Physician, Heal Thyselfā That American society is vile, unequal, unjust, and unfair is by now a sort of commonplace, a once-and-for-ever fixed obviousness, as self-evident as the presence of McDonald’s hamburgers and Coca-Cola. The trite naturalness of this characterization has been driven into the popular consciousness by the omnipotent and omnipresent liberal media. And no...
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Trouble in the City
“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” āC.S. Lewis Recently named Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago, Jean Bethke Elshtain has a keen eye that sees through the haze of fashionable ideologies....
Rejecting the ‘Proposition Nation’
In January, Donald Trumpās Presidentās Advisory 1776 Commission released its 45-page ā1776 Report,ā which, according to The New York Times, is āa sweeping attack on liberal thought and activism thatā¦defends Americaās founding against charges that it was tainted by slavery and likens progressivism to fascism.ā Joe Biden scrapped it the day he entered office, and...
Lost and Found in America
One Saturday night last summer I found myself sitting on a warm, grassy knoll outside Missoula, Montana, watching a blood-red sun set behind a cup in the hills with the snow-fringed Bitterroot Mountains beyond, while in the foreground an elfin, 70-year-old man dressed entirely in black leather, accompanied by an energetically hair-swinging band, blasted out...
The World According to St. Mugg
If we are to believe today’s punditsāan awfully big “if”āthere are many global crises threatening the 20th century. Nuclear weapons and overpopulation currently top the list. Unfortunately, it sometimes seems that there are only two available responses. The first is the “liberal” response, which assumes that mankind already possesses the tools and skills to repair...
Offside at Mizzou
I tell you, it’s great to be alive and cognizant that the greatest thing going on at the University of Missouri, large-domed citadel of learning and culture, isāyou guessed itāfootball! Truly, the U of M Tigers don’t have such a tiger-ish record this season, just four wins against five losses (with four of those losses...
Epiphanies of Grace
āThere is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Ā Books are well written, or badly written.Ā That is all.ā Ā Ā Ā Ā āOscar Wilde, from the Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde wrote several first-rate plays, on which his literary reputation principally rests, and a number of mostly...
Wiccan Warming
The summer of 2007 was nearly intolerable here in Northern Illinois.Ā Except for a glorious week in July when the sun, shining bright in the clear sky, never warmed our city to above 80 degrees, the days were an unpleasant mix of heat and humidity, punctuated by a few cool stretches drowned in torrential rains...
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:...
The Left Has Been Doing āOppo Researchā on Conservative Justices for Years
Leftist āopposition researchersā are relentlessly concocting ethics complaints about the Supreme Courtās conservative justices to try to get them to resign or recuse themselves.
National Love-Fest
Jackie, Tiger, and Ellenānot as catchy as Martin, Bartin, and Fish, or Abraham, Martin, and John, but good enough to mesmerize the press this spring. In one respect, the mainstream media were right: Jackie Robinson was a courageous man; Tiger Woods is an extraordinary golfer; and Ellen DeGenerateāwell, two out of three ain’t bad. But...
Requiem for a Patriot
āConservative Tycoon ā¦ Dies at 95,ā said the New York Times headline on New Yearās Eve about the death of Roger Milliken. Clearly, the headline writer did not know the man. For Roger Milliken exemplified the finest in American free enterprise. He cared about his workers. He cared about his industry. He cared about his...
Nick Kristof’s Shamhill Clown Show
Nick Kristof will not be on the Oregon ballot in November. Even in liberal Oregon, you can't identify as a state resident unless you actually are one.
Sex Matters
Rarely have I read in so few pages a book as thought-provoking and compelling as J. Budziszewskiās On the Meaning of Sex.Ā Budziszewski, a Yale Ph.D. and professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas, has grappled for years with the sad effects of our eraās shallow understanding of sex on the lives...
Comment
The Editorial Comment was presented as a speech by Dr. Carlson, Executive Vice-President of The Rockford Institute at the April 16, 1984 meeting of the Philadelphia Society. Whole forests have been sacrificed in the last two years to the latest phase of this nation’s perennial debate on education. Yet the debate swirling about us has...
In Search of Flannery O’Connor
In late June, a friend and I traveled into Central Georgia, looking for Flannery OāConnor. Mary Ann had never heard of Flannery OāConnor.Ā She didnāt know Hazel Motes from a hole in the ground and assured me she had never encountered āA Good Man Is Hard To Findā or āThe Life You Save May Be...
Back at the Front
When Senator Jesse Helms was in his prime, one newspaperman described his crusades on the Senate floor as “stompin’ trompin’ ultra-right action.” Ultra-rightists of the Helmsian kidney were not offended, and most were despondent when the most reliable man on the right went into ideological hibernation during the Reagan-Bush years. Helms went after a few...
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...
On Rock’n’Roll
As one who was embarrassingly raised in the moral fog of a rock-and-roll culture, I enjoyed reminiscing over the Kinks’ lyrics while reading Jesse Walker’s article, “The Muswell Hillbilly” (March 1997). Unfortunately, Ray Davies has not been as consistently reactionary as Mr. Walker implies. For an example of the “irrational exuberance” in the Kinks’ music,...
Obama and the āJewish Voteā
āConcern in Jerusalem: Obama Is Getting Closer to the Presidencyā was the headline on the front page of Maāariv, an Israeli daily.Ā āSources in Jerusalem are worried over the erosion in the support for Hillary Clinton who is considered more supportive of Israel,ā the paper reported after the Iowa caucuses, reflecting the rising sentiment among...
Our Classical Roots
On January 6, 1816, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to his state legislator, Colonel Charles Yancey. As we might expect, Jefferson’s letter contains reflections of general interest on many topics, ranging in this case from the dangers of a large public debt and paper money to the advantages of beer over whiskey. Near the end...
Orlando’s Instant Hate
Orlando’s Little Sodom was shot up early Sunday morning by a Muslim who thought that pleasing Allah by murdering homosexuals was more important than being a husband, father, or living person.Ā Before police bulldozed their way into one of the Pulse nightclubās several spacious bathrooms where Omar Mateen was holed up and shot him dead,...
The Next Militia Panic
Only a fool would try to foretell the course of U.S. politics a few months in advance, let alone several years in the future.Ā The fact that Democrats are riding high after their electoral triumph last November does not necessarily mean that they will win the White House in 2008.Ā But just suppose that January...
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%...
Turkey Purge
Democracy isnāt freedomāand in todayās Turkey some people realize that, as amazing as that may seem.Ā Not ordinary folks, but the mid-level officers of the Turkish army, who have been watching with a jaundiced eye the steady Islamization of their country by an elected leader. The recent history of the Turks is rife with intrigues,...
And the Kennedy KGB Handed Out Hot Soup
It was now the beginning of the seventh year of the genocidal invasion of Afghanistan. To many Americans it appeared that the war would never end, not until the entire population of Afghanistan was either dead or in exile. Some Americans thought it was time to do something about Soviet imperialism, especially since a good...
The Honorable Gentleman From New York
It shouldn’t be news to anyone that conservative middle-aged professors are rare birds. Until recently, right-wing academics have been almost as rare as black ones, and for pretty much the same reason: bright conservatives could generally do better elsewhere. So it didn’t go to my head a few years ago when I learned that the...
Pope Francis and the Liberal Delusions II
Beatitudes, Not Platitudes Ā According to one interpretation of the scene, Judas went away from this encounter disgruntled with Jesus’ failure to lead a social revolution. Ā It is certainly true that Jesus’ answer remains a powerful rebuke to those who would confound the gospel with one or another form of state-imposed socialism. The poor,...
Stand Up for Arizona
Major demonstrations are to be held in 70 cities on May 1 to protest the new Arizona law to cope with an army of half a million illegal aliens now living there. Since Gov. Jan Brewer signed that law a week ago, Arizona has been subjected to savage attack as the modern embodiment of Jim...
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...
A Brutal Muse
The golden age of American popular music was an amazing time to be alive. Taki reminisces about his encounters with the composers of great American musicals.
Italian Justice
I have always hated students, a class as concrete to my mind as workers were to Karl Marxās, a race as particular in my imagination as the Jews were in Alfred Rosenbergās.Ā Visiting a city like Florence, for me, is a painful experience, somewhere between what joining a gay-rights march would be for Taki or...
Washington in Drag
After Harold Washington died,black leaders in Chicago almost immediately began the process of deification. Buttons started to appear, reading: “Hi God, How’s Harold?” The way I saw it, to make a god out of Harold Washington was sacrilegious. Then this ridiculous poster came out. It shows the Chicago skyline with Jesus on one side and...
Causing a Stir
The Onion caused quite a stir a couple of weeks ago when it was read by an unsuspecting Christian. Through the power of the internet and e-mail, a satirical story entitled “Harry Potter Books Spark Rise in Satanism Among Children” was forwarded from one concerned Christian to another. Chilling (and entirely fictional) examples of blatant...
Prince Andrew in Disgrace
The fall of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, is index to the strength of the monarchy. He has now been ordered by the Queen to step back from public life āfor the foreseeable future.ā His continued friendship with the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was the immediate cause, and it was followed by the Dukeās ill-judged...
Alice of Malice: The Other Side of Rooseveltism
The true nature of the New Deal was revealed in one of those brilliant ironies that flash lightning-like in a midnight storm. It happened September 13, 1933, the Nativity of a new secular holiday: NRA Day. An interminable parade up New York’s Fifth Avenue celebrated the National Recovery Administration, which was to set prices, fix...
Call It Insourcing
Americans are likely to hear more about āinsourcingā as the 2012 presidential campaign unfolds.Ā President Barack Obama advanced the term during a February 15 trip to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Ā āYouāve all heard enough about outsourcing,ā he explained.Ā āWell, more and more companies like Master Lock are now insourcing.Ā Theyāre deciding that if the cost of doing...
Roberts Left a Loophole in the Affirmative Action Decision
Chief Justice John Roberts' rejection of the racial discrimination of affirmative action is one of his greatest Supreme Court rulings. But unfortunately he left in a giant loophole that will allow colleges to continue to privilege blacks and Hispanics over Asians and whites.
Five Modest Swamp-Draining Proposals
How many times will naive voters fall for the old āwhen elected I will shrink the federal governmentā lie? If our Solipsist-in-Chief canāt ādrain the swamp,ā you can bet your last VHS Jazzercise tape that myriad new laws, middle-class tax cuts, and feeble protests will never stem the federal Leviathanās metastasis. With that reality in...
Colette Baudoche by Maurice BarrĆØs
Ā Maurice BarrĆØs is hardly a name in the United States, even to American conservatives who could learn a great deal from his fiction and essays. Ā A collaborator of Charles Maurras, BarrĆØs had a deeper understanding of blood-and-soil conservatism than most Americans can grasp, and his celebration (in this book) of Metz under YankeeāI mean...
The Palin Perplexity
Sarah Palin is the best thing that's happened lately to the right and the left, both at the same time. Much of the right pays her obeisance for mobilizing the troops and smart-alecking the leftāwhich in turn loves her for splitting (so the left hopes) the right over her personality ...
Obama Throws Fidel a Rope
The celebrations in Havana and the sullen silence in Miami tell you all you need to know about who won this round with Castro’s Cuba. In JFK’s metaphor, Obama traded a horse for a rabbit. We got back Alan Gross before his Communist jailers killed him, along with an American spy, in exchange for three...
The Journeys of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Shukov felt pleased with life as he went to sleep . . . The end of an unclouded day.Ā Almost a happy one. [from One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich] The journey is over.Ā Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn survived war, the Gulag, and cancer; was exiled from his homeland, only to return, having outlived...
The Two Surest Signs of the Totalitarian Impulse
Two of the truest marks of a totalitarian regime are its claim to know your thoughts better than you do, and its demand for the coercive power to ācorrectā your thought.
Fourth Generation War and the Migrant Invasion of Europe.
Fourth Generation War theory provides a useful tool to understand the migrant invasion of Europe. 4GW basically is non-state warfare. The people invading Europe are not doing so inside T-34 tanks or Stukas. Theyāre walking. No government is leading their march, although some governments, such as that of Turkey, are encouraging it. An classic 4GW...
The Mexican War
Itās popular in academe today to describe the Mexican War as an example of an aggressive and expansive colossus beating up on a weak neighbor, but that was not the case in 1846.Ā The war was really a second phase of the Texas Revolution.Ā Most people donāt understand that Mexico never recognized Texas independence.Ā It...
Calling a Spade a Spade
Nicholas Soames is Winston ChurĀchillās grandsonāhis mother being Winnyās only living childāa Conservative member of Parliament since the mid-70ās, a very large man whose food and drink intake is legendary, and an old friend of mine with whom I used to get into terrible trouble (but the less said about that the better).Ā Soames has...
Old Answers to Old Questions
After a decade or two of introspective breast-beating, educators are turning from an examination of what is wrong with public schooling to what is right with private schooling. This latest entry to the field examines religious education in the United States. Nearly 5.1 million students attend some sort of private school (K-12), eschewing for whatever...
New York Times to BidenāTime to Go!
America's paper of record has provided cover for, and given sanction to, ambitious Biden rivals to take on the Democratic president.
The Death of Reason in the Land of Make Believe
In the driveway sits my nine-year-old Honda Civic, which I purchased two years ago after a deer demolished my Accord. Fingerprints of my grandchildren dot the rear interior window, the carpeting and seats are screaming for a vacuum, a large, reddish dent mars the paneling above the rear tire on the passenger side, and the...