Have you noticed? Newspapers and television channels across the land have discovered a new kind of human-interest story: the business-owning, family-man illegal immigrant who gets deported after living in this country for decades as a productive noncitizen. CNNâs website headlined the story of one Joel Colindres, âThis is the face of deportation: A dad with...
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Beware of Big Bathroom Brother
Big Bathroom Brother is here and it's clothed in public service and public safety, sacrificing your children's autonomy, and serving its Silicon Valley masters.
Those Oldies But Goodies
An Italian-American restaurant I count on features sound reasons for my presence there, and that of others. I like the tone in that environment. There is an aspect of 1950âs atmosphereâthe place is quiet, the lighting subdued, and the manners polite. The menu is gratifying when the garlic is held in control, and the service...
Special-Interest Democracy
“Millions endeavoring to supply Each other’s lust and vanity.”   – Bernard Mandeville  Milton and Rose Friedman: The Tyranny of the Status Quo; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; San Diego, CA.  Amitai Etzioni: Capital Corruption; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; San Diego, CA.  It is a commonplace that modern democracy suffers from a grave malady, namely...
Unflinching Women
Lady Macbeth Produced by Sixty Six Pictures, BBC Films, and The British Film Institute Directed by William Oldroyd Screenplay by Alice Birch from the novel by Nikolai Leskov A Quiet Passion Produced by Hurricane Films Written and directed by Terence Davies Distributed by Music Box Films The reviews of Lady Macbeth have been nearly unanimous, proclaiming it a...
Russia Baiters and Putin Haters
“Is Russia an enemy of the United States?” NBC’s Kasie Hunt demanded of Ted Cruz. Replied the runner-up for the GOP nomination, “Russia is a significant adversary. Putin is a KGB thug.” To Hillary Clinton running mate Tim Kaine, the revelation that Donald Trump Jr., entertained an offer from the Russians for dirt on Clinton...
Seeing Clear
X.J. Kennedy is admired for his great skill in treating contemporary topics in traditional forms and especially for his cultivation of light verse. The high quality, abundance, and breadth of his writingâpoetry, childrenâs work, fiction, textbooksâand his long presence on the literary scene make him one of the most important American poets today, as is...
The Obamacare Repeal Debacle
What do we take away, then, from the earthquake on the Senate floor last week, with wisps of smoke still rising from the ruins of Republican efforts to do somethingâanythingâlikely to rationalize the health care mess? We take away, or should, the lesson that government can’t do everything, and when it tries to, you get...
‘What Men? What Needs?’
“Rational thought Calm, reasonable, gentle persuasion. It was this quality of moderation in his writing that most impressed me, for my own inclinations always tended toward the opposite, toward the impatient, the radical, the violent.” âEdward Abbey on Joseph Wood Krutch The name of Joseph Wood Krutch was well-known in its day, much less so...
The Chain Reaction of Academic Lying
An uneasy relationship with the truth seems especially prevalent in Americaâs most prestigious schools. Ambitious academics quickly realize that upward mobility requires a knack for convincing deceit. Long gone are the days when brilliant scholarship was the ticket to moving up the ladder. The provost who can say with a straight face, âall of our...
Albanian Separatists
Albanian separatists have been attacking policemen in the Serbian province of Kosovo for years, though only recently has the conflict escalated to the point where Slobodan Milosevic felt compelled to respond with a show of force. Not surprisingly, Milosevic’s action was met by the familiar media barrage against the cruelty of “the Serbs” and bellicose...
Foreign Aid and USAID
There may be no more pitiful sight than that of tides of impoverished and starving refugees; there may be no greater irony than grievous want in the Third World amidst exploding possibilities in the First. Nearly a quarter of the worldâs population lives on less than one dollar per day. More than half survives on...
The New South
A Time to Kill Produced by Arnon Milchan, Michael Nathanson, Hunt Lowry, and John Grisham Directed by Joel Schumacher Based on a novel by John Grisham Screenplay by Akiva Goldsman Released by Warner Brothers A Time to Kill, Joel Schumacher’s new film about race relations in the South, has drawn plaudits from many critics. Stanley...
Likud’s Long Con
Here we go again! Scary sofa-samurai Robert Kagan, a neocon foreign-policy âscholar,â is also an expert on war, having watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Kagan says that, if Obama were to use force against Iran, the election would be overâhe would win overwhelmingly. Kagan and his brother are inside-the-Beltway hucksters, always hustling and doing...
SCOTUSâs Unanimous Decision and the Pandemic of Trump Derangement Syndrome
That things could get ugly and fast explains why it was imperative for the Supreme Court to rule as it did in the Colorado ballot caseâand to do so unanimously.
An Unleashed Feminine Mystique is Destroying Higher Education
The general feminization of Western society has had many negative effects, not least of which is the poisoning of intellectual discourse. Research shows that men tend to act as warriors, who emphasize winning and proving points; women tend to be empathetic, and place far greater value on peopleâs feelings. But feelings have no business in academia. Intellectuals should...
A Frivolous, Open-Ended War
There has never been a war in American history so strategically ill-conceived as the one currently developing against the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria. The Mexican war of 1846-47 was essentially an aggressive operation to take Alta California and New Mexico, and to cement the status of Texas. It was limited in its...
On Dressing Down
In her short piece âMen in Powerâ (Vital Signs, September) Nicole Kooistra describes a menâs organization at the University of Chicago that grew out of a satirical article, and then proceeds to berate the organization for its pursuits (such as developing professional contacts and learning about prostate cancer), the appearance of its members (âperfectly groomed,...
SRDJEXIT!
Inspired by Harry and Meghan [Note from the editors: The following piece is satirical. (We hope!)] On January 8 Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, issued a significant statement on Instagram announcing plans to change their roles within the British royal family. Further details are available to the curious. In view of the...
The Left Conspires to Keep Election Fraud Quiet. Wonder Why?
Emails released by the House Judiciary Committee should outrage Americans. The federal government devised a scheme to covertly stamp out public debate over election fraud.
The Star Chamber
In 1975, the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) launched a campaign for reparations for those Japanese who had been forced to evacuate the West Coast during World War II. A heavily financed lobbying effort came to fruition five years later when the House of Representatives passed a bill creating the Commission on Wartime Relocation and...
The Polymorph
Over the last three decades Fred Chappell has been steadily accumulating both an enviable publishing recordâhe has some twenty novels and collections of poems and stories to his creditâand a well-deserved reputation as one of the South’s foremost men of letters. His latest book of short fictions, the aptly tided More Shapes Than One, may...
April in Paris
The banging was first heard somewhere in the Alsace countryside, an hour or so after the train left Basel. For some reason, local worthies invariably pronounce the city’s name the French way, making it sound like the pagan deity denounced by the Hebrew prophets. The temples of Baal, in this unconscious interpretation, are the ubiquitous...
The Atheist Renaissance
Atheists are feeling their oats these days. Three militant unbelieversâRichard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchensâhave recently hit the best-seller lists and talk shows. Not since Bertrand Russell have we seen atheism so prosperously married to celebrity. Why now? Since the ...
âRisky Businessâ As Conservative Morality Tale?
âRisky Businessâ wasnât supposed to be a sly indictment of capitalism. A coming re-release from the Criterion Collection restores the directorâs original intention as a warning about crazy women and the power of sex to destroy men.
Exit to Political Oblivion
Al Gore’s exit to political oblivion has no doubt delighted many conservatives. But there is nothing for conservatives to cheer about in the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Bush v. Gore, the instrument of Gore’s demise. The unsigned majority opinion concluded that Florida’s recount procedures violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, because...
Idealists Without Illusions
Like all relationships, the special transatlantic one is in a state of constant fluxâwarmer or cooler at different times, enhanced by empathy, marred by misunderstandings, riven by realityâbut always affected by the personal qualities of the incumbents of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and 10 Downing Street. For a short but eventful span between January 1961 and...
Back in the News
Hate crimes were back in the news this summer. Of course, every crime is a hate crime when considered as a sin against charity and against the divinely ordained institution of human government. To this extent all crimes are equal, yet the United States government, while upholding as always the principle of equality, is attempting...
Obama v. BibiâFight to the Finish
In his desperation to sink the Iran nuclear deal, Bibi Netanyahu is taking a hellish gamble. Israel depends upon the United States for $3 billion a year in military aid and diplomatic cover in forums where she is often treated like a pariah state. Israel has also been the beneficiary of almost all the U.S....
Tune In: Live This Afternoon!
 Despite the slow news week, Chronicles Unbound, the best show on radio, will still air live today, 3-5 PM CDT.  Tune in online by clicking here, or download the podcast on Monday at this page.  If you are in Northern Illinois or Southern Wisconsin, tune in on your terrestrial radio device at 100.5 FM. Chronicles editors @Thomas Fleming...
Shadow of a Shade
The cover of this book describes the late Joseph Sobran as âone of the greatest essayists of the twentieth centuryâ and notes that he has often been compared with G.K. Chesterton and H.L. Mencken. As a lifelong admirer of Mencken and his work, I must say that I find the comparison an unfair oneâunfair to...
The She-Devil
Florence King, a/k/a “Fascist Flossie,” “Ku Klux King,” and “the thinking man’s redneck,” is the author of Southern Ladies and Gentlemen, Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye, Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady, and a number of other books under her own name and several others. She is infamous, in a South full of unreconstructed Confederate...
A Writer for All Seasons
E.B. White described Henry David Thoreau, that thorny individualist, as a regular hair shirt of a man; and no matter how much we may like the Thoreau of Walden and his other writing, few of us could bear having him as a neighbor. Such, too, is the case of Eric Blair, who would become George...
The Only Game in Town
My father often told me the story of how he, as a small boy, had sat on the knee of Wyatt Earp. The former marshal] of Dodge and Tombstone, as an old man, came to Chicago to give a lecture. He had heard of my Great-Uncle Garret’s heroism in rescuing a lady from an armed...
Mi General: Defending Augusto Pinochet at CUNY
Part of being a paleoconservative is facing down hostile remarks and insults by the usual suspects of the Left and the neocon Right. Aside from the ubiquitous “racist” (defined by VDARE’s Peter Brimelow as “someone who’s winning an argument with a liberal”), used in response to the most inoffensive, barely un-PC remark, there is also...
How Aussies Lost Their Pride of Erin
âIs there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?â âTo the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.â âThe dog did nothing in the night-time.â âThat was the curious incident,â remarked Sherlock Holmes. âSir Arthur Conan Doyle, âSilver Blazeâ Â Some recent Australian cultural trendsâmassive Islamic immigration, for instanceâare so...
The Iraq Quagmire
The lies and distortions surrounding the stated rationale for the war against Iraq now appear crude, clumsy, and embarrassing. 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...
California Surfs Toward Bankruptcy
Beach Blanket Bankruptcy would be a great name for a 1960âs-style surf movie about Californiaâs state and local finances. Alas, although Frankie Avalon still is with us, the beauteous Annette has gone the way of fiscal solvency. Already in recent years, four Golden State cities have declared bankruptcy: Vallejo in 2008, and Stockton, San Bernardino,...
Dua Lipa, like Pope Benedict, Strives to Give Eros DignityÂ
The artistâs new album is panned by critics who miss the point of her commentary on real and lasting love.
Tar and Feathering the South
Demonization as a political and social stratagem knows no temporal or geographical bounds; it is a ploy as old as civilization itself. The objective of the game is to dehumanize an opponent (an individual or a group) in order to gain public support for his marginalization or destruction. Modern America abounds with examples of the...
A Joint Criminal Conspiracy
The Great War started 100 years ago this August. The most tragic event in human history, that war destroyed a vibrant, magnificently creative civilization. A prosperous and well-ordered world was shattered forever. New killing machines that only a generation earlier did not exist were deployed on a massive scale: airplanes, tanks, poison gases, submarines. The...
Cupidity
A review of The Informant! (produced and distributed by Warner Brothers; directed by Steven Soderbergh; screenplay by Scott Z. Burns based on Kirt Eichenwaldâs book) âRadix omnium malorum est cupiditas,â Chaucerâs pardoner warned his guilt-ridden audiences: The root of all evil is greed. Steven Soderberghâs The Informant! serves as a latter-day illustration of this admonition....
Many Children Left Behind During COVID
Though some students have found learning at home relieves them of schoolâs social stresses, many others miss their teachers, classmates, and the routine of the school day. Some of the little ones have become more defiant and have reverted to bed-wetting, while many older students suffer from depression. In âThe Children of Quarantine: What does...
The Quintessential Democratic Politician
What follows is an attempt to portray not the typical statesman, as he repeatedly appeared in the course of Western history up to yesterday, but the average professional politician of our times, the man (or woman) whose chosen trade is to govern his (or her) fellow citizens. Any ruler must somehow be subordinate to the...
Terms of Revilement
Making a Killing, which may be the most influential anti-gun book ever written, could not have been better timed to the current wave of lawsuits against gun companies, since many of the legal claims closely resemble the charges that Tom Diaz makes against the gun industry. Moreover, the book will likely help shape public opinion...
Better Together
Brion McClanahan penned two able critiques of President Trumpâs â1776 Reportâ for the April/May and July 2021 issues of this magazine. I notice that his charge (in âStop Playing the Leftâs Game,â July 2021 Chronicles) that âour allies at ClaremontâŠgive unwitting aid and comfort to the leftâ is mirrored by Michael Antonâs assertion (in âAmericans Unite,â in the online magazine American Greatness) that Chronicles does...
Yes, Ma’am. And Will There Be Anything Else, Ma’am?”
According to Angela D. Dillard, “women and minority conservatives have begun to alter irrevocably the tone and complexion of contemporary conservatism.” Despite the leftist affinity of most gays, blacks, Hispanics, and self described feminists, “pariah minorities”âwhom Dillard views as belonging to larger “outcast” groupsâhave come to identify with the American right. Consisting of independent (though...
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 nerveânot 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 Ryancare RoutâWinning by Losing?
Did the Freedom Caucus just pull the Republican Party back off the ledge, before it jumped to its death? A case can be made for that. Before the American Health Care Act, aka “Ryancare,” was pulled off the House floor Friday, it enjoyed the supportâof 17 percent of Americans. Had it passed, it faced an...
Thistles from Figs
âSince there has never been a great civilization without poetry,â writes Tom Fleming in the current issue of Chronicles, âwe can say that European civilization has ceased to exist.â True enough, but if the dayâs newspaper is any guide, I reckon the sainted editor is digging too deep. The English word âuxuriousâ was used, and...