âIf a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.â American evangelicals, according to former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, âare the Israelisâ best friend in the whole world.â In return, they dubbed him âthe Ronald Reagan of Israel.â That so many are still surprised by those statements indicates that, by and large, those...
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How Berkeley Birthed the Right
In December 1964, a Silver Age of American liberalism, to rival the Golden Age of FDR and the New Deal, seemed to be upon us. Barry Goldwater had been crushed in a 44-state landslide and the GOP reduced to half the size of the Democratic Party, with but 140 seats in the House and 32...
How Big Government Stacked the Deck Against Small Business
Most of us wouldnât list 2020 as our best year. But you know who would? Amazon, Wal-Mart, Google, Apple, and a whole host of other big corporations whoâve seen their sales and stock prices soar amidst the pandemic. Small businesses have been pummeled by excessive and insane governmental lockdowns of the economy. Experts warn that one third...
Going First Class From Karakorum to Moscow
In August-September 1985, I traveled as a faculty lecturer with a group of Rice University alumni on a journey from Mongolia to Moscow by way of Siberia. The trip began in the village of Khujirt near Genghis-Khan’s capital of Karakorum. From there we went northwest to the God-forsaken Ulan-Ude and the capital of Eastern Siberia,...
Meeting Medvedev Halfway
The morning after Barack Obama's election, the congratulatory message from Moscow was in the chilliest tradition of the Cold War.
If Baghdad Wants Us Out, Let’s Go!
Fifteen years after the U.S. invaded Iraq to turn Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship into a beacon of democracy, Iraq’s Parliament, amid shouts of “Death to America!” voted to expel all U.S. troops from the country. Though nonbinding, the expulsion vote came after mobs trashed the U.S. embassy in an assault that recalled Tehran 1979. What provoked...
A Guide to Political Reform
In May 1987 a meeting of about two hundred delegates from the four Western provinces met in Vancouver to discuss a common concern: alienation of Western Canada that resulted from the concentration of political power in an Ottawa largely controlled by Ontario and Quebec. Most of the delegates were small “c” conservatives who believed in...
Trump’s Last Chance
As President Donald Trump starts his reelection campaign in earnest, a major segment of his 2020 platform remains ambiguous. In the field of foreign and security policy, the next five or six months present Trump with the last opportunity to become his former self: to reverse some of his many surrenders to the neoconservative agenda,...
Notes From a Writer of Trash
The most important datum about Western fiction is that it is at the absolute bottom of the literary heap, somewhere below pornography. English professors would cavil at calling Westerns literature; they prefer to categorize Westerns as subliterature, or entertainment. Few, if any, educated people read Westerns. The higher the cultural and academic attainments of the...
Hillary Clintonâs Ongoing Bosnian Fixation
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton started her two-day Balkan tour in Sarajevo on Tuesday by issuing a fresh call for Bosniaâs centralization. She urged âreforms that would improve key services, attract more foreign investment, and make the government more functional and accountable.â Hatreds have eased, she went on, âbut nationalism persists. Meanwhile the promise of...
Monologue as Echo Chamber
Tucked away in one of 2.3 Diary entries, Ned Rorem suggests that “inside every artist is a banker struggling to get out.” Though Rorem was merely penning another one of his inversions-for-inversion’s-sake, the particular aphorism he derived here seems curiously relevant to Spalding Gray. In his evolution (some would call it his “perfection”) of the...
Western Media Evocative of the Era of âReal Socialismâ
Srdja Trifkovicâs Voice of Russia interview posted April 19, 2014 (excerpts) Trifkovic: [ ⊠] It is obvious from Crimean episode that the gap between the artificial reality created by the western media machine and the tangible reality on the ground is growing by the day. That is what we have seen with the coverage...
Polemics & Exchanges
Founding Virtue To the list of those labeled as âsocial justice conservativesâ by Brion McClanahan (“Reinventing Reconstruction,” February 2020) you can add the names of the Founding Fathers. Referring to them, Alexander Stephens (Vice-President of the Confederacy and author of the infamous “Cornerstone Speech”) wrote, âThe prevailing ideas entertained by [Jefferson] and most of the...
Books in Brief
Theodore Roosevelt: A Literary Life, by Thomas Bailey and Katherine Joslin (Lebanon, NH: ForeEdge; 368 pp., $35.00). Theodore Roosevelt always considered himself a man of letters, and indeed he was one. He began reading widely and writing at an early age, and a day never seems to have passed when he did not read and...
Blago Nullification
Call it the luck of the Serbs. If deposed Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich had been charged with trying to sell a U.S. Senate seat in the months after September 11, he would have been shipped off to Guantanamo and never heard from again. But since the economy collapsed in December 2007, Americans have been in...
Licensing Parents
Licensing Parents, a new book by University of Wisconsin psychiatrist Jack C. Westman, bewails a recent surge in “incompetent parenting,” a phenomenon which he defines as depriving a child not only of sufficient food, clothing, and shelter, but also of “affectionate holding, touching and talking,” all the while displaying an “insensitivity to a child’s initiatives...
Taiwan, China, and Unnecessary War
While Americaâs attention remains focused on the North Korea crisis, another dangerous East Asia confrontation has re-emerged. The Peopleâs Republic of China (PRC) is taking new steps to intimidate Taiwan and force the islandâs leaders to move toward political reunification with the mainland. The latest measures aim to make it clear to Taiwanese officials and...
Iran and Her Smiles
In the aftermath of the ousting of Saddam Hussein and the âliberationâ of Iraq by U.S. forces, Bush-administration officials who had earlier compared Saddam to Hitler extended that analogy and suggested that postwar Iraq was like post-World War II Germany and Japan and Italy, where the U.S. military occupation helped replace totalitarian regimes with thriving...
On ‘The Other God That Failed’
I am writing to avert any possible confusion between a book recently reviewed in your magazine (January 1990) and a work of my own. To be sure, no one who actually read my book, The Other God That Failed: Hans Freyer and the Deradicalization of German Conservatism, would be likely to confuse it with the...
The Last Doge’s English
I now want to add another likeness to my Gogolian gallery of Venice’s living souls. If this continuing series should start to take on the blurry aspect of a spinning carousel, becoming a kind of soap opera of fleeting impressions, all I can say in my defense is that the development is an intended one,...
The Chinese Exclusion Act
In 1882 Congress took steps to control Chinese immigration with the passage of âAn Act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese.â The act later became known misleadingly as the Chinese Exclusion Act. In high schools and colleges itâs taught that the act was simply another example of American racism. The real story is more...
A Man For Others
Today I received an email I knew would be coming, telling me that one of my high school theology teachers, Jim Skerl, had died of pancreatic cancer. So ended a thoroughly Christian life, one that deserves to be better known. I liked Mr. Skerl as a teacherâhe had us read Evelyn Waughâs âThe Loved Oneâ...
On Hope for the Future
My name is Anne Bowie, and I am a 15-year-old freshman in high school. I am the sports editor of my school newspaper, the Hawk Eye, but I also enjoy writing movie reviews from time to time. As a descendant of Jim Bowie, who died at the Alamo, I am deeply interested in this portion...
The Stone Wall Has Crumbled
Last June, the tradition of 157 years at single-sex Virginia Military Institute was changed by the vote of seven Justices in Washington. The statue of Stonewall Jackson still guarded the parade grounds, but the general who stood like a stone wall at Manassas could not prevail against those seven Justices. His slogan is still emblazoned...
Who or What Now Governs America?
Clues from three key players suggest a cabal of commie aficionados beginning with the president who never left D.C.
Bidenâs Shameless Hypocrisy on Migrant Family Separations
Team Biden is going to great lengths to conceal data on the high and growing number of family separations occurring at Americaâs southern border, which have resulted from their bad policy and are happening on their watch.
Globo-Cop
No small irony attended the announcement by FBI Director Louis Freeh on July 4 of last year that his bureau was establishing a “legal attache” office in Moscow, and not only because the agency of the U.S. government historically responsible for counterespionage had finally penetrated the capital city of its old adversary. July 4, as...
The Decline of Christian America
“This is a Christian nation,” said the Supreme Court in 1892. “America was born a Christian nation,” echoed Woodrow Wilson. Harry Truman affirmed it: “This is a Christian nation.” But in 2009, Barack Hussein Obama begged to differ: “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.” Comes now a Pew Research Center survey that reveals...
Death of a Nation
Every living nation needs symbols. They tell us who we are as one people, in what we believe, and on what basis we organize our common life. This fact seems to be very clear to the current leadership in Russia, particularly to President Vladimir Putin, in restoring and reunifying a country rent by three generations...
Annus Horribilis
The centennial of that enormous calamity later known as World War I saw the release of about a dozen books on the subject. Catastrophe 1914, by Sir Max Hastings, one of the foremost British military historians writing today, is an exhaustive, one-volume history of that annus horribilis and the events leading up to the fatal...
Dixie Choppers
The Confederate flag, which had been in a place of honor (though not sovereignty) above the South Carolina capitol for almost 40 years, was removed in the stealth of the night of June 30/July 1. The removal was made possible because all but a handful of Republicans in the legislature, who had pledged not to...
Courage Is Worth the Risk
âI took a chance on an âimperfectâ pregnancy,â the title of a New York Times article recently proclaimed. Intrigued, I read about author Jacquelynn Keruboâs journey through a fertility clinic where, after initial treatments, she and her husband were told that they had a âmosaic embryo.â A mosaic embryo, Kerubo explains, is one which could result in...
Robert Penn Warren Remembered
Reading Joseph Blotner’s biography revives my memories of Robert Penn Warren. I was summoned to his rooms at Silliman College on September 5, 1969. I was a freckled, red-haired 18-year-old in whom he may have seen an apparition from his past. “Show me the poems you wrote this summer,” he demanded. I produced a sheaf...
Old Dutch Buggies & New Asian Shrimp Boats
Both Witness and Alamo Bay explore the tensions that arise when dissimilar cultures meet, when people must meet the demands of an alien land. In Witness, a streetwise Philadelphia homicide detective, hardened by a climate of violence and corruption, must hide out among the peaceful Amish of rural Pennsylvania Dutch country. In Alamo Bay, a...
Soundtrack to the New Old South
[A look at the Drive-By Truckers] Sometime in the early 1990âs, while attending an event called a âsong swapâ in Athens, Georgia, I met an extraordinarily gifted songwriter named Patterson Hood. The swap itself was essentially a ...
Beijing Sends Biden a Warning
Because of Donald Trump, Vice President Joe Biden thundered during the campaign, the U.S. “is more isolated in the world than we’ve ever been … America First has made America alone.” Biden promised to repair relations with America’s allies. And he appears to have gone some distance to do so in the congratulatory phone call...
Poisonous Intoxicants
The Master Produced and distributed by The Weinstein Company, together with Annapurna Pictures Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson  The Master is another travesty by the supposed wunderkind Paul Thomas Anderson. In 2005 he gave us his rendition of Upton Sinclairâs 1927 novel Oil in There Will Be Blood. Unfortunately, he left out...
There Once Was a New England
A few years ago, I was talking about Timothy Dwight to an audience of people old enough to appreciate both his Christian orthodoxy and his old-fashioned patriotism. When I mentioned Dwightâs passion for farming and his devotion to agriculture as a way of life, a man from Dwightâs adopted state of Connecticut informed me that there...
Drain the Swamp
The most remarkable aspect of Bruce Springsteenâs performance at the 2018 Tony Awards wasnât what he said or that he said it, but the unanimous acclaim with which it was greeted by both the assembled audience and those who viewed it at home. As I noted in my August column, the story of faith, family,...
The Rhetoric of Fashion
âFor his birthday his wife gave him a riding crop that cost 100 francs,â a writer called Arnold Ruge complained of his newly married friend, a fellow German Ă©migrĂ© in Paris, and the poor fool does not ride, nor has he a horse. Everything he sees he wants to have, a carriage, smart clothes, a...
Historians in Blunderland
The academy is in an even worse plight than you may imagine. Every so often, surveys reveal just how far Americaâs professors are out of touch with the political and cultural mainstream. Not only do they overwhelmingly register with the Democratic Party, but most adhere to the straitest sect within that tradition, those who regard...
Big Macs, A-bombs, and Trump
William F. Buckley, Jr., spent his adult winter months in Rougemont, an alpine resort next to its chicer neighbor Gstaad, now the Mecca for the nouveau riche and vulgar. Throughout the 60âs and 70âs, however, the area was known for its music festival run by Yehudi Menuhin, and for celebrity writers like Buckley, my mentor,...
The Mad Farmer
The Luddite tradition that Wendell Berry hails so eloquently is the same, he insists, that caused the men of 76 to break from Britain. It is the Jeffersonian Democratic tradition that was partly destroyed (in both the North and the South) by the War Between the States, and almost wholly wrecked by the one-world fantasies...
The Leftâs Long March
On June 2, FOX Newsâs The Five were discussing the Harvard commencement speech of ex-mayor Michael Bloomberg, in which he pointed out that something like 95 percent of the faculty had supported Obama. Their discussion ended with Bob Beckel, the programâs voice from the left, wondering why so few conservatives went into college teaching, and...
Trumpian Fantasies
âJan. 6, 2021, is not over, but it already lives in infamy. A sitting president of the United States, having lost re-election, incited a mob to storm the Capitol as the Congress sat in joint session to certify the Electoral College vote. This act was without precedent. It was based on a lie, fed by...
The Sea Change of Declining Birth Rates
In the parish church I attend here in Front Royal, Virginia, out-of-town visitors are often surprised by the number of babies, children, and teens at any of the four Sunday services. Wiggling kids fill the pews, somewhere a baby is crying, and at the back of the church is a room reserved specifically for nursing...
How Can Bush Bring Freedom to Iraq When He Brings Tyranny to America?
The Washington, D.C., think-tank The American Enterprise Institute camouflages its purpose with its name. There is nothing American about AEI, and the organizationâs enterprise is fomenting war in the Middle East against Israelâs enemies. Its real name should be The Likud Center for Middle East War. AEI has the largest collection of warmongers in America....
Is Trump Capturing the ‘Law and Order’ Issue?
Did President Donald Trump launch his Twitter barrage at Elijah Cummings simply because the Baltimore congressman was black? Was it just a “racist” attack on a member of the Black Caucus? Or did Trump go after Cummings after a Saturday Fox News report that his district was in far worse condition than the Mexican border...
Taking Stock
Sir John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada, was a Conservative. He is remembered chiefly for his love of alcohol and his hatred of free trade. Brian Mulroney, the last elected Conservative prime minister, foreswore alcohol when he reckoned (correctly) that he could surmount the greasy pole (just like George W. Bush) and...
Waugh on Film
The High Green Wall (1954) Adapted for The General Electric Theater Columbia Broadcasting System Directed by Nicholas Ray Teleplay by Charles Jackson In 1929, Evelyn Waugh wrote that film was âthe one vital art of the century,â an accolade he would later qualify. While he came to believe that cinema had âtaught [novelists] a new...