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...
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On Holding the Line
Derek Turner, in āThe New White Moorsā (Correspondence, September), is right to warn of the advance of Islam and the decline of the West.Ā He would, however, benefit from reading Christopher Dawsonās The Making of Europe. The West is dying because it has lost faith in itself, which is inexorably linked to Christianity.Ā Mr. Turner...
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...
Trump Is Right on Trade
Republican hawks are aflutter today over China’s installation of anti-aircraft missiles on Woody Island in the South China Sea. But do these Republicans, good free-traders all, realize their own indispensable role in converting an indigent China into the mighty and menacing power that seeks to push us out of Asia? Last year, China ran up...
Thomas Molnar and Late Modern Decadence
Thomas Molnar has published books in English, French, and Hungarian, while seeing some of his writings, mostly those dealing with the “mal moderne,” translated into German, Spanish, and Italian. Though defined in his work in various ways, from rampant Catholic heresy to political utopianism, this evil for Molnar is best described by his phrase l’hĆ©gĆ©monie...
Going Down With the Good Ship Lollipop
āAs long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.ā āFranklin D. Roosevelt Have you been to a toy store lately?Ā Barbieās got some heavy competition these days.Ā The Bratz collection, for instance: Yasmin, Sasha, Cloe, Jadeāall household names for several years now.Ā Check out that hot little number Sasha in her...
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...
Plundered Province: The American West as Literary Region
“Let a philosophic observer commence a journey from the savages of the Rocky Mountains eastwardly towards our seacoast,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1808, after he had learned of such matters from the reports of Lewis and Clark. “These he would observe in the earliest stage of association, living under no law but that of nature,...
Jihad’s Fifth Column
No one on the planet, by now, has not heard of the violence that greeted Pope Benedictās references to Emperor Manuel II and his reflections on Islam.Ā Manuel, invariably (and unfairly) described as āobscureā or āforgotten,ā lived in one of those interesting ages of the world that teach lessons to those who are not blind...
How To Succeed in Banking Without Really Trying
The Bush-Obama financial-rescue plan is premised on saving the big banks that caused the trouble.Ā The theory is that we need to help Wall Street to help Main Street.Ā Government would make money available, and the banks would make loans to business, which would revive the economy.Ā āOnce you assume,ā Michael Lewis, author of The...
Belleau Wood
Within the Marine Corps the World War I Battle of Belleau Wood is legendary.Ā Outside the Corps it is relatively unknown.Ā Yet the battle was a turning point in the history of the Corps, clearly demonstrating that the Marines could operate at brigade strength in conventional warfare.Ā Until then Marines were used principally as landing...
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.
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...
On the Futility of Politics
I look forward to reading Sam Francis in each issue of Chronicles and rarely have a major quibble with his analysis of politics and public policy. However, in his otherwise thorough and accurate critique of the Buchanan campaign (āRevolt of the 300-Pound Beefy Guys,ā Principalities & Powers, February), he includes a sentence that could be...
U.S. āInterestā in Kyrgyzstan
In his latest RT live interview (video; transcript) Srdja Trifkovic discusses the U.S. State Departmentās decision to give its Human Rights Defenders Award to a Kyrgyz national, Azimzhan Askarov, who, as an ethnic Uzbek activist, in 2010 played an active role in Kyrgyz-Uzbek ethnic riots that shook the country. Askarov was arrested during the violence,...
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...
Whose Man in Haiti?
Whose man is in Haiti? He was 40ish, of medium height, powerfully built on the way to being stout, and with an obvious gift of speechāhe overrode his listeners, particularly since they were in their early and late 20’s. He was Leslie Manigat, the place was Caracas, and I was a guest lecturer and full-time...
Moment of Unity in a Disintegrating World
“An act of pure evil,” said President Trump of the atrocity in Las Vegas, invoking our ancient faith: “Scripture teaches us the Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” “Our unity cannot be shattered by evil. Our bonds cannot be broken by violence,” Trump went on in his...
Who Lost the Middle East?
Ā Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, especially today in the Maghreb and Middle East. For the ouster of Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has sent shock waves from Rabat to Riyadh. Autocrats, emirs and kings have to be asking themselves: If rioters can bring down Ben Ali with his ruthless security...
Fell Out of Ranks
Patrick J. Buchanan had not even formally announced his candidacy for the White House last November than a platoon of the Beltway right suddenly fell out of ranks to denounce him and his challenge to George Bush. Divisive, polarizing, protectionist, nativist, xenophobic, anti-Zionist, anti- Semitic, ultra-nationalist, racist were the predictable sobriquets that buzzed from their...
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.
Liar’s War
Ā John Kerry has pinned his case for killing Syrian civilians on an op ed in the Wall Street Journal, written by “Dr. Elizabeth O’Bagy,” a 20-something researcher who turns out to be a propagandist for the Syrian opposition without the sacred Ph.D from Georgetown that got her a job at a propaganda mill masquerading...
Everything Dies
It was one of those winter days in Texas that seem as gray as the surface of the moon and about as hospitable.Ā Itās cool outside, so you wear a jacket.Ā Inside, itās stuffy.Ā Iām wearing a coat and running the fan at the same time.Ā You canāt quite get comfortable when itās like that.Ā ...
A Moviegoer Reflects
I had the good fortune to talk regularly about movies with my good friend and conservative thinker Sam Francis. With intellectual heft, he generously shared what he had learned from his own moviegoing. What follows is offered in the same spirit: a list of 10 movies I have repeatedly enjoyed and unhesitatingly recommend. The SearchersĀ (1956):...
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...
A Racket
Jack Kemp, an unemployed bureaucrat who’s never run so much as a lemonade stand, recently started an expensive newsletter to tell other people how to run their businesses. “Let’s Make America Prosper Again . . . Starting With YOU!” he says in a flyer for his Jack Kemp’s American Entrepreneur. Send just $45 and learn...
Raining on the E.U. Parade
The Danish vote against the euro last fall was a serious setback for the plans of Brussels eurocrats. The Danish “no” reveals the growing rift between the eurofanaticism of the globalist establishment and the reality of public opinion. On September 28, 2000, 53.5 percent of Denmark’s electorate rejected the euro. The result is even more...
Queer Doesnāt Mean What You Think It Means
Attempts to āqueer Americaāāto replace the normal with an unprecedented decadenceāare purposely directed at the abolition of the family and its replacement with totalitarian government.
A Presidency From Hell?
Should Donald Trump surge from behind to win, he would likely bring in with him both houses of Congress. Much of his agendaātax cuts, deregulation, border security, deportation of criminals here illegally, repeal of Obamacare, appointing justices like Scalia, unleashing the energy industryācould be readily enacted. On new trade treaties with China and Mexico, Trump...
Goodbye, Greater Israel; Hello . . . What?
My name and title (āglobal-political and economic-affairs analystā) appears on a few rolodexes on the desks of the young ladies, a.k.a. āschedulers,ā who are in search of punditsāthat is, pompous think tankers and retired foreign-policy types who are willing āto do Iraqā or āto do Iranā (in Washington lingo) or some other international crisis. So...
Release the Klan(s)!
Move over, Ashley Madisonāthereās a new scandal in town.Ā At least, thatās what the media is desperate to have you believe. In late October, the āhacktivistā group Anonymous, usually referred to oxymoronically as a ācollectiveā of anarchists, announced that they had obtained the membership rolls of several Ku Klux Klan organizations.Ā They planned to release...
The Palin Perplexity
Ā Sarah Palin is the best thing that’s happened lately to the right and the left, both at the same time. Much of the right pays her obeisance for mobilizing the troops and smart-alecking the leftāwhich in turn loves her for splitting (so the left hopes) the right over her personality and track record. The...
Are All the World’s Problems Ours?
In 2003, George W. Bush took us to war to liberate Iraq from the despotism of Saddam Hussein and convert that nation into a beacon of freedom and prosperity in the Middle East. Tuesday, Mike Pompeo flew clandestinely into Baghdad, met with the prime minister and flew out in four hours. The visit was kept...
The Neocons Called the Tune
I want to apologize to my readers, although I can only hope for forgiveness.Ā I certainly donāt deserve it. OK, JustināI can hear you nowāwhat have you done this time? The sin of which I am guilty is optimism of the most fatuous sortāor, rather, projecting an inauthentic optimism onto a most unworthy object.Ā The...
Truth in Empire
He arrived at the highest seat of power late in life, after a career that most considered inappropriate for a world leader. He consolidated his popularity by the successful invasion of a small island. Although his influence on the structure of government was momentous, he was mocked as sleepy and forgetful. His enemies said his...
People’s Republic, MI
Saginaw, Michigan, in popular culture, is identified with the late county singer Lefty Frizzell, who sang in his 1964 hit song of fishing on the nearby bay that feeds into Lake Huron.Ā But the mid-Michigan city, 100 miles north of Detroit, is best understood as a 20th-century manufacturing behemoth whose physical assets and intangible knowledge...
Is America a āRepublicā?
IĀ entirely agree with the spirit of this roundtable but not with the language of restoring āthe Republic.āĀ The United States is not now and has never been a republic.Ā It is a federation of states, each of which, in Article IV of the Constitution, is guaranteed a republican form of government.Ā But a federation of...
The Secrets of Liberalism
Ā Ā Ā Ā “A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret.” āHenry Taylor I was reading his new book when Daniel Patrick Moynihan announced that he would not seek a fourth Senate term in 2000. A university professor who served in every administration from that of...
Let’s Not Forget Our Racist Past!
My reaction to crazy, infuriating things that woke leftists do is often softened and even evaporates when I notice how the conservative establishment responds to the same situations. I am certainly no fan of Jussie Smollett and was as offended as most non-woke Americans by his shenanigans in Chicago in 2019, when he pretended that...
Why Putin Will Have to Go
Putin must go if Russia is to recover from the current impasse created by him, if she is to avoid becoming Chinaās supplicant, or a brutally carved-up Western colony.
The Texas Wild Card
One evening last winter my buddy Eugene and I were shooting the breeze while we sort of half-watched the new, citified Hee Haw (it’s not the sort of show you want to watch alone, and my wife, a nose-breather, won’t watch it with me). Eugene had just finished telling the one about the difference between...
David Cameronās Finest Hour
Prime Minister David Cameron's decision to veto Germany's demand for a new European fiscal union will define his premiership. More than that, Cameron has raised a banner for patriots everywhere fighting to retain their national independence. With his no vote on fiscal union, Cameron declared to the EU:
The Education of W
It sounds presumptuous, but I wish I had written this column in October 2002, and some eagle-eyed George W. Bush assistant would have noticed it and shown it to his moron boss.Ā Letās just play the What If game for a minute.Ā Had the moron read it and taken what Iām about to write into...
Patriotism
Patriotism, once thought of as “the last refuge of a scoundrel” (Dr. Johnson) is now the last resort of a failed leader. The word entered the vocabulary of Theresa May for the first time yesterday. The Sunday Telegraph carried this headline over her name: WE MUST COME TOGETHER AS PATRIOTS TO VOTE DEAL THROUGH. This,...
The Monism of Perfection
I first encountered Kenneth Minogue as a sophomore at Columbia, when his name appeared on a reading list for a course in modern political philosophy.Ā The professor, it goes without saying, was a radical who had his own reasons for disliking liberalism, but I do not recall his criticisms, if any, of Minogue and his...
Muslim Pressure and Christian Appeasement
From time to time I go to Oxford, the city of dreaming spires, the home of what Gladstone called āthe God-fearing and God-sustaining University of Oxford.āĀ For Catholics it is revered as the home of Cardinal Newman, that most human and subtle of converts, and for Protestants it is the place of the Martyrs Memorial...
Reattacking Leviathan
In 1989, Russell Kirk recalled browsing through the library at Michigan State College as an āearnest sophomoreā over 50 years earlier.Ā It was there that he happened upon Donald Davidsonās The Attack on Leviathan.Ā āIt was written eloquently,ā Kirk notes, āand for me it made coherent the misgivings I had felt concerning the political notions...
Life, Interpreted Lucely
” . . . where the pictures for the page atone.” āAlexander Pope No contemporary could write promotion copy quite like Henry Luce. His 1936 prospectus for a new magazine featuring photographs, tentatively called The Show-Book of the World, still has few equals: To see life; to see the world; to eyewitness great events; to...