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Old Progressives Don’t Die
Surprisingly enough, in many ways journalist and commentator John T. Flynn was a typical progressive. Long a figure of prominence on the American right, he was not politically active in the time of Woodrow Wilson, whose domestic policies he much admired. He did, however, first gain prominence as a muckraker denouncing the financial chicanery of...
Whens, Ifs, and Buts
When did World War II start?Ā An American is entitled to think it started with Pearl Harbor, as, clearly, the world without the United States is only a world in part. But ask an Englishman, and he will say the world war began some two years earlier, when Britain declared war on Germany.Ā A Russian...
A War on Whites?
Alabama Republican congressman Mo Brooks generated outrage among the usual suspects this week by telling Laura Ingraham that the Obama Adminstration’s push for amnesty for illegal immigrants is “a part of the war on whites thatās being launched by the Democratic Party. And the way in which theyāre launching this war is by claiming that...
Unproductive
William F. Buckley, Jr. didn’t have a spy novel or a yachting saga in him one recent week, and the skiing season in Gstaad hadn’t started yet. So he sat himself down and tinkled out a 40,000-word tome tided “In Search of Anti-Semitism.” The articleāor book, or monsterāconsumes the entire issue of the December 30,...
A Different Drum
You turn on the radio for the weather report: āSunny and warm today, with a high near 80.Ā Light breeze out of the south at five miles per hour.Ā Chance of rain less than ten percent.āĀ Outside your window, you watch the winds rage and the rains pour.Ā Which are you going to believe, your...
Remembering George Santayana
āThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.ā It would not surprise George Santayana (1863-1952) that his most famous aphorism is all he is remembered for, nor that it has become almost a clichĆ©, nor that the Americans, whom he knew so well, would consider that they had heeded his lesson by...
The Therapeutic Roots of Wokeism
A new order undergirded by therapism has taken form in the United States.
Is Liberal Democracy an Endangered Species?
“As we begin 2017, the most urgent threat to liberal democracy is not autocracy,” writes William Galston of the Wall Street Journal, “it is illiberal democracy.” Galston’s diagnosis is not wrong, and his alarm is not misplaced. Yet why does America’s great export, liberal democracy, which appeared to be the future of the West if...
Presidents’ Hill: A Short Story
Jessie and Kirk Dawson were in their late 20’s when they I moved into Grove Glen, and Fred Glover’s wife Eva saw at once that they needed work. This was a tight community, not the kind two kids could walk into cold, so Eva took it as her responsibility. She was, after all, the boss’s...
Dial M for Murdoch
Publishers and writers are inveterate enemies. It is a combat decreed by nature, like the eternal war between dogs and cats, oil and vinegar, teenage girls and their mothers. Any real writer, no matter how mercenary or corrupt, cares something for the craft that publishers regard as at best a pretext for marketing (much as...
What Was a Chaperone?
I confess it: My television is always on.Ā I seldom watch the news, the talking heads, the public-spirited uplift, Masterpiece Theater, or the educational stuff.Ā No, I watch old movies.Ā Constantly. I watch them because they bring back the good old days.Ā I think, for instance, of a film (whose title I forget) in which...
The SLA and the Child Experts
If there ever was a case to be made against the therapeutic approach to childrearingāpackaged as āparentingā by three decades of child psychologistsāthe pathetic image of four aging, 1970ās-era radicals, who gave themselves the silly name āSymbionese Liberation Army,ā was it.Ā I cannot help but wonder how differently the lives of Michael Bortin, William Harris,...
Return of the Fairy Tale
The mass media have been particularly arid territory for children lately, treating our young as little more than vessels for advertising pitches. In fact, even theatrical films have become advertisement vehicles, as many of the recent releases aimed at children have been little more than blatant 90minute commercials hawking toy lines such as the Smurfs,...
The Most Truly Conservative Person . . .
When Margaret Thatcher died last April, the obsequies were at times almost drowned by vitriolic voices celebrating her demise.Ā There were howls of joy from old enemies, street parties, and a puerĀile campaign to make the Wizard of Oz song āDing, Dong, The Witch Is Dead!ā the top-selling pop single.Ā (It failed, narrowly.)Ā The extravagant...
Caving Into Lunacy
“I’m tired of having to go to the office armed,” my wife said one day last March. She was not alone in going armedāespecially not since the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union had entered the case of the “Center City Stalker,” a young black man who had committed a series of robberies...
Materialist Dogmatism
We all know that religious believers are fools who will tell themselves anything to prop up their preconceived notions, while atheists are hard-headed rationalists who look the evidence in the face and follow the Truth no matter the cost. Still, oneās faith in this common narrative of the chattering classes is shaken from time to...
A Child of the Revolution
In his engaging biography of John C. Calhoun, Irving H. Bartlett reminds us that American political culture and the men who made it were not always as decadent and corrupt as they are today. Yet Bartlett’s book is not a partisan manifesto. He is respectful of Calhoun but not always sympathetic to his views, aspirations,...
There’s No Stopping Progress
The recent war in the Persian Gulf has at least had the merit of dissipating one or two myths, even if it has also helped to generate new mirages. One of the most pernicious of these myths was the belief, shared by France’s former defense minister, Jean-Pierre Chevenement, and other members of the Franco-Iraqi Friendship...
The Point Left Unprotected
This book will surely be widely denounced.Ā Its merit, which is considerable, is suggested by the vast coalition who will want to deride it: the corporate elite, Republicans, Clinton Democrats, neoliberals, the politically correct lobby, libertarians, neocons.Ā Any author who can provoke such an array of enemies must be onto something. Walter Benn Michaelsā argument...
Brown Shirts in the Ivory Tower
The orthodoxy of Reason is proclaimed, archconservative turned archliberal Garry Wills once wrote, and it will have its inquisitors. He ought to know. Wills perfectly represents a new breed of college Utopians who, losing their power to implement their latest brainstorms on a public suspicious of statist panaceas, have turned their collective energies inward, hoping...
Merkelās Mutilated Victory
German general elections are usually rather boring affairs, with polite debates, disagreements over minor issues and predictable outcomes. The one last Sunday was an exception. It was interesting not because the incumbent, veteran ācenter-rightā Chancellor Angela Merkel (a nominal Christian Democrat), and the ācenter-leftā opposition leader Martin Schulz (a nominal Social Democrat) differ on any...
Will Mideast Allies Drag Us Into War?
The New Year’s execution by Saudi Arabia of the Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr was a deliberate provocation. Its first purpose: Signal the new ruthlessness and resolve of the Saudi monarchy where the power behind the throne is the octogenarian King Salman’s son, the 30-year-old Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman. Second, crystallize, widen and...
Identity Politics Preserve the Elites’ Power
The avalanche of identity politics has spurred an interest in studying income inequality along cultural lines. Surprisingly, leftists have deviated from their fixation on class warfare to privileging race and gender disparities. It is even more bewildering that few writers recognize the devaluing of class dynamics in popular debates. Invariably, income inequality is mainly about...
Platoās Apology
After returning from my Balkan adventures, I can now return to the serious business of using Plato to teach reasoning. Ā Let us turn to the Apology. Ā You probably all know that the Greek apologia means something like justification or defense argument rather than apology. Ā It is Plato's reconstruction (or imaginative ...
An Establishment in Panic
From the day he entered the race, Joe Biden was the great hope of the Democratic establishment to spare them from the horrifying prospect of a 2020 race between The Donald and Bernie Sanders. Today, that same establishment wants Joe out of the race. Why has Biden suddenly become an albatross? His feeble debate performances...
Still Fighting the Civil War
The influx of Northern migrants to these parts continues to produce misunderstanding. Some time ago, the good people of Hillsborough, North Carolina, gave up their right to shoot marauding vermin in their own backyards to an official municipal squirrel-shooter. Citizens whose nut trees were being sacked, gardens despoiled, or houses chewed up (it happens) could...
“No Credible Evidence”
The September 11 Commission (the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States) has found āno credible evidenceā of a meaningful link between Iraq and Al Qaeda.Ā Flatly contradicting claims by the Bush administration that such a connection justified the war in Iraq, the commissionās preliminary report released on June 16 says that Osama...
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...
Superbowl XXXVI
Superbowl XXXVI, proclaimed by the National Football League to be a tribute to September 11 (themed āHeroes, Hope, and Homelandā) underscored the fact that there is something inauthentic about a spectacle that allows sports-bar patrons to experience masculinity vicariously by watching well-padded millionaires smash into one another for control of a leather ball. The Fox...
Sam Francis’s Mad Tea Party
Reading up for a book on the fate of democracy since Tocqueville published Democracy in America in 1835, I recently came across an excellent study, Aristocratic Liberalism: The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de Tocqueville, by Alan S. Kahan.Ā Professor Kahan includes these men in a group of...
Social Engineering in the Balkans
In his November 27 televised speech explaining his rationale for sending United States troops into the Balkans, President Bill Clinton said his goal is “preserving Bosnia as a single state.” Testifying three days later before the House National Security Committee, Secretary of State Warren Christopher said “only with peace does Bosnia have the chance to...
Remembering Klemens von Metternich
Metternich orchestrated a European balance of power, which ensured nearly a century of peace and flourishing, but he failed to deal with the forces of nationalism and liberalism.
Back to Althusius
Hans-Hermann Hoppe may be the most brilliant and original classical liberal alive today.Ā Often lumped together with the libertarians, of whom he is justly critical, Hoppe was a student of JĆ¼rgen Habermas before becoming a disciple of Murray Rothbard and, through Rothbard, of Ludwig von Mises.Ā Hoppe is probably the most important philosopher produced by...
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...
Yuppie Cons
In the 1950’s, American conservatives, subscribing to what Clinton Rossiter called the “thankless persuasion,” were a hard-shelled, pig-eyed lot who took no prisoners and asked no quarter. National Review, in a once-famous but now largely forgotten editorial in its premier issue, vowed that its mission was to stand athwart history and cry stop. Admittedly, this...
Plato and the Spirit of Modernity
In C.S. Lewisās The Last Battle the world of Narnia begins to dissolve and disappear.Ā The Pevensie children are confused and frightened, but Professor Kirke, now Lord Digory, reassures them that the Narnia and the England they had known were only shadows compared to the reality they were about to experience.Ā Then he mumbles to...
Inspiration and Craft
“Take these two books,” is an entirely arbitrary prompting by an editor who happened to have them around on a shelf. Willy-nilly, here they are together, and one looks at them, shuffling through the poems, some familiar and some not. And there is a moment when the rightness of the conjunction seems wonderful! A piece...
Rumors of War Receding
This column was written on Orthodox Easter, but the reminder that Christ is risen is not the only reason for its upbeat tone.Ā There is good news on several foreign fronts, making a major new war less likely today than at any time since the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq was announced last October....
Yes, California, There Is a Right Answer
They say you can’t fight city hallābut a group of California parents calling itself Mathematically Correct (MC) has taken on the statehouse and won the right to restore a rigorous math curriculum to public education. It is only just that the tide should begin turning in the former Golden State, which, because it boasts the...
āHereāThis Is it!ā
In the Catholic Church, apologeticsāexplaining the Faithāwas on its way to becoming a lost art during the post-Vatican II era.Ā But thanks to Mother Angelicaās efforts on EWTN and the many classic publications emanating from Ignatius Press, this important form of evangelization has not been completely lost.Ā However, the uproar caused last summer by the...
What the Editors Are Reading
Anthony Powellās 12-volume Dance to the Music of Time is a work Iāve had in mind to look into for decades without ever having done so, until the publication last year of Hilary Spurlingās biography (reviewed in this issue by Derek Turner, the Lincolnshire man of letters) of the late English novelist, a contemporary of...
Immigrant Birthright
Any doubts you may have had about the absurdity and falseness of American electoral politics would have been removed if you had lived through the barrage of advertising that preceded our South Carolina presidential primary.Ā Every single one of the Republican candidates pretended to have become Horatio at the Bridge, single-handedly holding back the onslaught...
Cherished Void
Gene Roddenberry was a hustling ex-cop who wanted to strike it rich in television, and he did, with a series called Star Trek, which he once described (before his slide into self-mythicizing and lucrative licensing deals) as “Wagon Train To the Stars.” His public image has heretofore been that of the atheistic Gentle Ben of...
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...
Massacre of the Guards
What began as an impromptu and uncoordinated eruption of violence in an upstate New York prison soon morphed into a hostage crisis and siege that gripped the nation and claimed the lives of 43 people. Ā The most famous prison riot in American history took place at Attica Correctional Facility in New York’s Wyoming County...
Britainās Liberal Legacy
One can easily imagine meeting David Conway in the company of Adam Smith or David Humeāan historical conceit that would please him.Ā A quietly spoken, formidably intelligent philosophy professor, he is a senior research fellow at Civitas, the think tank that grew out of the Institute for Economic Affairsāand a very agreeable lunch companion, as...
Caribbean Vacation
Christmas was approaching, and I was getting homesick. I’d been in honduras for a year and a half, teaching school for peanuts at a small, bilingual parochial school in Puerto CortĆ©s. Ok, ok. I was teaching school for lempiras, not for peanuts. But the difference is so slight that it isn’t worth arguing about. In...
The Bombast and Glory of William Jennings Bryan
For three decades, William Jennings Bryan streaked across the sky of American politics, his brightness never fading despite countless failures.Ā Renowned for his zealous Christian faith, he appropriately expired immediately after his final and most glorious defeat, at the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925. In A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan, author...
Get Back
For some time now, Iāve had it in mind to write a book called Everything You Know Is Wrong.Ā Among other areas, it would visit various modern celebrities whose fame, it could be said, is more a function of lurid self-projection, and the unrelenting embrace of the media, than of any innate creative ability on...