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...
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Designed to Fail
Over the past year, American elites have spent a vast amount of time discussing proposed reforms in healthcare, arguing about the social and financial costs of producing an apparent social good.Ā In March, Congress approved a law that many observers see as a potential catastrophe, in terms of its devastating effects on our economic future,...
Kosovo Negotiations Stalled
An international conference that would jump-start the stalled talks on the future status of Kosovo could be held after elections in the Serbian province next month, European diplomats said Monday. The current round of negotiations, supervised by an international Ć¢ĀĀTroikaĆ¢ĀĀ of the EU, Russia and the United States, is scheduled to end on December 10....
Why Fake News Matters
Fake news, as I discussed last month (āFaking It,ā The Rockford Files), is a very real problem, though less for the reasons commonly given (the potentially destructive effects it may have on our ādemocracyā) and more for the fact that it both flows from a lack of concern for truth (and thus says something about...
Church and State
The strongest parts of Laudato Siā, the latest papal encyclical, are the first sections of Chapter Three, āThe Human Roots of the Ecological Crisis,ā where Pope Francis addresses the quest for limitless power that has been the dominant ambition of the Western world since the Renaissance: power over nature, andāsince, as he points out, humanity...
Not a Fit Topic for Discussion
William Jefferson Clinton and his supporters have stepped up their efforts to restore republican government to the United States. Responding to the Starr reportāand the accompanying boxes of documentation sent to Congressāthe President’s liberal champions took up the chant that “It’s all about sex” and argued that the real debate in the House Judiciary Committee...
Michelle Obamaās Justified Complaint of Existence
RecentlyĀ The Michelle Obama PodcastĀ revealed shocking informationĀ that should concern all white people. āWhen Iāve been completely incognito during the eight years in the White House, walking the dogs on the canal,ā Obama explained, āpeople will come up and pet my dogs, but will not look me in the eye. They donāt know itās me.ā She further...
Fat Henry Is Still Dead
Itās bad enough that yesterday was Earth Day. Ā Over at NRO, Andrew Stuttaford reminded us that yesterday was also the 500th anniversary of Henry VIIIās becoming the King of England.Ā Except that Stuttaford, an English atheist who left England for New York, sees this anniversary as an occasion for celebration, and Henry as a āLiberatorā...
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...
Monumental Follies
Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History by Alexander Adams Societas 180 pp., $29.90 The ill-starred year of COVID saw another, more localized, virusāan outbreak of attacks on public monuments in several countries, particularly in the United States and Britain. While this sickness presents itself as a skin-disease, only scarring symbols, its virulency attests...
Waste of Money
Spent Fireworks Allen Wier: Departing as Air;Ā Simon & Schuster; New York. by Dennis R. Perry Critic Allen Tate once commented that the epic could not be written in a society without common values. Allen Wier’s Departing as Air unfortunatelyāand unintentionallyāreminds us that if there is a basis for fiction in our society, it is based...
Am I a Threat to National Security?
When I first saw the memo from the FBIās counterterrorism center in Newark, declaring that Iām āa threat to National Security,ā not to mention an āagent of a foreign power,ā I was incredulous.Ā These canāt be real FBI documents, I thought to myself.Ā Someone is pulling my leg. Sadly, no.Ā
Collegiate Anti-Semitism Did Not Start Yesterday
As I look at the Johnny-Come-Lately critics of our anti-Semitic universities, I am reminded of the French Communist Party during and after the fall of France. Why should we now celebrate those who contributed to this poisoning of our culture?
The Golden Goose: A Recollection
In the bright, warm autumn of 1947 that followed a chilly summer, several hundred bewildered 17-year-olds found the Ohio State University campus in Columbus swarming with an alien and formidable species: veterans. The war, though well over, was still more a reality than a memory. The Great Depression was over too, having disappeared insensibly in...
Crime and Punishment Among the Last Englishmen
England abolished capital punishment in the mid-1960’s when few capital crimes were committed there, and corporal punishment was abolished long before that. Sometimes when I am in Manhattan, reading of the constant homicides there, I recall the four “Mayfair Playboys” of my not-so-distant youth who were sentenced to the “cat” in two doses of eight...
Letting Paris Burn
France is reaping the harvest of disastrous immigration and economic policies. Rather than advocating for an unlikely restoration of order in Paris and other riot-prone Western cities, conservatives should steel themselves to wait patiently for collapse.
Roll Up Your Sleeves, Deplorables
Trump has triumphed. Now what? A theme is reverberating on this, the Day After, and it goes like this: The media are buffoons who so obviously got everything wrong. How could anyone trust them ever again? All of the Network Gurus (save FOXās) staved off the Trumpocalypse for as long as they could on Tuesday...
The War on Christmas
Ā One of the signature features of Western politics in the last few decades is the rise of the cultural Marxism known as “political correctness.”Ā As advocated by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, leftists have worked their way through the institutions of the West, leaving a trail of cultural devastation in their wake.Ā A hallmark...
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...
On Spain
Joseph E. Fallonās article āThe American Myth of World War Iā (Vital Signs, January) contained a statement suggesting that the United States, in displacing Spain as an imperial power, had taken on some of Spainās characteristics. In one respect, there is a striking similarity between Spainās century of imperialism (the 16th) and Americaās (the 20th).Ā ...
Bidenās Black Lies Matter
Joe Bidenās āpep talkā to the graduating students at the historically black Morehouse College was full of the leftās usual uninspiring lies.
Don’t Quit Your Job to Raise a Litmag
“Poetry is the most overproduced commodity on the market, next to zucchini.” āJudson Jerome, Writer’s Digest poetry columnist since 1960 According to a 1985 study cited by Writer’s Digest Books, 23.3 percent of all people who think of themselves as writersāor “more than two million people“āwrite poetry for publication. It follows that there are then...
Everymanās Poet
Jared Carter, who has retired from a career in publishing, is a Midwestern poet of stature.Ā He won the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and the Poetsā Prize; he has had a Guggenheim fellowship and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.Ā He is profiled in the Dictionary of...
Winning the War Against War
One recent morning an opinion piece by Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post arrived unbidden in my email inbox. āShould Putin act, it would arguably be the greatest provocation since the end of the Cold War,ā Rubin claimed. āLike the Berlin Wall and the blockade of Berlin before that, movement into Ukraine would be...
Substandard: The End of an Illusion
The sale of The Weekly Standard should put paid to any lingering illusion that the neoconservative empire was anything but a Potemkin village.Ā Allegedly, Rupert Murdoch sold the magazine for one million dollars to Philip Anschutz, the billionaire owner of Clarity Media Group, but the price seems either much too high or much too low.Ā ...
A Triumph of Terrorism
Western media are declaring the million-man march in Paris, where world leaders paraded down Boulevard Voltaire in solidarity with France, a victory over terrorism. Isn’t it pretty to think so. Unfortunately, the massacre at Charlie Hebdo, its military-style execution, the escape of the assassins, and their blazing end in a shootout Friday was a triumph...
Taboos and Blasphemies
When I first read that the now late Ayatollah Khomeini had sentenced Salman Rushdie to death, I, like most of you, reacted with both horror and disgust. The leader of Iran sent out an order to kill a citizen of the United Kingdom for something he wrote about Mohammed. This was as clear a violation...
Odysseus Lost
A new novel suggests compelling and realistic ways of thinking about the problems confronted by returning soldiers.
A Pest-House
No major city in this country concedes that its major hospital is a pest-house, or that its museums display junk, or that its symphony orchestra squeaks. Nor are cities satisfied with inadequate schools. In medicine, the arts and music, politics and government, and primary and secondary education, there is good but no “best.” Yet we...
From JKF to DSK
When you ask a Russian of my generation or older about conspiracy theories, Kirov is the name that wanders into his mind as readily as the name Kennedy springs to yours.Ā Thirty years and an ocean separate these deaths, whose aim, in both cases, was not so much the elimination of a political rival as...
Under Circeās Spell
Love and Friendship Produced by Westerly FilmsĀ Written and directed by Whit Stillman from Jane Austenās Lady SusanĀ Distributed by Roadside AttractionsĀ and Amazon StudiosĀ Whit Stillmanās new film, Love and Friendship, is an adaptation of Jane Austenās epistolary novella Lady Susan, an early and somewhat unfinished work she wrote when she was all of...
The One Certain Victor in the Pandemic War
Ā “War is the health of the state,” wrote the progressive Randolph Bourne during the First World War, after which he succumbed to the Spanish flu.Ā America’s war on the coronavirus pandemic promises to be no exception to the axiom. However long this war requires, the gargantuan state will almost surely emerge triumphant. Currently, the major expenditures...
Mission Creep in the Middle East
American aircraft went into action against Islamic State positions in Tikrit on March 25 in direct support of a stalled Iraqi offensive. The following day General Lloyd Austin, top commander in the Middle East, told Congress that he would like his forces to protect the Syrian āmoderateā rebels who are currently trained and armed by...
The One and Indispensable
When Bill C. Maloneās Country Music, U.S.A. first appeared in 1968, it was obviously the most careful, well-researched, judicious, and accessible book on any kind of American popular music, including jazz, that had been published up to that time.Ā Three revisions later, and a passing of the torch by Malone to a successor charged with...
At the Golden Spur
It was Saturday, the day before Earth Day in the Golden Spur Bar in Magdalena, and one of our always-informal meetings of DUCA and DUWA was in progress. That is, three cowboys (Drunken Underemployed Cowboys’ Association) and I (substitute “Writers'” for “Cowboys'”) were drinking tequila shots and Coors, and doing what, other than rewarding but...
ClassicsāPast Ideology and Persistent Reality
This year the Ingersoll Foundation has decided to present the Richard M. Weaver Award for Scholarly Letters to a professor of classics. Amidst joy and gratitude, this will bring to the fore some of the uneasiness that has been associated with the word and concept of “classics” for a long time, an uneasiness that seems...
Piety and Meaning
Walter Sullivan is professor of English at Vanderbilt University, the author of two novels, and, most recently, of Allen Tate: A Recollection. He is also a frequent and long-standing contributor to the Sewanee Review, in which four of the ten essays in this volume (dedicated to, among others, George Core, Sewanee‘s editor) first appeared. Although...
The New Freedom of Rhyme
In the days of Latinate learning, there was an animus against rhyme which must have been a considerable nuisance in that heavily inflected language. In his Observations on the Art of English Poesie of 1602, the English poet and composer Campion remarked: The facility and popularity of Rime creates as many poets as a hot...
What Is Wrong With This Picture?
The foreign adulation of Obama proves only one thingāthey like him because they see him as not very American. Iām sorry, President-elect Obama, but I donāt feel very healed by this election. Opposed to a black President?Ā I am not reconciled yet to John Quincy Adams. I hear that local gun sales are up 49...
Centuries of Delusion
After centuries of delusion that white people ever accomplished anything worth doing, Euro-Americans are finally learning to grapple with just how worthless they really are. Last November, a conference of the Brahmins of “Afrocentrism” in Atlanta devoted all of a weekend to expounding the much-trumpeted insights that it was really Africans who built the pyramids,...
Tyranny in Our Time
From the December 2013 issue of Chronicles. There is a saying among jurists that hard cases make bad law.Ā Similarly, every book critic knows that the best books make for hard reviewing.Ā Faced with a truly fine work, the reviewer is tempted simply to reproduce the authorās thesis in abbreviation, while scattering as many of...
Contingency and Chance in Scottish and American History
Why did the Americans win and the Jacobites lose? The classic answer is that the Americans represented the future, a future of liberty, freedom, secularism, and individualism. The Jacobites were the past, reactionary and religious, the products of a hierarchical society motivated by outdated dynastic loyalty. This difference was supposedly reflected in their military methods,...
Bush’s New “Axis of Evil”
Ā George W. Bush must have been the despair of the history department of every school his daddy managed to get him into. Consider his latest excursion into the history of the republic, at Southern Methodist, where the Great Man’s papers are to be housed. What’s interesting about our country, if you study history, is...
Discipline By the Wayside
Bratsānow we call them hyperactive childrenāused to be disciplined; these days they are given drugs. Many psychologists and school officials insist that Ritalin is the best treatment for children suffering from hyperactivity, or the “attention deficit disorder.” As a matter of routine, 15-year-old Rod Matthews of Canton, Massachusetts, was put on Ritalin as a means...
Philadelphia Vs. Cleveland: Divided We Stand
Wednesday was the best night of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Joe Biden, Tim Kaine and Barack Obama testified to her greatness and goodness and readiness to be president. And all saw in the Republican Convention in Cleveland a festival of darkness and dystopia. Nor is this unusual. For, as the saying goes, the ins “point with...
Christmas Visit to Bosnia
President Bill Clinton’s announcement, made during his brief Christmas visit to Bosnia, that U.S. troops were going to stay in that blighted Balkan province well beyond the initially announced “deadline” of June 1998, surprised only the naive. The only surprising aspect of the announcement was Clinton’s refusal to set any new deadlines: the troops were...
Henry and Louise in the Lair de Clune
“Rochester had sprung up like a mush- room, but no presage of decay could be drawn from its hasty growth.” āNathaniel Hawthorne The day after his 101st birthday, novelist Henry W. Clune escorted my wife and me to a fine local restaurant, where we dined in the Henry Clune Room. “It’s a sin to live...
Come, Ye Thankful People
A “progressive” rap on “social conservatives”: All they crave is power to tell you whom to sleep with, and how, and what god (if any) to worship. This contrasts, naturally, with broad-minded types of the progressive persuasion, who don’t care what you do, morally speaking, so long as you don’t say or do anything insensitive...
Will Diversity Be the Death of the Democrats?
Both of America’s great national parties are coalitions. But it is the Democratic Party that never ceases to celebrate diversityāracial, religious, ethnic, culturalāas its own and as America’s “greatest strength.” Understandably so, for the party is home to a multitude of minorities. It is the domain of the LGBTQ movement. In presidential elections, Democrats win...
Tunisia: The Game Is Not Over
Ā A week-long visit to Tunisia, in the course of which I covered some 2,000 miles byĀ rental car, bus,Ā SUV, and aĀ powered hang glider, has confirmed that of faraway places we often assume to know more than we do. The first country affected by a wave of popular discontent known as the Arab Spring was full...