In the beginning was the Word.Ā (Not the picture. Or the number.) āJohn Lukacs, āThe Reality of Written Words,ā Chronicles (January 1999) The last time I visited John Lukacs at Pickering Close, his home just outside of Phoenixville, Penn., he greeted me in Hungarian. My knowledge of that language is confined to goulash and paprikash...
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Maria Callas, Four Decades On
Manyās the person who can tell you what he was doing on November 22, 1963, when he heard the news.Ā Many more can tell you what they were doing on the morning of September 11, 2001.Ā And there are also quite a few who remember September 16, 1977, when the death of Maria Callas was...
Trumpās was a proponent of āAmerica Firstā in 1990
Republican front runner Donald Trump has been criticized for not being āconservativeā in the manner of the Beltway Right, for changing his positions (especially on abortion), and for his past associations with Democratic politicians. Trump-haters frequently claim that The Donald has no fixed views, is merely opportunistically taking advantage of popular anger with political elites,...
The Good Times Aināt Over for Good
My great-grandparents loved music.Ā When I look through old sepia-toned pictures from hog-killing dayāhereās one of my great-uncles dangling a fat pig into a 55-gallon caldron of boiling waterāI always see a guitar or two in the background.Ā The natural rhythms of life, of the year, were marked by celebrations. There were luxury items to...
Playing by Perverted Rules
Lobbying for Freedom in the 1980’s: A Grass-Roots Guide to Protecting Your Rights; Edited by Kenneth P. Norwick; Wideview/Perigee; New York. Susan J. Tolchin and Martin Tolchin: Dismantling America: The Rush to Deregulate; Houghton Mifflin; Boston. What is freedom? To the ancient Greeks, freedom existed in the margins: it was that vacuum of authority between...
The Political Lynching of Derek Chauvin
Chauvin was accused of a modern-day lynching, but mob justice is what Chauvin received as evidence was withheld, expert medical testimony ignored, and even his safety in prison neglected.
Serbian Election: Socialists, the Unexpected Kingmakers
Last Sunday night, as the results of Serbiaās parliamentary elections became known, the countryās President Boris TadiÄ made a remarkable statement. āI warn the parties that have lost this election,ā he declared, ānot to play games with the will of the citizens and try to form a government that would take Serbia back to the...
Toughening Your Position
South Africa’s March 17 referendum led the government to toughen its position against the ANC. Within a month after the results, Mr. de Klerk got the ANC at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) to agree to the election of a transitional; government, the interim government the ANC had wanted appointed. The ANC...
Do Black Lives Matter in the White Eliteās Civil War?
Sasha Johnson, a prominent Black Lives Matter activist,Ā tweetedĀ the last day of 2020 her highest hope as a black nationalist: āThe white man will not be our equal but our slave. History is changing. No peace without justice.ā I kept this statement in mind as I looked atĀ USA TodayĀ and our look-alike local newspaper on the newsstand...
Californiaās Own Reparations
California is at the forefront of the plan to grant reparations to blacks for slavery and discrimination. The state's published plan to pay up to $800 billion makes no sense, especially since California entered the Union as a free state.
Remembering Moynihan
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) was the most substantial intellectual to reach high political office in the United States since Woodrow Wilson.Ā Thus his life, writings, policy deliberations, and political efforts, and the effects of these, deserve the most careful and respectful attention.Ā If the apocalyptic era of European history began with the outbreak of World...
Whoās the Bigot, Mr. Brown?
Gordon Brown may have torpedoed his last chance to be prime minister in his own right when, in the privacy of his limo, he called 66-year-old Gillian Duffy that ābigoted woman.ā What had widow Duffy done to deserve the slur? After taking the Labor Party leader to task for several minutes, Mrs. Duffy raised the...
On the ‘National Endowment for the Arts’
The crux of Jacob Neusner’s (Cultural Revolutions, September 1990) frustration lies in the fact that he is desperately trying to find a “middle position” solution to the NEA funding crisis. There is no middle position to take with NEA, simply because the very nature of its being violates free market principles. Art is a business...
A Chat With a Cabdriver
Britain was tense last October when the BBC announced that Nick Griffin, head of the British National Party, would be interviewed on one of its programs.Ā Theyās fightinā again at the BBC, said a London cabdriver.Ā It was front-page news for two weeks before the interview, and what began on the morning after could only...
Guest-Worker Amnesty
The Bush administrationās guest-worker amnesty proposal for āsolvingā the problem of illegal immigration is all about failure in two countries.Ā In the case of Mexico, the failure is causal; in that of the United States, symbolic.Ā Vicente Foxās political weakness at home is largely the result of his failed attempt at browbeating George W. Bush...
Just Passed
Though the Crime Bill just passed by Congress toughens federal sentencing provisons and makes more federal crimes subject to the death penalty, it is irrelevant to people longing for safer streets and neighborhoods. Also largely irrelevant is the proposal to make more offenses federal crimes. There may be more federal crimes, but there won’t be...
Tally Halt!
The history of the British novel is a great topic that must periodically be reconsidered, particularly now when we are so much more sophisticated than those provincials who wrote the novels as well as those belletrists whose accounts of those novels have become hopelessly passĆ©. Looking back, we have to smile at Edward Wagenknecht’s Cavalcade...
Teen Angel
“This is not your Grandma’s pageant!” the announcer proudly proclaimed. No, indeed, this was the 1999 Miss Teen U.S.A. pageant from Shreveport, Louisianaā”Brittney’s Beat” (a reference to teen super-Lolita Brittney Spears). Why even acknowledge that this sorry event happened? Because it provides a window into the existence of an American phenomenon, one that has profoundly...
It’s 1940 All Over Again
We have been witnessing a bloodless re-run of 1940. Britain is being expelled from the Continent by order of Germany and is turning to the New World and Commonwealth. Europe has an unchallenged hegemon, Germany, and France fits easily into the role once taken by Vichy. The Continent now has a single economic system, ruled...
Antiquities of the Republic
Ā Ā Ā Ā “The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union a republican form of government.” āConstitution of the United States, Article IV Until the triumph of the civil-rights movement at the end of the 1960’s, probably the most disruptive and recurrent conflict in American politics came from the struggle between...
Ohioans Just Say No
In some quarters on the right, drug legalization is the cause du jour. These persons see drugs as harmless, or at least less harmful than laws against drug use, and also frequently claim that legalizing drugs will prove politically popular, particularly among younger voters. This Tuesdayās crushing defeat of Ohioās Issue 3, which would have...
Against the Invaders
Roy Beck’s brief against immigration abounds in useful but also familiar statistics: e.g., since the Immigration Act of 1965, 30 million immigrants, mostly from Third World countries, have entered the United States; at least half of our births in the last 30 years are traceable to these immigrants; without them, the current population of the...
Bringing to Light Eminent Domain
The Kelo v. City of New London Supreme Court decision has brought the abuse of eminent domain to the forefront of the publicās awareness.Ā In Florida, private-sector developers and their allies in municipal-planning and economic-development departments are moving ahead on a number of projects that will force hundreds of retired mobile-home dwellers, and residents in...
A Lame Duck President?
A lame duck president?Ā To suggest that this is Bill Clinton’s condition is to be unkind to handicapped fowl. Clinton and his colleagues seem to be on the brink of madness. The administration’s domestic policy moves are haunted by the ghosts of the impeachment process, while its foreign policy team stumbles like drunkards from pillar to...
On True Finns
In the December issue of Chronicles, Edward Dutton writes about the peculiar self-censorship that characterizes Finnish political and cultural life (āLetter From Finland: Finland, Democracy, and Those Cartoons,ā Correspondence).Ā This reality was confirmed as the magazine was likely going to press, when the Finnish prime minister told journalists that they should not ask government ministers...
That Wedding
āSheās such an inspiration.Ā Sheās class.āĀ Thatās how 17-year-old Bianca, in her gold-lamĆ© miniskirt, summed up Kate Middleton, 90 minutes before the British royal wedding.Ā Like many others, Bianca was positioned alongside the Mall in central London, but unlike most she had the advantage of a view.Ā She was being carried on the shoulders of...
Henry Kissingerās Imperfect Vision
Even in his advanced age Henry Kissinger remains hugely influential, and the remnant of the realist school in Washingtonās foreign policy establishment looks upon him as its part-guru, part-patriarch. His recent pronouncements are somewhat disappointing, however, and they reflect the confused state of the realist camp after many years of the neoconservative-neoliberal duopolyās dominance. As...
Clandestine Groups
Terrorism in France has usually comeāin recent yearsāfrom clandestine Muslim groups engaged in a perpetual jihad against the West. But recent attacks attributed to Corsican separatists provide another example of a violent nationalism rearing its head at precisely the time when Europe’s policy elite is proclaiming a new era of unity and cooperation. The immediate...
On the Border
In the southeast corner of Arizona, surrounded by the beautifully wild, mile high Sonoran Desert, lies the town of Douglas. I am writing from a booth in the coffee shop of the Gadsden Hotel, an ornate hotel rebuilt in the 1920’s with a gilded roof supported by smooth marble pillars. Thornton Wilder stayed here for...
What the Wikileaks Reveal
The USA regime will soon recover from the embarrassments created by the massive release of diplomatic documents onto the Internet. Ā There will be investigations and prosecutions. Ā There will be ironic attempts by Madame Clinton and her colleagues to pretend that personal attacks on heads of state and foreign diplomats are de rigueur in the business...
Media Windbags
Emotional outbursts and misleading rhetoric from our political class and TV opinionators leave Americans confused about everything from Putin's motives to Caitlyn Jenner's degeneracy.
Hagel Didn’t Start the Fire
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam war veteran and the lone Republican on Obama’s national security team, has been fired. And John McCain’s assessment is dead on. Hagel, he said, “was never really brought into that real tight circle inside the White House that makes all the decisions which has put us into the incredible...
His Final Lesson
A friend of mine has expressed the devout hope that, upon his death, his wife and children will have the good sense to burn his papers. While his main desire is to prevent unfinished thoughts from seeing the light of day, there are other, equally important, concerns. Posthumously published works allow enemies to attack without...
Brief Mentions
Under ordinary circumstances an American might safely ignore the tragic history of the Serbs, but as the conflict in the Balkans threatens, increasingly, to set off an international war, access to sound information becomes crucial. Alex Dragnich’s many careful studies of the region should be near the top of anyone’s list. His Serbs and Croats:...
Southern Supplements
“We have sung of the soldiers and sailors, but who shall hymn the politicians?” āHerman Melville The great classicist and poet A.E. Housman once wrote that the work of a scholar in the humanities is not like that of a scientist examining specimens under a microscopeāit is more like the work of a dog searching...
Will there be an Independence Day 2015?
As Independence Day 2014 approaches, Iām still wondering when one of the Republican presidential candidates is going to seize the immigration issue and march to victory in the White House. Thatās assuming there will even be an independent United States in 2015. Or if the country exists, that it will be anything but a totalitarian...
Patriarchy or Degeneracy: Christian Masculinity vs. The Red Pill
Mr. Howting is right to recognize the crisis of masculinity in the Church. But, the problem isnāt that the red-pill influencers are speaking the truth, its that Christians are pussyfooting around Church teaching.
Millennial Summit
President Clinton failed to restart the Middle East peace process at the United Nations’ “millennial” summit in New York in September. In meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Clinton made one final attempt to provide his presidency with a badly needed foreign policy success by brokering a deal. His...
Stimulus Scam
Bernie Ecclestone is a gnomish Brit ex-grease monkey who is my neighbor in Gstaad, the small alpine Swiss village that once upon a time was the Mecca of the old rich and titled, now slowly turning into the playground of the nouveau riche and vulgar.Ā Iāve often written about Bernie because, for a very short...
Angry White Men
To hear the Obamaites, those raucous crowds pouring into town hall meetings are āmobsā of āthugsā whose rage has been āmanufacturedā by K Street lobbyists and right-wing Republican operatives. Press secretary Robert Gibbs compares them to the Young Republicans of the āBrooks Brothers riotā during the Florida recount. But is it wise for the White...
The Ethics of English
“When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.” āWilliam Hazlitt The treason of the teacher of English: that is the principal subject of Professor Booth’s discourses over two turbulent decades in the academy. Dr. Booth, a temperate rhetorician, does not call this dereliction of duty...
Conservativs in the Crease
Vice President Dick Cheneyās lesbian daughter, Mary, found a way to impregnate herself so that she and her lover, Heather Poe, whom Mary met while playing ice hockey 15 years ago, can rear a child.Ā Grandma is thrilled.Ā āDick and I both are very much looking forward to this new baby,ā said Lynne Cheney.Ā Mary...
The Coming Bin Laden Conspiracy Theory
The killing of OBL is a significant event politically and psychologically. It will not have any detrimental impact on the operations of Al-Qaāeda, however, because that amorphous group does not need a leader and has not had a centralized command-and-control structure for a decade. We should not expect a single retaliatory terrorist assault by āAl-Qaāeda.ā...
Obama v. BibiāFight to the Finish
In his desperation to sink the Iran nuclear deal, Bibi Netanyahu is taking a hellish gamble. Israel depends upon the United States for $3 billion a year in military aid and diplomatic cover in forums where she is often treated like a pariah state. Israel has also been the beneficiary of almost all the U.S....
Enter Stage Right
In the past, Republican primaries in Texas were won and lost on a wide variety of issuesātaxes, ties to the community, money, education, abortion, agriculture.Ā Usually, candidates who can unite a handful of major GOP donors (most of whom own large businesses in the state) have a major advantage in the primaries.Ā Then, in 2006,...
Thus Spake Chuka
Thereās a young lad who has been called the Barack Obama of Britain, and this may be indictment enough for many of my enlightened readers, but it is his actual name, rather than what he has been called, that fascinates me. As my readers may remember, Iām obsessed with onomatomancy; of the 163 known forms...
Decline of the West
Imagine yourself going ahead in timeā60 years ahead. Imagine yourself in the People’s Republic of North America, in the year 2050. In discussing the rise and fall of the American civilization, it will be necessary to examine the situation at the last time when historians felt this society could have saved itself from disintegration. Consequently,...
The Cheap Trick of Whiteness
A half-truth, as John Lukacs is fond of saying, is more dangerous than a lie, because the element of truth in it, speaking to our hearts and minds, can mask the accompanying falsehood.Ā We see this in the current embrace of multiculturalism, which propagates the dangerous lie that a civilized human society can existāwhether at...
Shafik and Other College Presidents Have Mission Confusion
American colleges and universities have long been considered tops in the world, but this preeminence wonāt last if they operate as mere indoctrination factories, turning out social activists instead of knowledgeable, independent thinkers.
I Get No Kick From Sham Pain
āWho reads?āĀ Thatās what Iāve heard more than once from an āEnglish professorā who spends a lot of time online.Ā Well uhuh, I say, sounding rather like Butt-head, I uh, um you know, read stuff, but he listens not to me.Ā And I admit that I read less than I used to.Ā On the other...