Louis Farrakhan has become the most important black leader in America, if not the world. He has also become a quasi-mainstream figure, and brought to record levels black participation in political life. While Americans in general are less and less interested in politicsāas seen in the 1996 electionsāthe opposite trend is at work within the...
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The Shepard Case
Matthew Shepard, a young homosexual man murdered in Laramie, Wyoming, in October 1998, is the new “messiah” figure of one of the most evocative contemporary mythologies created by our ostensibly anti-religious rulers. As far as we can tell, Shepard seems to have been a quiet person who had the ill fortune to encounter a pair...
Iran and Her Smiles
In the aftermath of the ousting of Saddam Hussein and the āliberationā of Iraq by U.S. forces, Bush-administration officials who had earlier compared Saddam to Hitler extended that analogy and suggested that postwar Iraq was like post-World War II Germany and Japan and Italy, where the U.S. military occupation helped replace totalitarian regimes with thriving...
Magna Mater, Full of Grace!
“Nature, which is the time-vesture of God and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish.” āThomas Carlyle I don’t believe I realized, until I began reading up on the subject of Deep Ecology, how far the rot of despair and self-loathing has penetrated the Western world. Multiculturalism as an expression of the...
Strategic Blunders
It has been a summer of major strategic blunders by the United States and Russia over Ukraine and by the United States in the Middle East, where the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS, now renamed simply the Islamic Caliphate) has emerged as a major player, threatening what little remains of the regionās stability....
The Economics of the New York Theater
The cost of producing on Broadway has risen sharply, particularly in the last ten to fifteen years, and this has taken its toll on American productions. Inflation, higher priced labor and materials, theatrical union wage increases, featherbedding, and the enormous cost of advertisingāa full page ad in The New York Times is upwards of $10,000,...
The Screech of the Privileged
Donald Trump’s inaugural address was a powerful, straightforward articulation of American nationalism: “At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction: that a nation exists to serve its citizens. . . . From this day forward, a new vision will govern this land. From this moment on, it’s going to be America First. Every...
Eviscerating the Heartland
Gore Vidal; Duluth; Random House; New York. Gore Vidal has spawned another repulsive novel. Having experimented with historical travesty (Burr, Julian, 1876) and fag chic (Myra Breckinridge), Vidal has turned his fictional abilities to the world of soap operas and drugstore gothic novels. He has not risen above his material. Even the publishers do not...
Ashli Babbitās Warning for 2024
Jack Cashillās āAshli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6ā exposes the weaponization of the law against citizens.
Jeweler to Royalty
A million dollars for an egg? But of course, not all eggs come from chickens. Malcolm Forbes recently paid $1 million for an “egg” by Faberge at a sale of Russian art at Sotheby’s in New York City. The cliche has it that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but why then are the jewels...
First Hearings
Some years ago a fellow told me that I should put my money in CDs, and I did, to my regret in one sense.Ā I thought he meant Compact Discs.Ā Silly me!Ā But maybe not altogether.Ā Since those days, things have changed, but even so, some things never change. I mean that acquisitions have a...
To the Pretoria Station
Governments, Lenin once wrote, never fall unless they are first pushed. Whatever his faults, the old Bolshevik must have known something about how to get rid of unwanted regimes. In the Revolution of 1917, it was the Imperial German government that helped to push over what was left of the Russian state by dispatching Lenin...
Death of a Nation
Every living nation needs symbols. They tell us who we are as one people, in what we believe, and on what basis we organize our common life. This fact seems to be very clear to the current leadership in Russia, particularly to President Vladimir Putin, in restoring and reunifying a country rent by three generations...
Thoughts on July 4, 2006
In the late 1960ās and early 70ās, when I was at college and graduate school, the moral and social validity of meritocracy was beginning to be challenged by the schools and in the press.Ā Aristocracy of blood, a final casualty of World War II, was the one thing worse than aristocracy of intellect and talent.Ā ...
Trump Visits the Ancien Regime
āEngland,ā said Roy Strong, āis the last ancien regime.ā President Trump visited three visible proofs over this weekend. Blenheim Palace was built by a grateful nation to commemorate a day which dawned on France as the greatest military power in Europe and ended with the French commander in Marlboroughās coach together with two other generals....
The Maze of Metaphor
Jacques Derrida has in recent years made himself one of the most influential figures in literary criticism on American college campuses. The movement he has inspired, alternately known as “deconstruction” or “poststructuralism,” asserts that all language is metaphorical and that there is nothing outside the literary text. Following Derrida’s lead, Joseph G. Kronick challenges the...
‘They Want Government to Be God’
The latest Godās Not Dead is the bravest movie of the fall season, Mark Judge writes. Read his interview with the film's cast.
The Only Way Out Is Through
It might be tempting for conservatives to withdraw to their own local enclaves within a larger culture so dominated by the left, but that strategy of retreat is a surefire way to lose in the end.
The Crucible of Innovation
It is an inconvenient factāand one studiously neglected by proponents of unrestricted global migrationāthat the main military participants in the politically incorrect and toxically masculine medieval Crusades were migrants. Nubian infantry, Egyptian cavalry, Armenian Turcopoles, European knights, and Turkic horsemen from the Eurasian steppes all migrated to the Levant during the High Middle Age period...
A Cultural Evening in Grenada
During the four-and-one-half years of Cuban hegemony in Grenada, I often had cause to cross a country road from my house on the Pointe Salines peninsula to the Headquarters of the DGI (Directorio General de Intelegencia) to complain about the noise. Would they please turn down the altavoz or speaker system beaming Castro’s speeches at...
An Obscene Carnival
The obscene carnival of digging up an American hero who died 141 years ago has come to an end. No arsenic was found in Zachary Taylor’s remains, proving that he was not poisoned, which any competent and sensible historian could have told you without this grotesque and impious exercise. (Even if significant traces of arsenic...
Waste of Money
Spent Fireworks Allen Wier: Departing as Air;Ā Simon & Schuster; New York. by Dennis R. Perry Critic Allen Tate once commented that the epic could not be written in a society without common values. Allen Wier’s Departing as Air unfortunatelyāand unintentionallyāreminds us that if there is a basis for fiction in our society, it is based...
Croatian Generals Sentenced at The Hague
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Zagreb and other Croatian cities over the past week to protest the conviction of two Croatian generals by the UN war-crimes tribunal in The Hague. The ICTY sentenced Ante Gotovina to 24 years in jail and Mladen MarkaÄ to 18 years for their role in...
What MLK Day Says About Today’s America
In one of his most famous quotes, Winston Churchill described Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” Today’s America could be described as a country led by a plagiarist, with the help of another plagiarist, which celebrates a holiday in honor of a third plagiarist: Barrack Obama, Joe Biden, and Martin...
There Once Was a New England
AĀ few years ago, I was talking about Timothy Dwight to an audience of people old enough to appreciate both his Christian orthodoxy and his old-fashioned patriotism.Ā When I mentioned Dwightās passion for farming and his devotion to agriculture as a way of life, a man from Dwightās adopted state of Connecticut informed me that there...
An Election Without a Mandate
Washington PostĀ columnist Paul WaldmanĀ somehow contortedĀ the mixed, and yet unresolved, 2020 election results to simultaneously claim that mandates do not really exist, but that Joe Biden nonetheless has one. It is important to refute this spurious claim because Biden and Kamala Harris will use any excuse they can to push a laundry list of progressive legislation...
American Empire
Developed nations should assist poorer states by doing no harm. Washington should end government-to-government assistance, which has so often buttressed regimes dedicated to little more than maintaining power and has eased the economic pressure for needed reforms. The United States should stop meddling in foreign affairs which matter little to America; the result is usually...
The Gales of November
āYouāre probably not going to like this,ā David Dale Johnson said, ābut Iām suggesting we ask the Board of Review to reduce the assessment by $30,000.āĀ I had retained David as a hired gun in my attempt to get our houseās assessment, and thus our property taxes, lowered.Ā David knows a thing or two about...
Nouns Have Gender
āCongratulations!Ā Itās a boy!ā Does that sound like hate speech to you?Ā No?Ā Well, obviously, youāre a cisgender bigot. Thatās how Slateās C.S. Milloy sees it . . . Wait, you donāt know what a ācisā is?Ā Whatās wrong with you? In todayās gender-studies-enriched society, a ācisā is a āyou,ā or āyour wife,ā or all...
Books in Brief: November 2022
Short reviews of Free: A Child and a History at the End of History, by Lea Ypi, and The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free-Market Era, by Gary Gerstle.
IllegalāAlien Shutdown
The bigger the infestation, an exterminator will tell you, the harder the pest is to eliminate.Ā Thus it is with illegal aliens, and one recent event illustrates that the infestation is so pervasive, it may be well-nigh impossible to stop. That event was a speech at the University of North Carolina in early April by...
Harvey and Teddy
I was walking up Madison Avenue when I spotted two comely young women having tea at a sidewalk cafĆ©.Ā It was a couple of days after the scandal, so I stopped and introduced myself as Harvey Weinstein and asked them if they wanted a drink back at my place.Ā Both roared with laughter.Ā This is...
The Sea Change of Declining Birth Rates
In the parish church I attend here in Front Royal, Virginia, out-of-town visitors are often surprised by the number of babies, children, and teens at any of the four Sunday services. Wiggling kids fill the pews, somewhere a baby is crying, and at the back of the church is a room reserved specifically for nursing...
The Incredibles
In January, two astronomers announced that, following the recent demotion of Pluto as the ninth planet, they may have discovered a replacement for it in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptuneās orbit.Ā If they are right, according to their calculations the ānewā planetās orbit would take it as close as 20 billion miles to the sun...
How Big Government Stacked the Deck Against Small Business
Most of us wouldnāt list 2020 as our best year. But you know who would? Amazon, Wal-Mart, Google, Apple, and a whole host of other big corporations whoāve seen their sales and stock prices soar amidst the pandemic. Small businesses have been pummeled by excessive and insane governmental lockdowns of the economy. ExpertsĀ warnĀ that one third...
Taking Stock
Sir John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada, was a Conservative. He is remembered chiefly for his love of alcohol and his hatred of free trade. Brian Mulroney, the last elected Conservative prime minister, foreswore alcohol when he reckoned (correctly) that he could surmount the greasy pole (just like George W. Bush) and...
Winning the War Against War
One recent morning an opinion piece by Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post arrived unbidden in my email inbox. āShould Putin act, it would arguably be the greatest provocation since the end of the Cold War,ā Rubin claimed. āLike the Berlin Wall and the blockade of Berlin before that, movement into Ukraine would be...
Politics, Power and Sen. Byrd
āThe Former Klansman Who Backed Obama,ā was the Huffington Postās hook for its account of Sen. Robert Byrdās demise. The New York Timesā website came closer to the mark: āElected a record nine times to the Senate, Mr. Byrd, 92, championed the legislative branch and brought huge amounts of federal dollars to West Virginia.ā The...
Mrs. Pyle and the Japs
The Pyles lived on the corner of Bahia Vista and Pomelo.Ā Even on the sunniest day, you could barely see their one-story house, crouched in the dark shadows of three sprawling oaks hung with Spanish moss.Ā The huge lot on which the house sat was bordered by a chain fence.Ā No one else in town...
Hanging With the Snarks: An Academic Memoir
There seemed to be little interest among audience members [at a scholarly meeting] in whether the ideas I had presented were true, only in whether their application would bring about results they liked. āJason Jewell Ā I used to have a running argument with a colleague, a great scholar now gathered to his fathers, during...
What’s Behind Our World on Fire?
When the wildfires of California broke out across the Golden State, many were the causes given. Negligence by campers. Falling power lines. Arson. A dried-out land. Climate change. Failure to manage forests, prune trees, and clear debris, leaving fuel for blazes ignited. Abnormally high winds spreading the flames. Too many fires for first responders to...
Roberts Is No Warren
Ā In light of the Obamacare ruling today from the Supreme Court, inĀ his post belowĀ Mr. Richert not only compares Chief Justice Roberts to Chief Justice Warren but compares Warren favorably to Roberts! I have no doubt Warren would have joined in Justice Ginsburg’s concurring/dissenting opinion and held that Obamacare passes Constitutional muster under any of...
Time and the Cross
“[They] assemble before daylight and recite by turns a form of words to Christ as god. I discoveredĀ nothing else than a perverse and extravagantĀ superstition.ā Ā āPliny the Younger The New Testament is not a book. In common with the Old TestaĀment, to which it can in some ways be regarded as an appendix, like the Apocrypha,...
In Memoriam: Gen. Alexander Lebed, 1950-2002
When I first met General Alexander Lebed, shortly after he was forced to retire from his military career in 1995, he was a crusty soldier with great political ambitions, itching for action but visibly uncomfortable in mufti.Ā His tie knot was too wide and his parade-ground bass sounded coarse and unmodulated.Ā His face, with more...
A Prudent Progressive
The world is in its present condition (and many suspect that this state is much worse than before, even if “before” may mean only in our own individual memĀory) because of ideas. Three of those ideas can be credited to three historical figures: Rousseau, Marx, and Freud. Marx came to the conclusion that human economic...
Is a Black Female Dictator in Our Future?
A Harris presidency would mean that the Orwellian trauma will only be intensified: Doublespeak, gaslighting, the erasure of history, and big lies that amount to the reverse or inverse of the truth.
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 ...
Mugabe’s Mayhem
Late last week, I saw a small piece from AFP reporting that, on a visit to South Africa, Zimbabwe’s de facto dictator Robert Mugabe said, “I don’t want to see a white man.”Ā Of course, if a European leader had commented, “I don’t want to see a black man,” the international outcry would still be...
CĆ©line and French Reactionary Modernism
Reactionary literature in France todayāas opposed to earlier varieties, for example the romantic, two centuries agoāis distinguished by its despair, its radical style, its exploration of new worlds, its almost science-fiction approach to life and letters. Its most powerful motive is unquestionably despair: of democratic vulgarity, the machine civilization, the social monotony that spreads over...
Will Trump Be Swindled in Cleveland, Too?
In the race for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump would seem to be in the catbird seat. He has won the most states, the most delegates and the most votesāby nearly two million. He has brought out the largest crowds and is poised for huge wins in the largest states of the East, New York...