Conservatives may be tempted to wonder whether itās worth fighting.Ā In this soundbite, instant-dislike, tl;dr, flashsnipe, banal, fractious, impressionistic, politicized culture of ours, our instinct can be to retreat, to separate fully, to disengage.Ā Iāve been there, and when I have, Iāve been wrong.Ā So long as we are alive, there is ground to be...
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Inhabiting the Mind of the Murderer
Kevin Birmingham reconstructs the aspects of Dostoevskyās life that fed the stream of creativity that resulted in Crime and Punishment, the greatest psychological profile of a murderer in the annals of fiction.
Four Questions: Freddy Gray
The revolt against globalism is itself a worldwide phenomenon. Reporting for Chronicles from the United Kingdom is Freddy Gray, who also serves as the deputy editor of The Spectator, Britainās premier political magazine. As an observer who has worked in the United States and has family connections to France as well, Freddy is attentive not...
Rising Diversity Is Joe Biden’s Worry, Too
Is her racial diversity America’s greatest strength? So we are told. Yet, even before America becomes a majority-minority nation, 25 years from now, recent changes in the composition of the country are going to impact both parties in 2020.Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā According to Brookings Institution demographer William Frey, between 2010 and 2020,...
The Kennedy-Schumer Bin
The Kennedy-Schumer bin was a victory for “law and order,” proclaimed Senator Edward Kennedy after the Senate vote to crack down on protesters at abortion clinics. The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Bill authorizes lengthy jail time and fines for entirely nonviolent conduct that “intentionally and physically obstructs the ingress or egress of another...
On Covering Islam
As a paleoconservative and traditional Catholic, I greatly enjoy Chronicles and look forward to every issue.Ā I am, however, increasingly disturbed by the consistent and growing demonization of Muslims in the magazine.Ā I think it is quite reasonable to accept that Islam has some extremely rough edges.Ā It has bloody borders, most terrorists are Muslims,...
What to Expect When Biden Meets Putin
On Wednesday, June 16, presidents Joseph Biden and Vladimir Putin will hold their first summit meeting in Geneva. Taking place amidst heightened tensions between the United States and Russia, relations between Washington and Moscow are arguably at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War. Serbiaās top-rated Happy TV networkĀ asked me, from my...
“I’m Liberated; Free at Last!”
Pat Buchanan has taken more punches than Chuck Wepner, hut unlike the Bayonne Bleeder, Buchanan has a good right hook (or is it now a left?) of his own. The year began with Buchanan defending his feisty anti-interventionist manifesto A Republic, Not an Empire: Not since the days of Arkansas Sen. William Fulbright, the one...
Land of the Setting Sun
Ā Sunday was the first anniversary of the 9.0 earthquake off the east coast of Japan that produced the 45-foot-high tidal wave that hit Fukushima Prefecture. Twenty thousand perished. Hundreds of thousands were driven from their homes when a nuclear plant swept by the tsunami exploded, spewing radiation for miles. Only two of Japan’s 54...
Hillary’s High Crimes & Misdemeanors
If Hillary Clinton is elected president on Tuesday, and if what Bret Baier is reporting from FBI sources on Fox News is true, America is headed for a constitutional crisis. Indeed, it would seem imperative that FBI Director James Comey, even if it violates protocol and costs him his job, should state publicly whether what...
Lessons From Experience
Consider these two premises: First, in 1865, the Confederacy is collapsing, and President Davis, concerned about the funds in the treasury, sends a young naval officer out on a wild expedition to hide the gold, to be used some day to help the South. Second, in 2005, knowledge of the whereabouts of the hidden gold...
Redefined Poverty
The National Academy of Sciences, in a 500-page tome, has redefined poverty. Since 1963, the definition of poverty has been based on a family with two children and the family’s cash income before taxes and what they spent on food. In 1963, a family earning below $3,100 was “poor.” Now the figure is $14,228. Because...
The Christian Question
David Novak, Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the University of Virginia, sets out to argue the case for what is called Jewish-Christian “dialogue.” Unfortunately, the author never gives us anything but the most offhand idea of what he means by the term, but we can assume he means the activity carried out largely by...
Euro-Zone Rescue: Rising Tide of Opposition in Germany
On November 21 Ireland formally applied for a rescue package worth $90 billion, having failed to control its financial crisis with austerity measures and strict budgetary planning. European Union officials quickly agreed to the request, which follows an agreement negotiated last week in Dublin by a joint EU and IMF team. They hope that the...
Busing to Byzantium
A couple of springs ago, my daughter and I took a bus from Thessaloniki in northern Greece over the mountains to Istanbul.Ā The trip was ghastly.Ā In an effort to save some money, I had found us seats on a localāa big mistake.Ā Despite the promise from the ticket vendor that no smoking was allowed,...
Trade Without Frontiers
“Trade without frontiers”āwhen the European Economic Community talks about barrier-free trade, the wall begins at Spain and the US is left on the wrong side of it, as the Bush administration, which has supported the coming federation of Europe, is beginning to discover. In October the EEC voted 10 to 2 to adopt a set...
The Perfect Republic
Augustin Cochin (1876-1916), a French historian little known today, sought to provide a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of the French Revolution with an eye to discovering the reasons for the terror and butchery that arose in its course.Ā The nature and depth of his motivations and concerns can be gleaned from his judgment that...
Are We Decadent?
If there is one premise that serves to unite the Old Right, it is that the Westāor America, or Christendom, or whatever label and identity they want to specifyāis in trouble, has been in trouble for a long time, and is probably not going to get out of trouble for quite a while, if ever....
Hey, Elon Musk, You May Have a āDeep Stateā Problem
Is āX,ā the media company formerly known as āTwitter,ā still experiencing deep state interference and silencing of conservatives? The evidence suggests that it is.
What Is America’s Cause in the World Today?
After being sworn in for a fourth term, Vladimir Putin departed the Kremlin for Annunciation Cathedral to receive the televised blessing of Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church. The patriarch and his priests in sacred vestments surrounded Putin, who, standing alone, made the sign of the cross. Meanwhile, sacred vestments from the Sistine Chapel...
Confessions of a Serial Homebuyer
Iāve bought three houses in as many years, and sold two of them.Ā Having been excluded from participating in the housing bubble by extreme poverty, I suppose Iāve been making up for lost time.Ā In 2008, when my mom died, I inherited what wasāby my modest standardsāa considerable sum, and there was no doubt about...
Britain’s Leftists: Allies of the Islamists
The people of England, after very considerable provocation, have lately come to fear Englandās Muslims.Ā Britainās leftists have shifted in the opposite direction.Ā From an entrenched hostility to the mores of their own country and out of sheer perversity, the leftists have intensified their attacks on the Catholic Church, while making a point of defending...
Visible Saints
There is no other American man of letters quite like Marion Montgomery. With the addition of each new book to the canon of works published by the Sage of Crawford, his achievement becomes the more astonishing; the range and depth of his thought, its variety and scope the more impressive. For Professor Montgomery has written...
Too Greedy to Hate
Back in the spring there was a lot of hoo-rah in northern Virginia about a plan to build a shopping mall on part of the battlefield at Manassas (“Bull Run” to Yankees). At first, some of us down here suspected a federal plot to obliterate the reminders of two humiliating defeats, but it turned out...
On Evangelical Education
Douglas Wilson’s article, “Why Evangelical Colleges Aren’t,” (Vital Signs, September) is provocative but unsubstantiated. It is also quietly self-serving, failing to mention his role as a founder of New St. Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho. His assertions about evangelical higher education ought to be measured against the facts of those colleges and against his own...
Racist Copsāor Liberal Slander?
We have found the new normal in America. If you are truly outraged by some action of police, prosecutors, grand juries, or courts, you can shut down the heart of a great city. Thursday night, thousands of “protesters” disrupted the annual Christmas tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, conducted a “lie-in” in Grand Central, blocked Times...
Guts and the Grace of God
Your Excellency: Itās the lusty month of May, and you are doubtless zipping from parish to parish, dabbing chrism oil onto the foreheads of gawky teenagers.Ā (Incidentally, would you ever consider restoring the slap on the cheek that once accompanied this rite?Ā Several young people of my acquaintance could use one.) As you and your...
War in Ukraine, Two Years Later
The war in Ukraine reflects an ongoing revolution in military affairs that started two decades ago but which needed a major conflict to become fully apparent. To put it in a nutshell, the battlefield pendulum has swung in favor of defense
Are Americans All-In for a Long Coronavirus War?
“It’s a war,” says President Donald Trump of his efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic, and likening his role to that of “wartime president.” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo welcomed the president’s claim to his commander in chief role in the crisis and his resolve: “The president and I agreed yesterday… we’re fighting the same...
Where Will You Be When the Lights Go Out?
I recently experienced the most dreadful feeling of helplessness and fear imaginable in what undergraduate essayists call “our modern world of high technology.” I suffered massive computer breakdown. The failure of a single computer is bad enough, especially at a point in the semester when book orders and course syllabi are due and students are...
The Courage to Defy Prudence
On February 22, the South Dakota Senate, by a vote of 23-12, approved legislation banning nearly all abortions in the state.Ā On February 24, the vote in the South Dakota House of Representatives was 50-18 (H.B. 1215).Ā Twelve days later, Gov. Mike Rounds signed the measure into law.Ā President Bush criticized the law as too...
Perpetual War for Perpetual Commerce
“Talk is cheap,” skeptics say. “Put your money where your mouth is.” “Money talks louder than words.” If these sayings still apply today, the wallets of the New World Order’s elite have spoken loudly and clearly: Russia is still the main bogey! Forget the cheap talk about a “Partnership for Peace.” Conniving “friendships” like that...
Exclusive Institutions
Mills College recently repulsed the male invasion invited by the college’s board of trustees, and it will remain all female, for the immediate future at any rate. At the same time, in the once proudly independent Commonwealth of Virginia, the state’s attorney general, a woman, is attempting to defend the prestigious Virginia Military Institute against...
Mussolini’s Unnatural Alliance
āAlthough I deal with the Italian attempt to build a fascist state,ā Chronicles editor Paul Gottfried wrote in response to an obtuse critic of his latest book, Antifascism: Course of a Crusade, āI am also quite critical of Mussoliniās career, especially his involvement with Hitlerās Third Reich and the unfortunate anti-Semitic laws that Il Duce...
The Banality of Fiction
It’s Sunday morning in London. The Sunday Times is here. (Yes, we too have a Sunday Times.) The “Week in Review” section is nice and fat. (Yes, it’s nice and fat here, too.) Headline: “End Game: Why the Soviets are pulling out of Afghanistan.” Photo of Najibullah, photo of Gorbachev, photo of two smiling soldiers....
Will Democrats Pay a Price for Their Cynical, Crumbling Lawfare Strategy?
The Democratsā strategy is failing. But it is up to the American people to make them pay for it.
Women and Biographers First!
“One would suffer a great deal to he happy.” āMarly Wortley Montagu To be really successful a modern writer must reach and hold a huge audience, and there seems to be essentially two ways of doing it: the journeyman (or tradesman-like) and the heroic-histrionic. Scott, Trollope, Agatha Christie, and P.G. Wodehouse represent the first way,...
Has Trump Found the Formula?
Stripped of its excesses, Donald Trump’s Wednesday speech contains all the ingredients of a campaign that can defeat Hillary Clinton this fall. Indeed, after the speech ended Clinton was suddenly defending the Clinton Foundation against the charge that it is a front for a racket for her family’s enrichment. The specific charges in Trump’s indictment...
Commendables ā Schools for Scandal
Herbert I. London: Why Are They Lying to Our Children?; Stein and Day; New York. The title of Herbert London’s book is an all-too-accurate description of the textbooks used to “educate” American students, Why Are They Lying to Our Children?Ā is a brief and closely reasoned exploration of the “faddist and trendy character of these books,...
Progressive Pilgrim
One week after the 1984 Presidential election, while Ronald Reagan was still basking in the afterglow of a victory he takes as evidence that “America is feeling good about itself again,” the National Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting in Washington finally got a look at the 136-page draft of a “Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social...
Spying on the American Remnant
As a boy, your author lived in a working-class neighborhood just outside Houstonās city limits. My parents were the children of rural people who had come to Houston looking for work during the Great Depression. They lived in frame houses sitting on cinder blocks in Houstonās West End, a community of people Larry McMurtry called...
Loyal Opposition
In the two years since Muslim terrorists murdered over 3,000 of our citizens on September 11, Americans have been taking one side or the other in the debate between the partisans of security and public order, led by Attorney General John Ash-croft, and the partisans of free speech, championed by the ACLU and other groups...
Political Poltergeists
āTheyāre back,ā cries the little girl in the movie, when the demons from Hell reappear on her television screen.Ā The phrase, a clichĆ© in the clichĆ©-driven headlines of the Washington Post and Time, comes to mind at the beginning of every election cycle, as gibberish-driveling demons like Hillary and Joe, Sarah and Newt get interviewed...
Mormons and Modernism
“So pale grows Reason atĀ Religion’s sight,Ā So dies, and so dissolves inĀ supernatural light.” āJohn DrydenĀ LeonardĀ Arrington: Brigham Young: AmericanĀ Moses; Alfred A. Knopf; New York. Richard L. Bushman: Joseph Smith and the Beginnings ofĀ Mormonism; University of Illinois Press; Urbana, IL. Jan Shipps: Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition; University of Illinois Press; Urbana, IL. Ernest...
Conservatives Cry Racist
The only thing worse than a leftistĀ screaming āracistā and āhaterā because he doesnāt like the facts ā oft coming from a conservative source ā is a conservative screaming the same thing for much the same reason: facts coming from a liberal source. The latest on this front hit last week, when Vice President Biden...
The Natural Man
This issue brings together a number of discussions of man’s place in nature. Stephen R. L. Clark, Tibor Machan, and jay Mechling explore the implications of the animal rights movement. Debating the “moral status of animals” (to borrow one of Prof. Clark’s titles) is interesting not so much for what it reveals about beasts as...
Decent Folk From Georgia
“Livin’ is like pourin’ water out of a tumbler into a dang Coca-Cola bottle. If’n you skeered you cain’t do it, you cain’t. If’n you say to yoreself, ‘By dang, I can do it!’ then, by dang, you won’t slosh a drop.” This sample of dialogue conveys something of the tone, language, and philosophy of...
Two Ways of Changing Our Minds About History
For more than 60 years, Iāve been interested in both the historical past and in how historical interpretations are created. Iāve also written a great deal on both subjects, but particularly on how public and scholarly opinions about past events and personalities change, and why they change. I believe there are two routes through which...
A Coming Era of Civil Disobedience?
The Oklahoma Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, has ordered a monument of the Ten Commandments removed from the Capitol. Calling the Commandments “religious in nature and an integral part of the Jewish and Christian faiths,” the court said the monument must go. Gov. Mary Fallin has refused. And Oklahoma lawmakers instead have filed legislation...
A Client State Pushes Eighty
The U.S. occupation and reconstruction of Japan began nearly 80 years ago and is considered by many to be an unqualified success. But Japan's national character was hollowed out in the process; what remains is a shell of a country still obedient to its conquerors.