“Is Russia an enemy of the United States?” NBC’s Kasie Hunt demanded of Ted Cruz. Replied the runner-up for the GOP nomination, “Russia is a significant adversary. Putin is a KGB thug.” To Hillary Clinton running mate Tim Kaine, the revelation that Donald Trump Jr., entertained an offer from the Russians for dirt on Clinton...
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The New South
A Time to Kill Produced by Arnon Milchan, Michael Nathanson, Hunt Lowry, and John Grisham Directed by Joel Schumacher Based on a novel by John Grisham Screenplay by Akiva Goldsman Released by Warner Brothers A Time to Kill, Joel Schumacher’s new film about race relations in the South, has drawn plaudits from many critics. Stanley...
Meet Rod Blago
As the former governor of Illinois crisscrossed the country on his farewell tour, I kept imagining him lying back in his seat, scalp being massaged by his personal hairstylist (it takes work to keep that Serbian gangster hairdo in pristine shape), while an old Mac Davis song played on an endless loop on his iPod:...
Belgradeās Dilemma: Kosovo or āEuropeā
A month has passed since the parliamentary election of May 11, and Serbia is still without a new government. The new National Assembly was convened briefly on May 10, while the Municipal Council of Belgrade remains paralyzed for at least another month. A new general election, some time in early fall, may prove to be...
The Smutty Professor
Fifty years ago, Indiana University professor Alfred Kinsey launched what was perhaps the first salvo in the Sexual Revolution. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, the work of Kinsey, Wardell Pomero), and Clyde Martin, hit postwar America like a sucker punch. Claiming that 85 percent of American males engaged in premarital sex, 70 percent had...
Waugh on Film
The High Green Wall (1954) Adapted for The General Electric Theater Columbia Broadcasting System Directed by Nicholas RayĀ Teleplay by Charles Jackson In 1929, Evelyn Waugh wrote that film was āthe one vital art of the century,ā an accolade he would later qualify.Ā While he came to believe that cinema had ātaught [novelists] a new...
D.C. Vampires Devouring U.S. Economy
Check out the following chart of Real Median Household Income, which declined 9 percent nationally from 1999 to 2012.Ā Find your stateās decline and meet me below. Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Notice the place at the top of list, which had no decline in Real Median Household...
Racing for Dominance
Jojo Rabbit Directed and written by Taika Waititi ā¢ ProducedĀ by TSG Entertainment ā¢ Distributed by FoxĀ Searchlight Pictures Ford v Ferrari Directed by James Mangold ā¢ Ā Produced by Chernin Entertainment ā¢ Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox A Simple Plan Directed by Sam Raimi ā¢ Written by Scott Smith Produced by the British Broadcasting Corp. ā¢ Distributed...
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.
Earthly Purposes
The New York Timesā obituary for Michael Foot, who led the Labour Party in the general election that brought Margaret Thatcher to power in 1983 and who died in March at the age of 96, quotes the following passage from a campaign speech Mr. Foot delivered that year: We are not here in this world...
Thoughts on July 4, 2006
In the late 1960ās and early 70ās, when I was at college and graduate school, the moral and social validity of meritocracy was beginning to be challenged by the schools and in the press.Ā Aristocracy of blood, a final casualty of World War II, was the one thing worse than aristocracy of intellect and talent.Ā ...
Peanut ButterāThe Next Menace
Day 1. A celebrity chokes to death on a peanut butter sandwich. Day 2. Headlines: “Celebrity’s Fatal Snack.” “Shocked Fans Mourn Hero.” The American Alliance of Alarmist Research Groups (AAARG) reports that 10,000 Americans died in 1992 from choking on peanut butter, and demands warning labels, tougher laws, and increased federal spending. Victims Advising People...
āLookismā Is the Newest Form of Bigotry
Donāt look now, but ālookismā may be the next politically incorrect thing you are guilty of. The latest installment of our nationās utopian quest, ālookismā is defined as āthe discriminatory treatment of people who are considered physically unattractive.ā To be sure, beauty is always culturally defined, and hard to quantify precisely, but in todayās America...
Iraq: The Least Bad Scenario
The Democratsā victory on November 7 and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeldās departure a day later marked the beginning of the end game in Iraq.Ā The moment is reminiscent of December 1970, when President Nixon decided to pull U.S. forces out of Vietnam by the end of the following year.Ā The major difference is that...
The Forgotten Oath of Congress
According to my online dictionary, an oath is āa solemn promise, often invoking a divine witness, regarding oneās future action or behavior.ā Oaths play a big role in our society. The Boy Scouts, known today as Scouts BSA since admitting girls to the organization, begin their weekly meetings by raising their right hand in the...
Luck and the Mass Man
Why was Christ put to death?Ā Because Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, had told the Sanhedrin, āYe know nothing at all, nor consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people.āĀ Literally, Caiaphas was inviting the Pharisees to reason throughālogizesthe is the Greek wordāto calculate, or to...
Has Trump Found the Formula for 2020?
If the pollsters at CNN and CBS are correct, Donald Trump may have found the formula for winning a second term in 2020. His State of the Union address, say the two networks, met with the approval of 76 percent of all viewersā97 percent of Republicans, 82 percent of independents and 30 percent of Democrats....
Erdoganās Successful Gamble
Turkeyās President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took a gamble after his Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its parliamentary majority last June 7: he would call another election, rather than let Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu look for a coalition partner in good faith. Contrary to most preditions, last Sunday the AKP regained its majority with 49%...
Whispers From Kirk
Stan Evans has described bodies of thought as having ālifecyclesā; they emerge, thrive for a while, and, unless continually nourished, eventually hollow out and pass away.Ā Having reached the end of its lifecycle, liberalism, as a coherent body of thought, is dead.Ā There are still liberals, of course.Ā But the tradition derived variously from John...
The Life of Riley
One good way to ruin your Christmas this year would be to spend the holidays reading a new book entitled Abandoned: The Betrayal of the American Middle Class Since World War II, by two law professors at the University of South Carolina, William J. Quirk and R. Randall Bridwell. Maybe you don’t want to ruin...
The Twilight Zone
The U.S. Supreme Court has put an end to five weeks of uncertainty. In the early days of December, in the twilight between the certification of George W. Bush as the winner of Florida’s electoral votes and the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that the Florida Supreme Court was wrong to intervene, only one...
Books in Brief: November 2022
Short reviews of Free: A Child and a History at the End of History, by Lea Ypi, and The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free-Market Era, by Gary Gerstle.
Californiaās Mythologized Bandido
On the wintry morning of February 20, 1853, more than a hundred Chinese miners were working their claims near Rich Gulch.Ā Without warning, five mounted and gun-brandishing bandidos swept down upon the Chinese.Ā Taken by surprise and without arms themselves, the Chinese could do little but comply when ordered to hand over their gold.Ā An...
Novelizing Novelists
Thrice-rendered Enderby slenderly lives again. In the 1974 Ā novel,Ā The Clockwork Testament,Ā Anthony Burgess dispatched to eternity his gross, grotty, gastric poet; New York City slaughtered the luckless English bard with a heart attack. But here he is again inĀ Enderby’s Dark Lady. “I think we have to look at it this way,” Burgess says. “All fictional events...
The Incredibles
In January, two astronomers announced that, following the recent demotion of Pluto as the ninth planet, they may have discovered a replacement for it in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptuneās orbit.Ā If they are right, according to their calculations the ānewā planetās orbit would take it as close as 20 billion miles to the sun...
Chicken Soup Starring: The Marx Bros.
Ā Ā Ā Ā “How can tyrants safely govern home I Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?”āWilliam Shakespeare There is something compelling in reading about spies and something compelling as well about spying, or we would not have so many spies to read about, fictional or not. Our century has been a century of spies:...
The Yugoslav God That Failed
The fate of one family rarely matters except to those directly involved. Yet family historiesāoften tragedies can sometimes tell us a great deal about a nation’s social fabric. One such story involves my aunt, Vida Knezevich Kontichāmy mother’s older sisterāand her family. Their fate was never far from mind during my diplomatic assignment with the...
Israelās 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.
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...
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.Ā (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.)Ā Indeed, many Americans...
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...
Liking Ike
Stephen E. Ambrose: Eisenhower, Volume One: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952; Simon & Schuster; New York. Great athletes, it is said, all are so good that they make their feats look easy. The same was true of Dwight David Eisenhower, first as a career soldier, then as Supreme Allied Commander, and finally as...
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...
Love it or Leave It?
As ululating headline after ululating headline blares forth Wall Streetās apocalypse; as Obamamaniacs promise race riots to break whiteyās collective spirit once and for all; as concepts like Peak Oil move from the fringes to the mainstream of media discourse; as America is forced to apprehend, in Fay Weldonās droll aphorism, that āthe fin has...
Egypt’s Non-Revolution
The fall of Hosni Mubarak came as a complete surprise to experts and policymakers.Ā Why did the shadowy leading figures in Egyptās political-military establishment, men who have profited handsomely from Mubarakās three decades in power, risk their own power and privilege by pulling the plug on him? As Cairo returned to its chaotic daily routine,...
Stop the #MeToo Lawsuit Carnival
Statutes of limitations are necessary to ensure defendants get fair trials. Politically motivated suspensions hurt more than just their intended targets and are incompatible with justice.
Archduke Otto: Responding to Dr. Trifkovic
Ā I read Dr. Srdja Trifkovicās highly coloured article onĀ ChroniclesMagazine.orgĀ about the recently deceased Archduke Otto of AustriaĀ with a mixture of surprise and concern. Ā Not a single one of his sources supported the entirely negative picture that he drew. Let’s see why. āHabsburg was an enthusiastic supporter of the Jihadist side in the Bosnian civil war,...
Tell Them What They Want to Hear
Unremarked by commentators on Canada’s federal election last November was the performance of candidates for the Communist Party of Canada. To qualify for national status, a party must field candidates in 50 ridings, which the CPC manages to do despite a singular lack of voter support. Out of some 13 million votes cast, the CPC...
The Epstein Enigma
According to the official narrative, on Aug. 10, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire playboy charged with sex-trafficking minors, committed suicide in his jail cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City. Only a third of Americans actually believe this narrative, according to polling. Whatās captured the publicās attention is the combination of Epsteinās...
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...
Scuppering the Serbs
I live in New York and London, and Ā among the gruesome sights Iāve had to endure these last few years has been the sight of a vainglorious James Rubin, of Madeleine Albright fame, prancing about the hot spots of these multicultural havens for the rich and infamous.Ā Rubin is married to Christiane Amanpour, the...
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,...
California Crash
āHa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-a, wipeout.ā āThe Surfaris Maybe we just had it too great out here in California.Ā Perfect weather.Ā World-class universities.Ā High-paying middle-class jobs.Ā Reasonably priced housing.Ā Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.Ā The Beach Boys.Ā California girls.Ā Hollywood.Ā Disneyland. Now the state is crumbling fast into the ocean.Ā Still canāt beat the weatherāuntil unemployment forces you to move to...
The Managerial Mob
“Michael, we’re bigger than U.S. Steel,” boasts gangland mastermind Hyman Roth to his (quite temporary) partner, Michael Corleone, in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, Part II. Hyman, however, was not the first to say it, and those familiar with the life history and achievements of the gentleman on whom Roth’s character is obviously based, the...
Is Trump Right About NATO?
I am “not isolationist, but I am ‘America First,'” Donald Trump told the New York Times last weekend. “I like the expression.” Of NATO, where the U.S. underwrites three-fourths of the cost of defending Europe, Trump calls this arrangement “unfair, economically, to us,” and adds, “We will not be ripped off anymore.” Beltway media may...
Eviscerating the Heartland
Gore Vidal; Duluth; Random House; New York. Gore Vidal has spawned another repulsive novel. Having experimented with historical travesty (Burr, Julian, 1876) and fag chic (Myra Breckinridge), Vidal has turned his fictional abilities to the world of soap operas and drugstore gothic novels. He has not risen above his material. Even the publishers do not...
Duty
Two years ago, in one of the history seminars I offer to homeschoolers, I remarked on Robert E. Leeās convictions regarding duty.Ā We had just finished reviewing his lifeāhis youth spent as acting head of his small household, his years at West Point both as a cadet and as superintendent, his heroism in the war...
What the Editors Are Reading
I discovered only by accident a week ago a little book called Liberalism, by the English philosopher John Gray, published originally in 1986 and in its second edition in 1995.Ā For many reasons, I wish Iād known of it earlier, as Iām finding it useful in my continuing pursuit of liberalismāand of the nastier and...
First Hearings
Some years ago a fellow told me that I should put my money in CDs, and I did, to my regret in one sense.Ā I thought he meant Compact Discs.Ā Silly me!Ā But maybe not altogether.Ā Since those days, things have changed, but even so, some things never change. I mean that acquisitions have a...
Neo-McCainism: The Highest Stage of Neoconservatism?
It is difficult to imagine, but there was a time when pundits in Washington were tagging John McCain as the ultimate unneoconservative Republican figure whose nationalist yet pragmatic approach to foreign policy was being viewed with suspicion by your average global democratic crusaderānot to mention the members of what Pat Buchanan described as Israelās Amen...