Late in life, Harry Sinclair Lewis of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, figured something out: he would soon be forgotten. In a mock self-obituary, Lewis foresaw that he would leave “no literary descendants. . . . Whether this is a basic criticism of [Lewis’s] pretensions to power and originality, or whether, like another contemporary. Miss Willa Cather,...
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Reading Huxley Between the Headlines
âIs it time to reread Brave New World?â asks the distinguished historian Anthony Beevor, in a recent article on Donald Trumpâs victory in the 2016 presidential election. I think it is. Of the two great fictional casts into the future, George Orwellâs Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and Aldous Huxleyâs Brave New World (1932), Huxleyâs imaginative prophecies...
On Consistency
In the April 30 issue of the Remnant, Christopher Ferrara cites a priest in New York who claims that the percentage of seminarians within his diocese who are homosexual may be conservatively estimated at 60 percent. If this is what Bishop Thomas Doran of Rockford (quoted in âDe Profundis,â The Rockford Files, June) refers to...
Our Presidents in Song
Bill Clinton and George Bush, Sr., share something: They are the only presidents since George Washington who were elected without having a campaign song written for them. Perhaps as a reflection of the vacuousness of their platforms, the two candidates used popular songs for their campaigns. George Bush surely made Woody Guthrie spin in his...
Kosovo: A New Day of Infamy for a New Century
The grotesque charade in Pristina on Sunday, February 17, crowned a decade and a half of U.S. policy in the former Yugoslavia that has been mendacious and iniquitous in equal measure. By encouraging its Albanian clients go ahead with the unilateral proclamation of ...
The Natural Map of the Middle East
 “Apart from political maps of mankind, there are natural maps of mankind. … One of the first laws of political stability is to draw your political boundaries along the lines of the natural map of mankind.” So wrote H.G. Wells in What Is Coming: A Forecast of Things to Come After the War in the year...
Capture the Flag, Part I
In an earlier letter I cheered my buddy Chris’s suggestion that announcements at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics be given in both Southern and Yankee English but pointed out that on preliminary form Atlanta’s civic leaders are unlikely to cotton to the idea. I didn’t mention another of Chris’s proposals, one they’re guaranteed to like even...
The Creation of an American Everyman
Frank Capraâs film, Meet John Doe, makes clearâespecially as Christmas Day approachesâthat man is not the measure of all things. It is only when Godâs wisdom is the foundation of manâs being and existence that we can live authentically in both words and deeds.
The Bubble Economy
âWhy,â Sheila Ramus asked, âif there are so many pro-lifers here, does Rockford have an abortion clinic?â Sheila, my wife and I, and our pastor, Fr. Brian Bovee, were waiting to check in at Rockfordâs annual Pro-Life Banquet. An hour before the dinner was scheduled to begin, the Holy Family ...
Too Much is Never Enough
Researchers report significantly increased rates of suicide among U.S. military personnel, college students, and baby boomers. Until now, suicide was most prevalent among teenagers and elderly persons. Journalists have suggested a number of explanations for the phenomenon, among the more plausible of them the structural collapse of the American family in which troubled, lonely, and...
Coming Home
âThe people who go to St. Stanâs arenât Polish; theyâre Polish-American.â Those words, blurted without thinking, have haunted me for almost a decade and a half. Anna Mycek-Wodecki, then art director of Chronicles, was a true Pole. Like Leopold Tyrmand, the founder of Chronicles, she was a refugee from communism. Unlike Tyrmand, she was ethnically...
A Letter from ‘Smart America’
In Last Best Hope, George Packer divides America into four categories of people, about half of whom he despises, and then proceeds to lament their incompatibility as a threat to democracy.
Citizen Murdoch
If Rupert Murdoch gets his way, all Earthlings will read one newspaper and watch one television station. And Murdoch will own both. So even before the Media Monster That Ate New York and London had the Wall Street Journal for dessert, the liberal-media elite flew into a rage worthy of the Tasmanian Devil. Heâll interfere,...
Obamacare: Charity or Marxism, II
 This part two of a series.  If you have any doubts about the premise accepted here, that Obamacare represents an implementation of socialist principles, please read Part I. I should not that I have borrowed passages from the first chapter of a book in progress, tentatively titled Cities of Man.  In Part III, I’ll...
Embarrassing Victory
“The other side lost, but did we A win?” So asks Ronald Steel concerning America’s foreign policy. Obviously the world long familiar to us has suddenly collapsed. “Of course there is a victory,” writes Steel in reference to the United States’ triumph in the Cold War. “But what do we do with it?” No stranger...
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Just when I thought Iâd seen it all, I discovered that Planned Parenthood of Indiana has deployed a new weapon in the War on Christmasâer, Holiday. Not to mention the War on Lifeâer, inconvenience. Thereâve been some real dingers lately in the War on Holiday. I just heard an ad on a sports-talk-radio station in...
Nursing the Nationâs Population Replacement
America has a real nursing shortage but itâs not due to a shortage of immigrant healthcare workers or any of the other reasons routinely given by the oracles of respectable opinion.
The Wages of Divorce
My motherâs older sister Sadie and her husband Roy spent a lifetime concealing a secret: both had been in earlier marriages that ended in divorce. My aunt wanted no one of the younger generationâ not even her childrenâto know about this source of embarrassment and only told me about her first marriage when I was...
Zora Neale Hurston’s White Mare
When novelist Zora Neale Hurston died penniless in a Florida nursing home in 1960, she was buried in a charity cemetery in an unmarked grave, an ironic resting place for a talented American writer and folklorist who, by all accounts, was a dazzling and memorable personality. Though her success had never been more than modest,...
Rubio Rising?
In the Daily Beast, Senior Congressional Correspondent Tim Mak is Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs over Marco Rubioâs speech Wednesday before the Council on Foreign Relations: âThe student has now become the teacher. âSen. Marco Rubio, once viewed as a protege of presidential competitor Jeb Bush, schooled the former Florida governor Wednesday evening in the first...
Tending the Abused Garden
Max Hayward: Writers in Russia: 1917-1978; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; San Diego, CA. by Charles A. Moser At the time of his premature death in 1979, Max Hayward was among the finest Western interpreters of contemporary Russian literature in the Soviet Union. As one of Britain’s most accomplished Slavists, he had obtained a research position at...
The Disintegrating Blue Line
Being a cop in America isnât so cool anymore.
Our Special Relationship
Con Coughlin is the defense and security editor of Londonâs Daily Telegraph and the author of several books on Middle Eastern themes: Hostage, about Lebanon in the 1980âs; 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...
Roman Spies and Spies in Rome
In the summer of 1943, as Allied forces reached Italy, U.S. Army counterintelligence warned GIs, “You are no longer in Kansas City, San Francisco, or Ada, Oklahoma, but in a European country where espionage has been second nature to the population for centuries.” That “second nature” extends all the way back to early Rome and...
The Threat of Trump
The media attacks on Trump have become relentless. For some reason, Washington Post headlines show up in my Facebook feed, and it is increasingly difficult to distinguish the news stories from the opinion piecesâthey all merge into a seemingly endless anti-Trump torrent. One example: a news story on Trump’s economic policy team was headlined “Trump’s...
A Falling Market
Leon Hadar has written a short, dispassionate, and gently theoretical sort of book on American policy in the Middle East. It is not, chiefly, about military operations, terrorists, prisons, and headlines but about policy at the âgeo-politicalâ and âgeo-economic levelâ and about predictions.  Though dry, Sandstorm is accessible to the general reader. Hadar believes that the...
Valor
Valkyrie Produced and distributed by United Artists Directed by Bryan Singer Screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie Slumdog Millionaire Produced by Celador Films Directed by Danny Boyle Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy from Vikas Swarupâs novel Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures  In Valkyrie, screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie and director Bryan Singer tell the story of Col. Claus von...
The Gospel Humanity of MS-13
As I was finishing up an embroidery of a Maya Angelou poem while contemplating Jamie Smithâs profound and almost mystical use of parentheses and italics, I almost split my PJs and spilt my latte when I read that not-my-president Trump called the MS-13 âgangâ a bunch of âanimals.â With deranged determination, I tweeted my #disgust...
A Stand-up Guy
What is Pete Roseâs explanation for failing to remember, throughout his life, his motherâs birthday? âI just canât seem to concentrate on things Iâm not interested in.â Ever since the news broke that Pete Rose was ready, after 14 years of lies, to admit what most people already believedâthat, yes, he did bet on baseballâthe...
Orwell’s Coming Up for Air Is Prophetic for Our Times
Seven years before he began writing his post-war masterpiece, 1984, George Orwell published Coming Up for Air, a novel in a different key that presaged the themes of his later book. Forty-five-year-old George Bowling is a character about as different from Winston Smith as can be imagined. Whereas Smith is sour, wan, and forlorn, Bowling is cheerful, hearty,...
Measured Speech
A maritime artist I know tells me that he once met an eminent critic who claimed to have given up the brush and taken up the pen because he had won all the prizes in art school. Those laurels must be testimony that he was washed upâhow could an artist of genuine importance, he despaired,...
Spy Novelist John le Carré 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 as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smileyâs People, Cornwell was better known by his nom de plume John le CarrĂ©, and often dealt with the timeless issues of...
Are We on the Ramp to Impeachment Road?
After a stroke felled Woodrow Wilson during his national tour to save his League of Nations, an old rival, Sen. Albert Fall, went to the White House to tell the president, “I have been praying for you, Sir.” To which Wilson is said to have replied, “Which way, Senator?” Historians are in dispute as to...
The Logic of the Map
Soon after his election in 1844, James K. Polk sat down with the historian George Bancroft and, before offering him the Cabinet post of secretary of the Navy, sketched the four objectives of his presidency. They were to lower the tariff, restore the independent treasury system, extend American sovereignty over the vast Oregon Country (claimed...
On Art Felons
In 1994, a crackdown by New York City police on illegal street peddling on Soho’s narrow, crowded sidewalks resulted in sellers of paintings and photographs being hauled in by the dragnet. Since the Soho Alliance, a volunteer community group, draws its members from the artist residents of Soho, we felt a need to find a...
Human, Not-Quite Human
The doping scandals that plague professional and âamateurâ sports have done little to shake the enthusiasm of fans and sportswriters for their heroes. Fans still flock to the stadiums and spend their weekends watching NBA basketball games, NASCAR races, and even (if ABC is to be believed) AFL football exhibitions. As a child, I once...
Charlie, Christian, and the Bondage of Freedom
â[R]eligion is apt to provide another loyalty than that claimed by the State . . . â     âT.S. Eliot Two Muslims brutally murdered some French cartoonists for blaspheming their holy man. Have we learned something new from this? Yes, it turns out Muslimsâthe fundamentalist types, not many, but more than youâd...
The Broken Promise of American Cities
It was my penultimate summer in California when two friends from Germany crossed the pond to visit. They rented a room in San Diego not far from the beach, nestled in a palm-tree lined suburb. At some point between setting their bags on the curb and checking in to their summer digs, a man was...
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...
Fiddling on the Brink
A standard theme in the literature on the Great War is that hardly anyone expected it at the time. Europeâs last summer, balmy and idyllic, suddenly brought the guns of August. This view is not historically accurateâGermany willed the war, and her leaders engineered the July crisisâbut for most other actors the catastrophe did come...
The Prospects for the World in 2014: It Could Be Worse
 âMaking predictions is very difficult,â said Niels Bohr, âespecially about the future.â We live in uncertain times, and they have been chronically uncertain, oftentimes acutely so, ever since July 1914. As we enter 2014, it is apt to remember that a hundred years ago the civilized world greeted the new year with the complacent belief, bordering on arrogance,...
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]...
Boehner’s RightâIt’s Trump’s Party Now
“There is no Republican Party. There’s a Trump party,” John Boehner told a Mackinac, Michigan, gathering of the GOP faithful last week. “The Republican Party is kind of taking a nap somewhere.” Ex-Speaker Boehner should probably re-check the old party’s pulse, for the Bush-Boehner GOP may not just be napping. It could be comatose. Consider....
A Pair of Charmers
There are two archetypes of the charming idler. One, rather like myself, is likely to be unemployed de métier. The other drifts in and out of employment, trading on social connections, borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, pandering, dealing cocaine, walking dogs, selling Impressionist pictures, joining the Foreign Legion, working on a perpetuum mobile, discovering...
Biden at Tulsa Is a Study in Historical Confusion
In a rambling performance taking three-quarters of an hour, President Joe Biden spoke at Tulsa on the anniversary of the murderous events of 1921. He subjected his audience to his usual mangled sentences, omitting key words or parts of speech, sometimes to the point of total incomprehensibility. In fairness it should be noted that he is hardly...
Ukraine Ceasefire: Cui Bono?
There are two incompatible narratives on the meaning of last Saturdayâs 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. Kievâs New Times...
The Worst Purges Come From the Right
Recently C. Bradley Thompson responded obliquely to my critical comments in Chronicles about his book and subsequent observations on the American Founding. Contrary to Thompsonâs asides on Facebook and Twitter dismissing my criticism, I did read some of his tome, The Revolutionary Mind, and even commented on itâbut I found its discussion of our state-builders so...
Kiss Wall Street Goodbye
Does the public stock market actually serve a purpose? To some free-market zealots, the answer is obvious: The public markets increase liquidity, and this enables fledgling businesses to get off the ground by allowing them access to capital. Moreover, we can all reap the benefits of capitalismâs âcreative destructionâ and become a nation of investors...
An America First Korea Policy
“The North Korean regime is causing tremendous problems and is something that has to be dealt with, and probably dealt with rapidly.” So President Trump told reporters in the Rose Garden this week. But how this is to be done “rapidly” is not so easy to see. North Korea has just returned to us Otto...
The Art of Turnip Truckdom
I’ll take my stand. There are a lot of topics aroundâcollapsing savings and loans, collapsing universes, donkey basketballâon which I have skillfully walked the rail or else mumbled “no comment” while hiding my face behind a raised lapel. There is one subject, though, that I’m willing to stand up and be counted on. I like...