HeroesĀ are back in style. According to a recent poll, the Ā approvalĀ ratings given to the objects of our admiration are up significantly from a few years back. The official story goes something like this: back in the bad old days of Vietnam and Watergate,Ā theĀ Ameri can people lost their youthful idealism and learned to...
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The GOP’s Iran Dilemma
From first reactions, it appears that Hill Republicans will be near unanimous in voting a resolution of rejection of the Iran nuclear deal. They will then vote to override President Obama’s veto of their resolution. And if the GOP fails there, Gov. Scott Walker says his first act as president would be to kill the...
Donald Trump Is a Legend
Trump has taken massive hits for his years in public service. Now heās survived an assassination attempt and got up and walked away. He is a legend.
Who Will Make a Difference?
As the academic year commences, students wonder which professors will make a difference, and which won’t. Here is the story of a professor who made a difference-someone who believed that education is for the courageous, that striving to surpass ourselves defines the well-lived life-and who paid the price for doing so. But the story has...
After SCOTUS: Welcoming Apocalypse
Here are my initial thoughts on todayās SCOTUS opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges and three other cases, which effectively makes āsame-sex marriageā the law of the land. Nothing substantial has changed.Ā The Supreme Court did not suddenly create more homosexuals or instill a new desire in the hearts of sodomites to flout nature.Ā That was...
Exit Mr. Weinstein; Hold the Tears
Harvey Weinstein was just expressing his little ol’ self, right? That is what you do, even when it gets you fired, as happened to Weinstein, or suspended, as happened to Jemele Hill at ESPN, or threatened with suspension, as in Jerry Jones’ blunt warning to his Cowboys about “taking a knee.” The rule-less disorder of...
TrumpāMiddle American Radical
President Trump is the leader of America’s conservative party. Yet not even his allies would describe him as a conservative in the tradition of Robert Taft, Russell Kirk or William F. Buckley. In the primaries of 2016, all his rivals claimed the mantle of Mr. Conservative, Ronald Reagan. Yet Trump captured the party’s heart. Who,...
Remembering M. E. Bradford
Anyone who met M. E. Bradford was unlikely to forget him. There was his imposing bulk and his Stetson cowboy hat, but that was just the trimming. This Oklahoman, long a fixture at the University of Dallas, radiated vast erudition, lightly worn and easily shared, often in colloquial language. He emitted goodwill and sparkling humor,...
Did FDR Provoke Pearl Harbor?
Ā On Dec. 8, 1941, Franklin Roosevelt took the rostrum before a joint session of Congress to ask for a declaration of war on Japan. A day earlier, at dawn, carrier-based Japanese aircraft had launched a sneak attack devastating the U.S. battle fleet at Pearl Harbor. Said ex-President Herbert Hoover, Republican statesman of the day,...
The Decline and Fall of the American Economy: Offshoring Our Security
The United States has three large economic problems. The overarching one is that the U.S. dollarās role as world reserve currency is wearing out from continuous and large trade deficits and from government budget ...
The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton
Ā “In the twentieth century you could not see the ground for clever men….And all these clever men were at work giving accounts of what would happen in the next age.”Ā The discussion of prophetic literature with which Chesterton beginsĀ The Napoleon of Notting HillĀ is itself an accurate piece of prophecy. Ā As Chesterton points out,...
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...
Hillary Clinton and My Grandmother’s Toenails
My grandmother was a frugal lady. She was a warm, friendly, and loving person, but she could squeeze a dollar until George Washington’s eyes crossed. When she frosted a cake she used only half of each ingredient in the recipe, so the frosting was paper-thin and tended to disappear after a day or two, but...
Conservative Credo IVb: Abortion
Life as Property There are many ways of looking at human life; some emphasize the benevolence of the Creator; others our inheritance from and similarityĀ to other primates.Ā One approachĀ favored by some liberals/libertarians is to treat life as property.Ā But if the life of a child, born or unborn, is a property or possession,...
To Spurn a Stranger Cur
By the time you read this it might be very old news, and if it is, treat it as a background briefing.Ā But if the son-of-a-bitch Iām writing about is still out on bail and moving his ill-gotten assets around Israel and the environs, pay attention.Ā What you read can one day save your savings....
Lobar Warming
Scoffers may deride the proposition I find instinctively plausible, that the consonants and the vowels of speech are its masculine and feminine constituents, though the same scoffers would not think to keep a professor from speaking of male rhymes or an electrician of female plugs.Ā Yet the role of women in many societies, historically considered,...
A Journey to Mecca
The pilgrimage to Mecca sponsored by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) was everything it was meant to be. The faithful were comprised of hot- and cold-running state legislators from all over the union. They came in all shapes, sizes, genders, brands, and parties; they all had agendas, lists, forms, and maps of Milwaukee,...
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...
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...
Living With the Albanians
In the current debate on the future of Kosovo, it is often overlooked that hundreds of thousands of Serbs and other non-Albanians had fled the province under Albanian pressure well before the KLA terror campaign of 1996-1998. Under Tito, the Albaniansā share of the population thus rose from 64 percent in 1953 to 77 percent...
Superior Fiction
One of the pleasures of fiction is the opportunity that novels, short stories, and epic poems give us to escape from our own everyday world into an alien world of gods and heroes (as in the Iliad) or knights and wizards (Tennysonās Idylls), English villagers (in Hardyās Wessex), or Mississippi rednecks and redskins (of Faulknerās...
Whose Wealth of Whose Nation?
“Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew, And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Fourā And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.” Rudyard...
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...
Guilt by Association
Reading over my last letter from Venice, I spot the word “improbable,” which has somehow slipped in through the barbed wire fence of watchful Russianness I have been building in order to keep all manner of tripe out of these monthly communications. I am sorry, and promise that nothing of the kind will ever happen...
A Park to Die For
On August 25, 1992, a 19-year-old woman named Rosebud Abigail Denovo broke into the campus home of Chang-Fin Tien, chancellor of the University of California. Denovo, a member of the People’s Will Direct Action Committee, was the self-appointed judge, jury, and executioner in the trial of Tienāenemy of the people. An Oakland police officer, called...
Is the GOP Still a National Party?
As President Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address to a nation filled with anticipation and hope, the vital signs of the loyal opposition appear worse than worrisome. The new majority of 49 states and 60 percent of the nation Nixon cobbled together in 1972, that became the Reagan coalition of 49 states and 60 percent...
Cosā and Effect
The reemergence of rape accusations against Bill Cosby have divided this nation of TV-watchers. Most members of Mr. Cosbyās race and a large percentage of his fellow males have responded with a skepticism that is not entirely unjustified. It is all too common for women to ādiscoverā through therapy or introspection that their lives have...
No Amnesty for COVID Tyrants
The establishment would love nothing more than for you to forgive and forget their tyrannical imposition of COVID policies. But simply moving on and pretending that nothing happened would be foolish, not to mention unjust.
‘They Want Government to Be God’
The latest Godās Not Dead is the bravest movie of the fall season, Mark Judge writes. Read his interview with the film's cast.
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...
A New Path to Peace
Israelās recent siege of Lebanon, which has imposed a crippling humanitarian, economic, and psychological setback on her northern neighbor, may return Syria to the center stage of Middle Eastern politics.Ā Considering Syriaās enduring influence over Lebanon and the Palestinians and her close ties to Iran, ignoring Syria no longer serves Americaās (or Israelās) interests. Even...
Paint It Black
If you live long enough junk becomes antiques, and cast-offs are classics. It’s pleasant to think that the popular culture of only a few decades ago is now revered, but it’s also scary. A recent visit to a clothing store flashing lime-green and neon-yellow polyester revivals of the 70’s was enough to remind me that...
America Mispriced
Warren Buffett once joked that only when the tide goes out do we realize whoās been swimming naked.Ā Hurricane Harveyās gale force winds and 50-plus inches of rain will give Houstonians a similarly embarrassing realization.Ā Cable news channels fire-hosed viewers with minute-by-minute coverage of the Bayou Cityās destruction, raking in advertisersā dollars by pandering to...
World War III With China: How It Might Actually Be Fought
[This piece has been adapted and expanded from Alfred W. McCoyās new book, In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power.] For the past 50 years, American leaders have been supremely confident that they could suffer military setbacks in places like Cuba or Vietnam without having their system...
The American Proscenium
Red Rainbow What’s astonishing (or, perhaps, moderately surprising, if we remain aware of what life in liveral America has taught us over the last two decades) is the media’s color blindness when it comes to making an ideological evaluation of the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s programmatic rhetoric. At a closer look, this agenda followed by the...
Pope Francis: Man of the Year?
In the midst of the cold war declared by the NYPD against our ultra-liberal mayor, the hot wars in Ukraine, Syria, and Iraq, I could not help but notice a well-written and hard-hitting piece by traditionalist Catholic attorney Christopher Ferrara for redoubtable Remnant newspaper. Now, why is Ferrara’s “The Remnant’s Man of the Year” article,...
A Report from Europe: There is Hope
A quiet majority of Europeans who do not cherish self-annihilation are waking up.
Tucker Carlsonās Firebell
Tucker Carlson shook the punditariat, liberal and conservative alike, with his incisive analysis, delivered during one of his show monologues, of the breakdown of the American family, a genuine four-alarm crisis that cannot be exaggerated.Ā In it, he fingered long-standing economic policies pushed by Swamp residents and their donors for the benefit of a rootless...
Beyond the Norm and Back
Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert; G.P. Putman’s Sons, New York. While waiting for the cinematic spectacle of Dune, we decided that a bit of exploratory work was in order, so we attended to Frank Herbertās world āā nay, universes āā of Dune. That was no small feat, as it is a trek into Dune,...
Secession and American Republicanism
When the American colonists seceded from Britain in 1776, Europe was shared out among great monarchies.Ā Only Switzerland was republican, but Americans were determined to enjoy a republican style of government in the New World.Ā The republican tradition went back over 2,000 years to the ancient Greeks and consistently taught that a republic must satisfy...
Origins and Outcome
From the December 1991 issue of Chronicles. To the degree that it is remembered at all, the America First Committee (AFC) has gone down in history as an organization most suspect, at best composed of good people serving a bad cause, at worst riddled with conscious agents of a Nazi transmission belt. During its heyday...
Letitia Jamesās Richelieu Routine
If New Yorkās attorney general can smear and destroy an online publication simply because she does not agree with its contents, thereās no meaningful free speech in America anymore.
Empire of the Ants
āAmerica,ā noted H.L. Mencken, āis a land so geographically tilted that everything which is loose rolls to California.” In the last few years, however, it seems that most of the great untethered mass has run out of steam amid the cactus groves of nearby Arizona, known in these parts as the poor man’s California and...
Is Iran Nearing a Bomb?
That Iran is building a secret underground facility near the holy city of Qom, under custody of the Revolutionary Guardātoo small to be a production center for nuclear fuel, but just right for the enrichment of uranium to weapons gradeāis grounds for concern, but not panic. Heretofore, all of Iran's nuclear ...
The Con Man
āThe more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.ā āJohn le CarrĆ©, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Ā Fifty years ago, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold completed the most successful transformation of David Cornwellās shape-shifting life.Ā The son of a war profiteer and con man became John le...
Unto the Least of These …
A few years ago Oral Roberts made national headlines when he confessed to having seen a 900-foot-tall Jesus in the heavens urging the faithful to donate to the “City of Faith,” as he called the medical school he was building at his university. Those who believed him, his “partners,” were asked to send monthly donations...
Victims of Pleasure
IĀ had long since given up on contemporary American fiction, although the Neoformalist movement has reinvigorated my interest in some of todayās American poets.Ā The last American novelist I really admired was Walker Percy.Ā And even he never gave us what I had vaguely been looking for: a dramatization of the lives destroyedāor nearly soāby the...
Star Trek or Star Wars?
When I was growing up, the nuclear-war nightmare and other end-of-the-world scenarios weighed heavily on filmmakers’ minds. From radioactive giant lizards trashing Tokyo to the ironic Planet of the Apes, from On the Beach to Dr. Strangelove, the movies made it clear that our social order was on the edge of extinction. The Terminator series...
The Yellow Brick Road to Jobs and Stability
āLet the Yankees Freeze in the Darkā read the bumper stickers in Texas in February 1982, the month I flew back from West Germany, mustered out of the U.S. Army at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and returned to my hometown of Wayne, Michigan.Ā Oil had soared from $3.60 per barrel in 1972 to $37.42 in...
White Out
Hand it to Ann Coulter and Donald Trump: They know how to send the left into an apoplectic conniption.Ā Coulterās contribution to the leftās unhinged tantrum is her book on immigration, Ā”Adios America!: The Leftās Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole.Ā Coulter has gone āfull racist,ā we are told, because she...