Chronicles has lost a longtime writer and friend, Egon Richard Tausch, who passed away on July 27.Ā In Egon was found both brilliance and humility, a rare combination reflecting his Christian faith. He was also a man of fierce loyalty, unmoved by the patricidal demands of the politically correct and faithful to his inheritance as...
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Erdogan’s Desperate Overture
Turkey’s Islamist PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan has come out in support of the retrial of hundreds of military officers sentenced as part of the Ergenekon and Sledgehammer show trials. Ā These Moscow 1937-like shabby spectacles, discussed at length on this website (hereĀ andĀ here), seemed to have been the final nails in the coffin of Turkey’s secular-nationalist military...
Hoover Watch
I havenāt seen J. Edgar, the Hollywood movie about J. Edgar Hoover, and I donāt plan to, even though I have loved all of Clint Eastwoodās films, especially those heās directed.Ā Yet J. Edgar does not do it for me, as they say.Ā Itās based on a lie, and a monstrous one at that: Hoover...
Conquistador Trump
In accepting the invitation of President Enrique Pena Nieto to fly to Mexico City, the Donald was taking a major risk. Yet it was a bold and decisive move, and it paid off in what was the best day of Donald Trump’s campaign. Standing beside Nieto, graciously complimenting him and speaking warmly of Mexico and...
Roads to Revolution
For at least a month after the mass murder in Oklahoma City, the official sentinels of the federal leviathan threw themselves into a state of panic that was probably unprecedented in the country’s history. It remains unclear how much of the hysteria and paranoia they injected into their own minds they actually believed and how...
A Species of Reparations
Massachusetts State Senator William Owens, who represents an inner-city Boston district, has filed legislation to require the Commonwealth to pay reparations for slavery. Senate Bill 1621 mandates payment to “people of African descent born in the United States . . . for malfeasance and culpable nonfeasance of the Commonwealth, its agents, employees and citizens with...
Why Joe May Be Courting Stacey
Of 895 slots in the freshman class of Stuyvesant High in New York City, seven were offered this year to black students, down from 10 last year and 13 the year before. In the freshman class of 803 at The Bronx High School of Science, 12 students are black, down from last year’s 25. Of...
In the Name of ‘Democracy’
The American Revolution made democracy the preferred government for the modern age. The only trouble with American democracy is the constant redefinition of the word.
What Epimenides Said
Among the unaccountable peculiarities of this diary, and indeed of my general wav of seeing things, is that one can never expect to learn something of Capri from my impressions of Capri. And yet, I keep asking as though to placate myself, why should it be otherwise? I am aboard the Stamos with a group...
State of the Union
You can see how seriously Obama is taking the hot populist temper of the American people and their eagerness to strangle every banker with the entrails of every insurance executive. In an altogether welcome departure from past presidential form in State of the Union addresses at least since 1973 (the ...
Cracks in the Crystal Ball
As the 21st century began, Americans appeared to have every reason to consider themselves the most fortunate citizens in the world.Ā Though there are problems in virtually every sector of our society, resolutions are still within our reach and capabilities. Although the abundant nonrenewable natural resources our forebears found for the taking have largely been...
A Welsh Defeat Shows Boris Needs Nigel
Brecon & Radnorshire was an encounter battle, unplanned and unwanted. This obscure border constituency has just seen a by-election whose occasion was absurdāthe sitting MP was recalled after some minor expenses claims transgressions and was allowed by his Conservative party to stand againābut which, as is the way with more famous encounters, stood for much...
Nations at Sea
I spent last weekend in Tuscany in what was once an abandoned seaside resort, now a glittering showcase for everything that is repugnant about global tourism. I leave out its name because the locals, though no less greedy and unprincipled than other people elsewhere on this venal planet, are hardly to blame for the discovery...
Rome Revisited
āWhat is the theme of your conference?ā asked a potential traveler to Rome. āHow republics perish,ā I replied. āDonāt you mean democracies?ā he persisted, referring to the title of a good but far-from-profound book by Jean-FranƧois Revel.Ā I congratulated him on getting the point of the title of our second Rome Convivium.Ā After all, I...
Out With the Old
The 1.67 million member Presbyterian Church (USA) has voted to redefine marriage from ābetween a woman and a manā to ābetween two people, traditionally a man and a woman.āĀ Last yearās General Assembly approved the change, which was confirmed by a majority of local presbyteries this year.Ā It confirms a trajectory starting with the churchās...
Two Flags
From the welter of democratic hysteria, illogic, historical ignorance, and political self-positioning and posturing, the eminently sensible remark by Tate Reeves, lieutenant governor of Mississippi, regarding the public display of the Confederate Battle Flag stands like a stone wall above the general confusion.Ā āFlags and emblems,ā Mr. Reeves said, āare chosen by a group of...
Toughs, Softs, and Jewish Masculinity
Jewish stereotyping is an activity in which Jews and their enemies have both engaged. Among the self-images that Jews have popularized is that of the bookish Jewish male. The medieval biblical commentator Rashi depicts the patriarch Jacob as a scholar and homebody, “in the tradition of Shem and Eber,” Jacob’s two Semitic ancestors to whom...
Thicker-Skinned
Four years at Harvard have made me much thicker-skinned than I used to be. To be sure, it was more than a little unsettling when my freshman dormitory held a mandatory sensitivity session at which each student was forced to say: “Hello, my name is . . . , and I’m gay.” But after seeing...
Crimeās Black Adhesive
Sterling Hayden was as an actor and soldier, he had the resolution to make his participaĀtion in his films and his career more than well-earned.
The Mass Age Medium and Future Shlock: Making Sense of the 60’s
The recent passing of Mary Traversāwho, with Peter and Paul, was years ago always intoning that the answer, my friend, is blowing in the windābrought back some quaint memories of kumbaya moments, and the consoling thought that at least Mary Travers lived long enough to see her political vision fulfilled in the person of Barack...
Christmas, Texas
I am fumbling in the console, looking for my Jim Reeves Christmas CD, when I notice the wall of rolling, gray clouds approaching from the east.Ā The sun is sliding slowly beneath the horizon in the west, shooting shards of orange-red hues into the purple-blue sky, presenting a striking contrast to the dark gray wall,...
Has the War Party Hooked Trump?
With his Sunday tweet that Bashar Assad, “Animal Assad,” ordered a gas attack on Syrian civilians, and Vladimir Putin was morally complicit in the atrocity, President Donald Trump just painted himself and us into a corner. “Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria,” tweeted Trump, “President Putin, Russia and Iran...
The Value of Theory
This volume in tribute to Elizabeth Flower is loosely organized, with scarcely a mention of Flower’s workāthe presumption doubtless being that the general sentiments and character of her work are best captured by such a gestaltist approach. While there is something to be said for such a loose organization, that only makes the reader grateful...
Ground Zero Mosque, Grade Zero Argument
The proposal to build a mosque in Manhattan near the site of the Twin Towers has ignited the usual futile debate that marks all political discussion in America. Ā I don't know which set of arguments is more degrading, the opponents' cry of insensitivity or the defenders' claim of religious freedom.
Public Enemy Number One
Every year, on or near the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, hundreds of thousands of Americans go to Washington, D. C., to join the March for Life and protest that infamous decision.Ā The March for Life is peaceful and orderly, and every year the major media outlets contrive to pretend it doesn’t exist.Ā Until this...
What Is America’s Cause in the World?
“Take away this pudding; it has no theme,” is a comment attributed to Winston Churchill, when a disappointing dessert was put in front of him. Writers have used Churchill’s remark to describe a foreign policy that lacks coherence or centrality of purpose. For most of our lifetimes, this has not been true of the United...
Securing the Lincoln Memorial
It is a beautiful prospect, looking east from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. We were there recently on a fine March day, and could see past the Vietnam and Korean Memorials up through the Reflecting Pool (currently under repair for a leak), to the giant fountain of the World War II Memorial (dry also),...
State’s Wrongs
Chilton Williamson, Jr.ās column āPragmatic Destructionā (Whatās Wrong With the World, December 2011) attacks American democracy with a vengeance.Ā He seems to be bothered by the fact that Southern blacks were āfreedā (his quotation marks) by civil-rights laws through the negation of āstatesā rightsā (my quotation marks).Ā I donāt see how restricting a certain class...
Alternative Investments
Arkansas’ Teachers Retirement System was the only government retirement system in the United States to lose money by investing in the offshore limited partnerships at the center of the Enron bankruptcy.Ā The Cayman Islands-based partnerships āengaged in derivative transactions with Enron,ā according to a November 2001 SEC filing, allegedly āto permit Enron to hedge market...
On the Celebrity Waterfront
By the time I arrived at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, the selection was over. About 200 people had won coveted bleacher seats to the red-carpet entrance of the 71st Academy Awards. Among celebrity-worshipers, sitting in the Academy Award bleachers is like taking communion from the pope. Reaching this pinnacle requires a fanatical...
Brazilās Exceptional President
Jair Bolsonaro won the presidential election in Brazil on October 28 with 55 percent of the vote.Ā The former army captain triumphed over Fernando Haddad of the leftist Workersā Party pledging to fight crime and corruption, to end affirmative action for ādisadvantaged minorities,ā and to shatter the straitjacketed discourse on race and sexuality.Ā The leader...
The Untold Story Behind The Passion of the Christ
What could a world-famous multibillionaire Hollywood star like Mel Gibson have in common with an unknown, cash-strapped, freelance journalist based in Rome?Ā Virtually nothing, it would seem.Ā Yet there is a common denominator: We are both Catholics and cherish the traditional Latin Mass, the primary liturgy of the Church before its post-Vatican II transformation into...
On Reconstructing the South
While there is much to praise in Michael Hill’s “The South and the New Reconstruction” (March 1997), there is a streak of unreality and wishfulness in the article which begs attention. For example, what would the Southern League have us do with the masses of Northernersāa/k/a Yankeesāwho inhabit the region? Or, for another twist, what...
Back to the Stone Age II G: A Trip to Alsatia
Ā Let us develop this point a bit.Ā Classical liberals like to complain about federal subsidies to agriculture.Ā They are quite right to denounce programs whose effect is to reward agribusiness while harming smaller farming operations, as if it were the government’s business to pick the winners in advance.Ā But they are equally opposed to...
Thoughts on the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris
Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; Mock on, mock on; ’tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. āWilliam Blake Some thoughts on the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris: 1. Maybe gun control isnāt such a great idea. The killers somehow got AK-47s and possibly...
Custom and Ceremony
The first volume of R.F. Fosterās acclaimed biography of William Butler Yeats (The Apprentice Mage) appeared in 1997.Ā Yeatsā son and daughter (now in their 70ās) chose him to be their fatherās official biographer after their previous choice, F.S.L. Lyons, passed away, and Foster has been working on this project for the past 17 years.Ā ...
Equal Opportunity and the Limits of Liberalism
The last two decades have seen a remarkable revival in academic political philosophy, particularly in the English-speaking world. A subject which was widely pronounced dead in the 1950’s has recently produced thousands of articles and numerous books of real importance. One indicator of the scale of this revival is the length of a recently published...
Uncle Sam’s Obituary
Prick up your ears and listen to the violins: beyond the dreamy adagios and thrilling arpeggios the fat lady has sung. On stage Uncle Sam has been laid to rest, but unlike Don Giovanni, the good uncleās corpse has not descended into hell. European pundits are lesser liars and hypocrites than American ones, yet they...
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...
The American Revolution Was a Culture War
Two hundred and forty-seven years ago this month, a group of American opponents of the Crown’s tax policy donned disguises and set about methodically destroying a shipment of tea imported into Boston by the East India Company. The vandals trespassed on privately owned ships in Boston Harbor and threw the tea into the ocean. These...
The Post-Christian Moral Order
Wokeness isnāt Marxism. Itās the new moral order for the managerial State.
Su Rancho Es Mi Rancho
Reading the newspapers, I wonder which straw will break the camelās back when it comes to illegal immigration.Ā What will finally cause Americans to rise up and take back their country?Ā The tenth family killed by an illegal-alien drunk driver?Ā The 100th housewife butchered by an illegal-alien murderer?Ā Or the next lawsuit that awards damages...
Pope John Paul II, R.I.P.
By any standard, the life of Pope John Paul II was extraordinary.Ā Born in a small town in a country that had been the plaything of dynasts for centuries before his birth, and which became the target of historyās bloodiest tyrants during his adult years, Karol Wojtyla became the first non-Italian pope in nearly five...
Letter From London: Peking-on-Thames
Cross Shaftesbury Avenue going south toward Leicester Square, and you leave homosexual London for Peking-on- Thames. Decorative oriental-style iron gates, like in some 18th-century pleasure garden, mark the various entrances to the small area which is officially designated “Chinatown.” Oriental shops, restaurants, hairdressers, travel agents, and apothecaries selling Chinese medicines are crammed along and spill...
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...
ELCAināt
In a 1992 episode of the TV show Cheers, the slow-witted bartender Woody is distressed to find out on his honeymoon that he has just entered a āmixed marriage.āĀ He belongs to the Lutheran ChurchāMissouri Synod (LCMS), and his bride is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).Ā Among Woodyās concerns is...
The Politics of Peace
Step by step America is being primed for war with Iran.Ā President Trump has not actually torn up the āIran dealāāthe Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that is supposed to defer the day the Islamic Republic might seek a nuclear weaponābut he ādecertifiedā it in October, and his administration is under constant pressure from the...
Europeās Ongoing Demise
āThe Third Muslim Invasion of Europe is entering its mature stage by sea,ā I observed in these pages in June, as thousands of Middle Eastern and African illegal immigrants sailed from Libya to Italy day after day.Ā In the intervening four months, in a dramatic development, a new southeastern land route was stormed by a...
First Mass Mailing
“Understanding AIDS,” the U.S. Surgeon General’s brochure on “public enemy number one,” has been called the first mass mailing of a federal policy message to every American household. In fact, an earlier administration attempted to meet a very different public dangerānuclear attackāwith a similar mail campaign. Comparison of the social assumptions found in each document...
For the Peace of Jerusalem
This issue, and the book that will follow in a few months, are the fruits of three yearsā work for the study group that The Rockford Institute put together at the request of our board chairman, David A. Hartman.Ā During this period, we were asked many times: Why?Ā Not because peace in the Middle East...