Authoring a book comes with its usual praise and criticism and my latest book,Ā Antifascism: Course of a Crusade, is no exception. One of my critics is the Canadian journalist and columnist atĀ The Nation, Jeet Heer.Ā His reviewĀ leaves me wondering whether he has actually read my work, which charts the historical roots of the modern antifascist movement....
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Define “Imperialism”
From the June 1991 issue of Chronicles. Lewis Namier liked to tell the story of an English schoolboy who was asked to define “imperialism” on an examination paper. “Imperialism,” the budding proconsul wrote, “is learning how to get along with one’s social inferiors.” In the Edwardian twilight of the British Empire, that answer might have...
The Progressive Review
The left-wing press is in an awful state. Take the Nation (please): there’s little reason even to flip through it anymore. Oh, Alexander Cockburn is always a pleasure, and Stuart Klawans is a fine movie critic, and Christopher Hitchens is worth reading when he isn’t issuing pretentious dispatches from Europe. But good feature stories are...
The Lure of Lebanese Quicksand
Two decades ago, Ronald Reagan committed his greatest foreign-policy blunder: intervening in Lebanonās civil war.Ā After Muslim opponents of the bedraggled Lebanese government targeted U.S. diplomats and Marines to deadly effect, however, he āredeployedā U.S. forces to ships offshore and sailed away.Ā Now, the Bush administration risks sliding back into the Lebanese imbroglio. The bloody...
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...
The Treasury of Counterfeit Virtue
āO wad some Powār the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us!ā āRobert Burns A few years ago, a well-known conservative historian lamented that the American public was not morally engaged to undergo sacrifice after the September 11 attacks, unlike it was in its heroic response to Fort Sumter and Pearl Harbor....
Criminal Commonplaces
Back in 1969 the Violence Commission issued a report which foresaw the urban America of the future as a sort of terrorist Alphaville: high-tech business centers and shopping malls protected by armed guards, fortified apartment complexes defended by sophisticated electronic surveillance, and patrols of armed citizens keeping a vigilant watch over their neighborhoods. As Elliot...
A Chesterton Adventure, Protestantly Considered
The last speaker ended at 10:30, Saturday night. I was at St. Michael’s College in Toronto for the 50th Anniversary Conference, commemorating G.K. Chesterton’s death. A memorial Mass was scheduled for the morning with Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter; but as a Biblical and Reformed Christian (that’s evangelical-speak for Protestant), I thought I might leave without...
A Fork in Europeās Road
European leaders have a decision to make: treat Russia as an integral part of Europe with legitimate security concerns, or treat her as an Asiatic pariah to be crippled.
Typefaces ā Pulpits and the Press
“The grand Pulpit is now the Press,” Thomas Carlyle argued a century and a half ago, adding that “the true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of its Newspapers. These preach to the people daily, weekly; admonishing kings themselves; advising peace or war, with an authoriĀty which only the first Reformers,...
Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness … Unless Talking About Trump or His Foreign Policy
Too many very public Christians in politics seem to have a problem honoring the ninth commandment when it comes to Trump, his supporters, and their foreign policy preferences.
Why the Muslim Won
London is more pleased with itself than usual at the moment, which is saying something.Ā The city has just elected its first Muslim mayor, and people here are calling it our āObama moment.āĀ The Great British Multicultural Experiment, which many thought had failed, is alive and well, they said.Ā Sadiq Khan, the new mayor, is...
When Dictators Fall, Who Rises?
One month before the invasion of Iraq, Riah Abu el-Assal, a Palestinian and the Anglican bishop of Jerusalem at the time, warned Tony Blair,
The Seedbed of Renewal
Many people who consider themselves conservative are woefully ignorant of the culture they claim to defend.Ā The list of causes is long: Television has largely destroyed storytelling, public school denigrates the idea of a common culture, and the internet has killed off lingering remnants of community.Ā The music industry has replaced popular songwriting and songmaking...
On Crusading
Kudos to Dr. Srdja Trifkovic, whose āNew Grand Strategyā (American Interest, December) tells us what sensibly ought to be.Ā The stooges inhabiting Foggy Bottom will never look up from their feed troughs to show half the intelligence of your master diplomat.Ā I wish him Godspeed on his new ventures, and wish that Obama had the...
Title X Funds
Title X funds to “family planning” clinics that dispense abortion counseling were prohibited last summer as a result of the Rust v. Sullivan U.S. Supreme Court decision, which single-issue organizations indignantly denounced. It is ironic that the very people who claim that government should stay out of abortion decisions are the very same people who...
Amateurs and the Olympics
In 1889, when the Baron Pierre de Coubertin was in the middle of formulating his plan to revive the Olympic Games of ancient Greece, one of his primary worries was the use of cash as an incentive for performance. He feared that “a mercantile spirit threatened to invade sporting circles,” and that amateur sports had...
California Exodus
In the 1950s grammar schools of the Golden State we kids substituted āOh, California!ā for Stephen Fosterās āOh, Susanna!ā The tune was the same, but the lyrics came from the pen of John Nichols just before he climbed aboard the bark Eliza in December 1848 at Salem, Massachusetts, for the voyage to California. I come...
Christian Nationalism as Ethnic Survivalism
"The Case for Christian Nationalism" author Stephen Wolfe has come under fire for laying the intellectual foundation to help Protestants connect religion with a peopleās sense of identity.
Unisex Multiplex
How could I possibly know as much as I do about popular entertainment? I mean, I almost never go to the movies anymore. The big multiplexes annoy me with the stink of their sprays, their even more vexing segmentation of the audience, and their usurious popcorn prices. At home, I have no time for television,...
Immigration, Neighbors, and Enemies
It is like a science-fiction movie from the 1950ās.Ā Mysterious radiation from outer space takes over the brains of Asian men in America, turning them into moral zombies that go on killing sprees: a Buddhist in Texas who tried to beat the demons out of his three-year-old son who had eaten meat; a discharged IBM...
Parties
Contrary to popular belief, political parties are not democratic institutions.Ā They are extraconstitutional instruments of elite control, machines for corralling and pacifying the voters with platitudes.Ā The appearance of advertising, public relations, and polling has strengthened this aspect of their character.Ā This has particularly been the nature of the Republican Party, as should be evident...
No More Blank Checks for War
After the assassination of the archduke in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, Austria got from Kaiser Wilhelm a āblank chequeā to punish Serbia. Germany would follow whatever course its ally chose to take. Austria chose war on Serbia. And World War I resulted. On March 31, 1939, Britain gave a blank check to Poland in...
Empire Strikes Back
” . . . To sit in darkness here hatching vain empires.” āMilton During his discussion of the overthrow of feudalism by the bourgeoisie in his classic Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, Joseph Schumpeter asked whether “in the end such complete emancipation was good for the bourgeois and his world.” He concluded that it had not...
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....
Gigantic Weaknesses
One of the sights that most amazed me as I approached the center of Moscow for the first time was a huge poster, stretched across the flat rooftop of a large building not far from the Kremlin, boldly advertising PHILIPS in large letters that needed no further explanation.Ā Not to be outdone by the famous...
A Pack of Lies
“The Reverend Canon Kingsley cries History is a pack of lies.” āBishop Willkin Stubbs Marc Ferro sets out to broaden our horizons. He picks 14 countries (or sometimes ex-countries) to tell us “the vision of the past which is proper to each.” By “proper” he clearly does not mean “correct,” for he puts his stamp...
Remembering Albert Jay Nock
As a conservative āanarchistā and non-interventionist with anti-vocational views on education, Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945) can seem paradoxical. His influence was lasting and he took unconventional stances on many topics. He viewed conservatism as primarily cultural, anarchism as radical decentralization, education as a non-economic activity, and foreign policy as a noninterventionist endeavor. Raised in Brooklyn...
What We Are Reading: November 2021
The plot of the Woman of the Inner Sea may strike one as interesting for a childrenās book: An Australian woman leaves Sydney incognito for the interior and makes friends with a kangaroo and an emu. But Thomas Keneallyās novel is for adults and contains a complex structure, a rich cast of characters, and nuanced...
Snow and Chocolates
I shall not easily forget my first visit to Switzerland. The end of the war left my battalion encamped north of Perugia. Leave was suddenly generous, and rides in military transport easy to find, at least for a young ensign in the Brigade of Guards. Hoping to flush a retired uncle in the Bernese Oberland...
Considering Judge Barrett
In one of the most importantĀ acts of his Presidency, on Sept. 26, 2020, Donald J. Trump announced his pick to fill the United States Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Amy Coney Barrett.Ā Ā The Supreme Court has recently been divided 4-4 in terms of judicial philosophy, with Justices Ginsburg, Stephen...
Genetic Roulette
Once, a long time ago, when, as a result of one of those complex misunderstandings that cast long shadows over the course of my life, I was getting married in a small town in Connecticut, my father showed up at the church stuffed with promotional literature.Ā This consisted of leaflets describing his new organization, donation...
DEMOCRATISM
The move toward mass, direct democracy in the large nationstate derives much of its appeal from an image of direct democracy reminiscent of the Athenian Assembly, or of the New England town meeting. But such an appeal is mistaken. The social conditions for face-to-face interaction and deliberation present on a small scale are not present...
The Scandal in Vancouver
Ā I am not alone in being utterly astounded by the fact that Dr. Srdja Trifkovic has been refused entry into Canada.Ā This amazing decision is all the more scandalous in that it was taken ad hoc in response to the hate campaign by self-declared representatives of one Bosnian ethnic group carrying out a vendetta...
āRoe vs. Wade for Menā¢ā?
The schadenfreude in watching society collapse comes from knowing that leftist ideology, by way of the law of unintended consequences, ushered in the fall.Ā Fifty years ago, no one would have thought that real men who instinctively protected women and children would transmogrify into eunuchs who send women into combat and murder the unborn. Yet,...
Deracinated Americans
It was a late night in the small-town pizzeria, and the owners were sitting at our table drinking the Antinori Chianti riserva that was ātoo sourā for the local Swedes, who prefer Lambrusco on the rocks when they are not drinking Miller Lite.Ā The husband had come from Italy as a child, but his wife...
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...
On Transnationalism
In Bill Kauffman’s sermon “World Citizens on Main Street” (March 1997), he decries the purchase of a local Batavia, New York, tractor factory by a German firm as an example of foreign “Teutonic overlords . . . tied to Batavia only by the flimsy cord of the almighty dollar.” Using such epithets as “executioners” and...
Political Passions, Part II
American churches cannot make up their minds. Do they serve God or an Uncle Sam who for a long time has been looking a great deal like Mammon? On patriotic holidays the choirs sing that bloodthirsty and nonsensical anthem to war and slaughter ironically titled “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” and pastors give sermons...
Everybody in America
As I understand gun control, the idea is to disarm criminals unless they work for the government. Police used to see their duty as to protect people.Ā Since the feds took over training them, more and more of them think their job is to swagger, push people around, and make military-style assaults. An Obama spokesperson...
The Ryancare RoutāWinning by Losing?
Did the Freedom Caucus just pull the Republican Party back off the ledge, before it jumped to its death? A case can be made for that. Before the American Health Care Act, aka “Ryancare,” was pulled off the House floor Friday, it enjoyed the supportāof 17 percent of Americans. Had it passed, it faced an...
Instaurare!
On being taken to Mass in the underground basilica at Lourdes, the late Msgr. Alfred Gilbey, that most courteous of men, was moved to comment, āIt reminds me of nothing so much as a Nazi rally.āĀ He was referring to the vast crowds, the raised central stage, and the spotlit altar of this concrete bunker.Ā ...
Sophistory
From the September 2015 issue of Chronicles. Two thousand fifteen was the year that we Americans broke history.Ā By ābreaking history,ā I do not mean something like ābreaking news,ā or ābreaking records,ā or even ābreaking the Internetā (though the Internet certainly played a role).Ā Yes, the āhistoric momentsā of the Summer of #LoveWins and #HateLosesāthe...
Is Trump Facing a 1960s’-Style Revolt?
Sunday morning, President Trump announced that the world’s worst terrorist, the head of the ISIS caliphate who had raped an American woman, had received justice. About to be captured and carried off in a helicopter by U.S. special forces, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi blew himself up with an explosive vest in a compound in northwest Syria....
Could Stay-at-Home Moms Help Put Trump Over the Top?
Donald Trump caught a lot of people off guard with his proposal, spearheaded by daughter Ivanka, on child-care benefits. This is not familiar Republican territory. Of course, Hillary Clintonās plan is more āgenerous,ā promising 12 weeks of paid leave to Trumpās six. But thereās one, big fat difference that has been underreported: Hillaryās plan only...
What Europeans and Americans Really Want
Authoritarians who have managed to entrench their control over the United States and countries in Europe need to be defeated once and for all.
“All the News Unfit to Print”
The systematic and deliberate destruction of the Yugoslav democratic revival by the “international community” and its Belgrade minions following the fall of Slobodan Milosevic may not be the most important news unfit to print of the year, but it is certainly the biggest untold story. As we approach the anniversary of this event, the time...
Pulling the Plug on NATO
Every pro-NATO argument is really an argument for its abolitionāin the eyes of America's patriotic realists.
Selling Them the Rope
The United States recently came under an attack by an activity so insidious that Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and his Wisconsin colleague Tammy Baldwin joined forces in an effort to demand it be āreined in.āĀ Massachusettsā Elizabeth Warren, the Senateās modern-day firebrand who never tires in her perpetual imitation of the maniacal abolitionist John Brown,...
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.