F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Chandler wrote, “is a subject no one has a right to mess up. Nothing but the best will do for him”; and that is how I feel about Laura Ingalls Wilder, who deserves to be ranked with Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Twain and O’Connor and Dickinson as one of the geniuses of...
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Failing America
The Soviet Communist Party used to devote a lot of attention to the problem of inefficient agriculture.Ā The partyās Agrarian Policy Commission debated endlessly, throughout the final quarter-century of the Soviet stateās existence, how to improve the system.Ā Should the state farm (sovkhoz) be made self-financing?Ā Should the collective farm (kolkhoz) have its own heavy...
Believe the Children?
We may begin with a nightmare. Imagine that you are the parent of a preschool child and that one day police and child-protection officials appear at your door. They inform you that a teacher or daycare worker suspects that your child has been abused and that subsequent interviews with therapists have proven this fact to...
Bad Investments Pay Off
Money Monster Directed by Jodie FosterĀ Screenplay by Jamie Linden, Alan DiFiore, Jim KoufĀ Produced by TriStar PicturesĀ Distributed by Sony PicturesĀ Mustang Directed and written by Deniz Gamze ErgĆ¼venĀ Produced by CG CinemaĀ Distributed by Cohen Media Group When I graduated from college with a degree in English literature, it occurred to me I...
Debating the “Gentile Vice”
At its annual “Ministers Week” lectures last year, the theological school of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas provided a revealing window into the contemporary debate within mainline church circles over homosexuality. Taking a pro-homosexuality approach was Victor Furnish, a professor at SMU’s Perkins School of Theology. Defending the traditional Christian stance was Richard Hays...
Dos mojitos, por favor
A mojito is a Cuban mint julep, mixed with rum rather than bourbon. It was Ernest Hemingway’s second-favorite drink. The shot of gin first thing in the morning from the bottle beneath the bed took top honors. Somewhere just on the dark side of dawn in an Eivissa nightclub, I was trying to convince the...
Mind Your Own Business
The murder of abortionist David Gunn in March of this year ought to sharpen the focus of the national debate on abortion, although partisans on both sides may be slow in getting the point. The New York Times, in a ponderous exercise of soft journalism, portrayed the event as a study in character contrasts. Michael...
Playing Possum
Mr. Navrozov is a serious man and his political concerns, no matter how improbable they may appear, must be taken seriously. He believes, first, what has been happening in the Soviet Union since March 1985, namely its visible decomposition, is a KGB disinformation achievement, that the “collapse of communism” (he puts the phrase in quotation...
Back to the Stone Age, I B
Ā That afternoon, as Paul and I were gassing on about the evil neocons, one of us said something like, “”If they are neoonservatives, what are we then, paleolithic conservatives or palaeocons?”Ā In my recollection, I was the first to utter the word, though I believe Paul also claims credit.Ā I won’t dispute the point....
Keeping Liberty Alive in an Age of āCoronavistasā
A look around at our coronavirus-obsessed world leaves those of us still possessing common sense with one question: What on earth have we become? This question arises when viewingĀ videos such as this one, where a pregnant, Catholic mother refusing to wear a mask is cited for trespassing during a Mass in Dallas, Texas. This young...
Black Like Me
Your Excellency: I know May is a monster on your calendar, a whirl of confirmations requiring your presence in the backwater outposts of the Faith.Ā The physical demands aloneāthe hours in the car, the parish suppers, the compliments and complaintsāmust weigh heavily, if youāll pardon the pun.Ā (Truth to tell, Your Excellency, you could gain...
Evangelicals on the Durham Trail
What do Billy Graham and Stanley Fish have in common? According to most assessments of the ongoing culture wars, the answer is an emphatic “not much!” With the exception of a few inconsequential detailsāboth are older white men living in North Carolina ālittle seems to unite these two figures or the movements for which they...
Go Figure
“A politician . . . one that would circumvent God.” āWilliam Shakespeare In preparing my review of this riveting biography, I gathered samples of what has recently been written about Richard M. Nixon, and I must say they make a bewildering collection. Here are a few: “A monster of a million disguises.” Andrew Kopkind, the...
Geneology of a Movement
During many an evening conversation, Sam Francis, Murray Rothbard, Lew Rockwell, and I have dwelled on a particular topic with relish: Who was the first neoconservative? Our responses varied, depending on the latest neoconservative outrage and which obnoxious historical personalities we were then reading about. After looking at John Ehrman’s book and the summer issue...
The War of Mexican Aggression
” . . . As honest men it behooves us to learn the extent of our inheritance, and as brave ones not to whimper if it should prove less than we had supposed.” āJohn Tyndall Much in the news recently, especially in the Southwest, is the problem of illegal immigration from south of the border....
Uncle Sam’s Harem
These days bipolarism appears to be the āinā childhood malady touted by leftist psychologists, who previously promoted ADHD to explain away the disturbed behavior exhibited by postmodern children and adolescents.Ā The list of problems is long: antisocial behavior, poor performance in school, sexual promiscuity; depression and suicide, drug abuse and alcoholism; violence and random acts...
On Hard Cases
Thomas Flemingās reflections on the Schiavo case (āNew Wine in Old Bottles,ā Perspective, May) disappointed but did not surprise me, since, a few years back, he defended our government when it handed over Elian Gonzalez to the tender mercies of a totalitarian government.Ā In both cases, the crux of his argument seems to be the...
Ethiopia Lifts Her Hands
In a classic book of humor entitled The Experts Speak, we find an impressive collection of failed prophecies and wildly inaccurate predictions: Television would never catch on, nobody needs a personal computer, and so on. I occasionally think there might be a place for a parallel volume of religious forecasts gone stunningly wrong. Such an...
The Wehrmacht in Their Own Words
By allowing the German soldiers to speak, historian David Harrisville helps us to see World War II through their eyes, almost sympathetically. Many were devoted Christians who saw the war as a struggle against "godless" and "inhumane" Soviets.
From Mothers to Killers
Thereās no way a man can sidestep trouble writing about the prospect of women as combat troops.Ā You know, mowing the enemy down with machine guns; blowing up things, not to mention people; cutting, slicing, jabbing, stabbing, whatever it takes.Ā For such is war, the elements little different in a high-tech age from those prevalent...
You Say You Want a Revolution
With a none-too-whopping lunch of 51 percent of the popular vote packed into their bellies, the nationās āconservativesā quibbled and preached to one another about the true meaning of the 2004 presidential election even before the 51 percent had made it all the way down their political esophagus.Ā āNow comes the revolution,ā beamed Richard A....
The Death of the Amateur
When college athletics abandons the spirit of play for the reality of pay.
All Gone in Search of America
What does it mean to be an American? Major debates over legislation and proposed constitutional amendments raise the question. Without stretching a point too much, it is easy to see the American identity as the underlying question on the immigration issue, the Equal Rights. Amendment, and perhaps even in the debate over abortion. It comes...
The Return of the Grand Inquisitor
“Without the spiritual rebirth no political changes will make people free. But the spiritual rebirth, a Christian rebirth, is the ascent of a free man, and not of RussianĀ nationalism, the cult of homeland, fatherland, and one’s country.” Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā -Mihajlo Mihajlov in “Some Timely Thoughts” (written in 1974 in response to Letter to the Soviet...
Three Bads and an Excellent
Let’s say that you have an enthusiasm for golf, tennis, or dining out but live in an area in which the necessary facilities are available exclusively on a membership basis in private clubs. Assume also that any very extended exclusion from these activities leaves you bored, dejected, morose. In these circumstances, and on the added...
The Great All-in-Agreement Debate
āDebate is masculine; conversation is feminine.ā āA. Bronson Alcott For decades, a massive problem has been aborning in all Western countries: the increasingly difficult-to-ignore presence of ever-growing and restive ethnic minority groups alienated from the majority communities surrounding them.Ā These disparate groupsāemboldened by our enervation and in thrall to ethnocentric demagogues masquerading as āantiracistsā and...
The Flamingo Kid
It is a truism to note that H.L. Mencken, like his great vitriolic predecessor Jonathan Swift, was a thoroughgoing misanthrope.Ā So perverse was Menckenās vision of human existence that he preferred to read King Lear as farce rather than as tragedyāsince nothing, he was fond of saying, could be more farcical than death.Ā But if...
Franklin Pierce and the Fight for the Old Union
If Franklin Pierce is remembered at all today it is as an inept, do-nothing President whose only accomplishment was to sign the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Historians generally cite this bill, along with the 1857 Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case, as evidence of the aggressive designs of the South to extend slavery...
The Life of the Mind
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life; by Zena Hitz; Princeton University Press; 240 pp., $22.95 āWhat do I need to know for the test?ā This common refrain, repeated endlessly by high school and undergraduate students, sums up one of the great heresies of our age: the view that learning is a...
Slouching Toward Mar-a-Lago
The Post-Cold-War Consensus Collapses Like it or not, the president of the United States embodies America itself. The individual inhabiting the White House has become the preeminent symbol of who we are and what we represent as a nation and a people. In a fundamental sense, he is us. It was not always so. Millard...
Are NGOs Agents of Subversion?
Though “Bibi” Netanyahu won re-election last week, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will still look into whether the State Department financed a clandestine effort to defeat him. Reportedly, State funneled $350,000 to an American NGO called OneVoice, which has an Israeli subsidiary, Victory 15, that collaborated with U.S. operatives to bring Bibi down. If...
Trump’s China Strategy
Many years ago, Nobel laureateĀ Paul Samuelson was challenged by a mathematician to name a single proposition in all social science that was both true and nontrivial. Samuelson proposed the principle of comparative advantage, first developed by economist David Ricardo in 1817. It was true, Samuelson argued, as a matter of mathematical deduction, and yet its...
Aaron D. Wolf: A Man of Faith and Family
The executive editor of Chronicles, Aaron Wolf, died suddenly and tragically on Easter Sunday. He left behind a loving wife and six children, and colleagues and contributors to this magazine who admired him greatly. Aaron worked for Chronicles for 20 years, and his journey reflects where the magazine and the conservative cultural movement it represents...
The Post-Suburban Jesus
By a generous estimate, evangelical Christians are as much as one third of the U.S. population.Ā In fact, they are the only Christian demographic that has shown exuberant growth in recent decadesāa period during which church attendance overall has been steadily eroding.Ā A significant part of this growth has taken place in the nondenominational or...
Dancing at LaRue
The stars of the dance floor, a bantam couple, whirl to the “EE-II-EE-II-OO Polka,” a tune that would be obscure to almost anybody but the Mellotones. Their feet, tiny to start with, push each between the other’s with the precision of a sewing-machine needle working a button foot. Around and around they twirl, not with...
The Latest Dope From Washington
“Tarry not, I pray you, Madam,” Walter Raleigh is supposed to have cautioned Queen Elizabeth, “for the wings of time are tipped with the feathers of death.” As Harold Macmillan observed a few years ago: “Civil servants don’t write memos like that anymore.” Some have trouble just speaking the language. Nicholas Burns, the State Department...
The Silent Invasion
“It is surely arguable that during the third century of American existence the main problem of this nation will beāit already isāthat of immigration and migration, mostly from the so-called Third World.” āJohn Lukacs Last year the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) apprehended 1.8 million illegal aliens along our southern borderāless than half the number...
The Other Pasternak
Sir Ernst Gombrich, for one, is glad to hear the news. The eminent art historian stands in the modestly furnished drawing room of his Hampstead house, leafing through his copy of Leonid Pasternak’s memoirs, recently published in England. The book’s publication had attracted the attention of the Smithsonian Institution, and the first retrospective of the...
Faux Originalism
Is Antonin Scaliaās originalismāindeed, constitutional self-government itselfāpassĆ©? The eternal temptation to read oneās own values into the Constitution beguiles even religious conservatives espousing natural law. The U.S. Constitution is the āsupreme law of the land,ā whose ultimate interpretation is entrusted, by longstanding custom if not by explicit textual direction, to the U.S. Supreme Court. Accordingly,...
Beyond Hubris
With disarming and hardly disingenuous modesty, Polish humanist Leszek Kolakowski describes his new anthology, Modernity on Endless Trial, as a loose collection of “semi-philosophical sermons” written over the course of a decade or so, purporting to offer no original philosophy. He adds, as an apparent afterthought, that he views them as conscious, deliberate appeals for...
Dahrendorf and Burke, 1789 & 1989
Just two centuries on, an echo of Edmund Burke and his most celebrated book has opportunely come out of Oxford. It is by Sir Ralf Dahrendorf, a German-born political scientist who is now warden of St. Antony’s College there; and it is called Reflections on the Revolution in Europe in a Letter Intended to have...
Educated at Home
āLet us eat and make merry.ā āLuke 15:23 āThis has been a happy time: Iāve spent all day with my family, eaten a fine meal, played with my grandchildren, been to a baptism, and I went to communion.ā These were the words ...
On ‘Homeschooling’
Help! M’aidez! Salve! While perusing your excellent September 1992 issue, I was horrified to see two articles espousing inaccuracies about homeschooling. First, E. Christian Kopff. In his article “Ignorance and Freedom,” he repeatedly states (without any source) that “‘Bible-believing’ Christians are strongly opposed to learning [Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and German] and allowing their children to...
Whatās Next for the Imperial Judiciary?
āHow much power Congress has to block Supreme Court consideration of the constitutionality of its laws is an open question.āĀ This, the Washington Post said in a September 23, 2004, editorial, is āsomewhat surprising.āĀ The Post shouldnāt be so astonished, for the real surprise is that judicial supremacyāthe doctrine that the Court interprets the Constitution...
Four More Years
Ā Ā Ā Ā “Where law ends, tyranny begins.” āWilliam Pitt On the eve of the inauguration of the second Clinton administration, reading biographies of the First Couple is like reading Airport while waiting to board a transcontinental flight. A morbid interest in gruesome facts and events is further titillated by the anticipation of horrors...
A Tale of Two Subversives
The intention of postmoderns to destroy real people, with their natural loyalties, traditional morality, and inherited cultural preferences, is the same everywhere.Ā Its specific manifestations may be different in the United States and Serbiaāthe homes of our two interlocutors and my good friendsābut the underlying motivation is identical.Ā It is Christophobia, the incubator of countless...
Calculated Acts of Goodness
How could this be? In a Catholic school? Here? This is what they’re teaching our kids? I stopped, transfixed. I had parked my car and sauntered into the Catholic middle school in search of my son. I was about to turn down the hall that led to his math class when I was struck by...
Effeminate Gospel, Effeminate Christians
Every definition of masculinity into which our Lord Jesus Christ does not fit belongs in the rubbish heap.Ā Indeed, there could be no greater example of a man than He.Ā Contrary to modern portrayals, Jesus was neither a sensitive metrosexual nor a macho-macho man.Ā The tenderness that He displayed toward those whom He loved (including...
Conservative or Rightist? A Personal Confession
People who know me realize that in the United States I move largely in conservative circles. I write for conservative publishers and periodicals and lecture largely to conservative audiences. I feel at home with them and usually share their views. The vast majority of my friends in America consider themselves to be conservatives, and thus...
Episcopal Follies
We have heard many debates recently about the undermining of moral and cultural traditions in contemporary America, a trend sometimes epitomized by the phrase “political correctness.” Conservatives often issue dark warnings about the ills that befall a society that cuts itself off from its roots, though few go so far as to predict total destruction,...