The recent attack on New York City’s World Trade Center has once again reinforced in Western minds that terrorism is a purely Middle Eastern phenomenon, and that terms like “Palestinian,” “Shi’ite,” and “Muslim fundamentalist” are virtual synonyms for “terrorist.” There is no room here to discuss the damage that such a view has had on...
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GOP Country: A Troubled Marriage
Back in February, music historian J. Lester Feder published an article in the American Prospect entitled āWhen Country Went Right.āĀ As Feder would have it, country music wasnāt always as āconservativeā as it is today.Ā Once upon a time, it seems, country music was a left-leaning, āpopulistā American art form.Ā Then Richard Nixon, taking his...
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...
Jeweler to Royalty
A million dollars for an egg? But of course, not all eggs come from chickens. Malcolm Forbes recently paid $1 million for an “egg” by Faberge at a sale of Russian art at Sotheby’s in New York City. The cliche has it that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but why then are the jewels...
Philosophical Arcs
This lovely chapbook by Catharine Savage Brosman, poetry editor of Chronicles, offers a delightful collection of 20 poems from a small south Louisiana press.Ā Many of the poems feature familiar Louisiana landscape and avian life.Ā All in some way address the underlying ties between nature and art, their metaphysical underpinnings: an order perceivable in natural...
Capitalism and Civilization
Michael Novak has repeatedly argued (recently, in a lecture here at Elizabethtown College) that our economic system is āpermanently attached to a Judeo-Christian culture,ā but history suggests otherwise.Ā Although capitalism developed within a Christian culture, it has also actively undermined that cultureās moral and spiritual foundations, as the use of the market by the entertainment...
The World Turned Upside Down
A truly startling, topsy-turvy race is being run for governor of Illinois. U.S. Representative Glenn Poshard, the Democrat, is embracing more conservative positions on culture and social policy; Illinois Secretary of State George Ryan, the Republican, is running away with much of the Democratic base, including gay-rights supporters. On trade, Poshard has supported a Buchananite...
To the Pretoria Station
Governments, Lenin once wrote, never fall unless they are first pushed. Whatever his faults, the old Bolshevik must have known something about how to get rid of unwanted regimes. In the Revolution of 1917, it was the Imperial German government that helped to push over what was left of the Russian state by dispatching Lenin...
The Rejection Election
With the Iowa caucuses a week away, the front-runner for the Republican nomination, who leads in all the polls, is Donald Trump. The consensus candidate of the Democratic Party elite, Hillary Clinton, has been thrown onto the defensive by a Socialist from Vermont who seems to want to burn down Wall Street. Not so long...
Sharia, Not Shakespeare
When Allardyce Nicholl, then professor of English at Birmingham University, founded the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1951, he intended from the beginning that it should have an international flavor.Ā When I was a student there in the late 50ās, there were always some international students in residenceāIndians, Yugoslavs, a Greek, and a number of...
The Church in Sweden’s Welfare State
As this is written, the annual Council of the Church of Sweden is meeting here, proceedings which will last to the end of the month of August. As the name implies, Sweden has a state church which is Lutheran in confession. Its origin, like that of the Church of England, was based on the whim...
Will the GOP Kick It Away?
With Hillary Clinton scrambling to explain her missing emails, much of America is wailing, “Please don’t make us watch this movie again!” Why, then, would the Republican Party, with a chance to sweep it all in 2016, want to return us to the nightmare days of George W., which caused America to rise up and...
Getting Real About Reparations
The call for slavery reparations is reverberating throughout the land once again. It will be entertaining to watch the Democratic presidential candidates for 2020 position themselves on this topic. They must know the very idea is irrational and entirely impractical, but at the same time they will worry that one candidate or another will endorse...
In Spies Battle, Trump Holds the High Ground
In backing John Brennan’s right to keep his top-secret security clearance, despite his having charged the president with treason, the U.S. intel community has chosen to fight on indefensible terrain. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper seemed to recognize that Sunday when he conceded that ex-CIA Director Brennan had the subtlety of “a freight...
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 Alphaville Dictionary III
Ponzioās iconic diner (in South Jersey) is turning 50; designer Milton Glaser is creating an iconic environmental logo for his line of eye ware; steel and Dominoās sugar are iconic industries; Smokey Bear is an iconic symbol of wildfire prevention; and Roberts Shoe storeāan iconic Chicago institutionāis closing its doors. These are just a few...
Pravoslavophobia
Item: An American of Greek origin calls a congressional office to protest United States policies in Bosnia that would place Christian Serbs at the mercy of a hostile Muslim regime. “So-called Christians,” corrects a member of the congressman’s staff, ignorant of the caller’s religion. Item: A national opinion magazine carries on its cover a harsh...
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.
Revolution and Its Discontents
Winner of France’s Renaudot Prize, this autobiographical Bildungsroman is a first-person narrative of a young man from a Belgian village who begins as a seminarian and ends as a disillusioned anarchist. Under the direction of his widowed mother and the village priest, he enters the seminary in Louvain, where his study of the changing values...
After Zarqawi: The New Thirty Yearsā War
When the U.S. government toppled Sad-dam Hussein in 2003, it thought regime change would help bring democracy to Iraq, and then to the rest of the region.Ā President Bush and his aides based their expectations on the premise that politics in the Middle East revolves around the relationship between individuals and the state, as it...
Charities Off the Dole
As of June 1, residents of the Land of Lincoln are free to enter into civil unions, which allow same-sex couples to enjoy the benefits, protections, and responsibilities under Illinois law that are granted to spouses.Ā According to the richly appointed homosexual-rights movement that lavished funds and exerted pressure upon the politicians who passed the...
Bad, Bad Boy
“Big Jim” Folsom (1908- ), governor of Alabama (1946-1950, 1954-1958), was said to have entered office on a collision course with the state’s two major economic estates, big business and big agriculture. The 20-county Black Belt (a name derived from its soil, but equally descriptive of population composition) traverses the state just south of center....
Getting Medieval on Middle Age
I turned forty-one this year.Ā I left a psychological plateau (a crisis would have been way more exciting) and a legal career behind.Ā I suppose an alcohol-fueled bender or an illicit affair broadcast on social media would be what most āfolksā (as Barack Obama says) my age might do nowadays, but I opted for sobriety...
The Gales of November
āYouāre probably not going to like this,ā David Dale Johnson said, ābut Iām suggesting we ask the Board of Review to reduce the assessment by $30,000.āĀ I had retained David as a hired gun in my attempt to get our houseās assessment, and thus our property taxes, lowered.Ā David knows a thing or two about...
Thomas Moreās Supplication of Souls
āEā la morte di una civilizazione.āĀ (āItās the death of a civilization.ā)Ā These were the words of the Vatican official who told me the following sad story at the beginning of September.Ā It seems that, after the heat wave of August, hundreds of the cadavers of the lonely urban old folks of France were being...
Great Minds
I found Scott P. Richertās article āTaking Back the Cultureā (The Rockford Files, December) very interesting.Ā It brings to mind Robert Nisbetās central thesis that the medieval was an era of higher civilization, since it had power spread over a wide field, rather than the concentration of everything in one institution.Ā Nisbet, as I understand...
Globalism vs. Americanism
Down at the Chinese outlet store in Albany known as Wal-Mart, Chinese tires have so successfully undercut U.S.-made tires that the Cooper Tire factory in that south Georgia town had to shut down. Twenty-one hundred Georgians lost their jobs. The tale of Cooper Tire and what it portends is told in last weekās Washington Post...
Perceptibles
Hugh Bayless: The Best Towns in America; Houghton Mifflin; Boston. A semanticist would have a field day with the title affixed to Mr. Bayless’s efforts. The word “best” is one of the most subjective in the English language. And “town”: What, exactly, are the definitive differences between town, village, municipality, city? (Hint: It isn’t size;...
A Matter of Trust
āI trust the science,ā is a venerable Democratic Party slogan that has been repeated for many years by smug, virtue-signaling liberal sophisticates. āTrusting the scienceā is shorthand for holding an uncritical belief in all the stances of the left that carry a veneer of expert approval, including catastrophic climate change, insidious white privilege, and materialistic...
Why Are They at War With Us?
āWe are at war. We are at war against al-Qaida, a far-reaching network of violence and hatred that attacked us on 9/11, that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people and that is plotting to strike us again.ā Thus did Barack Obama clear the air as to whether we are at war, and with whom and why....
Re: Fraud
Ā I posted a response from one Robert–not our friend Robert–and replied to it, but despite the manifest silliness, I’l put it and my reply so that our intentions are not misunderstood. It is a good example of the incompatibility of Christianity and Marxism. “Good grief. Do you not know any poor people? Have none...
A Holy Craft
The opportunity for a reconsideration, indeed a reconstruction, of literary history is, in the case of William Gilmore Simmsā poetry, both enticing and rewarding.Ā In Matthew Brennanās analytical volume, we find the basis, fully elaborated, for reengaging with a body of work, the worth of which has only recently been reevaluated. William Gilmore Simms (1806-70)...
Manlio on the Value of Introductions
āApart from an eleventh-century Norman castle, my birthplace, latterly a town of some ten thousand inhabitants, is famous for having once had as many as a hundred churches in its precincts and for the way our people have with mutton. I had somehow lost track of the place, which I had left when still very...
Can We Coexist with Asia’s Communists?
Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met for seven hours at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii with the chief architect of China’s foreign policy, Yang Jiechi. The two had much to talk about. As The Washington Post reports, the “bitterly contentious relationship” between our two countries has “reached the lowest point in almost half...
A Tsunami of Towers
Here, you can see almost forever.Ā It is a great green plain bounded by low wolds to the west and the North Sea to the east, by the River Humber to the north and the shining mudflats of the Wash to the south.Ā It is a landscape for seven-league boots and ten-league thoughts, as the...
Babes in Gangland
E.L. Doctorow is our loudest contemporary champion of the social novel, whose defining characteristic he posits as “the large examination of society within a story” of “imperial earthshaking intention.” (The genre’s American apotheosis is Frank Norris’s The Octopus.) Billy Bathgate is Doctorow’s latest, and if his publicist’s yowling chorus of “masterpiece” is a bit much,...
Long Live the Queen!
Tempus Fugit.Ā A recent ABC program on the death of Princess Diana reminded me that 20 years have gone by in a jiffy.Ā She died August 31, 1997, following a car crash in the underpass of Place de lāAlma, and sent a nation, and the world, into mourning. Mind you, Princess Di is no longer...
Let’s Cheat on Our Taxes
As I write, April 15 is still fresh in the mind, and the sting of death remains, combining the current pangs of tax extraction with the promise of a greater burden to come, thanks to the BarackĀiĀfiĀcation of heathcare. So imagine my delight when I read in a back issue of a leading Christian magazine...
Nothing Better to Do
I have always wanted to spend some time in Rome, for a whole rosary of personal reasons. As with much else in a person’s private life, to recount these in print is to expose oneself to public ridicule. Yes, Rome is a wonderful city. Yes, the food is good. But then in England, where I...
For Greater Glory
Ā The story of the Mexican Left’s murderous persecution of the Church is not well known, even though it inspired one of the great novels of the 20th century,Ā The Power and the Glory.Ā Ā The story of the Cristero uprising intended to end that persecution is even less well known.Ā But that uprising has now inspired a...
Silicon Valley God Complex
Elite freaks have a tendency to try to set themselves up as the Almighty.
Emperor Xi of the CCP
China's 20th National Congress of the CCP brought two novelties: a new emphasis on military strength and the complete consolidation of power into the hands of President Xi Jinping.
Germanyās Muslim Sex-Terror Disaster
Inconceivably, yet entirely predictably, the global jihad officially arrived in Germany this summer, complete with suicide bomber, ax-swinger, and howls of āAllahu Akbar!āĀ Inconceivable, that the ancient Islamic war against the infidels should be spilling blood in the streets of one of the worldās most advanced and progressive countries in the 21st century; and entirely...
The Future of Russia and the West: A Conversation with Elena Chudinova, Part III
[Final part of the interview between Srdja Trifkovic and Elena Chudinova that was started in Part I and Part II.] ST: Finally, this is something I have asked others and never got a satisfactory answer.Ā Why is the Russian intelligentsia so fascinated with the West and why does it still have this inferiority complex vis-a-vis...
The Coming Republican Donkey
The end is near for our Golden Age of Republican Party rule.Ā The first blow came in 2006, when horrified voters kicked the GOP back to minority status in Congress.Ā And, come November, Republicans may emerge from elections without a veto-proof Senate and without one of their own demagogues occupying the White House. If the...
In Memoriam: Gen. Alexander Lebed, 1950-2002
When I first met General Alexander Lebed, shortly after he was forced to retire from his military career in 1995, he was a crusty soldier with great political ambitions, itching for action but visibly uncomfortable in mufti.Ā His tie knot was too wide and his parade-ground bass sounded coarse and unmodulated.Ā His face, with more...
Letās Hear it for Free Speech
The media chitchat these days is of the media itself, and of, Lordy, how'd things ever get this way! You know what way I meanāthe way it is now, with right-wing extremists (centered on Fox News and the Breitbart blogs) injecting lies and fables into the national bloodstream and the ...
Carpe Diem
Years ago, in his essay “Football Red and Baseball Green,” Murray Ross contrasted the battlefield dynamics of the former with the latter’s ostensibly more pastoral qualities. By virtue of its subtle but intense mannerisms, its lack of time limit and essentially cyclic actionāa “summer game” that in fact encompasses spring’s renewal and autumn’s declineābaseball has...
Trump, Biden, and the Sham of āOur Democracyā¢ā Laid Bare
As Joe Biden and the elites push a sham narrative surrounding everything from Jan. 6, the principles of American constitutionalism, and even the nature of āthe peopleā itself, Donald Trump stands as a rebuke to them and exposes their hypocrisy and wickedness.
Parasite Control
One of the few parts of the U.S. Constitution that is still followed by the government concerns the granting of copyrights and patents.Ā Article I, Section 8, reads, āCongress shall have the power . . . To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the...