Paul Gottfried has spent a useful career shining his lantern of truth into the dark corners of Americaās political consciousness.Ā In After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State (1999), he examined the rise and consolidation of centralized managerial regimes across the Western world.Ā Gottfried documented what should have been obvious to every educated man:...
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Remembering Albert Jay Nock
As a conservative āanarchistā and non-interventionist with anti-vocational views on education, Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945) can seem paradoxical. His influence was lasting and he took unconventional stances on many topics. He viewed conservatism as primarily cultural, anarchism as radical decentralization, education as a non-economic activity, and foreign policy as a noninterventionist endeavor. Raised in Brooklyn...
On the Hundredth Meridian
Come on now, Chilton, you can fool the readers of Chronicles who have never cut the scent pads off a mule deer buck or pried the “ivories” out of an elk’s jaw, but for those of us who have, your hyperbole, especially in your February column (“Hunters and Gatherers“), sometimes reaches the point where a...
Fell Out of Ranks
Patrick J. Buchanan had not even formally announced his candidacy for the White House last November than a platoon of the Beltway right suddenly fell out of ranks to denounce him and his challenge to George Bush. Divisive, polarizing, protectionist, nativist, xenophobic, anti-Zionist, anti- Semitic, ultra-nationalist, racist were the predictable sobriquets that buzzed from their...
The Ryancare RoutāWinning 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 supportāof 17 percent of Americans. Had it passed, it faced an...
Errant Idealism
John Milton Cooper, Jr.: The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt; Harvard University Press; Boston. Lloyd Gardner: A Convenant with Power: America and World Order from Wilson to Reagan; Oxford University Press; New York. There have been many interpretaĀtions of Woodrow Wilson done from widely divergent perspectives. FortuĀnately for Wilson’s reputation, his...
The Symbolic Interpreter
Nearly thirty years after his death in 1962, Robinson Jeffers occupies a secure niche in the pantheon of American poets. I suspect, indeed, that his place may well be the most secure of all. He has long since weathered the storm of disapproval that centered on his prophetic verse written before, during, and after World...
Is Trump Facing a 1960s’-Style Revolt?
Sunday morning, President Trump announced that the world’s worst terrorist, the head of the ISIS caliphate who had raped an American woman, had received justice. About to be captured and carried off in a helicopter by U.S. special forces, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi blew himself up with an explosive vest in a compound in northwest Syria....
Occupying Iraq
Beirut’s occupation in 1983 by U.S. Marines may provide a small-scale sample of what a prolonged U.S. occupation of Iraq could be like, should the Pollyannaish postwar scenarios of some members of the War Party fail to materialize.Ā Of course, the two situations are, in some ways, very different.Ā Beirut, for instance, is just a...
Composer Anton Bruckner: A Sign of Contradiction in the Modern Age
Nineteenth-century composer Anton Bruckner was one of the last great Christian paladins of the arts to engage the enemies of our civilization. Our culture is dying today for the lack of such giants.
Up From Knavery
I recently attended a jujitsu tournament in Newark, New Jersey, a 15-minute train ride from New York City.Ā I had been to the Newark airport before but never entered the town.Ā It was quite a revelation.Ā I walked up the main thoroughfare, named after Martin Luther King, Jr., and saw only black people.Ā The solitary...
Vol. 2 No. 6 June 2000
A decade after the ostensible end of the Cold War, we are witnessing the emergence of anti-Americanism in places where it had never existed beforeānotably, among the peoples of Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Bill Clinton’s misnamed “national security team” have succeeded where Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev failed. “If...
Selling Them the Rope
The United States recently came under an attack by an activity so insidious that Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and his Wisconsin colleague Tammy Baldwin joined forces in an effort to demand it be āreined in.āĀ Massachusettsā Elizabeth Warren, the Senateās modern-day firebrand who never tires in her perpetual imitation of the maniacal abolitionist John Brown,...
They Are Coming, Father Abraham
Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush says that immigration “is not a problem to be solved. It is the sign of a successful nation. New Americans are to be welcomed as neighbors and not to be feared as strangers.” In 1996, the Republican platform advocated an end to granting automatic citizenship to children born to...
Honest Words
It may be an embarrassing admission for somebody who has been a book review editor for the last 14 and a half years, but the truth is I had never heard of Tony Hillerman until May 1989, when I began traveling in the Southwest in connection with a book-writing project I am working on and...
Release the Klan(s)!
Move over, Ashley Madisonāthereās a new scandal in town.Ā At least, thatās what the media is desperate to have you believe. In late October, the āhacktivistā group Anonymous, usually referred to oxymoronically as a ācollectiveā of anarchists, announced that they had obtained the membership rolls of several Ku Klux Klan organizations.Ā They planned to release...
Weak Reception
Several months ago I attended a concert at New York’s Lincoln Center commemorating the 50th anniversary of WNYC, the not-for-profit radio station that is home to National Public Radio, and one of only two stations left in Manhattan that broadcast classical music. (The third, WNCN, recently switched over from yesterday’s court favorites to today’s rock...
A Tale of Two Elections
Despite a surge of popular support for right-wing parties in Britain and France, this summer's elections ended with an effective containment of the right that will last for years to come.
Could Stay-at-Home Moms Help Put Trump Over the Top?
Donald Trump caught a lot of people off guard with his proposal, spearheaded by daughter Ivanka, on child-care benefits. This is not familiar Republican territory. Of course, Hillary Clintonās plan is more āgenerous,ā promising 12 weeks of paid leave to Trumpās six. But thereās one, big fat difference that has been underreported: Hillaryās plan only...
Psyche
Words like liberal and conservativeĀ have been losingĀ whatever meaning they once had. An old Tory would not have seen anything very conservative in free trade, and SenatorĀ Bob Taft wouldĀ certainly have had reservations about America’s role as internationalĀ policeman. But liber al still hasĀ discernible significance in ethics, where the great liberal traditions ofĀ Locke, Adam Smith, and the Utilitarians...
The Deplorablesā Academics
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for LifeĀ Ā by Jordan B. PetersonĀ PortfolioĀ 432 pp., Hardcover $29.00 Ā The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas are Killing Common SenseĀ Ā by Gad SaadĀ Regnery PublishingĀ 235 pp., $28.99 Ā Walmart is for deplorables, theĀ left tells us. If that is so, then Jordan Peterson and Gad Saad must...
Wisconsin Apocalypse
Since I was going to fish in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, I decided like any bookish person to read some books about the place. I expect I own all of Gordon Weaver’s ten or twelve books, and I went digging through them again to sec which ones were set in Wisconsin. Besides growing up in...
Two Cheers for the United States Supreme Court
Mondayās decision was a movement in support of the rule of law over and against lawfare and the rule of unhinged partisan power.
Modern Controversy
Freedom of speech is a good thing.Ā It is one of those very rudimentary good things, however, like sewage disposal and ballot voting, that civilized societies impose on uncivilized ones when engaged in the business of nation-building.Ā Civilized societies, taking freedom of speech for granted for themselves, have always delighted in that pearl of great...
Moon-Man Religion
American Christians love to deceive themselves.Ā They close their eyes and pretend that the governmentās war against their religion is a temporary aberration; they insistāagainst all the evidenceāthat Abraham Lincoln was a Christian; and, when some federal judge dictates a decree stripping the town square of its cross and crĆØche or tearing down the Ten...
When Inequality Is Fatal for Men
According to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine, as of 2021 women were outliving men by 5.8 years. But the last thing men need is to be designated another victim group.
Kimās Challenge
[Credit:Ā By Roman Harak (North Korea – Kumsusan) [CC BY-SA 2.0]] As President Trump makes his UN General Assembly debut this weekāthe body he has rightly called weak, incompetent, bad for democracy, and no friend of the United StatesāNorth Korea still dominates the headlines. It presents a problem in need of sober management. While it is...
Democratic āBrain Surgeryā
Itās only money, we like to say, when we know we shouldnāt be pulling out our wallets, but ā¦ The ābutā is a big one when it comes to health care reform: huge, immense, Himalayan. So big weāre not going to do it, Iāll bet you money. Not this year weāre not, because weāve barely...
The Ride of the āWokeā Valkyries
Mere pandemics cannot stop the Richard Wagner bibliography from expanding, indeed from metastasizing. Yet, even as the catalogue of new books on the famed, 19th-century German composer expands, āwokeā culture threatens to drive him, and the Western civilization he represents, into a state of cancellation. Vast quantities of ink have been lavished upon every bizarre...
The Danger of PICSāPolitically Incorrect Cartoons
Stereotypes to the right of them, stereotypes to the left of them, the politically correct volley and thunder at every image that might offend the sensitive soul of the approved victim. Dartmouth’s comic Indian mascot turned into an unsmiling noble savage, then was abolished altogether. First the Frito Bandito’s politically unacceptable gold tooth disappeared, then...
The Subject of a Conference
An ecumenical jihad was the subject of a conference, “Not of This World,” held at Rose Hill College in Aiken, South Carolina, last May. Here Eastern Orthodox Christians hosted Roman Catholics and evangelical Protestants in an effort to discover common ground and build on it. In a surprising demarche, Boston College professor of philosophy Peter...
The City Beat
Red Love is “third generation Leninist” porno star Suzie Sizzle’s yet-unmade dream project, the love story of her aunt and uncle, the Rosenberg-like spies Dolly and Solly Rubell. Until Suzie’s industry develops a revolutionary consciousness, we’ll have to settle for David Evanier’s novel of wit, fine malice, and the same title. But first, a cavil:...
Still Printing the Legend
I have to admit, I began reading Roger D. McGrath’s article āThe Real McCoy,ā (Sins of Omission, August) about Tim McCoy with the suspicion that he was just pulling my leg, but was drawn in enough to read it to the end.Ā There really are people in this world like Tim McCoy, whose lives keep...
Free Speech or Federal Tyranny?
Todayās 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. As everyone knows, the Westboro Baptist āChurchā is a...
Phenomenon of Popular Movements
The phenomenon of popular movements of protest succeeding and then being swallowed up by the Establishment is not a new story in American history, but the fate of “conservatism” in the last decade or so gives a remarkable case study. Not long ago, after ages of liberal dominance, conservatism seemed to be in the ascendancy...
Jules Verne and the Loss of American Heroism
In the late 19thĀ century, adventure and science fiction writer Jules Verne repeatedly praised Americansā ingenuity, inventiveness, and strong work ethic. Both in the crafting of his characters and his descriptions of Americans generally, the French author exhibited a remarkable appreciation for this peopleās attitudes and contributions to the world, sometimes to extremes. Take, for instance,Ā From...
A Bright Spot
The New York Post‘s editorial page has been one of the few bright spots in the City of Dreadful Night. Generally a steamy tabloid in its news coverage, the Post has nevertheless offered thoughtful and informed editorials and Commentary of a mainstream conservative orientation under its editorial page editor, neoconservative Eric Breindel, and his deputy,...
Obama: Our American Idol
āHell,ā as Thomas Hobbes astutely noted several centuries ago, āis truth glimpsed too late.āĀ As in the case of Barack H. Obama, self-anointed messiah?Ā I should certainly imagine so. By the end of the first year of Obamaās second term, a majority of Americans had pretty much caught on to their Presidentās unmatched gift for...
Red Lines & Lost Credibility
A major goal of this Asia trip, said National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster, is to rally allies to achieve the “complete, verifiable and permanent denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.” Yet Kim Jong Un has said he will never give up his nuclear weapons. He believes the survival of his dynastic regime depends upon them....
Talkinā ābout My Generation
Reading this account of David Brockās journey from the ābigotedā right to a left-liberal politics that allows him to embrace his homosexuality was no kind of pleasure.Ā Luminous observations in the book are few and far between, while betwixt them are ponderous revelations pertaining to Davidās sexual awakening, his relations with a āblond blue-eyed dreamboat...
Blood Will Tell
In Tom Wolfeās America the Northern WASP elite is shallow and cowardly, the most sacrosanct minority groups seethe with ingratitude toward the majority and snarl at one another, culture is dominated by the conspicuous vulgarity of new and ill-gotten wealth, and manners and morals are in a catastrophic nosedive in which the relation of man...
Role Models and Poetry
Societies, as much as individuals, need role models. For good and for ill, our cultural tradition has been influenced by the figures of Achilles and Odysseus, placed at the center of our moral imagination by Homer almost three millennia ago. The shaping power of the tradition is clearest where there has been no direct influence,...
Looking Past Our Lilliputian Leaders
All of the presidents of the 21st centuryāBush, Obama, Biden, and yes, even Donald Trumpāseem a cut below the gravitas and statesmanship of the founding fathers. The first three wereāand areāglobalists, and as anyone with eyes can see, Joe Biden and his crew are busy taking a wrecking ball to our liberties. Regarding Donald Trump,...
What Would Ike Do?
In November 1956, President Eisenhower, enraged he had not been forewarned of their invasion of Egypt, ordered the British, French and Israelis to get out of Suez and Sinai. They did as told. How far we have fallen from the America of Ike and John Foster Dulles has been on painful display this March. An...
Books in Brief: January 2024
Short reviews of The Making of White American Identity by Ron Everyman, The Weaponization of Loneliness by Stella Morabito, and The Significance of the German Revolution by Edgar Julius Jung.
Reaping the Whirlwind
Ā Anti-American protests have continued to spread across the globe, though the fires of passion are predictably burning out. Ā People do have jobs to go to, children to feed, lives to lead. Even violence-prone jihadists can’t always be breaching embassies or murdering diplomats. Note:Ā This is a slightly improved version of my latest Daily Mail column....
John Yoo, Totalitarian
John Yoo stands outside the Anglo-American legal tradition. His views lead to self-incrimination wrung out of a victim by torture. He believes a president of the United States can initiate war, even on false pretenses, and then use the war he starts as cover for depriving U.S. citizens of habeas corpus protection. A U.S. attorney...
The Power of Christmas
The power of Christmas (and Christianity)Ā shows through even in unexpected places, such asĀ Saturday Night Live.Ā When the producers of the show, in the wake of the horrific school shooting in Connecticut,Ā were looking for something with beauty and emotional depth, they chose a song about the true meaning of Christmas, not a secular Christmas song or...
Credit Where Credit’s Due
Tony Blair’s promised target before being elected to his first term in office was “Education, education, education”; some months into his second term, it is clear that his promise has been honored, and that his target has been hitāclean between the eyes. English education lies unconscious on the canvas. If there is any real learning...
Noble Savagery
The Emerald Forest was often discussed as the surprise film of the summer season. It is certainly that and perhaps more. Although Mr. Pallenberg’s tribute to pristine nature suggests that yet another environmental evangelist walks the corridors of a Hollywood studio, the sheer visual beauty, exacting detail, and anthropological authenticity give this film a majesty...