Ā The most important foreign event in the final days of 2012 was the ramming through of Egyptās new, Sharia-based constitution by President Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood allies. The cultural, demographic and geographic center of the Arab world is now set to become an Islamic Republic. Egyptās transformation, after 60 years of secularist...
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Professional Sports, Sport-Betting, and Hypocrisy
Leagues like the NHL have made their moral stances clearātheir millionaire star players may not engage in sports gambling, but hockey fans are subjected to over two hours of gambling propaganda during each broadcast.
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....
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...
Taking the Mickey
In an English court of law 21 years ago, I had the opportunity to discover firsthand how touchy judges can be when challenged from the dock.Ā It was a case of libel that caught both the tabloid and broadsheet imagination, not to mention the BBCās.Ā I had referred to a very rich old woman as...
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...
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...
Kosovoās ThaƧi: Human Organs Trafficker
Ā The details of an elaborateĀ KLA-run human organ harvesting ring, broadly known for years, have beenĀ confirmedĀ by aĀ Council of EuropeĀ report published on January 15. The report,Ā āInhuman treatment of people and illicit trafficking of human organs in Kosovoā identifies the provinceās recently re-elected āprime ministerāĀ HashimĀ ThaƧi as the boss of a āmafia-likeā Albanian group specialized in smuggling weapons,...
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...
Imitation of Life
āYou shall have life and that abundantly.ā What did Jesusā followers make of this bold promise?Ā He had shown them that he could cure the diseases that afflict both body and mind, and, in bringing Lazarus back from the dead, He lifted the veil to reveal a part of the mystery of His own being.Ā ...
In the Register of Ka-ching!
The Hoax Produced and distributed by Miramax Films Directed by Lasse Hallstrom Screenplay by William Wheeler With The Hoax, Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom and his screenwriter, William Wheeler, have at long last given Clifford Irving his due. They have done so by portraying their subject with about ...
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...
Faces of Clio
“The obscurest epoch is today.” āRobert Louis Stevenson Taken together, these three books serve nicely as a kind of group portrait of Clio and her several faces. In reverse order we have the historian as diarist and memoirist, as documentarian, and as reflective sage. As one of the learned species, historians, it has always seemed...
From One Assault on the Constitution to Another
The U.S. Constitution has few friends on the right or the left. During the first eight years of the 21st century, the Republicans mercilessly assaulted civil liberties. The brownshirt Bush regime ignored the protections provided by habeas corpus. They spied on American citizens without warrants. They violated the First Amendment. They elevated decisions of the...
The Art of Adolf Hitler
In reading the Charles Manson story, Helter Skelter, I was struck by a brief passage about Manson’s admiration for Hitler. Manson believed he had things in common with Hitler, and there were similarities in their lives, however trivial: both were vegetarians; both had an incredible ability to influence others; and both were frustrated, rejected artists....
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...
Labor Day and a Changed Left
The officially approved āleftā and āright,ā although riven in apparent conflict, in fact represent little more than a debate between managerial styles. The real class struggle today is between the supporters and the critics of the Western managerial-therapeutic regime.
Trouble in Rome
āMany of us non-RC traditionalist all over the world had awaited the news from Rome with some trepidation,ā I wrote here on March 7 of last year. āIn the end it turned out to be rather good. Pope Francisāā¦ election is a compromise which will keep most traditionalists contented, if not exactly enthused, while giving...
Athens and Jerusalem III: Why Rome Fell
Why did Rome fall?Ā To be more precise,Ā why did the Western Empire collapse in the course of the fifth century?Ā Gibbon and some later historians blamed Christianity, which, they allege, not only weakened the manly spirit that had sustained the Empire but also diverted manpower and resources away from ...
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...
Attack of the Jacobins
Trent Lottāto the guillotine!Ā The cry has gone up, the mob is implacable, and the once-powerful and seemingly unassailable Senate majority leader has gotten the message loud and clear: Confess your sins, bare your neck, and prepare to lose your head!Ā And for what? What sin did this former muckamuck of the GOP commit that...
Sacred Encounters
“Time,” R.H. Ives Gammell wrote in The Twilight of Painting, “is a ruthless appraiser of art and, by and large, a very just one.” Gammell addressed his book “to readers disposed to consider the complete deterioration of the older forms of painting a disaster to civilization.” When he published The Twilight in 1946, Gammell’s purpose...
Letter From a Monastery: Engulfed in Solitude
āThere is a new loneliness in the modern world . . . the solitude of speed.ā āStephen Vizinczey Br. Anthony Weber is a Trappist monk at the Abbey of the Genesee in Piffard, New York, near Geneseo, where I serve as the Catholic Campus Minister at a SUNY liberal-arts college.Ā He was the monk dispatched...
Final Solution
Public education exacerbates todayās toxic youth subculture.Ā The combined forces of advertisers, television, teen magazines, and internet spammers have lured our nationās youth into lives of promiscuity.Ā Government schools add incompetence and dependency to the mixāall wrapped in a faƧade of ālearningā and ātestingā packages. Government education, unfortunately, never quite met the promised ideal.Ā Even...
Ages in Chaos
“In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration. . . . Only then can a shock from the outside put an end to the whole.” āBurkhardt Discussion of treason has become almost impossible without quoting Sir John Harington’s famous couplet, “Treason doth never prosper, what’s the reason? / For if it...
Which Terrorism?
The U.S. is about to make a disastrous blunder in its terrorism policies. In recent months, a series of savage shootings has drawn attention to the dangers posed by far-right, or white-supremacist, terrorism. Commentators from across the political spectrum have demanded a robust response, and law enforcement agencies are clearly listening. In principle, such a...
What the Loser Wins
The reason I am loath ever to set foot in the casino of Venice is that, in mournful contrast to just about everything else that fast moors me to her flooding shores, the CasinĆ² di Venezia at Palazzo Vendramin is not an anachronism.Ā The Italian state, which runs the place along with several other, still...
Our Open (Borders) Secret
The long campaign of 2007-08, already sputtering out in fizzled squibs, childish ploys, and pointless personal recriminations, has offered few of the moments of drama or high comedy that Americans have rightly come to expect of our political candidates.Ā The debates have been as drab as Hillary Clintonās pantsuits, as wooden as Barack Obamaās imitation...
The End of American Hegemony
America has become a pretty discouraging place. If Ronald Reagan were still with us, I wonder if he would again refer to the United States as a city on a hill, a light unto the world. I think not. Reagan brought America back from discouragement, but it didnāt stick. Subsequent administrations erased Reaganās accomplishments. Reagan...
Comment
Hillman writes of “the governance of the gods.” It is morenreasonable to assume that both men are attracted to the Buddhistnconcept, according to which there is no self, only a flux ofnsensations cut up into discrete and illusionary consciousnesses.nThis view was shared by philosophers from Heraclitus to Nietzsche,nand it has had decisive influence on devotees...
Driving Mike Royko
In my essay “Triberalism“ in last October’s issue of Chronicles, which detailed the hijacking of the Chicago Tribune in recent years by in-your-face homosexuals and other assorted leftwing counterculture misfits, I noted that there was still at least one Tribune writer who had the courage to thumb his nose at his paper’s new policy equating...
Engaging Syria, Undermining Iran
In his comment on my latest on the Israeli-Palestinian saga, WGN host Milt Rosenberg notes that we are now dealing with Iran as much as with the PLO government: behind Hamas and Hizbollah, and alongside Syria and Lebanon, lurks the government in Teheran. āThat elephant in the room must be named, confronted and undermined,ā he...
TRUTH in Green Trousers
When the young American poet Ezra Pound arrived in London in the autumn of 1908, he had considerably more on his mind than a tour of Westminster Abbey and a boat ride down the Thames. He was determined to become a noted poet, andāconvinced that his own country was little more than a cultural slumāhe...
The Best Government Money Can Buy
All of our history is now āindoctrination by historical example.āĀ The academicians who write the officially approved, politically correct distortions of it have failed history, and us.Ā They are of two types: the courtiers, smiling sycophants such as āpresidential historianā Michael Beschloss and the insufferable Doris Kearns Goodwin; and their envious colleagues, politically correct pedants,...
American Proscenium ā Gott Strafe England!
Voices are heard from the British IsĀlands that are highly critical of Mr. Reagan’s decision to do something about that other little islandāGrenada. Let us take a brief peek at what for the last two centuries has been called in history books the perfidyof Albion. Once it was aĀ world calamity, but today it seems more...
The Guantanamo Question
Who should determine whether alien enemy combatants captured in Iraq and Afghanistan are properly in the custody of the U.S. government at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay?Ā The President and Congress have set up special military tribunals to make such determinations, but some federal judges and some critics of President George W. Bush...
Blowing Bubbles
Between 2000 and 2005 I found myself spending an increasing amount of time scratching my head.Ā I had been researching and investing in financial-services stocks since 1992, but what I saw during that five-year span confounded me.Ā Banks offered āninjaā mortgagesāno income, no job, no assetsāto any borrower brazen enough to walk into a branch...
Prepare, Pursue, Prevail!
By way of explaining his eight failed marriages, the American bandleader Artie Shaw once remarked, āI am an incurable optimist.ā In reality, Artie was an incurable narcissist. Utterly devoid of self-awareness, he never looked back, only forward. So, too, with the incurable optimists who manage present-day American wars.Ā What matters is not past mistakes but future...
Paz
“Amazed at the moment’s peak, flesh became wordāand the word fell.” āOctavio Paz, A Draft of Shadows Upon a confirmed gringo like me, contemporary Spanish language poetry makes much the same impression as contemporary Spanish or Latin American concert music. Broad prairies of cadenza enclose a garden patch of melodic theme, an orotund thunder of...
Unstable Multipolarity
It is professionally vexing and personally alarming for a world-affairs analyst in todayās America that neither rationality nor consistency can be taken for granted among the foreign-policy community in Washington, D.C.Ā That much has become obvious from the crisis in relations between the United States and Russia over Georgia. This crisis heralds a particularly dangerous...
Being Bill O’Reilly
Some celebrities seem born with a natural star power that radiates from them like an angelic halo. Alcibiades had this kind of “charisma” that made him adored even by people who disliked him. To be a celebrity, as Willy Loman would say, it is not enough to be liked: You must be well liked. Musicians...
Biblical Valuesāor Vegas Values?
Almost all of the declared and undeclared Republican candidates for 2016 could be found this weekend at one of two events, or both. The first was organized by the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, and held in Point of Grace Church in Waukee. Dominated by Evangelical Christians, who were 60 percent of Republican caucus-goers in...
The Great American Disintegration
When a former colleague sent me a snippet from The New Yorker of September 22, 2014āa piece called āAs Big As the Ritz,ā by Adam Gopnikāthe attention therein given to two recent books on F. Scott Fitzgerald caught my eye, not only because I had already acquired one of them, but because I was repelled...
Shepherd in a Strange Land
āIām a pastor, not a scholar,ā Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, head of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia since 2011, said when I interviewed him earlier last year for Catholic World Report about his new book.Ā āA bishopās job is helping people get to heaven, not to Washington.ā In fact, since the death of Francis Cardinal George...
Capture the Flag, Part II
We have it on good authority that the peacemakers are blessed, and that’s only fair, because we sure catch hell in this world. Not long ago I suggested that most Southerners who display the Confederate flag are not bigots and got some hate mail to the effect that only a bigot could believe that. Last...
Moral Dumbing-Down
In a week when the Wall Street Journal‘s editorial page lectures the Republican Congress for tactical stupidity; and Israel’s prime minister lectures the Obama administration, whose insiders lecture him back; and no one can believe Obama has believable plans for anything; and he can’t believe anybody would believe such a thingāwith all this going on,...
The Oligarchy is Losing Its Grip, But Its Death Throes May Prove Fatal ā to Us
āHow American Media Serves as a Transmission Belt for Wars of Choiceā Several weeks ago the mainstream media (MSM) gave saturation coverage to a picture of a little boy pulled from the rubble of Aleppo after his home and family were crushed in what was dubiously reported as a Russian airstrike. Promptly dubbed āAleppo Boy,ā...
What If Zimmerman Walks Free?
Ā Three months ago, George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla., shot and killed Trayvon Martin. Handcuffed, taken in and interrogated, Zimmerman told police Trayvon had been acting suspiciously that dark and rainy night, that he had followed Trayvon, been knocked down and battered on the ground, and, fearing for his life, pulled...
The Dictator of the World
āE avanti a lui, tremava tutta Roma!ā āVictorien Sardou, Luigi Illica, and Guiseppe Giacosa, Tosca At the time of its publication in 1984, John Lukacsās Outgrowing Democracy: A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century was recognized by discerning critics as a highly significant work combining a fresh originality, at once topical and...
Four Questions: Justin Raimondo
Every month, Chronicles features the foreign-policy analysis and domestic political insights of Justin Raimondo, editorial director of Antiwar.com. Justin has been a contributor to the magazine for over two decades, during which time he has also written two vital works on the history of the anti-statist, anti-interventionist Old Right: Reclaiming the American Rightāwhose latest edition,...