This Thanksgiving weād do well to revisit this American classic. āDonāt lose your goodness!ā this film firmly instructs us.
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Turkey: The AKP Regime Is Not in Trouble, But Erdogan Is
Ā Hundreds of Turkish police officers backed by armored cars moved in on Istanbulās Taksim Square early Tuesday morning and reclaimed the site after pulling out on June 1. By midday bulldozers had removed barricades of paving stones and corrugated iron. The crackdown surprised protesters, hundreds of whom had been sleeping in a makeshift camp...
America Under BidenāThoughts From an Old Hand at Propaganda
I know the propaganda game as well as anyone who lived and worked through the tail-end of the Cold War. I worked for the amply-funded propaganda arms of the two most propaganda-minded governments in the world, first as a broadcaster and newsroom subeditor with the BBC World Service in Bush House, London (1980-1986), and more...
The United States, In Congress Assembled
āAll legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States . . . āĀ Thus run the first words of Article I, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution, clearly laying out the Framersā understanding of the nature and the role of Congress.Ā Everything else enumerated in Article Iāthe various powers...
On Paganism
As an Orthodox monk, I imagine Alain de Benoist (“Monotheism vs, Politheism,” April 1996) performing his daily orisons before an icon by Gauguin, chanting selections from Diderot’s SupplĆ©ment au voyage de Bougainville as his Psalter, and reading passages from Rousseau as the appointed lessons. He does remind us that pagans include the great philosophers of...
Lighting Out for the Territory
Restless Nation is an enjoyable exploration of the American national character. The book presents a plausible hypothesis, supported by the author’s broad knowledge of the nation’s history and social trends and illustrated throughout by aptly chosen literary references that reflect admirably wide reading. The problem is that, despite all these positives, I just don’t buy...
Choose Your Side
The first thought that occurred to me upon receiving a review copy of David Garrowās hefty biography of our former president was, besides its weight (four pounds), how the jacket photograph perfectly expresses what is revealed in 1,084 pages of text.Ā It was taken in 1990 while Obama was at Harvard Law School, three years...
A Gutless Persuasion
On Nov. 18, the Rupert Murdoch-financed New York PostĀ ran an opinion-piece by its star columnist, Karol Markowicz, on left-wing anti-Semitism. Like the rest of the Post editorial staff, Markowicz is upset that at least part of the Jewish left has turned emphatically against the Israeli Likud government and is demanding the return of the West...
An Austrian Frame of Mind
Professor Janek Wasserman, to his credit, is not a polemicist. His new book is indeed a leftist critique of the broad school of economic thought now colloquially referred to as āAustrian,ā but it is not only that. It is also a lively and well-paced history of the astonishing influence pre-war Viennese intellectuals had on the...
Weāre All Extremists Now
The timing of Omar Mateenās shooting at Orlandoās Pulse nightclub was rotten for the Obama administration, because Secretary of State John Kerry had just published his carefully worded Joint Strategy on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), in which the word religion or religious appears nine times, but Islam, Islamist, and Muslim appear nary a-once.Ā The administrationās...
Letter From Chicago: Royko, the Cubs, et al.
He went to Wrigley Field on a hot day last June, along with several hundred others, to hear family and dignitaries eulogize columnist Mike Royko, who had spent more than 30 years banging out five columns each week while working for three different major Chicago newspapers. Otherwise empty because the team was on the road,...
Reagan’s Rhetoric
It may well be indicative of real progress in America that we are now able to read the Presidential speeches of a man that leading commentators frequently declared unelectable a decade ago. But now that Ronald Reagan’s electability is established beyond doubt, the national media have been busy tagging him as the “most ideological” of...
War Birds: A Taxonomy
As war clouds loom over the political landscape and the propaganda wafts thickly from the major news media, we have to ask: Where does all of this come from?Ā Who is behind the rush to war? Pat Buchanan has utilized a useful phrase to describe the origins of this bloodlust: the War Party.Ā This term...
Borderlines
On January 1, something like 20,000 people marched by torchlight through the center of Kiev to celebrate the 105th anniversary of the birth of the Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera.Ā Some of the older participants even wore their old uniforms from the Ukrainian National Army. In Western Ukraine, Bandera is regarded as the founder of...
Stella in our Garage Apartment
During World War II, we rented our garage apartment to Army Air Corps officers and their wives.Ā The Army had commandeered a small airfield just outside of town, where instructors began to train fighter pilots.Ā When the local newspaper published an appeal for citizens to rent rooms to servicemen and their families, my parents felt...
Katyn 2
When, in 1934, Stalin had a Leningrad party boss killedāand then wept at the manās funeral, railing at the enemies of Russiaāa uniquely modern phenomenon, which I shall call state vendetta, was born.Ā State vendetta is somewhere between conventional warfare and mafia violence.Ā Where the narrow aim of the former is to suppress a specific...
November 2020 Polemics: His Thoughts Are Not Ours
I was rather taken aback by Fr.Ā Brian W. Harrisonās letter in the September issue ofĀ ChroniclesĀ (Polemics & Exchanges: āEvil That Good May Comeā). He could not have been more mistaken. Fr. Harrison asserts that the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan was unnecessary because the Japanese were effectively defeated and were ready to surrender, given...
The Legacy of Sandra Dee
AĀ first-wave Baby Boomer, I grew up the 1950ās and early 60ās.Ā We teenage girls yearned to look like Sandra Dee (a.k.a. Alexandra Zuck), who passed away on February 20, 2005.Ā If we couldnāt remake ourselves into the image of āGidget,ā then Mouseketeer-turned-beach-babe Annette Funicello, Carol Lynley (Blue Denim), Tuesday Weld (Rally Round the Flag, Boys!),...
Molecular Families
As we look around at the pandemonium that characterizes the circus maximus of our once-great culture, there are few things as striking as the large number of what we might call ādisconnected pockets of sanity,ā otherwise known as nuclear families.Ā And the fact that they are disconnected means that the sanity is illusory.Ā When it...
World War I and the Modern West
History may be a series of more or less contingent events, whose only connection to the preceding or following ones is that men react to what others do.Ā Such events are basically disjointed because each one depends on the more or less unpredictable behavior of those men who are able to attract enough followers to...
Do We Really Want a Cold War II?
Ā “There have been times when they slip back into Cold War thinking,” said President Obama in his tutorial with Jay Leno. And to show the Russians that such Cold War thinking is antiquated, Obama canceled his September summit with Vladimir Putin. The reason: Putin’s grant of asylum to Edward Snowden, who showed up at...
The Donald & The La Raza Judge
Before the lynching of The Donald proceeds, what exactly was it he said about that Hispanic judge? Stated succinctly, Donald Trump said U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over a class-action suit against Trump University, is sticking it to him. And the judge’s bias is likely rooted in the fact that he is...
A Great Novelty
My Father’s Glory My Mother’s Castle Produced by Alain Poire Directed by Yves Robert Written by Lucette Andrei and Yves Robert Released by Orion Classics At a certain point, maybe two-thirds of the way through the pretentious nonsense of Barton Fink, I began to despair of finding anything interesting enough to write about, even in...
Back in the News
Partial-birth abortion is back in the news, and for the first time, there appears to be some hope for the pro-life side. Of all the extraordinary things that the United States Supreme Court has done in the past few decades, none matches its 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade. Justice Blackmun’s majority opinion articulated a...
All the Conspiracy That’s Fit to Print
Conspiracy theories against the right don't need much proof to make it into the pages of The New York Times.
A Long Way Behind
Yaleās Little Histories represent an admirable project, whereby true experts perform the exceedingly difficult task of summarizing a large field of knowledge in a short space, and in an accessible manner.Ā Ideally, the resulting book offers a good introduction for the novice, while even the most knowledgeable reader will gain some new insight. Even within...
Exit Stage Left
The Outside: beyond wall and watchtower, on the far lee of the border, the place of the Other, the place of exile. Now that the walls are crumbling around the world, helped along by the crowbars of angry patriots; now that the faces of the other look pretty much like our own, the Outside seems...
On Enumerated Powers
My thanks to Stephen B. Presser for his review (āSacred Texts ā98,ā October) of my book Reclaiming the American Revolution.Ā I certainly appreciate such a distinguished legal historian finding the work to merit his attention.Ā One issue raised in Professor Presserās review is the constitutionality of the Sedition Act (which made criticism of the national...
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 Woke Revolutionās Memo on Mass Shootings
Memo in light of recent events, for the immediate attention of all political and media leaders aligned with the Woke Revolution, which is to say, just about all of them: Mass shootings like those that just took place in Atlanta and Boulder are a tragedy, of course. But they are also one of the best...
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...
Communication as Manipulation
In her chosen role as doting public grandmother to both Bill and Hillary Clinton, columnist Mary McGrory is ever on the alert for opportunities to whip from her journalistic handbag her favorite images of those two extraordinary kids. In true grandma-like fashion, she is transfixed by their every utterance and sees their failures as simply...
A Divide in the Oregon Trail
The socio-political divide in Oregon is so dramatic that the red rural areas are continually trying to break-off from the rest of the state.
Trump: In Immigration Debate, Race Matters
President Trump “said things which were hate-filled, vile and racist. . . . I cannot believe . . . any president has ever spoken the words that I . . . heard our president speak yesterday.” So wailed Sen. Dick Durbin after departing the White House. And what caused the minority leader to almost faint...
You Call This a Financial Reform Law?
The special inspector general for TARP (the Troubled Asset Relief Program) reported on July 21 that the bank bailout that has been going on since September 2008 has cost $3.7 trillion in actual expenditures and guarantees to the banks.Ā Not surprisingly, the banks are prospering.Ā But in a just world, the failed banks would have...
Purging the Bureaucrats
In his 1968 essay āBureaucracy and Policy Making,ā Dr. Henry Kissinger argued that there was no rationality or consistency in American foreign policymaking. ā[A]s the bureaucracy becomes large and complex,ā he wrote, āmore time is devoted to running its internal management than in divining the purpose which it is supposed to serve.ā There is only...
In an Impotent World Even the Bankrupt Can Prevail
When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Japan did not spend years preparing her public case and demonstrating her deployment of forces for the attack. Japan did not make a world issue out of her view that the United States was denying Japan her role in the Pacific by hindering Japanās access to raw materials and energy....
Leveraged Buyout
“Every nation has the government it deserves.” Joseph de Maistre’s hard saying can give small comfort to Americans. Oh, it is true, we have a paper Constitution that promises a republican form of government, but all three branches of that government have for several generations conspired to evacuate the republican content from the system, leaving...
Shine, Republic
āIt is by building our own strength and character at homeānot by crusading abroadāthat we can contribute most to civilization throughout the world.ā āCol. Charles Lindbergh The America First Committee of 1940-41 was the largest antiwar organization (800,000 members) in American history.Ā Although it was founded by a group of Yale law students in the...
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...
Cheating “Honest” Men
Sometimes I like to remind myself of what a nobody I am.Ā It does not take much to trigger these fits of humility.Ā A glance in the mirror or at the ever-expanding bulge in my vest is usually enough to call to mind at least two deadly sins that have tempted me all too often.Ā ...
Stirring Up Hostility
The March Chronicles stirred up a great deal of hostility in strange quarters, where freedom of expression used to defend everything but unfashionable opinions. The Perspective essay on immigration even attracted the attention of a newspaper editor in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, named Paul Greenberg. In an op-ed piece published in the Washington Times, Greenberg applies...
Washingtonās Foreign Policy Folly
A basic requirement of a wise and effective foreign policy is the ability to establish priorities and make tough choices.Ā Unfortunately, U.S. officials seem increasingly incapable of accomplishing such a task.Ā That grim reality is all too evident as the Obama administration drifts into confrontational relationships simultaneously with Russia and China. Even Henry Kissinger, hardly...
Voice From the Brier Patch
“One night,” said Uncle Remusātaking Miss Sally’s little boy on his knee, and stroking the child’s hair thoughtfully and caressinglyā”one night Brer Possum call by fer Brer Coon, cordin ter greement, an atter gobblin up a dish er fried greens en smokin’ a seegyar,Ā dey rambled fort fer ter see how de balance er de settlement...
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...
Reimagining a River
In 1944, a party of German prisoners-of-war escaped from a camp in Phoenix, armed with old maps and with the intention of stealing a boat and sailing to Mexico. When they saw the “pitiful trickle” that is the modern Gila, they began to hike downstream in despair and were soon rounded up. Their leader later...
War on the Home Front
U.S. officialdom calls them āSpecial Interest Aliens,ā as much because they might have a special interest in us as we in them.Ā They are aliens from countries that are considered potential sources of terrorist attacks on the American homeland, and their numbers are reportedly growing.Ā āPeople are coming here with bad intentions,ā an anonymous Border...
A Nightmare on Elm Street
I have raised up a chosen man from my people, with my holy oil I have anointed him so that my hand is always with him and my arm strengthens him. A year ago, on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Bishop Thomas G. Doran of the diocese of Rockford elevated...
A Political Rumble in Wyoming Reveals Divisions Within Trumpās Team
Itās hard to find anyone these days outsideĀ National ReviewāsĀ deludedĀ pages sorry to see Rep. Liz Cheney dragged across the political concrete. Besides rubbing raw the hide of a realigning right with her gratingĀ adorationĀ for George W. Bush, Cheney embodies a conservative establishment that has conserved little more than its sinecures and pretensions.Ā The prospect of Donald Trump...
Return of Capital
One of the great ironies of the late-1990ās stock-market bubble is that more Americans followed the advice of Wall Street scam artists than that of Omaha billionaire Warren E. Buffett, the best money manager in the second half of the 20th century. Ā The āNew Paradigmā fooled much of America; Buffett and his partner, Charlie...