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,...
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Holding On to a Culture
For a political party that celebrates diversity, it is certainly an odd choice.Ā The Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party of Minnesota, like the Democrats nationwide, has celebrated its role in promoting multiculturalism and massive immigration.Ā Yet the ticket the DFL has nominated to run for governor and lieutenant governor this fallāState Senate Majority Leader Roger Moe and...
Confidants of Blood
“If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.” āPsalm 137:6 This troubling memoir of James Dickey by his son, Christopher, is troubling as well for me to review because I knew James Dickey a little, and I greatly admire his work. Whether all the scenes in it...
Letter from the Trump Rally: Some Observations and Suspicions
I left the house at 5:00 a.m. on Jan. 6 along with my daughter and two of her teenage children. We hit the road for D.C., joining up with a few other families on our way. When we arrived near the rally point, the vast lawn below the Washington Monument was already filling with participants....
Our Terror Sanctuary
The āFort Dix Sixā may not be the smartest group of would-be jihadists we have seen, but their story should tell us something about how lax immigration and border-security policies put this country at risk. The six Muslims were arrested in New Jersey in May, for plotting to attack Fort Dix, which is known as...
The Art of the Dealmaker: Trump’s ‘Major Announcement’
Instead of advancing his presidential campaign in any meaningful way, Trump's big-announcement collector cards are just him doing what he's always done: merchandising himself and his persona.
The New American Mob
After 16 months, perhaps the best one can say for the Tea Party is that the contempt it originally provoked within the American establishment has turned to consternation.Ā If the Tea Party were composed of real Indians, the elite would be understanding, if not exactly encouraging, and not in the least alarmed or offended.Ā Since,...
Desire to Become an American Citizen
Michael Wu wants to become an American citizen. He is 25 years old and has lived in San Diego with his Taiwanese parents since 1980. He speaks English and Chinese, works packing newspapers for recycling, and attends school. He loves baseball and swimming and wants to join the U.S. Navy. By all accounts he is...
The Patriotic Impulse
I must now, in public, repeat what I privately expressed to the directors of the Ingersoll Foundation: my gratitude for their having chosen me as the present recipient of this honorific award. And I must add another source of my gratification, which is the very phrasing of it: the Richard M. Weaver Award for Scholarly...
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...
Empire of Nihilism
By any reasonable measure, the policies carried out by the U.S. government since 1990 toward the Muslim countries of the Middle East (democracy promotion, regime change, political stabilization, āpeace process,ā antiterrorism) have failed disastrously.Ā Not only is nothing better over there, but everything is worse over here, the home of the not-so-brave and ever-less-free.Ā Every...
A P.C. Little Christmas
Christmas is a time of wonder, when the best and the worst of our sputtering culture is on display.Ā For every magnificent four-part rendition of Stille Nacht, we seem destined to endure umpteen episodes of godless grinches screaming about tolerance and diversity in order to keep authentic Christmas symbols out of the public square during...
John F. Kennedy Remembered Without Tears
Kennedy mythology will be on full display for the 60th anniversary of JFK's murder. Despite all the adulation, the real JFK was a man who can only be described with a four-letter word: Fake.
Hate the Sinner, Love the Sin
Ā Four-and-a-half months into Pope Francis’s pontificate, it’s become more than a little tiresome to hear both his admirers and his detractors compare him with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. “Benedict would never have done . . . ” rolls as easily off the lips of aging Call to Action types as it does off the...
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...
Tame Monster
Randall Jarrell was born in Nashville in 1914 and grew up in Tennessee and Southern California.Ā He studied under poet and critic John Crowe Ransom at Vanderbilt University and followed him to Kenyon College, where he lived in Ransomās attic with the young Robert Lowell and wrote his thesis on A.E. Housman.Ā Encouraged by Allen...
Holding the Pass
It has been ten years since the death, at his home in the village of Mecosta, Michigan, of Russell Kirk, author of The Conservative Mind and one of the main spokesmen for organized American conservatism as it was known throughout his life.Ā While there were other architects of conservatism who were Kirkās contemporaries, almost all...
Sam Francisās 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. Professor Kahan includes these men in a group of...
Israeli Spies, Exposed: Only the Beginning
It was a sizzling June afternoon in 2003 when the Pentagonās top Iran analyst, Lawrence Franklin, walked in off the hot pavement into the cool recesses of the Tivoli restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, and offered to commit espionage against the United Statesāand the FBI recorded every word. It wasnāt just serendipity that caught this traitor...
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...
And Now the Good News
Kierkegaard recalls somewhere that Caligula wanted to behead all of Rome.Ā One can almost see his point.Ā The news that comes over the transom is so uniformly bleak, so predictably monstrous, that it cannot but produce this kind of response in any number of men of good will.Ā After all, it is mankind itself that...
MSNBC: One Manās āElection Denierā Is Another Manās TV Host
At MSNBC Ronna McDaniel is out and Al Sharpton in. One manās āelection denierā is another manās media host.
Rights of Clergy
Any sensible kid in America wants to be a newsman when he grows up or, better still, when he doesn’t. Politicians may have the power to make laws and budgets, but it’s the journalists who make the politicians. Besides, even Presidents have to obey the laws. Journalists, on the other hand, are exemptāor so they...
Professional Sports, Sport-Betting, and Hypocrisy
Leagues like the NHL have made their moral stances clearātheir millionaire star players may not engage in sports gambling, but hockey fans are subjected to over two hours of gambling propaganda during each broadcast.
The Paralysis of Science
In The End of Science, John Horgan, a staff reporter for Scientific American, writes about his encounters with both scientists and philosophers of science and concludes that modern science is coming to an end. In every significant field of scientific research, from neuroscience to cosmology, theory has reached so great an impasse that new breakthroughs...
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...
My Son, the Sociopath
A few years ago, before my son was born, I spent a weekend in the Hamptons at the country house of a moderately hip American investment banker. There were about 20 of us to dinner that evening, with all the usual cosmopolitan strains amply represented. Boring and predictable as the whole business was, by about...
The Placed Person
For about 30 years Wendell Berry has been writing fiction, poetry, and essays motivated by what he identifies as “a desire to make myself responsibly at home in this world and in my native and chosen place.” I think the “world” he has in mind is that of mortality in general and of our chaotic...
Aiming Aimlessly
The Hunt (2020) Directed by Craig Zobel ā Screenplay by Nick Cuse and Damon Lindelof ā Produced by Blumhouse Productions ā Distributed by Universal Pictures The Most Dangerous Game (1932) Directed by Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Shoedsack ā Screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman ā Produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures The Candidate (1972)...
Music for Southern Independence
Every form of original American music in the 20th century began in the South: bluegrass, country, western, jazz, blues, rockabilly, and rock ānā roll.Ā Even rap, pop, and heavy metal have been successful because they, in some way, use or imitate a Southern musical element.Ā These styles, if they can be called that, started out...
Moscow Rules
Spending the first three days of spring in snowy Moscow, especially after being in balmy Yalta and Sevastopol, is not my idea of fun.Ā It is useful, however, when you write on foreign affairs and thereās a first-rate crisis under way between āPutinās Russiaā and the West.Ā The overriding impression is that Moscow no longer...
Revisiting Brideshead
From the June 2015 issue of Chronicles. It seems to me that in the present phase of European history the essential issue is no longer between Catholicism, on one side, and Protestantism, on the other, but between Christianity and Chaos. . . . Today we can see it on all sides as the active negation...
A Falling Market
Leon Hadar has written a short, dispassionate,Ā and gently theoretical sort of book on American policy in the Middle East.Ā It is not, chiefly, about military operations, terrorists, prisons, and headlines but about policy at the āgeo-politicalā and āgeo-economic levelā and about predictions. Ā Though dry, Sandstorm is accessible to the general reader. Hadar believes that the...
Raising Concerns
Child abuse has become a national issue. But close scrutiny of the problem raises doubts about the current crusade to combat it. Before expanding the power of the state to intervene in the home, concerned citizens ought to take a hard look at the evidence. While it is hardly possible to overstate the horror of...
Dirty, Dirty Dirt
“Dirt is dirtier than clean is clean,” observes one of John O’Hara’s charactersāa history professor, I thinkāremarking on the human race’s observed partiality for darkness and grime in their news diet, rather than sweetness and light. Note the uproar over Brett Kavanaugh’s behaviorānice or nastyāat a high school party he attended at age 17, during...
The Big Chill Generation
The Big Chill generation came bouncing into town with all of the hoopla you could imagineābright, in-your-face articulate, self-righteous, and pompous enough to remind us that they were people more likely to be found in bus stations than in airports and that this, in itself, somehow demonstrated their moral superiority. During their second week in...
Taxation for Economic Survival
The severity of the ongoing decline of U.S. manufacturing has placed our prosperity and national security in jeopardy.Ā A principal cause of this crisis is the federal tax code, which currently imposes multiple layers of progressive taxation on U.S. goods.Ā The result, as many economists acknowledge, is crippling: a double taxation of savings for investment...
Jekyll and Hyde in a Box
Mr. Brooks Produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Directed by Bruce A. Evans Screenplay by Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon Last month, the Wall Street Journal gleefully doted on billionaire wonderboy Stephen Schwarzman of the aptly named Blackstone Group, a firm dealing in private equities and leveraged buyouts.Ā Schwarzman, George W. Bushās roommate at...
The Land of Oil and Water
A sign above the cafe adjacent to the motel across the highway from the railroad tracks in Lordsburg, New Mexico, proclaimed the good news in faded red letters on a flaking white background. “Whiskey and water,” I told the waitress when she came with her pencil and pad. “No bar,” she explained. “But there’s a...
Are We on the Ramp to Impeachment Road?
After a stroke felled Woodrow Wilson during his national tour to save his League of Nations, an old rival, Sen. Albert Fall, went to the White House to tell the president, “I have been praying for you, Sir.” To which Wilson is said to have replied, “Which way, Senator?” Historians are in dispute as to...
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...
Surviving in the New World Order
George Bush chose a risky moment for launching his New World Order. World stock markets have reacted to the vicissitudes of war with all the stability of a manic-depressive who won’t take his medicine when he’s feeling up and doesn’t see the point of taking it when he’s down. The mere rumors of war were...
An American Life
It is not impossible, merely difficult, for the author of a highly praised first novel to produce a second worthy of its predecessor.Ā Perhaps paucity of imagination is responsible for the failure of many second novels; the writer emptied his quiver the first time or got lucky with a flash-in-the-pan and should not have tried...
Arms and the Man: Clint Eastwood as Hero and Filmmaker
A nation lives by its myths and heroes. Many societies have survived defeat and invasion, even political and economic collapse. None has survived the corruption of the picture it has of itself. High art and popular art are not in competition here. Both may and do help citizens decide what they are and admire. In...
World War II, Served Slightly Woke
In Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, Richard Overy gives a comprehensive analysis of World War II, despite a tiresome woke influence on the topic of imperialism.
Stakhanovism in Reverse
Last April, Claude Imbert, editor in chief of the moderately conservative weekly Le Point, dared to make an astonishing mea culpa.Ā In a minor masterpiece of melancholic irony, he confessed the awful truth that he was a āliberalāāwhich, in present-day French parlance, means someone who believes in free enterprise as a necessary antidote to socialistic...
Nazis and Other Delusions: A Response to Hoppe
Recently, VDARE.com published Hans Hermann Hoppeās 2010 address to his Property and Freedom Society in Turkey. Hoppeās speech included his account of the 1996 meeting of the John Randolph Club, the last at which there was an organized libertarian presence, and a broader attack on the ideas of Pat Buchanan and Sam Francis. Hoppeās account...
Opposition of the Christian Coalition
Ralph Reed long ago proved that he is no conservative.Ā After Pat Buchanan won the New Hampshire primary in 1996, Buchanan had a legitimate chance to overtake Bob Dole and emerge as the Republican presidential nominee.Ā One of the major reasons he did not was the active (though largely behind-the-scenes) opposition of the Christian Coalition,...
Boehner’s RightāIt’s Trump’s Party Now
“There is no Republican Party. There’s a Trump party,” John Boehner told a Mackinac, Michigan, gathering of the GOP faithful last week. “The Republican Party is kind of taking a nap somewhere.” Ex-Speaker Boehner should probably re-check the old party’s pulse, for the Bush-Boehner GOP may not just be napping. It could be comatose. Consider....
Memories of Mr. Lytle
Almost nobody thinks that Yankees can possibly understand agrarians.Ā But one of the great pleasures in my life is that I was, at least at one time or another, Mel Bradfordās favorite Yankee.Ā And because Mel introduced me with great good manners to Mr. Andrew Nelson Lytle, I became one of his favorite Yankees, too....