Attempts to āqueer Americaāāto replace the normal with an unprecedented decadenceāare purposely directed at the abolition of the family and its replacement with totalitarian government.
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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...
Historical Portraiture
Or the many reasons for reading about the past, perhaps the most natural and common one is curiosity and the love of a good story. Although it probably is the least philosophical approach, there always will be a place for the sliceĀof-life history because a well-written depiction of life in an ancient polis, a single...
Trumpās Unsteady Performance
President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency to fund the wall along the nationās southern border. Speaking in the Rose Garden, Trump said there was an emergency at the border which could only be fixed by building a wall. House speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer had said before Trumpās address...
Is Trump Entering a Kill Box?
Given the bravery he showed in stepping out front as the first senator to endorse Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions deserves better from his boss than the Twitter-trashing he has lately received. The attorney general has not only been loyal to Trump and his agenda, he has the respect and affection of ex-colleagues in Congress and,...
Shameless Defenses
Congratulations to Taki for achieving what seemed to be impossible: transforming the effete, amoral boob FDR into a sympathetic figure (āLittle Yellow Bastards,ā Under the Black Flag, April).Ā Takiās celebration of early-to-mid-20th-century Japanese military traditions and the heroic unshackling of Japanās economy from those nefarious usurers was understandable.Ā His failure to mention other significant activities...
Tyranny in Our Time
There is a saying among jurists that hard cases make bad law.Ā Similarly, every book critic knows that the best books make for hard reviewing.Ā Faced with a truly fine work, the reviewer is tempted simply to reproduce the authorās thesis in abbreviation, while scattering as many of the most quotable sentences as space allows.Ā ...
To Secede or Succeed?
Over a decade ago, Don Livingston organized a Liberty Fund Colloquium in Charleston, South Carolina.Ā One of the sessions examined whether any movement toward political decentralization was possible without at least the threat of secession to back it up. On that subject, most of the attendees agreed: Whether one regards secession as good in itself,...
Cut-Flower Moralists
“Tell me, can you find indeed Nothing sure, no moral plan Clear prescribed, without your creed?” āMatthew Arnold Awaiting trial for a murder he did not commit, Dmitri Karamazov is visited in jail in the closing pages of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov by the progressive intellectual Rakitin. Rakitin tries to explain why modern ethics no...
Daytonās Holy Family
āIf youāve got a businessāyou didnāt build that,ā President Obama declared in 2012.Ā But chances are you bought that, especially if you are a Midwestern entrepreneur and the product is Renaissance art.Ā The coastal stereotype of the Midwest as a cultural backwater is dispelled by museums in industrial towns like Detroit, Toledo, and Dayton.Ā Here,...
How I exposed corruption
One of the advantages of living is that, as some of those around you pass on, you get to tell funny stories about them ā stories they wouldnāt necessarily have wanted told when still alive, vain, and touchy. The down side is that telling such stories rebounds on the storyteller. For instance, when, a couple...
Muslim Pressure and Christian Appeasement
From time to time I go to Oxford, the city of dreaming spires, the home of what Gladstone called āthe God-fearing and God-sustaining University of Oxford.āĀ For Catholics it is revered as the home of Cardinal Newman, that most human and subtle of converts, and for Protestants it is the place of the Martyrs Memorial...
How a Stint With COVID Changed My Perspective
I was stricken with COVID last month. You probably expect me to now explain how awful it was, how I laid around in bed, suffering in agony, and was nearly carted off to the hospital. But that would be a lie. The real story? I had some congestion, did lots of sneezing, and was quite...
The Communitarian Warlord
Remember communitarianism?Ā It was one of those embarrassing fads of the 1990ās, like Furbies, Beanie Babies, and the āThird Way,ā a socio-moral movement that was meant to signify all things warm and cuddly.Ā As articulated in his 1993 book, The Spirit of Community: Rights, Responsibilities and the Communitarian Agenda (1993), and in two sequels, communitarian...
Waiting for Greatness
According to John OāSullivanās version of recent history, in the fullness of time, three great conservative leadersāRonald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and Margaret Thatcherācame unexpectedly to occupy positions of power, to shatter post-World War II orthodoxies, to facilitate the collapse of the Soviet empire, and to make the overall revival of their institutions and...
Whose Man in Haiti?
Whose man is in Haiti? He was 40ish, of medium height, powerfully built on the way to being stout, and with an obvious gift of speechāhe overrode his listeners, particularly since they were in their early and late 20’s. He was Leslie Manigat, the place was Caracas, and I was a guest lecturer and full-time...
Who Got Us Into These Endless Wars?
“Isolationists must not prevail in this new debate over foreign policy,” warns Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. “The consequences of a lasting American retreat from the world would be dire.” To make his case against the “Isolationist Temptation,” Haass creates a caricature, a cartoon, of America First patriots, then thunders that...
Mar-a-Lago Thuggery
In ordering the unprecedented FBI raid of a former president's private residence, the Biden administration is playing with fire ... and driving Trump toward the 2024 White House.
On and On With the Way We Are Now
When it comes to be once understood that politics is a game; that those who are engaged in it but act a part; that they make this or that profession, not from honest conviction or intent to fulfill it, but as the means of deluding the people, and through that delusion to acquire powerĀ ....
FranƧois Mitterrand: Metternich or Gladstone?
Two troublesome problems have, from time immemorial, bedeviled political regimes of every sort, from the most autocratic despotisms to the most wildly permissive of democracies. The first is the problem of advancing age and the kind of rigor mentis that is apt to afflict rulers during the final years of their “reigns.” The second, closely...
Macedonia unrest: āWarning to Skopje against new Turkish pipelineā
Srdja Trifkovicās latest RT interview The Republic of Macedonia has become important to the U.S. policymakers in recent months, as it could be the only way for Russiaās proposed Turkish Stream pipeline to reach Central Europe. Washington does not want that to happen, as Srdja Trifkovic told RT in the latest live interview, and this...
Might Have Been
President George W. Bush addresses the American people on September 13, 2001 My fellow Americans, As the whole world is now aware, we have suffered the most devastating attack on civilians to take place on our soil since General Sherman destroyed Atlanta and Columbia in the later stages of the War Between ...
Liar’s War
Ā John Kerry has pinned his case for killing Syrian civilians on an op ed in the Wall Street Journal, written by “Dr. Elizabeth O’Bagy,” a 20-something researcher who turns out to be a propagandist for the Syrian opposition without the sacred Ph.D from Georgetown that got her a job at a propaganda mill masquerading...
The Machinery of Equality
Christians objecting to assisting with homosexual āmarriageā ceremonies continue to suffer defeat in various state courts.Ā The most recent example comes out of New York, where a Christian couple declined to host a homosexual wedding and reception at their farm.Ā The Christians were declared guilty of unlawful discrimination. New York boasts that it āhas the...
Union Without Unity
Break It Up;Ā by Richard Kreitner;Ā Little, Brown and Company;Ā 497 pp., $30.00 Stamped on the United StatesāĀ three-dollar Continental bill in 1783 was the phrase, āThe Outcome Is in Doubt.ā A more appropriate phrase for our own time could hardly be found. It also serves as the subtext of journalist Richard Kreitnerās fascinating new book, which chronicles the...
Letting the Catholic Out of the Baggins
āPoetry requires not an examining but a believing frame of mind.ā Ā āT.B. MacaulayĀ In the United Kingdom, back in 1997, Tolkienās The Lord of the Rings was voted āthe greatest book of the twentieth centuryā in several major polls, emerging as a runaway winner ahead of its nearest rival, Orwellās 1984.Ā Tolkien was also voted...
A Tale of Two Islamists
Two waves of popular protests against Islamist regimes, one in Turkey and the other in Egypt, have produced notably different outcomes.Ā Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has weathered the storm, while President Mohamed Morsi was removed from office by the military.Ā In view of the similarities between Erdoganās AKP (Justice and Development Party) and Morsiās...
The Miracle Program
I wrote recently about the silly contemporary myth that portrays Christianity as implacably opposed to science and progress.Ā The legend is thoroughly disproved by an abundance of counterexamples, but some of the available correctives are so powerfully convincing that they startle, and it is odd that Christian apologists have not used them more freely against...
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...
Democracy’s Dictionary (With Apologies to Ambrose Bierce)
Ā Democracy: A sacred form of government invented by Abraham Lincoln in the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address.Ā John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. also helped greatly in the invention of democracy. Democratic Elections: When the rulers permit the voters to keep on voting until they get it right. Ā Elder...
Church +/- State (Part 1)
In writingĀ The Naked Public Square,Ā Richard John Neuhaus, a Lutheran pastor, was undoubtedly conscious of Lutheranism’s potentially central role in mediating the religious-moral battles now so conspicuous on the American scene. Liturgical and dogmatic, yet firmly evangelical, mainstream in some of its American manifestations and quasi-sectarian in others, running the gamut from the most sophisticated theology...
Trump: The Globalist Nightmare That Fizzled
During the 2016 presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump spoke and acted like every coastal globalistās nightmare. Criticizing the European UnionĀ as Americaās devious competitor, Trump calledĀ both the World Trade Organization and NAFTA ādisasters.āĀ NATO was obsolete, he said,Ā Crimea was none of our business, and better relations were neededĀ between Washington and Moscow.Ā Advising Obama to stay out of Syria,...
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...
Books in Brief
Lusitania: The Cultural History of a Catastrophe, by Willi Jasper, translated by Stewart Spencer (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; 233 pp., $30.00).Ā Readers wanting a detailed narrative history of the torpedoing and sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 on the order of Walter Lordās A Night to Remember about the loss of the Titanic...
As We Go Marching
“Let no one believe that children a hundred years from now in the future of America will not be sick for what our fools and unconscious criminals are doing today.” āRobinson Jeffers Who has not heard David McCullough pontificate on the “greatness” of Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and now John Adams, or watched James McPherson...
Crime and Moonshine
The jurors who tried the 14-year-old black boy who shot and killed three widows last year, one of them my own dear neighbor, found him guilty and gave him several life terms. By law, he got the maximum. He is too young for the death penalty. It is beyond me. If you are old enough...
What the Editors Are Reading
About 20 years ago the late George Garrett, a professor of English and writing at the University of Virginia and a contributing editor to this magazine, told me an anecdote meant to illustrate the intellectual and social naivetĆ© of students at one of the most prestigious schools in the country.Ā After George requested his sophomore...
When the Wolves Get Religion
Letter From Turkey The city of Istanbul reflects Turkeyās transformation over the past decade. Almost eight years after my previous visit I am greeted by an impressive new international terminal at the AtatĆ¼rk International AirportāEuropeās seventh busiestāand by the massive office towers and apartment complexes surrounding it. According to ...
Shooting Elephants With Our Man in Baghdad
A college professor who is planning to teach a course on imperialism contacted me recently, asking for my recommendations for the courseās reading list.Ā If I had only one item to suggest for his class on empire and its discontents, it would not be an essay in history, political science, or economics.Ā Instead, I would...
Our Dearest Frienemy
It is the rise of people-power all over the Muslim world, and Iāve got news for you.Ā The peopleāor the street, as itās called in places like Cairo, Manama, Sana, and Ammanāare united by two things only: A loathing for the autocratic crooks who have been keeping them poor and lording it over them since...
This Dog Won’t Hunt
Judge Roy Moore of Etowah County, Alabama, was sued by the ACLU and something called the Alabama Freethought Association (Unitarian-Universalists, I believe they are) back in 1995 for displaying the Ten Commandments on his courtroom wall and for beginning each session with a prayer by a Christian clergyman. Over the past year, the affair has...
Role Models and Poetry
Societies, as much as individuals, need role models. For good and for ill, our cultural tradition has been influenced by the figures of Achilles and Odysseus, placed at the center of our moral imagination by Homer almost three millennia ago. The shaping power of the tradition is clearest where there has been no direct influence,...
In Clear Violation
The publication of a special āStop Trumpā issue of National Review was heralded in a blaze of publicity. Editor Rich Lowry appeared on Fox News and was interviewed by Trump nemesis Megyn Kelly, where he proceeded to denounce The Donald as a threat to the intellectual integrity of the conservative movement. A āsymposiumā of anti-Trump...
The Coming Bin Laden Conspiracy Theory
Ā The killing of OBL is a significant event politically and psychologically. It will not have any detrimental impact on the operations of Al-Qaāeda, however, because that amorphous group does not need a leader and has not had a centralized command-and-control structure for a decade. We should not expect a single retaliatory terrorist assault by...
RUOK? AWHFY?
IĀ do not live in a painting by Magritte or by De Chirico or even by Carmen Ciceroāno, really, I donāt, honest, scoutās honor, no kiddingābut sometimes I get the creepy sensation that I do.Ā That sinking feeling is an identifiable vertigo not caused by imposing stimuli, such as intimidating heights, but by lesser, humdrum disconnects,...
Mississippi Musing
Back in February, a USA Today story on black historical sites mentioned a “Black Confederate Memorial” in Canton, Mississippi, a “20-foot obelisk . . . built in 1894 to honor Harvey’s Scouts, one of the black units that operated behind Union lines to harass supply shipments.” As it happened, I read that story while spending...
Is Trump Enlisting in the War Party?
By firing off five dozen Tomahawk missiles at a military airfield, our “America First” president may have plunged us into another Middle East war that his countrymen do not want to fight. Thus far Bashar Assad seems unintimidated. Brushing off the strikes, he has defiantly gone back to bombing the rebels from the same Shayrat...
Butch OāHare
For years I taught a course on the history of World War II.Ā I liked to ask the students if any of them had ever flown into Chicagoās OāHare International Airport.Ā Invariably, one or more in each class had.Ā This was not surprising, because for the last 40 or 50 years OāHare has been the...
Inheriting a Deficit
Neoconservative Republican Governor John Engler of Michigan inherited a $1.1 billion budget deficit from his predecessor, moderate Democrat James Blanchard, when he took office last January 1, 1991. Engler eked out a narrow 17,595-vote victory over Blanchard by promising relief from Michigan’s burdensome property tax structure, fourth highest in the United States, to Reagan Democrats...
Crazy Russian No More
A quarter of a century ago, when I started writing for this magazine, I was the Russian.Ā Along with the sense of exclusivity it afforded, that simple tag gave its owner a clear run through the 1980ās and 90ās on both sides of the Atlantic.Ā I was the only Russian in any crowd, whether as...