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...
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Just How Monarchical is Monsieur Mitterrand?
Ever since Machiavelli, and probably long before that, successful statesmen have known that a plentiful stock of mendacity, as well as guile, are essential for anyone wishing to get ahead in politics. But what many of them may have forgotten during their arduous climb to the summit is that the often bitter accusations they level...
The Way of the World
In his essay on āself-reliance,ā Emerson wrote that ātravelling is a foolās paradise.āĀ He was referring to those who travel to escape the boredom or sadness of their lives, and who hope to return home somehow transformed.Ā Yet we may add those who travel to boast (āLook, here I am at the Parthenon!ā or āI...
Is Laken Rileyās Life Worth Less Than George Floydās?
The issue facing Biden and his party is not whether to call Ibarra āillegal,ā āundocumentedā or a ānewcomer,ā but whether they intend to protect Americans from gang members.
The Courtās Own Critic
The Essential Scalia: On the Constitution, the Courts, and the Rule of Law;Ā By Antonin Scalia;Ā Edited by Jeffrey S. Sutton and Edward Whelan; Foreword by Justice Elena Kagan;Ā Crown Forum;Ā 368 pp., $35.00 Ā Steven Calabresi, one of theĀ founders of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, maintains that Antonin Scalia was the greatest justice ever...
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...
Conservative Imagination
Benjamin Disraeli and John Henry Cardinal Newman are credited with bringing intriguing imponderables into the syndrome of conservative philosophies. Theirs was, in Russell Kirk’s phrase, “conservatism of imagination,” a rather vague category of cognition and judgment. In fact, Disraeli’s historical image is deceptively coherent, definable, even simple: he’s perceived as an astute statesman, dedicated to...
Seeing Through a Glass Darkly
The Woman in the Window Directed by Joe Wright ā Written by Tracy Letts from the novel by A. J. FinnĀ ā Produced by 20th Century Studios ā Distributed by Netflix Things Heard & Seen Directed and written by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, based on the novel All Things Cease to Appear by...
The World of the Small Press
If your local bookstore does not stock Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson, Guilty by Georges Bataille, Altazor by Vincente Huidobro, Compact by Maurice Roche, Space in Motion by Juan Goytisolo, I-57 by Paul Metcalf, Concierto Barroco by Alejo Carpentier, or Cold Tales by Virgilio Pinera, you’re living in a culturally deprived area. All these books...
The World According to St. Mugg
If we are to believe today’s punditsāan awfully big “if”āthere are many global crises threatening the 20th century. Nuclear weapons and overpopulation currently top the list. Unfortunately, it sometimes seems that there are only two available responses. The first is the “liberal” response, which assumes that mankind already possesses the tools and skills to repair...
Brown Revolution in Ukraine: BBC Legitimizes the Neo-Nazis
A recent BBC article on the “far right” in Ukraine by David Stern is a perfect example of the mainstream media’s effort to obfuscate and distort events in Ukraine to make the neo-nazis that dominated the anti-Yanukovych forces seem legitimate.Ā This is first seen in the title of the article itself (“Ukraine’s Revolution and the...
Donald Sterling and The Whole Ball of Wax
“Race in America is always an inflammatory, volatile thing,” chirped NPR sports commentator Tom Goldman on this morning’s “Morning Edition. Goldman was sounding off to David Greene on the woes of Donald Sterling, owner of the LA Clippers, who expressed himself too candidly on matters of race in a private phone call. The word “always”...
With Prejudice
I have been a Eurocentric, heterosexual, white male ever since I was a little baby. An unreconstructed Marxist would say that this accident of birthācarelessly amplified of late by the sybaritic sojourn in a palazzo on the Grand Canal whose windows watch the West decline over the campanile of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frariāis what...
Back at the Front
When Senator Jesse Helms was in his prime, one newspaperman described his crusades on the Senate floor as “stompin’ trompin’ ultra-right action.” Ultra-rightists of the Helmsian kidney were not offended, and most were despondent when the most reliable man on the right went into ideological hibernation during the Reagan-Bush years. Helms went after a few...
Golden Standards
There are numerous references to gold in the Bible.Ā Gold was used to construct the ark and tabernacle (Exodus 25), adorned Solomonās court (1 Kings 10), and is visible in Heaven in St. Johnās Apocalypse (Revelation 4:4).Ā Gold symbolizes value (Proverbs 8:10) and earthly wealth (Acts 3:6); among its many descriptors is āfire-triedā (1 Peter...
Claudine Gay Is Not a Martyr
The disgraced former president of Harvard University is representative of the DEI regime and the massive undertaking it will be to dismantle it.
The Next Militia Panic
Only a fool would try to foretell the course of U.S. politics a few months in advance, let alone several years in the future.Ā The fact that Democrats are riding high after their electoral triumph last November does not necessarily mean that they will win the White House in 2008.Ā But just suppose that January...
An Anti-Gang Model
The Anti-Gang statute of Harvard, Illinois, which has served as a model for similar statutes in many Chicago suburbs, was recently struck down by an Illinois appellate court. The Harvard law made it a crime to display gang colors and symbolsāsuch displays lead to frequent clashes, violence, and murder. The challenge came from an admitted...
Alito 5 Must Stay the Course
In February, five Supreme Court Justices voted in camera to overturn Roe v. Wade and send the issue of abortion back to the states, where it resided until 1973. Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett had all signed on to the majority opinion overturning Roe that had been drafted by...
The Mental Health Alibi
Like a strange melody that keeps playing in my ear are four letters, PTSD, which seem increasingly to afflict American criminals. I suppose some shrink invented post-traumatic stress disorder; then ambulance-chasing lawyers picked it up, and finally the criminals themselves have discovered it. It is the quickest get-out-of-jail scheme since habeas corpus. We are...
The Stone Wall Has Crumbled
Last June, the tradition of 157 years at single-sex Virginia Military Institute was changed by the vote of seven Justices in Washington. The statue of Stonewall Jackson still guarded the parade grounds, but the general who stood like a stone wall at Manassas could not prevail against those seven Justices. His slogan is still emblazoned...
Egypt Stabilized
Ā TheĀ arrest on October 30 of Essam el-Erian, a member of the Muslim Brotherhoodās once-powerful Guidance Council and deputy leader of the MB-controlledĀ Freedom and Justice Party, demonstrates the extent to which the interim government of Egypt has been able to cement its control over the country since former president Mohammed Morsi was ousted almost four...
The Decline of Christian America
“This is a Christian nation,” said the Supreme Court in 1892. “America was born a Christian nation,” echoed Woodrow Wilson. Harry Truman affirmed it: “This is a Christian nation.” But in 2009, Barack Hussein Obama begged to differ: “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.” Comes now a Pew Research Center survey that reveals...
Books in Brief: Becoming Elisabeth Elliot
Becoming Elisabeth Elliot, by Ellen Vaughn (B&H Books; 320 pp., $24.99). This is the official biography of the wife of famed missionary martyr Jim Elliot, who was killed along with four other missionaries while attempting to bring the Gospel to a group of savage natives in the South American jungle during the mid-1950s. Elliot was...
A Strained Performance
Vladimir Putinās strained performance at a June 25 Kremlin press conferenceātimed to precede his departure for a G-8 summit in Canadaāhas led many Russian observers to reassess the popular image of the Russian president as a āstrong handā who had whipped the oligarchs into line and restored order in the long-suffering āLand of the Firebird.ā...
The Forgotten Reason for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
āThe U.S. Can Neither Ignore nor Solve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflictā was the headline ofĀ Martin Indykās May 14 article inĀ Foreign Affairs. Washington may not be able to end that conflict, he wrote, but must actively manage it. Indyk, a former U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace under President Barack Obama, and who served two separate...
Culture War: Fighting On
āTranscend yourself and join in the universal struggle to bring about the self-transcendence of all men!ā āKarl Marx Culture, as the term is used in America in our times, covers a vast territory with ill-defined frontiers.Ā There is primitive culture (flint spearheads, animal and human sacrifice).Ā There is high culture (Shakespeare, Michelangelo).Ā There is, or...
Exploding the Leftās āLanguage Virusā with William S. Burroughs
Inoculating yourself against the language virus of the left requires regular doses of cold, hard truth and, perhaps, the kind of madmen who are not afraid to offer it up on the regular.
Laughing at the Hereafter
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife; by Bart D. Ehrman; Simon & Schuster; 352 pp., $28.00 Were popular success an index of scholarly mastery, Broadway musical composer Andrew Lloyd Webber would be recognized as a world authority on Christology. He is not, but Bart D. Ehrman is, and his presumptive expertise in the...
Alien Nation
When Pope John Paul II would arrive in a new country, his first action was always to drop to his knees and kiss the ground. This gesture of reverence was usually portrayed in the media as a sign of respect and of love for the people of that countryāand it was that. But for the...
Prince Andrew in Disgrace
The fall of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, is index to the strength of the monarchy. He has now been ordered by the Queen to step back from public life āfor the foreseeable future.ā His continued friendship with the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was the immediate cause, and it was followed by the Dukeās ill-judged...
Beijing Sends Biden a Warning
Because of Donald Trump, Vice President Joe Biden thundered during the campaign, the U.S. “is more isolated in the world than we’ve ever been … America First has made America alone.” Biden promised to repair relations with America’s allies. And he appears to have gone some distance to do so in the congratulatory phone call...
Foreign Fiascoes
Endless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World by Jonathan Kwitny; Congdon & Weed, New York. During the formative years of the American republic, AlexanĀder Hamilton proposed that a national debt would be beneficial since it would tie the wealthy, the lenders, to the fledgling government, the debtor. Hamilton doubtless would regard a trillion-dollar national...
The Null Set
Less Than Zero directed by Marek Kanievska screenplay by Harley Peyton based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis 20th Century Fox Tom Waits recently suggested to Musician magazine that if John Lennon knew that Michael Jackson would control The Beatles’ music, Lennon would “kick his assāand kick it really good.” As I watched the...
There Ain’t No Such Thing as āFree Loveā
TANSTAAFL with its triple repetition of the letter āAā is an acronym popularized by science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein meaning, āThere aināt no such thing as a free lunch.ā TANSTAFL with a double A is my play on Heinleinās contrivance: āThere aināt no such thing as free love.ā Free love may bring to mind that term...
Muddling the Missile Crisis
The Abyss, a pop history treatment of the Cuban Missile Crisis, revives unhistorical myths in an effort to chalk the whole thing up to American hysteria, and to portray the bumbling JFK as having masterfully handled the crisis.
Sewanee, Deconstructed
āMake it new!ā demanded Ezra Pound.Ā Would he have liked the cover for the outrageous winter 2017 issue of the Sewanee Review, Americaās oldest continuously published literary quarterly?Ā It consists of a mustard-yellow ground on which, in addition to the title, in a new font, are scattered six rough parallelograms, blue, as if scissored from...
Bo Gritz and Middle America
“You want to go see Bo Gritz burn the U.N. flag?” My libertarian neighbor Bill, during the final days of the last presidential campaign, was making me an offer I couldn’t refuse. I have always been half-frustrated by mv failure to take advantage of all those radical activities in my college days during the 60’s....
Time for Disengagment
āIāve spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower, and one that had no compunction about spending what it took to sustain that position,ā outgoing Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Newsweek on June 19.Ā ā[F]rankly I canāt imagine being part of a nation, part of a government . . . thatās...
Blue State Mencken
In 1989, a volume of H.L. Menckenās journals was published.Ā The contents revealed, among many other things, impolite utterances by the Sage of Baltimore about blacks and Jews.Ā (Mencken also sailed into the ways of ālintheadsā and āmountaineers,ā but that bothered no one.)Ā The denunciations came fast and furious.Ā As I recall, one journalist refused...
The PitāAnd the Pendulum
Our Founding Fathers understood that they had inaugurated a republican federal union unique in its balance and distribution of powers. Unlike their descendants, who self-indulgently congratulate themselves on their democracy, the Fathers also understood that the preservation of such a regime was a daunting and demanding task, requiring virtue (in the masculine Roman sense) on...
A Houdini of Time
“I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.” āJeremiah 23:30 After seven years on public and private payrolls as senior editor of the King Papers Project, Clayborne Carson has finally produced the first volume of MLK’s papers. The project began in 1984, and since 1986 has...
Perspectives on RPW
The late Mark Winchellās recently published Robert Penn Warren: Genius Loves Company is a collection of essays focusing on Warrenās close associations and literary affinities.Ā Warren was known as a kind and generous man who encouraged other writers in their work, helped those in need, and nurtured fragile friendships over a lifetime, sometimes with people...
A Flounder and the Shark
Vladimir Bukovsky remarked that without a guide through the “labyrinths of the Soviet soul,” studies of socialism “are simply uselessāor worse, they make the subject even more obscure. “ Were it not for the fact that Adam Ulam has been interpreting the Soviet Union since long before Bukovsky made his comment, one could suspect that...
“Immigration Is Our Strength”
āImmigration is our strength!āĀ Or so neoconservatives and mainstream Republicans have argued for 20 years.Ā Hispanic immigration, especially.Ā Mexican immigrants, neoconservative wisdom has it, are hardworking, entrepreneurial, religious, and dedicated to family values.Ā Not only are they model American citizens waiting to happen; they are natural Republican voters to be encouraged, developed, and sent marching...
Is Trump Capturing the ‘Law and Order’ Issue?
Did President Donald Trump launch his Twitter barrage at Elijah Cummings simply because the Baltimore congressman was black? Was it just a “racist” attack on a member of the Black Caucus? Or did Trump go after Cummings after a Saturday Fox News report that his district was in far worse condition than the Mexican border...
New International Order
The GATT Trade talks in Europe collapsed and surprised advocates of the new international order. American officials tagged blame on the nations of Western Europe and Japan for their intransigent unwillingness to dismantle national farm programs sheltering indigenous rural communities. Our negotiators blasted the irrational protection of obsolete jobs and an incomprehensible subsidy to undercapitalized,...
Letter from a Legend
Chroniclesā editors should be commended for publishing several hard-hitting articles on the leftās pernicious censorship and particularly for providing an interview with a young friend of mine, Michael Millerman, who has been victimized by academic bigots (āInterview with a Condemned Academic,ā Chronicles, August 2019). Like Michael, I have written on Leo Strauss and Martin Heidegger...
Terrorist Attacks: Causes and Implications
In his latest RT interview Dr. Trifkovic considers the state of play following the announcement by Russiaās FSB security agency that the plane crash over Sinai was a terrorist attack. RT:Ā Srdja Trifkovic, foreign affairs editor at Chronicles magazine, is in Belgrade . . . What are you thoughts on the new information about the plane...
Living With Culture
One of the best things in life for a writer who sets out to be an artist is to be appreciated by people whose opinions are generally respected and valued. That is the happy condition in which I find myself this evening, and I thank the directors of the Ingersoll Foundation and the Rockford Institute....