Sir James Goldsmith in Le PiĆØge (Paris, 1993) eloquently defended the nation and regional free trade against internationalists advocating global free trade. He provoked a formal answer from the European Commission in October 1994. A month later the English version of The Trap appeared, followed by a torrent of contradiction and polemic from various academics,...
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Trump Should Close NATO Membership Rolls
When Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg today, the president should give him a direct message: The roster of NATO membership is closed. For good. The United States will not hand out any more war guarantees to fight Russia to secure borders deep in Eastern Europe, when our own southern border is...
As GM Goes, So Goes the GOP
Understandably, Republicans are seething.Ā When Hank Paulson demanded $700 billion to haul away the trash in the dumpsters of JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachsāassuring us we could hold a garage sale of the junkāthey rebelled. They acted as the nation, by 100 to one, demanded. They killed the Wall Street bailout.Ā The Dow quickly sank...
Dust Thou Art
Sheep Mountain like a fallen tombstone lay on the horizon under a sky thickening with gray cloud ribbons and white lenticulars. It was too cold for snow yet, and rain had not fallen for weeks in the mountains. The wind raised small storms of dust on the pale surface of the clay road and whirled...
Reforming the Invisible Primary
We have just completed another round in a continuing national experiment in political theoryāthe primary selection process as it has been revised in several waves of democratic reform. I believe this experiment, filled with noble intentions, has largely been a failure. From the standpoint of democratic theory, the presidential selection process should be both representative...
Letter from Holland: The Kaiser in Exile
On a recent sunny afternoonāa wonderful rarity in Hollandās late fallāI visited Huis Doorn, the country manor 15 miles east of Utrecht where Kaiser Wilhelm II Hohenzollern spent just over two decades in exile before dying there in early June 1941. His lead coffin, draped in the Imperial flag, lies in the middle of a...
Calling Dr. Johnson
On September 30, at 3 P.M., our longtime colleague and friend Joe Sobran passed away. Ā This is the last column he was able to write for us, published in the July 2010 issue. The Dear Leader of the United States reminds me of Robert Frostās quip that a liberal is ...
Civilizations Clashāin Ukraine and at Home
Ukraine and Russia were at peace until a civilizational divide: one chose the West and one chose Slavic-Orthodoxy. Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" thesis has proven correctāand predicts a similar rift within America.
Forgetting Colin Kaepernick
Colin Kaepernick, the former star quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, made the decision during the 2016 NFL preseason to kneel during the playing of the National Anthem.Ā Other athletes quickly followed suit, some by kneeling, others by raising a fist to protest āracial injusticeā in America. Outrage predictably followed, with opinion polls suggesting that...
Tort Law Threatens Urban Development
A recent action by a Minneapolis judge has such a potential for inhibiting economic development of our central cities that, if a decision by a putatively less high-minded apostle of judicial restraint had anywhere near a similar impact, the miscreant would be pilloried from Cambridge to Berkeley for condemning the nation’s ghettos to further impoverishment....
Make Mine Revenge, Please
The Punisher Produced by Marvel Enterprises Directed by Jonathan Hensleigh Screenplay by Michael France and Jonathan Hensleigh Distributed by Lions Gate Films Inc. Man on Fire Produced by Fox 2000 Pictures and Scott Free Productions Directed by Tony Scott Screenplay by Brian Helgeland from A.J. Quinnellās novel Distributed by 20th Century Fox Film Corporation Mean...
Eyes on the Prize of Central Asia
In August, President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan announced that the capitol of the country would be moved several hundred miles north, from the green city of Almaty, where the presidential palace stands against a background of snow-capped mountains, to the bleak and windy steppes of north-central Kazakhstan, to the present city of Akmola. The official...
Who Is Really Killing American Democracy?
By a vote of 30-1 in the House, with unanimous support in the Senate, Juneteenth, June 19, which commemorates the day in 1865 when news of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas, has been declared a federal holiday. It is to be called Juneteenth Independence Day. Prediction: This will become yet another source of societal...
An Image of the East
[This review first appeared in the November 2007 issue of Chronicles.] It is a clichĆ© among Byzantinists that too few people in the world, especially in the West, know anything about Byzantium, so there is no doubt that more works of āpopular synthesisā that make this Christian successor to the Roman Empire in the East...
A Necessary Book
We have been enduring the cultural revolution of liberal modernity.Ā It is hard to say exactly when that revolution began, but it took a great step forward in the 60ās, when social and religious tradition lost its last shreds of public authority, and another after the collapse of communism freed it to go wherever it...
Charlie Is Their Darling
On October 25, 2000, central Sydney’s traffic stood still for hours, for the first time since the Olympiad. Inside the late-Victorian Town Hall, approximately 2,000 pilgrims witnessed the Aboriginal faith’s latest canonization: the state funeral of Charles Perkins, who had died on October 18 after 29 years of daily medical dependence on the “whitefella” culture...
How Far Will Trumpās Enemies Push to Drag Him and America Down?
As he completes his third week in office Donald Trump has already stunned the world with his āshock and aweā campaign to keep promises made when he was a candidate. The mere fact of a politician doing what he said he would do seems to have unsettled the nerves of his opponents. What is called...
Indispensable Petrarch
Old-fashioned English professors like to speak of “the Canon” in reverential tones, as if there were a list of great books as ancient as the Spartan king list and as hallowed as the kyrie. In fact, what they usually have in mind is a rummage sale assortment of a few really essential works jumbled together...
Now the Left is Quick to Convict
We can’t seem to have a news event (and everything that happens in our capital city is a capital-E event these days) without the searing cry in the background, drowning out all other discourse: “Impeach! Impeach!” You might call it an echo of the old exhortation, “Hey, somebody get a rope!” One thing must be...
Realism and the Spirit
The following is the text of M. Ionesco’s address at the 198S Ingersoll Prizes Awards Banquet: I am extremely proud and honored to have been awarded the very prestigious T. S. Eliot Prize, which has been given to such persons as Jorge Luis Borges and the novelist Anthony Powell, artists who exemplify the prime values...
A Question of Dots
From the September 2010 issue of Chronicles. John PoindexterāNavy veteran and national-security advisor during President Reaganās second termāresigned in disgrace after congressional hearings revealed that the United States, with Poindexterās approval and with the help of an enterprising young lieutenant colonel named Oliver North, was selling arms to Iran and giving the profits to the...
Poems of the Week: March 13, 2012
Ā Let us now have a look at the so-called Italian or Petrarchan sonnet. Ā It was popularized by the great Aretine poet Petrarch, and early examples of the sonnet are often overt imitations of the master. Ā The problem for the English poet is that Italian is a language in which rhyme comes so easily as...
Murder in Politics
Sergey Yushenkovās murder on April 17 may have been the result of machinations aimed at destroying Russian President Vladimir Putin politically and personally, as well as undermining U.S.-Russia relations, seemingly on track again after the rift over Iraq.Ā Gunned down outside his Moscow apartment, Yushenkov, the leader of the Liberal Russia political party, joins a...
Is Bernie’s Hour of Power at Hand?
Can a septuagenarian socialist who just survived a heart attack and would be 80 years old in his first year in office be elected president of the United States? It’s hard to believe but not impossible. As of today, Bernie Sanders looks like one of the better, if not best, bets for the nomination. Polls...
Obama, Relationship Therapist
The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, and did it very well. W.S. Gilbertās lines from Iolanthe seem applicable to President Barack ObaĀmaās four-day Middle East trip, which ended on March 23.Ā The tour was a ādiplomatic triumph,ā according to ReuĀters.Ā āObama returns . . . with diplomatic victory,ā declared CNN.Ā ...
If America is to Survive, the Sanctuary Delusion Must Go
The current immigration crisis has been called an invasion by many, but it is the result of a deluded sense of obligation to the rest of the world at the expense of our own families and communities.
Letter From Egypt: The Ongoing Plight of Christians
For the majority of Egyptās Christians, the Sisi government is far from ideal, but preferable to any likely alternative. The Copts (āCoptā being derived from the Greek Īį¼°Ī³ĻĻĻĪ¹ĪæĻ, āEgyptianā) still suffer from various forms of discrimination, but at least Christians are not formally reduced to the status of dhimmis, second-class citizens under Sharia, which was...
Making It Close
Following the publication of Wise Blood in 1952, whispered speculation commenced among the novelistās relatives, who wondered how an innocent Catholic girl from a genteel Southern background could have acquired the worldly experience to write the early scene in which Hazel Motes enters a stall in the menās room at the local train station, reads...
Large Is Ugly: Why America Is Not a Democracy
Of course it is ludicrous for anyone to consider the government in Washington, D.C., a democracy, no matter how often it is declared to be one.Ā The reason is perfectly obvious: With a population of nearly 330 million people, no nation could have a government with anything resembling a true democracy. Let us consider.Ā With...
Papal Soap
The domiciliary organ of the host to which I have now attached myself is the cavernous Renaissance of every spiritual parasite’s dreams, most of it still inhabited, in that Cherry Orchard kind of way which keeps grand English country houses tottering but not always falling to the National Trust, by the descendants of the Florentine...
Blowback: “Kosovars” Strike Again
TheĀ jihadist murder of two American servicemenĀ by a āKosovarā-Albanian Muslim at Frankfurt Airport on March 2 combines the fruits of the United Statesā criminally misguided Balkan policy over the past two decades and of Europeās suicidal immigration policy since the 1960ās. While it is probably too late to have either of them reversed, hope springs eternal:...
Advertising Himself
Inception Written and directed by Christopher Nolan Produced and distributed by Warner Brothers Ā It took me a while, but I finally realized what Christopher Nolanās Inception is all about.Ā Simply put, itās about how it got to be itself.Ā Or, to be less gnomic, Nolan has undertaken to advertise his own moviemaking skills in...
O.J. Simpson Is DeadāRon and Nicole Are Unavailable for Comment
What can one say other than this? O.J. Simpson has died. Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were unavailable for comment.
Proust Among the Buckeyes
Originally published in 1963 by the Ohio State University Press, Ohio Town quickly drew a near-cult following that Harper & Row would now evidently like to amplify in the wake of Santmyer’s best selling ” . . . And Ladies of the Club.” This personal diary of a small, Midwestern town’s evolution can be best...
Backtracking for Home
I was gone from Wyoming less than two years, not so long as to forget, just enough for the shock of recognition to be poignant. The cold northern skies, the tilted mesas tinged green with sagebrush and purple with lupin, and how they smell after rain; the dark, distant mountains whose mottling snows above timberline...
Who’s Really Downgrading America?
Ā The decision by Standard & Poor’s to strip the United States of its AAA credit rating, for the first time, has triggered a barrage of catcalls against the umpire from the press box and Obamaites. S&P, we are reminded, was giving A ratings to banks like Lehman Brothers, whose books were stuffed with suspect...
Men in Power
In March, Steve Saltarelli, a junior Law, Letters, and Society major at the University of Chicago, wrote a satirical article for the student newspaper, the Chicago Maroon, entitled āMen in Power.āĀ The subtitle read, āTrue equality means groups that advocate for men as well as women.āĀ In the article, Saltarelli jokingly proposed founding an advocacy...
The Trybe of Yvor
Ā Ā Ā Ā “Poetry is the language of a state of crisis. āStephane Mallarme Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky’s remembrance of his first day in class with a professor whoāif his stubborn presence in the work of several generations of students and now even the students of those students is any measureāmust have been one of...
ICC Rising
It was a sad day for conservatives when, on December 5, 2011, Laurent Gbagbo rose to speak in the antiseptic courtroom of the International Criminal Court.Ā Polite, old-fashioned (if a little verbose), well-dressed (but obviously not very well), the 66-year-old former president of Ivory Coast was clearly upset to find himself a prisoner, having been...
Life as a Picture Postcard
The girls are in dirndls. Usually pink, with a darker apron and neckerchief and a waist-cinching bodice of black velveteen, buttoned up under old-fashioned chests. Puff-sleeves of white starched blouses. They wear this folkloric costume quite unselfconsciously, about their everyday jobs, in bank or supermarket alike. This is a feminist’s nightmare. The apple-cheeked men are...
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...
Surviving College 101
Hugh Hewitt’s First Principles is a 125-page manual on how to handle the cacophony of illiberal thought that flourishes in our universities. Consider the experience of one prominent victim, Amy Carter. The freckle-faced little girl who once stood at the knee of the President of the United States has become a self-described “feminist-socialist” in the...
Inside History’s Dustbin
Ever since I committed the blunder, nearly 30 years ago, of signing up with the “conservative movement” during my first year in graduate school, a certain pattern of behavior has enforced itself on my decreasingly callow mind. The pattern, as a colleague of mine once remarked to me, is that there seems to be no...
Will War Cancel Trump’s Triumphs?
Asked what he did during the French Revolution, Abbe Sieyes replied, “I survived.” Donald Trump can make the same boast. No other political figure has so dominated our discourse. And none, not Joe McCarthy in his heyday in the early ’50s, nor Richard Nixon in Watergate, received such intensive and intemperate coverage and commentary as...
Taking the Kwannukah Out of Christmas
A Christ-free Christmas, which has been the goal of the American ruling elite since before World War II, has finally, at the dawn of the new millennium, been reached. Ā At corporate āholiday parties,ā references to ...
A Historic Presidency
In the first two decades of the century, President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for secretary of state supported U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen. He was an ever-reliable liberal interventionist. This same Antony Blinken could spend the first years of a Biden presidency helping extricate our country from the misbegotten wars he championed....
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...
Ethnic Cleansing
Some memories of auld lang syne on New Year's Day 2010. This Rockford Files first appeared in the August 2002 issue of Chronicles. Family traditions often get started by accidentāespecially, perhaps, those that center on food. On the second New Yearās Eve after we were married, my wife and ...
Someone Else’s Backyard
Wars, according to the one-dimensional view of world history favored by Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright, are caused by bad or mad men. Once we, the almighty, self-appointed arbiters of worldwide justice, determine who the bad guys are, we can go in, blow them away, and make the world safe for democracy. This approach is...
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...