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...
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Black Sea Wars
In August, the Georgian navy seized a Turkish tanker carrying fuel to Abkhazia, Georgiaās former province whose declaration of independence a year ago is recognized by Russia but not the West. The Turkish captain was sentenced to 24 years. When Ankara protested, he was released. Abkhazia has now threatened to sink any Georgian ship interfering...
Throwing the Sheep to the Wolves
The boys from Covington Catholic did a good thing by going to the March for Life. If what the Catholic Church teaches is true, Roe v. Wade marks a death sentence for roughly 1,000,000 innocent human beings every year, year in, year out.Ā As John T. Noonan wrote decades ago, āNo plague, no war, has so...
Ignoring Dr. Hank
A few years back I was spending the weekend with the designer Oscar de la Renta and his wife, and they took me along to dinner at a neighborās on Saturday night.Ā We were in rural Connecticut, and the scene and the house we visited were straight out of Norman Rockwell.Ā The dinner party consisted...
Remembering Moynihan
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) was the most substantial intellectual to reach high political office in the United States since Woodrow Wilson.Ā Thus his life, writings, policy deliberations, and political efforts, and the effects of these, deserve the most careful and respectful attention.Ā If the apocalyptic era of European history began with the outbreak of World...
Getting Nixon Right
In November 1972 I voted for the re-election of President Nixon.Ā Granted, it was only an elementary-school straw poll, but I was still thrilled when he carried the student body by a three-to-one margin.Ā On election night, the electoral map was covered in a sea of blue (in those days each party retained its appropriate...
Abortuary Hero
Wayne Websterās Rockford abortuary takes the lives of about 35 babies per week.Ā In that same time frame, however, there are two or three āturnaroundsāāmothers who decide at the last moment not to execute their children.Ā The most likely cause is the doughty band of Christians who gather to pray outside the slaughterhouse on the...
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,...
Don’t Blame Iran
Leon Hadar, in his article āBombing Iranā (Cultural Revolutions, April), could not be further from the truth when he states, āA radical regime is projecting its military power, trying to destabilize the pro-American governments in the Middle East, threatening the state of Israel, and aiming to achieve regional supremacy.ā Unlike Israel, Iran has not invaded...
The Right Word
Canāt stand to watch the English languageās losing encounter with the culture of who-cares-anyway? A new book says, get over it, fella. āToo often,ā argues Jack Lynch, professor of English at Rutgers University, āthe mavens and pundits are talking through their hats. Theyāre guilty of turning superstition into rules, and often their proclamations are nothing...
A Virtuous Trump Perimeter
Virtue signaling is a term that has recently caught on in Britain.Ā Coined in The Spectator (the magazine I work for) by James Bartholomew, it refers to the way that people seem to think that being good means expressing fashionable liberal opinions.Ā To be consideredāor to consider yourselfāvirtuous, you donāt have to do; you just...
Squeaking Through
George W. Bush, as President of die United States, can be counted on in the first six months to . . . well, I should be honest here (with hand on heart). I don’t think any of us can say with much precision what my governor will accomplish in the new office whose door he...
Paradise Recovered
Mr. D’Souza might have reconsidered the title of his book, for he is not describing the end of racism. Glenn Loury recently observed a predilection for “end” themes in recent neoconservative tracts: Fukuyama with the end of history and D’Souza with the end of racism, Loury explains, have taken Hegelian (or pseudo-Hegelian) phrases to express...
Unseen Places
In Huysmansā Against the Grain (1884), the precious hero Des Esseintes has āthe idea of turning dream into reality, of traveling [from France] to England in the flesh as well as in the spirit, of checking the accuracy of his visions.āĀ He orders a servant to pack his bags, calls a cab, and stops in...
Suicide Permitted
In coming to grips with why suicide and suicidal ideation have become so widespread in the West, we tend to overlook one central fact: We no longer consider life sacred.
The Aesthetics of Hate
“Thus wit, like faith, by each man is appliedĀ To one small sect, and all are damned beside.”Ā -Alexander Pope Pauline Johnson: Marxist Aesthetics: The Foundations Within Everyday Life for an Enlightened ConĀsciousness; Routledge and Kegan Paul; London. T. W. Adorno: Aesthetic Theory;Ā Routledge and Kegan Paul; London. OfĀ Marx’s numerousĀ ex cathedraĀ pronouncements, none has preĀsented a greater...
Beyond Democracy
Prophets like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn understood that the 20th century was the substance of which prophecy is made.Ā Its history is a poetic saga, the poetry written in Godās own fierce verse.Ā The first decade of the 21st century was inclined to look back at its immediate centennial predecessor with a degree of self-satisfaction amounting to...
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...
Bombing the West Coast
The āBattle of Los Angeles,ā or the Great Los Angeles Air Raid, occurred during the early morning hours of February 25, 1942.Ā It has been portrayed in Steven Spielbergās 1979 slapstick comedy 1941, starring Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi.Ā The farcical movie is about all younger generations today know of the Battle of Los Angeles...
Clandestine Groups
Terrorism in France has usually comeāin recent yearsāfrom clandestine Muslim groups engaged in a perpetual jihad against the West. But recent attacks attributed to Corsican separatists provide another example of a violent nationalism rearing its head at precisely the time when Europe’s policy elite is proclaiming a new era of unity and cooperation. The immediate...
Muse of Apollo
Is it really necessary to explain why President Trumpās proposed Space Force would be a boon to humankind?Ā Do I have to contrast such a noble project with the other possible uses to which our tax dollars would be put?Ā Perhaps a study of how transsexuals are prone to certain color combinations.Ā Or one on...
The Cottingley Fairies, and Fatima
Arthur Conan Doyle once wrote that the idea of an acceptable form of public entertainment underwent a rude shock in the years around World War I.Ā By then in his mid-50ās, he had abandoned any pretense of sympathy for modern culture.Ā In particular, Conan Doyle shrank from the more proscriptive plays of Henrik Ibsen, as...
Quo Vadis, Mother Russia?
The advance of U.S.-led NATO is shrinking the buffer of neutral territories that were once Russian lands. But if the West continues to isolate Russia, there is only one direction it can go: to the East, and China.
Crime That Pays
As a front-line soldier in America’s war on drugs, Joe Occhipinti is an American hero. He became one of the most highly decorated federal agents in American history, with 78 commendations and awards in his 22 years of public service. His reward? He was set up by Dominican drug lords on specious civil rights violations;...
No Pedestrians
The last time I visited Brazil I arrived on a Ladeco flight from Santiago clutching a copy of Chile’s best newspaper, El Mercurio, wherein I was much impressed by an exclusive from the ever-erudite pen of Thomas Molnar. His article dealt with the architectural rape of modern cities, of which Pei’s monstrosity in front of...
Freaks for Our Time
The typical animal rights activist is a female agnostic or atheist, unmarried with no children and six “companion animals,” “educated,” and living a resolutely urban life in the company of other activists on behalf of all sorts of causes, most of them left-wing. This bizarre specimen of contemporary humanity aspires to echo one day over...
Putin to Biden: Finlandize Ukraine, or We Will
Either the U.S. and NATO provide us with “legal guarantees” that Ukraine will never join NATO or become a base for weapons that can threaten Russiaāor we will go in and guarantee it ourselves. This is the message Russian President Vladimir Putin is sending, backed by the 100,000 troops Russia has amassed on Ukraine’s borders. ...
The Politics of Property
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 thinker’s political and economic beliefs. As such it is particularly valuable,...
The Progressive Review
The left-wing press is in an awful state. Take the Nation (please): there’s little reason even to flip through it anymore. Oh, Alexander Cockburn is always a pleasure, and Stuart Klawans is a fine movie critic, and Christopher Hitchens is worth reading when he isn’t issuing pretentious dispatches from Europe. But good feature stories are...
Enemies of the Motu Proprio
In a private conversation before the release of the motu proprio āSummorum Pontificum,ā a leading personality of U.K. Catholicism predicted that the reinstatement of the Traditional Latin Mass would grant again such an abundant flow of graces that it would even effect the restoration of society on sound Christian principles.Ā While that outcome remains to...
Dilution of Heroes
Napoleon and de Gaulle: Heroes and History;Ā By Patrice Gueniffey;Ā Belknap Press;Ā 416 pp., $35.00 Ā Both Napoleon Bonaparte andĀ Charles de Gaulle rose in a time of turmoil and war to restore order. Napoleonās service to France lay in ending revolutionary violence, while de Gaulle led free France in the struggle to overcome Nazi dominated Europe. The demerits...
Hobson’s Choices
This slender volumeāit embodies the 33 rd of the Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lecturesāis most welcome. The topic is a matter of broad interest, and the author knows his stuff. As scholar and critic, professor and editor, Fred Hobson is a respected authority, one to be alertly attended. He doesn’t let us down. He wants...
An Invisible Man
“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.” āSamuel Johnson The late Louis Lomax, columnist and television personality, had delivered a lecture at Ferris State College, Michigan, when there arose in the audience a large, militant, black activist. “Lomax,” said this challenger, grimly, “do you call yourself...
All Liars Ain’t Spiers but All Spiers is Liars
Ā Caught red-handed spying on the private life of Angela Merkel, the Obama administration and its supporters in both parties have chanted the same responses: “Allies always spy on each other,” and “our monitoring activities in Europe have thwarted terrorist attacks.” Ā True enough, but as everyone knows, politicians only tell the truth when it serves...
Hate Speech for Thee, But Not for Me
South African courtsāand western mediaāhave ripped the mask off hate speech laws. Hate speech is not only acceptable but encouraged for anyone with eternal victim status.
Teddy Rebel in Portland
The political establishment in California has become self-admittedly secessionist in recent months, rebelling specifically against federal immigration policy and more broadly by raising the possibility of leaving a backward and reactionary country that does not share its culture and its politics.Ā The secessionist spirit is spreading on the left and in leftist portions of the...
Conquista and Reconquista
As its subtitle indicates, this book dispels a number of imprecisions, equivocations, and outright lies regarding the Islamic conquest of Spain in late antiquity or the early medieval period.Ā (The Romans called it Hispania, a word that evolved into the medieval Latin Spannia and eventually the modern EspaƱa.)Ā Its author, for many years professor of...
Not So Far Away, Not So Long Ago
Brooklyn Produced by Wildgaze FilmsĀ and The Irish Film Board Directed by John CrowleyĀ Written by Nick HornbyĀ from the novel by Colm ToibinĀ Distributed by Fox Searchlight PicturesĀ Star Wars: The Force Awakens Produced by Lucasfilm Ltd.Ā Directed by J.J. AbramsĀ Written by J.J. Abrams and Lawrence KasdanĀ Distributed by Walt Disney StudiosĀ Brooklyn...
Letter From Cork: The Polonization of Ireland
Recently, I returned to dear old Cork after exactly ten yearsā absence.Ā What 50 years ago had been a poor town on the periphery of Ireland is now a big, thriving, growing, wealthy city. As I was conveyed from the airport to the city center, I asked the driver, āAnything changed round here recently?ā āImmigrants,ā...
First Things First
Once, in a Paris bookstore, biographer Leon Edel heard Ernest Hemingway’s take on T.E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom. “Camels!” bellowed Papa. “Camels!” In his new book, Thomas McGuane has given us Horses! Horses! There is a theory that the artist who invests too much intellectual capital in the pursuit of sport or hobbies cheapens,...
Obama v. BibiāFight 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....
Democracyās Dictionary (With Apologies to Ambrose Bierce)
Democracy: A sacred form of government invented by Abraham Lincoln in the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address.Ā John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. also helped greatly in the invention of democracy. Democratic Elections: When the rulers permit the voters to keep on voting until they get it ...
Still Unexplained
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), dean of St. Patrickās Church of Ireland cathedral in Dublin, was a most remarkable man.Ā To begin with, he wrote two of the cleverest, most original books in English, Gulliverās Travels and A Tale of a Tub, in prose that David Hume described as āthe first polite prose we have,ā i.e., the...
Motels and Filling Stations
Rural and small town America is nearly dead. A distinctive culture rooted in family farms, weakening since 1900 and seriously diseased since 1960, emerged from the 1980’s in a terminal state. In Iowa alone, the last ten years saw a net out-migration of 280,000 people, a full tenth of the state’s population, with most of...
The Women’s Movement
After an uninterrupted spell of a winter month or two here in Veniceāall footsteps in the evening mist, and quiet conversation about the best way to cook pheasant, and a Neapolitan card game called “seven and a halfāwhat one notices on arriving in London is the way women move. First of all, it’s the speed....
Turn Out the Lights
It must have been Sigmund Freud who observed that whenever a new technology appears it is applied almost immediately to some sexual purpose. The dirty old man of Vienna was thinking of such inventions as the photograph and the moving picture, which gave a new impetus to the production and consumption of pornography, but he...
A Drought in Leadership
California has been living off its legacy of water projects for the last several decades like a lazy, self-indulgent, trust-fund recipient.
Climate Change: The Next Power Grab
Certain politicians and special interest groups have brought out the pipes and drums to renew the Green New Deal. I recently heard our president on the radio shoutingāand he was reallyĀ shoutingāabout the perils we face if we donāt spend trillions of dollars fighting climate change. He told his audience that the scientists and our Department...
Lying in a Good Cause
Ā James O’Keefe scored another victory recently, when his group tricked Ron Schiller, an NPR fundraiser into making statements that were soft on militant Islam and expressed contempt for Middle American conservatives. Ā As much as I detest NPR and all its works, the attack on the fundraisers is either naive or disingenuous. Ā Schiller may well...
U.S. āInterestā in Kyrgyzstan
In his latest RT live interview (video; transcript) Srdja Trifkovic discusses the U.S. State Departmentās decision to give its Human Rights Defenders Award to a Kyrgyz national, Azimzhan Askarov, who, as an ethnic Uzbek activist, in 2010 played an active role in Kyrgyz-Uzbek ethnic riots that shook the country. Askarov was arrested during the violence,...