Washington’s gerrymandering of job seekers’ test scores to comport with egalitarian fantasy has given us a glimpse of the testing center of the future. On university campuses, the proctors will be apostles of Political Correctness. Armed with a high-tech apparatus that can detect signs of brain activity, they will prowl the test centers and activate...
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Conan Doyle
On the evening of September 7, 1919, 60-year-old Arthur Conan Doyle sat down in a darkened room in Portsmouth, England, to speak with his son Kingsley, who had died in the Spanish-influenza epidemic ten months earlier.Ā āWe had strong phenomena from the start,ā Conan Doyle later wrote to his friend and fellow occultist Oliver Lodge:...
Good Friday, Bad Earth Day
Ā When I turned on my computer this morning, I got reminders from both Yahoo and Google that today was…Earth Day. Ā I didn’t actually expect the lords of Silicon Valley to acknowledge the real significance of today. Still, it is striking that the secular world contrives to ignore a day that inspired music such...
White Sprinters
For several years now, professional baseball has been pouring millions of dollars into developing black players. Evidently, the number of black players, at least American blacks, has been in decline. NASCAR is funding programs to develop black drivers after fielding complaints that the sport is too white. Similarly, the NHL now has a āDiversity Programā...
Our Classical Roots
On January 6, 1816, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to his state legislator, Colonel Charles Yancey. As we might expect, Jefferson’s letter contains reflections of general interest on many topics, ranging in this case from the dangers of a large public debt and paper money to the advantages of beer over whiskey. Near the end...
Is Trumpism the New Nationalism?
Since China devalued its currency 3 percent, global markets have gone into a tailspin. Why should this be? After all, 3 percent devaluation in China could be countered by a U.S. tariff of 3 percent on all goods made in China, and the tariff revenue used to cut U.S. corporate taxes. The crisis in world...
Theresa May Resigns
āPass me the can, lad; thereās an end of May.ā A.E. Housman, in a different key, has the right words for a nation celebrating the exit of Theresa May. The impossible dream has come to pass, and the worst Prime Minister in living memoryāthe competition is stiff, including Edward Heath and John Majorāhas at last...
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...
DFL, R.I.P.
Tuesday, November 5, 2002, will be remembered as the day that the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party died.Ā On Election Day, the Republicans swept most of the stateās constitutional offices and elected Norm Coleman to the U.S. Senate, Tim Pawlenty to the governorship, and John Klein to the U.S. Congress.Ā The GOP also gained seats in the...
Barack Obamaās Fake Life Story, 20 Years Later
Twenty years ago this month, Barack Obama debuted before the Democratic National Convention with a fake life story that catapulted him to the presidency.
Tyranny in Our Time
From the December 2013 issue of Chronicles. There is a saying among jurists that hard cases make bad law.Ā Similarly, every book critic knows that the best books make for hard reviewing.Ā Faced with a truly fine work, the reviewer is tempted simply to reproduce the authorās thesis in abbreviation, while scattering as many of...
A Wilson for Our Times
John Lukacs has observed that our century’s two most significant revolutionaries were Lenin and Wilson. Of the two, according to Lukacs, the internationalist Lenin had less destructive influence in the long run than the democratic moralist but fervent nationalist Wilson; today it may be said that the Wilsonians have outlasted the Commies. Democracy and national...
An Historian of Imagination
Forrest McDonald, the great historian of the American founding and early Republic, passed away on January 19 at the age of 89.Ā Born in Orange, Texas, McDonald earned his doctorate from the University of Texas-Austin in 1955, and taught at Brown University, Wayne State University (Michigan), and the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.Ā He retired to...
Science and Wisdom
This is a remarkable book that will, however, be read by few.Ā Its great fault is its defense of America, Christianity, and Western culture.Ā The authors also make the egregious error of criticizing modern and postmodern thought, which they believe must be effectively combated if the Western world is to survive. In a vibrant culture,...
Henry and Louise in the Lair de Clune
“Rochester had sprung up like a mush- room, but no presage of decay could be drawn from its hasty growth.” āNathaniel Hawthorne The day after his 101st birthday, novelist Henry W. Clune escorted my wife and me to a fine local restaurant, where we dined in the Henry Clune Room. “It’s a sin to live...
War Drums Along the Potomac
By releasing the grisly videos of the beheadings of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, ISIS has altered the political landscape here and across the Middle East. America is on fire. “This is beyond anything that we’ve seen,” said Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, “ISIL is as sophisticated and well-funded as any group that...
The Ranchers and the Mandatory Minimum
Two Oregon ranchers, Steven Dwight Hammond and Dwight Lincoln Hammond, Jr., have been at the center of ethical and cultural clashes for several years.Ā Even while a standoff purportedly held in their honor between armed militia and the federal government was occurring in January, the ranchers reported to the Bureau of Prisons to serve five-year...
Hobbesian State of Anarchy
Albania has descended into the Hobbesian state of utter anarchy, which seldom happens to a European country. Armed mobs have ransacked stores, unruly soldiers have stolen cars at gunpoint, foreign nationals have been evacuated by helicopter from embassy compounds, and rebels have stolen some 100,000 light arms from government arsenals. The sinking in March of...
Henry Regnery, R.I.P.
He died on June 18, his devoted wife of six decades, Eleanor, at his side. Soft-spoken, humble, ever polite and generous, Henry was also a man of indomitable courage. In an era of accelerating centralization in the book trade, he launched the Henry Regnery Company in 1947 as an independent publishing house. From the beginning,...
A Southern Tradition
A southern tradition ended on August 19, when Beth Anne Hogan, a 17-year-old ponytailed blonde from Junction City, Oregon, signed the Virginia Military Institute’s matriculation book. With help from Janet Reno’s Justice Department and the U.S. Supreme Court, Miss Hogan and some 30 other young women have done to VMI what the corpulent Shannon Faulkner...
The Skinny on the Pulps
In the days before my life became a perpetual holiday, there was always the pair of inquisitive Italians across the table who wanted to know why I had chosen to live in London. They saw I was a writer, and an unambitious one at that; why not live in Italy? They saw I liked eating;...
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 War Against the West
“Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.” āTennyson In our day the mere mention of imperialism is enough to provoke paroxysms of moral outrage. Except in derision, no one any longer dares to speak of the white man’s burden, and few possess the courage to say that it was Europeans who created...
Will Christianity Perish in Its Birthplace?
“Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? (My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?)” Those are among Jesus’ last words on the Cross that first Good Friday. It was a cry of agony, but not despair. The dying Christ, to rise again in three days, was repeating the first words of the 22nd Psalm. And today,...
What Makes Biden So Pugnacious?
President Biden has a history of painting himself as heroic in personal encounters where few contemporaries recall him that way.
Madness in Great Ones
The American poet and man of letters John Berryman created in his half-memoir, half-short story “The Imaginary Jew” what is very likely the most powerfully compressed vision of vulgar, visceral racism in our literature. In this present, honorably intended biography of Ezra Pound by an apparently Jewish and leftist professor at Queens College (whose previous...
Investing in the Future
āThere is no more potent instrument of fate in 19th-century fiction than the legacy.āĀ So writes a female columnist in Britainās best newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, before going on to say some rude things about trust-fund babies.Ā According to the lady, a will stands as a symbol of the ābaleful power of crabbed old age...
Music
Jazz is biding its time. It is in a period of consolidation and reflection that began as the 1970’s wound down. 1t may be that the search for roots and basic values presaged, as movements in jazz often have, a change in the society at large.Ā The Reagan years were not far off. The jazz...
Democrats Adrift
The field of Democrats aspiring to be their partyās presidential nominee resembles what the Republican field of four years ago would have been, had Donald Trump not entered the race. With more than 20 contenders, Democrats have had to break up their first two presidential debates into two sets of ten candidates, each airing on...
How the West Was Restored
He had finally done it.Ā He had mastered the physics of time.Ā He was ready to visit the past. He had made his first fortune in U.S. Treasury bond futures in the early 1980ās.Ā Wall Street had thought that the Reagan tax cuts would drive up interest rates because of budget deficits.Ā But he knew...
Father Abraham: Conservative?
The bicentenary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln has seen the publication of a host of new books and magazine articles celebrating the legacy of the 16th president.Ā Lincolnās popularity is probably at its highest point thus far, and Honest Abe is defended by writers on both ends of the political spectrum.Ā Liberals have been...
Make arms, not war
Some years ago a friend of mine in Venice, whose family had been too influential during the Fascist years for anyone to doubt the source, told me a funny story about Vittorio Cini, an intimate of Mussoliniās. I recently found it corroborated in a memoir by Federico Zeri, the great historian of the Italian Renaissance...
Devil Trouble
Prince of Darkness directed by John Carpenter screenplay by Martin Quatermass Universal Pictures. When they hear about Prince of Darkness, unsuspecting moviegoers may envision a thrilling story of the occult. Some person will probably release Satan from his underworld domain, either deliberately or unwittingly; the demon will run rampant over the globe for a short...
Don’t Worry, Be Happy
Chris Hedges, a former New York Times war correspondent, is not happy with the current state of American civilization, a view he makes crystal clear in Empire of Illusion.Ā Hedges is an independent man of the left and a cultural conservative.Ā Chronicles readers may recall the controversy over his commencement address in 2003 at Rockford...
Fighting Propaganda One Family at a Time
Many years ago, my family was partway through dinner on a Monday night when there was a knock at the door. Answering it, my father foundāto his great surpriseāone of the gubernatorial candidates for our state. This candidate was locked in a close primary battle, and, discovering he had some extra time between meetings, decided...
The Populist Rainbow
It is June 1994, and Anthony Hilder is attending a Southern California gathering called “The New World Order.” Two overhead projectors beam book-covers alleging Masonic conspiracies onto the walls. Hilder, white and middle-aged, is the host of two syndicated talk-radio shows, Radio Free America and Radio Free World. He has brought tapes to sell to...
Church Shopper
Like the French, we Americans live in, to borrow from Claude Polin, a āme-firstā society.Ā Each and every man is the measure of all things, his own arbiter of that which is beautiful, true, and of good report.Ā Reared on the Disney principle (You can be whatever you want to be, or, Be true to...
Whoās Insane?
A piece appeared recently in my local newspaper by one Anthony C. Infanti, professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.Ā He wrote in support of a pending state antidiscrimination bill that would ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and āgenderā identity. Thereās no urgency in attacking his position or his argument.Ā ...
Breeze Over the Border With Me
Letās conduct a thought experiment.Ā Imagine that you have just landed at New Yorkās JFK International Airport after a 15-hour flight from Mumbai.Ā Although you splurged for a business-class ticket, the extra-large seat, constant parade of food, and infinite selection of video entertainment didnāt help you forget you were trapped in a steel tube 35,000...
Sicced on Citizens
Nowadays, the federal government is the closest thing many Americans have to a religion, with those employed by it regarding themselves as a priesthood.Ā Blind faith, if not dependency, tends to take over from observation.Ā But there are other likenesses: sanctimonious cardinals and government functionaries, grandiose department-cathedrals that suck up money from believer and infidel...
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...
Free to Leave
The Iraqis have voted.Ā Now, it is time to start bringing home Americaās troops. More than 1,400 Americans had died, and nearly 11,000 had been wounded, by the end of January.Ā The war has already cost $200 billion, and the President is asking for another $80 billion. Yet President George W. Bush refuses to set...
Pimping for Africa
Thirty years after publishing Black Mischief, his hilarious novel about Abyssinia, the only independent African monarchy at that time, Evelyn Waugh wrote that the unthinkable in 1932 had come to pass.Ā The Europeans were departing Africa, leaving the administration of the benighted natives to Ministries of Modification presided over by Basil Seals of the United...
The Great Unrest
Bro. Billy Joe had been correct, HĆ©ctor reflected bitterly: Abdul Agha and the Crusade for Souls were a nationwide story all right, though everyone tried to pretend it was nothing more than a curious local phenomenon.Ā From the start, the New Mexico media had sought the appropriate tone in reference to a ācertain unrestā in...
ACT-UP of the Newspaper Industry
USA Today is the ACT-UP of the newspaper industry. Last April 8 the paper outed Arthur Ashe, forcing him to reveal the fact that a 1983 blood transfusion left him HIV positive. USA Today also recently outed former television newscaster Linda Ellerbee, bullying her into a public discussion of her double mastectomy. As Ellerbee revealed...
Economic Crisis in the Caribbean
Black mischief continues to bubble in the Caribbean, and the Reverend Jesse Jackson, U.S. Representative Charles Rangel (Democrat, New York), the American Bar Association, the Church World Service, and the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights have demanded that the Bush administration grant temporary political asylum to the 14,000 Haitian refugees taken off small boats by...
Resolutely Abstract
The avant-garde, according to those who are supposed to know, has been entering the mainstream, but the commentators busy cataloging this development for future art historians seem to have forgotten that “avant-garde” and “mainstream” are mutually exclusive terms. Once our present has become past, it may become clearer that the greatest artists of this period...
āZuluā at 60
The film savaged by todayās woke critics as a key text for āwhite nationalistsā is, in fact, an outstanding recreation of a heroic and adventurous past with enduring popular appeal.
Behind Democracy’s Curtain
One of the more exciting prospects for the Dole-Clinton presidential contest should have been the “presidential debate,” which, ever since the Kennedy-Nixon slugfest of 1960, has titillated the mass electorate with the delusion that the voters actually have a real choice between two different viewpoints. The only reason a Dole-Clinton debate ought to have been...
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...