British scholar Timothy StanleyĀ has produced the first significant biography of Patrick J. Buchanan, describing his life from his boyhood in Washington, D.C., up to the present.Ā Stanleyās book is written in a breezy, informal mannerāBuchanan is referred to as āPatā throughoutāand it makes for quick and generally enjoyable reading.Ā Stanley gets much right in...
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Henry Radetsky and Fritz Kreisler
Tossing around a word like music is problematicalāand culture is even harder to deploy meaningfully.Ā Nevertheless, I am going to give both a try in a revealing juxtaposition that was brought to my attention by that world-traveling anthropologist Henry Radetsky, an academic colleague and a valued friend.Ā Henry is a cultured man I have learned...
Back to Parmenides
It is reported that when one of Pythagoras’s followers revealed the Pythagorean brotherhood’s deepest secret, the discovery of irrational numbers, he was killed. The discovery of irrational numbers came about as a direct result of the Pythagorean theorem, for the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose legs are one inch equals the square root of...
A Never-Trump Press in Near Panic
“All the News That’s Fit to Print” proclaims the masthead of the New York Times. “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” echoes the Washington Post. “The people have a right to know,” the professors at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism hammered into us in 1962. “Trust the people,” we were admonished. Explain then this hysteria, this...
On Attention Deficits
Dr. Baughmanās implied argument (in āMaking a Killing,ā?Vital Signs, June, cowritten by B.K. Eakman) that, if there is no objective means of diagnosing a disease, then there is no need for medical treatment, is akin to throwing the baby out with the bathwater.Ā Up until relatively recently, medicine relied on clinical criteria (the combination of...
VDARE Case Another Example of New Yorkās Weaponization of the Law
What is happening to Peter and Lydia Brimelow exemplifies the kind of lawfare that the same cast of characters are now waging against Trump. New York voters, ultimately, are the ones to blame.
Dedicated to the Proposition
Every moviegoer remembers the sign: “Keep your change. Tipping is un-American.” It is on the cash register of the roadside diner that is the setting for The Petrified Forest. It is a strange expression. We don’t say “un-French” (and hardly ever say “un-English”), and when we do, we mean only that something is not typical...
Gnawing Away at Vidal
We do not live in a golden age for homegrown and corn-fed radical critics. Legal restrictions on political speech remain few, but informal strictures and the passage of time have muted those who rememberāand likeāthe free, landed republic that this country used to be, before World War II and the monolithic Cold War state that...
Is the Establishment Still Terrified of Trump?
As soon as the Senate received the lone article of impeachment accusing President Donald Trump of “incitement of insurrection” in the Jan. 6 mob assault on the Capitol, Rand Paul rose to object. The Senate, he said, has no right to try a private citizen, which Trump now is. Thus, what we are about to...
Ignoring Dr. Hank
A few years back I was spending the weekend with the designer Oscar de la Renta and his wife, and they took me along to dinner at a neighborās on Saturday night.Ā We were in rural Connecticut, and the scene and the house we visited were straight out of Norman Rockwell.Ā The dinner party consisted...
White Sprinters
For several years now, professional baseball has been pouring millions of dollars into developing black players. Evidently, the number of black players, at least American blacks, has been in decline. NASCAR is funding programs to develop black drivers after fielding complaints that the sport is too white. Similarly, the NHL now has a āDiversity Programā...
California Ecclesiazusae
During the June primary campaign for governor of California, a GOP operative told me that the plan of the party elites is to nominate Mitt Romney for president in 2012, with Meg Whitman as his running mate.Ā That way, she would spend hundreds of millions of dollars of her fortune on the campaign, enriching every...
Overturn!
The overruling of Roe is the greatest triumph to date of the conservative legal movement. The Court had no business inventing a constitutional right to abortion.
Henry Regnery, R.I.P.
He died on June 18, his devoted wife of six decades, Eleanor, at his side. Soft-spoken, humble, ever polite and generous, Henry was also a man of indomitable courage. In an era of accelerating centralization in the book trade, he launched the Henry Regnery Company in 1947 as an independent publishing house. From the beginning,...
Getting Better By Going Back
The next administration needs to get back to basics. We need to restore law and order, the colorblind meritocracy, and quality education.
The Immaculate Protection From the Shot That Reelected Trump
In 1775, there was the shot heard 'round the world. In 2024, there was the shot that got Donald John Trump reelected.
Surviving the Budget Crisis
My dear Hobson, The bleak tone of your email has distressed me.Ā You report waking on the morning of November 7 convinced that a vast majority of politiciansāRepublicans and Democratsāare certifiable lunatics.Ā According to your somewhat incoherent letterāwere you inebriated, or are all those sentence fragments and dangling prepositions the dismal product of your recently...
A Transformational President
Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek, portrays Andrew Jackson as one of Americaās transformational presidents, including him in the company of Lincoln and the two Roosevelts.Ā He highlights the crucial events that took place during the 17th presidentās two terms in office (1829-37), maintaining that three of those incidents effectively define him.Ā The first (and foremost)...
‘Heartbroken’ Pelosi Fast-Tracks Impeachment
“This is a very sad time for our country. There is no joy in this,” said Nancy Pelosi Saturday. “We must be somber. We must be prayerful. … I’m heartbroken about it.” Thus did the speaker profess her anguishājust four days after announcing that her Democratic House would conduct an impeachment inquiry of President Donald...
Cultural Revolutions
HeroesĀ are back in style. According to a recent poll, the Ā approvalĀ ratings given to the objects of our admiration are up significantly from a few years back. The official story goes something like this: back in the bad old days of Vietnam and Watergate,Ā theĀ Ameri can people lost their youthful idealism and learned to...
Whither Obama’s Foreign Policy?
According to the Washington Post, a senior diplomat from a major European country, a Middle Eastern ambassador, and an Asian ambassadorāall of whom represent āmajor, big-league countriesāāhave been getting lots of messages from their home offices wondering how exactly President Obama will exert his influence over the contracting American Empire. Apparently āBarack Obamaās folks arenāt...
An “Experiment” With Socialism
Eastern Europe’s recent “experiment” with socialism illustrates some useful principles about slavery. Slave labor is generally recognized as less productive than free labor, and with the collapse of the Soviet Empire it has become obvious that collective property (socialism) is less productive than private property (capitalism). From these premises several conclusions follow: not only that...
Writers’ Unions
“PEN international is working for your release,” my lawyer told me. In the bare, mean interview room of the Belgrade District Prison he smiled at me, and I smiled back, because the mikes could not pick that up. There were no TV cameras there, yet, to monitor our winks and nodsāthe language of slaves, as...
Exit Mr. Weinstein; Hold the Tears
Harvey Weinstein was just expressing his little ol’ self, right? That is what you do, even when it gets you fired, as happened to Weinstein, or suspended, as happened to Jemele Hill at ESPN, or threatened with suspension, as in Jerry Jones’ blunt warning to his Cowboys about “taking a knee.” The rule-less disorder of...
The Importance of Bahkmut
After the fall of Bakhmut, the moment of truth will come if the Ukrainian counteroffensive fizzles out, and especially if the Russians respond by starting a major advance of their own.
The GOPās Impossible Dream of Swaying Black Voters
Blacks are intensely devotedĀ to the Democratic Party and to corrupt Democratic machines in urban areas, at least partly because they hate Republicans, the white manās party. It makes no difference how often Fox News tells blacks they are living on the āDemocratic plantation,ā or that the Democrats are the party of slavery defender John C....
Make arms, not war
Some years ago a friend of mine in Venice, whose family had been too influential during the Fascist years for anyone to doubt the source, told me a funny story about Vittorio Cini, an intimate of Mussoliniās. I recently found it corroborated in a memoir by Federico Zeri, the great historian of the Italian Renaissance...
The Pilgrims’ Progress
If there is one constant at yard sales, estate auctions, and second-hand bookstores in this state, it is the presence of old books, Bibles, classics, and diverse texts that once made splashes before sinking into obscurity. Perhaps the most frequently seen volume, after the Bible, is John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, a book that, again, was...
The Devil’s Collectives
The Devil All the Time Directed by Antonio Campos ā Written by Paulo Campos ā Produced by Nine Stories Productions and Bronx Moving Co. ā Distributed by Netflix 1BR Directed and written by David Marmor ā Produced by Malevolent Films ā Distributed by Dark Sky Films Ā The Prowler (1951) Directed by Joseph Losey ā...
Has Russia Given Up on the West?
By the end of his second term, President Ronald Reagan, who had called the Soviet Union an “evil empire,” was strolling through Red Square with Russians slapping him on the back. Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive. And how have we husbanded the fruits of our Cold War triumph? This month, China’s...
All Liars Ain’t Spiers but All Spiers is Liars
Ā Caught red-handed spying on the private life of Angela Merkel, the Obama administration and its supporters in both parties have chanted the same responses: “Allies always spy on each other,” and “our monitoring activities in Europe have thwarted terrorist attacks.” Ā True enough, but as everyone knows, politicians only tell the truth when it serves...
Church Shopper
Like the French, we Americans live in, to borrow from Claude Polin, a āme-firstā society.Ā Each and every man is the measure of all things, his own arbiter of that which is beautiful, true, and of good report.Ā Reared on the Disney principle (You can be whatever you want to be, or, Be true to...
Press Cowardsā Hypocritical Lament Over Mediaās Lack of āBallsā and āSwaggerā
Mainstream press critics whine about the demise of journalismās good ole days, while carefully avoiding writing anything that would offend their paymasters.
The “News: From Moscow
The analysis of dezinformatsia here provided by Richard Shultz and Roy Godson is overloaded with scholarly paraphernalia, ranging from statistical tables of Soviet “overt propaganda themes” to an erratic glossary containĀing a pompous and unnecessary definiĀtion of “forgery” (“Forgery, one of many disinformation techniques, is the use of authentic-looking but false docuĀments and communiques”). Because...
The Past Is Always Prologue
Rodric Braithwaite is a former British ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yeltsinās Russia and a specialist in Russian history.Ā Utilizing his extensive personal contacts with Afghan War veterans (known as afgantsy in Russian) and his fluency in the Russian language, Braithwaite has written an account of the Sovietsā involvement in Afghanistan that is detailed,...
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 Emerson No One Knows
“At bottom, [Emerson] had no doctrine atĀ all. . . . He was far from being, like aĀ Plato or an Aristotle, past master in the art and the science of life.” -George SantayanaĀ TheĀ dedication of this latest biograĀphy of the individual known to earlier generations as “the Sage of Concord” is to Mohandas KaramĀchand Gandhi, “who...
Why Lenin Is No Longer Relevant
Todayās woke leftists would find the Soviet dictator far too muscular and manly to make room for him in their pantheon of girly government apparatchiks and petty tyrants.
Whose Wealth of Whose Nation?
“Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew, And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Fourā And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.” Rudyard...
Thirst for Empire
Tacitus, writing about Caesar Augustus and the beginnings of the Roman Empire, says, āHow few were left who had seen the republic!ā How few are left.Ā Tacitus also mourns that the āState had been revolutionized, and there was not a vestige left of the old morality.āĀ John Dickinson, who, like many of the founders of...
Books in Brief: October 2023
Short reviews of The Constitution of Non-State Government, by T. L. Hulsey, and The Past Is a Future Country, by J.O.A. Rayner-Hilles.
Cry, the Beloved Community
From the rave reviews in the Wall Street Journal and other vehicles of low-octane conservatism, it seems that Tamar Jacoby has produced a work for the ages. Like earlier marvels by Dinesh D’Souza, John J. Miller, and Francis Fukuyama, this study was made possible by funds flowing from neocon foundations, a gesture thoughtfully repaid by...
Turn Out the Lights
It must have been Sigmund Freud who observed that whenever a new technology appears it is applied almost immediately to some sexual purpose. The dirty old man of Vienna was thinking of such inventions as the photograph and the moving picture, which gave a new impetus to the production and consumption of pornography, but he...
Roll On, Beethoven
The fate of the famous in this postmodern and even campy time is problematical. The multicultural agenda is not considerate of the distinguished or of distinctions, and “diversity” imposes quotas on what we may be permitted to admire, to enjoy, or even to know. What’s more, “the melting of forms” characteristic of the 20th century...
Guns, Matrimony, and Jihad in San Bernardino
The December 2, 2015, killings of 14 people in San Bernardino, California, by Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, is the sort of story that garners the label āonly in America,ā with plot twists that include arranged marriage, Facebook jihad, and irrelevant gun laws.Ā It also includes Enrique Marquez, Jr., an Hispanic-American. Farook...
Trump Embraces the Culture War
To attend the Indianapolis Colts game where the number of the legendary Peyton Manning was to be retired, Vice President Mike Pence, a former governor of Indiana, flew back from Las Vegas. With him in the stadium was wife Karen. In honor of Manning, she wore a No. 18 jersey as “The Star Spangled Banner”...
Lying in a Good Cause
Ā James O’Keefe scored another victory recently, when his group tricked Ron Schiller, an NPR fundraiser into making statements that were soft on militant Islam and expressed contempt for Middle American conservatives. Ā As much as I detest NPR and all its works, the attack on the fundraisers is either naive or disingenuous. Ā Schiller may well...
La Virgen de Guadalupe: Sent Back to Mexico?
Hillary Clintonās presidential campaign has spilled the beans: She intends to āliberateā Christians, which means Latinos, from their self-imposed delusionāwhich, surely, is Christianity and belief in God. Mrs. Clintonās strategy not only calls for undermining Christian-inspired organizations and businesses but aims to āprivatizeā religion entirely. The best way to achieve these objectives, as revealed in...
A Magical September
On September 1, 1957, a pretty French girl by the name of Patricia and an Italo-French couple, Feruccio and Ellen, joined me in the old harbor of Cannes waiting to board the super-new luxury liner Cristoforo Colombo.Ā Our destination was Capri, and we had decided to go on the spur of the moment.Ā Capriās season...
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...