Maybe in another decade or so we will be ready to assess the full political and psychological impact of the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, but already we can observe some of the major effects. The partisan impact became clear last year, when Bill Clinton’s reelection owed so much to the...
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Wall of Sound: Noise as the Basis of Culture
āAnd when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted,he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.āāExodus 32:17 Poor Phil Spector. He may be a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the producer of a string of hits from āBe My Babyā (The Ronettes) to...
Fictional Muslims, Nonfictional Muslims
Ninety-two years ago, at the apex of Englandās Edwardian ease, Gilbert Keith Chesterton published a curious little novel, written in his inimitable light-but-serious style.Ā In the context of a literary ambience that had recently produced The Wind in the Willows and Peter Pan, The Flying Inn must have seemed like just another piece of whimsy,...
Making Choices, Taking Chances
The Girl on the Bridge (La Fille sur le pont) Produced by Films Christian Fechner and France 2 CinƩma Directed by Patrice Leconte Screenplay by Serge Frydman Released by Paramount Pictures Saving Grace Produced by Homerun Productions and Portman Entertainment Group Distributed by Fine Line Features Directed by Nigel Cole Screenplay by Mark Crowdy and...
Hugging Himself
James Boswell (1740-95), whose frank and revealing London Journal sold are than a million copies, is the most “modern” and widely read 18th-century author. His circle of friendsāJohnson, Burke, Gibbon, Reynolds, Hume, Goldsmith, Garrick, and Fanny Burneyāwas the most brilliant in the history of English literature. Cursed with a morbid Calvinistic streak, Boswell had uneasy...
A Sellout of Our Unemployed
By the choices we make we define ourselves. We reveal our biases and beliefs. And so, too, do our institutions. In writing the $789 billion stimulus bill, Congress revealed that, for all its
Herman Cain and Obama’s 1000 Days
Ā MyĀ latest on theĀ Daily MailĀ takes up the rise and what I hope will be the fall of Herman Cain. I also have anĀ even newer piece on Obama’sĀ First 1000 Days. Please do not respond here, since what is really needed is a show of interest at theĀ Daily Mail. Ā I would rather be doing these pieces...
Equity or Bust
Lyndon B. Johnson issued Executive Order 11246 on Sept. 24, 1965, directing federal agencies and contractors to not only avoid discrimination but to also ātake affirmative action to ensure … equal employment opportunity based on race.ā Despite the promises of various Republican politicians, affirmative action remains firmly entrenched in government, higher education, and even in...
Switzerlandās Ukraine Peace Summit Was a Call for Continued War
Western demands aired at last weekās peace summit on the Russia-Ukrainian War were but the unrealistic wish list of the Biden administration and its most hawkish European cohorts.
Lone Star Rising
The development of a uniquely Texan conservatism has occurred over the last quarter century. A central figure in this transition was the late M.E. Bradford, professor of English at the University of Dallas, literary essayist in the tradition of the Vanderbilt Agrarians, and prominent critic of the political Lincoln. In 1972, Bradford rallied to the...
Superbowl Ruminations
The first Superbowl I’ve ever watched was the battle between the famous Dallas Cowboys powerhouse of the mid 90s and Bill Cowher’s inspiring underdog Pittsburgh Steelers (Superbowl XXX, played in Tempe, Arizona).Ā I was in America a little more than a year and was the only kid in my small Russian Jewish immigrant neighborhood in...
Collegiate Bread and Circuses
Ah, the good olā days! If only they were as frolicsome and fulfilling as they commonly seem in the rearview mirror!Ā All that notwithstanding, the shaky balance that, in university settings, once seemed to prevail between academics and athletics gives the past a certain golden glow. You know what Iām talking about if you recall...
That Bloodbath in the Old Dominion
The day after his “Silent Majority” speech on Nov. 3, 1969, calling on Americans to stand with him for peace with honor in Vietnam, Richard Nixon’s GOP captured the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey. By December, Nixon had reached 68 percent approval in the Gallup Poll, though, a year earlier, he had won but...
Muslim Pressure and Christian Appeasement
From time to time I go to Oxford, the city of dreaming spires, the home of what Gladstone called āthe God-fearing and God-sustaining University of Oxford.āĀ For Catholics it is revered as the home of Cardinal Newman, that most human and subtle of converts, and for Protestants it is the place of the Martyrs Memorial...
ISIS āStrategyā in Tatters
A serious anti-IS/ISIS strategy urgently requires greater clarity on two key regional players: Iran and Bashar al-Assad. What is the projected role for Iran, a major regional player and a key actor in Shia Iraq, with which the Obama administration is evidently keen to strike a comprehensive deal on nuclear issues? How can a successful...
Love’s Old Sweet Song
I once had the privilege of hearing Professor Polhemus deliver some of these pages as a lectureāthe passage on the terrible end of Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, which I have found as superb to read in 1990 as it was to hear in 1986. I also once heardāand watchedāhim do a number on The...
In Flight
A review of Up in the Air (produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures; directed by Jason Reitman; screenplay by Sheldon Turner, adapting Walter Kirnās novel) and The Road (produced and distributed by Dimension Films; directed by John Hillcoat; screenplay by Joe Penhall, adapting Cormac McCarthyās novel). George Clooney, well-groomed and exceedingly fit at 49, seems...
Si vis pacem
āAll may have if they dare try a glorious life or grave.āĀ I saw those wordsāGeorge Herbertās, as it turned outāincised into the stonework of a church near Waterloo Station.Ā There was a little churchyard nearby, it was a warm spring afternoon, and I think I must have read those words over a thousand times.Ā ...
Large Canvas, Long Reach
Madison Smartt Bell has a penchant for keeping his fiction mysterious at its deepest core. The protagonist of his 1985 novel, Waiting for the End of the World, is a fellow called Larkin who is out to destroy New York City for no reason a reader can ever discern. The willful wackos who give The...
The Habitation of Justice
Judge Roy Moore, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, is in big trouble again.Ā Judge Mooreās first 15 minutes of fame happened when, as a lower-court judge, he refused to remove a plaque containing the Ten Commandments from the wall of his courtroom.Ā The plaque, it was said, amounted to an impermissible establishment of...
Who Are the Taxers?
Never say Republicans can’t learn. After losing the presidency in 1992 on the tax issue, they now use euphemisms for their tax hikes and hide the increases with new and improved fiscal gimmickry. In this Congress, the word “reform” has come to be synonymous with a scheme to extract more money from the private sector,...
A Major Threat to American Identity
Economic globalism, beloved of many on the contemporary right, may be the major threat to the national and cultural identity of American civilization in the coming decades, but its logical counterpart is the political globalism, long beloved of the left, that marches under the banner of “one world.” As the economic dependence of the United...
Simple Goethe
Last summer, I read simultaneously Goethe’s Dichtung und Wahrheit, his autobiography up to the time of writing Werther, his collected travel diaries, and his life by Emil Ludwig. Of the three biographical works, my unhesitating judgment is that Ludwig’s book is the disappointment: it compares to Goethe’s own narrative of his youth as the description...
Revolt of the Fatherless
The crash of Western civilization can be traced to the stateās surgical removal of the fatherās authority and to the feminized blind rebellion that has followed.
Itās the War, Stupid!
Political analysts, consultants, and āscientists,ā envious of the success of economists in turning the study of wealth creation into a scientific discipline and a lucrative profession, are always searching for rules and laws to explain and discover certain regular and logical structures in human efforts involved in winning, preserving, and expanding power.Ā Elections provide a...
Macedonia unrest: āWarning to Skopje against new Turkish pipelineā
Srdja Trifkovicās latest RT interview The Republic of Macedonia has become important to the U.S. policymakers in recent months, as it could be the only way for Russiaās proposed Turkish Stream pipeline to reach Central Europe. Washington does not want that to happen, as Srdja Trifkovic told RT in the latest live interview, and this...
A Stranger to His Kind
“Poetry,” declared T.S. Eliot, “is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not an expression of personality, but an escape from personality.” More than one set of eyebrows has arched at that pronouncement. For surely we read in part to know the man behind the work. A blind bard,...
The World Tires of Dollar Hegemony
What explains the paradox of the dollar's sharp rise in value against other currencies (except the Japanese yen) despite disproportionate U.S. exposure to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression? The answer does not lie ...
A Front Man
Vladimir Putin’s one-year anniversary as president of Russia was marked by a Soviet-style celebration. “We are back to pretending again,” my Russian friend commented as we watched the stage-managed antics of several thousand young people, all of them wearing T-shirts bearing the likeness of Vladimir Putin, converging on Vasilevsky Spusk (adjacent to the Kremlin) on...
Farewell, Professor
Prof. William J. Quirk taught at the University of South Carolina School of Law for 44 years.Ā In that capacity, he influenced and encouraged hundreds of students. A favorite class was his survey of the Constitution.Ā Guided by Professor Quirk, students contemplated and discussed such matters as the Articles of Confederation, the Treaty of Paris,...
Infernally Yours
The Departed Produced and distributed by Warner Brothers Directed by Martin Scorsese Screenplay by William Monahan In The Departed, a raucously sordid meditation on the ways of the lower-class Boston Irish, director Martin Scorsese has included a passing tribute to Carol Reedās peerless film, The Third Man.Ā Reedās adaptation of Graham Greeneās novella concludes with...
Of Rights and Rabbits
James Bohan, a Pennsylvania attorney, believes he has elevated the abortion debate above the pedestrian levels of both medicine and religion. However, Mr. Bohan rises above faith and science only to fall back on the well-worn cliches of human rights doctrines found in the sacred texts of the Declaration of Independence, the writings of Albert...
If Nixon Had Been Friends With Bob Woodward
For starters, I propose to say the unthinkable: the unnamed coauthors with Bob Woodward of this book are President and Mrs. Clinton. All the inside stories dealing with the first 18 months of the Clinton administration, the reported dialogue, who said what to whom, and the secret memoranda were, I believe, handed to Mr. Woodward...
Turkish Referendum: Neo-Ottomans Victorious
Over the past eight years, Prime Minister Rejep Tayyip ErdoÄanās Islamist government and his AKP (Justice and Development Party) have been successful in undermining Mustafa Kemalās legacy and the character of the state founded upon that legacy. What remained, until last Sundayās referendum, was ...
A No-Longer-Broken City
It is a strange experience, after an absence of 25 years, to revisit a city with which one was once linked by ties of solidarity.Ā Stranger still was it to discover that Berlin, while it has been extraordinarily transformed in many respects, has remained extraordinarily unchanged in others. Probably in no other European capital today...
Death and Taxes
Death and taxes are only a little more predictable than the art of Andy Warhol. Just one month after Warhol’s death in Manhattan at age 58 from a heart attack the morning of February 22, the day after otherwise successful gall bladder surgery, the artist was back in the news. Unlike the obits, the news...
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...
Slender Threads of Liberty
Although Paul Craig Roberts, a nationally syndicated columnist and Hoover Institution fellow, and Lawrence M. Stratton, a fellow of the Institute for Political Economy, are trained in economic and legal analysis, they have written a book that seeks to appeal to civic virtue at the popular level. They do so mainly by weaving together dozens...
How Long, O Lord?
Since the Middle Ages, the Balkan region of Kosovo-Metohia has witnessed firsthand the confrontation between Christianity and Islam.Ā Metohia is a Greek word meaning āthe Churchās land,ā and Orthodox Christians consider Kosovo an outpost of their civilization.Ā Muslims, on the other hand, continue to regard the region as a precious remnant of Islamic penetration into...
The Exceptional Rise of Boris Johnson
āI think Boris honestly sees it as churlish of us not to regard him as an exceptionāone who should be free of the network of obligation that binds everyone else.āĀ These words were written by a housemaster at Eton College about a young student named Boris Johnson. Today, over 30 years later, Johnson seems to...
Brief Thoughts on a Justice Bork
Ā I met Judge Robert Bork once, in the summer of 1989, when I was interning at Accuracy in Media. I was working on a feature story for theĀ Washington Inquirer, AIM’s weekly newspaper, about the Smithsonian Institution’s use of tax dollars to fund the performance of Santeria and Palo Mayombe rituals on the Mall in...
Why Liberal Media Hate Trump
In the feudal era there were the “three estates”āthe clergy, the nobility and the commons. The first and second were eradicated in Robespierre’s Revolution. But in the 18th and 19th century, Edmund Burke and Thomas Carlyle identified what the latter called a “stupendous Fourth Estate.” Wrote William Thackeray: “Of the Corporation of the Goosequillāof the...
Celebrating Defeat
āThat is what we honor on days of national commemorationāthose aspects of the American experience that are enduring. . . . It will be said of us that we kept that faith; that we took a painful blow, and emerged stronger.Ā āWeeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.āā So said...
The Easter Rising and the IRA
In April 1991 an aged Rolls Royce, vintage 1949, drew up to a small crowd outside the post office in Dublin. The president of the Irish Republic, Mary Robinson, stepped out for a brief ceremony, lasting less than half an hour, to mark the 75th anniversary of the Easter Rising in 1916, when a group...
On the Quai at Smyrna
The literature in the English language on various long-established communities eradicated by the horrors of the 20th century is largely dominated by the Jewish holocaust.Ā Accounts of other disappeared communitiesāof Italians in todayās Croatia, the Poles of Galicia, the Serbs of the former Habsburg Military Border, or Germans everywhere east of the Oder-Neisse lineāare available...
Beware the Hate Crime Billās Unintended Consequences
A statuteās words do not tell how the law will be interpreted and applied. All laws are expansively interpreted. For example: āThe Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) was directed at drug lords. Nothing in the law says anything about divorce, yet it soon was applied in divorce cases. āThe 1964 Civil Rights Act explicitly...
Jerks I
Ā The full title should be: Jerks, How to Spot them and How to Deal with them without becoming one of them yourself. The Jerk is the defining character of postmodern America. Ā What the Man of Faith and the Man of the Sword were to the Middle Ages, the Jerk is to our own age....
The Persians Are Coming!
“The Iranians are on the march,” warned John McCain Sunday. “Iran is building a new Persian Empire,” echoed Col. Ralph Peters. So alarmed is Speaker Boehner, he invited Bibi Netanyahu to come and challenge U.S. policy toward Iran from the same podium where the president delivered his State of the Union address. Bibi will make...
The Enemies of Economic Independence
The founders sought more than political independence from Europe. They also sought to secure America’s economic independence. To that end, the second bill enacted by the first Congress was the Tariff Act of 1789, the stated purpose of which was “the encouragement and protection of manufactures.” The end result of America’s reliance on the tariff...
Remembering Moynihan
From the December 2015 issue of Chronicles. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) was the most substantial intellectual to reach high political office in the United States since Woodrow Wilson.Ā Thus his life, writings, policy deliberations, and political efforts, and the effects of these, deserve the most careful and respectful attention.Ā If the apocalyptic era of European...