Historyābe it that of 1619, or 1776, or some other significant year or eventāis often abused in this day and age. One of the latest victims of such historical misrepresentation are the Spartans, whom Lee Smith in a column for Tablet treats rather unfairly. Smith describes theĀ blood-curdling behaviorĀ of the antidemocratic Spartans at the end of...
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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...
Nations of Immigrants
The irrepressible Silvio Berlusconi is in hot water again with all left-thinking people, this time for his remarks on illegal immigrants.Ā After praising Libya for taking back 500 illegals from Italy, the Italian PM observed,
Istanbul 2013 = Moscow 1937?
Ā After a show trial that lasted for five years and would’ve made Josef Stalin and Andrei Vyshinsky proud, 354 opponents of Tayyip Recep Erdogan’s Islamist regime have been found guilty. Ā The main defendant, Gen. Ilker Basbug, who led Turkey’s armed forces in 2008-2010 was given a life sentence. Ā The head of the socialist-secular nationalist...
Ashton Carterās Flawed Strategy
There are two important lessons of history for an imperial strategist who wants to avoid the trap of overreach. The first is not to risk engagement in a new theater while an old crisis remains unresolved.Ā Philip II of Spain sent the Armada to her doom while the rebellion in the Low Countries was still...
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...
Barack Obamaās Reassuringly Vacuous State of the Union Address
President Barack Obamaās second State of the Union Address was almost entirely focused on domestic issues. This was appropriate considering the magnitude of social, economic and moral problems America is facing, and the attendant absurdity of pursuing grand global themes for as long as those problems remain unresolved. The clichĆ©s and the rhetoric were kitchy...
Ghosts of the Midwest
The decline of the Midwest as a cultural force was well under way by the time Russell Kirk was born in Plymouth, Michigan, in 1918.Ā Yankee influence in the region had largely been replaced by a more vibrant German-American culture, and now the United States, in the midst of the War to End All Wars,...
America Through the Looking Glass
Not so long ago anticommunist conservatives used to rail against the mirror fallacy, the leftist assumption that the Soviet Union could be studied in Western terms. If only we could strengthen the hand of the doves and “responsible” elements, we could keep the country from falling into the hands of the hard-liners and hawksāthe Soviet...
Terrorism, Immigration, and the UK Election
[above: Fishmongers’ Hall across London Bridge] Let āDover Beach,ā Matthew Arnoldās finest poem, be the epigraph for today. Many migrants come on shore there in tiny and dangerous boats, often escorted in by border patrols. They will mostly be allowed to stay in England. Many are not intercepted and fade without trace into the mainland....
Grading Greenspan
President Bushās recent announcement that he will renominate Alan Greenspan for a fifth term as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board elicited mostly favorable reactions from a wide range of economic and political pundits. At the critical end of the spectrum, economist James Galbraith, in an op-ed entitled āGreenspan, The man who stayed too long,ā...
Polonophobia, Cont.
“Polonophobia,” my essay in the January issue of Chronicles, engendered moving and informed responses for which I am most grateful. Professors Ewa Thompson and Alex Kurczaba and Dr. Wojciech Wierzewski have all praised me generously in letters to the editor [Eds. note: See the Polemics and Exchanges section of the April issue], but, according to...
Pay No Attention
A recent article in USA Today (āMexicoās Violence Not Widespread,ā August 4) could serve as a case study in why Mexican journalists consider their North American counterparts āhopelessā when it comes to accurate reporting on their country. The article pretends to correct the public misperception that Mexico on a whole is a dangerous and violent...
Jean Raspail’s New Warning
Ā Forty years after publishing his prophetic dystopia Jean Raspail is still with us, ever more resigned that our civilization is on the āroad to disappearance.ā As he explained in an interviewĀ published inĀ Valeurs ActuellesĀ on October 25Ā (transl. by ST), he has no desire to join the big circle of intellectuals who spend their time debating immigration...
Un Monstre Ć©trange
To translate a play by Corneille (1606-84), one of the ābig threeā dramatists (along with Racine and MoliĆØre) of the classical period in France, is to challenge most trends of contemporary American taste, starting with the reigning, and deplorable, standards of behavior and language.Ā Corneilleās plays are in rhymed alexandrine couplets; the diction is elevated...
Hollywood Plays with Fire
In July of 1870, King Wilhelm sent Foreign Minister Bismarck an account of his meeting with a French envoy who had demanded that the king renounce any Hohenzollern claim to the Spanish throne. Bismarck edited the report to make it appear the Frenchman had insulted the king, and that Wilhelm rudely dismissed him. The Ems...
Putin and Bidenās Geneva Date Validates Low Expectations
Presidents Joseph Biden and Vladimir Putin met in Geneva on Wednesday, June 16. Both separately noted that the talks went well.Ā āThereās been no hostility,āĀ Putin said. āOn the contrary, our meeting took place in a constructive spirit.āĀ Biden meanwhile declaredĀ āthe tone of the entire meetingā¦ was good. Positive.ā The spirit may have been constructive and the tone...
“Don’t Vote”
“Don’t Vote, it Only Encourages Them” goes the bumpersticker, and it is only one among many signs of voter unrest. Another proposal, newly revived and cropping up in states like Oklahoma and South Dakota, is to reform Congress by limiting congressional terms. Back in 1978 two then-freshman senators, John Danforth and Dennis DeConcini, sponsored legislation...
Crazy Russian No More
A quarter of a century ago, when I started writing for this magazine, I was the Russian.Ā Along with the sense of exclusivity it afforded, that simple tag gave its owner a clear run through the 1980ās and 90ās on both sides of the Atlantic.Ā I was the only Russian in any crowd, whether as...
Curing Cultural Amnesia
Wokeism has spread widely, but wokeismās triumph is not irreversible. Indeed, the necessary first step of subverting wokeism may well be the sufficient final step as well.
The Chechen War Far From Over
The Chechen War, as the Russian leadership discovered in early March, is far from over. On the night of March 2, a convoy of nine trucks, carrying about 100 Internal Ministry special forces troops from Grozny to the strategically important crossroads village of Pervomayskava, was ambushed by an estimated 40 Chechen boyevikiy (“fighters” or “warriors”)....
Pontius Pilate, Ora Pro Nobis
To the leaders of the Free Speech Movement of the 1960ās, self-censorshipāonce known as civility and decorumāwas as dangerous as the social enforcement of civility by private organizations and by public educational institutions, and those social norms were, in turn, just as destructive as attempts by government to limit the freedom of speech guaranteed by...
False Christs
“False Christs shall arise,” warned our Lord, “insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.” Christians of any other era would apply this admonition to the Christ of CBS’s Jesus, the April miniseries that captured a general endorsement from evangelicals and Catholics both here and abroad. On Italian television, the film...
The Countermarch
This election will determine more than control of the White House or Congress; the future of dissident resistance is at stake.
Meloni’s Normality Is Too Much for the New Totalitarians
The āfascistā label is now used by the real totalitarians to attack anyone who does not toe the woke line to the T. New Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is the latest recipient of the leftās favorite misnomer.
Foreign Gangs Take Root in Americaās Sanctuary Cities
For too long, Americaās liberal sanctuary city mayors could preen about their superior compassion with little to no cost. The Biden-Harris border crisis is changing that.
On Eastern Europe
Thomas Molnar (“Left and Right in Eastern Europe,” March 1996) should be commended for pointing out the “scandalous impunity” with which communist criminals escaped punishment for their atrocities in Central and Eastern Europe. The communist nomenclaturas, supported by the West, acquired a thin veneer of “democracy,” and continue to rule. Naturally, they would not indict...
Sensitivity Hazing
Two members of the Kappa Alpha Psi chapter at Florida A & M have been sentenced to two years imprisonment for a violent hazing they inflicted on a fraternity pledge, who suffered a punctured eardrum and bruises on his buttocks. Michael Morton, 23, and Jason Harris, 25, were convicted under a 2005 Florida law making...
Party of One
Herbert Hoover once praised the “American system of rugged individualism.” (This was the same Hoover who gave Americans a trial run of New Deal socialism.) The ideology of individualism is a classic piece of 19th-century claptrap. Once upon a time, people could speak of freedom and liberty without erecting an “ism” or “ology,” but as...
What the Editors Are Reading
Courtesy of our Westminster correspondent, Freddy Gray, who kindly sent me the book from London as an unexpected present, Iām nearly through Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family, by Alexander Waugh, the son of the late journalist Auberon Waugh, grandson of Evelyn, and himself a classical-music critic (ironic, as Evelyn Waugh loathed music...
Requiem for a Patriot
Ā “Conservative Tycoon … Dies at 95,” said theĀ New York TimesĀ headline on New Year’s Eve about the death of Roger Milliken. Clearly, the headline writer did not know the man. For Roger Milliken exemplified the finest in American free enterprise. He cared about his workers. He cared about his industry. He cared about his community....
European Union: R.I.P.?
When communism collapsed in Moscow, Prague and Belgrade at the end of the Cold War, ethnic nationalism surged to the surface in all three nations and tore them apart into 24 countries. Economic nationalism is now resurgent across Europe. And it is hard to see how a transnational institution like the European Union, run by...
Six Months After Katrina
Sitting at Mass in St. Theresaās Church on Camp Street in New Orleans some six months after Hurricane Katrina, my eyes rise naturally above the altar.Ā There, I see a large, ugly panel of various sheets of plywood and two-by-fours filling the vast hole where the fine old stained glass depicting an incident in the...
Letter From England: Itās Chavtastic, Baby!
The British tabloids couldnāt get enough of it.Ā Photos of Prince William wearing multiple large gold chains, a baggy track suit, a baseball cap, and a menacing sneer on his face were splashed across their front pages.Ā To the British, it was immediately clear that the prince was dressed up as a āchav.ā Like most...
Picking Up the Pieces
Great Britain is in troubleāpolitically, economically, and culturallyāand Phillip Blond wants to change this.Ā He blames both the political right and the left for having created an atomistic society in which all pursue self-interest to the detriment of society as a whole. Blond explains how Britain got into this predicament and then gives several chapters...
When Hollywood Rode Right
Although Hollywood is now considered a monolithic bastion of leftist, āwokeā political and cultural sentiment with almost no dissent tolerated, it was not always that way. Though Tinseltown was never a haven for conservative and traditionalist cinema, actors, and screenwriters, 60 years ago a person could still be on the right and have a career...
Just One More Justice . . .
At the polls last November, conservatives and libertarians who vote according to conscience had two options: Bob Barr (Libertarian Party) and Chuck Baldwin (Constitution Party).Ā Combined, these two garnered only 719,655 votesāa paltry amount compared with John McCainās 59,082,002.Ā For those who believe in smaller government, fiscal responsibility, and individual liberty, the 2008 election was...
Copperhead Road
I grew up in Alden, New York, a small town about 20 miles east of Buffalo. My parents still live there, and they (especially my mother) are very active in the town historical society and its museum. In that museum is a worn old wooden desk, unremarkable except for the sign that explains that it...
What Are Hate Crimes?
Hate crimesāwhat are they? In Newport, Rhode Island, a mixed-race couple complained that threats from their white neighbors had driven them from their home. Generous contributions from strangers helped the family to find a new place and to pay the rent. Local police, however, were suspicious from the first and eventually charged Tisha Anderson with...
In Defense of Conspicuous Consumption
After my March letter, “Three Days in Sodom, Two in Gomorrah,” readers of this magazine have written to ask why I am so down on conspicuous consumption. I want to go on record here: I am not. But even a gourmand should disapprove of gluttony, since pleasure exists only insofar as it is subject to...
Shadow of Ecstasy
It’s starting again. Almost 20 years ago, the federal government launched what became known as the “war on drugs,” a radical experiment to suppress illegal drugs through harsh penal solutions. Among other things, this meant long prison sentences for the sale or possession of tiny quantities of controlled substances, sentences that are astonishingly severe by...
The Constitution, R.I.P.
On July 22 of this year, the Washington Times published, as the weekly installment of its “Civil War” section, a long article by a gentleman named Mackubin Thomas Owens, described as “professor of strategy and force planning” at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, under the headline, “Secession’s apologists gut Constitution, history.” The...
Plane Crashes
Before World War II, airplanes were something of an oddity in the skies over Framalopa.Ā We would stop and gaze at a Piper Cub chugging along through air, occasionally cutting its motor and gliding for a few seconds while we held our breath.Ā I canāt recall ever seeing a commercial airliner winging its way from...
The Primacy of Privacy
People forget, in an age of promotion, self-promotion, publicity, advertising, the internet, and social media, that personal privacy is essential not only to civility but to civilization.Ā Today, as never before in history, the maintenance of privacy depends on the moral fortitude to resist intrusion by others and the self-restraint and tact not to intrude...
Commendables ā Subtlety vs. Six-Guns
In 1893 at the Chicago World’s Fair, Frederick Jackson Turner created a landmark in AmericanĀ historiography by articulating his thesis that the frontier exĀperience had produced “the forces dominating American character.” Especially during the last 20 years, many historians have challenged the validity of Turner’s views, arguing that European culture remained the primary influence upon American...
Flannery OāConnor and Shadows of Evil
OāConnor understood the complicated relationship between tragedy and joy was related to the inevitable confrontation of good and evil. Freedom is embracing the metaphysical surrender to the knowledge that we are not the beginning or even the end of things.
Nationalism and Secession
With the collapse of communism all across Eastern Europe, secessionist movements are mushrooming. There are now more than a dozen independent states on the territory of the former Soviet Union, and many of its more than 100 different ethnic, religious, and linguistic groups are striving to gain independence. Yugoslavia has dissolved into various national components....
An American Original
In the world of blue bloods and blue books, where nicknames like “Oatsie,” “Tootsie,” “Bunny,” and “Babe” abound, being called “Sister” isn’t particularly unusual. Even in her professional life. Sister Parish never used her given name, Dorothy May, though regarding her nickname she once commented, It has not been an easy cross to bear. My...
Cashiering Andy Jackson
Andrew Jackson was sort of a rough-and-tumble president, undoubtedly, but the United States, in the 1820s and ’30s, was sort of a rough-and-tumble country. Notice how refined and civilized we’ve gotten since then, to the point that a coalition of lady activists is ready to pull President Jackson’s mug off the $20 bill, substitutingāwell, that’s...
Remembering Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland, in all of his offices, from the first day to the last, steadfastly followed the principles of Jeffersonian conservatism.