If the role of religion in America today is to teach the faithful to bend over and kiss the ring of postmodernity and beg for forgiveness for actually believing something, the Lutheran ChurchâMissouri Synod just failed spectacularly, flubbed its lines, and fell off the stage. I, for one, am elated. Tuesdayâs St. Louis Post-Dispatch revealed...
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Europe and America
Studies have established that identical twins separated at birth exhibit very similar physical, psychological, and biochemical traits, regardless of the environment in which they grow up. They will have similar voices, gestures, tastes, incomes, professions, wivesâand similar diseases. A twin adopted by an Italian firefighter from New Jersey and his brother reared by a Jewish...
Overlooking Mass KillersâIf Theyâre on the Totalitarian Left
Imgard Furchner, a 96-year-old resident of a special care facility in Germany, is being investigated as a war criminal. She will appear in court in a wheelchair, which is now her customary way of moving about, the Swiss magazine DieWeltwoche reports. She did try to escape from her accusers in a taxi but was apprehended...
Bad Georgie
The facts of George Garrett’s literary career are laid out in the bibliography here: his 24 books include novels, plays, and collections of poems and short stories. In addition he has served as editor of 17 other booksâinterviews with contemporary writers, literary criticism, books on film scripts. He has also written a biography of the...
To Teach or To Sneer
Authentic conservatives and their libertarian allies have long been a small minority in a larger movement that, for the most part, rejected their radical critique of the managerial state. The âpaleosâ were singled out for attack by the neoconservatives, that exotic sect of ex-leftists prophetically described by Russell Kirk as âthis little Sacred Bandâwhich had...
Pope Francis and the Liberal Delusions
Pope Francis has been under attack from many directions. Â Perhaps some day his enemies–most of which are self-described traditionalist (as opposed to traditional) Catholics–will find some dirt to stick on the poor man, but so far they appear to be missing their target by more than a mile. Â The most ridiculous charge–made among others...
On Transnationalism
In Bill Kauffman’s sermon “World Citizens on Main Street” (March 1997), he decries the purchase of a local Batavia, New York, tractor factory by a German firm as an example of foreign “Teutonic overlords . . . tied to Batavia only by the flimsy cord of the almighty dollar.” Using such epithets as “executioners” and...
Playback
The recent death of Robert Mitchum reminds us not only of his appearance in one of the best film noirs. Out of the Past, but of his impersonation of the detective Philip Marlowe in the remake of Farewell, My Lovely and The Big Sleep. Mitchum once claimed that, in his early days, he tended bar...
The Managerial Mob
From the October 1998 issue of Chronicles. “Michael, we’re bigger than U.S. Steel,” boasts gangland mastermind Hyman Roth to his (quite temporary) partner, Michael Corleone, in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, Part II. Hyman, however, was not the first to say it, and those familiar with the life history and achievements of the gentleman on...
American Proscenium â Ship of Fools
The debate on how to render America impotent has reached orgasmic intensity. Suddenly, everybody sees atomic war just around the corner; the conventional liberal media are organizing giant scare campaigns (in the name of the people’s right to know), while the radicals, the professional freezeniks, the regular pro-ÂMoscow troops, and all the incorporated communist- front...
The Coming Belgoslavia?
What was meant to grow separately cannot last long as an artificial whole. This prehistoric wisdom seems to be forgotten by advocates of multiculturalismâwhich is just a misleading euphemism for polyethnism and multiracialism. The unpredictable side of multiracial conviviality seems to be deliberately overlooked by political elites in multiethnic and multiracial Belgium, a miniscule country...
The Other Leviathan
The world has always been a place of unexamined terms. Probably it has never been so full of them as it is under modern democratic industrial capitalism, whichâdepending upon the rigor with which one defines the word democraticâis actually a contradiction in terms. Industrialism, which essentially is applied natural and human power on a large...
‘Timing Is the Thing’
Which is more important: to know history well or to use what history you know in making important decisions? With some hesitation (since one is a trained historian), the authors of Thinking in Time decide for the latter. In a comparison between Harry Truman’s and George Marshall’s ability to learn from history, the authors side...
Home for Political Animals
Visitors to Charleston sometimes take note of the Latin inscriptions on historical plaques: Collegium Carolopolitanum, Diocesis Carolopolitana, and, most commonly, Carolopolis, the Latin version of Charlestonâs name, which sounds like one of those Greek cities created by Alexander the Great and his successors somewhere in the hinterlands of Bithynia or Afghanistan. Charleston has always been...
“All the News Unfit to Print”
The systematic and deliberate destruction of the Yugoslav democratic revival by the “international community” and its Belgrade minions following the fall of Slobodan Milosevic may not be the most important news unfit to print of the year, but it is certainly the biggest untold story. As we approach the anniversary of this event, the time...
Pardon the Pardons
It is reported that “faithful adherence to legal principle sometimes [takes] a back seat to the more compelling demands of politics.” This appears to be a pointed assessment of a little-publicized controversy surrounding the pardon of four convicts by last year’s Acting Governor of Arkansas, dentist Jerry Jewell. As president pro tempore of the state...
Just One More Justice
At the polls last November, conservatives and libertarians who vote according to conscience had two options: Bob Barr (Libertarian Party) and Chuck Baldwin (Constitution Party). Combined, these two garnered only 719,655 votesâa paltry amount compared with John McCainâs 59,082,002. For those who believe in smaller government, fiscal responsibility, and individual liberty, the 2008 election was...
French Boors and Chinese Whores
Here we go again, sports fans! During a recent tennis match between two professionals in Indian Wells, California, a racial slur uttered by one of the players has the usual suspects up in arms. The first off the bat was, of course, the newspaper that prints only what fits p.c., the dreadful Big Bagel Times. ...
A Humble Love
âNot only England, but every Englishman is an island.â âFriedrich von Hardenberg John Betjemanâs evocative and educative television programs and his uniquely readable poetry have left an indelible image in the British public mindâof a jolly, witty, and eccentric man, ambling around Britainâs cities and countryside, pointing out hitherto unnoticed details of hitherto underappreciated buildings...
September 11: Ten Years After
Ten years ago, on the morning of September 11, I was in my apartment in California getting ready for work when a friend called. âTurn on the TV,â she said. âWhatâs going on?â âJust turn on the TV.â I turned on the tube in time to see the second airliner crash into the south tower...
Trump’s In-Kind Contribution to Bernie
The directed killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s blood-soaked field marshal in the “forever war” of the Middle East, has begun to roil the politics of both the region and the USA. A stunned and shaken Iran retaliated by firing a dozen missiles at two U.S. bases in Iraq. Yet, before launching the attack, Iran...
The Notorious Star Chamber
NAFTAâthe North American Free Trade Agreementâis not unlike the notorious star chamber, where the king and counsellors of medieval England secretly meted out justice without concern for precedent. If Congress approves NAFTA, George Bush’s proudest diplomatic achievement, Americans can expect a heavy dose of star-chamber-style justice in the 21st century. For the average citizen, NAFTA...
Disabled
Dear Dr. Rââ: Recently, I read an article about the explosion in the number of Americans receiving disability from the federal government. In fact, that same government now pays out more for disabilities than it does for food stamps and welfare combined. Certainly, many of those receiving aid truly require this assistance. But after perusing...
Waugh Stories
    “A shriller note could now be heard rising from Sir Alastair’s rooms; any who have heard that sound will shrink at the recollection of it; it is the sound of the English county families baying for broken glass.”âEvelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall Two vignettes illustrate Evelyn Waugh’s character. One has to...
How to Help Kids Hate Reading
Readers: Please read this newspaper for 20 minutes every night until you have finished the entire issue. You may read longer, of course, but 20 minutes is the minimum. Use a timer. Record the date and number of articles you read each day, and the reporter. Please also indicate the topic of the article and...
The Balkans in Brief
If every man is worthy of a biography (as Johnson suggested), then every people, no matter how small, deserves a decent one-volume history that makes the story of the Bretons or the Armenians intelligible to foreigners. That is the admirable purpose of Blackwellâs âThe Peoples of Europeâ series, which presents the âusually turbulent historyâ of...
Brown Revolution in Ukraine: An American Academic Gets It Right
In an LA Times op-ed (“Ukraine’s threat from within”), University of South California professor of international relations Robert D. English describes the ugly essence of the Brown Revolution. His take on the neo-nazi dominated rebellion is much needed and sorely lacked in the American media. I already picture the pro-Maidan hacks at NYT, National Review,...
Old Answers to Old Questions
After a decade or two of introspective breast-beating, educators are turning from an examination of what is wrong with public schooling to what is right with private schooling. This latest entry to the field examines religious education in the United States. Nearly 5.1 million students attend some sort of private school (K-12), eschewing for whatever...
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. This doctrine was spectacularly reiterated a month before Karadzicâs capture, when the Muslim wartime commander of...
The Voice That Won’t Be Silenced
Tucker Carlson's voice is too important to silence because he speaks for so many people.
Simple Answers for Hateful Minds
When did Americans become the stormtroopers of irrational simplification? Not a moment passes when a tweet, Facebook post, or Instagram picture doesnât rip through our amber waves of grain and drive a social justice warrior to attack the nearest deplorable. Take this recent example from The New York Times of a mentally deranged reductionist. In...
Cold War Comfort
To say I was a difficult child is something of an understatement: I was a wild child. In retrospect, I can only feel sorry for my poor parents, who had no idea what to do with me. I was simply unmanageable. Unwilling to sit still in class, or to obey the simplest instructions, I did...
Doing Music Wrong
National Public Radio is a bad idea, as you can tell from the name. But the specific reality is even worse, though I suppose it comes in different forms. The service is varied in that local stations can tailor themselves differently. But I believe that my take on NPR is basically true about the âNPR...
Strategic Lessons of Clintonâs Health Crisis
According to Hillary Clintonâs campaign talking points, she wanted to âpower throughâ her pneumonia; but after that âoverheating episodeâ on September 11 it âseemed like the smart thing to doâ to take some downtime. According to Politico.com, which obtained the document, âthose phrases, projecting strength, prudence, and vigor, were among the six bullet-pointed talking points...
On Loving the Patria
Thomas Flemingâs âLove the One Youâre Withâ (Perspective, January) is the kind of writing that first attracted me to Chronicles and The Rockford Institute. It is for this caliber of discussion that I return every year to the Summer School. When I read Dr. Fleming, I can be sure that English is being properly used,...
Trump or Ryan: Who Speaks for the GOP?
“No modern precedent exists for the revival of a party so badly defeated, so intensely discredited, and so essentially split as the Republican Party is today.” Taken from The Party That Lost Its Head by Bruce Chapman and George Gilder, this excerpt, about Barry Goldwater’s defeat in 1964, led Thursday’s column by E.J. Dionne of...
Haunted by Yesterday
“In literature, it is the hereditary spirit that still prevails.” âGeorge Santayana Nothing is more dangerous for the critic than taking a book cover at face value. But when the blurbs compare the author to William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, and Saul Bellow, the challenge is irresistible. And since these are the claims with...
The Nightmare of Socialized Medicine
Vladimir Lenin enacted universal, “cradle-to-grave” health coverage in the Soviet Union in 1918. The “right to health” was made one of the constitutional rights of all Soviet citizens; it ranked alongside the “right” to vacation, free dental care, housing, and a clean and safe environment. As in other fields, all services were to be planned...
Is Putin the Provocateur in the Kerch Crisis?
On departure for the G-20 gathering in Buenos Aires, President Donald Trump canceled his planned weekend meeting with Vladimir Putin, citing as his reason the Russian military’s seizure and holding of three Ukrainian ships and 24 sailors. But was Putin really the provocateur in Sunday’s naval clash outside Kerch Strait, the Black Sea gateway to...
Jerry Brown Talks
On July 7 Chronicles sent freelance writer Jim Christie to interview Jerry Brown in Oakland, California. Ask any Democratic Party insider in California about Jerry Brown, and he will usually say Brown is one of three things; an embarrassment, a flake, or a jerk. The institutional meanness, the state party’s party line, toward the former...
The Revolt of Islam
In 1899, Winston Churchill expressed his concern about the âmilitant and proselytizing faithâ of Islam. âWere it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science,â he said, âthe science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.â His contemporary, Lord...
Christmas With the Devil
âThe true meaning of Christmas gets lost when we believe contrary worldviews,â the prisoner writes. âOur beliefs determine our views in a world where absolutes are fading away.â The prisoner is dictating this for his newsletter. Come-to-Jesus (or -Allah) experiences abound in prisons, so itâs always wise to take conversion stories with a grain of...
An Insulting Budget
President Clinton’s $1.77 trillion budget proposal is an insult, and not just to the GOP-dominated Congress that will not pass it; It is an insult to the intelligence of the American people. Predictably, Sen. Pete Domenici, Republican point-man on budget, and new Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert both condemned the plan to raise taxes...
Falling Off the Turnip Truck
“And somewhere, waiting for its birth, / The shaft is in the stone.” âHenry Timrod Searching for the “Southern quality” once identified by Marshall McLuhan can be an absorbing and rewarding quest. After all, the South is a vast and varied region, one that has, as things go in this country, a lot of history...
Adamsâ Federalism
In 1786, John Adams wrote in his diary that a friend, âlamenting the differences of character between Virginia and New England,â welcomed from Adams a recipe for a Chesapeake makeover: âI recommended to him town meetings, training days, town schools, and ministersâ; these âare the scenes where New England men were formed.â Because Adams started...
Will WikiLeaks Help End the Afghan War?
The brave hope of the soldier who sent 92,000 secret documents to WikiLeaks was that the disclosure of willful, casual slaughter of civilians by coalition personnel (with ensuing cover-ups), the utter failure of
Remembering Bridge on the River Kwai
This nearly 70-year-old war film was in some sense an anti-war film.
The Tragedy of Richard Nixon
Pat Buchananâs new biography of Richard Nixonâs presidency is the first volume anyone looking at that tumultuous time should turn to. Having served as Nixonâs researcher and speechwriter starting in 1966, Buchanan, not yet 30, followed the victorious President into the White House in 1969. In Nixonâs White House Wars, Buchanan makes it clear that Nixonâs tragic...
Is Trump Exiting Afghanistanâto Attack Iran?
With the Pentagon’s announcement that U.S. forces in Afghanistan will be cut in halfâto 2,500âby inauguration day, after 19 years, it appears the end to America’s longest war may be in sight. The Pentagon also announced a reduction of U.S. troop levels in Iraq to 2,500 by mid-January. In 2003, we invaded and occupied Iraq...
American Gestapo
Joseph Bolanosâ reputation as a pillar of New York Cityâs Upper West Side community was shredded in February when FBI agents and heavily armed police raided his motherâs apartment where Bolanos was spending the night. They handcuffed him while other agents battered down the door to his home and kept him in the street in...