In Samuel Eliot Morison’s The Oxford History of the American People, there is a single sentence about Harriet Tubman. “An illiterate field hand, (Tubman) not only escaped herself but returned repeatedly and guided more than 300 slaves to freedom.” Morison, however, devotes most of five chapters to the greatest soldier-statesman in American history, save Washington,...
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Romney’s Retreat
The October 1 issueĀ of the New York Times carried an important piece by Michael Shear and Ashley Parker stating that the Romney camp was going to stop running a campaign focused solely on the economy: Instead, Romney intends to hit the White House with a series of argumentsāon energy, health care, taxes, spending and...
Television
Events in India of nearly 40 years ago are in the news all at once. The television series, The Jewel in the Crown, has touched the public’s nerveānot necessarily the raw nerve. The reaction has been so strong that the chemistry of success deserves close scrutiny. The exploitation of India’s resources is an old story....
Commendables ā Troubled Sleep
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus; University of California; Berkeley. In the more than 165 years since Mary Shelley wrote her Gothic tale, Victor Frankenstein and his monster have beĀcome an enduring symbol of the modĀern mind. She was only a girl of 18 when her adolescent nightmares curĀdled into the murky tale...
The War for the Soul of America
The war in Washington will not end until the presidency of Donald Trump ends. Everyone seems to sense that now. This is a fight to the finish. A postelection truce that began with Trump congratulating House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosiā”I give her a great deal of credit for what she’s done and what she’s accomplished”āwas...
Bible-Belt Baroque
For some time, my friends Jeff and Rebecca Calcutt (a pair of Southern patriots sans pareil), had urged me to pay a visit to Bob Jones University in Greenville.Ā I have no interest in driving to Greenville, I told them.Ā I donāt like mountains, not even little ones.Ā I donāt like Clemson fans, with those...
A Curse on Both Houses: Bibi and Hamas
The only solution I can come up with for the current version of this old mess is to condemn both Hamas and Netanyahu.
Do We Need Economic Reform at All?
If there is anything that we should have learned from the 20th century, it is that socialism turned out to be a colossal failure. That was not, however, obvious to large numbers of Americans at the time. Though they might not have bought into full-blown socialism, many 20th-century American intellectuals, economists, and politicians insisted that...
Trespass Against Us
Larry Woiwode, the North Dakota novelist (I do not mean that in aĀ diminishing way), has described his fiction as “a continuing spiritual exercise that any reader may join in on.” His fifth novel, Indian Affairs, is a fitfully satisfying workout.Ā Indian Affairs reintroduces us to Chris Van Eananam, a graduate student, and his wife Ellen;...
Old Times There Are Not Forgotten
I’m sure some readers of these letters are tired of hearing what a special place the South is. So I’ll warn you: I’m going to say it again. And I’m going to quote all sorts of other people who say it, too. Come back next month if you can’t take it. The South is a...
Kosovo and Its Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy
The struggle for Kosovo between Christian Serbs and Muslim Albanians dates back to 1389, when the Serbs were defeated by, and their lands annexed to, the Ottoman Empire. Muslim rule lasted over four centuries and resulted in several waves of forced migrations of Serbs from Kosovo. The ...
The Trail of the Bear
Like many of his generation, Theodore Roosevelt had a fondness for trekking into wild places and, while taking in the sights, shooting the large game he found. He was especially fond of hunting bears. Doing so, he recounted in Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail, heightened his appreciation for his own mortality, and it made him...
Human Pesticide
RU-486 is, by now, probably neatly stacked on pharmacy shelves across the fruited plain, right next to the Raid and Ritalin, ready for every woman who needs a quick “final solution,” with or without parental consentāor that of us knuckle-dragging sperm donors. It’s legal now, and, of course, that means it’s ethical, too. Not like...
In Defense of Italian Nationhood
What makes a nation? In the case of Italy, it was a linguistic and cultural nation long before it became a political one.
Trespassing in the City
A medieval European ventured outside his walled city warily, knowing that robbers lurked in the wilds beyond the reach of the feudal order. In late 20th-century America, we have turned this aroundāfor most of us, it is only when we venture into the city that we concern ourselves with the lawless. They thrive there, provided...
Discrimination and Prejudice
Some of the confusion in thinking about matters of race stems from the ambiguity in the terms that we use. I am going to take a stab at suggesting operational definitions for a couple terms in our discussion of race. Good analytical thinking requires that we do not confuse one behavioral phenomenon with another.Ā Ā ...
Parent Abuse
As tales of child abuse are screamed out on the nightly news, pressures mount for a national policy. Adolescent children are taken away from parents who appear “too strict,” and state after state have passed laws on child abuse that include vague provisions for “mental health.” Parents are beginning to wonder exactly where they stand....
The Three Sisters
Crimes of the Heart written by Beth Henley directed by Bruce Beresford De Laurentiis Entertainment Group When Perseus went to slay the monster Medusa, advice and presents from Minerva and Mercury were not enough; he had to seek out the Graeaeāthree crones with but a single prized eye they shared between them, which Perseus snatched...
Muslim Crimes in Britain
During the last few months in Britain there have been yet more revelations of new Muslim crimes and detailed confirmations of older ones. In 2014 Lutfur Rahman, a Muslim, was elected for a second term as the mayor of Tower Hamlets, a London borough where one third of the population is Muslim.Ā This April a...
A Conservative Tax Code
Few American objects attract more scorn than the federal Internal Revenue Code.Ā When initially drafted in 1914, it contained 11,400 words, about the length of a long magazine article.Ā Today, the Code weighs in at about four million words, with another six million in supportive regulations.Ā Its garbled syntax is easily ridiculed.Ā Tax attorney Joseph...
A Marvelous Tragedy
Sling Blade, the recent hit film that rightly won Billy Bob Thornton an Academy Award, is now out on video. As viewers of the film know, it is a marvelous tragedy of classical simplicity. But what has not been mentioned is that it is also a tale told in the tradition of Southern literature. As...
The Politics of Illegitimacy Rates
Since the early 1960’s, compiling statistics on illegitimacy rates in the United States has been the official responsibility of the National Center for Health Statistics. However, the methodology employed by that federal agency to determine illegitimacy rates according to race has been inaccurate, classifying virtually all illegitimate Hispanic births as illegitimate “white” births. The result...
The “Contragate” Hearings
The “Contragate” hearings have been a poor substitute for daytime soap operas and do not begin to match the thrills of Watergate. Perhaps it is because we have heard them before: arrogantly inarticulate congressmen scoring points off frightened bureaucrats, an administration that turns to private contractors to carry on apparently illegal activities, and an imperialist...
Deep as Dante
Brenda Wineappleās new biography of the most brilliant flower of the New England Renaissance reminded me that it was time to reread Hawthorne.Ā She delineated the man very well, got his politics almost right, but barely did justice to his work. Writing in 1847, ten years after the publication of Hawthorneās first collection of stories,...
America Today: From Sea to Shining Sea
It is reported that a machete-wielding Somali has attacked an Asian in a restaurant owned by an Israeli. In Ohio. All but a few of the bakerās dozen contenders for the Republican presidential nomination advocate warlike measures against Russia, Syria, and Iran. Consequences are not discussed. Most of them want to fight terrorism by increased...
World War IV
Be not deluded, just because the United States goes to war with Iraq, that our leaders will not also extend to the entire Middle East the jihad on which President Bush and his court of neoconservative gurus and Zionist Weltpolitikers have embarked us.Ā Well before any public announcement of whether we would actually make war...
Guantanamo Bay
Guantanamo Bay is the subject of continuous debate.Ā Can the United States detain indefinitely members of the Taliban captured in Afghanistan, or Al Qaeda insurgents captured in Iraq, at our military base in Cuba?Ā What sort of interrogation measures are permissible by international law in order to obtain information to protect Americans from the continuing...
The Socialist Surge That’s Not Coming
One of the really cool things about democracy is that voters tend to get what they wantāwhich, um, can also turn out to be one of the really uncool things about democracy. A thing of real terror, if you want the truth. I tiptoe past the presidential election of 2016 on my way to look...
Groundhog Days, Javelina Nights
How a people as addicted to novelty as the modern American public can remain indifferent to an experience restricted to the last three or four of the thousands of human generations, drawing their airplane window shades to watch a movie or study an organizational chart, isāor ought to beāa subject of major interest to the...
Books in Brief: December 2023
Short reviews of Character in the American Experience, by Bruce P. Frohnen and Ted V. McAllister, and From Here to Eternity, by Randall B. Smith.
The Way to Translate
There are people who think the classics are a dated luxury.Ā Anyone who believes that should stay far away from the Christian Bible. Itās been many years since I was able to read the New Testament in English.Ā Now, donāt think Iām showing off there.Ā My Greek is not wonderful, and I find a parallel...
A Future for Europe
Political scientists are now grumpy. Instead of waxing enthusiastic about the 40 days that shook the worldālet us say from the crumbling of the Berlin Wall to Ceausescu’s executionāthey resent the brutal intrusion of reality on their slumber. It used to be so comfortable to think in terms of superpower pseudo-polarity, and global democratization is...
A Great Tradition Renewed
Literary feuds, like ideas, have consequences.Ā After Sir Walter Scott read a disparaging review of his Marmion in the Edinburgh Review, the bard of the Borders decided that what British life needed above all was a journal that would give his works more respectful treatment and would provide a powerful antidote to the Whiggish and...
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
One of the great interests of Anglo-Saxon poems is the heroic code of the warriors. Ā They fight for their own glory, of course, but also to protect and avenge their lord, to preserve their religion, and defend the liberties of their people. Ā Unlike the Vikings, they are neither savages nor merely predators. Before going on...
Mighty Seer, in Days of Old
Itās near the end of October, and the air is crisp and cool.Ā The wind blows hard here on the prairie, the thermometer failing to reflect the chill you feel on your skin and in your bones.Ā A smattering of pinks, reds, and oranges coat the white-cored, cottony fingers floating against the pale-blue morning sky.Ā ...
Death Becomes Bond
No Time to Die Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga ā Written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Cary Joji Fukunaga ā Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ā Distributed by Universal Pictures The James Bond film series that began in 1962 is still going strong in this, its 25th edition. The latest installment is definitely a winner,...
Ideologues in Search of a Faith
Most contemporary intellectuals reject Hilaire Belloc’s claim that the West must return to Christianity if it is to survive as a civilization. In their view, we live in an enlightened and disenchanted world that has left behind forever the integral but innocent and uncritical Age of Faith. And as if to lend support to their...
Trumpās Global Vision
On April 27, Donald Trump gave a long speech on foreign policy.Ā It was his first attempt to present his views on world affairs in detail.Ā Refreshingly, it contained no reference to promoting freedom, democracy, and āhuman rightsā; confronting tyranny and evil; or making the world a better place in the image of the exceptional...
Oh Well, Life’s Not All Bad…
Ā What a week it has been for the ambulance-chasing media! Ā Anticipated highs in their schedule were Ā anniversaries of the Gettysburg addressĀ andĀ the Kennedy assassination. Ā What that pair really should be remembered for are cheap rhetoric to camouflage mass murder and cheap idealism to camouflage not just theĀ libido dominandiĀ but plain old raw libido. Ā I well...
When Experts Attack
For over 30 years, the churches of America have been declining; their numbers, plummeting.Ā Each year, a new set of numbers emerges from the various denominational headquarters, telling the tale.Ā The liberal Protestant Mainlines are in the worst shape, as the figures for 2006 to 2007 indicate.Ā According to the National Council of Churches, the...
What Matters?
The November 2011 issue of Chronicles has a major problem on page five. In āAborted Economyā (American Proscenium), John C. Seiler, Jr., writes, and the editors boldly highlight in a pull-quote, a statement about āthe 1973 class of āfetal matter,ā as the pro-aborts call them.ā I have reread the article several times looking for support...
Two Cheers for Howard
āIt aināt over till itās over,ā said Yogi Berra at his most Chestertonian.Ā Charles de Gaulle, in more meditative style, observed: āLes fins des rĆ©gimes sont toujours tristes.āĀ Both maxims are relevant in the context of Australiaās general election on November 24, 2007, which saw John Howardāprime minister since 1996ācrushed by an untried but personally...
Michiganās Race Factor
The U.S. Supreme Courtās June 23 decision striking down the University of Michiganās race-based undergraduate admissions policy ended a decade-long struggle started by university administrators and finished by conservative legislators and their grassroots supporters. On April 23, 1997, Michigan State Rep. David Jaye, a paleoconservative Republican from suburban Macomb County, sponsored an amendment to the...
At the Intersection of Love and Technology
No matter the advances in technology, filmgoers still long for the magic evoked by the plot device of an implausible lost love reunion depending more on fate than human initiative.
Yellow Peril (Part II)
Do not be put off by the sensationalist title. This is a solid geopolitical and economic study of power in the Pacific during the 20th century. Basing their prophesy on the record, George Friedman and Meredith Lebard conclude that a second U.S.-Japanese war is highly probable in the early 21st century. The authors do not...
Cooling Off
Air conditioning you might be surprised to learn, marks its 100th anniversary this year.Ā At a Brooklyn printing plant in 1902, Willis H. Carrier designed a system to control humidity, temperature, and air quality and, in the process, changed the world forever. Before the widespread availability of air conditioning, families cooled off on porches, talking...
A Poetic Vortex
“There is no more self-assured man than a had poet.” āMartial Sometimes it seems as though everyone who was anyone in postwar American poetry was attending, teaching at, or at least near Harvard in the 1950’s. This impression is confirmed by Peter Davison’s memoir: everyone was. In The Fading Smile, Davison offers glimpses into this...
On the Confederate Flag
I would like to respond to Professor Clyde Wilson’s editorial (Cultural Revolutions) in your March issue, regarding our efforts toward compromise on the Confederate battle flag that flies above our Statehouse. First and foremost, I respect and share the professor’s view that the battle flag of the Confederacy is a cherished emblem for many Southerners...
Books in Brief
Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire, by Peter H. Wilson (Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard, 942 pp., $39.95).Ā Professor Wilson of Oxford University argues that the history of the Sanctum Imperium Romanum, despite its centrality to the history of Europe and its immense longevity (it lasted for more than a millennium, twice as...
Will the GOP Capitulate Again?
“Free trade results in giving our money, our manufactures, and our markets to other nations,” warned the Republican Senator from Ohio and future President William McKinley in 1892. “Thank God I am not a free-trader,” echoed the rising Empire State Republican and future President Theodore Roosevelt. Those were the voices of a Republican Party that...