Dear Members of Congress: Some of you who are doing your duty in representing your constituents need not pay attention to this letter. You know who you are. For the rest of you, I have a question: Where in the name of our country are you people? Since Jan. 20, weāve had a crisis at...
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Bridge Out
It is impossible to read Gorham Munson’s The Awakening Twenties without thinking of Malcolm Cowley’s Exile’s Return, since both are memoir-histories of the 20’s. Munson, however, is concerned only with 1913-1924. “America will never be the same.” So opined the New York Globe after the official opening of the 1913 Armory Show. . . ....
Lightness & Lard
Perhaps it was in retaliation for those fried potatoes that are served up in little bags and cartons at McDonald’s that they did it, that they performed an act which is so horribly outlandish. The French, those in question, have always been a very proud people; nowadays, the word French in English seems to be...
What Is History? Part 17
Satan knew what he was doing when he aided and abetted the fall in the Garden.Ā Ā āRobert M. Peters As we consider the worldās rulers, one question overshadows all others: are they fools or charlatans? . . . I lean toward the view that they are both.Ā Ā āRobert Higgs It must be noted to that...
The Supremes and the NRA
I agree entirely with Aaron Wolf both on the constitutional argument but also on the deeper political question of the centralization of power. Ā The problem is that we are all tempted to use the court when it suits our purpose, and in this case if I lived in Chicago I'd ...
An Unruly Character
In his own time āRare Ben Jonsonāāsometime bricklayer, soldier, actor, dramatist, poet, critic, self-publicist, and personalityābecame a celebrity.Ā When, at the age of 46, and weighing about 280 pounds, he set off to walk from London to Edinburgh, the houses of the wealthy and fashionable were opened to him, andāas this biography tells usāeven ordinary...
Family, Films, and Fallacy
There’s something about a book sale. The blood quickens, the nostrils flare, the eyes narrow. Anyway, it’s for a good cause. The “Friends of the Library” are putting it on, and somewhere among those one hundred thousand used books is at least one of value. The doors open and in we rush. Almost at once,...
Living the Good Life
Many generations ago, when our country was very new in the political sense but very old still in respect of its general culture, many educated men and women kept what were in those days called commonplace books, mainly a compendium of quotations gleaned from their quotidian reading.Ā The practice lapsed a century and a half...
Delayed Decision
Homosexual couples in the Bay State are awaiting the unexpectedly delayed decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court as to whether they have a constitutional right to be married.Ā This question may not have occurred to the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, but, as this issue goes to press, it is anybodyās guess how the court...
Drain the Racket
When Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was first passed, āhelp wanted: menā and āhelp wanted: womenā ads were common in newspapers.Ā Private employers could hire and fire for discriminatory reasons.Ā Title VII made discriminatory ads and the hiring practices they represent illegal.Ā In their new book, Unequal, two law professors, Sandra...
Burn This Book
Why do we send our children to school, much less to a college or a university? I have put this question to any number of parents, teachers, and headmasters and only rarely received a better answer than “So they can get a good job.” Never having had what most people would call a good job,...
Peter Stanlis, R.I.P.
Peter Stanlis sometimes seemed stiff and formal; and he was, because he practiced his whole life the arts of a gentleman.Ā This required a certain reserve, but one that never covered heavily the kindness of his Christian nature.Ā Part of being a true gentleman is to understate oneās sense of humor, at least partially, but...
Bleeding Red, Feeling Blue
When I started this column back in January 2001 (as a āLetter From Rockfordā), the United States had just emerged from a presidential election that made this country look anything but united.Ā Red and Blue, until then simply convenient colors used by the television networks to designate which partyās candidate had captured the electoral votes...
Mapping Verona
A map of Verona is open, the small strange city; With its river running round and through, it is river-embraced, And over this city for a whole long winter season, Through streets on a map, my thoughts have hovered and paced. I still wake up some nights, thinking about the streets of Verona and of...
On Bilingual Education
In his September correspondence (“Letter from Nueva York: The Elite of El-Bronx“), Robert Berman rightly focuses on the separatist aspect of “bilingual” education as practiced at Hostos Community College and elsewhere in the United States. This pernicious pedagogy is well on its way to creating an unbridgeable, permanent gap between Hispanics and the larger American...
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...
A Prudent Progressive
The longer I watch it at work, the more it seems to me that feminism, as we know it, is into the business of destinies. Destiny is an awesome and enigmatic notion, open to bottomless speculations. Before the recent feminist upsurge, a woman had to fulfill her destiny as a woman, an often utterly ungrateful...
Another Bailout
Brazil is about to receive another IMF bailout, funded chiefly by American taxpayers.Ā While the main beneficiaries will be a few private banks whose loans are at risk, there is practically no public debate about the deal. This is the second Brazilian bailout in only four years.Ā In the summer of 1998, the IMF put...
The High Price of Wealth
This is no conspiracy theory. There is no secret group that meets secretly to make secret plans to run the global economy. All is done in the open. The global money elite is well knownāthe G7 leaders, the central banks, the IMF, the World Bank, the Council on Foreign Relations, major hedge-fund managers, corporate CEOs,...
Republicans Have the Wind at Their Backs
More voters now identify as Republican than Democrat, out of disgust with pro-inflation, pro-criminal, open-border policies.
A Perversion of History
If you think the removal of the Confederate Battle Flag from the grounds of the South Carolina capitol was the end of flag controversy, you may be surprised to learn that an op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times declared, āItās time California dumpā the Bear Flag, āa symbol of blatant illegality and racial prejudice.Ā ...
Political Parties in Serbia
Vuk Draskovic, the leader of Serbia’s major opposition party, was slightly wounded on June 15 when gunmen opened fire through a window of his holiday home in the Montenegrin coastal town of Budva. After being treated at a nearby hospital, Draskovic immediately accused Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic of masterminding “an assassination attempt.” Two days later,...
Tears of a Clown
Watching the finals of the AustralĀian Open was a revelation. The worthy loser, Andy Murray, praised the winner, Roger Federer, by saying that he, Murray, could cry like Roger, but as yet could not play as well. He then broke down and wept in front of thousands. The crowd loved it and cheered Andy to...
What’s in a Name?
Time was, when someone used the term American, or Canadian, Briton, or German, you knew what he meant.Ā The man or woman in question was white and had a name such as Smith, Jones, or Muller.Ā Or the American might be black, most likely a descendant of slaves.Ā Perhaps he was an Indian, meaning an...
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,...
A Tale of Two Americas
We are a nation and people at war with itself. Politically, this war plays out over issues of electoral irregularities, progressive dictates, and the questioning of COVID lockdowns. Yet this division is more than a political divide; it represents a fundamental shift in the character of our people or, rather, our splitting into two separate...
Socialist America Sinking
After half a century of fighting encroachments upon freedom in America, journalist Garet Garrett published The People's Pottage.Ā A year later, in 1954, he died. The People's Pottage opens thus:
To Arm or Not to Arm
To arm pilots or not to armāthat is, apparently, an even more important question than the debate over whether or not we should allow unions, seniority rules, and affirmative action to hamstring every new effort to preserve national security.Ā George Bush wants a free hand with the unions, but his administration doesnāt want airline pilots...
Justice Entrapment
When I was very young, I often explored my grandfatherās library, inhaling the musty secrets of tomes not opened for many years.Ā It was on one such visit that I first came upon John Roy Carlsonās Under Cover. Published in 1943, Carlsonās best-selling bookāenticingly subtitled My Four Years in the Nazi Underworld of Americaāpurported to...
Dateline Lilliput
Russiaās parliament ā called the āDumaā in homage to parliamentary democracy under the Romanovs, an echo as incongruous in its own way as the hearkening of Americaās deliberative assembly to the Senate of ancient Rome ā is, of course, a misnomer. In fact, the body in question owes nothing to its imperial predecessor and everything...
The Other F Bomb: Our Education Crisis
āFā is for failure. Last week, I happened upon anĀ articleĀ reporting over 40 percent of Baltimoreās high school students had a 1.0 grade point average or less. In other words, 40 percent of these students were practically flunking their course load. That shocking figure led me to look atĀ statisticsĀ from U.S. News and World Report, compiled before...
State-Sponsored Prayer
For practicing Christians, Judaists, and Muslims, what is at stake in state-sponsored prayer in public schools is whether the particularities that make us what we are make a difference. Constitutional issues aside, there are strong theological arguments against legislating prayer for young people. Specifically, nonsectarian prayer speaks for no one in particular and addresses Whom...
Polemics & Exchanges: July 2022
Letters from readers about Chronicles articles "Revolt of the Fatherless," "America's 'Female Future' Has Open Borders," and about the war in Ukraine.
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...
Questioning the Pill Triggers a Big Pharma Backlash
Women learned during the COVID vaccine mandates that pharmaceutical companies are willing to sacrifice their reproductive health for profits. Now they are questioning the health risks of birth control pills, and big pharma has summoned its media allies to silence them.
Excellence Revisited
A flyer plugging yet another “excellence book” hit my “in box” recentlyā another reminder of the infatuation of American business with the “pursuit of excellence.” We passionately love success, just hate second place, and truly disdain failure. The drive to excel provides rewards both psychic and materialāno question. But I believe it also harbors a...
Strange Words for Strange Days
Charity. Old version:Ā Open-handedness toward our neighbour in need. New version:Ā Getting the government to spend other peopleās money on politically favoured groups, at home and abroad. All Men are Created Equal OV:Ā We are all made in the image of God and deserve respect.Ā (Besides, an Englishman over here is just ...
Screen ā Burn Out
Streets of Fire; Directed by Walter Hill; Written by Walter Hill and Larry Gross; Universal. Streets of Fire has what is either a subtitle or a disclaimer:Ā A RockĀ &Ā Roll Fable.Ā Moreover, as the movie opens, a title on the screen advises the viewer that he’s viewing “Another Time, Another Place … ,” which, of course, provides the...
Remembering Robert E. Lee
Forbearance is a moral principle from which General Robert E. Lee rarely if ever wavered, and his unflinching practice of that virtue is the primary reason that he should be remembered today.
A Heated Topic
The Confederate Flag has become a heated topic this election year. As George W. Bush and John McCain battled in South Carolina for the Republican presidential nomination, the New York Young Republican Club invited Richard Lowry, the editor of National Review, to discuss the Republican Party’s prospects for November. In the question-and-answer session that followed,...
When Dictators Fall, Who Rises?
Ā One month before the invasion of Iraq, Riah Abu el-Assal, a Palestinian and the Anglican bishop of Jerusalem at the time, warned Tony Blair, “You will be responsible for emptying Iraq, the homeland of Abraham, of Christians.” The bishop proved a prophet. “After almost 2,000 years,” writes theĀ Financial Times, “Iraqi Christians now openly contemplate...
Health Care DebateāAt Last
Ā A new Associated Press-GfK poll that shows Americans evenly divided on the Obamacare repeal is getting big play as the House opens debate on precisely that course of action. Won’t it be amazing to hear Democrats argueāin view of this spectacular turn in public opinionāthat House Republicans should now back off? Nope. To Obamacare’s...
Star Dreck
Cobra directed by George P. Cosmatos screenplay by Sylvester Stallone; Warner Bros. Sweet Liberty written and directed by Alan Alda. How did America’s movies ever get so bad? That seems to be the $99,000 question for American film critics lately, from Siskel and Ebert to American Film to New York Times critic Vincent Canby, right...
A Memo From Privilege Universityās Diversity Offices
Dear Colleagues, A Diverse, Inclusive, and Equitable day to you! The leadership team here at PUās Diversity/Inclusion/Equity (DIE) OfficeĀ is pleased that so many of you have adopted the practice ofĀ land acknowledgmentĀ in your email signatures, as demonstrated by the following model statement from a colleague: In community and solidarity, Dr. Margaret āMargeā N. AlisaciĆ³n, Ph. D....
The Imperial and Momentary We
āO Fame, O Fame!Ā Many a man ere this Of no account hast thou set up on high.ā āBoethius āIt is a kind of baby talk, a puerile and wind-blown gibberish. . . . In content it is a vacuum.ā āH.L. Mencken on Warren G. Hardingās speeches Americans are a practical people.Ā They donāt want...
Weasel Words
Dr. Fleming, Mr. Cadfael,Ā and now Mr. Navrozov in recent posts have opened a fruitful discussion of the American tendency to debase the language with prettified terms in order to disguise reality and enforce conformity of thought. Actually this is nothing new and is in part a product of what our two most penetrating foreign...
TRUCKERS WITHOUT BORDERSāMarch 2008
PERSPECTIVE Our Open (Borders) Secret by Thomas Fleming VIEWS The Loss of American Identity by Roger D. McGrath California, todayāyour state, tomorrow. The Tragedy of Mexico by Gregory McNamee Riches unrealized. NEWS Facts? Who Needs āEm! by William Lutz Some critical thinking in Texas. REVIEWS After the Deluge by Jack Trotter Chilton Williamson, Jr., ed.: Immigration and the American Future Clark ...
The End of Truth
āWhat is Truth?ā is a question that has been around since the Greeks. One can speak of moral truth as well as aesthetic truth, yet scientific truth seems to be the only one thatās undeniable. And yet, even though thereās scientific proof the world is round, those who deny it can still live normal lives...
Taking a Stand in Warsaw
With a monument to the 1944 Warsaw Uprising as his backdrop, President Trump delivered a forceful speech on the eve of the G20 Summit, sounding themes that would not be welcome by most other leaders of the worldās most economically powerful countries.Ā Trump identified āthe fundamental question of our timeā as whether āthe West has...
The Art of Scam
Roger Kimball, who edits the New Criterion and does art criticism for National Review, has set out to achieve two goals in this thin, concise book: pointing out āthe depredations practiced by criticism on artā and aiming āto encourage the benevolent civilizing elements that have traditionally been accorded to our encounters with good art.āĀ Despite...