Rep. Peter King (R-NY) chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, started his congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization Thursday amidst accusations of āIslamophobiaā from the Sharia activists and expressions of distaste from most Democrats. In his opening statement King cited recent terror plots against the United States to justify his decision and suggested the hearings...
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What the Editors Are Reading: November 2020
The PoliticsĀ may be the mostĀ influential study of political theory and political practice ever written. Aristotle put the book together while investigating different regimes in the Greek world and elsewhere. The philosopher denies the existence of an ideal government applicable to all societies; instead, he looks at various governments that are appropriate for different peoples in...
Becoming Clients
Students are becoming clients at an increasing number of public colleges. Indeed, staff members consider them “caseloads.” Programs such as “Economic Opportunity Funds” (EOFs) exist as pork barrels, doling out patronage to middle- and upper-middle-class employees, enforcing racist and sexist personnel policies, and acting as politburos. Administrators and staffers openly display their feelings of superiority...
John McCainās Skeletons
The mainstream media is catching up with Chronicles. On Tuesday, June 17, the Chicago Tribune published a major article exposing Sen. John McCainās connection with the Reform Institute (RI), a Washington think tank founded in 2001 ostensibly to promote transparency and accountability in government. But behind the scenes, the paper says, the Instituteās practices have...
The Media
What, no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?Ā This development has resulted in the sort of newsroom hand-wringing that one usually finds only when a reporter for the nationās most prestigious newspaper is caught fabricating quotations in scores of news stories. Where is the liberal media when we need it?Ā There is no question that...
The Guardians of Sterility
Pope Francis addressed concerns about his controversial Traditionis custodes (Guardians of the Tradition)āan apostolic letter issued in July 2021 that placed severe new restrictions on the practice of the Latin Mass in the Roman Catholic Churchāin a Responsa ad dubia dated Dec. 4. Both documents make it clear that the traditional Tridentine liturgy (Missale Romanum,...
Twofold Question
Regarding Europe, I’ve got a nagging twofold question I’d love to have answered: Why has no one remarked on the incredible, glaring double standard in Establishment treatment of ex-Nazi and Communist regimes? And what in blazes is the justification for that double standard? We start with a stipulation, presumably made both by myself and by...
The Survival of the Fattest
“Pity the man who loves what death can touch.” āEugene O’Neill Late one summer afternoon, tired and dirty after four days’ camping and a 21-mile ride out of the Wind River Mountains over rough granite trails, 1 swung off the horse and opened the registry book that the National Forest Service places at the boundary...
Why the EU needs Brexit
Today is exactly one month from the day that Brits go to the polls for one of the most important decisions in their modern history: the referendum on membership in the European Union. The question is a dagger looming over the heart of the European Union, as it currently exists, and those paying attention realize...
Putinās Valdai Speech
In the lands of āReal Socialism,ā four or five decades ago, it was a standard practice to denounce the āenemies of the peopleā without actually quoting their incriminating statements.Ā I remember the final major press campaign against Milovan Djilas, when I was a preteen in Titoās Yugoslavia.Ā It consisted of ritualistic slanders that asserted his...
On Genetic Determinism and Morality
In his recent speech to Congress, Anatoly Shcharansky said, “All understanding between the East and West must be based on human values common to all men.” This appealing statement takes us straight to the central question of moral reasoning: What, if anything, are common human values? Humanity is and always has been faced with a...
Church and Nation: A Credal Nation, Part I
In introducing this series last week, I noted that I had been careful in my choice of the title
Whose Women’s Studies?
Women’s studies has emerged and, in large measure, won its place in the academy as an unabashedly political undertaking. “Teaching,” according to Florence Howe, a path breaker in women’s studies, “is a political act.” “Education,” Deborah Rosenfelt adds, “is the kind of political act that controls destinies.” In effect, they insist that education as we...
Finer Fleet of Clay
Bernard Malamud: The Stories of Bernard Malamud; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; New York. Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Penitent; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; New York. Morality is religion’s province. Contemporary secularists do not see this, averting their eyes from the religious sources of their own moralities. Such aversion makes a kind of sense; deprived of any...
The Fruits of Fraud
The worst thing about the U.S. Supreme Courtās 1973 legalization of abortion in all 50 states and U.S. territories has not been the 55 millionāand countingādead babies, as horrible as that has been, but the damage it has caused to the rule of law, specifically the U.S. Constitution.Ā In his dissent, Justice Byron White branded...
Fairabia
Most Americans wouldnāt like it if they knew that a foreign government had built a school in the United States which teaches hatred of Americans and their country.Ā Indeed, most Americans wouldnāt like it if they knew a foreign government had built a school here that teaches hatred of anyone or anything.Ā Then again, most...
Why Henry Kissingerās Epiphany on Border Security Matters
America desperately needs to exchange activist-inspired utopian thinking on immigration for a healthy dose of Kissinger-style realpolitik.
On a Fast Track to National Ruin
In the first quarter of 2015, in the sixth year of the historic Obama recovery, the U.S. economy grew by two-tenths of 1 percent. And that probably sugarcoats it. For trade deficits subtract from the growth of GDP, and the U.S. trade deficit that just came in was a monster. As the AP’s Martin Crutsinger...
The Old Left Wasn’t Very Leftist
While researching a book on antifascism, it became clear to me that the contemporary left has strange ideas about what earlier leftists believed. This is especially true in the ascription of a certain timelessness to intersectional politics, which todayās antifascists are all about. In How Fascism Works by Yale Philosophy Professor Jason Stanley, and in...
The Formidable Evil
Reviewing a polemical pamphlet of mine on Sovietology published by the Claridge Press in London, Arnold Beichman assured readers of the May issue of Chronicles that I am “a serious man.” The bulk of his review, however, supported the proposition that I am a conspiracy nut, a proposition whose originality the reviewer may well have...
So-Called Fascism, Canadian-Style
The Canadian left and right are equally guilty of slinging the word āfascistā at their opponents. The partisan reinvention of this term is problematic for the left, as Pierre Trudeau once subscribed to an ethnic and organic nationalism.
Letter From Germany: Totalitarian Again?
On January 9, 1997, in an open letter in the New York Times to German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, American artists and intellectuals criticized the discriminatory treatment of Scientologists in Germany. Although the petitioners claimed not to be biased in their complaint by sympathy for this church, their objectivity has to be questioned, for there are...
The Queen Is Dead
Perhaps you heard that Roseanne Barr recently sang the national anthem at a Padres-Reds game in San Diego. If not, then you’re one of maybe three people in America who missed it, so let me fill you in. Looking like she had just rushed over from an all-day garage cleaning, Barr took the field in...
Texas and Heterosexual Marriage
Barely eight years ago, 76 percent of Texas voters affirmed by constitutional amendment their commitment to heterosexual marriage as the proper relational norm. But, hey, so what, when a federal judge informs Texans that ā[S]tate-imposed inequality can find no refuge in the United States Constitutionā? Accordingly, Texas joins the melancholy parade of Southern statesāVirginia, Kentucky,...
Nazifying the Germans
Not long ago a German friend remarked to me, jokingly, that he imagined the only things American college students were apt to associate with Germany nowadays were beer, Lederhosen, and the Nazis. I replied that, basically, there was only one thing that Americans, whether college students or not, associated with Germany. Whenever Germans are mentioned,...
A Place Called Home
Kazan was preparing for her 1,000-year anniversary last August when Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived to address the World Tatar Congress in what once had been the center of a Tatar khanate.Ā The goal of the congress was the āspiritual unificationā of the Tatars, scattered across Russia and the world.Ā I do not know whether...
The Salami Fallacy
A few months ago in this space I described the Pecorino Effect, referring not so much to the Italian cheese as to the shopperās inability to refuse any merchandise he has sampled, irrespective of what he thinks of the quality.Ā I diagnosed this modern malady, with myself as a specimen of social tissue in the...
When Prayer Left Public Life
Sixty years ago the Supreme Court struck down school prayer. This hastened the process of overturning the Western tradition in which Christianity played an integral role in the life of nations.
From the Archives: Stemming the Tide
On August 9, 2001, during a speech from his ranch in Crawford, Texas, President George W. Bush put an end to several months of debate surrounding government funding of research on stem cells derived from human embryos. After discussing his administrationās research into the matter and declaring his own ādeeply held beliefsā in science and...
The Sentimentalist Conspiracy
“Actum est de republica.” āLatin saying The Bourgeois Age is finished, but a principal feature of Victorianismāthe fullest and most developed expression of that eraāstill flourishes. Postmoderns consider themselves a hardheaded and realistic people, yet the average American today is probably as much a sentimentalist as the typical Dickens reader of a century ago. Sentimentalityānot...
False Colors: The Case of Michael New
Until last summer, Michael New was an unknown 22-year-old Army medic, three years into his eight-year enlistment contract. But in August, New learned that he and his battalion were being assigned to Macedonia, where they would serve under the operational control of the United Nations commander, and wear the baby blue U.N. beret and a...
Think Locally, Act Locally
The reaction to the U.S. Supreme Courtās decision last June in Kelo v. City of New London has largely been edifying.Ā Most commentators, and even many politicians, have greeted with horror the news that local and state governments are free to take property from one private owner to give it to another, as long as...
The Lessons of Greed
I am not an economist.Ā I do not want to be an economist, becauseĀ I do not believe there is a science of economics, and from all I can gather there is no kind of ...
The Machines of Enslavement
The historically ignorant andĀ leftist-driven ā1619 Projectā ofĀ The New York TimesĀ posits a grand design to enslave blacks in the American Colonies and to perpetuate the institution by revolting against British rule and establishing the American Republic. That slavery in the colonies was the result of the genetic constraints imposed by malaria rather than a grand design...
Does the Pope Believe in Hell?
“Pope Declares No Hell?” So ran the riveting headline on the Drudge Report of Holy Thursday. Drudge quoted this exchange, published in La Repubblica, between Pope Francis and his atheist friend, journalist Eugenio Scalfari. Scalfari: “What about bad souls? Where are they punished?” Bad souls “are not punished,” Pope Francis is quoted, “those who do...
Man of the West: An Interview with Glenn Loury
Glenn Loury has taught economics at numerous universities, including Northwestern, Michigan, Harvard, Boston, and presently Brown, where he has been a professor of economics since 2005. He is the author of The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (2002). The following conversation comes from an interview with Glenn earlier this year. Alex Riley (AR): What are your...
Aristotelian Worms in the Leviathan
Is there such a thing as the proper size of a political order?Ā Westerners have inherited three visions of political size and scale: the Aristotelian polis; the Christian commonwealth; and the Hobbesian modern state.Ā For Aristotle, the point of political order is the cultivation of human excellence.Ā Since virtue cannot be learned except through apprenticeship...
The Kennedy Legacy
Ā Ā Ā Ā “‘Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.” āWilliam Shakespeare “Just the facts, ma’am.” Joe Friday’s prescription for getting at the truth has been followed by Seymour Hersh, whose investigation of the secret life of John F. Kennedy, America’s “prince of the people,” is peppered with facts as recalled by...
American Citizens or Tribal Members of Sovereign Nations?
American Indians compose a nation within a nation. They enjoy American rights and privileges, but also tribal rights and privileges.
Hardened Line
Vladimir Putin, prodded by a reporterās question regarding the collapse of Saddam Husseinās regime, remarked that Russia, for āeconomic and politicalā reasons, āhas no interest in the defeat of the United States.ā Ā Putinās comments were seen by Russian media observers as a sign that the Kremlin had come full circle on the Iraq question.Ā ...
Hollywood Does History
At 0825 on 20 November 1943, the first of six waves of Marines left the line of departure and headed for the beach on Betio Island, the principal objective for the United States in the Tarawa Atoll. At 4,000 yards out, shells from Japanese artillery pieces started splashing around the amtracs carrying the Marines. At...
A Self-Contained World
Pascal Bruckner is a French version of the Cold War liberal, updated for the age of jihad.Ā In general, his views would be at home in blue-state America.Ā He is pro-E.U. and pro-affirmative action, takes a more positive view of the free market than is common in France, is generally pro-Israel and pro-American, and favors...
The Justification for War
During the Cold War, occasional resorts to war or threats of war by the United States were justified by the need to keep communism in check.Ā This justification had the advantage of being based on a real threatānotably in Berlin in 1949, in Korea in 1950, and during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.Ā The...
On the Terror of Tribunals
Dr. Samuel Francis is an outstanding scholar, and he is usually right on target, but, speaking as an attorney, Iām afraid his article āTribunals for Terrorā (Views, March) is seriously flawed. Supporters have argued that tribunals are necessary, in part, to avoid potential intimidation of jurors.Ā Dr. Francis, however, believes that Timothy McVeigh and the...
Hogan Forever
On July 25, 1997, Ben Hogan died in Fort Worth at the age of 85; his widow, Valerie, did not long survive him. In the season of 2000, Tiger Woods smashed scoring records in the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the PGA Championship, winning nine tournaments for the year, and setting the golfing world...
Is Immigration Our Fate?
Political correctness has it that immigration is a perennial phenomenon in Western countries.Ā This is preposterous.Ā Immigration as we know it today is an extremely recent phenomenon. The United States has always been a nation of immigrants, they say.Ā This is just plain ridiculous.Ā A small group of people leaving their country to found their...
Christophobia, Communist and Otherwise
Orthodox Archbishop Hilarion Alfeyev has recently warned Europeans of the dangers of building a completely atheist and secularized society.Ā That was the situation in Eastern Europe under communism.Ā Some of the methods may have been different, but the outcome is the same: the notion of God is expelled from society, religion is confined to the...
Defenders of Democracy
“High ranking police officials trained by the FBI and J. armed by a U.S. marshal formed a secret unit that may have committed political murders… under the banner of counter-terrorism, the secret police turned into terrorists.” Until recently, most Americans reading such a news report would assume that it derived from the most eccentric radical...
Vagrancy Law
San Francisco’s municipal palace looks like the Wicked Witch of the West might live there, only there aren’t any flying monkeys. But several years ago, the monkeys set up housekeeping right out front. Supplied with food, clothing, tents, and other amenities by “community activists,” hundreds of wild-eyed tramps extorted money from passersby, drank cheap wine,...
Empire of the West
A critique of the destinarian political philosophy of Francis Parker Yockey.