“We can’t be divided by race, religion, by tribe. We’re defined by those enduring principles in the Constitution, even though we don’t necessarily all know them.” So Joe Biden told the firefighters union this week. But does Joe really believe that? Or does that not sound more like a plea, a wistful hope, rather than...
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Revolt of the 300-Pound Beefy Guys
Discontent is the parent of all radicalism, and in these happy days, Pat Buchanan’s third and ever more radical challenge to the globalist ruling class may not attract the political following it deserves. The national happiness that smothers healthy political disgruntlement is due to the success, by conventional standards, of the Clinton presidency. There is...
Christian Punishment
Ā Timothy Broglio is ArchbishopĀ of the Archdiocese for the Military Services. Ā Early this year, he attracted a great deal of media attention, mostly negative, for a letter he issued condemning the Obama’ administration for requiring Catholic institutions to include contraception in its insurance coverage. Ā An adroit diplomatist, Broglio reached a compromise with the Pentagon, and...
America’s Dwight Schrute
In an hilarious episode of NBCās The Office, Dunder-Mifflin Ć¼bertwerp Dwight Schrute unwittingly adapts the words of several speeches by Benito Mussolini and Karl Marx in order to appear impressive at a conference for salesmen.Ā āBlood alone moves the wheels of history!ā he cries, and by the time he gets to Il Duceās āIt is...
The Politics of Property
[This article first appeared in the July 1996 issue of Chronicles.] A great many scholars have dealt in considerable detail with Edmund Burke’s party politics and political philosophy, and a few have examined his thoughts on economics. But Francis Canavan’s latest book is the first thorough and systematic study of the interrelationship of that great...
Leftist Critics Are Misreading Antifascism: The Course of a Crusade
Authoring a book comes with its usual praise and criticism and my latest book, Antifascism: Course of a Crusade, is no exception. One of my critics is the Canadian journalist and columnist at The Nation, Jeet Heer. His review leaves me wondering whether he has actually read my work, which charts the historical roots of the modern antifascist movement....
Playing Pointless Games
Lanham is certainly ambitious enough. He proposes to resolve “three overlapping perplexities”: a literacy crisis so widespread it has shaken our national self-esteem as an educated democracy; a school and college curriculum that no longer knows what subjects should be studied or when; and a humanism so directionless, unreasoned, and sentimental that it seems almost...
Afghanistan’s Democratic Process
George W. Bush bailed last September’s parliamentary election in Afghanistan as “a major step forward” for the country’s democratic process. When the results were published at the end of October, however, it became obvious that the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) will be dominated by warlords, veteran jihadists, and former Taliban officials. The new legislature will...
The First and Final Command
Of Gods and Men Produced by Why Not Productions and Armada Films Directed and written by Xavier Beauvois Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics Ā Director Xavier Beauvoisās Of Gods and Men quietly, one might say austerely, meditates on the faith and courage of nine French Trappists who faced death at the hands of Muslim fanatics...
Piety and Meaning
Walter Sullivan is professor of English at Vanderbilt University, the author of two novels, and, most recently, of Allen Tate: A Recollection. He is also a frequent and long-standing contributor to the Sewanee Review, in which four of the ten essays in this volume (dedicated to, among others, George Core, Sewanee‘s editor) first appeared. Although...
Not to Worry
Me seemes the world is runne quite out of sqaureFrom the first point of his appointed sourse,And being once amisse, growes daily wourse and wourse.āSpenser, The Faerie Queene It looks like the economy is going bad, but donāt worry. Congress will make sure the bankers and speculators donāt suffer. Could military failure in Iraq have...
Liberty, Justice, and Abortion For All
Last June, the Supreme Court decided that the ObamaCare individual mandate passed constitutional muster under Congressās taxing power.Ā It left undecided a host of other issues that are now being litigated in the lower courts. Under the HHS mandate that followed ObamaCare, employers with 50 or more full-time employees must offer health-insurance coverage for sterilization...
Seasoned Travels
āThe land of the heart is the land of the West.ā āG.P. Morris Readers of Chronicles are familiar with Chilton Williamson, Jr.ās regular contributions under the title The Hundredth Meridian, a rubric launched in the 1990ās.Ā The first two dozen or so of these columns were conceived as chapters in a serialized book.Ā With minor...
Judicial Taxation Without Representation
There is an unattributed quotation that says, “The average taxpayer is the first of America’s natural resources to be exhausted.” The American people have turned away from a big, activist federal government because they feel they have been forgotten; in fact, taxpayer resources have long been exhausted. Today, average Americans, forgotten by the bloated bureaucratic...
The Candidate
She’s embarrassing and unpredictable, known as a “gadfly” and a “maverick” (among other names). She admits she’s never been a joiner. She has alienated both political parties and the Minnesota media. There are no topics on which she doesn’t have a strong opinion and no circumstances under which she would stifle any opinion. One cringes...
The Divine Left vs. the New Right
This time around, the divine left is definitely short of ideological change. Once upon a recent time it went to sleep with uncle Stalin; much later, it began to yawn with the revisionist Trotsky, Mao, and Tito; today, it is noisily waking up to the tune of politically correct liberalism. Even a layman must raise...
Dancing Man
A few months past there came to visit us for a weekend, at our house in the backwoods, Mr. Andrew Lytle, man of letters, aged 87 years. Although there are not many big houses farther north than ours, and although Mr. Lytle is very much a man of the South, he felt at home here....
Academic Freedom
When IAS (the institute for Advanced Study), the research center that takes pride in having housed Einstein, told the National Endowment for the Humanities last December to take its money and shove it, the New York Times responded with a front-page, four column headline: “Endowment Embattled Over Academic Freedom.” But it appears there was much...
Diversity Through Sport
Because spectator sports play a dominant role in American culture, many have tried to use them to change our society.Ā Such social engineering happens in Americaās inner cities, which would come as no surprise to most people.Ā But it also happens in such unlikely places as the Arrowhead Region of northeastern Minnesota and, specifically, in...
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.Ā Research showsĀ that men tend to act asĀ warriors, who emphasize winning and proving points; women tend to be empathetic, and place far greater value on peopleās feelings. But feelings have no business in academia. Intellectuals should...
A Mortal Superhero
The Dial of Destiny is a genial meditation on the mortality of its hero, the demise of Europe, and, unfortunately, the mortal decline of its lead actor, Mr. Ford.
Define “Imperialism”
Lewis Namier liked to tell the story of an English schoolboy who was asked to define “imperialism” on an examination paper. “Imperialism,” the budding proconsul wrote, “is learning how to get along with one’s social inferiors.” In the Edwardian twilight of the British Empire, that answer might have sufficed to win a scholarship to Balliol,...
Free Speech or Federal Tyranny?
Ā Today’s Supreme Court ruling in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church has encouraged many decent conservatives to think that the United States will not so quickly go down the garden path of political correctness as Canada and the EU. Ā I think this view is seriously mistaken. Ā As everyone knows, the Westboro Baptist “Church”...
The Fruits of Tolerance
The terrorist bombings on July 7, 2005, in London were widely described as proof that the British multicultural model is flawed; few, however, noted that this crisis has an illustrious precedent, the assassination of Theo van Gogh in the Netherlands.Ā On November 2, 2004, a young Muslim, born in Amsterdam to Moroccan parents, shot Mr....
Journalism ā Compassion Anyone
Within a social stratum that may be described as very wealthy and very libĀeral,Ā The New YorkerĀ is venerated as the “Sovereign One”āwhich is the “in” synonym for the Lord in the new lectionĀary issued by those charming theologians from the National Council of Churches who have decided to rewrite the Book. Actually, for more than a...
Time to Start Naming Names
To survey the state of the American rightāits friends, its enemies, its controversiesāis to be nearly convinced we are living in Nietzscheās nightmare world of āeternal recurrence.āĀ The current battle for the soul of the āStupid Partyā is an eerie reenactment of the battle that engulfed the GOP in 1963-64, with a different Romney as...
My Only Light
One of the things that James VI of Scotland liked about becoming James I of Englandāapart from the moneyāwas that as head of the Church of England he would never be bossed about by a Scotch Calvinist minister again.Ā Moreover, unlike his predecessor Elizabeth I, who never cared much for that aspect of her job,...
The Education of W
It sounds presumptuous, but I wish I had written this column in October 2002, and some eagle-eyed George W. Bush assistant would have noticed it and shown it to his moron boss.Ā Letās just play the What If game for a minute.Ā Had the moron read it and taken what Iām about to write into...
Paging Senator Biden
Many in Congress deeply regret having voted President Bush a blank check for war in October 2002. And they are frustrated at their inability to compel him to begin bringing the troops home. Why, then, is Congress pushing for a new confrontation, with Iran, which could involve us in a war with a nation four...
Thank You for Smoking
A wise man once observed that the existence of a nation requires that many things be forgottenāin particular, those things that divide its people. Maybe that’s why the South never made it. Black and white Southerners have had their little disagreements in the past, of course, and so have flatlanders and hillbillies, rednecks and gentry....
Girls of the Golden West
Prospective readers should not be put off by the words āwomen writersā in the title of this book.Ā Catharine Savage Brosmanās emphasis is not on the ideological but rather on the intellectual and artistic identity of her subjects, which complement the masculine sensibilities of their male counterpartsāWalter Van Tilburg Clark, Tom Lea, John S. Van...
Is The Pope Catholic?
In July, the Pope endorsed a statement that ruffled some feathers in the Protestant aviary, and it turns out that the statement actually revealed that a number of Protestants arenāt all that Protestant anymore.Ā They demonstrated this slide away from Reformation confidence by being upset by the revelation that Pope Benedict XVI still believes that...
Virginia Governor Northam, Racism, and the Gadarene Swine of 2019
You would have thought Virginia Democrat Governor Ralph Northam had been a co-conspirator in the assassination of Martin Luther King, given the reaction to what appeared to be a page in his 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook. Both the Democrats on the Left and the āvirtue-signalingā Republicans and movement conservativesāthat is, the near entirety...
Rock ‘N’ Roll Never Forgets: Healing the Wounds of the 60’s
In 1985 the senior members of the baby boom generation turned 40. Many of them are surprised to be still around. The films and songs of the 50’s and 60’s were so full of “disorder and early sorrow” that it was, perhaps, no surprise how many real-life actors and singers, who took the place of...
My New Blog
The commentary editor of the online edition of The Daily Mail has invited me to contribute a blog several times a week. Ā Once he wakes up and realizes his terrible mistake, the blog may be gone with the wind a lot sooner and more permanently than the Confederacy. Ā So, if ...
A Particular Facet of God’s Design
Last week, the European Union voted to require members to accept a portion of the migrants who have been coming into Europe over the Mediterranean and through the Balkans. Four states voted noāHungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Romaniaāand both Hungary and Slovakia say that they will fight the mandate to accept migrants in the...
Notes on American Education
The great American universities are, on the whole, the best in the world, and any European who comes to teach in them is sure to be impressed by the liveliness and enthusiasm of many American students.Ā However, there are drawbacks that are bound to be noticed quickly by someone whose academic subject is the literature...
Dostoevsky, Putin, and the Russian Soul
The writings of Fyodor Dostoevsky provide a window into the soul of Russia and the soul of Vladimir Putin. His writings are Russia's national consciousness put to paper.
Leviathan’s Children
Washington apparatchiks have spent the last two decades in a frustrating search for a theme that could carry the sagging American welfare state. There are signs now that they have finally identified a, two-headed creature slouching toward Bethlehem-on-the-Potomac to be born: “families” and “children.” Jimmy Carter had a vague sense of the political power behind...
Philokalia
āHe was a wicked man, but the Lord forgave him.āĀ One fine spring day in my sophomore year of college, I joined my paternal grandmother on her more-or-less daily walk from her house out to the cemetery of my parentās hometown in Eastern North Carolina.Ā This was her characteristically pointed and Christian evaluation of a...
Lincoln, Diplomacy, and War
In the tumultuous six months between his election in November 1860 and the outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861, Abraham Lincoln rejected all diplomatic efforts to resolve the deepening crisis peacefully.Ā In the political dispute with the newly constituted, but militarily weak, Confederate States of America, there would be no meaningful negotiations.Ā No...
The Tribute Which Vice Pays to Virtue
Hypocrisy, the Duc de La Rochefoucauld told us, is the tribute which vice pays to virtue. Tributes of this kind have been flowing lately from the members of the United States Senate and the mainstream press who clamored for some sort of censure of President William Jefferson Clinton, or who scrambled, for a while, to...
Listen My Children
Sometimes you wonder. Having been told by a Democrat that if we had “screwed up” at Saratoga we would today have national health insurance, I suppressed a number of reactions that came to mind by deciding to start smoking again. One was to suggest that if anyone needed health insurance, it could easily be obtained....
The Treasury of Counterfeit Virtue
āO wad some Powār the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us!ā āRobert Burns A few years ago, a well-known conservative historian lamented that the American public was not morally engaged to undergo sacrifice after the September 11 attacks, unlike it was in its heroic response to Fort Sumter and Pearl Harbor....
Donald Trump, Europeās Best Friend
According to the media machine and pundits on both sides of the Atlantic, President Trumpās recent attendance at two summitsāin Brussels (NATO) and Sicily (G7)āwent very badly. He went through many tense encounters, made a number of statements his interlocutors did not like, notably on the uneven burden of defense costs, on his dislike of...
The Capitalist Nonesuch
When the first of the truly modern āmodern politiciansā straddled the front page, even the meliorism junkies of the New York Times deemed it proper to lament the creatureās arrival and to bemoan its lack of substance.Ā But the journalists, as always, had no clue.Ā In an age when money is not only paper but...
Another Republican Retreats
Itās hard to know whether the dirty bomb the Washington Post detonated two months before the Virginia gubernatorial election will affect the outcome of the race.Ā The Post dropped it August 30, instead of October 10 or 15, when it would have done maximum damage to its target, Republican Bob McDonnell.Ā Other issues, such as...
Her Majestyās Afghan Warlord
The Man Who Would Be King Written and Directed by John Huston ā Produced by John Foreman ā Distributed by Columbia Pictures With Afghanistan on the mind, as President Biden tries to benightedly disengage from Americaās longest war, it seems a worthy time to revisit John Hustonās 1975 adaptation of Rudyard Kiplingās The Man Who...
Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness … Unless Talking About Trump or His Foreign Policy
Too many very public Christians in politics seem to have a problem honoring the ninth commandment when it comes to Trump, his supporters, and their foreign policy preferences.
Back to the Stone Age II A: The Price of Freedom
Ā Classical Liberalism and its stepchildrenāsocialism and libertarianismāare founded on error, and no error of the liberals is more manifest than their credulous faith in individual liberty.Ā It is summed up in Rousseau’s famous declaration (which beginsĀ The Social Contract) that “man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” Any normal person who has...