A 1992 Wisconsin law limits the revenue a school district can raise through property taxes.Ā When operating costs exceed that limit, districts have to ask voters to make up the difference.Ā The idea behind the law was to control skyrocketing teacher salaries and benefits by holding annual increases to 3.8 percent per year.Ā The state...
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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...
Sadly for Adlai
“Madly for Adlai,” proclaimed the campaign buttons in 1952. But Adlai Ewing Stevenson II wasn’t the kind of politician who aroused mad affections, or, for that matter, hostilities. He was a Stevenson. Passion isn’t the Stevenson thing; service isāservice conducted with objectivity and a certain fidelity to the public weal. Jean Baker, professor of history...
The New Wealth of Nations
I have just returned from a trip around the world; a trip where among other things I explored why certain nations succeed brilliantly and other nations stumble along in poverty with marginal economies. In previous travels to South America, I accepted the standard south-of-the-border excuse that its poverty and problems were caused by “Yankee Imperialism.”...
Free at Last
The criminal trial of the former football great O.J. Simpson on the charge of murder, a trial that overshadows the Gulf War as the media event of the 1990’s, has been over for more than a year. The civil trial against him, charging that he violated the civil rights of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron...
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:
Are Autocrats Always Adversaries?
When did the political systems of 193 nations become the business of the government of the United States? And who elected us Americans to write the moral code for the regimes that rule other lands? Consider: On taking office, President Joe Biden pledged to center his foreign policy “on the defense of democracy and the...
Russia’s Strawman Svengali Feels the West’s Wrath
The assassination of Aleksandr Dugin's daughter, Darya, is a tragic consequence of the Western-media myth that he is Putin's political mastermind. In reality, the eccentric philosopher wields no influence in Russia.
Obligatory Holocausts
I feel sorry for Afrocentristsāthose weird and wonderful folk who claim that civilization, philosophy, and science were discovered in ancient Africa, before being stolen by the white man. True, members of the movement are cranks, with nothing worthwhile to support their positions, but they are no more ridiculous than many other historians who dominate the...
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...
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...
Clinton’s Acquittal
The acquittal of William Jefferson Clinton by the United States Senate is a good thing, although amidst the gloom that justifiably surrounds this fin de siĆØcle, one is tempted to overlook the good side of the bad news. The acquittal should help dispel three dangerous illusions that still prevail among many Americans who cling to...
Seeking Silence
Our constant and artificial encounters with devices are keeping us from the more meaningful encounters with God and other human beings.
A Christmas History
Before Christmas, Peter Brimelow used my article āHappy Holidays? Bah! Humbug!ā (Vital Signs, December 2001) to kick off VDare.comās annual War Against Christmas competition.Ā Since then, I have received a steady stream of correspondenceāsome of it sharply critical, but most of it extremely favorable. Of course, not everyone liked the essay.Ā I learned that my...
Muslim Crimes in Britain
During the last few months in Britain there have been yet more revelations of new Muslim crimes and detailed confirmations of older ones. In 2014 Lutfur Rahman, a Muslim, was elected for a second term as the mayor of Tower Hamlets, a London borough where one third of the population is Muslim.Ā This April a...
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...
The āMostly Peacefulā Double Standard
Though the actions of President Donald Trumpās most foolish supporters at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday were disgraceful, I canāt help but compare the news coverage of this event with the coverage of the Black Lives Matter/Antifa protesters in cities across the country last year. In my home state of Ohio, those protesting the death...
A Marvelous Tragedy
Sling Blade, the recent hit film that rightly won Billy Bob Thornton an Academy Award, is now out on video. As viewers of the film know, it is a marvelous tragedy of classical simplicity. But what has not been mentioned is that it is also a tale told in the tradition of Southern literature. As...
The Future of Russia and the West: A Conversation with Elena Chudinova, Part II
[A Continuation of the interview between Srdja and Elena] ST: One worrying aspect is that Russia has allowed almost uncontrollable immigration from former Soviet Central Asia and this may, in view, of the low birth rates of the Orthodox Russians, change the demographic picture of the country in only a few decades. EC: I always...
The Knack of the Non-Deal
An Arab-Israeli peace agreement is like a moderate Syrian rebel or rational leftist: It is possible to visualize, but producing one is daunting. Every attempt has failed. President Donald Trumpās āPeace to Prosperityā plan will be no exception. Hardly the ādeal of the century,ā it proposes the establishment of a disconnected, truncated Palestinian state with...
If We Erase Our History, Who Are We?
When the Dodge Charger of 20-year-old Nazi sympathizer James Alex Fields Jr., plunged into that crowd of protesters Saturday, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer, Fields put Charlottesville on the map of modernity alongside Ferguson. Before Fields ran down the protesters, and then backed up, running down more, what was happening seemed but a bloody brawl between...
Demo Liberal Chutzpa
Once again, President Reagan has spoken out about the collapse of the American educational system (and correctly so) and stated facts that will hit anyone who has an average IQ, and one that is uncontaminated by liberal orthodoxy, with a force of a brick: Classrooms across the country are not temples of learning, teaching the...
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...
America Today: From Sea to Shining Sea
It is reported that a machete-wielding Somali has attacked an Asian in a restaurant owned by an Israeli. In Ohio. All but a few of the bakerās dozen contenders for the Republican presidential nomination advocate warlike measures against Russia, Syria, and Iran. Consequences are not discussed. Most of them want to fight terrorism by increased...
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...
Watch This Space
That I could order my Apple Watch Sport from my iPhone while walking down the Corso Italia in Milan, and pay for it on the phone with just the touch of my thumb, is as much of a technological marvel as the Watch itself.Ā With the exception of my thumbprint, not a single element in...
Obamianity 101
An understanding of sin is central to our embrace of Christianity and the saving work of Jesus Christ.Ā Scripture clearly teaches that āthe wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lordā (Romans 6:23).Ā Thus, knowing what sin is and repenting of it are essentials to...
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...
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.
Books in Brief: December 2023
Short reviews of Character in the American Experience, by Bruce P. Frohnen and Ted V. McAllister, and From Here to Eternity, by Randall B. Smith.
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,...
Race and the Elections
In a year of blatant political lies (and what presidential election year isnāt?) the calumny against Donald Trump that he is a fomenter of racial divisiveness may be the most unconscionable.Ā The Republican candidate has never said that all Mexicans are rapists and criminals of various sorts, only that some illegal immigrants from Mexico areāa...
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...
Time To Leave Korea
Ā North Koreaās artillery attack on a South Korean island on Tuesday was the latest in a series of Pyongyangās aggressive moves over the past year and a half. They started with ballistic missile tests in April of last year, soon followed by a nuclear test in May. Kim Jong Il, who may be mad,...
Last Action Hero
Arnold Schwarzenegger marched into the Orange County Registerās lobby wearing cowboy boots and confidence.Ā He was mobbed in the lobby by women who wanted him and men who wanted to be him.Ā He cheerfully signed autographs.Ā He then came up to our offices to meet the editorial board. The celluloid dream became a physical reality...
Myra Cunningham
I donāt know how Myra Cunningham came into our lives.Ā Perhaps my mother met her at the USO canteen, where women, married and single, volunteered to serve coffee and cookies to soldiers, talk to them, play bridge with them, and help them with letters back home.Ā Myra was a compact little woman with blonde hair...
Study: Student Debt Cancellation Benefits the Wealthy, Not the Poor
From Sen. Elizabeth Warren to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, some of the most prominent progressive politicians in the country are pushing hard for widespread student debt cancelation. So, itās fascinating to see aĀ new studyĀ show that forcing taxpayers to pay down the roughly $1.5 trillion in government-held student debt is not a āprogressiveā policy by any stretch....
Ukraine’s Crisis, Not Ours
Richard Engel of NBC, reporting from Maidan Square in Kiev, described what he witnessed as the Feb. 19 truce collapsed. Police began to back away from their positions in the square, said Engel. And the protesters attacked. Gunfire was exchanged and the death toll, believed to be in the dozens, is not known. In short,...
U.S. Syria Policy: Incoherent, Reckless
The United States is in danger of descending into the Syrian quagmire. There are clear signs of mission creep devoid of logic or strategic rationale. It is not too late yet to step away from the brink. This would require swift action by President Donald Trump to rein in the war party before it takes...
A Eulogy for John J. McLaughlin
Issue one! To understand John McLaughlin, it was helpful to have been a 13-year-old entering an all-boys Jesuit school in the 1950s. For when John yelled “Wronnng” at me from his center chair of The McLaughlin Group, it hit with the same familiar finality I had heard, many times, from Jesuits at the front of...
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...
The Oxford Experience
The recent election of the new Chancellor of Oxford Universityāor was it the prospect of another July undisturbed by fireworks?āreminded me of the letter I received from a Cambridge friend last summer, when I was living in Oxford. I quote it with minor deletions. “Warm greetings to the Latin Quarter of Morris-Cowley, and happy Fourth...
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...
This Is the Time to Remember
Every city is made up of innumerable stories, some overlapping, most not.Ā And, thus, every city needs many storytellers to provide a full account of its life, becauseāhumans being finiteāno one is likely to be able to encompass all of those stories in his work.Ā Few cities, however, are so lucky.Ā The best most cities...
The Balkans War
The Balkans war seemed to be coming to an end in mid-December as we went to press. Trying to sort through the lies, misinformation, and distortions for the fragments of truth in the international press requires the patience of an archeologist and the imagination of a poet, but some things seem fairly certain. For several...
At the Intersection of Love and Technology
No matter the advances in technology, filmgoers still long for the magic evoked by the plot device of an implausible lost love reunion depending more on fate than human initiative.
Revolution in the Air
Is it idle, or at least premature, to talk about “revolution from the right”? Whether it is or is not, that is exactly what leaders of the right have been talking about for some years, from Pat Buchanan’s “Middle American Revolution” and his imagery of the “Buchanan Brigades” and peasants with pitchforks rebelling against “King...
How the Crusades Were Won
The Christian Crusades of the Middle Ages are today deployed for a wide range of political and rhetorical purposesāto make claims about the Churchās betrayal of Christās teaching, the evils of European imperialism, or the inextricable link between intolerant religion and ghastly violence.Ā Any or all of those claims might be justified.Ā One problem, though,...
Colette Baudoche by Maurice BarrĆØs
Ā Maurice BarrĆØs is hardly a name in the United States, even to American conservatives who could learn a great deal from his fiction and essays. Ā A collaborator of Charles Maurras, BarrĆØs had a deeper understanding of blood-and-soil conservatism than most Americans can grasp, and his celebration (in this book) of Metz under YankeeāI mean...
Donald Trump Is Reaganās Heir
The future of all Reagan secured for the country now hinges on what happens in this election.