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The Russian Frontier
America, the historian Frederick Jackson Turner had it, is a land defined by its frontiers, once inexorably westward- lending, led by Manifest Destiny. The cultural geographer Carl Ortwin Sauer gave Turner’s “frontier thesis” a twist that denizens of the New West will appreciate: “The westward movement in American history,” he wrote, “gave rise to the...
The Lesson for Democrats: Any Republican Will Do
Ā He blew it. Two days before the United States was officially set to default on its debts on August 2, President Barack Obama had the Republicans where he wanted them. All he had to do was announce that he’d trudged the last half mile towards a deal, but that there is no pleasing fanatics...
On Saving Private Ryan
Wayne Allensworth, in his poignant and beautifully written review of Saving Private Ryan (“The Face of Battle,” January), focuses on what is right with the film. However, I find much that is wrong, and, for me, the wrong outweighs the right. Nonetheless, Steven Spielberg makes an important contribution to the making of war movies by...
Just One More Drink of Water
A recent Time article reported an astonishing new find. Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that men are good for women. Actually, there’s more to it than thatāwhat they really found out, or think they found out, is that regular relations and, more specifically,...
Dubious Allies
āWe love our children, but we need food,ā says Masih Saddiq, a 50-year-old brickmaker, explaining why none of his 13 children were in school.Ā They range in age from one-and-a-half to 25; all seem destined to spend their entire lives making bricks, as have their parents. The brickyard sits outside central Lahore, Pakistanās second-most populous...
Conversion, Celebrity Style
Celebrities like Shia LaBeouf who come to traditional Catholicism with hat in hand during difficult times attest to the deep draw of that spiritual tradition and to its increasing influence in American culture.
Goodbye, Britannia
I first visited England in 1953, when I was 16 years old.Ā It was a very different country back then, a green and pleasant place, where weekend cinemas were packed with enthusiastic movie fans all cheerfully whistling and applauding the action.Ā The film palaces were thick with tobacco smoke, and no one left his seat...
Foreign Policy “Revolutionary”?
If President Bush achieved nothing else in his Inaugural Address, he at least provided fodder for media pundits to chew on for a solid week or more.Ā This is an unusual accomplishment, even for inaugural addresses, most of which are endured and then ignored by those whose job it is to listen to them and...
Holy Among Fools
In his latest novel, Derek Turner, author of Sea Changes and Displacement, takes his readers on a seriocomic journey with a latter-day Holy Fool.Ā Along the way, Turner takes aim at the insanity of political correctness, celebrity culture in the Age of Twitter, and the spiritual wasteland that results from a denial of truth.Ā A...
Thereās No Place Like Home
Every school has a playground for its pupils; English schools provide a playground for politicians, too.Ā Children seek security, regularity, and continuity: The games they play in the schoolyard observe rules that do not change.Ā Change, though, is the contemporary politicianās reason for existence: He seeks not to hold fast to that which is good...
Claudine Gay Is Not a Martyr
The disgraced former president of Harvard University is representative of the DEI regime and the massive undertaking it will be to dismantle it.
The Partisans Are Coming!
The Referendum that took Great Britain out of the European Union by a large popular majority occurred two years ago.Ā President Trump was elected two years ago this coming November in something like a landslide in the Electoral College.Ā Marine Le Penās Front National (since renamed the Rassemblement National) won a third of the popular...
Old Times There Are Not Forgotten
I’m sure some readers of these letters are tired of hearing what a special place the South is. So I’ll warn you: I’m going to say it again. And I’m going to quote all sorts of other people who say it, too. Come back next month if you can’t take it. The South is a...
Cry, the Beloved Community
From the rave reviews in the Wall Street Journal and other vehicles of low-octane conservatism, it seems that Tamar Jacoby has produced a work for the ages. Like earlier marvels by Dinesh D’Souza, John J. Miller, and Francis Fukuyama, this study was made possible by funds flowing from neocon foundations, a gesture thoughtfully repaid by...
Bushās New āAxis of Evilā
George W. Bush must have been the despair of the history department of every school his daddy managed to get him into. Consider his latest excursion into the history of the republic, at Southern Methodist, where the Great Man's papers are to be housed. What's interesting about our country, if you ...
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...
The Greek Conservative Revival
Last fall, in mid-September, a series of unprecedented fires raged across a large part of Peloponnese (including the area surrounding ancient Olympia), killing 68 people.Ā Then, on September 16, something else happened that caused widespread panicāat least among liberals: For the first time in 30 years, a national conservative party (the Peopleās Orthodox Rally) won...
Human Pesticide
RU-486 is, by now, probably neatly stacked on pharmacy shelves across the fruited plain, right next to the Raid and Ritalin, ready for every woman who needs a quick “final solution,” with or without parental consentāor that of us knuckle-dragging sperm donors. It’s legal now, and, of course, that means it’s ethical, too. Not like...
Lessons of Aleppoāfor Trump
In this world, it is often dangerous to be an enemy of the United States, said Henry Kissinger in 1968, but to be a friend is fatal. The South Vietnamese would come to appreciate the insight. So it is today with Aleppo, where savage reprisals against U.S.-backed rebels are taking place in that hellhole of...
Perceptibles
I. Grekova: Russian Women: Two Stories;Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich; New York. Judy Blume: Smart Women; G. P. Putnam’s Sons; New York. During the “sexual revolution” in Russia in the l920’s, writer Alexandra Kollontai acquired notoriety for her “glass of water” theory, according to which “love was but [a] sexual urge akin to thirst, with the quenching...
Calling Bill Donohue
When cities trumpet the glories of their downtowns, they normally talk about such things as the number and variety of restaurants and stores, easy access from other parts of the city, even the availability of parking places.Ā Here, however, we believe in āa different kind of greatness,ā and I can see the ads now: āCome...
What Epimenides Said
Among the unaccountable peculiarities of this diary, and indeed of my general wav of seeing things, is that one can never expect to learn something of Capri from my impressions of Capri. And yet, I keep asking as though to placate myself, why should it be otherwise? I am aboard the Stamos with a group...
Time for a Conservative Reformation
The fate of conservatism is thought to be hanging in the balance these days, and with it, perhaps, the fate of the country, of a political party, of presidential candidates, of a movement. Well, good.Ā Now is the time for reevaluation or, dare I say it, reformation. āConservatism isnāt just passivity,ā wrote Joseph Sobran in...
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...
Is Putin Right? Has Liberalism Lost the World?
“The liberal idea has become obsolete. … (Liberals) cannot simply dictate anything to anyone as they have been attempting to do over the recent decades.” Such was the confident claim of Vladimir Putin to the Financial Times on the eve of a G-20 gathering that appeared to validate his thesis. Consider who commanded all the...
Culture War: Fighting On
āTranscend yourself and join in the universal struggle to bring about the self-transcendence of all men!ā āKarl Marx Culture, as the term is used in America in our times, covers a vast territory with ill-defined frontiers.Ā There is primitive culture (flint spearheads, animal and human sacrifice).Ā There is high culture (Shakespeare, Michelangelo).Ā There is, or...
No News Is Good News
Why does anyone follow the news?Ā I am not referring to people who more or less have to know what is being said about current events.Ā Investors, naturally, want to know about the rumors that can drive markets up or down, and politicians and their advisors have to study the media the way a deer...
The Three Sisters
Crimes of the Heart written by Beth Henley directed by Bruce Beresford De Laurentiis Entertainment Group When Perseus went to slay the monster Medusa, advice and presents from Minerva and Mercury were not enough; he had to seek out the Graeaeāthree crones with but a single prized eye they shared between them, which Perseus snatched...
To the End of the World
Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) was the third son of Edward Benson, archbishop of Canterbury from 1883 to 1896, to become a successful author.Ā Arthur Christopher Benson was a popular essayist and poet, whose best-known legacy is the text of the finale of Elgarās Coronation Ode, āLand of Hope and Glory.āĀ Edward Frederic Benson was a...
Home Truths on Ecology
The relationship between Greens and Conservatives in England is notoriously fractious.Ā Many conservatives see Greens as sub-Marxist semibeatniks, and many Greens see conservatives as military-industrial Morlocks.Ā Yet etymology alone suggests that conservatism and conservationism should shade into each other, just as blue blends into green and back again in the color spectrum.Ā And even if...
Two Flags
From the welter of democratic hysteria, illogic, historical ignorance, and political self-positioning and posturing, the eminently sensible remark by Tate Reeves, lieutenant governor of Mississippi, regarding the public display of the Confederate Battle Flag stands like a stone wall above the general confusion.Ā āFlags and emblems,ā Mr. Reeves said, āare chosen by a group of...
The Politics of Illegitimacy Rates
Since the early 1960’s, compiling statistics on illegitimacy rates in the United States has been the official responsibility of the National Center for Health Statistics. However, the methodology employed by that federal agency to determine illegitimacy rates according to race has been inaccurate, classifying virtually all illegitimate Hispanic births as illegitimate “white” births. The result...
Transylvanian Tales
“Tyrants are always assassinated late; that is their great excuse.” āCioran It is no surprise that there are a number of mysteries about this book. The author was the deputy director of the Romanian Foreign Intelligence Service; for reasons that he does not care to explain, he defected to the USA in July 1978. Was...
War on Christmas 2015
I first wrote about the War on Christmas in 2001, when Chronicles published my essay āHappy Holidays!Ā Bah Humbug!: in the December 2001 issue. Peter Brimelow, the editor of VDARE.com, republished that essay. Since then, I have written at least one article each Christmas on the topic. What follows is the piece Peter Brimelow asked...
Healthcare Reformer
The empire was beset by foreign invaders and war in the Middle East. Far-flung wars meant more taxes for the provinces and an increase in poverty. Some men had to choose between feeding their families and paying for medical care. Some couldnāt afford either. In the large urban ...
Donāt Give Up the Ship
From two until almost four oāclock on a sunny afternoon in June 1967, in the Eastern Mediterranean, Israeli jets and motor torpedo boats mercilessly pounded the virtually defenseless U.S.S. Liberty, killing 34 sailors, seriously wounding 171 (two thirds of the crew), and leaving the ship with a nine-degree list and a huge torpedo hole in...
Chaos in Iraq
Last Tuesdayās sudden capture of Mosul, Iraqās second-largest city (population 1.8 million), by a coalition of Sunni forces led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant was swiftly followed by the fall of Tikrit, Saddam Husseinās home town. By Thursday morning the insurgents were reported to have advanced to the city of Samarra,...
Muddling the Missile Crisis
The Abyss, a pop history treatment of the Cuban Missile Crisis, revives unhistorical myths in an effort to chalk the whole thing up to American hysteria, and to portray the bumbling JFK as having masterfully handled the crisis.
On Strippers
I concur with William J. Quirk in his discussion of the jurisdiction of federal courts (Cultural Revolutions, January).Ā However, he missed a related strategic point. In truth, the judiciary is no āfinal arbiterā of what the Constitution means.Ā If it were, one branch of government would be supreme rather than coequal.Ā So-called judicial supremacy is...
The Ulema and I
On the flight to Bombayāwhich a British single mother with an addiction to horse tranquilizers, or a benefits administrator dispensing them, would call MumbaiāI came across a Times of India news report entitled ā6,000 Ulema back fatwa on Terror.āĀ I recalled that the first time I heard the word fatwa was in connection with Salman...
Will Elites Blow Up the GOP?
“Buchanan, if you ever hear of a group getting together to stop X, be sure to put your money on X.” So, Richard Nixon told me half a century ago, after he had been badly burned in just such a futile and failed enterprise. It was the Cleveland Governors Conference of 1964. Sen. Barry Goldwater...
Books in Brief: 3/1/2022
Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape, by Cal Flyn (Viking; 384 pp., $27.00). In our era of ecological angst, many are desperately seeking strategies to mitigate human damage, but Scottish writer Cal Flyn suggests a holistic new wayāone that is simultaneously haunted and hopefulāof seeing these problems. She writes often in sorrow, sometimes in righteous...
The Fall and Rise of the House of Hardy
A noted Southern literary historian once took me to task for wasting time on polemics. The scholar’s task, he said, is to search out the facts and make coherent sense of them. In the long run, the truth of history would inevitably correct the fictions of ideology. At the time I was skeptical, and in...
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;...
At Arm’s Length
“I never had the opportunity of searching out God. He sought me out. He stalked me like a redskin, took careful aim and fired.” āC.S. Lewis The disgruntled professor who equates academic integrity with paucity of book sales and who is thereby convinced that the masses who follow the writings of C.S. Lewis must be...
Is a Trump Court in the Making?
If Mitch McConnell’s Senate can confirm his new nominee for the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump may have completed the capture of all three branches of the U.S. government for the Republican Party. Not bad for a rookie. And the lamentations on the left are surely justified. For liberalism’s great strategic ally and asset of...
The PitāAnd the Pendulum
Our Founding Fathers understood that they had inaugurated a republican federal union unique in its balance and distribution of powers. Unlike their descendants, who self-indulgently congratulate themselves on their democracy, the Fathers also understood that the preservation of such a regime was a daunting and demanding task, requiring virtue (in the masculine Roman sense) on...
Back to the Stone Age II D: Capitalism
Ā It is conventional to refer to the great tycoons of our own and earlier times as capitalists.Ā The term has a complicated history, heavily influenced by Marxist diatribes against the accumulation of wealth and the influence of those who possess it.Ā Today, though capitalism is defended stridently by neoconservatives, the first generation of neocons...
Ideologues in Search of a Faith
Most contemporary intellectuals reject Hilaire Belloc’s claim that the West must return to Christianity if it is to survive as a civilization. In their view, we live in an enlightened and disenchanted world that has left behind forever the integral but innocent and uncritical Age of Faith. And as if to lend support to their...