At the outset I must admit that this is probably the most outrageous piece of logrolling you have laid eyes on in a generation. Yet, reading over Professor Trout’s essay, I gave in to temptation and herewith add my analysis and recommendation. I do so mainly because we have moved quietly, and sometimes not so...
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Letās Cheat on Our Taxes
As I write, April 15 is still fresh in the mind, and the sting of death remains, combining the current pangs of tax extraction with the promise of a greater burden to come, thanks to the BarackĀiĀfiĀcation of heathcare. So imagine my delight when I read in a back issue of ...
What the Editors Are Reading: January 2021
First the crazies tore downĀ statues they deemed offensive. Next they vandalized churches. Then they demanded trigger warnings on classic movies likeĀ Gone with the WindĀ andĀ Blazing Saddles. If these monsters ever discover libraries, books will be next. Let me suggest you hoard copies of William McNeillāsĀ The Rise of the West: A History of the Human CommunityĀ (1963) before...
Is That Russia Troll Farm an Act of War?
According to the indictment by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Russian trolls, operating out of St. Petersburg, took American identities on social media and became players in our 2016 election. On divisive racial and religious issues, the trolls took both sides. In the presidential election, the trolls favored Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein and Donald Trump, and...
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Decline, decay, the falling away from a former excellence. All the conventional definitions of decadence are negative on their face. The term denotes a state of decline, but it also connotes an enlightened view of that decline on the part of the user, who is sophisticated, worldly-wise, and never ever shocked. A very respectable hotel...
The Rise and Fall of the Texas Republican Party
How did the Texas Republican Party, which was in the forefront of the battles to win the Republican presidential nomination for Barry Goldwater in 1964 and Ronald Reagan in 1976 and 1980, become a wholly owned subsidiary of Karl Rove and George W. Bush? Today, the Republicans in Texas control every statewide elected office, yet...
Do Androids Tweet…?
The America depicted in the news is every day coming closer to the dystopian future imagined by science-fiction novelists.Ā I am not referring so much to the rising tide of violence and irrationality that has overtaken our society at all levels as to the systematic spiritual, intellectual, and social desolation of our public culture. One...
Now Is Not the Time for Indifference
Freedom now hangs in the balance in America. Staying alert and knowing whatās at stake are key in this fight for liberty.
How Scooter Skated
Why did Bush do it? Why did he suddenly barge into the legal process and erase the entire 30-month sentence of Scooter Libby? For, from his own statement, Bush found the act deeply distasteful. In that statement, Bush calls Libbyās crimes āserious convictions of perjury and obstruction of justice.ā He praises Patrick Fitzgerald as āa...
How to Win Fame and Fortune
American writers are on a roll.Ā Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize for Literature (for backward children), and Paul Beatty the Booker Prize, the first American to do so because only Brits were considered in previous years. Beatty was the unanimous choice, and itās easy to see why: Heās a black American, the book is...
Setting History Straight
Having sensed in the 1990ās that most European and American reporting about the Balkans was suspect, I find that this investigative study by a young German journalist, associated with the publication Junge Welt, fills in gaping holes in the received account of a controversial phase of recent history.Ā Contributing to my uneasiness over the establishmentās...
Man and Everyman
The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewisās masterful critique of the relativism that was as rampant in his day as it is in ours, represented the culmination of the authorās quest for the quintessential meaning of manās being and purpose.Ā Always a diligent searcher after truth, Lewis had climbed a long and arduous path from the...
The Trump of Myth and Legend
There is no need to compare Trump to some biblical hero or a mythic savior in order to state oneās agreement with one or more of his stated policies.
The Way We Are
Itās amazing how many crises you can live through unscathed if you just donāt follow the news. We all develop silly pointless habits from time to time.Ā Some chew gum.Ā Some collect string.Ā Some vote and write their Congressman. I donāt think voting is actually sinful.Ā It is more a state of cluelessness, like chewing...
A Cultural Evening in Grenada
During the four-and-one-half years of Cuban hegemony in Grenada, I often had cause to cross a country road from my house on the Pointe Salines peninsula to the Headquarters of the DGI (Directorio General de Intelegencia) to complain about the noise. Would they please turn down the altavoz or speaker system beaming Castro’s speeches at...
The Most Patriotic Conservative
I first encountered the name Samuel T. Francis in 1984, when Joe Sobran thrust a nondescript-looking little book, published in typically amateurish format by the University Press of America, into my hands and asked my permission to review it.Ā (I was, in those days, the literary editor for National Review.)Ā Its title was Power and...
What MLK Day Says About Today’s America
In one of his most famous quotes, Winston Churchill described Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” Today’s America could be described as a country led by a plagiarist, with the help of another plagiarist, which celebrates a holiday in honor of a third plagiarist: Barrack Obama, Joe Biden, and Martin...
The Curse of the iPhone
Young people have never been famous for their political acumen. Recall theĀ Childrenās Crusade of 1212Ā when thousands of unarmed youngsters attempted to march to the Holy Land to convert Muslims with persuasion and divine inspiration. Nevertheless, the current generation exhibits a level of political naiveite that would certify the children of the 1212 disaster as rocket...
The Mood Disorder Clinic
A poem with a vivid title has started a brouhaha at the Mood Disorder Clinic at Western Psychiatric in Pittsburgh. “Nigger Do Not Speed In My Town” was discovered on a desk by two black employees who reported it to the EEOC as evidence of a racist environment at the Mood Disorder Clinic. The offended...
Eternity Gained
In his new novel Wendell Berry returns to the time and the characters found in his earlier and more complex work, A Place on Earth. The atmosphere is familiar: a community subtly unsettled by the distant events of World War II; families still rooted in place through bonds to the land and to each other;...
Who Are the Freemen?
Trapped in their Montana farm, trying to fend off the feds, the worst crime the “Freemen” are accused of is attempting “to compete with the Federal Reserve,” according to the New York Times. Imagine. These people thought that private parties could, on their own initiative, issue checks, print notes, and extend credit without monetary backing....
A Terrible Twilight
George Dangerfieldās The Strange Death of Liberal England was published in 1935.Ā It is an exceptionally well-written book and became a cult classic, its haunting title suggesting a mysterious crime, as in a thriller.Ā Dangerfieldās theme was the decay of the civilization created by the British Liberal movement in the years that led up to...
On Education and Alienation
I would like to commend B.K. Eakman for her superb piece, āBushwacking Johnnyā (Vital Signs, September).Ā It is the first thing of hers I have read, and I am most impressed by the way she has captured the essence of the moral and spiritual crisis in education today. I am a college professor, a baby...
Soviet Agitprop Implodes
Though it gets harder to remember with every passing day, one of the long-established premises of the recently ended Cold War was the notion that both the Soviet Union and the U.S.A. were engaged in an ideological battle for the minds and souls of the world’s population. In line with this the West used powerful...
Venting Is Not Enough: Nassar and Injustice
Imagine a justice system that functioned as follows.Ā While awaiting sentencing after conviction, the vilest criminals would be put in the public dock, surrounded by angry spectators.Ā At the behest of the presiding judge, victims, along with their friends and relatives, would then unleash all of their verbal anger on the perpetrator.Ā The victims could...
The Rule-or-Ruin Republicans
“Things reveal themselves passing away,” wrote W. B. Yeats. Whatever one may think of Donald Trump, his campaign has done us a serviceāexposing the underbelly of a decaying establishment whose repudiation by America’s silent majority is long overdue. According to the New York Times, super PACs of Trump’s GOP rivals, including PACs of candidates who...
Children Will Suffer From the CDC’s Epidemic of Corruption
A CDC vaccine ruling will endanger the health and safety of children in order to protect giant pharmaceutical corporations from legal liability.
How to Keep From Getting Deported
In September, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that an illegal alien, although properly found to be a danger to the community, should not be removed from the United States because he considers himself to be a transgender woman.Ā Finding that Mexico is not in the progressive vanguard in embracing transgender identity, the court...
Casualty Lists From the Kavanaugh Battle
After a 50-year siege, the great strategic fortress of liberalism has fallen. With the elevation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court seems secure for constitutionalismāperhaps for decades. The shrieks from the gallery of the Senate chamber as the vote came in on Saturday, and the sight of that bawling mob clawing at the doors...
Apartheid
Apartheid is the sole issue ever discussed in this country with regard to South Africa. Readers and viewers must occasionally ask themselves whether that huge and varied country, with almost four times the area of France, presents really nothing but a two-dimensional picture, without any depth, any culture, any search for identity in a truly...
How I exposed corruption
One of the advantages of living is that, as some of those around you pass on, you get to tell funny stories about them ā stories they wouldnāt necessarily have wanted told when still alive, vain, and touchy. The down side is that telling such stories rebounds on the storyteller. For instance, when, a couple...
Bad Catholics, Good Europeans
“Irish Americans are often disappointed when they come here,” remarked the Scottish chatelaine of our pretty B&B on the Dingle Peninsula, as she served us our breakfast of scrambled eggs and smoked salmon. “They expect to see thatched cottages with leprechauns popping out from shamrocks.” “Played by Barry Fitzgerald or Arthur Shields?” “Yes, and girls...
Recovering the Medieval Family
[This review first appeared in the July 1988 issue of Chronicles.] Hatred of the past ill becomes a historian. Yet it is hard not to detect this disfiguring animusāpaired with an overweening love of contemporaneityāin the works of many modern historians of family life. In recent decades, men such as Philippe Aries, Edward Shorter, and...
Mr. Bush and the Mexican Murderer
When he was governor of Texas, President George W. Bush presided over the execution of 152 murderers.Ā Yet today, as if to turn the phrase āDonāt mess with Texasā on its head, El Presidente wants to stop the Lone Star State from giving the hot shot to a Mexican murderer and rapist. As disturbing as...
Wolfowitz in Love
Two years ago, upon learning of President Bushās nomination for president of the World Bank, I expressed relief (Cultural Revolutions, May 2005) that, āat his new post, [Paul] Wolfowitz will not be able to do nearly as much damage as he has done at the Pentagon.āĀ The damage, however, has continued.Ā For the past three...
Sophoclesā Antigone
Sophoclesā Antigone is a drama about a young woman who defies orders because she believes them to be wrong.Ā Her uncle Creon, the ruler of Thebes, had proclaimed that no one was to give the rites of burial to Antigoneās brother Polynices, because he besieged his own homeland.Ā However, Greek religious custom unambiguously requires that...
Wiseguys
The American home-mortgage crisis, though it is only a little less urgent than it was a year ago, has taken second place, in the ambulance-chasing media, to ObamaĀCare, same-sex āmarriage,ā and even the wars in Syria and Afghanistan.Ā We have all been informed that the Great Recession was caused in large part by high rates...
When Censorshipās the Game, Despotism Is the Goal
Weāre only a few months beyond the turn of the calendar and already I have a candidate for the word of the year: Censorship. Examples are proliferating at such a fast rate that it seems like a game of whac-a-mole just to keep up with all of them. A few of the most recent include:...
The Stafford Disaster
If you didnāt hear about the social and medical catastrophe that occurred at Stafford Hospital, in the English Midlandsāa disaster that claimed some 1,200 livesāthen you must have been following the U.S. news media.Ā The Stafford experience should be a nightmarish wake-up call for Americans, and a crushingly definitive argument in the nationās debate over...
On and On With the Way We Are Now
When it comes to be once understood that politics is a game; that those who are engaged in it but act a part; that they make this or that profession, not from honest conviction or intent to fulfill it, but as the means of deluding the people, and through that delusion to acquire powerĀ ....
Papagueria: I
“The whole place would be abandoned if it weren’t an Indism reservation,” Bernard Fontana was saying, “like so much of rural America these days. There are a lot of people on the reservation who wake up in the morning knowing that what they’re going to do today isn’t worth sh-t. That may be true of...
The Misnomer of Marxism
American institutions have beenĀ allegedly occupied by Marxists who are waging a war against the āAmerican Revolution,ā according to conservative commentator Mark Levin. Demonstrating how this alleged occupation occurred is at the core of Levinās American Marxism, a work driven to the top of the bestseller list by conservative book clubs and Fox News. Ā ...
Might Have Been
President George W. Bush addresses the American people on September 13, 2001 My fellow Americans, As the whole world is now aware, we have suffered the most devastating attack on civilians to take place on our soil since General Sherman destroyed Atlanta and Columbia in the later stages of the War Between ...
The Magnetic Chain of Humanity
As Alan Wolfe noted in a broadside published in The New Republic in 2003, the study of American literature, especially in American Studies programs at our major universities, has, since the 1970ās, become little more than a vituperative exercise in anti-American polemics. Largely a confabulation of Latino, Native American, African-American, feminist, āqueer,ā and āwhitenessā theorists...
“Go, Pat, Go!”
Pat Buchanan’s October 25 announcement that he would seek the presidential nomination of the Reform Party was greeted with contempt by Republican commentators. After all, Buchanan has twice failed to capture the Republican nomination, and in his third time out, he barely registered in the polls. His moment had passed, they argued, or perhaps he’d...
Bond and Betrayal
Goldeneye Produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli Directed by Martin Campbell Screenplay by Jeffrey Caine and Bruce Feirstein Released by United Artists In the best of the James Bond films derived directly from the novels of Ian FlemingāDr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, and ThunderballāSean Connery was able to evoke the gentlemanly,...
A Most Consequential Presidency
As Donald Trump is about to be nominated for a second term, how his presidency has already altered the orientation of his party is on display. Under Trump, the GOP ceased to be a party of small government whose yardstick of success was how close it came to a balanced budget. Trump signed on, this...
Infelix Culpa?
āThe oldest sins the newest kind of ways . . . ā āWilliam Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2 Ā Kingsley Amis called him āGrim Grin,ā an apt name for a novelist who aggressively insisted that the path to God runs through the wilderness of lust, degradation, deceit, and betrayal. Like his spiritual ancestor, Nathaniel Hawthorne,...
Jerks, The Individualist, Part II
Ā Self-made millionaires set the tone for this class, and any scholar or man of letters who has had to raise money among men of wealth and influence will see himself in Eliot’s Prufrock.Ā These poor fools have to listen, hour after hour, to Dives’ tales of victories on the golf course and of his...
A World Lit Only by Blue Light
A new, postmodern feudalism is emerging in which a mass society of serfs willingly enslaves itself to digital devices.