Because itās reasonable to assume that Gerald Russello (āThe Agrarian Burden,ā Reviews, October) is highly knowledgeable of his chosen subject, the Southern Agrarians, I must conclude that his avoidance of their intellectual hypocrisy (or worse) is by choice and not by accident. Iāll Take My Stand was written by a dozen academics, most comfortably ensconced...
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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...
Little Rocket Man Wins the Round
After a year in which he tested a hydrogen bomb and an ICBM, threatened to destroy the United States, and called President Trump “a dotard,” Kim Jong Un, at the gracious invitation of the president of South Korea, will be sending a skating team to the “Peace Olympics.” An impressive year for Little Rocket Man....
The Good Soldier
One of the many vices I cultivate is a weakness for biographies. An intelligent female once told me firmly that she didn’t read biographies. She thought them depressing: the subjects got old and died. I tried to indicate that she was missing a lot, but she was adamant. I think now that if I were...
A Topic of Concern
Public-school finance, as a topic of concern, reminds us that the egalitarian impulse lives on imperishably.Ā Mankind must be hard-wired to scratch the ears of the perceivedāgenerally self-definedāunderdog, before siccing him on the perceived top dog. Public schools, financed with public monies, were probably overdue their share of the action; but, boy, are they catching...
Trump’s Deft Game
President Donald Trump does not want to be goaded into war with Iran, which is wise. He does not want to appear weak in the aftermath of the attacks on the Saudi oil installationsāfor which Iran has been blamed by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (āan act of warā),Ā Ā and othersāwhich is understandable. By inviting the...
The Scandal in Vancouver
Ā I am not alone in being utterly astounded by the fact that Dr. Srdja Trifkovic has been refused entry into Canada.Ā This amazing decision is all the more scandalous in that it was taken ad hoc in response to the hate campaign by self-declared representatives of one Bosnian ethnic group carrying out a vendetta...
Carrying the Fire
āOur civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.ā āWilliam James In one of his rare interviews several years back, Cormac McCarthy suggested that writers who are not preoccupied with death are simply ānot serious.āĀ Chaucer might have objected, of course, not to mention...
Mission Accomplished
Gary Sheffield is an old hand at writing the history of World War I.Ā In addition to being a professor of war studies at the University of Wolverhampton, he was co-editor of Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters, 1914-18.Ā It is obvious that he wishes to set not just the United Kingdom but the whole...
The Worst Decision
Law professors like to debate among themselves which of the U.S. Supreme Courtās many opinions is the very worst.Ā There has been a general consensus that the most loathsome is the one in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), in which the Court decided that the right to hold slaves in the territories was a āfundamental...
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...
Books in Brief: September 2024
A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy from the Revolution to the Rise of China, by Dale C. Copeland (Princeton University Press; 504 pp., $31.30). Woodrow Wilsonās April 1917 plea to Congress to āmake the world safe for democracyā launched America on a futile messianic crusade that plagues us even today. Nowadays, āsafeā includes...
Will the GOP Capitulate Again?
“Free trade results in giving our money, our manufactures, and our markets to other nations,” warned the Republican Senator from Ohio and future President William McKinley in 1892. “Thank God I am not a free-trader,” echoed the rising Empire State Republican and future President Theodore Roosevelt. Those were the voices of a Republican Party that...
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...
Amnesty
Conservatives who saw through the fraud of the ātemporary worker visaā program that President Bush unveiled in January and recognized it for the mass amnesty of illegal aliens it is might want to consider muting their fulminations against the concept of amnesty.Ā If current demographic trends continue, they may find that they are in need...
Stop Importing Ungrateful, Spoiled Criminals
If one valid criticism of American society is that our high standard of living had made our population lazy, entitled, and unappreciative, then why are we importing so many new people with the same qualities?
Moral Supremacy and Mr. Putin
Is Donald Trump to be allowed to craft a foreign policy based on the ideas on which he ran and won the presidency in 2016? Our foreign policy elite’s answer appears to be a thunderous no. Case in point: U.S. relations with Russia. During the campaign Trump was clear. He would seek closer ties with...
Instaurare!
On being taken to Mass in the underground basilica at Lourdes, the late Msgr. Alfred Gilbey, that most courteous of men, was moved to comment, āIt reminds me of nothing so much as a Nazi rally.āĀ He was referring to the vast crowds, the raised central stage, and the spotlit altar of this concrete bunker.Ā ...
The Loss of the Familiar
From the late 19th or early 20th century down to the present day, liberalism has been progressively oriented to psychology and therapeutic technique.Ā Yet advanced liberalism in the 21st century is as materialist a creed as classical liberalism was in the 19th, and liberal psychology remains as firmly grounded in a materialist philosophy as it...
Who Won, and Who Lost, World War II?
Sunday, the 80th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland, Vice President Mike Pence spoke in Warsaw’s Pilsudski Square of “five decades of untold suffering and death that followed” the invasion. Five decades! What Pence was saying was that, for Poland, World War II did not end in victory but defeat and occupation by an...
The Poor Man’s Sam Francis
The New Class War: Saving Democracy From the Managerial Elite;Ā by Michael Lind;Ā Portfolio;Ā 224 pp., $25.00 Ā A mostly white, cosmopolitanĀ āoverclassā rules America with a technocratic fist through the union of public and private spheres after pulling off a ārevolution from above,ā Michael Lind argues in his latest book. As Lind sees it, the countryās political institutions...
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 ...
Crying Bloody Murder
The more a man of the world looks at the world, the more he is persuaded that not only are its political and social truths rarely what they seem, they are often the diametrical opposite of what they seem. So, in one memorable episode, did many an Englishman, a copy of the Times in one...
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...
Friends at a Distance
Second only to prostitution, writing is the loneliest profession. Because a writer’s work is wherever he happens to be, he has no real need to be anywhere; because writing is neither a team sport nor a cooperative enterprise, and because the laborious act of composition is notoriously prone to distraction, the writer normally performs his...
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...
Now Is Not the Time for Indifference
Freedom now hangs in the balance in America. Staying alert and knowing whatās at stake are key in this fight for liberty.
Russiaās Way Back
Liberalismās Glorious Age of parliamentary democracy, nation building and national consolidation, free trade, and empire, of which Great Britain was the chief power and paramount symbol, reached a catastrophic close in 1914.Ā After 1945, liberalism in renovated form attempted to launch a modern Glorious Age dominated by the Pax Americana and the United Nations and...
The Trump of Myth and Legend
There is no need to compare Trump to some biblical hero or a mythic savior in order to state oneās agreement with one or more of his stated policies.
On ‘Old Adam, New Eve’
Thomas Fleming’s article, “Old Adam, New Eve” (Perspective, June 1986) failed to mention the women in the line of fire between feminists and traditionalists. Sure, we all decry militant feminists who want to turn science, the sexes, art and, indeed, all society into a progressive’s hodgepodge of leftist doctrine and Marxist utopia. But what about...
The Tyranny of Democracy
Winston Churchillās backhanded praise of democracy as āthe worst form of government except all those other forms that have been triedā is usually cited as the last word on the subject.Ā It is a good way of closing off a dangerous topic of discussion, and it works quite well with that vast majority of people...
A Cancer on the Papacy?
This summer, the sex scandal that has bedeviled the Catholic Church went critical. First came the stunning revelation that Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, former Archbishop of Washington and friend to presidents, had for decades been a predator-priest who preyed on seminarians and abused altar boys, and whose depravity was widely known and covered up. Came then...
The ABCs of Afghanistan
AĀ is for Afghanistan. A faraway, hardcore Muslim country that remains utterly mysterious to our political, intelligence, and military elites even after two decades of intervention. Between October 2001 and August 2021 America squandered more thanĀ $2 trillionĀ and more than 2,000 lives for no clear objective or tangible benefit. BĀ is for the Washington Beltway. The home of...
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 ...
Did You Hear the One About Syria?
From the top of the mountain that overlooks my Swiss chalet I can almost see Lake Geneva on a clear day, but thankfully, what I cannot see are the armies of so-called diplomats, flunkies, arms dealers, professional wallet lifters, con men, thieves, and men who have obviously been conceived by apes with a dose of...
All About Trump
Today, all books by liberals really are about President Trump.Ā Such is Playing With Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics, by MSNBC far-left fake-news host Lawrence OāDonnell.Ā This bookās proxy is Richard Nixon and his 1968 victory for president against Aunt Blabby, a.k.a. Hubert Horatio Humphrey.Ā For Nixon, Humphrey, South Vietnam,...
Soulcraft as Leechcraft
The photographs on the jacket of Our Times provide a pointed reminder that the British past is not just another country but another continent. The newly crowned Queen looks self-conscious yet confident in Cecil Beatonās celebrated photograph of 1953, holding the scepter and orb of state in steady hands, her slender frame enveloped in ermine...
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...
Staying on the Ground
Donald Trump’s campaign for the Reform Party presidential nomination may never get off the ground, and anyone who has ever visited Trump’s stomping grounds in Atlantic City should not be surprised. The Trump Taj Mahal casino sits alongside the Atlantic City boardwalk, a gaudy reminder of the excesses of its owner. The “Taj,” which ranked...
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.
Past and Future President Putin
Ā Last Saturday, at United Russiaās congress, the ruling duumvirate of President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin finally ended the uncertainty of some monthsā standing. Putin first asked Medvedev to head United Russiaās list at next Decemberās Duma election. Accepting the offer, Medvedev proposed that United Russia nominate Putin as its presidential candidate...
Is Global ‘Democracy’ America’s Mission?
“In the battle between democracy and autocracy, democracies are rising to the moment, and the world is clearly choosing the side of peace and security,” said President Joe Biden in his State of the Union address. “This is a real test. It’s going to take time.” Thus did Biden frame the struggle of our time...
Reading Antonin Scalia in New York
The highlight of my time in law school – three years of varying degrees of dreariness and constant irritation was the visit of US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The great jurist came to my nominally Catholic second-tier alma mater – I cannot help, but shudder at the latter word, so inappropriately used to describe...
Seasoned Travels
āThe land of the heart is the land of the West.ā āG.P. Morris Readers of Chronicles are familiar with Chilton Williamson, Jr.ās regular contributions under the title The Hundredth Meridian, a rubric launched in the 1990ās.Ā The first two dozen or so of these columns were conceived as chapters in a serialized book.Ā With minor...
A Welsh Defeat Shows Boris Needs Nigel
Brecon & Radnorshire was an encounter battle, unplanned and unwanted. This obscure border constituency has just seen a by-election whose occasion was absurdāthe sitting MP was recalled after some minor expenses claims transgressions and was allowed by his Conservative party to stand againābut which, as is the way with more famous encounters, stood for much...
WikiLeaks: British Secret Service Enabled Litvinenkoās Murder?
WikiLeaks documents reveal that Russian operatives may have been tracking the assassins of rogue intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko well before he was poisoned in London in November 2006. The agents apparently wanted to prevent his murder not because they cared for him, which they did not, but because they knew that Moscow would be blamed...
Toughs, Softs, and Jewish Masculinity
Jewish stereotyping is an activity in which Jews and their enemies have both engaged. Among the self-images that Jews have popularized is that of the bookish Jewish male. The medieval biblical commentator Rashi depicts the patriarch Jacob as a scholar and homebody, “in the tradition of Shem and Eber,” Jacob’s two Semitic ancestors to whom...
Detroit City
Home folks think Iām big in Detroit City From the letters that I write they think Iām fine But by day I make the cars By night I make the bars If only they could read between the lines . . . Ā For decades, Detroit has been Americaās whipping boy.Ā Itās not as if...
The Habitation of Justice
Judge Roy Moore, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, is in big trouble again.Ā Judge Mooreās first 15 minutes of fame happened when, as a lower-court judge, he refused to remove a plaque containing the Ten Commandments from the wall of his courtroom.Ā The plaque, it was said, amounted to an impermissible establishment of...
Glasnost I
A decade ago, when Leonid Brezhnev was still the leader of the Soviet Union, W. Bruce Lincoln wrote of glasnost and its role in Russian politics. His book, In the Vanguard of Reform, might today be making seers and soothsayers envious but for the fact that the dynamics of change he described were those of...