Ā Former President Bill ClintonĀ declared his strong support for the Ground Zero mosqueĀ in an interview broadcast on September 12. He also suggested a clever new spin to the promoters of the project. Much or even most of the controversy, he said, ācould have been avoided, and perhaps still can be, if the people who want...
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Living With Culture
One of the best things in life for a writer who sets out to be an artist is to be appreciated by people whose opinions are generally respected and valued. That is the happy condition in which I find myself this evening, and I thank the directors of the Ingersoll Foundation and the Rockford Institute....
A Flawed Primer on āConservative Revolutionariesā
The book Partisans is a product of conĀtemporary political discourseāmade up of cut-and-paste, second- and third-hand source-filled rantsāthat fails to pass for serious scholarship.
States of Autarky
AĀ great many economists and politicians contend that the absence of trade inevitably leads to armed conflict.Ā Thus, in the interests of national security, they insist on virtually unlimited trade and castigate those who favor its restriction as proponents of autarkyāa term that few understand yet most agree to be negative, isolationist, and perhaps even extremist....
Reason and the Ethical Imagination
“A perfect democracy is . . . the most shameless thing in the world.” āEdmund Burke More than 50 years after his death, Irving Babbitt continues to evoke a sympathetic response horn minds and temperaments attuned to the ethical world view fostered by classical and Christian thought. Within the last decade, much of his writing...
The 400 Club
Imagine a club where you have to earn $137 million per year to join, and which limits membership to 400 people.Ā That, weād all agree, is an exclusive club.Ā Mitt Romney, for example, probably thinks he is rich, but he could not get in.Ā Heād be told he would be happier elsewhere. The club is...
A Rapid Untergang?
The Western world in general, and Europe in particular, are threatened not only by a numerically small, overtly jihadist cadre of āradicalizedā individuals engaging in terrorism. The West is in mortal peril from a demographically explosive, ideologically highly developed, yet decentralized and structurally amorphous Islamic movement. To discuss the world-historical implications of this movementāwhich has...
The Lessons of Grenada
“To conquer tumult, nature’s sodin force, War . . . was first devis’d.” āSir William D’Avenant Grenada’s Communist interlude has become the subject of an intense postmortem by scholars of varying ideological hues. Historically, the small island is destined to be a symbol of the Reagan years. However much the US intervention of October 25,...
What Bernie & The Donald Portend
Three weeks out from the Iowa caucuses, and clarity emerges. Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee, is in trouble. Polls show her slightly ahead of Socialist Bernie Sanders in Iowa, but narrowly behind in New Hampshire. And the weekend brought new revelations about yet more classified and secret documents sent over her private email server...
Importing Prosperity
When I first heard of the topic āSmall Is Beautiful,ā I thought of the wonderful motto of Chilton Williamsonās friend Edward Abbey: āGrowth Is the Enemy of Progress.ā Abbey went right to the heart of the matter. The false but pervasive premise of American life is that progress and growth are the same thing and...
The Cost of Immigration
Beginning in 1991, for more than a year, a 22-year-old Salvadoran immigrant sexually abused an eight-year-old California girl.Ā This permanent legal resident took advantage of her whenever he was at his cousinās house, where he lived in Los Angeles. He was not always there, so the child would return to the home of her girlfriend...
A Disaster
K-12 education in America is, nationally, a disasterāthat is something everyone seems to agree on. But on the local level, the parents of schoolchildren are hearing a different story. In a 1988 study an educational watchdog group called Friends for Education discovered that all of the 50 states were reporting that their elementary and secondary...
Biden Commits US to War for Taiwan
The United States will go to war to defend Taiwan if China invades the mainland. That is the commitment made last week by President Joe Biden.
Commendables ā Troubled Sleep
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus; University of California; Berkeley. In the more than 165 years since Mary Shelley wrote her Gothic tale, Victor Frankenstein and his monster have beĀcome an enduring symbol of the modĀern mind. She was only a girl of 18 when her adolescent nightmares curĀdled into the murky tale...
The Wonderful World of Porn
So you thought writing hard-core pornography was an easy way to earn a living? You remembered your adolescence and those turgid paperbacks in which the vocabulary was strictly four-letter, the plot rambling and forgotten halfway through the book, and the characters’ names changed periodically as though some of the chapters were lifted bodily from other...
The Boot-Licker
A fifth columnist is a supporter or secret sympathizer of an enemy nation, and the phrase was coined by Spanish nationalist general Emilio Mola.Ā Before World War II broke out in 1939, Europe was awash with references to āThe Fifth Column at work,ā and the phrase was bandied about by both appeasers and those who...
Kosovo and Its Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy
The struggle for Kosovo between Christian Serbs and Muslim Albanians dates back to 1389, when the Serbs were defeated by, and their lands annexed to, the Ottoman Empire. Muslim rule lasted over four centuries and resulted in several waves of forced migrations of Serbs from Kosovo. The ...
Losing the āWar on Terrorā at the Border
According to a host of news reports, the porous, virtually unprotected southern border of the United States has attracted the attention of Islamic terrorists, as many of us warned it would at the outset of the āWar on Terror.āĀ In March, Time, citing U.S. intelligence officials, reported that Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, a ring leader of...
The Shepard Case
Matthew Shepard, a young homosexual man murdered in Laramie, Wyoming, in October 1998, is the new “messiah” figure of one of the most evocative contemporary mythologies created by our ostensibly anti-religious rulers. As far as we can tell, Shepard seems to have been a quiet person who had the ill fortune to encounter a pair...
Rebranding the Gun Culture
During the five years of the 1990ās that I served on the board of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, one other member and I would occasionally upset the others by asking why the ACLU did not defend the Second Amendment rights of individuals. My colleague asked because he was an 80-year-old Hollywood...
Men: Are You Ready to Lead?
Life was much simpler for those of us who grew up in 1950ās America than it is for children today.Ā We took for granted an intact family with a breadwinner father and a stay-at-home mom.Ā America was the number-one manufacturing country in the world, and our society was anchored by a strong middle class.Ā Yes,...
What Still Unites Us?
Decades ago, a debate over what kind of nation America is roiled the conservative movement. Neocons claimed America was an “ideological nation” a “creedal nation,” dedicated to the proposition that “all men are created equal.” Expropriating the biblical mandate, “Go forth and teach all nations!” they divinized democracy and made the conversion of mankind to...
Guerrillas In Our Midst: The L.A. Riots Remembered
Grappling with the meaning of the L.A. riots, wondering with Rodney King why we can’t get along, I muse about days long ago when I was a terroristette for the women’s movement. I cared so much about violence against women that, with a group of my sisters, I participated in a rampage of window-smashing, targeting...
Hush! It Is General Lee
With Obama completing the displacement of the American people and the Republicans trying to start a war to detract attention from their uselessness and to revive their collapsed grassroots support, a poor observer barely has time and attention to note the civilizational degradation taking place in Lexington in the old and once-honored Commonwealth of Virginia....
A Conservative Tax Code
Few American objects attract more scorn than the federal Internal Revenue Code.Ā When initially drafted in 1914, it contained 11,400 words, about the length of a long magazine article.Ā Today, the Code weighs in at about four million words, with another six million in supportive regulations.Ā Its garbled syntax is easily ridiculed.Ā Tax attorney Joseph...
Liberal Mush for the Mad Dog
In his statement toĀ The AtlanticĀ magazine, former Defense Secretary General James Mattis says of the events of the last 10 days that have shaken the nation as it has not been shaken since 1968: “We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers.” Is “a small number of lawbreakers” an apt description of wilding...
A New Champion
Political correctness has found a new champion on our college campuses. Professor Betty Jean Craige of the University of Georgia argued in the Chronicle of Higher Education last January that truth has not been subordinated to political goals in American higher education; students today simply “examine critically long-standing ‘truths’ about race, gender, and our civilization’s...
Is Mexico the Next Colombia?
Despite recent improvements in the overall security situation in Colombia, the Bush administration remains worried about that country.Ā Washingtonās nightmare scenario is the emergence of a narcotrafficking state allied with extremist political elements and terrorist organizations.Ā U.S. leaders are sufficiently concerned about that possibility that they are ready to continue Americaās extensive antinarcotics aid to...
Russian Reset in Peril
For all its many faults, the Obama administration has scored one notable success: It has done significantly better than its recent Republican and Democratic predecessors in normalizing relations with Russia.Ā Washingtonās visceral antagonism toward Moscow needed to be replaced by a more pragmatic, mutually beneficial relationship.Ā The āResetā has been imperfectly applied, but its conceptual...
Contingency and Chance in Scottish and American History
Why did the Americans win and the Jacobites lose? The classic answer is that the Americans represented the future, a future of liberty, freedom, secularism, and individualism. The Jacobites were the past, reactionary and religious, the products of a hierarchical society motivated by outdated dynastic loyalty. This difference was supposedly reflected in their military methods,...
An Observer of Men
This selection from around 65,000 pieces of correspondence, edited by Learned Handās granddaughter, a professor emerita of English at the Claremont Graduate School, could not have been better done.Ā Both Handās letters and the letters of his correspondents are included; some of the most notable exchanges are with Bernard Berenson, Philip Littell, Walter Lippmann, and...
Trump Visits the Ancien Regime
āEngland,ā said Roy Strong, āis the last ancien regime.ā President Trump visited three visible proofs over this weekend. Blenheim Palace was built by a grateful nation to commemorate a day which dawned on France as the greatest military power in Europe and ended with the French commander in Marlboroughās coach together with two other generals....
Syria: Trump Must Not Blink
Over the next few weeks President Donald Trump will have to wage the toughest battle of his political career so far. He will be under intense political and bureaucratic pressure to change his mind on the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria. Trump needs to resist that pressure both because the decision to withdraw is...
It’s a Girl’s, Girl’s, Girl’s, Girl’s World
A television ad: Single girl “Heather” has come to be videotaped for a dating service. Haltingly, she blurts out facts about herselfāshe’s got a Lab, a “great” job, an “out-of-control shoe fetish”āwhile sipping the diet soda which is supposedly the raison d’ĆŖtre of the ad. The interviewer comments, “Sounds like a pretty good life.” Taking...
The Bush Economic Agenda
Energized by his election as if it were a landslide, President George W. Bush proposes to spend his āpolitical capitalā on an ambitious economic agenda headed by reform of Social Security and the U.S. Tax Code.Ā The Presidentās candor in acknowledging that the deficits and tax cuts of his first termāthe āWall Street Relief and...
Conquistador Trump
In accepting the invitation of President Enrique Pena Nieto to fly to Mexico City, the Donald was taking a major risk. Yet it was a bold and decisive move, and it paid off in what was the best day of Donald Trump’s campaign. Standing beside Nieto, graciously complimenting him and speaking warmly of Mexico and...
The Two Surest Signs of the Totalitarian Impulse
Two of the truest marks of a totalitarian regime are its claim to know your thoughts better than you do, and its demand for the coercive power to ācorrectā your thought.
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
One of the great interests of Anglo-Saxon poems is the heroic code of the warriors. Ā They fight for their own glory, of course, but also to protect and avenge their lord, to preserve their religion, and defend the liberties of their people. Ā Unlike the Vikings, they are neither savages nor merely predators. Before going on...
On Monolithic Catholics
I enjoyed reading Paul Gottfriedās review of my book The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing (āThe Rest of the Story,ā January), but I was puzzled by what he calls āthe obvious counterargumentsā to my position.Ā The most obvious, he claims, is that āCatholic Democrats . . . were instrumental in bringing about...
Editing the South I
I have a more or less professional interest in Southern regional magazines. Some I’ve written for, others I’ve written about, one or two I’ve cribbed fromāone way or another a few subscriptions and the odd newsstand purchase wind up as deductions on my income tax. Whatever else these magazines may be, they’re all part of...
Why Joe May Be Courting Stacey
Of 895 slots in the freshman class of Stuyvesant High in New York City, seven were offered this year to black students, down from 10 last year and 13 the year before. In the freshman class of 803 at The Bronx High School of Science, 12 students are black, down from last year’s 25. Of...
The Managerial Racket
Life in America these days has become a vast numbers racket.Ā That is, most Americans are, cannily or not, ensnared in the numbers game called metrics, or what Jerry Muller in his latest book terms the āmetrics fixation.āĀ This fixation is founded on the assumption that āIf you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.āĀ ...
The Goodness of King George
In The Last King of America, Andrew Roberts shows George III to be a much better man and king than the caricature presented by propagandists on both sides of the Atlantic.
When Experts Attack
For over 30 years, the churches of America have been declining; their numbers, plummeting.Ā Each year, a new set of numbers emerges from the various denominational headquarters, telling the tale.Ā The liberal Protestant Mainlines are in the worst shape, as the figures for 2006 to 2007 indicate.Ā According to the National Council of Churches, the...
Yang and Soap Suds
Your Excellency: Right now the weather here is hotter than those vestments Pope Benedict refused to wear for World Youth Day.Ā By noon the sidewalks wiggle with waves of heat, and the very air leaks terrestrial perspiration.Ā The afternoons are too sultry to work in the garden of She-Who-Commands-My-Heart-and-My-Spade, and my preparations for teaching my...
Pax in Our Times
In 1970ās London, things were a bit more rudimentary than they are today: You considered yourself lucky to get through 24 hours without losing your electricity thanks to the latest āindustrial actionā (strike, to you and me), the trains were invariably late, and my memory is that most people didnāt exactly overdo it when it...
IllegalāAlien Shutdown
The bigger the infestation, an exterminator will tell you, the harder the pest is to eliminate.Ā Thus it is with illegal aliens, and one recent event illustrates that the infestation is so pervasive, it may be well-nigh impossible to stop. That event was a speech at the University of North Carolina in early April by...
Beyond Politics
Most Americans think of the terms modern and modernity as denoting something positive.Ā A modern society is advanced in science, reason, hygiene, and human goodness.Ā To condemn modernity is to be against progress and all of its material benefits.Ā Even American conservatives are essentially modern in outlook, identifying modernity with material improvement.Ā European conservatives are...
Out With the Old
The 1.67 million member Presbyterian Church (USA) has voted to redefine marriage from ābetween a woman and a manā to ābetween two people, traditionally a man and a woman.āĀ Last yearās General Assembly approved the change, which was confirmed by a majority of local presbyteries this year.Ā It confirms a trajectory starting with the churchās...
No Justice, No Peace
There is no pleasing Duke University law professor Brandon L. Garrett, author of the death-penalty-abolishment screed End of Its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice, though much about the current state of criminal justice should please him.Ā Nationwide, death sentences and executions are at historic lows, yet he claims that the...