For a month now, the Saudi air force has been bombing Yemen to reverse a takeover of that nation of 25 million by Houthi rebels, and reinstall a president who fled his country and is residing in Riyadh. The Saudis have hit airfields, armor and arms depots, and caused a humanitarian catastrophe. Nearly 1,000 dead,...
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Environmentalism: Abuse of a Just Cause
While addressing the 20th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this past February, I confessed unease. A recovering “environmentalist,” addressing CPAC seemed equivalent to a recovering alcoholic witnessing before Alcoholics Anonymous. My story starts with the acknowledgment that the environment is a just cause; the world deserves wise stewardship, and there are some people who...
GOP Predictably Sells Out America
A month ago was a day before the Nov. 4 election. In this space I predicted, āGOP sellout strikes on Wednesday.ā It wasnāt hard being Nostradamus. Hereās the latest. Quoting Mitt Romney, I said the GOP would give President Obama unconstitutional authority to negotiate a new trade deal, with Congress only having an āup or...
Immigration, Neighbors, and Enemies
It is like a science-fiction movie from the 1950ās.Ā Mysterious radiation from outer space takes over the brains of Asian men in America, turning them into moral zombies that go on killing sprees: a Buddhist in Texas who tried to beat the demons out of his three-year-old son who had eaten meat; a discharged IBM...
Constitutional Convention Would Open Pandoraās Box
Despite the increasing volume on both the right and the left of calls for a constitutional convention, the solution to our problems is not to change the Constitution or even throw it out, but to obey it.
History Lite
Pearl Harbor Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Touchstone Pictures Directed by Michael Bay Screenplay by Randall Wallace Released by Buena Vista Pictures A Knight’s Tale Produced by Columbia Pictures Corporation and Escape Artists Written and Directed by Brian Helgeland Released by Columbia and Sony Pictures Most films have a signature moment, a scene that...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Streets of San Francisco
Homelessness in California is just one of the many causes of Gov. Gavin Newsom's waning popularity. But this week's fires show it to be a serious problem for the Golden State.
The Divinization of the Devil
The need for God is a characteristic of our time. The difficulties and the uncertainties of daily life; the dangers that impinge both on individuals and the entire human species; the struggles and conflicts that lurk everywhere; the outbursts of violence; the moral and civil disorderāall make human beings feel the need for an assistance...
Chronicle of an Announced Arrest
The media frenzy surrounding the arrest of the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on July 21 was based entirely on the doctrine of nonequivalence inaugurated in 1992: Serb crimes are bad and justly exaggerated; Muslim crimes are understandable.Ā This doctrine was spectacularly reiterated a month before Karadzicās capture, when the Muslim wartime commander of...
Iron Lady on Her Mettle
At the end of the first volume of Charles Mooreās lapidary trilogy, we left Mrs. Thatcher standing in St. Paulās Cathedral in 1982, surrounded by the shades of past national leaders, bathed in public approval and growing global respect as the victor of the Falklands War and standard-bearer for a new and dynamic kind of...
The Dingbat Craziness of the Latest PETA Proclamation
Iāve said it before and Iāll say it again: Each morningās internet headlines bring a new version of crazy. This morning was no different. In her article āPETA: Using Animal Names as Verbal Insults Is Supremacist Language,ā Catherine SmithĀ reportsĀ that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is decrying the use of insults and anti-animal slurs...
When Dictators Fall, Who Rises?
One month before the invasion of Iraq, Riah Abu el-Assal, a Palestinian and the Anglican bishop of Jerusalem at the time, warned Tony Blair,
Boogaloo Down Broadway: The Charade of Liberal Change
Here it is 2008, and everything else is old news.Ā The provisional and absentee ballots, recounts, scores, and statistics of 2000-2007 are all in the history books, along with Afghan and Iraqi elections and constitutions, insurgencies, hurricanes, disgraced mayors and governors, and Supreme Court, lobbying, earmark, wiretapping, and energy and cartoon ruckuses.Ā Since Barack Obama...
Demolition Day
The 150th Anniversary (or Sesquicentennial) of Canadian Confederation will be celebrated on July 1.Ā That holiday was traditionally denominated āDominion Day,ā as Canada was officially called āthe Dominion of Canadaāāa term which has now fallen into disuse.Ā The holiday is now called Canada Day, and on nearly all state documents, the Canadian state is identified...
Strategic Lessons of Clintonās Health Crisis
According to Hillary Clintonās campaign talking points, she wanted to āpower throughā her pneumonia; but after that āoverheating episodeā on September 11 it āseemed like the smart thing to doā to take some downtime. According to Politico.com, which obtained the document, āthose phrases, projecting strength, prudence, and vigor, were among the six bullet-pointed talking points...
RFK Jr.ās Masterpiece of Political Oratory
The former Democrat demonstrated what it takes to deliver a convincing and rousing political speech. The old and nearly lost art is due for a revival.
The Bruckner Problem
There is a Bruckner Problem, yes, or there are even Bruckner Problems, but I think that the longer we consider these problems, the less problematical they are.Ā The first problem is, where to start?Ā We might suppose that Anton Bruckner (1824-96) is remarkable in the fascinating quality of his work.Ā Hardly any composer except Mahler...
Considering Judge Barrett
In one of the most importantĀ acts of his Presidency, on Sept. 26, 2020, Donald J. Trump announced his pick to fill the United States Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Amy Coney Barrett.Ā Ā The Supreme Court has recently been divided 4-4 in terms of judicial philosophy, with Justices Ginsburg, Stephen...
Love and Hate in Dixie
“I will never be able to hold her again, but I forgive you.” So said Nadine Collier, who lost her mother in the massacre at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, offering forgiveness to Dylann Roof, who confessed to the atrocity that took the lives of nine churchgoers at that Wednesday night prayer...
An American Burke
John Randolph (1773-1833) survives in America’s footnotes as a colorful contrarian, and the Gore Vidal school of historiography pants at his duel with Henry Clay and his taste for opium. A master rhetorician, he left a long list of choice barbs, nearly all concocted on the spur of the moment. James Kilpatrick characterized the errant...
Everymanās Poet
Jared Carter, who has retired from a career in publishing, is a Midwestern poet of stature.Ā He won the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and the Poetsā Prize; he has had a Guggenheim fellowship and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.Ā He is profiled in the Dictionary of...
Rough Men, Rough Language
āYou canāt run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity.Ā An army without profanity couldnāt fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag.ā āGeorge Patton My father is an Army veteran, a former auto-body worker, and a retired policeman who for many years worked undercover in vice and narcotics.Ā Needless...
Thereās No Right to Sleep Outdoors
Supreme Court arguments on Monday suggest the Court will rule 6-3 or 5-4 that municipalities can ban sleeping on public property. The ruling will affect the entire nation.
Muslim Terrorism in Paris
Muslim Terrorism in Paris, Michel Houellebecq’s Cowardice, and the Islamization of France: An Interview with Russian writer Elena Choudinova, author of The Notre Dame de Paris Mosque. Translated from Russian by Eugene Girin Eugene Girin: Elena, you are the author of the sensational, politically-incorrect bestseller, The Notre Dame de Paris Mosque, published in 2005, which...
No More Blank Checks for War
After the assassination of the archduke in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, Austria got from Kaiser Wilhelm a āblank chequeā to punish Serbia. Germany would follow whatever course its ally chose to take. Austria chose war on Serbia. And World War I resulted. On March 31, 1939, Britain gave a blank check to Poland in...
Deracinated Americans
It was a late night in the small-town pizzeria, and the owners were sitting at our table drinking the Antinori Chianti riserva that was ātoo sourā for the local Swedes, who prefer Lambrusco on the rocks when they are not drinking Miller Lite.Ā The husband had come from Italy as a child, but his wife...
The George Floyd Cover-Up
The public was sold the lie that a rogue, racist cop murdered George Floyd, but the shocking truth is coming to light.
2020: America’s Wake-Up Call
Who could have predicted how dreadful a year 2020 would be? By this New Year’s Eve, 19 million to 20 million Americans will have contracted a deadly virus in a pandemic that exploded out of China to carry off 333,000 Americans, one of every 1,000 of us. As 2021 begins, Americans will be dying at...
Faithful Son
Boyd Cathey is an 11th generation Carolina Tar Heel who was mentored by and worked with Russell Kirk.Ā The Land We Love: The South and Its Heritage is written reverentially, just as one might reflect on the memory of oneās mother.Ā For the South is not just any region of the United States, like the...
Political Passions, Part II
American churches cannot make up their minds. Do they serve God or an Uncle Sam who for a long time has been looking a great deal like Mammon? On patriotic holidays the choirs sing that bloodthirsty and nonsensical anthem to war and slaughter ironically titled “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” and pastors give sermons...
A Classic Reconsidered
Do not look for last yearās best novel piled high in a fancy stack at the Books-A-Million or B. Dalton, with the belles lettres of Tom Clancy or John Grisham, because the best novel of 2002 was written 48 years ago.Ā The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, by Sloan Wilson (recently deceased), hit the...
We’re All Racists Now
āFor Democrats, itās the gift that keeps giving: If all else fails, just call Republicans racists . . . ā āNeil Cavuto, FOX News Well, everything else is indeed failing, but the racism racket is working so well that it wonāt be going away any time soon.Ā Al Sharpton sees āwhite supremacismā everywhere among Obamaās...
Packing the “All-America City”
Perhaps one can forgive Vernon Taylor for indulging in a bit of self-aggrandizement. After all, as the Green Bay Press-Gazette‘s newest “diversity” columnist, he’s now a recognizable face, a household name, a minor celebrity in a fabled National Football League city. His opinions on race, culture, and politics are read by tens of thousands of...
Genetic Roulette
Once, a long time ago, when, as a result of one of those complex misunderstandings that cast long shadows over the course of my life, I was getting married in a small town in Connecticut, my father showed up at the church stuffed with promotional literature.Ā This consisted of leaflets describing his new organization, donation...
The New Musical Order
In order to recycle the familiar repertory, the music industry must seek new markets through various gimmicks: celebrity status, special occasions, and even styles more familiar on the street than in the salon. Nigel Kennedy, the young English violinist, has recently made a hit of the Brahms Violin Concerto not because of his impressive skill...
Tyranny in Our Time
From the December 2013 issue of Chronicles. There is a saying among jurists that hard cases make bad law.Ā Similarly, every book critic knows that the best books make for hard reviewing.Ā Faced with a truly fine work, the reviewer is tempted simply to reproduce the authorās thesis in abbreviation, while scattering as many of...
Is the Left Playing with Fire Again?
To those who lived through that era that tore us apart in the ’60s and ’70s, it is starting to look like “deja vu all over again.” And as Adlai Stevenson, Bobby Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey did then, Democrats today like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are pandering to the hell-raisers, hoping to ride their...
Sympathy for the Spartan
Historyābe it that of 1619, or 1776, or some other significant year or eventāis often abused in this day and age. One of the latest victims of such historical misrepresentation are the Spartans, whom Lee Smith in a column for Tablet treats rather unfairly. Smith describes theĀ blood-curdling behaviorĀ of the antidemocratic Spartans at the end of...
A Life in Themes
By any assessment, W.B. Yeats was an extraordinary man who led a more active and varied life than most poets. As R.F. Foster says, he was “a poetic genius who was also, both serially and simultaneously, a playwright, journalist, occultist, apprentice politician, revolutionary, stage-manager, diner-out, dedicated friend, confidant and lover of some of the most...
Henry and Louise in the Lair de Clune
“Rochester had sprung up like a mush- room, but no presage of decay could be drawn from its hasty growth.” āNathaniel Hawthorne The day after his 101st birthday, novelist Henry W. Clune escorted my wife and me to a fine local restaurant, where we dined in the Henry Clune Room. “It’s a sin to live...
Raw Bits
Some undigested odds and ends this month. Let’s seeālet’s start with some survey research on regional differences, real and perceived. From California comes word that the Stanford Research Institute has come up with a typology of Americans based on their (excuse the expression) life-styles. Not surprisingly, the types are not distributed uniformly across the U.S....
Migrant Crime Turning Cities Into War Zones
The Statue of Liberty says, "Give me your tired, your poor." It doesn't say your lawbreakers, brutes, and gang leaders. But criminals posing as asylum seekers are exploiting soft-hearted Americans and terrorizing their cities.
After Bolton, Trump Goals Remain Unrealized
The sudden and bitter departure of John Bolton from the White House was baked in the cake from the day he arrived there. For Bolton’s worldview, formed and fixed in a Cold War that ended in 1991, was irreconcilable with the policies Donald Trump promised in his 2016 campaign. Indeed, Trump was elected because he...
The Skinny on the Pulps
In the days before my life became a perpetual holiday, there was always the pair of inquisitive Italians across the table who wanted to know why I had chosen to live in London. They saw I was a writer, and an unambitious one at that; why not live in Italy? They saw I liked eating;...
Everybody in America
As I understand gun control, the idea is to disarm criminals unless they work for the government. Police used to see their duty as to protect people.Ā Since the feds took over training them, more and more of them think their job is to swagger, push people around, and make military-style assaults. An Obama spokesperson...
The Ingersoll Prizes
“In the long reach of history, it is the cultural institutions which mark the city of enlightenment, not its generals nor its statesmen nor its entrepreneurs.” So declared Dr. John A. Howard, president of The Ingersoll Foundation and of The Rockford Institute, as he welcomed leading scholars, critics, business executives, and patrons of the arts...
Martyrs Inc.
“When I must define my own views,” writes Milovan Djilas in his latest book, Of Prisons and Ideas, “I identify them as ‘democratic socialist.'” For those who find this oxymoronic, Djilas’ whole book may seem like an exercise in contortion. True to his earlier autobiographical works, Djilas clings to the purity and the intensity of...
Code Yellow
Talk about the failure of fundamental journalism!Ā In any other professionāmedical, legal, financialāthe guilty party would be struck off.Ā In journalism, the guilty partyāas in Rolling Stoneācontinues on its merry way of disinformation and downright fabrication.Ā Some Duke University lacrosse players must be nodding their heads, as in weāve seen it all before.Ā Letās start...
My Vote Still Counts
Back in 2004, I was part of the 62% of Ohio voters who supported a referendum to amend the Ohio Constitution to define marriage as āa union between one man and one woman.ā Last week, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decided, in a 2 to 1 decision, that my voteāand those of some 3....
Terrorism, Immigration, and the UK Election
[above: Fishmongers’ Hall across London Bridge] Let āDover Beach,ā Matthew Arnoldās finest poem, be the epigraph for today. Many migrants come on shore there in tiny and dangerous boats, often escorted in by border patrols. They will mostly be allowed to stay in England. Many are not intercepted and fade without trace into the mainland....