In the seventy-seventh of The Dream Songs, John Berryman writes, “these fierce & airy occupations, and love, / raved away so many of Henry’s years.” The pervasive tone of Berryman’s life and writing, spanning the tired, mad, and lonely years from 1914 to 1972, is that of religious despair; somber and violent, the emphasis is...
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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...
The New Eschatology of Peace
The relations of religious faith with political life in the modern world are riddled with paradoxes. In the Middle East, rapid secularization has provoked a fundamentalist revulsion, which seeks vainly to stem the tide of modernity that, at the same time, gives it all its strength. Middle Eastern fundamentalism is little more than a modernist...
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,...
Hillary: Nominee or Indictee?
While perhaps too early for Democratic elites to panic and begin bailing out on Hillary Clinton’s campaign as a doomed vessel, they would be well advised not to miss any of the lifeboat drills. For Hillary’s campaign is taking on water at a rate that will sink her, if the leakage does not stop, and...
They Are Coming, Father Abraham
Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush says that immigration “is not a problem to be solved. It is the sign of a successful nation. New Americans are to be welcomed as neighbors and not to be feared as strangers.” In 1996, the Republican platform advocated an end to granting automatic citizenship to children born to...
The Silent Jihad in Nigeria
āBoko Haram kill villagers in Christmas Eve attack,ā the BBC reported on Dec. 25: at least 11 Christians were murdered in the village of Pemi, in northeastern Nigeria. As villagers fled into the bush, jihadists looted their homes and burned the local church and clinic. The site of the attack was only about 12 miles...
I.D. Cards for Men
“I don’t want to have to carry a handbag all the time” was the way an aggressive British opponent of the compulsory carrying of identity cards (as proposed by several members of the British government) yelled it to me recently. In fairness I should add that this defender of supposed civil liberties was svelte and...
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...
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...
Is the GOP Staring at Another 1930?
After the victory of Donald Trump in 2016, the GOP held the Senate and House, two-thirds of the governorships, and 1,000 more state legislators than they had on the day Barack Obama took office. “The Republican Party has not been this dominant in 90 years,” went the exultant claim. A year later, Republicans lost the...
Poems of the Week: Lionel Johnson
Ā This week I am going to put up several poems by Lionel Johnson. Ā Johnson was a fine, not to say exquisite craftsman, a friend of Yeats and Ā the “Decadents.” Ā He is mainly known today as a religious poet, but he has a gift for evoking a scene. Johnson’s best known poem is: By the...
Europe: Welmacht or Laughingstock
On December 1, 2009, the Lisbon Treaty took effect.Ā Within a year the 27-member European Union was fractured politically and besieged economically.Ā āEuroskepticismā was on the rise.Ā The plan to turn Europe into a Weltmacht capable of matching the United States and China looked almost comical.Ā Europe remained a geographic aggregation, not a geopolitical unit.Ā ...
Pulling the Plugs
“Culture looks beyond machinery.” āMatthew Arnold A generation ago, the strongest voice raised against materialism, scientism, and the depredations of technology and mass communication was that of rhetorician and second generation agrarian Richard Weaver. In books like Ideas Have Consequences and Visions of Order, Weaver combines a disdain for technological culture in general with grave...
Haters and Self-Haters
Eloquent and courageous, Edward Alexander takes the theme of anti-Israelism and anti-Zionism and transforms a mere topical debate into profound reflections on the meanings of self-hatred and bigotry; on Jews’ hatred of themselves and on Gentile anti-Semitism in its most contemporary version. These occasional essays, written in the specific context of immediate controversies, transcend their...
Revolting Taxation
On April 15, U.S. taxpayers will pay the last installment on their duty to government for 2003.Ā The bill for federal, state, and local government totaled a staggering $3.3 trillion, of which one out of every seven dollars was in the form of ābuy now, pay laterā deficits, principally the federal one. Federal spending accounted...
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...
A Good Report
Writing to Timothy, his younger brother in the faith, the Apostle Paul listed a number of attributes desirable in a bishop. His final admonition is this: “Moreover, he must have a good report of them which are without [outside]: lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil” (I Timothy 3:7). In the...
The Real Target of Public Schools
Last school year, my sonāwho was a fourth grader at a public schoolā came home with a red piece of paper entitled “Family Call to Action.” The letter on the front, preprinted by a corporation but signed by his teacher, informed me that my son would be joining the Target Stores and Hanes Corporation “Kids...
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,...
Main Street U.S.A.
We the People… The world, my friends, is going to… and that’s just the point: We don’t know where in the world the world is going. Only that it’s moving at a high speed, in ways likely to upset existing orders. And the People are driving this showāthe People, yes, as Carl Sandburg entitled his...
Let Us Now Praise Famous G-Men
Over the past few years, the United States federal government attempted a coup dāĆ©tat against its own chief executive. Working from āopposition researchā paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, the Deep State and its partners in the media came within a hairās breadth of taking down a sitting president. This was the...
Hanging With the Snarks: An Academic Memoir
There seemed to be little interest among audience members [at a scholarly meeting] in whether the ideas I had presented were true, only in whether their application would bring about results they liked. āJason Jewell Ā I used to have a running argument with a colleague, a great scholar now gathered to his fathers, during...
Securing the Lincoln Memorial
It is a beautiful prospect, looking east from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. We were there recently on a fine March day, and could see past the Vietnam and Korean Memorials up through the Reflecting Pool (currently under repair for a leak), to the giant fountain of the World War II Memorial (dry also),...
Regime Change
Speculation is mounting that Theresa May, emulating Richard Nixonās epoch-making visit to China, may be planning a visit to Washington with a view to laying the foundations for a trade deal between the UK and US. She has already been to China for the G20 meeting in Hangzhou, where Xi Linping has told her that...
Self, Secularism, and Suicide
The response of the Western European governments, and of a substantial portion of what is called the European eliteāroughly speaking, the upper-middle classesāto the invasion of the Continent from the east and south must be among the most unusual and perverse spectacles in human history.Ā For nearly a year now, the world has looked on...
A Living Library of the Law Revived
āIt is best that laws should be so constructed as to leave as little as possible to the decision of those who judge.ā āAristotle Here Lies Edward Coke, Knight of Gold, of Imperishable Fame, Spirit, Interpreter, and Inerrant Oracle of the Law, Discloser of its SecretsāConcealer of its Mysteries, Thanks Almost Alone to Whose Good...
On the Celebrity Waterfront
By the time I arrived at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, the selection was over. About 200 people had won coveted bleacher seats to the red-carpet entrance of the 71st Academy Awards. Among celebrity-worshipers, sitting in the Academy Award bleachers is like taking communion from the pope. Reaching this pinnacle requires a fanatical...
Killer Hedges
Sometimes it takes distance and time passed before we can look back and laugh at the situations that take place in our lives, but Tom Fleming’s run-in with the busybodies in his hometown who objected to his bushes made me laugh, because my wife and I had a similar encounter. Here’s some background. The Village...
What the Editors Are Reading
Evelyn Waugh wrote Brideshead Revisited (1945) while on a six-month leave from the British Army during World War II. It proved a hit with the public, but the critics who had praised Waughās earlier satirical novels were less impressed, objecting both to its religious themes and its lush prose. Waugh never apologized for the former,...
The Luddite as Messiah
Jeremy Rifkin declares himself a heretic in this book, but he is more accurately described as a Cassandra and not a Huss or a Bruno. This “new age” doomsayer feels romantic impulses and expresses them with poetic skill, but his limited grasp of history, his absurd economic proposals, and his skewed philosophical perspective still show...
Mission Creep in the Middle East
American aircraft went into action against Islamic State positions in Tikrit on March 25 in direct support of a stalled Iraqi offensive. The following day General Lloyd Austin, top commander in the Middle East, told Congress that he would like his forces to protect the Syrian āmoderateā rebels who are currently trained and armed by...
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...
Rock Music Lives On
Camille Paglia, current official Court Enemy of America’s East Coast intellectual mafia, recently went on record in the New York Times encouraging federal support of the allegedly endangered American art form of rock music. She is correct in praising rock as one of American folk art’s grand contributions to world culture. Rock is definitively American,...
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 ...
Thoughts on the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris
Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; Mock on, mock on; ’tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. āWilliam Blake Some thoughts on the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris: 1. Maybe gun control isnāt such a great idea. The killers somehow got AK-47s and possibly...
Revolt of the Fatherless
The crash of Western civilization can be traced to the stateās surgical removal of the fatherās authority and to the feminized blind rebellion that has followed.
Conservatism in the Time of Trump
The election of Donald Trump has upended the expectations of what paleoconservatives and others have long called Conservatism, Inc.Ā The influence of establishment conservatism all but evaporated during the primaries, as its chosen championsāBush, Rubio, Cruz, Jindal, and the restāfell one by one.Ā As President-Elect, Trump moved away from an unthinking reliance on Republican lobbyists...
Random Musings; Random Sarcasm
Leftists make up catchphrases to smear their opponents, but they never apply the same logic to themselves.
ELCAināt
In a 1992 episode of the TV show Cheers, the slow-witted bartender Woody is distressed to find out on his honeymoon that he has just entered a āmixed marriage.āĀ He belongs to the Lutheran ChurchāMissouri Synod (LCMS), and his bride is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).Ā Among Woodyās concerns is...
Centuries of Delusion
After centuries of delusion that white people ever accomplished anything worth doing, Euro-Americans are finally learning to grapple with just how worthless they really are. Last November, a conference of the Brahmins of “Afrocentrism” in Atlanta devoted all of a weekend to expounding the much-trumpeted insights that it was really Africans who built the pyramids,...
More (Local) Government
A 1992 Wisconsin law limits the revenue a school district can raise through property taxes.Ā When operating costs exceed that limit, districts have to ask voters to make up the difference.Ā The idea behind the law was to control skyrocketing teacher salaries and benefits by holding annual increases to 3.8 percent per year.Ā The state...
Christmas Visit to Bosnia
President Bill Clinton’s announcement, made during his brief Christmas visit to Bosnia, that U.S. troops were going to stay in that blighted Balkan province well beyond the initially announced “deadline” of June 1998, surprised only the naive. The only surprising aspect of the announcement was Clinton’s refusal to set any new deadlines: the troops were...
“Decrying Racism”
In the recent firing of “Jimmy the Greek,” CBS explained its action in a “terse statement,” decrying racism. (What they meant by this is anyone’s guess. I ban the word racism in my introductory sociology class, not because there are no barriers to black advancement but because the word itself is a barrier to the...
Killing No Murder
Donāt they wish they had listened to her!Ā Back in 2003, when the United States was planning to lead the invasion of Iraq, my elderly Welsh aunt was appalled by the prospect of war: āI hate all the violence.Ā Iām not an educated woman; I donāt understand politics.Ā I just hate to think of all...
The Forgotten Ideology
āSocialism will bring in an efflorescence of morality, civilization, and science such as has never been seen in the history of the world.ā āFerdinand Lassalle Modern American conservatism has been marked by a fascination with ideology.Ā Despite arguments that conservatism is not an ideology or is opposed to all ideology, American conservatives have regularly attempted...
Capitalism: The Conservative Illusion
Ā Ā Ā Ā āāIf a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed.ā āFriedrich Nietzsche When the Cold War ended in 1991, American conservatives rejoiced over the triumph of democratic capitalism, which had struggled for over half a century, first against the rise of fascism, and then against the Soviet bloc and...
Tunisia: The Game Is Not Over
Ā A week-long visit to Tunisia, in the course of which I covered some 2,000 miles byĀ rental car, bus,Ā SUV, and aĀ powered hang glider, has confirmed that of faraway places we often assume to know more than we do. The first country affected by a wave of popular discontent known as the Arab Spring was full...
Polemics & Exchanges: December 2023
Chronicles readers discuss and critique recent articles on the U.S. dollar, immigration, and "therapism."
The End of the American Middle Class
We have now entered a new age which will not have a name or a designation until, I think, at least one or two centuries from now: But then, such is the evolution of historical terminology.Ā Yet we should be able to recognize at least some of its apparent characteristics.Ā One (to my old-fashioned mind,...