Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identityāand Why This Harms Everybody,Ā by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay (Pitchstone Publishing; 352 pp., $27.95).Ā To understand wokeness, I often ask students to explain why they add the word āsocialā to ājustice.ā They have yet to provide a satisfactory answer. My subsequent requests for clarification...
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The Goodness of King George
In The Last King of America, Andrew Roberts shows George III to be a much better man and king than the caricature presented by propagandists on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Displaced Person
“The depravity of Tiberius, or the salacity of Suetonius,” wrote Anthony Burgess, “had left its mark on an island all sodomy, lesbianism, scandal and cosmopolitan artiness.” For the last 150 years, writers have been attracted to the natural beauty as well as the lechery of Capriā20 miles across the bay from Naples, four miles long,...
Where Have All the Nazis Gone?
Back in the 1960ās, as a graduate student at Yale, I kept hearing that the Germans had still not confronted their past.Ā They would do so only when they understood that Hitler, as explained by German leftist historian Fritz Fischer, was not a Betriebsunfall (operational accident) but emerged from Germanyās history, which went in a...
After SCOTUS: Welcoming Apocalypse
Here are my initial thoughts on todayās SCOTUS opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges and three other cases, which effectively makes āsame-sex marriageā the law of the land. Nothing substantial has changed.Ā The Supreme Court did not suddenly create more homosexuals or instill a new desire in the hearts of sodomites to flout nature.Ā That was...
Global Anarcho-Tyranny
The kind of regime that is being imposed on the world by what still passes for the West has two basic forms.Ā The form preferred by the Democratic Party in the United States and by the European Union is multilateralist and therapeutic.Ā The form favored by the people who currently control U.S. foreign policy is...
The Decline and Fall of the American Economy: Offshoring Our Security
The United States has three large economic problems. The overarching one is that the U.S. dollarās role as world reserve currency is wearing out from continuous and large trade deficits and from government budget ...
Will Trump Hold Firm on Syrian Pullout?
“We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there,” wrote President Donald Trump, as he ordered the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Syria, stunning the U.S. foreign policy establishment. Trump overruled his secretaries of state and defense, and jolted this city and capitals across NATO Europe and the Middle East. Yet,...
No More Ladies and Gentlemen
A recent libel case won by Lady Moore, wife of Sir Roger Moore of James Bond fame, called for my testimony in London, and for once I was happy to oblige.Ā Roger Moore is a friend of very long standing, as is his son, Geoffrey, who lives 50 yards away from me in Gstaad.Ā British...
The Death of Natural Causes
Let us begin with the obvious: sooner or later, everyone dies. Even Bill and Hillary say they know that. No amount of money will head off the inevitable. We cannot “cure” death like we might rebuild our inner cities or clean up the air. At best, we can use modern medicine to cheat death for...
No Justice, No Peace
There is no pleasing Duke University law professor Brandon L. Garrett, author of the death-penalty-abolishment screed End of Its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice, though much about the current state of criminal justice should please him.Ā Nationwide, death sentences and executions are at historic lows, yet he claims that the...
“Patriots and Other Scoundrels”
Samuel Johnson’s description of patriotism as “the last refuge of a scoundrel” is frequently quoted by globalist liberals who cannot imagine any normal person actually loving his country. Occasionally, some conservative critic responds by saying that Johnson was really condemning nationalism or false patriotism, butāas usualāboth liberals and conservatives are wrong. In Johnson’s day, “patriotism”...
Putin: Trump Understands
Transcript of Srdja Trifkovicās RT interview in the immediate aftermath of President Putinās press conference in Hamburg at the end of the G20 summit in Hamburg on Saturday afternoon, July 8. [Watch video] RT: President Vladimir Putin has addressed the media after two days of talks with the world leaders at the G20 summit in...
Revisiting the Round Table
The Green Knight Directed and written by David Lowery ā Produced by Ley Line Entertainment ā Distributed by A24 In a world where chivalry is an alleged tool of the patriarchy, it seems odd that the story of the Green Knight, one of the most famous tales of the Arthurian legend, remains popular today....
Conservative Credo IVb: Abortion
Life as Property There are many ways of looking at human life; some emphasize the benevolence of the Creator; others our inheritance from and similarityĀ to other primates.Ā One approachĀ favored by some liberals/libertarians is to treat life as property.Ā But if the life of a child, born or unborn, is a property or possession,...
John William Corrington, R.I.P.
John William Corrington’s early death ended the career of a distinguished and prolific literary figure. His first book appeared in 1961; it was followed by three other books of poetry, numerous novels, and four of the best short story collections of our times. He had stories selected for the Best American Short Stories in 1972,...
Lobar Warming
Scoffers may deride the proposition I find instinctively plausible, that the consonants and the vowels of speech are its masculine and feminine constituents, though the same scoffers would not think to keep a professor from speaking of male rhymes or an electrician of female plugs.Ā Yet the role of women in many societies, historically considered,...
Comparative Manufacturing Advantage
President Barack Obama, during a May speech in Oregon, insisted that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal is good for small-business workers, helps the middle class, and maintains U.S. trade power versus China, which is not a signatory to the 12-nation pact.Ā āThis is not a left issue or right issue, or a business or...
The Brown Revolution: A Noxious Brew
The recent Brown Revolution in Ukraine, which saw the overthrow of the legitimate (if corrupt and bumbling) Yanukovych government, is a triumph of Western Ukrainian nationalismāan ideology characterized by a violent Russophobia and antisemitism.Ā The rabid neo-Nazis of Oleh Tyahnybokās Svoboda (āFreedomā) party and Dmytro Yaroshās militant Right Sector are just the latest manifestation of...
A Model for the West
Ciechocinek lies about 200 kilometers northwest of Warsaw, near Torun, the birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus, in the Kujawy-Pomorze (Kuyavia-Pomerania) region.Ā It is a spa and resort town of about 14,000 permanent residents, known for its unique titration towersālarge wooden structures with thick layers of bramble, through which water from nearby salt springs is filtered into...
Speaking True
“Three million years The Spirit, ranging as it will, In sun, in darkness, lives in change. Changed and not changed. The spirit hears In drifting fern the morning air.” āJanet Lewis, “Fossil, 1975” What is it that poetry does and is? We can say that poetry is about why people do things, and about what...
Another Middle East Fantasy
There is an element of cognitive dissonance in the way that many members of the reality-based community in Washington tend to approach U.S. policy in the Middle East.Ā Many of my colleagues in Washington have urged policymakers to adopt a sense of realism about the American ability to achieve reconciliation between the ethnic and religious...
On Quebec Separatism
I appreciate the extraordinarily well-informed commentary by Sean Scallon on the current political scene in Canada (“CRAP Happens,” Correspondence, October 2000). As I learned 20 years ago when I visited Quebec and met my French-Canadian wife, Anglo-Canadians are fond of pulling the wool over the eyes of Americans on the actual situation in Quebec. The...
Living With the Albanians
In the current debate on the future of Kosovo, it is often overlooked that hundreds of thousands of Serbs and other non-Albanians had fled the province under Albanian pressure well before the KLA terror campaign of 1996-1998. Under Tito, the Albaniansā share of the population thus rose from 64 percent in 1953 to 77 percent...
Little Rocket Man Wins the Round
After a year in which he tested a hydrogen bomb and an ICBM, threatened to destroy the United States, and called President Trump “a dotard,” Kim Jong Un, at the gracious invitation of the president of South Korea, will be sending a skating team to the “Peace Olympics.” An impressive year for Little Rocket Man....
Bad Georgie
The facts of George Garrett’s literary career are laid out in the bibliography here: his 24 books include novels, plays, and collections of poems and short stories. In addition he has served as editor of 17 other booksāinterviews with contemporary writers, literary criticism, books on film scripts. He has also written a biography of the...
Is the GOP Still a National Party?
As President Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address to a nation filled with anticipation and hope, the vital signs of the loyal opposition appear worse than worrisome. The new majority of 49 states and 60 percent of the nation Nixon cobbled together in 1972, that became the Reagan coalition of 49 states and 60 percent...
A Second Look
In his review of Mark R. Levinās The Liberty Amendments (āImpractical Solutions, February), William J. Quirk emphasizes the novelty of an Article V convention, calling it āa constitutional-amendment process that has never been used beforeā and criticizing Mr. Levin for proposing that, āfor the first time,ā we use an Article V convention to amend the...
The Mafioso
According to some theorists, most of America’s woes began with the arrival of big government in 1932. Before that time, so the story goes, liberty was the rule, the work ethic was alive and well, God was in the classroom, and all was well with the world. As with all ideologies, this one presents an...
Excessive Misery
Iām miserable.Ā But if you paid attention to the national news or dialed up the Drudge Report in late February, you probably knew that already.Ā How could I not be, sitting here in my office in downtown Rockford, Illinois?Ā After all, according to Forbes, Rockford is the third most miserable city in the United States....
Europe’s Dark Roots
In April 1945, a world of avengers was closing in rapidly on Berlin.Ā Trapped in the bunker complex, Hitlerās dwindling band of followers faced mounting despair, until the news broke that Franklin Roosevelt had died.Ā The glorious word of relief ran through the surviving Nazi leadership: āThe Empress Elizabeth is dead!āĀ However baffling that reference...
World War III With China: How It Might Actually Be Fought
[This piece has been adapted and expanded from Alfred W. McCoyās new book, In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power.] For the past 50 years, American leaders have been supremely confident that they could suffer military setbacks in places like Cuba or Vietnam without having their system...
On ‘Old Adam, New Eve’
Thomas Fleming’s article, “Old Adam, New Eve” (Perspective, June 1986) failed to mention the women in the line of fire between feminists and traditionalists. Sure, we all decry militant feminists who want to turn science, the sexes, art and, indeed, all society into a progressive’s hodgepodge of leftist doctrine and Marxist utopia. But what about...
The Other Leviathan
The world has always been a place of unexamined terms.Ā Probably it has never been so full of them as it is under modern democratic industrial capitalism, whichādepending upon the rigor with which one defines the word democraticāis actually a contradiction in terms. Industrialism, which essentially is applied natural and human power on a large...
The World’s Best Bad Magazines
The below are little collections of information I picked up from, respectively, Esquire and GQ. The world’s finest ready-made suits are found in America. The world’s most intriguing men’s store is in Italy. The world’s best harmonicas come from Germany. Ā Fifteen percent of all furs in the United States are sold to males. Some...
VDARE Case Another Example of New Yorkās Weaponization of the Law
What is happening to Peter and Lydia Brimelow exemplifies the kind of lawfare that the same cast of characters are now waging against Trump. New York voters, ultimately, are the ones to blame.
Defending Joe Biden to the Right
My establishment conservative acquaintances are still swooning over an anti-Biden tirade that Mark Levin delivered on his TV program last week, when we learned that our current president is the most racist person who has ever occupied the Oval Office,Ā a charge that was then qualified with the phrase āsince Woodrow Wilson.ā Only two points in...
Tucker Carlsonās Firebell
Tucker Carlson shook the punditariat, liberal and conservative alike, with his incisive analysis, delivered during one of his show monologues, of the breakdown of the American family, a genuine four-alarm crisis that cannot be exaggerated.Ā In it, he fingered long-standing economic policies pushed by Swamp residents and their donors for the benefit of a rootless...
Moral Supremacy and Mr. Putin
Is Donald Trump to be allowed to craft a foreign policy based on the ideas on which he ran and won the presidency in 2016? Our foreign policy elite’s answer appears to be a thunderous no. Case in point: U.S. relations with Russia. During the campaign Trump was clear. He would seek closer ties with...
Standing Straight
The notion of the āFrench intellectualā makes a decent man reach for a gun.Ā Almost as odious as its Manhattan equivalent, it evokes images of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Derrida and Bernard-Henri LĆ©vy.Ā Evil degenerates, enemies of God and man. Gen. Pierre-Marie Gallois, who died on August 23 in Paris at the...
Back to the Stone Age II F
Ā PropertyĀ is the broadest term and the one most likely to be misused.Ā In English, we can use property to refer to everything we possess, including our personal characteristics, or more narrowly as the things we own, such s real estate, or to the more abstract notion promoted by Locke, that as human beings we...
‘Timing Is the Thing’
Which is more important: to know history well or to use what history you know in making important decisions? With some hesitation (since one is a trained historian), the authors of Thinking in Time decide for the latter. In a comparison between Harry Truman’s and George Marshall’s ability to learn from history, the authors side...
Is Iran Nearing a Bomb?
That Iran is building a secret underground facility near the holy city of Qom, under custody of the Revolutionary Guardātoo small to be a production center for nuclear fuel, but just right for the enrichment of uranium to weapons gradeāis grounds for concern, but not panic. Heretofore, all of Iran's nuclear ...
Who Won, and Who Lost, World War II?
Sunday, the 80th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland, Vice President Mike Pence spoke in Warsaw’s Pilsudski Square of “five decades of untold suffering and death that followed” the invasion. Five decades! What Pence was saying was that, for Poland, World War II did not end in victory but defeat and occupation by an...
The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted
Seizing control of the meansĀ of information is theĀ sine qua nonĀ of a successful coup. Radio, television, and newspapers must be grabbed first and foremost. That is what the Greek colonels did in the last successful European coup, back on April 21, 1967. Some years later, a colonel tried but failed to overthrow the elected post-Franco Spanish...
Detroit Shakedown
Stevie Wonder wants to become mayor of Detroit. He’s had some trouble determining precisely when the election will be held, but no matter. He believes that he can be the mayor of Motown in the 90’s. Now, this is no Sonny Bono and Palm Springs. Bono is decidedly a working-class stiff compared with the Retin...
Getting Out of Bed With Korea
In some waysāeven more than Japan and the Peopleās Republic of ChinaāSouth Korea is dominating key U.S. markets.Ā Iāve noticed this for years in Orange County, where Hyundai North America just built its new $200 million U.S. headquarters in Fountain Valley, the city next to where I live in Huntington Beach.Ā Itās double the size...
Iām Not a Number
I stepped through the metal detector and walked down the long hallway to the old entrance to the Winnebago County Court-house, a monument to less security-conscious days.Ā In Room 502, I joined about 200 other citizens, waiting to do our civic duty.Ā Signing in, I received my badge: no name, just a numberāJuror 11593.Ā I...
Another Manlio Story
āWhen I was arrested, they brought me to the newer of the two prisons, which is by far the less comfortable. At the old prison, when an inmate has meetings ā with a visitor, a psychiatrist, a lawyer ā he is conducted across an inner courtyard, with a lawn in the middle and trees all...
The Ignorance of the Doctors
Montaigne in his Essays called it ignorance doctorale (1.54). Four hundred years later an American journalist called it “educated incompetence.” It means the sort of nonknowledge, or anti-knowledge, that can follow upon higher learning, especially when theorizing about politics, morality, and the arts. That, in the first age of mass higher education in human history,...