On April 1, 1815, Otto Eduard Leo pold von Bismarck was born on the family estate at Schƶnhausen near Berlin, in what used to be Prussia.Ā He came into this world at the end of a quarter-century of pan-European crisis, which started with the French Revolution and ended with Napoleonās defeat at Waterloo. Bismarckās bicentennial...
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The Rejection Election
With the Iowa caucuses a week away, the front-runner for the Republican nomination, who leads in all the polls, is Donald Trump. The consensus candidate of the Democratic Party elite, Hillary Clinton, has been thrown onto the defensive by a Socialist from Vermont who seems to want to burn down Wall Street. Not so long...
The Agrarian Burden
Recently, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute hosted a panel discussion on the āgreat books of conservatism,ā among which was Richard Weaverās 1948 work Ideas Have Consequences.Ā The title, as one panelist noted, has become something of a catchphrase on the right, even as the memory of Weaver and his own influences, the Southern Agrarians, fades into...
Race and Civil Rights
One would expect race-baiting liberals and leftists to try to glorify the ācivil-rights movementā and the laws of the early 1960ās, insisting that we view all of it as earth shaking history, more important than the fall of the Roman Empire, the Norman Invasion, the battles of Tours and Lepanto, the Reformation, the American, French,...
Thatās Life: The Changing Face of Board Games
On the first page of The Death of the West, Patrick Buchanan proclaims that āAmerica has undergone a cultural and social revolution.ā He argues that opinions, beliefs, and values have, in the last generation, been altered by elites using TV, the arts, educational institutions, and various avenues of entertainment to transmit their ideas. One of...
Conservativs in the Crease
Vice President Dick Cheneyās lesbian daughter, Mary, found a way to impregnate herself so that she and her lover, Heather Poe, whom Mary met while playing ice hockey 15 years ago, can rear a child.Ā Grandma is thrilled.Ā āDick and I both are very much looking forward to this new baby,ā said Lynne Cheney.Ā Mary...
In Spies Battle, Trump Holds the High Ground
In backing John Brennan’s right to keep his top-secret security clearance, despite his having charged the president with treason, the U.S. intel community has chosen to fight on indefensible terrain. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper seemed to recognize that Sunday when he conceded that ex-CIA Director Brennan had the subtlety of “a freight...
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,...
Leningrading Verdi
Foreigners often think of life in Italy as operatic, which shows that reinvestment in the obvious is not always a losing propostion. If only more foreigners had followed Nietzsche in asking “If it is true that evil men have no songs, how is it that the Russians have songs?” then perhaps the world would not...
The Fruits of Tolerance
The terrorist bombings on July 7, 2005, in London were widely described as proof that the British multicultural model is flawed; few, however, noted that this crisis has an illustrious precedent, the assassination of Theo van Gogh in the Netherlands.Ā On November 2, 2004, a young Muslim, born in Amsterdam to Moroccan parents, shot Mr....
Shafik and Other College Presidents Have Mission Confusion
American colleges and universities have long been considered tops in the world, but this preeminence wonāt last if they operate as mere indoctrination factories, turning out social activists instead of knowledgeable, independent thinkers.
Paging Senator Biden
Many in Congress deeply regret having voted President Bush a blank check for war in October 2002. And they are frustrated at their inability to compel him to begin bringing the troops home. Why, then, is Congress pushing for a new confrontation, with Iran, which could involve us in a war with a nation four...
Itās Hard Times, Cotton Mill Girls
Historians tend to make the same argument: The South lost the Civil War because its economy was agrarian rather than industrial, with too few munitions factories to supply Confederate troops with weapons and too few textile mills to clothe them.Ā According to these same historians, the postbellum sharecropper system proved to be an economic disaster,...
Charities Off the Dole
As of June 1, residents of the Land of Lincoln are free to enter into civil unions, which allow same-sex couples to enjoy the benefits, protections, and responsibilities under Illinois law that are granted to spouses.Ā According to the richly appointed homosexual-rights movement that lavished funds and exerted pressure upon the politicians who passed the...
The Disappearing Middle Eastern Christians
Fourteen centuries of Islam have fatally undermined Christianity in the land of its birth. The decline of the Christian remnant in the Middle East has been accelerated in recent decades, and accompanied by the indifference of the post-Christian West to its impending demise. Once-thriving Christian communities are now tiny minorities, and in most countries of...
Choosing Caliphs
After reading Aaron D. Wolfās āPrince of Darknessā (Heresies, January) I can see that the author knows very little about Muslims.Ā In every Islamic country, the strong rule.Ā That is what the caliphate was and will always be.Ā The rulers are and will always be ruthless.Ā They follow their prophet in this regard.Ā If you...
This Weimar-Like Time
“All artists,” my old friend Ed Abbey was fond of saying, “should have their lips sewn shut.” Certainly, to judge by current trends in the art world, many ought to have their fingers broken, their easels burned, their chisels hammered into plowshares. Witness, to name but one instance, last summer’s Kulturfest in sunny San Ysidro,...
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...
Securing the Lincoln Memorial
It is a beautiful prospect, looking east from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. We were there recently on a fine March day, and could see past the Vietnam and Korean Memorials up through the Reflecting Pool (currently under repair for a leak), to the giant fountain of the World War II Memorial (dry also),...
Are Biden Democrats Holding a Losing Hand?
“Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.” In the movie classic Cool Hand Luke, the convict Luke, played by Paul Newman, explains that to his fellow inmates after winning the pot in a hand of poker without even a pair of deuces. President Joe Biden should take notice. For, right now, “nothing” is the...
Screen
Slime After Slime Star 80; Written and Directed by Bob Fosse; Ladd Company/Warner Brothers. by Stephen Macaulay An ad for Star 80 claims that it is considered “One of the Year’s [1983] Ten Best” by a number of people who should know; lest anyone have doubts, the claimants are listed. One man, apparently, just couldn’t...
‘Bidenomics’ Gaslighting Reveals POTUS’s Impotence Lead-Up to 2024
Joe Biden and his cackler henchwoman, Kamala Harris, will run on "Bidenomics." And they will ask you not to believe your own lying eyes, but to believe that the turd sandwich they are offering up is actually a tasty filet mignon.
Wendy
Look, the Wendy Davis candidacy for Texas governor isnāt going anywhere. (Aināt goinā nowhere, Bubba, as we might say in Texas.) Whatās with the New York Times Magazine cover story on Feb.Ā 16 ā Wendy looking sleepily seductive,Ā blonde tresses streaming down to her shoulders; the headline inquiring in pseudo-provocative fashion, āCan Wendy Davis Have...
My New Blog
The commentary editor of the online edition of The Daily Mail has invited me to contribute a blog several times a week. Ā Once he wakes up and realizes his terrible mistake, the blog may be gone with the wind a lot sooner and more permanently than the Confederacy. Ā So, if ...
In Flight
Up in the Air Produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures Directed by Jason Reitman Screenplay byĀ Sheldon Turner, adapting Walter Kirnās novel The Road Produced and distributed by Dimension Films Directed by John Hillcoat Screenplay by Joe Penhall, adapting Cormac McCarthyās novel Ā George Clooney, well-groomed and exceedingly fit at 49, seems perfect as Ryan Bingham,...
On the Celebrity Waterfront
By the time I arrived at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, the selection was over. About 200 people had won coveted bleacher seats to the red-carpet entrance of the 71st Academy Awards. Among celebrity-worshipers, sitting in the Academy Award bleachers is like taking communion from the pope. Reaching this pinnacle requires a fanatical...
Books in Brief: August 2021
Becoming Elisabeth Elliot, by Ellen Vaughn (B&H Books; 320 pp., $24.99). This is the official biography of the wife of famed missionary martyr Jim Elliot, who was killed along with four other missionaries while attempting to bring the Gospel to a group of savage natives in the South American jungle during the mid-1950s. Elliot was...
Magna Mater, Full of Grace!
“Nature, which is the time-vesture of God and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish.” āThomas Carlyle I don’t believe I realized, until I began reading up on the subject of Deep Ecology, how far the rot of despair and self-loathing has penetrated the Western world. Multiculturalism as an expression of the...
Leviathan’s Children
Washington apparatchiks have spent the last two decades in a frustrating search for a theme that could carry the sagging American welfare state. There are signs now that they have finally identified a, two-headed creature slouching toward Bethlehem-on-the-Potomac to be born: “families” and “children.” Jimmy Carter had a vague sense of the political power behind...
Big Brother, Little Sisters
Ā When Sonia Sotomayor decided, in the last hours of the last day of last year, to issue a temporary stay on the enforcement of the ObamaCare contraception mandate, she surprised a lot of people, but likely no one more than the man who had appointed her to the U.S. Supreme Court.Ā Barack Obama prefers his...
Can We Coexist with Asia’s Communists?
Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met for seven hours at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii with the chief architect of China’s foreign policy, Yang Jiechi. The two had much to talk about. As The Washington Post reports, the “bitterly contentious relationship” between our two countries has “reached the lowest point in almost half...
Ashli Babbitās Warning for 2024
Jack Cashillās āAshli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6ā exposes the weaponization of the law against citizens.
Thoughts on the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris
Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; Mock on, mock on; ’tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. āWilliam Blake Some thoughts on the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris: 1. Maybe gun control isnāt such a great idea. The killers somehow got AK-47s and possibly...
Letter From Pale: The War Industry
There were two reasons for my visit to Belgrade last fall. His Beatitude, the Serbian Orthodox patriarch Lord Paul (82 years old), invited me to his official residence to honor me for “my endeavour to interpret objectively the all-Serbian tragedy.” I was decorated with the Order of St. Sava I, the highest decoration of the...
Kosovo in the Crosshairs
Serbian voters have approved a new constitution that, among other things, reaffirms Serbian sovereignty over Kosovo, which, since the NATO bombing of 1999, has been administered by the United Nations with the help of NATO troops.Ā The referendumās passage will further complicate the efforts of Western policy-makers to grant independence to Kosovo since to do...
Butchery in Philadelphia
Ā SeveralĀ commentersĀ have decried the lack of media coverage of the trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell in Philadelphia.Ā Gosnell is charged with the deaths of one pregnant woman and seven children who were born after botched abortions; those children were killed by having their spinal cords severed.Ā Witnesses have testified that many more babies were also...
The Mystery of Animals
It seems that bipolarity is a significant element of human nature, mental as well as emotional.Ā Human beings tend toward extremes in both thought and feeling, never more than when the subject of either is the animal kingdom with which we share our world.Ā Most of mankind differentiates among animals as ferocious beasts, objects of...
If It Aināt Broke . . .
Greek teachers are frequently asked which text they recommend for introductory Greek.Ā Although many new textbooks have come along since 1928, when An Introduction to Greek by Henry Crosby and John Schaeffer was first published, none has rivaled, much less surpassed, this old warhorse.Ā It is not that the rivals are without merit.Ā James Allenās...
Hillary Clinton’s Ongoing Bosnian Fixation
Ā Secretary of State Hillary Clinton started her two-day Balkan tour in Sarajevo on Tuesday byĀ issuing a fresh call for Bosniaās centralization. She urged āreforms that would improve key services, attract more foreign investment, and make the government more functional and accountable.ā Hatreds have eased, she went on, ābut nationalism persists. Meanwhile the promise of...
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...
ELCAināt
In a 1992 episode of the TV show Cheers, the slow-witted bartender Woody is distressed to find out on his honeymoon that he has just entered a āmixed marriage.āĀ He belongs to the Lutheran ChurchāMissouri Synod (LCMS), and his bride is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).Ā Among Woodyās concerns is...
What, Me Worry?, Part I
During a long and less than spectacular lunch at a tourist joint on the Piazza BrĆ in Verona today, I could not help overhearing an American couple talking about their trip, their hopes, their dreams. They were dressed regulation Rick Steves, with dangly things around their neck to connect them to their tour guideāthis despite...
Selma, 50 Years On
On Martin Luther King Day, 2015, how stand race relations in America? Selma, a film focused on the police clubbing of civil rights marchers led by Dr. King at Selma bridge in March of 1965, is being denounced by Democrats as a cinematic slander against the president who passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965....
Lee Marvin, Marine
I first met Lee Marvin in 1964.Ā I had seen him around town for several years.Ā He lived on Latimer Road in Rustic Canyon, a part of our then small, quaint hamlet of Pacific Palisades.Ā He had four children, but his marriage was on the rocks, and he was spending many an evening drinking at...
Postrevolution Blues
The situation is familiar to any student of socialist revolutions: The revolution is over, and the political apparatus has become authoritarian and alienated from its popular base. The lives of real people become less important than the economic programs and ideological causes of a growing bureaucracy. Then come suspicion, repression, overzealous police vigilance, persecution of...
The Only Way Out Is Through
It might be tempting for conservatives to withdraw to their own local enclaves within a larger culture so dominated by the left, but that strategy of retreat is a surefire way to lose in the end.
The Capitalist Nonesuch
When the first of the truly modern āmodern politiciansā straddled the front page, even the meliorism junkies of the New York Times deemed it proper to lament the creatureās arrival and to bemoan its lack of substance.Ā But the journalists, as always, had no clue.Ā In an age when money is not only paper but...
An Obscene Carnival
The obscene carnival of digging up an American hero who died 141 years ago has come to an end. No arsenic was found in Zachary Taylor’s remains, proving that he was not poisoned, which any competent and sensible historian could have told you without this grotesque and impious exercise. (Even if significant traces of arsenic...
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...
The End of the American Middle Class
We have now entered a new age which will not have a name or a designation until, I think, at least one or two centuries from now: But then, such is the evolution of historical terminology.Ā Yet we should be able to recognize at least some of its apparent characteristics.Ā One (to my old-fashioned mind,...