When my fellow Iowan Norman Borlaug started what came to be called the Green Revolution, he had only the best of intentions for farmers. Using chemicals, farmers could be converted into superhuman producers able to supply society with cheap and abundant food. In 1970 Borlaug won the Nobel Prizeāa kind of trumpet sounding for the...
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State of the Literary Essay
As a literary form, the essay was once thought to be doomed as the novel is said to be in its perennially announced demise. The familiar essay, in particular, brought to its classic perfection by Charles (“Elia”) Lamb in the early 19th century, still finds some continuity today in our many personalized newspaper columns and...
Figuring Out Your 1960s Stance in One Question
The 1960s,Ā according to Carl Oglesby, a former president of Students for a Democratic Society, āwill never level out.ā āItās a corkscrew, itās a tailspin, itās a joyride on a roller coaster, itās a never-ending mystery,ā he continues. āWho won? Who lost? What were the terms of victory and defeat? Weāll always be discussing that.ā I...
The Midwestern Identity
The distinctive regional "America," composed of Midwestern German and Scandinavian enclaves, lasted barely four decades, dying as a coherent entity sometime in the early 1950s.
Who’s Really Downgrading America?
Ā The decision by Standard & Poor’s to strip the United States of its AAA credit rating, for the first time, has triggered a barrage of catcalls against the umpire from the press box and Obamaites. S&P, we are reminded, was giving A ratings to banks like Lehman Brothers, whose books were stuffed with suspect...
The Trybe of Yvor
Ā Ā Ā Ā “Poetry is the language of a state of crisis. āStephane Mallarme Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky’s remembrance of his first day in class with a professor whoāif his stubborn presence in the work of several generations of students and now even the students of those students is any measureāmust have been one of...
Jacques Derrida, R.I.P.
Passing away in a Paris hospital on October 8, philosopher Jacques Derrida (born in Algeria in 1930) has exited a scene in which he was once a conspicuous actor.Ā Prominent in America since his poststructuralist lecture of 1966 and his following books, Derrida was perhaps the best-known literary theorist in the world for a quarter...
The End of the Rove Era in Republican Politics
AĀ few weeks after the Republicans were routed in the November 2006 elections, a longtime Bush Republican from Texas told me that it was time for Karl Rove to go.Ā That comment spoke volumes, for it came from someone who had worked closely with Rove ever since his early days as a political consultant in the...
Who Lost America’s Longest War?
In April, President Joe Biden told the nation he would have all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack ever on the continental United States. Given the turn of events of the past week, that 20th anniversary may be celebrated by a triumphant Taliban, now on...
Remember Katyn
I arrived in Poland just as the television announced the tragic death of President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, Maria, and many of Polandās military and political leaders in an airplane crash at Smolensk in Russia.Ā A week of mourning followed throughout the entire country. The president had been traveling to Smolensk for a joint commemoration...
Surveying America: A Plan for Growth
Latin America has repeatedly failed to achieve the kind of settled distribution of property that could support a middle-class society.Ā This is a disjunction of subtle but increasing cultural importance as the United States becomes more of a Latin country.Ā With Jeb Bush running for the 2016 Republican nomination based in part on his ties...
Christianity and the Movies
Several things have worked against the development of serious Christian films in the United States.Ā From its beginnings, the American film industry has included some, but very few, Christian filmmakers.Ā By and large, it has been determinedly secular; and, because of the nature of the business, the need for a truly enormous worldwide audience to...
Nations Still Count in a Globalized World
At the end of every major period of international strife since at least the Seven Years War, the claim has been put forth that a New World Order has finally arrived that makes possible the substitution of commerce for geopolitics and of law for armaments.Ā This view came into its own after the Napoleonic Wars...
The Islamic Republic of Egypt
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...
The New Liberal Establishment
For many decades peopleāconservatives, especiallyāhave understood the phrase the liberal establishment to mean the social, educational, and economic elite that sits atop the broader community of people who think, act, and vote liberal: the ālimousine liberals,ā in other words.Ā āThe liberal establishmentā meant the liberals at the top of the social hierarchy who dominated their...
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...
Cannibal Statistics
In debate, it is always possible to be right for the wrong reason. For instance, in supporting the proposition that cannibalism is immoral, I might argue that, historically, cannibalism encouraged the killing of human beings who might otherwise have been kidnapped by Arabs or rival African tribesmen and sold ...
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...
Playing With Beauty
If I seem to have become obsessed with the isomorphism of love and gambling, it is because, like an unexpected number in roulette on a particularly hazardous night, the subject just keeps coming up.Ā Wherever I look, whether to a work of imaginative literature or to a story from real life, at once I note...
Recomposing Sociology
The Decomposition of Sociology, an anthology of essays, testifies to the breadth of its author’s interests and reading. While the book has a central themeāwhich is the problems, some self-inflicted, that modern sociologists face in making their discipline rigorous and nonideologicalāwithin the confines of that theme, Horowitz ranges freely and confidently among many topics, some...
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...
Commendables ā Last Rites
Mary Douglas: Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo; Ark/Routledge & Kegan Paul; London. The history of most religions can be written as a struggle between High and Low Church. There is always a tension between those who adhere to ritual and tradition and those who seek salvation only from...
Is Burger King an Economic Patriot?
“Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.” Jefferson’s brutal verdict comes to mind in the fierce debate over inversions, those decisions by U.S. companies to buy foreign firms to move their headquarters abroad and renounce their U.S....
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 ...
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...
I’m Nobody
“Literature, strictly consider’d, has never recognized the people, and whatever may be said, does not today. Speaking generally, the tendencies of literature, as hitherto pursued, have been to make most critical and querulous men.” āWalt Whitman In a prepublication interview, Leslie Fiedler remarked that he had wanted for years to use the title he has...
Has Putin Won Round One in Ukraine?
When NBC’s Lester Holt asked President Joe Biden what might prompt him to send U.S. troops to rescue Americans fleeing Ukraine, Biden replied: “There’s not. That’s a world war when Americans and Russia start shooting at one another.” “It’s not like we’re dealing with a terrorist organization. We’re dealing with one of the largest...
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....
Deconstructing the Decolonizers
āDecolonizationā is the new badge for right-thinking professors and teachers. The word reveals more about those who use it than about their imaginary oppressors. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. The great haters in our midst have the word āhateā perpetually on their lips. So do the decolonizers. What that term...
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...
A City on a HillāWith Transgender Toilets?
A little over 30 years ago, I was attending a conference in a faraway place when disaster struck.Ā I became sick, really sickāthe sort of illness where one can barely crawl out of bed, let alone attend conference sessions.Ā Lacking care of any sort, I lay in bed for two days, waiting for some semblance...
Feeding the Beast
When Angela Merkel became chancellor of Germany in late 2005, the conservative German newspaper Die Welt admitted that āNobody knows in what direction she will take the country.āĀ The liberal Berliner Zeitung was equally ignorant, wondering, āWhat will she be demanding from us citizens?āĀ (In Europe, we have ādemocraciesā of the kind in which politicians...
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...
Sanctuary Delusion Crumbles in Chicago
The experiment of sanctuary cities has gone on far too long and in Chicago, citizens are finally speaking up.
Letter From Calexico Report From California’s Berlin
Calexico is a North American town of roughly 16,000 situated directly on the Mexican border, 120 miles southeast of San Diego, in the warm and sunny Imperial Valley, where agriculture will always be the most abundant business; but Calexico differs from other towns along that extended border in being the suburb of a Mexican city,...
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...
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...
Josh Shapiro Has Nothing to Lose on a Harris Ticket
Though he presents himself as a competent moderate, the Pennsylvania governor wonāt skip a beat in dancing to Kamala Harrisās radical tune.
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...
The New Racism on Campus
Having done four years of graduate work at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, I was distressed to learn that there, as elsewhere, a few radical activists can rout a weak administration and faculty by crying “racism.” Last February a special Task Force on Race Relations released a report to justify the subordination of education to racial...
Is a Trump-Putin Detente Dead?
Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals. He saw the surging power of American nationalism at home, and of ethnonationalism in Europe. And he embraced Brexit. While our bipartisan establishment worships diversity, Trump saw Middle America recoiling from the demographic change brought...
A Threat to Our Very Way of Life
Hereās a heresy for you.Ā A grave danger is lurking among us, caused by certain people who are spreading liesāand in the name of Christianity!Ā So grave is this danger that it threatens our very way of life.Ā And, as one of our great leaders once said, āThe American way of life is not negotiable.ā...
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...
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...