At the security conference in Munich over the weekend and at the EU headquarters in Brussels on Monday, VP Mike Pence offered profuse assurances to the European elite class that the Trump administration supports unity and cohesion in the face of various threats allegedly facing the Western alliance. His remarks amounted to an explicit repudiation...
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Why Garry Wills?
Garry Wills identifies himself as a Christian.Ā He says he accepts the creeds, along with prayer, divine providence, the Gospels, the Eucharist, and the Mystical Body of Christ as the body of all believers.Ā He thinks it a bad thing that āarticle by article, parts of the Creed are fading from some churches.āĀ He also...
The Need for Real Majority Rule
Democracy, Churchill is supposed to have said, is a very unsatisfactory form of governmentāonly it’s better than any other kind that has been tried. If man cannot be trusted to govern himself, Jefferson wrote, how can he be trusted to govern others, which was a definitive reply to the elitism of Hamilton (and all of...
Ranchwomen, Life, and Literature
As far as I know, my friend Sissy has never written anything, although she probably reads more widely than most people I know with graduate degrees. She’s at first and probably second glance an archetypical ranchwoman. That first glance would be the outsider’s. Sis is in her mid-30’s, tall, taller than I am, and strong,...
Of Sam and Siddiqui
āYou know,ā he said, āI wouldnāt have let your family in, either.ā Standing in a conference room at the Congress Hotel in downtown Chicago, Sam held my gaze in that sideways glance of his, waiting to gauge my reaction. āI understand,ā I said.Ā āAnd I agree.Ā You shouldnāt have.Ā But Iām here now, so letās...
Time
“I wanna go back and do it all over But I can’t go back I know I wanna go back ’cause I’m feeling so much older But I can’t go back I know” āPopular song by Eddie Money (1986, CBS Inc.) Mostly we take space for granted so long as we have enough of it....
Tainted Love
Conservatives rightly honor George Washington, but why should any conservative so much as like Washington, D.C.?Ā The answer seems as perplexing as the desire of a tourist to buy an āI Love D.C.ā T-shirt from one of the Third World vendors on Capitol Hill.Ā Tell me, Mr. Smith of Heartland, U.S.A., does wearing red-white-and-blue schlock...
Whoās the Ugliest of Them All?
āEmpires are not built in fits of absent-mindedness.ā āCharles A. Beard Described by the author as a āventure in contemporary history,ā American Empire is also an in-depth study of the post-Cold War foreign policies of the last three presidential administrations, all of which Andrew Bacevich believes sought to preserve and extend an American empire.Ā Bacevich,...
Coleridge and the Battle of Waterloo
There is a story told about the late Roland Barthes. Once, in his Paris seminar on critical theory, a British visitor bravely remarked that something he had just said sounded rather like a point made by Coleridge in the Biographia Literaria. An embarrassed silence followed. Then Barthes, in his ponderous voice, spoke: “One can never...
NATOāStrategic Asset or Liability?
Is the territorial integrity of Ukraine a cause worth America’s fighting a war with Russia? No, it is not. And this is why President Joe Biden has declared that the U.S. will not become militarily involved should Russia invade Ukraine. Biden is saying that, no matter our sentiments, our vital interests dictate staying out of...
The Uncertain Future of Bosnia
Ā Having traveled all over Bosnia and Herzegovina recently, including Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Tuzla, Doboj, Zvornik and Visegrad, I can testify thatāalmost 17 years after the end of the warāthis former Yugoslav republic is not a ācountryā but a deeply divided international protectorate. As the Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik said on July 20, it...
Obamacare: Charity or Marxism? I
Ā Part I: What it Is Obamacare’s enrollment fiasco has provided endless opportunities for pointless blather from the unwashed masses of the American “right.” Ā Talkshow celebrities and the delicate young men who blog for magazine websites cannot contain their outrage. Ā One of them yesterday, the editor of an actual print magazine of moderately large circulation,...
Christmas, That Winter Festival
When the Supreme Court declared Christmas a secular occasion, to be celebrated for its lowest-common-denominator cultural value in the public schools, I expected serious Christians to protest. Here a powerful public body officially secularized what for the history of Christianity has represented a most sacred moment. But so deeply have the forces of secularization, organized...
That They May Be One
On the evening before His crucifixion, Jesus prayed what is known as the Great High Priestly Prayer. It is recorded for us in John 17. In that short chapter, addressing the Father in the presence of His disciples, He prayed four times “that they may be one.” This petition extended not merely to those disciples...
The Mexicanization of North America
For nearly 200 years the United States and Mexico coexisted as a series of antonyms separated by a desert.Ā The United States was prosperous and free.Ā Mexico was poor and despotic.Ā For a time, the United States was the preeminent middle-class society.Ā Mexico has been a society of extremes.Ā For most Americans, Mexico was a...
Resurrecting the Third Man
The Third Man Produced by Alexander Korda and David O. Selznick Directed by Carol Reed Screenplay by Graham Greene Released by London Films Re-released by Rialto Pictures Forget the Dark Side. Darth Sidious? No more convincing than Bela Lugosi flitting about an Abbott and Costello travesty. For the real thing, you’ll have to visit your...
Polemics & Exchanges
On Weapons of DespairĀ by Brian Murray Ā In his February review of Kosta Tsipis’s Arsenal and Freeman Dyson’s Weapons and Hope, Professor William Hawkins rightly reminds us that both geopolitical rubes and hard-core leftists are well represented in the “noĀ nukes” movement that has in recent years received considerable, not unfavorable, attention in the Western...
Three Weddings and a Funeral
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In the Garden
āHowās your garden doing this year?āĀ Itās a familiar question, as normal as the greeting that began the conversation and the goodbye that will end it.Ā I cannot start a conversation with my grandmother, or an aunt or uncle or cousin, without being asked the question within a minute or twoāor, depending on the time...
Alfred Hitchcockās Empty Suit
From the August 2008 issue of Chronicles. In 1939, a short, fat Englishman named Alfred Hitchcock arrived in Hollywood at the invitation of David Selznick.Ā Impressed by Hitchcockās work in British film, Selznick thought he would be perfect to direct Rebecca, starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine.Ā Things did not go well.Ā Selznick was among...
Conrad Aiken
I was to meet Cap Pearce at his office at 12:30, for discussion of a book contract and for one of our lunches at a small Italian restaurant in the East Thirties where the veal scallopini was well pounded and the wine muscular. But Cap called and said, “Come early. Conrad Aiken will be here...
Scala Jerkitudinis: The Subspecies
Ā The Great American Jerk is a chameleon who changes colors according to circumstances, from obsequious to bullying, from pious to lewd.Ā He may, on some occasions, display buck-waving generosity and on others check-splitting stinginess, but underneath there is always the baby boy or girl who wants what he or she wants, whether it is...
Whatever Happened to the New Math?
School math textbooks 50 years ago were not written by mathematicians. The typical author was the chairman of a school science department somewhere, in a district large enough to make writing a textbook remunerative even if nobody else in the country used it. That he was ignorant of mathematics was unnoticed by an ignorant public...
Suicide Redux: A Psychiatrist Responds
More psychiatrists will not solve the existential crisis of our society. A solution must lie elsewhere.
Multicultural vs. Stereotypical
Ā Srdja Trifkovic’s paper on Russia and the European Media, delivered at the conference “Russia and Europe: Issues of Contemporary Journalism,” Paris, November 24, 2011 Most West European media professionals tend to subscribe, consciously or not, to a neoliberal world outlook in general and to the tenets of multiculturalism in particular. In other words, they...
Trigger Warnings
In a May 21, 2014, Washington Post column, Kathleen Parker alerted readers to a phenomenon in higher education termed ātrigger warnings.āĀ These are instructional caveats offered about class assignments that may contain language, situations, or expressed political, religious, or personal philosophy that might be āupsettingā to students, thereby giving them the choice to opt out...
The Know-It-Alls
The multiple thousands who marched throughout America and the world last weekend hoped to whip up support for “Science.” Well. I’m sold. And what next? Do more than a handful of people doubt the indispensability of science to the enrichment of the human condition? Science’s God-given nature may, in these secularizing times, meet with less...
Grassroots Extremism
“Extremist” is a word that may conjure up images of hooded Klansmen crowded around a burning cross or of Black Panther separatists or kooky 60’s “revolutionaries.” Or perhaps images of Hitler, Stalin, or Mao come to mind. There is a supposition that those who are commonly called “extremists” are unreasonable, irrational, perhaps crazy, and quite...
The Future of Politics
It is a healthy and encouraging sign when politicians donāt know where theyāre going because they have no idea whatās coming next, which pretty much describes the state of politics in the West today.Ā Among the various political groupings, only liberals know where they wish to goāand that is simply where theyāve been going for...
Cultural Diversity and Unity
There is plentiful historical evidence that cultural diversity and immigration need not undermine a society’s cohesion. They can be sources of enrichment and renewal. Especially in a vital civilization, groups of different religious, ethnic, and national origin may be pulled, however reluctantly in particular cases, into a dynamic arid fertile consensus. One problem with immigration...
Renaissance Frauds
Former Vice President Al Gore distinguished himself by a number of colorful claims, including his invention of the internet, his status as inspiration for the plot of Love Story, and his crime-busting investigations that pulled the covers off Love Canal and the villainy of both the internal-combustion engine and flush toilet. During last year’s presidential...
Avoiding Questions
TheĀ AmericanĀ NovelĀ andĀ the WayĀ We Live NowĀ is a gem, one of those conĀcise little books that coruscate with gleaming wisdom and flashes of insight. As the title suggests, it is a study of cerĀtain features of the contemporary AmerĀican novel, a commentary on prominent aspects of contemporary life, and an exĀposition of the connection between the two. This...
Nunc Est Bibendum
Or Now That Poetry Is Dead, I Think I’ll Just Sit Here and Drink A new battle of the books is in progress. This time, the lines are not being drawn between modern and ancient but between the present and the recent past, and the antagonists are not Homer against Milton or Aristotle vs. Bacon,...
The Goading of America
Fisher Ames is the Founding Father who draws a blank. Few people today have heard of him, yet he wrote the final version of the First Amendment, and his speech on Jay’s Treaty, delivered when he was the leader of the Federalists in the First Congress, was called the finest example of American oratory by...
The Faith of a Critic
The 25 short essays on a variety of “Christian classics” collected in this book originally appeared in the Neiv Oxford Review between November 1979 and October 1982. Collected here, in their total economy, James J. Thompson’s essays remind us of the maturing legitimacy of the interdisciplinarv relations between literature and religion. Christian Classics Revisited shows...
The Myth of American Isolationism
Ā Ā Ā Ā “Internationalism is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford; the common people are hopelessly bound to their native shores.” āBenito Mussolini Walter A. McDougall, a professor of international relations at the University of Pennsylvania, presents useful truths about the history of American foreign policy. The United States, he correctly...
Scala Jerkitudinis: The Subspecies
The Great American Jerk is a chameleon who changes colors according to circumstances, from obsequious to bullying, from pious to lewd.Ā He may, on some occasions, display buck-waving generosity and on others check-splitting stinginess, but underneath there is always the baby boy or girl who wants what he or she wants, whether it is money,...
Last of the Romans
Andrew Crocker did not attend his commencement exercises at Michigan State University in East Lansing on May 2.Ā He was home dealing with family matters.Ā So he missed the awarding of two honorary doctorates.Ā Shirley Weis, a graduate of MSUās College of Nursing, received a doctorate of science as the first woman and first nonphysician...
One Way Out
Ā So too it may be useful to write a novel about the end of the world. Perhaps it is only through the conjuring up of catastrophe, the destruction of all Exxon signs, and the sprouting of vines in the church pews, that the novelist can make vicarious use of catastrophe in order that he...
Remembering Jim Traficant
Donald Trump made headlines when he warned of illegal-immigrant drug runners and rapists pouring across the U.S.-Mexico border. But he wasnāt the first to do so. Ohio Rep. James Traficant, Jr., was well-known for voicing similar comments on any given morning from the floor of the House. Before there was Trump, there was Jim Traficantāthe...
The Reign of Grantham
āThe results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.ā āT.H. Huxley Media commentators covering David Cameronās incumbency as Tory leader have remarkedāoften gleefullyāon how unpopular Cameronās Labour-like policies are with the ātraditional right.āĀ By this, they mean the Thatcherite rump of the party (probably still the numerical...
The Trouble with Gender Studies
At New College, we recently ditched the gender studies program, which did not benefit the college in any way but was, in fact, doing great harm.
Dixie Dystopia
How easy it is to make people believe a lie,Ā and how hard it is to undo that work again. ĀĀāMark Twain Just in case you have not heard, we are in the midst of a Culture War.Ā Death by Journalism? is a battle report from the front lines.Ā The Last Confederate Flag and Bedford: A...
Through the Woods to Grandmotherās Charter We Go
The sacred American heritage of consent requires exercise if we want it to be meaningful and to preserve our ability to govern ourselves.
The Religious Dilemma in the Modern World
Despite the widespread secularization of the modern world, religion and religious interests continue to grapple with the interests of the state.
The New Class Controversy
The recent successes of the American right depend, in part, on its ability to deflect lower-middle-class resentment from the rich to a parasitic “new class” of professional problem-solvers and moral relativists. In 1975, William Rusher of the National Review referred to the emergence of a “verbalist” elite, “neither businessmen nor manufacturers, blue-collar workers or farmers,”...
Homesick in America
āDarlin,āā she said, āIāll get that.Ā Go ahead and take it.āĀ She was a weathered-looking woman with mousy light brown hair drawn back in a bun and the plain, honest look of one of those faces you see in Depression-era photos from the Dust Bowl, faces that donāt smileāthey are just themselves, making the best...
Revenge of the Nerd
“He can be compelled who does not know how to die.” āSeneca “That’s IT. I’ve HAD it with bourgeois-liberal guilt!” In disgust, my friend slammed Lillian Rubin’s new book back across the table at me. We had been reading a hospital scene (one of many) from Quiet Rage, Rubin’s account of the Bernhard Goetz case:...
Journalists in Government: Who Owns the News?
You’re not going to believe this, but last year C-SPAN broadcast a news media get-together that did not put everyone to sleep. As a rule, soul-searching sessions of media stars, or journalistic entities, as Wes Pruden of the Washington Times calls them, end in self-congratulatory hosannas to their integrity and their courage in calling it...
The School of Savagery
Planet of the Apes Produced and distributed by 20th Century Fox Directed by Tim Burton Screenplay by William Broyles, Jr., from Pierre Boulle’s novel Ghost World Produced by Capitol Films, United Artists, and John Malkovich Directed by Terry Zwigoff Screenplay by Daniel Clowes with Terry Zwigoff Released by MGM-UA The 1968 film Planet of the...