You may have thought this country’s problems stemmed from runaway central government, but Clint Bolick is here to tell you that the real threat is down the street. “Local government in its various forms is today probably more destructive of individual liberty than even the national government,” says Bolick, chief lawyer of the Institute for...
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The FBI Vs. The People
The FBI is rounding up average people for the crime of not being progressive, and a source inside the bureau says many agents are heading for the exits. Republicans need to start pushing back against a politicized FBI.
The Kayla Mueller Case: Rape is Endemic to Islam
American aid worker Kayla Mueller was regularly raped by the head of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in the months between her capture by ISIS in August 2013 and her death last February. The Western media have been quick to claim that the 26-year-oldās ordeal was due to a particularly perverted, un-Islamic ideology of...
On Unjust Peace
The Ukrainian invasion may not have happened if the American government had not tried to push NATO to the borders of Russia. Conflict happens in international relations and does not require woke ideological hysteria as a response.
Roll Over, James Madison
To anyone who has spent some time with the Framers and ratifiers of the U.S. Constitution, most current talk about that document seems not about the Constitution at all but about some fanciful construct of wishful thinking, accumulated misunderstandings, and successful usurpations. This is certainly so in regard to the recent discussions of the Electoral...
Disturbing the Peace
The waitress at my favorite Japanese restaurant, a spotlessly clean little joint in a Sonoma County hamlet not far from my home, had no idea what she was getting into as she took the order.Ā Two unremarkable looking customers had walked in the door: one an older, rather prissy-looking man with wire-rim glasses, and the...
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,...
The Politics of Human Interests
After wearing out the patience of television viewers over an entire year of premature campaigning, the two political parties will soon be informing us of their choices.Ā Will the presidential election of 2008 really come down to a contest between two leftist anti-Christian senators representing New York?Ā Or will Al Gore, even more bloated with...
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...
If Trump Loses, a āTransformedā GOP Might Not Get a Second Chance
Donald Trump has made it clear from the beginning that heās in it to win it. He has said that if he ends up losing the presidential race it will all have been for nothing: āIf I don’t go all the way, and if I don’t win, I will consider it to be a total...
The Abominable ‘America Last’ Porkulus
This country is not governed by a “Republican Party” and a “Democratic Party.” It is governed by an establishment “uniparty” that betrays our citizens at every turn. Exhibit A: The joint annual ritual of fiscal vulgarity known as the omnibus spending bill.Ā Ā While Americans are distracted with the holidays, Beltway crapweasels stuff their legislative...
Publishing Is . . .
“Publishing is something I sort of drifted into.” āGary Fisketjon In a world, ours, in which large and small atrocities are our daily fare and to which atrocities we often seem to have become so ruthlessly accustomed as to have surrendered our ability to raise our eyebrows or to perform any moral gesture whatsoever above...
The Stupid Country
According to a recent Roper poll, only 13 percent of the college graduating class of ’96 could pass a simple quiz on material suitable for elementary school students. Ninety-two percent of those taking this quiz failed to identify the author or the document that is the source of the phrase, “Government of the people, by...
The Lost Tribes of Israel
As Israel enters its 61st year, Israelis may look back with pride. Yet, the realists among them must also look forward with foreboding. Israel is a modern democracy with the highest standard of living in the Middle East. In the high-tech industries of the future, she ...
Wounded Warriors
Reviews of two new films: The Contractor, directed by Tarik Saleh, and The Northman, directed by Robert Eggers.
If God Is Dead . . .
In a recent column Dennis Prager made an acute observation. “The vast majority of leading conservative writers . . . have a secular outlook on life. . . . They are unaware of the disaster that godlessness in the West has led to.” These secular conservatives may think that “America can survive the death of...
How Do You Make $100 Million Per Day?
How do you make $100 million per day? Goldman Sachs did itāand still does it. It even brags about it. Goldmanās net revenues for 2009 were over $45 billion. Most of thisā$34.37 billionācame from trading. During the second and third quarters of 2009, Goldman made over $100 million per day on 82 out of 130...
In Pisa at Last
Epiphany Ā It was a relief to come to Pisa, though the train trip was enlivened by a pair of Africans vendors, returning to Cascina, shouting their native language into their cellphones. I politely signaled to one of them by putting by finger to my lips. He turned his shouting to me and informed me...
Stratford 1990 Tom-Toms Along the Avon
What Joseph’s coat of many colors is to a London Fog raincoat Ontario’s Stratford Shakespearean Festival is to all other summer drama festivals. It was founded in 1953 by Tom Patterson, a Stratford journalist. Patterson’s motives were varied but one is obvious. If God had not intended a Canadian Shakespeare festival, why had He named...
Thinking Free While Living With the Establishment
This week I celebrated my 70thĀ birthday. I like the sound of 70. In terms of human years that number seems possessed of dignity and wisdom, and though I may lack both attributes, 70 provides a faƧade leading others to think that age has endowed me with these prizes. Regardless, I have reached the age when...
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...
The Future of the Christian Right
Like a cold front, you could feel the defeat coming; and you did not need Dan Rather or George Gallup to prepare you. You knew it in your bones as you listened to the sound bites on the evening news: Clinton saying nothing and saying it well; Dole saying nothing and saying it poorly. It...
Seize No Day
When one is tired of London, said Dr. Johnson, one is tired of life.Ā I spent a week in London last November, a city I have visited many times and know well having lived a year there with my family while I was growing up.Ā The City of London remains largely intact, save for the...
Is a UK Crackup Ahead?
David Cameron is the most successful Tory Party leader since Margaret Thatcher. Yet history may also record that his success led to the crackup of his country, and Great Britain’s secession from the European Union. How did Cameron’s Tories capture their majority? First, they compiled a strong record to run on. More critically, they attacked...
The Fascist New Frontier
On December 16, 1962, Ayn Rand delivered a lecture at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston entitled “The Fascist New Frontier.” She began by quoting from an unidentified political platform which demanded profit-sharing, government care for the aged, legislation favorable to small businesses, government scholarships, public health and “the Common Good before the Individual Good.”...
Lessons From France
On the French nightly news for Monday, June 12, the anchor’s face was so grim that, at first, I thought the French forces in Bosnia had suffered serious losses. But, no, he was reporting on the French municipal elections, the first round of voting for mayors of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. The...
Dealing With Hitler
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning has received exceptional attention and nearly universal praise.Ā Prof. Timothy Snyderās knowledge of the holocaust is almost encyclopedic.Ā This is his second large book devoted to the horrible history of much of Eastern Europe during World War II.Ā His main inquiry and subject is what happened to...
“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...
Home Rule
The city-state is the seedbed of civilization, but the concept seems alien to the American tradition.Ā Nonetheless, our cities did once possess, at least before the Revolution, many of the same rights enjoyed by English and European burgs.Ā In the Anglo-American world, the liberties of cities were defined by the charters they received either from...
A Walk on the Dark Side
“Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity.” āThomas Adams Conspiracy theories have found a ready audience in many countries in many different times. When cataclysmic events shock a country to its foundations, when people feel impotent before history’s tidal wave, when war or economic collapse or political disintegration mark the end of a historical era and, having...
The Disillusionment of Diversity
Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class;Ā by Charles Murray;Ā Twelve Books;Ā 528 pp., $35.00 When I was a graduate studentĀ in the 1990s, the following joke elicited knowing grins even from those sympathetic to the impenetrable French postmodernist theory that was then making the rounds: Q: Have you read the new Derrida? A: Read it? I...
Remember Katyn
I arrived in Poland just as the television announced the tragic death of President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, Maria, and many of Polandās military and political leaders in an airplane crash at Smolensk in Russia.Ā A week of mourning followed throughout the entire country. The president had been traveling to Smolensk for a joint commemoration...
Unwinnable War?
āTaliban Are Winning: U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Warns of Rising Casualties.ā Thus ran the startling headline on the front-page of the Wall Street Journal. The lead paragraph ran thus: āThe Taliban have gained the upper hand in Afghanistan, the top American commander there said, forcing the U.S. to change its strategy in the eight-year-old conflict...
The Family Against the Globalists
IĀ once knew a lady who ran for governor of the state of Pennsylvania on the promise that, if elected, she would run the state like a family.Ā Unfortunately, she lost the election, so we will never know what that would have been like.Ā (I am tempted to say that it would be impossible to run...
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...
Israel First or America First
Donald Trump has a new best friend. “President-elect Trump, thank you for your warm friendship and your clear-cut support of Israel,” gushed Bibi Netanyahu, after he berated John Kerry in a fashion that would once have resulted in a rupture of diplomatic relations. Netanyahu accused Kerry of “colluding” in and “orchestrating” an anti-Israel, stab-in-the-back resolution...
Beat the Clock
The Rookie Produced by Walt Disney Pictures and 98 MPH ProductionsĀ Directed by John Lee HancockĀ Screenplay by Mike RichĀ Released by Buena Vista and Walt Disney PicturesĀ Clockstoppers Produced by Nickelodeon Movies Directed by Jonathan Frakes Screenplay by Rob Hedden and Andy Hedden Released by Paramount Pictures I have no idea whether Oscar Wilde...
Waitinā for The Robert E. Lee
The life of Lee having been ādone,ā redone, and perhaps even undone by revisionist treatment, the present weighty phenomenon requires some contextual examination.Ā We might first and simply ask the question, What is the purpose of this book?Ā I mean to say that the revisionist treatment of the so-called Civil War has been gathering force...
The Suicide of the West
The issue of Kosovo, which has been simmering since the United States waged a war of unprovoked and unjustifiable aggression against the former Yugoslavia, is boiling over.Ā While Serbian āpublic opinionā is said to be more interested in economic questions, the resentment against the international community is real.Ā As one senior advisor to Prime Minister...
Running the Big Khan in Philly
If patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels, Scoundrel Time to the nth degree was on full display in Philadelphia last week. The closing days of the Democratic Convention featured an orgy of frenzied flag-waving (never mind the minimal presence of Old Glory at the opening) and orchestrated chants of āUSA! USA! USA!ā (doing double...
2020: The Year ‘Expert’ Credibility Died
If there were ever a time to “question authority,” as the old counterculture slogan of the 1960s urged, the authoritarian age of COVID-19 is that time. Two thousand twenty will go down in American history as the year that public health “experts” got everything wrong.Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā It’s not just that their judgment...
What if Trump wins?
For months, weāve seen stories on polls being cooked to boost Hillary Clintonās numbers and demoralize Trump voters. Others have noted the possibility of a āBrexitā type surprise on election day. Meanwhile, in the wake of the re-opening of the FBI investigation of the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal, the race is tightening, according to numerous...
Ideology and Everyday Life
Iām a libertarian, as perhaps some of my readers know.Ā My late mentor, Murray Rothbard, practically founded the movement in his living room, and Iāve been an activist since my teenage yearsāa long time ago. I wear my libertarianism like a comfortable old shirt.Ā Yet ideology and everyday life donāt always mesh.Ā In my youth,...
Left, Right, Up, Down
Since the time of the French Revolution, the labels “left” and “right” have served as universal symbols on the road atlas of modern politics. The exact meaning of the symbols has never been clear, especially when they are applied outside the narrow streets of practical politics and extended to the broader ranges of philosophy, religion,...
It Takes an Autodidact
Once upon a time, I decided to learn Japanese.Ā I had none of the usual practical reasons: no business interests that would take me to Japan nor even an academic project comparing Noh plays with Attic tragedy.Ā I knew next to nothing of Japan, though as a child, my imagination had been stirred by the...
Can’t Get Fooled Again
Ā InĀ Earl Warren Rides Again, I wrote: Roberts portrays his decision as a check on federal powerāif the Court had upheld the individual mandate under the Commerce Clause, it “would open a new and potentially vast domain to congressional authority.” But it’s unclear whom he thinks he is fooling. Silly me. I should have known...
What Consequences?
A consistent trait of ideologues is the failure to see the consequences of their ideologies.Ā Thus it is with antiwar movementās defense of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the alleged author of the notorious 90,000-page dump of classified military documents on WikiLeaks. Libertarians love WikiLeaks because it discloses government secretsāin this case, about the wars in...
Failed Studies
Some studies have failed to find that executions have any success in deterring homicides. But according to sociologist Steven Stack of Auburn University in the American Sociological Review (August 1987, vol. 52, pp. 532-540), those studies have been methodologically flawed by the highly questionable assumption “that the public is more or less aware of executions...
Re: Scotland’s Soul
Ā Derek, I have a silly but not irrelevant question. Ā Is the SNP and its allies seeking total independence or merely separation? Ā In other words, is one possibility that Scotland could revert to it status before the Act of Union? Ā In which case Sir Sean would have be entitled to a knighthood granted by Elizabeth...
Our Recessional Culture
I was born in 1964, in a countryĀ that most people, inside America and out, regarded as the greatest on the planet. Indeed, many felt that America in the early 1960s was the greatest country there had ever been. There was little reason at the time to question this consensus. Americans enjoyed a standard of living...