The Ground Zero Mosque and the Koran (non)burning are but two recent examples of overreported and misrepresented stories that reflect the sorry level of media discourse in the United States.Ā Meanwhile, an event took place on September 12 that has vital importance for the United Statesā declared strategy in the Muslim world, in general, and...
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Growing Cotton and Communism on the Mexican Stage
When a killer quake ripped through Mexico City last September, it crippled the young theater season then taking shape. In the aftermath of the national tragedy, playhouses went dark for a fortnight. Actors were idled and unpaid, and playgoers turned for sustenance to motion pictures and television drama. But the theater, fabulous invalid that it...
Books in Brief
Theodore Roosevelt: A Literary Life, by Thomas Bailey and Katherine Joslin (Lebanon, NH: ForeEdge; 368 pp., $35.00).Ā Theodore Roosevelt always considered himself a man of letters, and indeed he was one.Ā He began reading widely and writing at an early age, and a day never seems to have passed when he did not read and...
Eugenio Corti, R.I.P.
With the death of Eugenio Corti on February 4, Italian literature has lost the last of its great masters.Ā Born in 1921, Corti grew up in the rolling countryside south of Lago di Como known as the Brianza.Ā His father was a textile manufacturer whose handsome brick factory in Besana had been converted into the...
Graveyard Vigil
Probably the most moving event of my year in Poland so far was my visit to the Powazki Cemetery on the evening of All Saints. It is an old cemetery, with nothing like it that I know of in America. Indeed, the most similar I can recall is found in Maple Grove, the old cemetery...
How the Crusades Were Won
The Christian Crusades of the Middle Ages are today deployed for a wide range of political and rhetorical purposesāto make claims about the Churchās betrayal of Christās teaching, the evils of European imperialism, or the inextricable link between intolerant religion and ghastly violence.Ā Any or all of those claims might be justified.Ā One problem, though,...
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...
Visual Perversions
The obscene production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro perpetrated on a national audience by “director” Peter Sellars and his ensemble troupe in 1991 still bothers me, not least because the abomination has just recently been released on laser disc. More to the point, I am still trying to reconcile the expenditure of both federal...
The Last Doge’s English
I now want to add another likeness to my Gogolian gallery of Venice’s living souls. If this continuing series should start to take on the blurry aspect of a spinning carousel, becoming a kind of soap opera of fleeting impressions, all I can say in my defense is that the development is an intended one,...
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...
The Machinery of Equality
Christians objecting to assisting with homosexual āmarriageā ceremonies continue to suffer defeat in various state courts.Ā The most recent example comes out of New York, where a Christian couple declined to host a homosexual wedding and reception at their farm.Ā The Christians were declared guilty of unlawful discrimination. New York boasts that it āhas the...
Calvinism Without God
Forget the āculture warsā and the assault on Christianity.Ā The real conflict in America is thoroughly secularābetween environmental and ecological āreligionsāāor so says Robert Nelson.Ā He makes the argument, long known to conservatives, that religion never really goes away.Ā Modern secular religions, like these two, borrow heavily from the Christian tradition.Ā As such, they inherit...
On Campus With the National AIDS Quilt
It was a sleepy Sunday afternoon when a section of the national AIDS quilt visited Winthrop University. The sun, slipping low into the tops of the pines, shown red across the sparsely populated campus. With many students still enjoying the waning hours of another weekend spent elsewhere. Rock Hill, South Carolina, was not up to...
Is Putin Our Ally in Syria?
Among the presidential candidates of the Republican Party and their foreign policy leaders on Capitol Hill the cry is almost universal: Barack Obama has no strategy for winning the war on ISIS. This criticism, however, sounds strange coming from a party that controls Congress but has yet to devise its own strategy, or even to...
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,...
Nonsense as Nationalism
“There is always something new from Africa.” āPliny the Elder By the early 1970’s, I had come to the conclusion that American higher education could not get any worse. Most of the young and not-so-young Ph.D.’s in the humanities were intellectually anemic. What few brains they possessed had been starved on a diet of bogus...
A Crimean Travelogue, Part II
Sunday, March 16 ā the referendum day ā started with a morning visit to three polling stations. By 10 a.m. mainly the elderly turned out to vote in large numbers, some of them very frail and most visibly poor. While those approached outside insist that their vote to join Russia is not affected by material...
Flannery OāConnor and Shadows of Evil
OāConnor understood the complicated relationship between tragedy and joy was related to the inevitable confrontation of good and evil. Freedom is embracing the metaphysical surrender to the knowledge that we are not the beginning or even the end of things.
On ‘Globalization’
Regarding my thesis that the 1929 stock market crash was caused by the imminence of passage of the protectionist Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, William Hawkins (Polemics & Exchanges, June 1989) dismisses my findings as the work of a mere “journalist, not an economist.” It was precisely my expertise as a political journalist, not an...
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...
Remembering Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland, in all of his offices, from the first day to the last, steadfastly followed the principles of Jeffersonian conservatism.
Courage Is Worth the Risk
āI took a chance on an āimperfectā pregnancy,ā the title of aĀ New York TimesĀ article recently proclaimed. Intrigued, I read about author Jacquelynn Keruboās journey through a fertility clinic where, after initial treatments, she and her husband were told that they had a āmosaic embryo.ā A mosaic embryo, Kerubo explains, is one which could result in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A Piece of the Action
The Critics Bear It Away is a collection of eight essays by Frederick Crews, dating “from the later 1980’s and early 1990’s,” starting off, after the accurate road map of the “Introduction,” with “The Sins of the Fathers Revisited,” an afterword written to accompany the 1989 reprinting of The Sins of the Fathers (1966), which...
Groomers by Any Other Name
In the wake of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signing the Parental Rights in Education bill into law, the internet has been ablaze with debate as to whether those who advocate for LGBT curricula and policies in public schools should be described as āgroomers.ā The left is predictably up in arms over this controversy. And although...
Celebrating Soul-Destroyers
First, a warning to my dear readers. Please read this article on an empty stomach and when you are in a comparatively calm, placid mood. The subject matter is so nauseating, infuriating, and outrageous, that I do not want to be held liable (here goes that attorney in me!) for the consequences. Having said all...
Kissinger’s Call for a New World Order
Among the works that first brought Henry Kissinger to academic acclaim was A World Restored, his 1950s book about how the greatest diplomats of Europe met at the Congress of Vienna to restore order to a continent shattered by the Napoleonic Wars. Ā The balance-of-power peace these men achieved lastedāwith the significant exception of the...
Time To Leave Korea
North Koreaās artillery attack on a South Korean island on Tuesday was the latest in a series of Pyongyangās aggressive moves over the past year and a half. They started with ballistic missile tests in April of last year, soon followed by a nuclear test in May. Kim Jong Il, who may be mad, upped...
Of Sycophants and Soliloquies
For those of us here in Rockford, Illinois, 200 miles (give or take) northwest of South Bend, Indiana, President Barack Obamaās commencement address at the University of Notre Dame on May 17 provoked a sense of dĆ©jĆ vu.Ā For it was on that same date six years ago that another commencement address on a controversial...
Old Dutch Buggies & New Asian Shrimp Boats
Both Witness and Alamo Bay explore the tensions that arise when dissimilar cultures meet, when people must meet the demands of an alien land. In Witness, a streetwise Philadelphia homicide detective, hardened by a climate of violence and corruption, must hide out among the peaceful Amish of rural Pennsylvania Dutch country. In Alamo Bay, a...
Kosovo Gets Interesting
The problem of Kosovo, an already complex equation with many unknowns, is getting more vexing by the day.Ā On February 2, U.N. special envoy Martti Ahtisaari unveiled his much-anticipated plan for the final status of the southern Serbian province, which has been under NATO-U.N. occupation since Bill Clintonās war against the Serbs in 1999.Ā While...
Who Hates Trump?
Politics is all about hatred.Ā Never mind who youāre voting for: Itās who youāre voting against that really counts.Ā And thatās why any disagreement I may have with Donald Trumpās actual policies is completely irrelevant.Ā Because what really matters is that all the people I really hateāthe media, the leadership of both parties, the entire...
Remembering Russell Kirk
Historians of the American right agree thatĀ Russell Kirk (1918-1994) was one of the key figures in the birth of the postwar conservative movement. Indeed, Kirk more than anyone was responsible for reintroducing the term āconservativeā into American political conversation after its long domination by various strands of liberalism. The centenary of his birth in 2018...
Europe Under Siege
The massive, overwhelmingly Muslim migrant onslaught on Europe is the most important event of 2015.Ā Its proportions are staggering.Ā The Babylonian captivity affected at most 75,000 Jews, and the Vƶlkerwanderung of the late-Roman era numbered in the hundreds of thousands.Ā It is greater, in numbers within the time frame, than the Moorish, Mongol, or Turkish...
MLK Redivivus
Martin Luther King, Jr. did not bring the races closer together; and the legacy he left behind has been one of erasing more and more of our national heritage whenever it does not fit a progressively more radical leftist agenda.
On School Vouchers
Lew Rockwell (“Flies in the Ointment,” September) and I have the same ultimate objective: “an educational market in which parents are responsible for paying for their own children’s education.” We agree also on the “twin evils of public education: involuntary funding and compulsory attendance.” In our ideal (libertarian) world, government would play no role in...
Race Politics, Part TwoāClinton for President, Petty for King
Welcome to Darlington. The cradle of Southern stock car racing. The sport was born near here the first time a U.S. Revenue agent figured that he could catch a moonshiner running along a twisty hack road with a car load of booze. No way. . . . Darlington is tradition. First of the big tracks...
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...
California’s Governor
California Governor Arnold Schwarzeneggerās slate of fairly modest governmental reforms went down to stinging defeat on November 8, 2005, leading Californians to ponder a future in which their flawed celebrity governor has little power and the public-sector unionsāthe targets of most of the governorās failed initiativesāare more brazen than ever. Following the election, I spoke...
Staging A Takeover
Four black students, representing the Union of African Student Organizations, staged a “takeover” at a recent Rutgers University conference on race relations. They grabbed the microphone and proceeded to criticize the audience for its thoughtlessness in not having invited them. In another age, when propriety existed and usurpation was decried, these students would have been...
What Is Right?
Many ambiguities continue to surround the term “right.” A century after the word entered the jargon of party politics, and forty-five years after the military defeat of fascism, there is still no comprehensive theory of the right. What exactly does it represent in a time of “soft” politics and the end of “hard” ideologies? Does...
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...
Getting Better By Going Back
The next administration needs to get back to basics. We need to restore law and order, the colorblind meritocracy, and quality education.
American Historians and Their History
This article is drawn from the authorās speech on accepting The Rockford Instituteās first John Randolph Award at the historic Menger Hotel in San Antonio, a short distance from the Alamo. For this occasion, I have been asked to reflect on āthe historianās taskā and āthe American republican tradition.āĀ To do so could be a...
Origins and Outcome
To the degree that it is remembered at all, the America First Committee (AFC) has gone down in history as an organization most suspect, at best composed of good people serving a bad cause, at worst riddled with conscious agents of a Nazi transmission belt. During its heyday in the years 1940-1941, some of the...
Hey, Macarena!
(Editor’s note: The world, we are told, is shrinking, and all of us are coming to share the same global superculture. However, this brief report from a Slovakian college girl shows what happens to a commercial dance craze when it is taken up by an ancient community living on the fringe of Europe and transformed...
Is That Russia Troll Farm an Act of War?
According to the indictment by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Russian trolls, operating out of St. Petersburg, took American identities on social media and became players in our 2016 election. On divisive racial and religious issues, the trolls took both sides. In the presidential election, the trolls favored Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein and Donald Trump, and...