The president’s request for the authorization to use military force against the Islamic State has landed in a Congress as divided as the country. That division was mirrored in the disparate receptions Obama’s resolution received from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. To the Times, Obama’s AUMF is “alarmingly broad. It does...
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The Boerne Case
Boerne, Texas, is an unlikely location for a contest over religious freedom, but in 1996 the local Catholic Archbishop decided to sue the city for refusing to allow him to expand a church situated in a zoned historic district. The Archbishop based his case on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which forbids religious persecution and...
The Politics of a Death
It is difficult to think of a case comparable to the murder of Sergei Mironovich Kirov. Here one of the top leaders of a great country was killedāmost probably by the wish of the supreme dictator, the murder being used as full or partial justification for the arrest, torture, exile, or execution of many, then...
A “Goodwill” Tour
Hillary Clinton’s visit to Africa in late March, which was billed as a “goodwill tour” to strengthen America’s ties with developing nations, combined business with pleasure. In between meetings and photo-opportunities with African heads of state, Mrs. Clinton and her daughter Chelsea did a little taxpayer-funded sightseeing in the wilds of Uganda, Tanzania, and other...
Scare Quotes
A tactic the left uses to inspire loathing for conservatives is repeating something a conservative or even nominal Republican says, and then slapping scare quotes around it. That supposedly shows that whatever the conservative said is self-evidently false, and worse, āhateful.ā It might run something like this: āTea Party Senator says āEarth revolves around Sun.āā...
Donating the Rope
On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became Germanyās Chancellor after the corporate Germany decided to bet on him āĀ in spite of his radical rhetoric āĀ because it believed it could control him. On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama will become the 44th president of the United States in large part thanks to gigantic contributions from corporate...
Gnostic Newt
The hallmark of the sophomoric mind is that it knows the sorts of things that adult minds do but has not yet figured out how to do them. Bright undergraduates who solemnly inform their professors that they plan to write term papers applying what they have read about the latest fads of pop psychology to...
Straight Talk
A reviewer of Jared Taylor’s impressive new book faces a dilemma. If a book’s principal thesis is valid, a critic must of course say so. But a difficulty arises in the present instance. According to Taylor, public orthodoxy inhibits discussion of race relations in our country. Dissenters from this orthodoxy face retribution. With remarkable courage,...
National Lawyers Association
Three years ago, the American Bar Association voted to abandon its neutral position on legalized abortion and to endorse Roe v. Wade. In response to this action, some 14,000 members of the ABA resigned in protest. Many attorneys felt it was impossible for them to remain a member of, let alone contribute money to, an...
With DVD and Remote in Deepest Filmland
Remember Nick and Nora Charles, the moviesā Thin Man and wife? Of course, you do. How about Larry and Kay Wilson? Embodied by the same actors, William Powell and Myrna Loy, theyāre a bush-league Babbitt and his divorce-bent wife in 1940ās I Love You Again. Larryās pretty insufferable, alright, but after a conk on the...
The War Toys Meltdown
At Circus World, Mattel’s Rattlor, a Masters of the Universe character, glares at his potential purchasers. “Sounds fearsome battle rattle before attacking,” the package advertises. The action figure is an “evil snake man creature with the quick strike head.” Price: $3.98. LJN Toys, Ltd., on the other hand, offers Thundercats Berserkers Hammerhand, which comes complete...
The Case for Laissez-Faire Capitalism
Under laissez-faire capitalism, government is limited to armies, which keep foreign bad guys from attacking us; police, to quell local criminals; and courts, to determine guilt and innocence. This is roughly the position of minimal-government libertarians, or minarchists. The foundation of law in this system is the non-aggression principle (NAP). The NAP provides that anyone...
Bill Clinton and the Ground Zero Mosque: A Perfect Fit
Former President Bill Clinton declared his strong support for the Ground Zero mosque in an interview broadcast on September 12. He also suggested a clever new spin to the promoters of the project. Much or even most of the controversy, he said, ācould have been avoided, and perhaps still can be, if the people who...
Smear Factor
As Iāve often written, The Spectator of London is not only the oldest magazine in the English-speaking world but the most elegant by far.Ā (As, of course, is Chronicles.)Ā Iāve been fortunate to have a column in the Speccie, as readers lovingly refer to it, for 40 years, a lifetime when it comes to journalism.Ā ...
Every State Is a Border State Now
The death of Jacques Price serves as a reminder of just how thoroughly our institutions have been turned against Americans at every level.
Why Autocrats Are Replacing Democrats
“If you look at Trump in America and Bolsonaro in Brazil, you see that people want politicians that do what they promise,” said Spanish businessman Juan Carlos Perez Carreno. The Spaniard was explaining to The New York Times what lay behind the rise of Vox, which the Times calls “Spain’s first far-right party since the...
Patriotic Gore
This volume is particularly notable for readers of this journal for two reasons: First, some of it has appeared in these pages, and, secondly and more importantly, the truths it conveys have been a part of the core vision of Chronicles as, literally, a magazine of American culture. But I think too that there are...
U.S. and Saudi Relations on Oil
Ā Pose a threat to the stability of Saudi Arabia, as the Shiite upsurges are now doing in Qatif and al-Awamiyah in the country’s oil-rich Eastern Province, and you’re brandishing a scalpel over the very heart of the long-term U.S. policy in the Middle East. The fall of America’s ally, the Shah of Iran, in...
The New America
Yeah, I know we’ve got two Southerners running on the Democratic ticket. Don’t rub it in, OK? As Miss Scarlett used to say, I’ll think about it tomorrow. Let’s talk about sports. As you probably know, in four years jocks and TV cameramen from around the world will converge on Dixie for the next Olympic...
Park Ranger Columbo: The Vince Foster Affair
A scene from an unpublished teledrama: The Oval Office of the White House. Behind the desk, the President of the United States. He speaks into an intercom. Bill Clinton: Are there any more appointments today? Voice from the intercom: There is just one more. The park ranger in charge of the investigation into poor Vince...
Mohammedans in France
It has been about five years since the young, mostly Berber proletariat of the dingy Paris, Lyons, and Marseilles suburbs took to burning its proletarian neighborsā cars, and there is a looming feeling among French Catholics that something is still not quite right in the woods.Ā There are indications that both French- and Church-government officials...
Those Ignorant of History, etc., etc.
President Bush is in Hungary to join the celebrations of the failed 1956 Hungarian Uprising, and this is one Yale graduate on whom the lessons of history are not lost. Bush told the world:
Freedom of Conscience
The Illinois legislature recently overrode Gov. Rod Blagojevichās veto of what the newspapers are describing as mandatory-school-prayer legislation.Ā Predictably, the stateās editorial pages are filled with denunciations of this arbitrary attempt to impose religion on the helpless children of Illinois, but in fact, the new law, requiring a minute of silence at the beginning of...
A Message for Boys
The steamy morning reminded the congregation that Baltimore is on the shore and was once considered part of the South. The heat and the elderly substitute for the vacationing rector made the service informal and cozy, but if I had known the small church didn’t have air conditioning, I might have chosen some other Sunday...
The Polymorph
Over the last three decades Fred Chappell has been steadily accumulating both an enviable publishing recordāhe has some twenty novels and collections of poems and stories to his creditāand a well-deserved reputation as one of the South’s foremost men of letters. His latest book of short fictions, the aptly tided More Shapes Than One, may...
Donald Trump Is Reaganās Heir
The future of all Reagan secured for the country now hinges on what happens in this election.
Jerks on a Shopping Spree
āHe who dies with the most toys wins.ā Every year on Black Friday, American shoppers brave the bad weather and go out to do battle with other shoppers in a contest that will determine who pays the least for the most stuff they are better off without.Ā Twenty years ago, the worst these victims of...
No Apologies for ChƔvez
Having been married to a Venezuelan and a resident of Caracas for nearly 25 years, I was extremely disappointed in Justin Raimondoās āA Revolutionary Who Wasnātā (Between the Lines, May).Ā Hugo ChĆ”vez was indeed a revolutionary, from his initial attempt at aĀ coup dāĆ©tatĀ in 1992 through his interminable hours-long speeches, his friendship with and support of...
When Is Enough Pandering Really Enough?
Having forced myself to listenĀ to most of the Republican National Convention (RNC) orations in late August, I was struck by what my daughter, who had done such work professionally, characterized as the programās āunderlying marketing strategy.ā The GOPās advisers seem to have pitched their message at the demographics among whom Trump has had the least...
Europe Is Not What It Seems
It would be logical for me to say that, returning to the United States after another four months this summer and fall in various countries of Europe, east and west, I found a great many misconceptions about the continent in American media and public opinion. Yet it would not be fair to limit myself to...
Vol. 2 No. 8
Most American conservatives are aware of the close connection between Al Gore’s family and the late, unlamented Armand Hammer, one of the most appalling figures in the 20th-century American rogues’ gallery. But in order to read about that connection in a major daily newspaper, they have to look abroadāto England, where the Independent has published...
Washington Politics
Teddy Kennedy, the famed moral exemplar, read his former senatorial colleague John Ashcroft the riot act during confirmation hearings. Ashcroft was extreme; his constitutional understanding of gun control was “radical.” The senatorial face grew flushāpresumably with anger, since it was a bit early in the day for more potent stuff. Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware...
Israelās Lesson for 2024: A Liberal Crackup
The new New Left has the potential to spark a civil war among progressives, especially as causes like Black Lives Matter and anti-police policies entwine with "anti-colonial" and anti-Israel ideology.
Chronicles Potpourri ā American absurdities and abnormalities
Item 1: According to U.S. News, a survey found less than 8 percent of Americaās āmajorā universities required English majors to take a Shakespeare course. Heās a DWM (Dead White Male) and all. Given how P.C. those courses are, thatās a blessing. It also allows me to use a line of Moe Howard from one...
Collision Course
The polemics engendered by the beatification of Pope Pius IX are unlikely to go away. When all the false charges of antisemitism are set aside, the fact remains that this one man may have done more to stem the tide of liberalism than all the great English and American conservatives of the past two centuries...
Letter From London
Tony Blair’s regime manages to be simultaneously comic and tragic, with a slight tilt toward tragedy. The government is made up of chinless Christian Socialists, Anglophobe Scots, aggrieved proletarians, shrewish women, and militant homosexualsāmost of whom seem to detest each other. The members of the Cabinet all have grandiose schemes, which tend toward unfeasibility and...
The New Imperialism
The terms “global economy” and “New World Order” have become part of the common litany that frames foreign policy discussions. Though the second term is often used in a mocking or ironic tone, the first has attained the status of a paradigm. Yet Hazel J. Johnson, a professor of finance at the University of Louisville,...
Scottish Weakness and Muslim Impudence
The decision to release the Libyan terrorist Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi from a Scottish prison has caused much anger in the United States.Ā (Megrahi was convicted for his part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988, which killed a total of 270 people.)Ā Indeed, many Americans...
Sound Reason Is Missing in Action
In a recentĀ articleĀ forĀ Intellectual Takeout, I looked at possible explanations for an apparent decline in IQ averages in Europe and America. Since then, I have begun to wonder whether this drop in intelligence might play a part in some of the goofy programs coming out of Washington D.C. of late, and in our inability to exchange...
A Few Days in Florence
January 4, 2014 Ā The trip to Florence took a long and unpleasant day. It was cold the day we left, and there was so much snow it required a bit of nerve just to drive to my office to pick up a few things I had forgotten. We caught the bus to O’Hare an...
John Lukacs, R.I.P.
When long-time Chronicles contributor John Lukacs died on May 6, the country lost one of its finest adopted sons, who was also one of its finest writers and historians. The scope and extent of his work defies summaryāhe published over three dozen books between 1953 and 2017 on a wide-ranging list of subjects, including: the...
Virtually Unnoticed
Thomas Jefferson’s birthday went virtually unnoticed earlier this year, the 250th anniversary of his birth. Nothing is more indicative of how badly we Americans have squandered our moral capital and betrayed the substance of our history. We did have, of course, President Clinton’s inaugural journey from Monticello, though it is hard to imagine anything further...
One Hell for All
In Sartreās grim play No Exit, a man and two women are in Hell, which, in this case, is a brightly lit drawing room furnished in the style of deuxiĆØme empire.Ā At one point, the man, Garcin, famously quips that āhell is other peopleā (ālāenfer, cāest les autresā).Ā One of the women, InĆØs, eventually responds...
To Preserve the American Tribe
āA nation scattered and peeled . . . a nation meted out and trodden down.ā āIsaiah 18:2 āIt will never be known what acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of looking insufficiently progressive.āĀ Pat Buchanan quotes this aphorism of Charles PĆ©guy in his latest book, State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion...
American Piety, Then and Now
“All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book [the Bible]. But for it we could not know right from wrong.” āAbraham Lincoln “The Cosby Show is the greatest teacher of morals in American society.” āSheldon Hackney, president, University of Pennsylvania “America was born a Christian nation. America was born...
Why Is Kim Jong Un Our Problem?
“If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will.” So President Donald Trump warns, amid reports North Korea, in its zeal to build an intercontinental ballistic missile to hit our West Coast, may test another atom bomb. China shares a border with North Korea. We do not. Why then is this our problem...
Empire of Destruction: Precision Warfare? Donāt Make Me Laugh
You remember. It was supposed to be twenty-first-century war, American-style: precise beyond imagining; smart bombs; drones capable of taking out a carefully identified and tracked human being just about anywhere on Earth; special operations raids so pinpoint-accurate that they would represent a triumph of modern military science. Everything ānetworked.ā It was to be a glorious...
Where Are the ‘High Crimes’?
“Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” These are the offenses designated in the Constitution for which presidents may be impeached and removed from office. Which of these did Trump commit? According to his accusers in this city, his crime is as follows: The president imperiled our “national security” by delaying, for his own...
Frank Meyerās Fusionism and the Search for Consensus Among Conservatives
Frank Meyerās attempt to codify a conservative consensus must be understood in the context of his day, when remnants of the Old Right were marginalized and conservatism was dominated by anti-Communism.
Stop the #MeToo Lawsuit Carnival
Statutes of limitations are necessary to ensure defendants get fair trials. Politically motivated suspensions hurt more than just their intended targets and are incompatible with justice.