If the crown prince of Saudi Arabia has in mind a war with Iran, President Trump should disabuse his royal highness of any notion that America would be doing his fighting for him. Mohammed bin Salman, or MBS, the 32-year-old son of the aging and ailing King Salman, is making too many enemies for his...
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Robert Frost: The Definitive Work
During much of the 20th century, Robert Frost was widely regarded as our greatest living poet.Ā Yet the Frost poems that students used to read in college English classes were those more easily accessible: āMending Wall,ā āBirches,ā āStopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.āĀ Typically, the professor would spend a day or two on Frost,...
The Right Wingās Prince of Gonzo
The āPrince of Darknessāāaka Robert Novakāwho died this week of a brain tumor, was the Hunter Thompson of the right, albeit with predictable differences. Thompson, like Rimbaud, espoused a total disordering of all the sensesāwith materials as varied as ayahuasca, LSD, cocaine and tequila whereas Novak stuck to booze. Thompson blew his brains out, whereas...
Immigration, Neighbors, and Enemies
It is like a science-fiction movie from the 1950ās.Ā Mysterious radiation from outer space takes over the brains of Asian men in America, turning them into moral zombies that go on killing sprees: a Buddhist in Texas who tried to beat the demons out of his three-year-old son who had eaten meat; a discharged IBM...
All the Chips Are on the Table Now
“As everyone knows, I made it clear that my first choice for the Supreme Court will make history as the first African American woman justice.” So Joe Biden promised. Since the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, however, Biden has refused to produce a list of Black female judges and scholars whom he would consider...
Alito 5 Must Stay the Course
In February, five Supreme Court Justices voted in camera to overturn Roe v. Wade and send the issue of abortion back to the states, where it resided until 1973. Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett had all signed on to the majority opinion overturning Roe that had been drafted by...
Vanishing American Footprint
With his order to effect the execution of Osama bin Laden by Navy SEALs, 40 miles from Islamabad, without asking permission of the government, Barack Obama made a bold and courageous decision. Its success, and the accolades he has received, have given him a credibility as commander in chief that he never had before. The...
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...
Books in Brief: Becoming Elisabeth Elliot
Becoming Elisabeth Elliot, by Ellen Vaughn (B&H Books; 320 pp., $24.99). This is the official biography of the wife of famed missionary martyr Jim Elliot, who was killed along with four other missionaries while attempting to bring the Gospel to a group of savage natives in the South American jungle during the mid-1950s. Elliot was...
Ron Paul, Now and Then
People donāt usually get more radical as they get older; itās almost always the reverse.Ā And the successful politicians were never radical to begin with. The one exception to this rule is Ron Paul. Ron has been around a long time.Ā The 75-year-old 11-term U.S. representative from Texas ran for president on the Libertarian Party...
Considering Judge Barrett
In one of the most importantĀ acts of his Presidency, on Sept. 26, 2020, Donald J. Trump announced his pick to fill the United States Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Amy Coney Barrett.Ā Ā The Supreme Court has recently been divided 4-4 in terms of judicial philosophy, with Justices Ginsburg, Stephen...
Deracinated Americans
It was a late night in the small-town pizzeria, and the owners were sitting at our table drinking the Antinori Chianti riserva that was ātoo sourā for the local Swedes, who prefer Lambrusco on the rocks when they are not drinking Miller Lite.Ā The husband had come from Italy as a child, but his wife...
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...
On Taxation
Kudos for your April 2004 issue on taxation (āJust Say No!ā).Ā Thomas Flemingās āTax Slaveryā (Perspective) and David Hartmanās āRevolting Taxationā (Views) were right on the mark.Ā I recently retired after 31 years and 8 months as a bottom-feeding, leg-breaking parasite (IRS revenue officer) for Godzilla, nĆ©e Leviathan.Ā The main thing I learned over all...
Trump: War President or Anti-Interventionist?
Visualizing 150 Iranian dead from a missile strike that he had ordered, President Donald Trump recoiled and canceled the strike, a brave decision and defining moment for his presidency. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, John Bolton and Vice President Mike Pence had signed off on the strike on Iran as the right response to Tehran’s...
Border āGotawaysā are Getting Away from Justice
Since the start of the Biden administration, 1.7 million āgotawaysā have entered the country. Many of them are running away from justice in their home countries and bringing their criminality to the United States.
Sewanee, Deconstructed
āMake it new!ā demanded Ezra Pound.Ā Would he have liked the cover for the outrageous winter 2017 issue of the Sewanee Review, Americaās oldest continuously published literary quarterly?Ā It consists of a mustard-yellow ground on which, in addition to the title, in a new font, are scattered six rough parallelograms, blue, as if scissored from...
The War on Arizona
Not since President Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock and JFK sent U.S. marshals to the University of Alabama has the federal government seemed so at war with a state of the union. Arkansas and Alabama were defying U.S. court orders to desegregate. But Barack Obama's war on Arizona is ...
Political Passions, Part II
American churches cannot make up their minds. Do they serve God or an Uncle Sam who for a long time has been looking a great deal like Mammon? On patriotic holidays the choirs sing that bloodthirsty and nonsensical anthem to war and slaughter ironically titled “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” and pastors give sermons...
Truth in Self-Advertisement
Hunter S. Thompson does not suffer fools gladly. For that matter, he seems to suffer no one at all, gladly or not. A survivor of the 1960’s, he has deemed his contemporaries “a whole subculture of frightened illiterates” and those younger than they “a generation of swine.” (And these are the people he professes to...
With Friends Like These
British author Douglas Murray recently wrote what he calls a ābit of self-criticismā about the American right in the online magazine UnHerd. Murray builds his argument around what he considers a very serious problem: āBill Maher, Bari Weiss and a slew of other liberals who have fallen out with their own tribe have chosen not to...
On Foreign Policy
One phrase leaps out of Paul Gottfried’s review of Walter McDougall’s Promised Land, Crusader State (January), and that is the strange idea than an American empire encompassing Latin America, the Philippines, and points beyond arose “without much popular opposition.” Contrary to McDougall and Gottfried, the anti-interventionist tradition started with the Founders of this nation, who...
Caveat Emptor
Like the flea-market buyer of an atomic clock that is supposed to keep perfect time until the year 8021 but breaks the next day, the poet player straddles the gnostic frontier between infinite skepticism and absolute faith.Ā On the one hand, it appears that the buyerās skepticism is justified, because heās been swindled.Ā Look here,...
The Saga of Esteban Solarz
Not long ago, during the glory days of the Gulf War, Stephen J. Solarz, ferret-faced little Democratic congressman from southern Brooklyn, was riding almost as high in the saddle as our Commander-in-Chief. For it was Solarz who played the major role in dragging his often- reluctant liberal colleagues away from their traditional dovish stance into...
A Deal With the Digital Devil
Transhumanism is a materialist inversion of spiritual aspirations, which promises to create a heaven on earth in exchange for merging our souls with machines.
The Unreported Story of Hurricane Andrew
On August 24, 1992, shortly after 3 A.M.. Hurricane Andrew hit the coast at Miami, in South Dade County, Florida. A “Category Four” hurricane on the Saper-Simpson Hurricane Scale, Andrew struck with 145 m.p.h. winds, making it the worst hurricane to hit Miami since 1926. In fact, this was the worst hurricane to hit a...
A Vibrant Voice
Voice, it is called: that quality of certain poets’ accumulated poems which stamps their singular metrics or syntax or vocabulary onto our personal sound system. Voice makes us unconsciously imitate the music of a good poet we’ve been studying. Voice lets us recognize the author without peeking at the cover. Now, it’s true that every...
Debate on Capitol Hill
The United Nations has generated more debate on Capitol Hill in recent months than at any time since its birth 52 years ago. Several factors account for this recent strain in relations, including the end of the Cold War and increased scrutiny by a Republican-controlled Congress. However, the excesses and missteps of the United Nations...
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,...
Mr. Eliot’s Dreams
“Le reve est une seconde vie.“ āNerval T.S. Eliot has become so thoroughly exalted, especially among conservative intellectuals, as the greatest poetic avatar of Western civilization in modern times (a role he must share, though, with Yeats and Pound) that it may shock many to notice the unmistakable oriental elements embedded in even his most...
“Immigration Is Our Strength”
āImmigration is our strength!āĀ Or so neoconservatives and mainstream Republicans have argued for 20 years.Ā Hispanic immigration, especially.Ā Mexican immigrants, neoconservative wisdom has it, are hardworking, entrepreneurial, religious, and dedicated to family values.Ā Not only are they model American citizens waiting to happen; they are natural Republican voters to be encouraged, developed, and sent marching...
The Whale in Times Square
It is the contention of William McGowan that the once august New York Times, our ānewspaper of recordā (for lack of an alternative), has become a politically correct sheet.Ā He blames the nepotistic reign of Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., who inherited the publishing mantle in 1991 upon the retirement of his legendary father, Arthur O. āPunchā...
Muffled Voices
“The Noise of the City Cannot Be Heard” was the title of a very popular song in the Soviet Union just after World War II. According to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the song was so much in demand that “no singer, even the most mediocre, could perform it without receiving enthusiastic applause.” The Soviet Chief Administration of...
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...
Code Yellow
Talk about the failure of fundamental journalism!Ā In any other professionāmedical, legal, financialāthe guilty party would be struck off.Ā In journalism, the guilty partyāas in Rolling Stoneācontinues on its merry way of disinformation and downright fabrication.Ā Some Duke University lacrosse players must be nodding their heads, as in weāve seen it all before.Ā Letās start...
The State of Union
“I grew up a few miles from the X county this book deals with,” anthropologist Jane Adams writes in her account of rural Union County, Illinois. “My family’s farm, although dating only to the early 1940’s, is now essentially abandoned, the community emptied.” Her book describes this loss, serving both as indirect autobiography and scholarly...
Stupid Conservatives
“A Conservative is only a Tory who is ashamed of himself.” āJ. Hookham Frere On page 62 of this book, the author recalls with irritation having once been accused by Murray Kempton of dishonoring the “legacy” of His Master’s Voice, H. L. Mencken, by “conformism.” How, Tyrrell demanded incredulously, was it possible for him to...
The Displaced Person
“The depravity of Tiberius, or the salacity of Suetonius,” wrote Anthony Burgess, “had left its mark on an island all sodomy, lesbianism, scandal and cosmopolitan artiness.” For the last 150 years, writers have been attracted to the natural beauty as well as the lechery of Capriā20 miles across the bay from Naples, four miles long,...
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...
Avoiding a Crisis
Russia may have avoided a full-scale political crisis, at least temporarily, thanks to the Bush administrationās decision in mid-March not to pursue a U.N. Security Council vote on its latest resolution on Iraq.Ā Russian President Vladimir Putin had appeared ready to accept Washingtonās planned āregime changeā in Baghdad in exchange for a piece of the...
No Time for Indulgences
Back in the good old days, we could afford to argue among ourselves about justification by faith alone, indulgences, and the intercession of the Virgin Mary.Ā But now, with abortion, gay marriage, and illegitimacy exalted in popular culture and protected by law, and with religious freedom under assault, we should set aside our differences so...
Are America’s Wars Just and Moral?
“One knowledgeable official estimates that the CIA-backed fighters may have killed or wounded 100,000 Syrian soldiers and their allies,” writes columnist David Ignatius. Given that Syria’s prewar population was not 10 percent of ours, this is the equivalent of a million dead and wounded Americans. What justifies America’s participation in this slaughter? Columnist Eric Margolis...
To Secede or Succeed?
Over a decade ago, Don Livingston organized a Liberty Fund Colloquium in Charleston, South Carolina.Ā One of the sessions examined whether any movement toward political decentralization was possible without at least the threat of secession to back it up. On that subject, most of the attendees agreed: Whether one regards secession as good in itself,...
Numquam et Nusquam
Scott P. Richert (āReturning to Reality,ā Views, December) says heās a Catholic.Ā He doesnāt write like one. What distinguishes Catholics is possession of a Deposit of Faith given 2,000 years ago.Ā No, saith Richert.Ā Whatās important is a ālived relationship with the Risen Christ from which those doctrines flow . . . āĀ Lived relationship?Ā ...
An Enduring Feast
Some cult writers are admired more for what they mean than for what they accomplish. The works of the novelist, diarist, and prolific reviewer Anthony Powell (1905-2000) enjoyed only modest commercial success; Powell grouched to his British publisher in 1961, “I perfectly realise that I am not an enormous seller, but I am a seller,...
Thomas Moreās Supplication of Souls
āEā la morte di una civilizazione.āĀ (āItās the death of a civilization.ā)Ā These were the words of the Vatican official who told me the following sad story at the beginning of September.Ā It seems that, after the heat wave of August, hundreds of the cadavers of the lonely urban old folks of France were being...
To the Lighthouse
When Camilla, the elderly spinster daughter of the infamous Captain Jack Fennel and matriarch of the Fennel family, sees her house guest holding an antique spyglass, she comments, “My father’s glass. Dr. Danvers. Are you planning a voyage?” Actually, the voyage is already underway for the young history professor who shows symptoms of seasickness the...
A Houdini of Time
“I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.” āJeremiah 23:30 After seven years on public and private payrolls as senior editor of the King Papers Project, Clayborne Carson has finally produced the first volume of MLK’s papers. The project began in 1984, and since 1986 has...
The Rise of Louis Farrakhan
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...
The Swiss Dream
Swiss people are sovereign in a way the people of France, Britain, Germany and the United States are not.