George W. Bush must have been the despair of the history department of every school his daddy managed to get him into. Consider his latest excursion into the history of the republic, at Southern Methodist, where the Great Man's papers are to be housed. What's interesting about our country, if you ...
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Shadow of a Shade
The cover of this book describes the late Joseph Sobran as āone of the greatest essayists of the twentieth centuryā and notes that he has often been compared with G.K. Chesterton and H.L. Mencken.Ā As a lifelong admirer of Mencken and his work, I must say that I find the comparison an unfair oneāunfair to...
The Madness of Art
“In relation to Gauguin, Van Gogh and Rimbaud, I have a distinct inferiority complex because they managed to destroy themselves. . . . I am more and more convinced that, in order to achieve authenticity, something has to snap.” āSartre In “Resolution and Independence,” Wordsworth lamented that “We Poets in our youth begin in gladness,...
A Hellenic Haircut
Ā There will be no Greek defaultānot for months to come at least, as weĀ predicted here two weeks ago. The private banks that had splashed out on ostensibly lucrative Greek bonds will have to accept a āhaircutā of fifty percent of their nominal value, according to an agreement reached early Thursday morning after days of...
Slaviansk in Flames
Fairness does not exist and it is no use looking for it. The world got into the habit of taking the wrong side. That was how Christian Serbia was torn apart and Albanian criminals turned Kosovo – holy for every Serb – into a different state, a drug lord state, a human organ trafficking state,...
Transplanted Texan
Our literary establishment seems designed to ensure that a writerās first novel is his best. Norman Mailer, James Jones, William Styron and J.D. Salinger are only a few of the better-known novelists whose first work defined the acme of their creative careers. (In the case of John Barth, the second novel, The End of the...
Chauvin, Houston, and Strange Racial Justice
āJusticeā in America today is an arrangement where the living and dead are judged to be guilty or innocent on the basis of race.
Obamianity 101
An understanding of sin is central to our embrace of Christianity and the saving work of Jesus Christ.Ā Scripture clearly teaches that āthe wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lordā (Romans 6:23).Ā Thus, knowing what sin is and repenting of it are essentials to...
Human Comedy
American playwrights handle comedy better than tragedy, at least if this year’s Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville is any gauge. Richard Strand’s farce of corporate ladderclimbing, The Death of Zukavsky, and Jane Martin’s broad comedy about lady wrestlers, Cementville, were the two high points of the festival, and even...
The Ron Paul Story
Ā The most interesting Ron Paul Story these days is the Ron Paul Story. Ā What? Ā It’s like this. Ā I well understand why so many disgruntled and disgusted Republicans are turning in despair to a man who probably cannot get the nomination, much less win in a general election. Ā Paul’s supporters have come, however dimly, to...
Time for a Conservative Reformation
The fate of conservatism is thought to be hanging in the balance these days, and with it, perhaps, the fate of the country, of a political party, of presidential candidates, of a movement. Well, good.Ā Now is the time for reevaluation or, dare I say it, reformation. āConservatism isnāt just passivity,ā wrote Joseph Sobran in...
Clandestine Groups
Terrorism in France has usually comeāin recent yearsāfrom clandestine Muslim groups engaged in a perpetual jihad against the West. But recent attacks attributed to Corsican separatists provide another example of a violent nationalism rearing its head at precisely the time when Europe’s policy elite is proclaiming a new era of unity and cooperation. The immediate...
A Loyal Life
A remark I recently overheard on FOX News captured a key difference between Sir Alfred Sherman, whose assessment of the Thatcher years I now have in my hand, and those minicons who float on and off of FOX.Ā Commenting on the visit of Prince Charles to the United States, one of the news interpreters began...
In the Name of ‘Democracy’
The American Revolution made democracy the preferred government for the modern age. The only trouble with American democracy is the constant redefinition of the word.
Now He Knows the Rest of the Story
āHello, Americans.Ā This is Paul Harvey.Ā Stand by for . . . news!ā His voice was arguably the most recognized in the history of radio.Ā His broadcasting career lasted over three quarters of a century, from his days as a high-school intern at KVOO in his native Tulsa, Oklahoma, until 2009.Ā Yet few of the...
Boston and the Big Lie
I write this during the weekend that finally saw the end of those two dreadful Chechens who were described by many newspapersāstarting with the New York Times, of courseāas typical American teenagers.Ā Some Americans, is all that comes to mind.Ā Why is it that after every outrage family members and friends of the perpetrators are...
‘Something Like a Final Ordering’
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...
Myra Cunningham
I donāt know how Myra Cunningham came into our lives.Ā Perhaps my mother met her at the USO canteen, where women, married and single, volunteered to serve coffee and cookies to soldiers, talk to them, play bridge with them, and help them with letters back home.Ā Myra was a compact little woman with blonde hair...
Theyāre Back
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Produced and distributed by Warner BrothersĀ Directed by Jonathan Mostow Screenplay by John Brancato, Michael Ferris, and Tedi Sarafian The Hulk Produced and distributed by Universal Pictures Directed by Ang Lee Screenplay by John Turman, Michael France, and James Schamus Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black...
Bucking the Tide of Progress
Sen. Jesse Helms’ announcement in August of his retirement at the end of his current term was an opportunity for vituperation on the part of the left-wing media that has so detested the North Carolina conservative throughout his entire 30-year political career. “It is alway’s tempting,” moaned the New York Times lead editorial the day...
Healthcare Reformer
The empire was beset by foreign invaders and war in the Middle East. Far-flung wars meant more taxes for the provinces and an increase in poverty. Some men had to choose between feeding their families and paying for medical care. Some couldnāt afford either. In the large urban ...
A Latin American Game Plan for Donald Trump
According to an article in Forbes (November 16, 2016), āMexico aside, [Latin America] barely featured at all in the presidential campaign. This overall situation will largely remain the same under the Trump administration.ā The first sentence is a truism (when has Latin America, as such, ever “featured” in a U.S. presidential election?), and the second...
Hoisting Critical Race Theory With its Own Petard
How can we drive a stake through the heart of Critical Race Theory (CRT)? Ultimately, this will require a long march to restore sanity to thousands of elected school boards, and the firing of countless misguided ideologues. But what about the short run? How can we prevent this poison from damaging an entire generation? Forget...
Cancel Culture and the Golden Age of Musical Theater
My mom loved listening to Broadway musicals and particularly favoredĀ South Pacific. By the time I left for college, she had played that record so often I had memorized most of the songs and can still belt them out. I also saw the movie with herāIām generally not a fan of musicals on film, and this...
The Ulema and I
On the flight to Bombayāwhich a British single mother with an addiction to horse tranquilizers, or a benefits administrator dispensing them, would call MumbaiāI came across a Times of India news report entitled ā6,000 Ulema back fatwa on Terror.āĀ I recalled that the first time I heard the word fatwa was in connection with Salman...
The Misguided System Without Historical Precedent
The Wall Street Journalās editorial page has pushed neoconservative party lines on foreign policy for decades; the last time I read a dissenting view on that subject in the Journal was when I wrote an editorial for it in 1989. Although my caustic remarks on a global democratic foreign policy were published on the editorial...
The First New Deal
AĀ calm image of businessmen and clerks engaged in the buying and selling of cotton on the New Orleans Cotton Exchange is not what you expect to find on the dust jackets of books about the Civil War.Ā The Edgar Degas painting that graces the cover of Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation, however, tells the reader that...
Immigrant Invasion: Der Untergang des Abendlandes
Over 8,000 migrants entered Serbia on November 11 on their way from the Middle East to Western Europe. The item went unreported by the major media because it was not newsworthy. Daily totals may vary, not much, as the Great Invasion of 2015 continues unabated. Millions are on the move, with unknown further multitudes tempted...
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 ...
Crimeās Black Adhesive
Sterling Hayden was as an actor and soldier, he had the resolution to make his participaĀtion in his films and his career more than well-earned.
Going Home
The taxi ride to Manhattan after the first shuttle flight of the day from Washington puzzled me. Why did scenes that should have been familiar from 30-odd years before seem so new and strange? I was the Brooklynite who had grown up on the buses (and before them the trolleys) and the subways of the...
The Multicultural Lie
Rockford, Illinois, the home of The Rockford Institute and Chronicles, was established in a series of migratory ripples: first Yankees, then Scots, then Swedes. A later wave of immigration brought many Italians, both from Sicily and Northern Italy. Today, German-Americans are the largest ethnic group in Rockford, as they are in the United States as...
A Judicial Putsch
During oral argument on the cases challenging the definition of marriage upheld by the voters in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, Justice Anthony Kennedy remarked, āI donāt know how to count the decimals when he talk about millennia. The definition [of marriage] has been with us for millennia. And itās very difficult for the court...
Who Are You? The Law of Status
What do veterans, drug users, children, and suspected terrorists have in common?Ā They all have specialized courts to deal with them and their legal issues.Ā Illinois has become the latest state to set up a special āveteransā courtā to handle veterans charged with nonviolent crimes.Ā (New York has had a similar program in place since...
On the AIDS Cover-up
In his discussion of Bill Clintonās āmini-General Assemblyā (Cultural Revolutions, November 2005), Dr. Srdja Trifkovic claims that Thabo Mbekiās assertionāthat such ātraditional attitudesā of African men as violence against women and promiscuity do not play a significant role in spreading the diseaseāis highly controversial.Ā Actually, Mbekiās assertion is justified.Ā Dr. Trifkovic should read āThe Chemical...
Obama v. BibiāFight to the Finish
In his desperation to sink the Iran nuclear deal, Bibi Netanyahu is taking a hellish gamble. Israel depends upon the United States for $3 billion a year in military aid and diplomatic cover in forums where she is often treated like a pariah state. Israel has also been the beneficiary of almost all the U.S....
A Presidential Pardon
The Presidential Pardon of Marc Rich, the Belgian-born, naturalized American billionaire financier and fugitive who has renounced his U.S. citizenship and fled to Switzerland to avoid multi-million-dollar tax liability, evoked incredulous responses from many. Said New York’s Mayor Rudy Guiliani, “When I first heard about it, myā my reaction was, quite honestly, no. No. It’s...
Whose Atrocities?
The Last Samurai is the latest movie to treat us to the spectacle of the U.S. Army slaughtering American Indian women and children.Ā Playing a disillusioned captain, Tom Cruise suffers from nightmares for his role in the dastardly deed.Ā He finds honor and redemption as a Great White Samurai in Japan.Ā Many movie reviewers have...
The Novel of Ideas
“Death must be distinguished from dying, with which it is often confused. “ āRev. Sydney Smith The rarest entity in American writing is the novelist with ideasāthat is to say, one who is capable of writing the ideological novel. Of course, the term is enough to put a chill on what is in fact the...
The Seven-League Crutches
Sideswiped by a car, Randall Jarrell died 34 years ago at the age of 51. That he has remained a presence as a writer and even as a man is vividly testified to by these books, which bring back a lot of memories, and different kinds of memories. Randall Jarrell was a force, even a...
Denouncing ‘Imperial Congress’
“Imperial Congress”āmany in the conservative movement are denouncing it these days. From all over the right, we hear worries about slipping presidential prerogatives, or denunciations of Congress’s “meddling” in foreign policy. But I would argue that it is the Imperial Presidency that threatens our freedom. Too often. Congress simply lays down in front of the...
Closer Cooperation
Slovakia’s presidential race was not big news in May, as the world’s attention was focused on NATO’s destruction of a small Slavic country to the south. The predictable first-round results pitted the controversial former leader of the fledgling democracy, Vladimir Meciar, against the ex-communist mayor of Kosice, Rudolf Schuster. Throughout his stormy career, Meciar, who...
But, thou Bethlehem . . . āDecember 2004
PERSPECTIVE The Plight of the Homelessby Thomas Fleming Life in the Unreal City. VIEWS Finding Edenby Hugh Barbour, O.Praem.The paradise of fools and its King. At Home in the Cosmosby John Francis NietoDante versus the modern imagination. NEWS Taxation for Economic Survivalby David A. HartmanThe Business Transfer Tax. FICTION The Wand of Youthby Anthony BukoskiA...
Semi-Safe for Buisness
Aleksandr Lebed, governor of the vast Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia, shrugged off rumors circulating in late September that an ailing Boris Yeltsin would appoint the populist “combat general” as premier and then resign, leaving Lebed as acting president. The Krasnoyarsk governor claimed that the time may come when he will be “needed” to “clean up”...
The Post-Christian Moral Order
Wokeness isnāt Marxism. Itās the new moral order for the managerial State.
Homosexuality, In the Cards
Homosexuality is either genetically or environmentally determined.Ā Environmental influences are either intrauterine or postnatal.Ā Behold the universe of possibilities! Sexual orientation probably results from the interaction of environment and genetic predisposition, but science, so far, explains only a little.Ā Voluntarily choosing homosexuality cannot be discounted, although the more deeply embedded in genetics or early experience...
Tar and Feathering the South
Demonization as a political and social stratagem knows no temporal or geographical bounds; it is a ploy as old as civilization itself. The objective of the game is to dehumanize an opponent (an individual or a group) in order to gain public support for his marginalization or destruction. Modern America abounds with examples of the...
The Media Strive to Control Us Completely
Decades before the electronic media giants rose to their dizzying heights of power and began canceling those whom they decided to bully, a man named Leopold Tyrmand, the future founder ofĀ ChroniclesĀ magazine, exposed the false self-image of the media as they claimed to defend our freedoms, when they were really aiming for absolute social control. Today,...
Calvinism and Culture
Historian Christopher Dawson writes that “It is clear that a common way of life involves a common view of life, common standards of behavior, and common standards of value, and consequently a culture is a spiritual community which owes its unity to common beliefs and common ways of thought far more than to any unanimity...
Aliens and Knaves
District 9 Produced by Key Creatives and WingNut Films Directed and written by Neill Blomkamp Distributed by Sony Pictures Ā Forty-five years ago, radio humorist Jean Shepherd wondered why filmmakers invariably portrayed alien invaders as intellectually light years ahead of human beings.Ā Wasnāt it possible, he mused, that extraterrestrials might be a tad slow on...