“A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust.” āLord Byron Few antiliberal writers are disliked and distrusted so much by mainstream “conservatives” as John Lukacs and George Kennan. Like most movements that achieve a degree of success, intellectual “conservatism” in America has petrified into an establishment...
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Books in Brief
A Mad Love: An Introduction to Opera, by Vivien Schweit-zer (New York: Basic Books; 288 pp., $27.00).Ā I need to be fair to this book, because the author, a concert pianist and writer who worked for a decade as a classical-music critic for the New York Times, certainly knows her stuff so far as opera...
Roll On, Beethoven
The fate of the famous in this postmodern and even campy time is problematical. The multicultural agenda is not considerate of the distinguished or of distinctions, and “diversity” imposes quotas on what we may be permitted to admire, to enjoy, or even to know. What’s more, “the melting of forms” characteristic of the 20th century...
Writers’ Unions
“PEN international is working for your release,” my lawyer told me. In the bare, mean interview room of the Belgrade District Prison he smiled at me, and I smiled back, because the mikes could not pick that up. There were no TV cameras there, yet, to monitor our winks and nodsāthe language of slaves, as...
Putting America Back to Work
The United States is experiencing her highest national unemployment rate since the early 1980ās.Ā Back in 1981, in order to stimulate the creation of jobs in the private sector, President Reagan encouraged Congress to pass the Kemp-Roth Job Creation Act.Ā Today, the Obama administration is doing nothing of the sort. Most Americans are not even...
Santorum, the Supreme Court, and Sodomy
Sen. Rick Santorum is the latest Republican political leader to walk down Trent Lottās trail of tears.Ā Why do Republicans continue to make these gaffes?Ā Most politicians, after all, have spent their entire lives since elementary school telling people what they want to hear, and they ought to realize that the power they hold in...
In Praise of Having Not
A splendid Traviata at Palermoās Teatro Massimo the other nightāwith its colorful gambling scene at the close of the Second Act, when a jealous Alfredo wins an armful of banknotes only to throw them in Violettaās faceāmade me think of nothing.Ā Nothing as an end in itself, nothing as the animating spirit of all sublunar...
What Threat?
I am a longtime reader of Chronicles, and of Chilton Williamson, Jr.ās column, as well as a couple of his books, and as such I was taken abackāshocked, actuallyāby the shrill, even hysterical tone of his column āHumanity Liteā (In Our Time, September).Ā He says that āHomosexual āmarriageā is insanity,ā and a little later, āgay...
A String of Domestic Atrocities
Andrea Yates, the Houston mother recently sentenced to life in prison for drowning her five children in the bathtub, has become the latest horror story in an alarming string of domestic atrocities occurring in the wake of mental-health drug treatment.Ā From the killer kids of Columbine, to the sickies of Springfield, Oregon, and Santee, California,...
The Iraq Quagmire
The lies and distortions surrounding the stated rationale for the war against Iraq now appear crude, clumsy, and embarrassing.Ā While it would have been unrealistic to expect Messrs. Bush, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz to display Bismarckian finesse in setting up Saddam Hussein, six months after the war was declared over, their actions should be judged by...
Up to Our Eyeballs in Gaza
I listen to Rush Limbaugh about 15 minutes a day, which is the time it takes by car to go to and from my house for lunch. Fifteen minutes is more than enough time to get the gist of what any “on air personality” will say, over and over repeating himself and ringing the changes...
DNC Roundup: What Did I Just Watch?
Democratic conventions are usually filled with soaring rhetoric disguising the partyās extremism. This yearās trainwreck is what happens when a party has no idea what they are or why theyāre here.
Gen. Milleyās Overreach and Erratic Actions Must Be Punished
With international tensions high on the eve of the November 2020 election, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley assured his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng, that he was prepared to frustrate any potential military operation by Americaās commander-in-chief, President Donald Trump. āGeneral Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If...
Campus Love
How often have you heard āDonāt make a federal case of itā?Ā What in the world could that mean?Ā Everythingās federal these daysānot least female modesty, or whatever passes for that once-prized commodity. Hereās Wendy Murphy, sharing her delight that the White House hasāfinally!ācome around to combating sexual violence on college campuses.Ā Miss Murphy, I...
Solomons and Caesars
Karen Finley is a “performance artist.” Her performances are succinctly described by Judge Robert Bork in his new book Slouching Towards Gomorrah: “Before an audience, [Finley] would strip to the waist, smear her body with chocolate (to represent excrement) and sprouts (sperm), and wail about what men have done to women.” According to a recent...
Some Arguments for Guns You Never Hear
Two recent mass shootings in Atlanta, Georgia and Boulder, Colorado, have once again roused those whose goal is to destroy the Second Amendment. Before the bodies of the slain were buried, before the bereft were given even a day or two for grieving, these politicians and commentators were calling for new restrictions on gun ownership....
A Joint Criminal Conspiracy
The Great War started 100 years ago this August.Ā The most tragic event in human history, that war destroyed a vibrant, magnificently creative civilization.Ā A prosperous and well-ordered world was shattered forever.Ā New killing machines that only a generation earlier did not exist were deployed on a massive scale: airplanes, tanks, poison gases, submarines.Ā The...
Our Americanish Language
It is sad to contemplate what the American Melted Pot and Deweyite education have done to the language of Shakespeareāwhich was also the language of the founders of Americaāthe most beautiful and utilizable of all the tongues of man.Ā In our country in ...
Has Russia Given Up on the West?
By the end of his second term, President Ronald Reagan, who had called the Soviet Union an “evil empire,” was strolling through Red Square with Russians slapping him on the back. Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive. And how have we husbanded the fruits of our Cold War triumph? This month, China’s...
Bullseye!
Ā [The Hunger GamesĀ ?Ā Produced and distributed by Lionsgate ?Ā Directed by Gary Ross ?Ā Written by Suzanne Collins and Gary Ross] Suzanne CollinsāĀ The Hunger GamesĀ is the first volume of a trilogy set in a not-too-distant future.Ā An unspecified apocalyptic event has destroyed much of North America, and a new state named Panem has arisen to replace the...
The Green Barrettes
For 200 years, American fighting men have gone into battle without women. George Washington conquered the British at Yorktown without women. Grant defeated Lee without women. Marines raised the flag on Iwo Jima without women. But those fellows must have been made of sterner stuff than men today. Now, apparently, the men can’t hack it,...
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....
The Union as It Was
A minority on the left is possibly willing to admit that a few āgood Southernersā during the War Between the States opposed slavery, secession, and the Confederacy.Ā Probably a much smaller minority would concede that a considerable number of Northerners opposed the war either to preserve the Union or to free the slaves.Ā That, in...
I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Help
Leo Widicker farms outside Bowdon, North Dakota. Last winter, Widicker had a quarter sectionā160 acresāthat was badly wind-eroded from several dry summers and snowless winters during which there was no ground cover. Much of the topsoil had blown into a highway ditch. In May, a hopeful Widicker planted that quarter section in wheat. A crew...
Belarus: Still No Country For Sold Men
Alexander Lukashenko has won the fourth presidential election in Belarus, taking 79 percent of votes cast in the turnout of over 90 percent, according to official figures. The opposition staged a protest rally in the central square in Minsk after polling stations had closed on Sunday, claiming that the election ...
The Emerson No One Knows
“At bottom, [Emerson] had no doctrine atĀ all. . . . He was far from being, like aĀ Plato or an Aristotle, past master in the art and the science of life.” -George SantayanaĀ TheĀ dedication of this latest biograĀphy of the individual known to earlier generations as “the Sage of Concord” is to Mohandas KaramĀchand Gandhi, “who...
NeverVancers Are the New NeverTrumpers
The usual suspects are out in force to undermine J. D. Vance as antithetical to Reaganās realism merely because he repudiates George W. Bushās disasters.
After Watergate
AĀ large portion of American history is only now being invented.Ā For most periods of that history, we know the broad outlines: For instance, any account of the 1850ās has to include certain themes, certain events and landmarks.Ā However much we differ on our interpretation, every respectable account has to devote some space to Uncle Tomās...
The Boerne Case
Boerne, Texas, is an unlikely location for a contest over religious freedom, but in 1996 the local Catholic Archbishop decided to sue the city for refusing to allow him to expand a church situated in a zoned historic district. The Archbishop based his case on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which forbids religious persecution and...
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...
On the Mountain Meadows
I was very disappointed to see William Griggās āFrontier Talibanā (Reviews, December 2002) in Chronicles.Ā Mr. Grigg either is laughably ignorant of the history of the Mountain Meadows Massacre or is content to promote Will Bagleyās agenda, put forth in his book, Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Mountain Meadows Massacre.Ā Mr. Bagley...
Trends to Come
The American Academy of Religion should change its name to the American Unacademy of Ethno-Religio-Secular Fashions, if its call for papers for its annual meeting in Washington this autumn is any indication of trends to come. None of the classics, at least of Judaism, is going to find a place on the program. The section...
Stardust
“Not till the fire is dying in the grate / Look we for any kinship with the stars.” āMeredith The post-World War I shattered visions of Pound and Eliot are perhaps fundamentally less different from the incoherencies of Kerouac and Corso, the randomly referential allegory of Ashbery, or the associative anarchy of Bly and Merwin...
The Many Reinventions of Jeffrey Sachs
āJeff Sachs is like the March Hare in Alice in Wonderland, moving from cup to cup.Ā He can never return to any country that he advised, since they all hate him.Ā It happened in Latin America, in Slovenia, in Poland, a few of the Baltic States, and it was the same in Russia.Ā They maintain...
The Seventh World Council of Churches
The World Council of Churches convened its Seventh Assembly at Canberra, Australia, early in February 1991, just in time to pronounce a verdict on the Persian Gulf War. The W.C.C. opposed the war on two grounds: that all war is wrong, and that it is not permissible to fight war to right an injustice unless...
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
The inaugural editorial of the Nicotine Theological Journal (January 1997) took a few fun swipes at teetotalers and scolds (including Al Gore), who admittedly, in the words of Garrison Keillor, ālive longer, but they live dumber.āĀ āThe sun,ā the editors quoted C.S. Lewis as saying, ālooks down on nothing half so good as a household...
Robert Conquest Demolished Myths About Communism
The following article by Allan C. Brownfeld appeared originally at the website of FGFBooks.comĀ and is reprinted with permission. Robert Conquest, a historian whose landmark studies of the Stalinist purges and the Ukraine famine of the 1930s documented the horrors perpetrated by the Soviet regime against its own citizens, has died at 98, having outlived the...
Anniversary Celebration
High Country News, the environmentalist newspaper founded by Tom Bell, a former rancher, in Lander, Wyoming, in 1970 turned 25 this year, and since the weekend of September 8 was forecast to be a fine one I decided to attend the anniversary celebration. HCN has been based for about a decade or so in Paonia,...
Smear Factor
As Iāve often written, The Spectator of London is not only the oldest magazine in the English-speaking world but the most elegant by far.Ā (As, of course, is Chronicles.)Ā Iāve been fortunate to have a column in the Speccie, as readers lovingly refer to it, for 40 years, a lifetime when it comes to journalism.Ā ...
Trump Embraces the Culture War
To attend the Indianapolis Colts game where the number of the legendary Peyton Manning was to be retired, Vice President Mike Pence, a former governor of Indiana, flew back from Las Vegas. With him in the stadium was wife Karen. In honor of Manning, she wore a No. 18 jersey as “The Star Spangled Banner”...
Why Republicans Struggle to Gain the Black Vote
Acts of contrition can never endear the Republican Party to black Americans. Republicans have assumed the opposite for decades, thinking that blacks will reward them with support for their energetic pandering. What Republicans fail to realize is that black people view voting as an expression of group solidarity. This solidarity is crucial to theĀ identityĀ of black...
The Mind of the South
That a tale should live, While temples perish!Ā That a poetās song Should keep its echoes fresh for all the hills That could not keep their cities! . . . So wrote William Gilmore Simms in his poem āThe Lions of Mycenaeā (1870).Ā He was alluding to Aeschylus, Horace, and Homer, but was no doubt...
Beyond the Norm and Back
Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert; G.P. Putman’s Sons, New York. While waiting for the cinematic spectacle of Dune, we decided that a bit of exploratory work was in order, so we attended to Frank Herbertās world āā nay, universes āā of Dune. That was no small feat, as it is a trek into Dune,...
How the Westminster Bubble Burst
āThe Westminster bubbleā refers to politicians, civil servants and journalists who work in and near the Palace of Westminster. They dwell in a world that is largely divorced from the concerns of the public beyond the M25 (or ābeltwayā) and is regarded as alienated from the electorate. It is also, as recent events show, alienated...
Loving the Bitch-Goddess
Paul Johnson’s book Intellectuals, published last year, chronicles the transgressions of modern avatars of wisdom (among them Rousseau, Marx, and Sartre) who, while professing a fervent devotion to humanity, behaved inhumanly toward those most meriting their compassionāspouses, lovers, family, friends, and associates. Although the targets of Johnson’s caustic pen all were idols of the left,...
What the Editors Are Reading
Stendhal was the pen name ofĀ Marie-Henri Beyle, who adopted it from the name of a German town he had seen with Napoleonās army. His 1839 novel of the Napoleonic era,Ā La Chartreuse de ParmeĀ (The Charterhouse of Parma), was welcomed by a favorable and important review by HonorĆ© de Balzac, and AndrĆ© Gide, an astute critic, included...
Nuclear Poker with Iran
On New Yearās Day, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki issued an ultimatum to the West: Accept a swap of part of our 2 ton stockpile of low-enriched uranium for your higher-enriched uranium for our U.S.-built reactor, or we start enriching to 20 percent ourselves. Though the White House is on the defensive for its initial...
Witch Hunt at the New York Philharmonic Draws in Veteran Trump Hunter
U.S. federal judge Barbara S. Jones is among those engaged in an outrageous and unrelenting pursuit of two musicians formerly with the orchestra for sexual assault allegations. The evidence is dodgy but the determination to punish them is stronger than ever.
Freedom of Conscience
The Illinois legislature recently overrode Gov. Rod Blagojevichās veto of what the newspapers are describing as mandatory-school-prayer legislation.Ā Predictably, the stateās editorial pages are filled with denunciations of this arbitrary attempt to impose religion on the helpless children of Illinois, but in fact, the new law, requiring a minute of silence at the beginning of...
The Price of Globalism
It is paradoxical that, having led the Western world to triumph over fascism and then communism, the United States is now the vanguard of yet another world socialist order.Ā This American Empire, based on the benevolent neoconservative principles of borderless free enterprise, trade, and migration and consisting of multicultural social democracies enforced by U.S. military...