Aleksy II, Patriarch of Moscow and head of the Russian Orthodox Church, died of heart failure on December 5, 2008, at the age of 79. Born in Estonia in 1929 into a pious family of Russian ƩmigrƩs of German extraction, Aleksei Mikhailovich Ridiger was ordained a priest in 1950, completed his ...
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Tread Carefully: The Folly of the Next Afghan āSurgeā
The author, plotting coordinates for an airstrike during an ambush in Pashmul, Afghanistan, 2011. We walked in a single file. Not because it was tactically sound. It wasnātāat least according to standard infantry doctrine. Patrolling southern Afghanistan in column formation limited maneuverability, made it difficult to mass fire, and exposed us to enfilading machine-gun bursts....
Between Auschwitz and Armageddon
“Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?” āZechariah Most nations know all too clearly what they believe about Jews. Americans are less sure. This beneficial uncertainty inheres in the two major traditions that shape American souls: Christianity and modern political philosophy. Peter Grose writes that the Puritans “identified with...
Parry OāBrien
Itās difficult to explain today that, from the 1920ās through the mid-1960ās, track and field was a major sport in Southern California.Ā There were several reasons for this.Ā There was no Major League Baseball anywhere on the West CoastāChicago and St. Louis were the westernmost cities to field teams.Ā We had only a minor-league circuit,...
Hell Is Other People
Remember Kate Millett? She made the cover of Time in 1970 after her dissection of literary machismo, Sexual Politics, became a blockbuster best-seller and won her the title of leading feminist spokesperson. It didn’t last. Although she was married, she soon announced that she was a lesbian, which split the women’s movement and destroyed her...
Low-End Education
Not too far from my house in Phoenix, Arizona, stands a Christian school that may just say everything about the educational reform debate in this countryāand why it is so often impossible to make any sense of it, in particular. One assumes that what this school has to offer is back-to-basics education, superior teachers, a...
Where Are the ‘High Crimes’?
[above: statue of Horace] Ā “Quid pro quo” was the accusatory Latin phrase most often used to describe President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call asking for a “favor” from the president of Ukraine. New Year’s prediction: The Roman poet Horace’s Latin depiction: “Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus“ā”The mountains went into labor, and brought forth a...
A Prophet’s Reward
Ā Ā Ā Ā “Every honest man is a prophet.” āBlake Whittaker What is now known as the Hiss case exploded across the front pages of the nation’s newspapers on August 4,1948. The day before, Whittaker Chambersāa short, stocky man in a rumpled grey suitāhad taken the stand before the House Un-American Activities Committee to...
Do Not Spare the Rod, or the Iron Bars
The Myth of Overpunishment is a muscular response to the activists and politicians who cry over the supposedly too-high incarceration rate of the American justice system.
Stir-Fried Scholarship
There is a fairly long gestation period for alumni wrath, which does not fully come into being until the end of the year. That’s when every organization in the world calls or sends letters asking for a tax-deductible donation. With the chirpy dunning notices and billets-doux come the hard choices: do I send money to...
A Sudden Attack
The U.S.S. Liberty was suddenly and deliberately attacked on June 8, 1967āa date that should live in infamyāby naval and air forces of the state of Israel.Ā Although the lone vessel, conducting surveillance in international waters, identified herself as an American craftāas if the 12-foot-tall and soon-to-be-shot-up Old Glory were not enoughāshe withstood a sustained...
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...
Why Americans Shouldn’t Vote
Everyone is sure the American political system is broken, but no one wants to blame the people in charge. James Fallows has his nifty little book blaming the press; Howard Kurtz blames our talk show culture; Frontline and The Center for Public Integrity point to our corrupt campaign finance system; conservatives tout their all-purpose reform,...
The Quandry of Tribal Sovereignty
Native American resistance, resilience, and perseverance remain prevalent. The limits of Native American sovereignty remain mysterious.
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...
Republicans Must Make a Laser-Focused, Issues-Based Case to the People
If Republicans can successfully frame the 2024 election as boiling down to the actual issuesāand above all, the economy, inflation, immigration and crimeāthen they stand a strong chance of prevailing.
Election Overload
The country is near unanimous in feeling that the elections of 2016 were unique in American history.Ā Some say for the unlikability of the two principal candidates; others, for the rhetorical violence and vitriol on all sides.Ā Still others cite the general volatility of the political year from its beginnings, in its wide swings left...
Foreigners No More
They are coming: on trains, on buses, on foot, all the way from Central America, where they meet up with smugglers who take them across our nonexistent border.Ā This has been happening for decades, but thereās one big difference in the recent wave of illegal immigration: These are children, many under ten years of ageā50,000...
Increasingly Rare
Speaking English has become rarer than I thought. When I recently put my 1985 Plymouth Horizon up for sale in the classifieds of the Washington Post and the Washington Times, I wondered how many people would respond to my ad. Little did I know how many calls I’d actually get. Problem was, I couldn’t understand...
The Left’s Coming War on Cops
Newly painted in huge yellow letters on 16th Street, just north of the White House, is the slogan: “Defund the Police.”Ā That new message sits beside the “Black Lives Matter” slogan, also in huge letters, painted there at the direction of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser. She renamed that section of 16th Street “Black Lives Matter...
Germany’s Right-Wing Political Miracle
The right leaning AfD is now the second-largest party in Germany, according to recent polls. No one expected this level of success when AfD was founded 10 years ago by a small band of dissatisfied conservatives.
As Cold as Charity
Did anybody notice when Catholic Christianity ceased to be a religion in the United States?Ā Not when it stopped being a popular or even a permissible religion, but when it became simply a nonreligion?Ā I ask this because a recent court decision in California threatens to launch a legal revolution, in a way that would...
Anatomy of a Swindle
I never thought I would be a sucker for royalty, but there is now a good reason to admire Prince Charles. He hates Richard Rogers. In August, the British press reported on the dismay of the nation’s “architectural profession, flinching at the prospects of another outburst along the lines of ‘monstrous carbuncle’ (the Prince’s dismissal...
Pious Tariffs
In āProtectionism as a Path to Pietyā (May 2019 issue), John Howting appears to assert that protective tariffs are acts of piety. Where is the justice in the politically powerful forcing, ultimately under the penalty of death, the politically weak to subsidize themāwhich is what a protective tariff does? Protective tariffs require politicians to pick...
In Focus
Journey to Nowhere Ā Lesley Blanch: Pierre Loti: The Legendary Romantic; Helen and Kurt Wolff Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; San Diego. Ā In the end, nothing is more boring than adventure. Once the newness has worn off, foreign landscapes, forbidden loves, and bizarre rituals prove less stimulating than familiar settings, ordinary people, and well-worn traditions. This...
General Pierre-Marie Gallois, RIP
General Pierre-Marie Gallois, who died on August 23 in Paris at the age of 99, will be remembered primarily as the architect of Franceās nuclear deterrence doctrine in the 1950s. He was the last in a long line of European geopolitical thinkersāfrom Clausewitz and Jomini to Liddell Hart and Guderianāwho have combined superbly honed analytical...
Magistrate Mahoney Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Started Homeschooling
In May 1995, when our first child was born, my wife and I were living in Northern Virginia. I had just completed the course work for my doctorate, and mv wife was the exhibitions registrar at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. But just two weeks later, the day after our daughter was baptized,...
Not What It Should Be
Yeah, it was a crisisāthough few who, like the author, were sentient during the 50ās understood completely what was going on around us; viz., the erosion of the liberal intellectual order we had come, with notable encouragement, to take for granted. When I say ātake for granted,ā I mean just that.Ā We had prayers before...
Russiagateāa Bright, Shining Lie
“The Special Counsel’s investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia . . . to influence the 2016 US presidential campaign.” So stated Attorney General William Barr in his Sunday letter to Congress summarizing the principal findings of the Mueller report. On the charge of...
Affirmative Actionās Destructive Force: An Interview With Amy Wax
Amy Wax talks about issues of race, merit, intelligence, and virtue as well as the discriminatory effects of Affirmative Action.
Averting War With China
No foreign-policy issue facing the United States is more important than our longterm relationship with China, the most populous nation and the fourth-largest country on Earth. If we think in terms of uninterrupted statehood, China is the oldest nation-state, accustomed to taking the long view in foreign affairs. More significantly, if its present rate of...
Putin’s Friends in Ukraine
The most important borders for Americans to worry about are our own. But the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 has certainly shifted media attention from the crisis on our southern border to the borders of Ukraine. Although we do not know with certainty, it appears likely that pro-Russian rebels were the ones who shot...
Telos and the Populist Right
The spring 1994 issue of Telos, dealing primarily with the European New Right, signaled the drift of this formerly Marxist journal toward the populist right. This change in direction has been increasingly obvious for at least a decade and could be seen in the turning of Telos editor Paul Piccone from his New Left activism...
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.Ā Still, oneās faith in this common narrative of the chattering classes is shaken from time to...
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...
On Race, Can We All Lighten Up?
On a beautiful Sunday morning, I was out of town for a business meeting in the city of Santa Barbara, California, an affluent area where the rich and famous live. Demographically, it isn’t exactly Wakanda. Before getting on the 101 Freeway for the long drive back to Los Angeles, I pulled into a gas station...
Arizona’s Got Sand
On October 26, 1881, a gunfight erupted in a vacant lot on Fremont Street in Tombstone, Arizona, that would go down in history as the Shootout at the OK Corral.Ā Virgil, Wyatt, and Morgan Earp and Doc Holliday stood on one side, and Tom and Frank McLaury and Ike and Billy Clanton on the other.Ā ...
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,...
Bailing Out the Bucket Shops
Since September 2008 an awful lot of Americans have lost 40 to 50 percent of their net worth.Ā According to Bloomberg News, the federal government, during the same period, has committed $11.3 trillion in loans, guarantees, and investments to bail out the financial system.Ā The Obama administration believes this effort will help the overall economy...
Education, Schooling, Learning
IĀ do not like the word educationāespecially when it is not only confused with but mistaken for learning.Ā Originally, education in English meant ābringing up.āĀ That is not identical with schooling.Ā A man or woman who āhas been well brought upā (alas, an almost obsolete phrase nowadays) suggests something about good manners, mental or physical manners,...
An Executive Fights Back
During the well-publicized oil crisis of the I970’s, populists looking for an easy answer to the problem of excruciatingly long lines at gas stations reflexively blamed the big oil companies. These barons of black gold were accused of bilking the public. So widespread was this sentiment that President Carter himself joined the chorus of blame....
The LCMS: A Triumph for Conservatism
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...
North and South
The proprietor of the restaurant MāāAāā, known as āRicotta,ā likes to share with his intimate friendsāfor the most part fecund, avuncular family men who, between them, did upward of a thousand years in the high-security Section 2 of the cityās thistle-shaped Ucciardone jail, awaiting trial on accusations of various victimless crimes, usually involving government building...
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...
Nursing the Nationās Population Replacement
America has a real nursing shortage but itās not due to a shortage of immigrant healthcare workers or any of the other reasons routinely given by the oracles of respectable opinion.
The Kemp-Darman Battle
Jack Kemp was the great champion of freedom, according to official conservatives, whereas Dick Darman was the “Prince of Darkness.” In fact, whatever was wrong with Darman (President Bush’s budget director), Kemp was far worse. The Kemp-Darman battle came down to this: Kemp, a leftist Republican, constantly sought to expand the budget for his “war...
The Wisdom of Federalism
“How Much Damage Have Republicans Done in the States?” Gosh! Worlds of damage, you’d imagine, if you’re a typical client of The New York Times nursery school system, where more and more government is good and less and less government is very, very badāevidencing a failure on your part to appreciate the joys of governance...
Adios, Rio Nido
I moved to Rio Nido, a tiny hamlet in the middle of a redwood forest, in the winter of 2008, just a day after the Big Crash.Ā I had found my sanctuary in a world of trouble.Ā What I didnāt count on was a new form of trouble. Rio Nido is a resort community, founded...
Mixed Signals
Rudolph Giuliani in one of his first actions as mayor of New York City, eliminated a controversial set-aside program that had been instituted in 1991 by the Dinkins administration. Considering the extent to which the use of quotas now permeates American society, any victory for the merit system is reason for celebration. The policy in...