As our country plunges into yet another foolish war in the Moslem world and teeters on the edge of bankruptcy, it is easy to be focused on the negative. But todayâs news also brought a small reminder of hope. The synod of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, meeting in Lvov, just elected 40-year old Sviatoslav Shevchuk,...
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The Gales of November
âYouâre probably not going to like this,â David Dale Johnson said, âbut Iâm suggesting we ask the Board of Review to reduce the assessment by $30,000.â I had retained David as a hired gun in my attempt to get our houseâs assessment, and thus our property taxes, lowered. David knows a thing or two about...
The Facts and Fiction of Election Reforms
Two of the Clinton campaign’s central promises aimed at reducing the federal budget deficit and “reinventing” government. Unfortunately, President Clinton’s recently unveiled campaign finance reform plan will do neither. The most dramatic step the President could take toward accomplishing his goals would be to resist congressmen’s desires on the topic closest to their hearts: election...
Clinton and the Clergy
“We ought to string up Clinton and Monica by their feet, just like the Italians did to Mussolini and his mistress at the end of World War II.” This comment came from a caller to Wisconsin Public Radio, on which I was a guest last fall. When I was invited to speak, I had assumed...
A Military Encore in North Korea
As if the Bush administration were not busy enough already, Undersecretary of State John Bolton has said that North Korea should âdraw the appropriate lesson from Iraq.â That followed a comment from President George W. Bush that, if Washingtonâs efforts âdonât work diplomatically, theyâll have to work militarily.â Hopes for the former have risen and...
Why you should see the silents, part I
Silent movies are to movies in toto as classical Greek and Roman drama is to all of European drama. Of course, cinema is one of the latest progeny of the classical dramatic tradition, so one canât claim the silents invented any wheels in terms of plot and characterization; those havenât changed since Euripides and Menander....
What We Are Reading: November 2021
The plot of the Woman of the Inner Sea may strike one as interesting for a childrenâs book: An Australian woman leaves Sydney incognito for the interior and makes friends with a kangaroo and an emu. But Thomas Keneallyâs novel is for adults and contains a complex structure, a rich cast of characters, and nuanced...
Middle America’s Road to Power
At first glance, NiccolĂČ Machiavelliâs books The Prince and Discourses on Livy seem at odds. The former is chiefly a revolutionary guide to power, reveling in a ferocious spectacle of violence. The latter is a kind of manuscript on good governance that takes ancient Rome as its subject and model. Machiavelliâs aims in The Prince are at once revolutionary and conservative....
Blowing Up the Base: An Abortion Strategy Revealed
The new Republican Congress already looks like a bunch of incompetent boobs. The legislatively meaningless vote for the perennial âPain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,â sponsored by Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), which would prohibit abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy, was scheduled for a vote today, on the 42nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade. (I...
Disillusioned by Vlad
Putinâs war on "woke" had me cheering, especially when he urged nationalists, conservatives, and traditionalists to unite and reject multiculturalism. But as his army shells Ukraine, it is hard to blame anyone but him for the situation there.
Offsides for the Kneel-In
Let’s not stress out, shall we, while endeavoring to make sense of the fuss and foolishness over mass NFL boycotting of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” That would be because the fuss and foolishness themselves make no sense: save as a window for viewing the lunacies of 21st century life. Are we a nation or a holding...
Nationwide Attention
Ryan White’s death in Indianapolis on Palm Sunday attracted nationwide attention. In retrospect, it is apparent that the initial public reaction to Ryan’s illness, demanding his exclusion from school, was as unwarranted as it was cruel. However, it is important to recognize that when his disease was first diagnosed, in 1984, AIDS was still considered...
Preaching to a Strange Nation
    “Receive me, then, O Lord and lover of Mankind, even as the harlot, as the robber, as the publican, as the prodigal . . . “ âThe Prayer of St. Basil the Great The Law on Religion passed this year by the Russian State Duma restricts the activities of “non-traditional” religions...
Down Goes the Mammoth
So, the great nation builder is leaving the White House, his vision of a peaceful Middle East just a pipe dream, something poor old W used to know something about. I say poor old W because he was, after all, taken in by his very own Vice President, a treacherous and cowardly man, a character...
Donât Be Like Che
Jean-Paul Sartre called him the eraâs most perfect man. The students of 1968 used his name as the watchword for their revolution. He was Ernesto âCheâ Guevara, the communist revolutionary who was executed 40 years ago by CIA-led Bolivian rangers after trying to start another Vietnam in South America. Since he died, his image has...
The Fig Leaf
All one can ever imagine of Eve is the fig leaf, but the whole issue is more universal, and at the same time somehow more prickly, than any isolated contretemps in the Legoland of the senses. Say âglutton,â and in your mindâs eye youâll see a mutton joint being brandished by some Rabelaisian hand; say...
Pro-WikiLeaks
In âWhat Consequences?â (Cultural Revolutions, October), R. Cort Kirkwood stated (with regard to the WikiLeaks case) that Army Pfc. Bradley âManning is a traitor. He deserves the firing squad.â Just the same as a German soldier would have been executed as a traitor for revealing documents about the Nazi concentration camps. Mr. Kirkwood, I am...
Annual Report
The National Endowment for the Arts has released its 1990 annual report. So have the various state arts councils, including the Illinois Arts Council (IAC). The Lyric Opera of Chicago received a $1 million grant and a couple of hundred thousand for spare change, all of which will supposedly “make a major long term commitment...
Who Are the Taxers?
Never say Republicans can’t learn. After losing the presidency in 1992 on the tax issue, they now use euphemisms for their tax hikes and hide the increases with new and improved fiscal gimmickry. In this Congress, the word “reform” has come to be synonymous with a scheme to extract more money from the private sector,...
The Left’s Delusions on Crime and Policing
The death of George Floyd and the reaction that followed have seen an explosion of hysterical accusations, breast-beating, and lying that is extreme even by the standards of the last half-century. It is no exaggeration to say that reason and common sense have largely fled the scene, and there has been an incredibly weak reaction to...
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. His tie knot was too wide and his parade-ground bass sounded coarse and unmodulated. His face, with more...
Genes & Jingo
Popular journalists have begun writing off the sociobiology revolution. “Can Sociobiology Be Saved? and quote the learned opinions of Stephen J. Gould and Ashley Montagu (would they lie?). They indulge in vaguely worded smears: Konrad Lorenz was a nazi, E. O. Wilson is a Southerner, and sociobiology is a code word for racism among members...
Itâs the War, Stupid!
Political analysts, consultants, and âscientists,â envious of the success of economists in turning the study of wealth creation into a scientific discipline and a lucrative profession, are always searching for rules and laws to explain and discover certain regular and logical structures in human efforts involved in winning, preserving, and expanding power. Elections provide a...
Every State Is a Border State Now
The death of Jacques Price serves as a reminder of just how thoroughly our institutions have been turned against Americans at every level.
‘They Want Government to Be God’
The latest Godâs Not Dead is the bravest movie of the fall season, Mark Judge writes. Read his interview with the film's cast.
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...
The Era of American Leadership Is Over
Vast numbers of people in the United States and abroad are hoping that President Obama will end Americaâs illegal wars, halt Americaâs support for Israelâs massacre of Lebanese and Palestinians, and punish, instead of reward, the shyster banksters whose fraudulent financial instruments have destroyed economics and imposed massive sufferings on people all over the world....
Indiaâs COVID Debacle and its Strategic Implications
Update: Paragraph 12 has been added to provide more background information on the economic differences between India and China. In the last seven days India has seen more COVID cases than any other country in the world. The official death toll is over 200,000, although the countryâs flawed mortality statistics lead experts to believe that the true...
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...
On England’s Joy
Christie Davies’ enraged tirade against the Scots (“The English Rejoice at Scotland’s Coming Independence,” Correspondence, December 2000) was unusually bitter, even for the often bitter pages of Chronicles. There really is no point in dwelling on Davies’ hysterical eruptions (which I am clipping out and saving as examples of undiluted, distilled nationalist venom), except to...
Welcome Back, Potter
Several years ago, aided by the wonders of modern technology and the principle of fair use, a number of people independently produced remixes of Itâs a Wonderful Life as a horror movie. That this worked brilliantly is really no surprise, since the dystopian world of Pottersville in Frank Capraâs masterpiece foreshadowed such later classics of...
New York Times to BidenâTime to Go!
America's paper of record has provided cover for, and given sanction to, ambitious Biden rivals to take on the Democratic president.
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 absurdâthe sitting MP was recalled after some minor expenses claims transgressions and was allowed by his Conservative party to stand againâbut which, as is the way with more famous encounters, stood for much...
Books in Brief: January 2021
The Crusader Strategy: Defending the Holy Land, by Steve Tibble (Yale University Press; 376 pp., $35.00). If one gets his Crusades history from Karen Armstrong or the History Channel, one is likely to think that nasty and brutish Franks went off half-cocked to the Holy Land to rape, pillage, and enslave peaceful Muslims. This is an ignorant...
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...
Cochin Explains Kavanaugh
Writing on the events preceding the Terror of the French Revolution, Augustin Cochin described a scene that might be familiar to us today. Indeed, there are many parallels. What follows is an excerpt (emphasis mine) from Organizing the Revolution: Selections From Augustin Cochin, edited and translated by our late friend Claude Polin and his wife, Nancy,...
Just One More Justice . . .
At the polls last November, conservatives and libertarians who vote according to conscience had two options: Bob Barr (Libertarian Party) and Chuck Baldwin (Constitution Party). Combined, these two garnered only 719,655 votesâa paltry amount compared with John McCainâs 59,082,002. For those who believe in smaller government, fiscal responsibility, and individual liberty, the 2008 election was...
The Huge Stakes of Thursday’s Confrontations
Thursday is shaping up to be the Trump presidency’s “Gunfight at O.K. Corral.” That day, the fates of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and much else, may be decided. The New York Times report that Rosenstein, sarcastically or seriously in May 2017, talked of wearing a wire into the...
The Generalsâ War
The Pentagonâs pre-emptive strike came with the leak of Gen. Stanley McChrystalâs confidential review of the Afghan war to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post. McChrystalâs painting of the military picture was grim. âFailure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near-term (next 12 months)âwhile Afghan security capacity maturesârisks an outcome where...
Too Handsome to be Governor
 The long wait is over, and President Obama can start packing his bags.  Clint Eastwood has endorsed Governor Romney, and that, as they say, is that.  Since the 2012 Superbowl, there had been speculation that the actor famous for playing Dirty Harry and The Man With No Name might actually come out for...
Israelâs Lesson for 2024: A Liberal Crackup
The new New Left has the potential to spark a civil war among progressives, especially as causes like Black Lives Matter and anti-police policies entwine with "anti-colonial" and anti-Israel ideology.
Plane Crashes
Before World War II, airplanes were something of an oddity in the skies over Framalopa. We would stop and gaze at a Piper Cub chugging along through air, occasionally cutting its motor and gliding for a few seconds while we held our breath. I canât recall ever seeing a commercial airliner winging its way from...
A Close Encounter With the Enemy
Following his conversation with Jacinta Ruiz, HĂ©ctor took down from its shelf the statue of the Centaur that had been gathering a coat of the fine yellow dust blown in from the Chihuahuan Desert through chinks in the ranch-house walls and put it away in the closet, and he did not visit the Pink House...
A Strange Dearth
In 1985, in the wake of the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War, a plaque went up in Westminster Abbeyâs Poetsâ Corner, commemorating Richard Aldington, Laurence Binyon, Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke, Wilfrid Gibson, Robert Graves, Julian Grenfell, Ivor Gurney, David Jones, Robert Nichols, Wilfred Owen, Herbert Read, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Charles...
Scottish Weakness and Muslim Impudence
The decision to release the Libyan terrorist Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi from a Scottish prison has caused much anger in the United States. (Megrahi was convicted for his part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988, which killed a total of 270 people.) Indeed, many Americans...
Commendables â Subtlety vs. Six-Guns
In 1893 at the Chicago World’s Fair, Frederick Jackson Turner created a landmark in American historiography by articulating his thesis that the frontier exÂperience had produced “the forces dominating American character.” Especially during the last 20 years, many historians have challenged the validity of Turner’s views, arguing that European culture remained the primary influence upon American...
Virtually Unnoticed
Thomas Jefferson’s birthday went virtually unnoticed earlier this year, the 250th anniversary of his birth. Nothing is more indicative of how badly we Americans have squandered our moral capital and betrayed the substance of our history. We did have, of course, President Clinton’s inaugural journey from Monticello, though it is hard to imagine anything further...
A Dirge Transposed
âA novel,â wrote Stendhal, âis a mirror carried along a road.â In Cyn-thia Shearerâs new book, the road, literally speaking, is that between the invented town of Madagascar, Mississippi, where the action is centered, and Memphis, the other major setting; metaphorically, it is the distance the South has traveled from about 1950 to the early 21st...
Work, Marriage, Children: There Is Hope for Millennials
Get a job. Get married. Have kids. Those seven words are part of the core message in Charles Murrayâs The Curmudgeonâs Guide to Getting Ahead, a book I recommend to young people. Most of us have read these recommendations somewhere as a formula for a successful life, and conservatives in particular advocate this approach as the...
Further Reflections on Violence
Saddam Hussein’s little expedition into Kuwait has begun to take on the colors of a counter-crusade against European and American influence in the Middle East. As I write, in the second week of August, it is too early to predict the outcome of any of President Bush’s diplomatic and military initiatives. In general, he deserves...