Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime. āDaniel 6:10 With the election of Democrat Barack Obama as...
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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...
Poems of the Week: Easter
Ā George Herbert, fromĀ The Temple Love bade me welcome, yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-ey'd Love, observing me grow slack From my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning If I lack'd anything. "A guest," I answer'd, "worthy to be here"; Love said, "You shall be he."...
A Korean Thaw?
In his latest interview with the Iranian English-languageĀ Press TVĀ network, Srdja Trifkovic discusses the latest developments on the Korean Peninsula. The first question was whether we are seeing a positive development in the relations between the North and the South, in the aftermath of the visit of Kim Jong Unās sister to the Winter Olympics and...
Courtesy
I have read somewhere that courtesy is the highest form of charity.Ā Whether or not that is true (I like to think it is), courtesy is certainly charity in its least expensive form.Ā Which prompts the question of why, in the age of what an anonymous wit a generation or so ago dubbed conspicuous benevolence,...
Sense and Sensibility
The shootings at Virginia Tech inaugurated a new round of debates not only over such obvious issues as campus security and gun control but of the more fundamental questions of who we think we are as American and who we would like to be.Ā The debate, as much as the killings, gives testimony (though not...
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...
Her Masterās Voice
Recent publicity to the effect that not one but even two films about Florence Foster Jenkins are in the pipeline sends us what I think is a very ambiguous alert.Ā Florence Foster Jenkins is an arresting subject, no questionābut it is unlikely that the phenomenon she represents can be done justice in todayās environmentāunlikely being...
How to Write a Novel
Cormac McCarthy is so fine a writer-for my money the best novelist in America today-that he and his work must be accepted pretty much on their own terms. Criticism therefore, in the case of Mr. McCarthy, is reducible largely to questions of taste. He has published now six novels, all of them distinguished for reality...
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...
The Trump Train Rides Again
Donald Trump's announcement speech for his 2024 presidential bid raised more questions than answers about what he did or did not learn as an executive in his first term.
Letter From Castelnau de Montmiral: Out-Twee the Foreigner
An Englishwomanās home is her castle, so they say, and mine have stood up to various attacks.Ā From the neighbor who jumped my parentsā fence one day, brandishing a chainsaw, to cut down an inoffensive birch tree that had been upsetting his dogāitself a vicious Alsatian trained to draw blood first and ask questions laterāto...
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...
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...
Leave Dr. Seuss for Dead
One of the most prominent childrenās book authors of the 20th century, Dr. Seuss, suffered a double blow to his legacy this month. His estate said they would no longer publish six of his childrenās books that contained depictions of Africans and Asians that are āhurtful and wrong.ā The Biden administration followed by unceremoniously dumping...
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...
Christmas in Sodom
How do you celebrate Christmas in Sodom? I knowāitās not a cheery thought.Ā And by posing the question, I run the risk of anachronism.Ā There were over four centuries between the time when Abraham pleaded on behalf of his favorite nephewās adopted hometown and Mosesā accounting of it in Genesis.Ā And of course, Christmas was...
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...
Has Bibi Boxed Biden in on Iran?
If Israel, as is universally believed and has not been denied, was behind the assassination of Iran’s leading nuclear scientist, questions arise:Ā Why would the Israelis kill him? And why would they do it now?Ā Ā Ā The scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, it is conceded, was a leader in Iran’s nuclear bomb program, but that program was disbanded...
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...
Gift: The Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte
Not merely a strange place, but the home of strangeness, the land stretching away west to vertiginous spaces beyond the imagination. Philadelphia first, then New York, where Nancy is living. The Grahls have done well, chemists, merchants, physicians. Lorenzo and Nancy cross the river, settle in Jersey, open a grocery store Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā in Elizabeth. He writes...
Explaining Minnesotaās Radical Political Nature
As recent events have caused the eyes of the nation and the world to focus on Minnesota, a question Iāve wondered about has resurfaced: Why is Minnesota so politically radical? That Minnesotaās politics are radical is seen in a simple survey of the stateās prominent politicians. Both of Minnesotaās two U.S. Senators, Amy Klobuchar and...
One More Wallow In Fantasy?
The Patriot, Mel Gibson’s epic about the American Revolution, opened (by an amazing coincidence) in theaters on Independence Day weekend. And cynics complain that Americans don’t take national holidays seriously anymore! Many viewers may regard the film as one more wallow in fantasy and stale popcorn, but among the nation’s literati, it has actually incited...
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...
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.
Will Bishops Deny Biden Communion?
Last week, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops voted 168-55, more than 3-1, to provide new guidance for receiving Holy Communion. Behind the decision? Bishops’ alarm that the public religious practice of President Joe Biden is conveying a heretical message to the faithful and the nation.Ā At Sunday Mass, Biden regularly receives Communion. Yet he...
Lilliputian Fantasies
Downsizing Produced and distributed by Paramount PicturesĀ Directed by Alexander PayneĀ Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Jim TaylorĀ Iām late commenting on Alexander Payneās Downsizing for the simple reason that the film became all but unavailable within what seemed a couple of weeks of its opening in December 2017.Ā It had disappeared from theaters and...
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,...
That New Car Smell
āWhy are all the cars in the Super Bowl ads 2013s, if itās only February of 2012?āĀ Itās the kind of question only a 12-year-old boy like Stephen would think to ask; the rest of us long ago became accustomed to model-year creep, as the automakers knew that we would.Ā When I was Stephenās age,...
David Frum Blames America First
Anyone questioning the wisdom of neoconservative foreign policy is likely to be told that he is āblaming America first,ā as if American foreign policy were synonymous with the nation. Ā So it is only fair to point out that neocons, too, āblame Americaā when it doesnāt follow their policies. Ā Reviewing a book about the 1920 presidential...
Game of Bones
So what is objectionable about Game of Thrones? In posing the question, please note that I am assuming that something is objectionable.Ā So let me count the ways.Ā If we are talking about the books, the prose is klonkingly pedestrianāalthough in fairness it must be said that George R.R. Martin, author of the internationally best-selling...
Poems of the Week: Ballads
Ā I’ll return, later, to the question of conversational poetry and satire, but for a little relief–and a discussion that can lead eventually to Hopkins–let us turn to the ballad. Ballads are story telling poems or songs written in rhyming quatrains, alternating lines of 4 and 3 stresses. Ā Sometimes these shorter lines are combined into...
The Nazi Fixation on Jews Cost Them the War
AnĀ Intellectual TakeoutĀ reader posted a commentĀ about my recent article, āDebunking the Myths About WWII,ā askingĀ why I didnāt āwrite about the biggest myth of all the myths, the systematic killing of Jewās [sic!] while fighting a war on four fronts?ā While this readerās syntax is convoluted, his question seems to imply that Germany was too busy fighting...
Letter to Another Editor
“More and more, the categories we think by are forms of darkness. Yet we keep using them as if fearful of the deeper darkness we’d inhabit if we had to front this life without them.” āJack Beatty, “The Category Crisis,” Atlantic (March 1986) An open letter to Jack Beatty, Editor, Atlantic Monthly Dear Jack: Ā Ā Ā Ā I...
Battling Cyberhate
The conventional wisdom regarding the Internet appears to have changed practically overnight. Once championed as a wonderful Information-Age tool to “empower the individual,” the net is now more likely to be denounced as an iniquitous network of right-wing conspiracy theorists and former Luftwaffe pilots. I would be the last person to peddle a gospel of...
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.
Artist of the Wild
The frontiers of the world breed many men of John Audubon’s ilk: footloose, intemperate, experimental, in questionable standing with the law. He is better known today for the conservation society that bears his nameāa group that began as a birdwatching organization and evolved into a powerful lobbying forceāthan for his singular contributions to American science,...
“I got rights, I got rights, too.”
Few people have heard Hank Williams, Jr.’s song about a man getting revenge on the man who killed his wife and got himself acquitted, but it raises the question of what rights are. For the killer and his lawyer, rights are something governments use to protect criminals; or, to be less tendentious, they are state-backed...
A Subtle Difference
Four years ago, when, from the relative safety of my Sicilian bolthole, I was writing a weekly column for Snob, then still a leading organ of Moscowās bien pensants, a strange thing happened. I published a column entitled āA Tale of the Future Man,ā describing in some detail an openly sourced Russian government document I...
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...
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...
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,...
Conspiring With Terror in the West
The liberal paradigm is dying before our eyes.Ā At twelve midday on March 22, Theresa May announced at Prime Ministerās Questions that she had sent her condolences to the family of Martin McGuinness, who had been the capo di capi of the IRA.Ā She had been preceded at the BBC by a high priest of...
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...
Take the Money and Run: Entitlement Politics
As New York Cityās mayoral campaign kicked into overdrive earlier this spring, the New York Times saw fit to question the viability of Republican candidate Joe Lhota, former chairman of the Metropolitan Transit Authority.Ā With all the populist fervor it could muster, the Times asked readers, āCan New Yorkers learn to love someone who increased...
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,...
On ‘Naming the Bard’
In light of your criticisms of education, higher and lower, the question arises, why should Chronicles writer Jane Greer (February issue) and Joseph Sobran of the National Review be taken in by the anti-Shakespearean nonsense? Are they untaught? Badly taught? Or are their views a relatively harmless manifestation of the paranoia of the times? Once...
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...
The Way We Are Now and Where We Are Going
āNothing doth more hurt a state than that cunning men pass for wise.āĀ āFrancis Bacon I finally figured out why so many people admire Obama and his family.Ā They remind TV watchers of the Heathcliffe Huxtables. I have been practicing āKumbayaā lately.Ā I want to be ready for Real Change. Of course, Obama owes a...
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...