Ā Well, it sure didn’t take long for the Tucson Truce to collapse. After Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot on Jan. 8 by a berserker who killed six others, including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl, and wounded 13, the media were aflame with charges the right had created the climate of hate in...
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Solomons and Caesars
Karen Finley is a “performance artist.” Her performances are succinctly described by Judge Robert Bork in his new book Slouching Towards Gomorrah: “Before an audience, [Finley] would strip to the waist, smear her body with chocolate (to represent excrement) and sprouts (sperm), and wail about what men have done to women.” According to a recent...
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...
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...
Discrimination and Prejudice
Some of the confusion in thinking about matters of race stems from the ambiguity in the terms that we use. I am going to take a stab at suggesting operational definitions for a couple terms in our discussion of race. Good analytical thinking requires that we do not confuse one behavioral phenomenon with another.Ā Ā ...
Bullseye!
Ā [The Hunger GamesĀ ?Ā Produced and distributed by Lionsgate ?Ā Directed by Gary Ross ?Ā Written by Suzanne Collins and Gary Ross] Suzanne CollinsāĀ The Hunger GamesĀ is the first volume of a trilogy set in a not-too-distant future.Ā An unspecified apocalyptic event has destroyed much of North America, and a new state named Panem has arisen to replace the...
I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Help
Leo Widicker farms outside Bowdon, North Dakota. Last winter, Widicker had a quarter sectionā160 acresāthat was badly wind-eroded from several dry summers and snowless winters during which there was no ground cover. Much of the topsoil had blown into a highway ditch. In May, a hopeful Widicker planted that quarter section in wheat. A crew...
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...
How Scooter Skated
Why did Bush do it? Why did he suddenly barge into the legal process and erase the entire 30-month sentence of Scooter Libby? For, from his own statement, Bush found the act deeply distasteful. In that statement, Bush calls Libbyās crimes āserious convictions of perjury and obstruction of justice.ā He praises Patrick Fitzgerald as āa...
Toughening Your Position
South Africa’s March 17 referendum led the government to toughen its position against the ANC. Within a month after the results, Mr. de Klerk got the ANC at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) to agree to the election of a transitional; government, the interim government the ANC had wanted appointed. The ANC...
The Lessons of Leicester
Until recently, the English city of Leicester was definitely not the sort of place that attracted tourists.Ā It was a generic English town, neither a beneficiary of a high-tech boom, nor (especially) a victim of industrial collapse.Ā Its sense of Midland stolidity was reflected in the cityās motto: Semper Eadem, always the same. Over the...
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.
The “Contragate” Hearings
The “Contragate” hearings have been a poor substitute for daytime soap operas and do not begin to match the thrills of Watergate. Perhaps it is because we have heard them before: arrogantly inarticulate congressmen scoring points off frightened bureaucrats, an administration that turns to private contractors to carry on apparently illegal activities, and an imperialist...
Trends to Come
The American Academy of Religion should change its name to the American Unacademy of Ethno-Religio-Secular Fashions, if its call for papers for its annual meeting in Washington this autumn is any indication of trends to come. None of the classics, at least of Judaism, is going to find a place on the program. The section...
The Way We Are
Itās amazing how many crises you can live through unscathed if you just donāt follow the news. We all develop silly pointless habits from time to time.Ā Some chew gum.Ā Some collect string.Ā Some vote and write their Congressman. I donāt think voting is actually sinful.Ā It is more a state of cluelessness, like chewing...
The Devil’s Collectives
The Devil All the Time Directed by Antonio Campos ā Written by Paulo Campos ā Produced by Nine Stories Productions and Bronx Moving Co. ā Distributed by Netflix 1BR Directed and written by David Marmor ā Produced by Malevolent Films ā Distributed by Dark Sky Films Ā The Prowler (1951) Directed by Joseph Losey ā...
The Canonization of John Lewis
The extravagant tributes conferred by the conservative establishment on the onetime civil rights leader and longtime Atlanta Democratic congressman John Lewis are as ineffectual as they are utterly tasteless. Lewisās moments of fame came when he accompanied Martin Luther King, Jr., on his March on Washington in 1963,Ā demonstrating for what became the Voting Rights Act....
The Socialist Surge That’s Not Coming
One of the really cool things about democracy is that voters tend to get what they wantāwhich, um, can also turn out to be one of the really uncool things about democracy. A thing of real terror, if you want the truth. I tiptoe past the presidential election of 2016 on my way to look...
The Seventh World Council of Churches
The World Council of Churches convened its Seventh Assembly at Canberra, Australia, early in February 1991, just in time to pronounce a verdict on the Persian Gulf War. The W.C.C. opposed the war on two grounds: that all war is wrong, and that it is not permissible to fight war to right an injustice unless...
Society Gone Goofy
Los Angeles was bopped by debris crumbling loose from twenty-five years of a Great Society gone goofy, or so believe the callers from all over America with whom I talk for three hours on weekday afternoons. These talk-show callers are angry, frightened, and baffled. They’re angry at pictures of rabble marching on Korean grocers like...
The Past Is Always Prologue
Rodric Braithwaite is a former British ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yeltsinās Russia and a specialist in Russian history.Ā Utilizing his extensive personal contacts with Afghan War veterans (known as afgantsy in Russian) and his fluency in the Russian language, Braithwaite has written an account of the Sovietsā involvement in Afghanistan that is detailed,...
Eternity Gained
In his new novel Wendell Berry returns to the time and the characters found in his earlier and more complex work, A Place on Earth. The atmosphere is familiar: a community subtly unsettled by the distant events of World War II; families still rooted in place through bonds to the land and to each other;...
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...
Mighty Seer, in Days of Old
Itās near the end of October, and the air is crisp and cool.Ā The wind blows hard here on the prairie, the thermometer failing to reflect the chill you feel on your skin and in your bones.Ā A smattering of pinks, reds, and oranges coat the white-cored, cottony fingers floating against the pale-blue morning sky.Ā ...
Our European Cousins
“All great peoples are conservative . . . “ āThomas Carlyle What does it mean to be “rightwing”? Since the term and its companion “left-wing” first appeared in the wake of the French Revolution to describe, respectively, those who opposed and those who supported the revolutionary agenda and legacy, one plausible meaning of “right-wing” is...
State’s Wrongs
Chilton Williamson, Jr.ās column āPragmatic Destructionā (Whatās Wrong With the World, December 2011) attacks American democracy with a vengeance.Ā He seems to be bothered by the fact that Southern blacks were āfreedā (his quotation marks) by civil-rights laws through the negation of āstatesā rightsā (my quotation marks).Ā I donāt see how restricting a certain class...
Cracks in the Crystal Ball
As the 21st century began, Americans appeared to have every reason to consider themselves the most fortunate citizens in the world.Ā Though there are problems in virtually every sector of our society, resolutions are still within our reach and capabilities. Although the abundant nonrenewable natural resources our forebears found for the taking have largely been...
For Whom the Bell Tolls
For the Blue Dogs, Tuesday was a fire bell in the night. Virginia Republicans led by Robert McDonnell crushed the most conservative Democrat nominee in decades, rolling up a victory that rivaled Ronald Reaganās rout of Walter Mondale. New Jersey GOP nominee Chris Christie, whose campaign had been the despair of its backers, won a...
The War for America
In many ways the American Revolution was unavoidable. Given the struggle to control the resources and riches of these British colonies, armed conflict was an eventuality that could have been foreseen with a little imagination. Britainās North American colonies offered riches too extensive and necessary to the growth of empire. The House of Hanover had...
The Civil War & Hollywood
The Civil War and Hollywood have been a pair ever since Ken Burnsābecause of potential profits, of course. But most of these recent pictures, with their emphasis on marketing rather than script or acting, have had more in common with Nintendo than any real war. For the pittance of $500,000, independent filmmaker Robby Henson has...
Race and the Elections
In a year of blatant political lies (and what presidential election year isnāt?) the calumny against Donald Trump that he is a fomenter of racial divisiveness may be the most unconscionable.Ā The Republican candidate has never said that all Mexicans are rapists and criminals of various sorts, only that some illegal immigrants from Mexico areāa...
āThe Public be Damnedā
You there! Congressman! Come out from behind that tree! The speaker of the House has wonderful plans for you, involving the very sharp sword she says youāre going to fall on for the greater glory of . . . whatever. Wondrous to behold are the leadership instincts of a Democratic establishment conflicted when it comes...
The Alphaville Dictionary III
Ponzioās iconic diner (in South Jersey) is turning 50; designer Milton Glaser is creating an iconic environmental logo for his line of eye ware; steel and Dominoās sugar are iconic industries; Smokey Bear is an iconic symbol of wildfire prevention; and Roberts Shoe storeāan iconic Chicago institutionāis closing its doors. These are just a few...
A miracle of science
Beware fields of endeavor with the surname āscienceā tacked on to their names. Astronomy, for instance, has done very well for itself without being called āastronomic science,ā as have mathematics, chemistry, zoology. Even philosophy and psychology ā and yes, even that bastion of grasping mountebanks, sociology ā have managed to get along fine with just...
Study: Student Debt Cancellation Benefits the Wealthy, Not the Poor
From Sen. Elizabeth Warren to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, some of the most prominent progressive politicians in the country are pushing hard for widespread student debt cancelation. So, itās fascinating to see aĀ new studyĀ show that forcing taxpayers to pay down the roughly $1.5 trillion in government-held student debt is not a āprogressiveā policy by any stretch....
Citizens, Then and Now
There was a time, within living memory, when the label American was highly respectedāperhaps the most respected term of nationality in the world.Ā Probably most Americans have yet to take note, but that is no longer the case.Ā A libertarian writer complains that the Boston bombers are referred to by government and media as Chechens.Ā ...
The Loss of American Identity
IĀ have never been able to get it through my thick skull that oneās identity, culture, and national sovereignty should not stand in the way of making money.Ā For whatever reasons, I have always had a real attachment to my name, my family, my people, my place, my way of life.Ā I have never felt particularly...
Revolution and Its Discontents
Winner of France’s Renaudot Prize, this autobiographical Bildungsroman is a first-person narrative of a young man from a Belgian village who begins as a seminarian and ends as a disillusioned anarchist. Under the direction of his widowed mother and the village priest, he enters the seminary in Louvain, where his study of the changing values...
Why Putin’s Pipeline Is Welcome in Germany
During a joint interview with Jens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian secretary-general of NATO, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, fresh from his bout with the Chinese in Anchorage, took on Angela Merkel and the Germans. Issue: Nord Stream 2, the Baltic Sea pipeline Vladimir Putin is building to complement his Nord Stream 1 and carry more natural...
For Zionās Sake
āFor Zionās sake will I not hold my peace,ā declares the LORD, through his prophet Isaiah, āand for Jerusalemās sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.āĀ So great is Godās provision for His people that even āthe Gentiles shall see...
The Oxford Experience
The recent election of the new Chancellor of Oxford Universityāor was it the prospect of another July undisturbed by fireworks?āreminded me of the letter I received from a Cambridge friend last summer, when I was living in Oxford. I quote it with minor deletions. “Warm greetings to the Latin Quarter of Morris-Cowley, and happy Fourth...
Pope John Paul II, R.I.P.
By any standard, the life of Pope John Paul II was extraordinary.Ā Born in a small town in a country that had been the plaything of dynasts for centuries before his birth, and which became the target of historyās bloodiest tyrants during his adult years, Karol Wojtyla became the first non-Italian pope in nearly five...
Getting Medieval on Middle Age
I turned forty-one this year.Ā I left a psychological plateau (a crisis would have been way more exciting) and a legal career behind.Ā I suppose an alcohol-fueled bender or an illicit affair broadcast on social media would be what most āfolksā (as Barack Obama says) my age might do nowadays, but I opted for sobriety...
Ukraine: Orange Revolution Redux?
Ā The scenes in Kiev over the past few days have been reminiscent of the āOrange Revolutionā in the fall of 2004, which paved the way for Viktor Yushchenkoās eventual victory in the disputed presidential election. There are several significant differences, however, which make a similar outcome unlikely. The first is that the trigger for...
Execution Not Delayed
āViva Mexico!Ā Viva Mexico!āĀ As he spoke those words, murderer and rapist Humberto Leal felt the gush of pentobarbital run into his arm. Like the late, lamented Mexican hero JosĆ© Ernesto MedellĆn, whom Texas executed in 2008, Leal and his legal backers, including the Mexican government, argued that his guilty verdict was null.Ā The Vienna...
The Coming Backlash
As Americans render what Catholics call temporal judgment on George Bush, are they aware of the radical course correction they are about to make? This center-right country is about to strengthen a liberal Congress whose approval rating is 10 percent and implant in Washington a regime further to the left than any in U.S. history....
Politics in American Letters
The following was presented in acceptance of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, presented at Longwood College, Farmville, Virginia, September 20, 1991. The Dos Passos Prize is awarded to a writer in mid-career for a distinguished body of work; previous recipients include Graham Greene, Paule Marshall, Robert Stone, and Tom Wolfe. * * *...
For the Peace of Jerusalem
This issue, and the book that will follow in a few months, are the fruits of three yearsā work for the study group that The Rockford Institute put together at the request of our board chairman, David A. Hartman.Ā During this period, we were asked many times: Why?Ā Not because peace in the Middle East...
The Magnetic Chain of Humanity
As Alan Wolfe noted in a broadside published in The New Republic in 2003, the study of American literature, especially in American Studies programs at our major universities, has, since the 1970ās, become little more than a vituperative exercise in anti-American polemics. Largely a confabulation of Latino, Native American, African-American, feminist, āqueer,ā and āwhitenessā theorists...
What Good Is an Education?āSeptember 2010
perspective Break out the Booze? by Thomas Fleming views Academic Sins by John Willson The Uses of a Liberal Education by Catharine Savage Brosman news Okinawa Occupied by Allen Mendenhall reviews An Unfinished Story by James Bissett [Srdja Trifkovic, The Krajina Chronicle: A History of SerbsĀ in Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia] Sustained Magnificence by Derek ...