās āMuslim travel banā on his first day in office and to fight āIslamicphobiaā. The supposed āMuslim travel ban,ā which wasĀ signed by Trump in January 2017,Ā blocked most immigrants and travelers from Iran, Libya, Somalia, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen. Of the five majority-Muslim...
Bonkers in Space
Tarkovskyās Solaris came out in 1972, which was the year Iād left Russia.Ā It was not until a quarter of a century later that I watched the long and quaint film, and was strangely affected by it.Ā I had always thought that nothing on the screen, if it was any good at all, could not...
After Mueller Debacle, Where Do Democrats Go?
The Democrats who were looking to cast Robert Mueller as the star in a TV special, “The Impeachment of Donald Trump,” can probably tear up the script. They’re gonna be needing a new one. For six hours Wednesday, as three cable news networks and ABC, CBS, and NBC all carried live the hearings of the...
Come Home, America
The proxy war in Ukraine is a globalist creation that has little to do with American interests. Americans should not emotionally invest in a fight that is not their own, but focus on more important matters at their own borders.
Simon Pure and Impure
The other day I came across the pianist Simon Barere on YouTube, and I was glad to see him thereāthe recognition he has received is certainly deserved, though it is hard to know what would be the appropriate reward to a performer who never got his due.Ā And just when he seemed to be getting...
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....
A Defense of Drug Addicts
A defense of drug addicts another one, in the pages of our family magazine? But defend them we must; this time from prohibitionists who would carry on the fight in utero. Recent cases in Wyoming and Michigan have seen pregnant women being brought up on charges of delivering drugs and alcohol to a minorānot through...
Equality: American Idol
Ā “They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Ben Franklin is much quoted in today’s debate on the trade-off between freedom and security, as we learn about the National Security Agency’s easy access to our phone records and emails. Yet we Americans have often...
Horsing Around
Two films, new and old, that feature horses: Jordan Peele's Nope a pointless waste of time. Black Stallion, albeit predictable, is beautiful, compelling, and worth seeing again.
Tipping Points and Imperial Meltdown
Tipping points have occurred in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia that signal the beginning of a meltdown of the American Empire. In war, a ātipping pointā may be defined as an event so dramatic, often so unexpected, that it has a psychological impact on the momentum of the war itself.Ā It adversely affects the morale of...
Carry On
From the August 2014 issue of Chronicles. The modern world abounds in modern heresies.Ā One might say that modernity itself is a heresyāmodernity understood in the broadest possible terms as the antithesis of the traditional: the fundamental distinction, as Claude Polin recently argued in this magazine, overlying all subordinate political and cultural oppositions, beginning with...
The Bishops’ Quest for Amnesty
In January, when the Catholic Church in the United States was supposedly devoting all of Her efforts to preventing taxpayer funding of abortion in ObamaCare, Americaās Catholic bishops took a distracting detour, announcing a nationwide āJustice for Immigrantsā campaign.Ā Their goal: to distribute millions of postcards to parishes throughout the country so Catholics could demand...
Karl Hess, R.I.P.
Karl Hessāone of the supplest and most creative political thinkers of post-Republic Americaādied on the same day as Richard Nixon did. His memorial service in Kearneysville, West Virginia, was attended by zero living presidents, which was meet for a man whose conscience impelled him to quit the Power he had once served. Vimful, curious, raucous,...
IDVID-2020: Our Other Virus
It seems a newer virus is now infecting American citizens. It can be deadly, killing off joy, compassion, reason, and objectivity. It renders its victims deaf to argument and blind to facts, creating in some of them so fevered a passion that they wind up in cloud cuckoo land. This virus goes under the name...
White Like Me
Few men in America are as reviled by the liberal establishment as Jared Taylor, editor of American Renaissance.Ā According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), he is āa courtly presenter of ideas that most would consider crudely white supremacist.āĀ Keep in mind that the SPLC is an organization that cites Thomas Fleming, editor of...
Surprise! Surprise!
In 1988, I wrote in a review in these pages, āIf there is any young historian out there who wants to know where the cutting edge is in American historical understanding, it is . . . the new and coming field of Northern history.āĀ Complicity is one of a half-dozen or more books published in...
The Poet and the Plowman
Surprisingly often we talked about Vergil, usually about the Aeneid, but sometimes about the Georgics, and then with the wry sentimental fondness of old students who had been made, not quite willingly, to go to school to the poem. And during the plentiful longueurs of the Redskin games of the mid-1960’s, we would regret that...
Violence and the Subversive
Terrorism has been a plague for Western democracies over the past decade, but in France and Britain it has not been a fatal disease. Other countries have not been so lucky. The Tupamaros of Uruguay took a country that, with all its problems of inflation and corruption, enjoyed 90 percent literacy, low infant mortality, and...
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...
The Worst Verse Since 1915
Exactly 50 years ago, T.S. Eliot died.Ā Exactly 100 years ago, āPrufrockā appeared.Ā What better moment, then, to perform the long-overdue public service of identifying the single worst poem to have been published during the last century?Ā To name and shame?Ā To award the IgNobel Prize for (Nominally Versified) Literature?Ā A dirty job, but someone...
Transcendence of Mere Opinion
Thomas Mann: Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man; Frederick Ungar; New York. The true artist living in a time dominated by politics finds himself traversing a path that is both arduous and dangerous. He begins with a search that is committed to life rather than to just the intellect; that search is replete with ambiguity and...
Shadows in the Limelight
An American television viewer will witness more violence in a single evening than an Athenian would have seen during a lifetime of theatergoing. Acts of violence were virtually prohibited in Greek drama, and Aristotle goes so far as to argue against the use of “mere spectacle” to produce the desired catharsis of pity and fear:...
Answering the Scottish Question
The people of Scotland have spoken.Ā Scotland has voted not to secede from the United Kingdom and to remain in her long-standing union with England and Wales.Ā Over two million Scotsāmore than 55 percent of the 3.6 million who went to the pollsāvoted against independence.Ā Nearly all the electorate had registered to vote, and there...
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...
Staring at Hiroshima From Babel
Ā August 6 marks the 68th anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima. Ā One goal, many claimed, was to “weaken the resolve” of the Japanese to fight by inspiring terror (what we now call “shock and awe”) in the hearts of our enemies, combatant and civilian. Ā Said Gen. George Marshall, “It’s no good to warn...
Lilliput vs. Leviathan
There are lots of freckles, red hair, and Celtic names in Catron County, New Mexico. Though almost everyone in the county has some Indian or Mexican blood, this is home to the families and culture which David Hackett Fischer describes in Albion’s Seed as Scotch-Irish, double distilled, first by the Highland clearances and then by...
A Gilded Cage for an Old-World Aristocrat
A Gentleman in Moscow follows the life Count Alexander Rostov as he returns to Russia and lives as a dissident under oppressive Soviet rule.
Danteās Path to Heaven
Dante Alighieri died here in Ravenna, a little city where any sane man or woman might well choose to live and die.Ā Like most people, I come here from time to time to stare stupidly at the Roman and Byzantine mosaicsāthough as the years go by I notice most people are letting their cameras and...
Arabia First
At this point, itās no great surprise when Donald Trump walks away from past statements in service to some impulse of the moment. Nowhere, however, has such a shift been more extreme or its potential consequences more dangerous than in his sudden love affair with the Saudi royal family. It could in the end destabilize...