In the aftermath of the ousting of Saddam Hussein and the āliberationā of Iraq by U.S. forces, Bush-administration officials who had earlier compared Saddam to Hitler extended that analogy and suggested that postwar Iraq was like post-World War II Germany and Japan and Italy, where the U.S. military occupation helped replace totalitarian regimes with thriving...
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Jerks I
The full title should be: Jerks, How to Spot them and How to Deal with them without becoming one of them yourself. The Jerk is the defining character of postmodern America. Ā What the Man of Faith and the Man of the Sword were to the Middle Ages, the Jerk is to our own age. Ā To...
On the Quai at Smyrna
The literature in the English language on various long-established communities eradicated by the horrors of the 20th century is largely dominated by the Jewish holocaust.Ā Accounts of other disappeared communitiesāof Italians in todayās Croatia, the Poles of Galicia, the Serbs of the former Habsburg Military Border, or Germans everywhere east of the Oder-Neisse lineāare available...
Scholarly Smut
Peter Gay: Education of the Senses, Volume I of the Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud; Oxford University Press; New York Ā When BrantĆ“me in the 16th century wrote a rather spicy Life of Great Ladies, or Samuel Pepys, in the 17th century, wrote his diary, neither intended these works as a history of culture, which is...
Meet the Tiger
āWhen I was young and stupid,ā said George W. Bush, and we have no reason to doubt him on it, āI was young and stupid.āĀ It is a double tautology.Ā He might as well have said, āWhen I was young,ā and left it at that. When I was young, back around 1989, I believed that...
First Hearings
Some years ago a fellow told me that I should put my money in CDs, and I did, to my regret in one sense.Ā I thought he meant Compact Discs.Ā Silly me!Ā But maybe not altogether.Ā Since those days, things have changed, but even so, some things never change. I mean that acquisitions have a...
Death of a Nation
Every living nation needs symbols. They tell us who we are as one people, in what we believe, and on what basis we organize our common life. This fact seems to be very clear to the current leadership in Russia, particularly to President Vladimir Putin, in restoring and reunifying a country rent by three generations...
Designed to Fail
Over the past year, American elites have spent a vast amount of time discussing proposed reforms in healthcare, arguing about the social and financial costs of producing an apparent social good.Ā In March, Congress approved a law that many observers see as a potential catastrophe, in terms of its devastating effects on our economic future,...
Clean Jim, Dirty Harry, and Barry the Beer-Drinker
The conservative press lost no time in converting the Henry Louis Gates affair into a morality play that pitted a loose-lipped race-baiting President against a squeaky clean policeman with an excellent record in what is politely termed
Michelle Obamaās Justified Complaint of Existence
RecentlyĀ The Michelle Obama PodcastĀ revealed shocking informationĀ that should concern all white people. āWhen Iāve been completely incognito during the eight years in the White House, walking the dogs on the canal,ā Obama explained, āpeople will come up and pet my dogs, but will not look me in the eye. They donāt know itās me.ā She further...
The Facts and Fiction of Election Reforms
Two of the Clinton campaign’s central promises aimed at reducing the federal budget deficit and “reinventing” government. Unfortunately, President Clinton’s recently unveiled campaign finance reform plan will do neither. The most dramatic step the President could take toward accomplishing his goals would be to resist congressmen’s desires on the topic closest to their hearts: election...
In This Number
Here at the beginning of the May issue, I am pleased to introduce a new feature, In This Number, which will henceforth introduce each new issue of Chronicles.Ā And in this inaugural notice, Iām pleased to announce also that a merger has been effected between The Rockford Institute, the publisher of Chronicles for over 43...
A Cultural Evening in Grenada
During the four-and-one-half years of Cuban hegemony in Grenada, I often had cause to cross a country road from my house on the Pointe Salines peninsula to the Headquarters of the DGI (Directorio General de Intelegencia) to complain about the noise. Would they please turn down the altavoz or speaker system beaming Castro’s speeches at...
Not Necessarily Muslim
A January 24 bombing at Moscowās Domodedovo Airport left 35 dead and scores injured, as the Russian capitalās transportation system was targeted by terrorists for the second time in less than a year.Ā The most likely culprits are Muslim terrorists from the North Caucasus who had struck Moscowās metro system in March 2010.Ā In the...
Hate Speech Makes a Comeback
Well, it sure didnāt take long for the Tucson Truce to collapse. After Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot on Jan. 8 by a berserker who killed six others, including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl, and wounded 13, the media were aflame with charges the right had created the climate of hate in which...
What MLK Day Says About Today’s America
In one of his most famous quotes, Winston Churchill described Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” Today’s America could be described as a country led by a plagiarist, with the help of another plagiarist, which celebrates a holiday in honor of a third plagiarist: Barrack Obama, Joe Biden, and Martin...
Who Decided? And When Did They Decide?
That collecting āthe wretched refuse of the earthā was a good thing for the country?Ā (Certainly, the Founders of the U.S. did not think so.) That some people should receive special rewards andĀ preferences because of the assumed sufferingsĀ of their ancestors? (Most of our ancestors suffered. And many of the beneficiaries, not surprisingly, are...
There Once Was a New England
AĀ few years ago, I was talking about Timothy Dwight to an audience of people old enough to appreciate both his Christian orthodoxy and his old-fashioned patriotism.Ā When I mentioned Dwightās passion for farming and his devotion to agriculture as a way of life, a man from Dwightās adopted state of Connecticut informed me that there...
Waugh After Waugh
From the October 1998 issue of Chronicles. When, after a stint in the British Army which left him crippled for life, Auberon Waugh went up to Oxford in 1959, by his own admission he knew nothing of the place apart from what he had read in his father’s novel, Brideshead Revisited, describing the Oxford of...
The Golden Goose: A Recollection
In the bright, warm autumn of 1947 that followed a chilly summer, several hundred bewildered 17-year-olds found the Ohio State University campus in Columbus swarming with an alien and formidable species: veterans. The war, though well over, was still more a reality than a memory. The Great Depression was over too, having disappeared insensibly in...
Is Trump Right About NATO?
I am “not isolationist, but I am ‘America First,'” Donald Trump told the New York Times last weekend. “I like the expression.” Of NATO, where the U.S. underwrites three-fourths of the cost of defending Europe, Trump calls this arrangement “unfair, economically, to us,” and adds, “We will not be ripped off anymore.” Beltway media may...
Understanding Jihad’s Resurgence
Jihad is both an ideology and a global process. It has triumphed in Afghanistan in both forms, and its adherents everywhere will feel emboldened by what they see as a sure sign of Allahās sanction. If a poorly armed jihadist force could endure for two decades, struggling against the mightiest infidel force the world has...
Evil That Good May Come
I am surprised that in your generally conservative and pro-Christian magazine not one of the four articles debating the pros and cons of dropping the Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 2020Ā Chronicles) presents the orthodox Christian evaluation of that literally earth-shattering decision. Indeed, that orthodox position is not even addressed by your authors. It evades...
American Italics, or Revelation According to P.T. Barnum
As in some picaresque dream, the carousel that has been spinning out a tale of broken hearts and mistaken identities begins to slow down, the roulette wheel grows disenchanted with the last bourgeois revolution, and all of a sudden even the drum of the concrete mixer that is shadowing the Venetianās limousine all the way...
The Magic of Memory and āHoliday Innā
Today we face a serious bout of historical amnesia, be it in the collective sense or as individuals. We all desperately need some connection to the past. Films like Holiday Inn give us an opportunity to become custodians of Americana.
Monuments Matter
The impending removal of Moses Ezekielās magnificent monument from Arlington National Cemetery follows well-laid out guidelines for obliterating the non-woke past everywhere in the culturally revolutionized West.
Government as the Great Equalizerāand Other Absurdities
The really troubling point that Joel Kotkin makes in the New York Daily News is that New York can’t figure out how to do the economic equality thing we hear so much about in this and every political season. “Gotham,” writes Kotkin, “has become the American capital of a national and even international trend toward...
Brief Mentions
Devil Dogs forced to watch their Corps become a corporationāTotal Quality Management, affirmative action, sexual harassment awareness trainingāwill draw inspiration from E.B. Sledge’s book, originally published in 1981 and soon to be reissued. More than any tactical manual, With the Old Breed reveals what success under fire is all about: fortitude, loyalty, discipline, determinationāno matter...
The Sea Change of Declining Birth Rates
In the parish church I attend here in Front Royal, Virginia, out-of-town visitors are often surprised by the number of babies, children, and teens at any of the four Sunday services. Wiggling kids fill the pews, somewhere a baby is crying, and at the back of the church is a room reserved specifically for nursing...
Letter From Vienna: Antemurale, Once Again
The socialist-conservative coalition led by Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, which collapsed on July 7, had been faltering for months. When I arrived in Vienna two days later, the only surprising element in what appeared to be a mundane story concerned its immediate cause. Eighteen months of endless bickering over Austriaās economic, fiscal or social policy could...
Down Goes the Mammoth
So, the great nation builder is leaving the White House, his vision of a peaceful Middle East just a pipe dream, something poor old W used to know something about.Ā I say poor old W because he was, after all, taken in by his very own Vice President, a treacherous and cowardly man, a character...
How Big Government Stacked the Deck Against Small Business
Most of us wouldnāt list 2020 as our best year. But you know who would? Amazon, Wal-Mart, Google, Apple, and a whole host of other big corporations whoāve seen their sales and stock prices soar amidst the pandemic. Small businesses have been pummeled by excessive and insane governmental lockdowns of the economy. ExpertsĀ warnĀ that one third...
Taking Stock
Sir John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada, was a Conservative. He is remembered chiefly for his love of alcohol and his hatred of free trade. Brian Mulroney, the last elected Conservative prime minister, foreswore alcohol when he reckoned (correctly) that he could surmount the greasy pole (just like George W. Bush) and...
A Triumph of Terrorism
Western media are declaring the million-man march in Paris, where world leaders paraded down Boulevard Voltaire in solidarity with France, a victory over terrorism. Isn’t it pretty to think so. Unfortunately, the massacre at Charlie Hebdo, its military-style execution, the escape of the assassins, and their blazing end in a shootout Friday was a triumph...
Annual Report
The National Endowment for the Arts has released its 1990 annual report. So have the various state arts councils, including the Illinois Arts Council (IAC). The Lyric Opera of Chicago received a $1 million grant and a couple of hundred thousand for spare change, all of which will supposedly “make a major long term commitment...
Past and Future President Putin
Ā Last Saturday, at United Russiaās congress, the ruling duumvirate of President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin finally ended the uncertainty of some monthsā standing. Putin first asked Medvedev to head United Russiaās list at next Decemberās Duma election. Accepting the offer, Medvedev proposed that United Russia nominate Putin as its presidential candidate...
Red Hot Harlequin Romances
Alice Walker: In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; San Diego. by Brian Murray Alice Walker, not yet 40, has been publishing poetry and prose since the late 1960’s. But only in recent years has her work been accorded the sort of fervid critical praise that the American literary establishment prefers to bestow...
Rotten to the Core
āLet us gamble with reason in the name of life,ā urges Pascal in his celebrated statistical proof for the existence of God.Ā āLet us risk it, for the sake of a win that is infinitely great and just as probable as the loss, which is to say nonexistence.āĀ With the cynicism of an inveterate gambler,...
Genes & Jingo
Popular journalists have begun writing off the sociobiology revolution. “Can Sociobiology Be Saved? and quote the learned opinions of Stephen J. Gould and Ashley Montagu (would they lie?). They indulge in vaguely worded smears: Konrad Lorenz was a nazi, E. O.Ā WilsonĀ isĀ aĀ Southerner, and sociobiology is a code word for racism among members...
On Helpful Prescriptions
B.K. Eakman (āAnything That Ails You,ā Views, August) laments the use of psychotropic medications; as is so often the case, however, she is not the one who deals with the suffering patient.Ā Though the patient might have erroneously bought into the notion that she can and should be happy, this is irrelevant: The patient still...
The (Unexpected) Comeback of the Small Farm
The word’s been out for some time: they’re all gone, not a functioning one left. Statistics coming down from on high in the 1970’s “proved” that the small farmādefined as that with a total income of less than $20,000 annuallyāwas about shot. This came as something of a surprise to those still living and working...
Trump Election: Democracy Versus Populism
There are at least three striking facts in Mr. Trumpās election. First there is the geographic distribution of voters: Roughly speaking the East and West coasts voted against Mr. Trump. Then there is the charge leveled at him: Heās a āpopulist,ā whereas Mrs. Clinton is a faithful democrat (no pun intended), a charge supported by...
The One and Indispensable
When Bill C. Maloneās Country Music, U.S.A. first appeared in 1968, it was obviously the most careful, well-researched, judicious, and accessible book on any kind of American popular music, including jazz, that had been published up to that time.Ā Three revisions later, and a passing of the torch by Malone to a successor charged with...
Detroit City
Home folks think Iām big in Detroit City From the letters that I write they think Iām fine But by day I make the cars By night I make the bars If only they could read between the lines . . . Ā For decades, Detroit has been Americaās whipping boy.Ā Itās not as if...
Gaetzās Rebellion Against McCarthy Is a Rational Response to the Fiscal Emergency
The historic rebellion of Congressman Matt Gaetz and other Republican fiscal hawks against their own House leadership was a necessary move in the face of a financial crisis in the making.
Time and the Cross
“[They] assemble before daylight and recite by turns a form of words to Christ as god. I discoveredĀ nothing else than a perverse and extravagantĀ superstition.ā Ā āPliny the Younger The New Testament is not a book. In common with the Old TestaĀment, to which it can in some ways be regarded as an appendix, like the Apocrypha,...
The New Freedom of Rhyme
In the days of Latinate learning, there was an animus against rhyme which must have been a considerable nuisance in that heavily inflected language. In his Observations on the Art of English Poesie of 1602, the English poet and composer Campion remarked: The facility and popularity of Rime creates as many poets as a hot...
A Prudent Progressive
The world is in its present condition (and many suspect that this state is much worse than before, even if “before” may mean only in our own individual memĀory) because of ideas. Three of those ideas can be credited to three historical figures: Rousseau, Marx, and Freud. Marx came to the conclusion that human economic...
Failure on Many Levels
Goldman Sachs buys and sells securities for customers and also trades for its own book.Ā Itās the worldās biggest derivatives dealer.Ā CEO Lloyd Blankfein told a British magazine in late 2009 that they were ādoing Godās work.āĀ Now we know what that entails. At an April 27 Senate subcommittee hearing, Carl Levin (D-MI) quoted from...
Bush’s New “Axis of Evil”
Ā George W. Bush must have been the despair of the history department of every school his daddy managed to get him into. Consider his latest excursion into the history of the republic, at Southern Methodist, where the Great Man’s papers are to be housed. What’s interesting about our country, if you study history, is...