Virtue signaling is a term that has recently caught on in Britain.Ā Coined in The Spectator (the magazine I work for) by James Bartholomew, it refers to the way that people seem to think that being good means expressing fashionable liberal opinions.Ā To be consideredāor to consider yourselfāvirtuous, you donāt have to do; you just...
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The Rest of the Story
In this densely composed study, E. Michael Jones, editor of Culture Wars and outspoken Catholic traditionalist, tries to explain why American inner cities have been physically and socially devastated.Ā Investigating four metropolitan areas that he knows wellāPhiladelphia, Chicago, Detroit, and BostonāJones argues that established urban neighborhoods did not deteriorate simply because of economic crises or...
A Kinder, Gentler Amnesty
By the time Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano confirmed the shift in policy, it was hardly a surprise.Ā In an August 18 letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and 21 other Democratic senators, Napolitano acknowledged that removing people from the country simply for being illegal immigrants was no longer ...
Wokeness Is No Laughing Matter
I remember once hearing someone who dealt with such things point out that there was one particular trait characterizing all cult religions: the lack of a sense of humor, not only with regard to others, but in relation to themselves as well. Cult religions, after all, are usually obsessed with one doctrine, to which all...
Noble Savagery
The Emerald Forest was often discussed as the surprise film of the summer season. It is certainly that and perhaps more. Although Mr. Pallenberg’s tribute to pristine nature suggests that yet another environmental evangelist walks the corridors of a Hollywood studio, the sheer visual beauty, exacting detail, and anthropological authenticity give this film a majesty...
Back to Barbarism
Much of the bioregional vision should appeal to conservative sentiments. As the pitiful remnant of America’s agrarian culture again falls victim to drought and depression, the bioregionalists call for a return to the land, a reconstruction of self-sufficient farm life, and a reverence toward the soil as the organic bond of human generations. As Ortega...
Diversityāor Meritocracy?
A voracious and eclectic reader, President Nixon instructed me to send him every few weeks 10 articles he would not normally see that were on interesting or important issues. In 1971, I sent him an essay from The Atlantic, with reviews by Time and Newsweek, by Dr. Richard Herrnstein. My summary read: “Basically, (Herrnstein) demonstrates...
California Ecclesiazusae
During the June primary campaign for governor of California, a GOP operative told me that the plan of the party elites is to nominate Mitt Romney for president in 2012, with Meg Whitman as his running mate.Ā That way, she would spend hundreds of millions of dollars of her fortune on the campaign, enriching every...
Triumphant Return
Bill Clinton’s triumphant return from Africa is a bad omen for the next two years. Temporarily liberated from the shackles of Paula Jones’s allegations, the President will now be free to rim the country exactly as the First Lady sees fit. During the President’s tour of Africa, we got a glimpse of what lies in...
The Declaration Nowāand Then
In 1996, Barry Alan Shain published his Myth of American Individualism: The Protestant Origins of American Political Thought.Ā It was a book that should have shaken professional conservatism to its foundations.Ā At the time Patrick J. Buchanan was a standard-bearer for an America bound by a common cultural and religious tradition and was being resisted...
Suicide of the Right
After spending several weeks in deep hugger-mugger at the Republican Party platform committee this summer, the leaders of the right wing of the GOP emerged triumphant. Their deeply beloved and totally useless Human Life Amendment was reaffirmed. The obnoxious statement of “tolerance” for the opinions of those who disagree with the amendment was excised. Language...
Acting Up
Faithful Roman Catholics are routinely criticized (this book is no exception) for their unwillingness to condone the use of contraception. Although it is commonly believed that opposition to contraception is unique to Catholic doctrine, it was only recently that Protestants gave up the same fight. As recently as the 40’s and 50’s, the Anglican C.S....
Surviving the Budget Crisis
My dear Hobson, The bleak tone of your email has distressed me.Ā You report waking on the morning of November 7 convinced that a vast majority of politiciansāRepublicans and Democratsāare certifiable lunatics.Ā According to your somewhat incoherent letterāwere you inebriated, or are all those sentence fragments and dangling prepositions the dismal product of your recently...
The Nutball the Neocons Wanted in NATO
Even interventionists are regretting some of the wars into which they helped plunge the United States in this century. Among those wars are Afghanistan and Iraq, the longest in our history; Libya, which was left without a stable government; Syria’s civil war, a six-year human rights disaster we helped kick off by arming rebels to...
Beautygate!
Hereās an opinion that might as well be a fact of life: Men of all ages find beauty queens to be attractive.Ā Yes, I know, itās quite a newsflash.Ā Remember, you read it here first. Yet judging by the mediaās reaction when longtime sports play-by-play man Brent Musburger paid a compliment to Katherine Webb, the...
A Strange Career
C. Vann Woodward, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and a contributing editor to The New Republic, is the leading liberal historian of the South. For three decades his encyclopedic knowledge and detailed historical investigations have produced works that have set the pattern for subsequent historians. Woodward accepts the title “liberal,” if somewhat...
Whither Obama’s Foreign Policy?
According to the Washington Post, a senior diplomat from a major European country, a Middle Eastern ambassador, and an Asian ambassadorāall of whom represent āmajor, big-league countriesāāhave been getting lots of messages from their home offices wondering how exactly President Obama will exert his influence over the contracting American Empire. Apparently āBarack Obamaās folks arenāt...
No Pedestrians
The last time I visited Brazil I arrived on a Ladeco flight from Santiago clutching a copy of Chile’s best newspaper, El Mercurio, wherein I was much impressed by an exclusive from the ever-erudite pen of Thomas Molnar. His article dealt with the architectural rape of modern cities, of which Pei’s monstrosity in front of...
A Broad Path to Destruction
Public and private interests are joining forces to build a massive transportation ācorridorā through the middle of Texasāthreatening property rights, wildlife, and the historic landscape of the Lone Star State.Ā The Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) would be the initial U.S. portion of a complex of highways and rail lines from the interior of Mexico to the...
Abused Virginia Teen Gets a Second Chance at Justice While Democrats Block It
An interview with the mother of a sex-trafficked, gender-confused teen, who says that Virginiaās proposed āSageās Law,ā opposed by Democrats, would protect troubled minors and preserve the rights of parents.
America Through the Looking Glass
Not so long ago anticommunist conservatives used to rail against the mirror fallacy, the leftist assumption that the Soviet Union could be studied in Western terms. If only we could strengthen the hand of the doves and “responsible” elements, we could keep the country from falling into the hands of the hard-liners and hawksāthe Soviet...
The Mood Disorder Clinic
A poem with a vivid title has started a brouhaha at the Mood Disorder Clinic at Western Psychiatric in Pittsburgh. “Nigger Do Not Speed In My Town” was discovered on a desk by two black employees who reported it to the EEOC as evidence of a racist environment at the Mood Disorder Clinic. The offended...
Bidenās Shameless Hypocrisy on Migrant Family Separations
Team Biden is going to great lengths to conceal data on the high and growing number of family separations occurring at Americaās southern border, which have resulted from their bad policy and are happening on their watch.
Death of a Nation
Every living nation needs symbols. They tell us who we are as one people, in what we believe, and on what basis we organize our common life. This fact seems to be very clear to the current leadership in Russia, particularly to President Vladimir Putin, in restoring and reunifying a country rent by three generations...
Great Minds
I found Scott P. Richertās article āTaking Back the Cultureā (The Rockford Files, December) very interesting.Ā It brings to mind Robert Nisbetās central thesis that the medieval was an era of higher civilization, since it had power spread over a wide field, rather than the concentration of everything in one institution.Ā Nisbet, as I understand...
Perceptibles
Hugh Bayless: The Best Towns in America; Houghton Mifflin; Boston. A semanticist would have a field day with the title affixed to Mr. Bayless’s efforts. The word “best” is one of the most subjective in the English language. And “town”: What, exactly, are the definitive differences between town, village, municipality, city? (Hint: It isn’t size;...
America: An Us vs. Them Country
“Send her back! Send her back!” The 13 seconds of that chant at the rally in North Carolina, in response to Donald Trump’s recital of the outrages of Somali-born Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, will not soon be forgotten, or forgiven. This phrase will have a long shelf life. T-shirts emblazoned with “Send Her Back!” and Old...
The End of the Balkan Interlude?
Unlike the 1990ās, when the turmoil from the breakup of Yugoslavia dominated the security agenda of the United States and her NATO allies, subsequent years have been relatively quiet.Ā The civil war in Bosnia has not flared up since the conclusion of the Dayton Accords in late 1995.Ā Albania, which teetered on the brink of...
Prairie Dog
Fairbanks has an interesting hypothesis: that early prairie women loved the plains and their adventurous lives here as much as pioneer men did. I have never believed in the myth that every pioneer woman was long-suffering, silently hating the prairie and the man who brought her here. I was pleased to think that I’d found...
Historians in Blunderland
The academy is in an even worse plight than you may imagine.Ā Every so often, surveys reveal just how far Americaās professors are out of touch with the political and cultural mainstream.Ā Not only do they overwhelmingly register with the Democratic Party, but most adhere to the straitest sect within that tradition, those who regard...
Dixie Choppers
The Confederate flag, which had been in a place of honor (though not sovereignty) above the South Carolina capitol for almost 40 years, was removed in the stealth of the night of June 30/July 1. The removal was made possible because all but a handful of Republicans in the legislature, who had pledged not to...
Has History Passed Obama By?
Barack Obamaās dream of being a transformational president who alters the course of his country died 48 hours ago. The message America sent Obama and the men and women America sent to Congress to replace his allies impel one to ask: Why would he want a second term? Why would the most liberal president since...
Suspending Relations
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, with a membership of some two million under the leadership of Archbishop Iakovos, suspended its relations last June with the National Council of Churches. This came as welcomed tidings to all who are serious about authentic belief in Christ. In an explanatory letter to the NCC bosses, the Primate of North...
Trumpian Fantasies
āJan. 6, 2021, is not over, but it already lives in infamy. A sitting president of the United States, having lost re-election, incited a mob to storm the Capitol as the Congress sat in joint session to certify the Electoral College vote. This act was without precedent. It was based on a lie, fed by...
There Once Was a New England
AĀ few years ago, I was talking about Timothy Dwight to an audience of people old enough to appreciate both his Christian orthodoxy and his old-fashioned patriotism.Ā When I mentioned Dwightās passion for farming and his devotion to agriculture as a way of life, a man from Dwightās adopted state of Connecticut informed me that there...
For Greater Glory
Ā The story of the Mexican Left’s murderous persecution of the Church is not well known, even though it inspired one of the great novels of the 20th century,Ā The Power and the Glory.Ā Ā The story of the Cristero uprising intended to end that persecution is even less well known.Ā But that uprising has now inspired a...
What We Are Reading: June 2021
Marriage and divorce. Is there any topic on which it is easier to find self-professed conservatives who somehow cannot bring themselves even to seriously contemplate the truly conservative position than this one? Louis de Bonaldās On Divorce remains, more than 200 years after its first publication, the most profound and philosophically sound argument for the...
Crescent Moon Over Europe
Jean Raspail, the French novelist and explorer, now 90 and living in a suburb of Paris, must be experiencing the eerie feeling of living inside The Camp of the Saints, his most famous work, as he follows the contemporary news reports from across the Continent. The tens of thousands of Third World migrants are arriving...
Twice-Baked and Twice as Bad
Every couple months or so, my wife and I host an event we call Twice-Baked Tales.Ā Weāll have friends over for a home-cooked meal followed by a screening of a movie (usually from the 1930ās, 40ās, or 50ās) and its remake.Ā So far weāve watched Out of the Past (1947) and its 1984 remake, Against...
Fearful Symmetry
The Tailor of Panama Produced by John le CarrĆ©, John Boorman, and Kevan Barker with Columbia Pictures Directed by John Boorman Screenplay by John le CarrĆ©, John Boorman, and Andrew Davies Released by Columbia Pictures One of my favorite films is Carol Reed’s 1960 adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel Our Man in Havana, which tells...
The Sea Change of Declining Birth Rates
In the parish church I attend here in Front Royal, Virginia, out-of-town visitors are often surprised by the number of babies, children, and teens at any of the four Sunday services. Wiggling kids fill the pews, somewhere a baby is crying, and at the back of the church is a room reserved specifically for nursing...
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...
Testing Time for Farage and Boris
The end of the phoney war is now in sight. The Conservative combatants in the general election have indulged their training exercises, which are to close squares round Borisās deal and find evermore reasons to belittle Corbyn.Ā Labour is engaged in its eternal war between Mensheviks and Bolsheviks, with the current outcome in the balance.Ā The ScotNats...
Wolfowitz in Love
Two years ago, upon learning of President Bushās nomination for president of the World Bank, I expressed relief (Cultural Revolutions, May 2005) that, āat his new post, [Paul] Wolfowitz will not be able to do nearly as much damage as he has done at the Pentagon.āĀ The damage, however, has continued.Ā For the past three...
Taking Stock
Sir John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada, was a Conservative. He is remembered chiefly for his love of alcohol and his hatred of free trade. Brian Mulroney, the last elected Conservative prime minister, foreswore alcohol when he reckoned (correctly) that he could surmount the greasy pole (just like George W. Bush) and...
āGay Marriageā
From Genesis to Revelation, by Way of the New Yorker At the beginning of 1999 . . . my wife Cathleen Schine, announced that she no longer wanted to be married to me.Ā She had to leave, she had to get away for a new life, for she had mysteriously changed in her affections ....
Picking Up the Pieces
Great Britain is in troubleāpolitically, economically, and culturallyāand Phillip Blond wants to change this.Ā He blames both the political right and the left for having created an atomistic society in which all pursue self-interest to the detriment of society as a whole. Blond explains how Britain got into this predicament and then gives several chapters...
āSrebrenicaā and the Power of Reason
āTruth and reason are eternal,ā Thomas Jefferson wrote to Rev. Samuel Knox in 1810. āThey have prevailed.Ā And they will eternally prevail . . . ā Jefferson was wrong.Ā His belief that āError of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left to combat itā was naive. As Patrick J. Buchanan ...
International Community
In April, Condoleezza Rice made a stunning display of her keen analytical mind and verbal agility.Ā During a joint press conference with the Hungarian foreign minister, the secretary of state found herself defending the Bush administrationās decision to abstain rather than veto a U.N. resolution turning over crimes committed in the Darfur region of the...
Limited Government is Not āReckless Radicalismā
With Inauguration Day behind us, ink spilled on politics is being diverted from Donald Trump and the transition of power to Joe Biden and the exercise of power. One such piece by Jeffrey D. Sachs over at CNN takes a rather disingenuous approach to this theme, calling a small government approach āreckless radicalism.ā Rather than...