It was one of those winter days in Texas that seem as gray as the surface of the moon and about as hospitable. Itâs cool outside, so you wear a jacket. Inside, itâs stuffy. Iâm wearing a coat and running the fan at the same time. You canât quite get comfortable when itâs like that. ...
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Cupidity
A review of The Informant! (produced and distributed by Warner Brothers; directed by Steven Soderbergh; screenplay by Scott Z. Burns based on Kirt Eichenwaldâs book) âRadix omnium malorum est cupiditas,â Chaucerâs pardoner warned his guilt-ridden audiences: The root of all evil is greed. Steven Soderberghâs The Informant! serves as a latter-day illustration of this admonition....
Occupying Iraq
Beirut’s occupation in 1983 by U.S. Marines may provide a small-scale sample of what a prolonged U.S. occupation of Iraq could be like, should the Pollyannaish postwar scenarios of some members of the War Party fail to materialize. Of course, the two situations are, in some ways, very different. Beirut, for instance, is just a...
It Just Did Happen Here
Whichever candidate wins the presidency on November 8 (this issue went to press on November 2), the American political establishmentâthe Democratic and Republican parties combined as America Consolidatedâwill have decisively lost the presidential elections. That is the meaning of the director of the FBIâs public decision to reconsider the agencyâs investigation into Hillary Clintonâs email...
A Moviegoer Reflects
I had the good fortune to talk regularly about movies with my good friend and conservative thinker Sam Francis. With intellectual heft, he generously shared what he had learned from his own moviegoing. What follows is offered in the same spirit: a list of 10 movies I have repeatedly enjoyed and unhesitatingly recommend. The Searchers (1956):...
Europe Is Not What It Seems
It would be logical for me to say that, returning to the United States after another four months this summer and fall in various countries of Europe, east and west, I found a great many misconceptions about the continent in American media and public opinion. Yet it would not be fair to limit myself to...
The Third Muslim Invasion
They came in the early eighth century across the Straits of Gibraltar, unleashing terror and carnage across Iberia âlike a desolating storm.â They were stopped deep inside todayâs France, at Tours, by Charles Martel in 732. They kept attacking Europe throughout the Middle Ages, but their next sustained assault was at her vulnerable southeastern flank,...
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. 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...
Simple Answers for Hateful Minds
When did Americans become the stormtroopers of irrational simplification? Not a moment passes when a tweet, Facebook post, or Instagram picture doesnât rip through our amber waves of grain and drive a social justice warrior to attack the nearest deplorable. Take this recent example from The New York Times of a mentally deranged reductionist. In...
Second Childhoods
From its beginnings, science fiction (bastard offspring of fantasy) has exerted a vulgar appeal. Some of its proponents have never shied away from this and, if anything, have celebrated the intelligent child’s outlook, as witness the career of Ray Bradbury. The majority of science-fiction writers have grown into an awkward adolescence in which conquering the...
Thistles from Figs
âSince there has never been a great civilization without poetry,â writes Tom Fleming in the current issue of Chronicles, âwe can say that European civilization has ceased to exist.â True enough, but if the dayâs newspaper is any guide, I reckon the sainted editor is digging too deep. The English word âuxuriousâ was used, and...
Trump or Ryan: Who Speaks for the GOP?
“No modern precedent exists for the revival of a party so badly defeated, so intensely discredited, and so essentially split as the Republican Party is today.” Taken from The Party That Lost Its Head by Bruce Chapman and George Gilder, this excerpt, about Barry Goldwater’s defeat in 1964, led Thursday’s column by E.J. Dionne of...
Collision Course
The polemics engendered by the beatification of Pope Pius IX are unlikely to go away. When all the false charges of antisemitism are set aside, the fact remains that this one man may have done more to stem the tide of liberalism than all the great English and American conservatives of the past two centuries...
Whose Atrocities?
The Last Samurai is the latest movie to treat us to the spectacle of the U.S. Army slaughtering American Indian women and children. Playing a disillusioned captain, Tom Cruise suffers from nightmares for his role in the dastardly deed. He finds honor and redemption as a Great White Samurai in Japan. Many movie reviewers have...
Honest Words
It may be an embarrassing admission for somebody who has been a book review editor for the last 14 and a half years, but the truth is I had never heard of Tony Hillerman until May 1989, when I began traveling in the Southwest in connection with a book-writing project I am working on and...
How I Expanded My Mind
A few weeks ago I went to Munich to see a dentist. The meaning of that experience had not dawned on me in all its vastness until recently. The very word “travel” is repugnant to me. I have never used it to describe my movements, since I always feel I am going somewhere for a...
The Palin Perplexity
 Sarah Palin is the best thing that’s happened lately to the right and the left, both at the same time. Much of the right pays her obeisance for mobilizing the troops and smart-alecking the leftâwhich in turn loves her for splitting (so the left hopes) the right over her personality and track record. The...
Looking Past Our Lilliputian Leaders
All of the presidents of the 21st centuryâBush, Obama, Biden, and yes, even Donald Trumpâseem a cut below the gravitas and statesmanship of the founding fathers. The first three wereâand areâglobalists, and as anyone with eyes can see, Joe Biden and his crew are busy taking a wrecking ball to our liberties. Regarding Donald Trump,...
The End of the United Kingdom?
Of course Scotland wonât leave the United Kingdom. That was the conventional wisdom when the referendum on Scottish independence was announced two years ago. But today no one is quite certain what the outcome will be. The referendum is scheduled for September 18, and polls indicate that a majority of Scots favor staying in the...
Is Putin the Provocateur in the Kerch Crisis?
On departure for the G-20 gathering in Buenos Aires, President Donald Trump canceled his planned weekend meeting with Vladimir Putin, citing as his reason the Russian military’s seizure and holding of three Ukrainian ships and 24 sailors. But was Putin really the provocateur in Sunday’s naval clash outside Kerch Strait, the Black Sea gateway to...
A Tale of Two Elections
Despite a surge of popular support for right-wing parties in Britain and France, this summer's elections ended with an effective containment of the right that will last for years to come.
A Few Days in Florence
January 4, 2014 Â The trip to Florence took a long and unpleasant day. It was cold the day we left, and there was so much snow it required a bit of nerve just to drive to my office to pick up a few things I had forgotten. We caught the bus to O’Hare an...
The Secrets of Liberalism
    “A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret.” âHenry Taylor I was reading his new book when Daniel Patrick Moynihan announced that he would not seek a fourth Senate term in 2000. A university professor who served in every administration from that of...
Post-Human America
Ideological assumptions that but two generations ago would have been deemed eccentric, if not utterly insane or even demonic, now rule the “mainstream.” The trouble is that normal people do not take madmen seriously enough. This works to the advantage of politiciansâan inherently insane breedâand their subjects’ attitude of “they can’t be serious” allows them...
Saving the Irish From Civilization
Despite Dublin’s busy streets, Dublin still has a country-town atmosphere, and the visitor has a definite sense of being just a little behind the times. Part of the reason for this ambiance is that Dublin is a very small capital city. There are only a million or so people living in the whole Greater Dublin...
Two Cheers for the United States Supreme Court
Mondayâs decision was a movement in support of the rule of law over and against lawfare and the rule of unhinged partisan power.
Marxism Misunderstood
In American Marxism, Mark Levin baldly misunderstands Marxism and tries to link it with woke totalitarianism and anarchism. But the term âMarxist anarchistâ is an oxymoron and does nothing to help identify the real enemy.
Creeds and Values
The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon may have jarred American self-confidence, caused coast-to-coast panic, and even (we shall see) ignited World War III, but so far they have failed to put a dent in multicultural etiquette. President Bush and other government spokesmen have been at pains to stress that...
Empire of Destruction: Precision Warfare? Donât Make Me Laugh
You remember. It was supposed to be twenty-first-century war, American-style: precise beyond imagining; smart bombs; drones capable of taking out a carefully identified and tracked human being just about anywhere on Earth; special operations raids so pinpoint-accurate that they would represent a triumph of modern military science. Everything ânetworked.â It was to be a glorious...
Democracy: Reflections on the 2012 JRC Meeting
 Democracy could âworkâ if it was a democracy of and for and by the right people, but that model is fit only for the Post-Raptorial Republic of Angels. In a non-Utopian world it cannot work because âWe the Peopleâ is a corrupt mĂŠlange of mostly coarse individuals pretending to be Gods. Democracy has duly ruined the...
When Inequality Is Fatal for Men
According to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine, as of 2021 women were outliving men by 5.8 years. But the last thing men need is to be designated another victim group.
The Media Strive to Control Us Completely
Decades before the electronic media giants rose to their dizzying heights of power and began canceling those whom they decided to bully, a man named Leopold Tyrmand, the future founder of Chronicles magazine, exposed the false self-image of the media as they claimed to defend our freedoms, when they were really aiming for absolute social control. Today,...
Allegorically Yours
mother! Produced by Protozoa Pictures Written and directed by Darren Aronofsky Distributed by Paramount Pictures The Unknown Girl Produced by Les Films du Fleuve Written and directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Distributed by Sundance Select Wind River Produced by Acacia Filmed Entertainment Written and directed by Taylor Sheridan Distributed by The Weinstein Company I...
The Balkans War
The Balkans war seemed to be coming to an end in mid-December as we went to press. Trying to sort through the lies, misinformation, and distortions for the fragments of truth in the international press requires the patience of an archeologist and the imagination of a poet, but some things seem fairly certain. For several...
Effeminate Synod
The patient lies on the table. Heâs been beaten badly about the head, and burns show round his neck, as if he had been dragged by a rope. Bright red blood trickles out of one ear. He has lost his trousers, and his shirt is in shreds. He cannot tell you what day it is. ...
On Chronicles, Citizenship, and John McCain
Subscribing to your magazine has been an event in my life. It is surely intellectually challenging to me, meaning I don’t know exactly where you stand. I thought you were far right and impishly mailed a copy on the New World Order to a friend who claims to be a socialist and gets angry about...
Phenomenon of Popular Movements
The phenomenon of popular movements of protest succeeding and then being swallowed up by the Establishment is not a new story in American history, but the fate of “conservatism” in the last decade or so gives a remarkable case study. Not long ago, after ages of liberal dominance, conservatism seemed to be in the ascendancy...
Colette Baudoche by Maurice Barrès
 Maurice Barrès is hardly a name in the United States, even to American conservatives who could learn a great deal from his fiction and essays.  A collaborator of Charles Maurras, Barrès had a deeper understanding of blood-and-soil conservatism than most Americans can grasp, and his celebration (in this book) of Metz under YankeeâI mean...
Defending Marriage
Over at Crisis Magazine, I’ve offered up some thoughts on “Taking Back Marriage” that echo a piece I wrote for Crisis in June 2013 (“Where Do We Go From Here?“), when the U.S. Supreme Court last weighed in on the subject of gay “marriage.” Two years ago, my proposed solutionâthat the churches, led by the...
In Darkest London, Part I
The following is written by a white male Catholic convert, 48 years old, who has no specialist theological training whatever, is of strictly average intelligence, and represents no interest group or political movement. It derives solely from a recent visit to London, in which nothing spectacularly horrible occurred, and which was spent mostly among people...
Power and Passports
In June, the Supreme Court greatly augmented executive power by holding that the president has the exclusive right to grant formal recognition to a foreign sovereign. This decision further pushes presidential power in the direction of royal prerogative through which monarchs enjoy the exclusive care over foreign affairs to the detriment of the peopleâs representatives....
What Is History? Part 4B
American Views: The North The Lord made use of my Pen to write many Books for the advancement of His Kingdome; Yea, and had strangely encouraged and fortified my Serviceableness, by such Marks of Respect from other Parts of the World, as no Person in America has ever yett received before me. âCotton Mather, first...
Is Trump Exiting Afghanistanâto Attack Iran?
With the Pentagon’s announcement that U.S. forces in Afghanistan will be cut in halfâto 2,500âby inauguration day, after 19 years, it appears the end to America’s longest war may be in sight. The Pentagon also announced a reduction of U.S. troop levels in Iraq to 2,500 by mid-January. In 2003, we invaded and occupied Iraq...
Blood Will Tell
In Tom Wolfeâs America the Northern WASP elite is shallow and cowardly, the most sacrosanct minority groups seethe with ingratitude toward the majority and snarl at one another, culture is dominated by the conspicuous vulgarity of new and ill-gotten wealth, and manners and morals are in a catastrophic nosedive in which the relation of man...
Calling a Spade a Spade
Nicholas Soames is Winston ChurÂchillâs grandsonâhis mother being Winnyâs only living childâa Conservative member of Parliament since the mid-70âs, a very large man whose food and drink intake is legendary, and an old friend of mine with whom I used to get into terrible trouble (but the less said about that the better). Soames has...
Ron Paul, Now and Then
People donât usually get more radical as they get older; itâs almost always the reverse. And the successful politicians were never radical to begin with. The one exception to this rule is Ron Paul. Ron has been around a long time. The 75-year-old 11-term U.S. representative from Texas ran for president on the Libertarian Party...
The Caravan of Peace
The teeming masses yearning to be free . . . The Caravan of Peace approaches. The massive, marching throng grows by the day. Itâs an Act of Love. And another is already forming, ready to bring more peace and love our way, thousands ready to sacrifice everything and enter our racist, white supremacist country seeking...
Adamsâ Federalism
In 1786, John Adams wrote in his diary that a friend, âlamenting the differences of character between Virginia and New England,â welcomed from Adams a recipe for a Chesapeake makeover: âI recommended to him town meetings, training days, town schools, and ministersâ; these âare the scenes where New England men were formed.â Because Adams started...
The End of Innocence
ââArenât there any grown-ups at all?â âI donât think so.ââ William Golding, Lord of the Flies  In an inner-city school beset by truancy, the presence of a 13-year-old pupil an hour before the first lesson suggests something is amiss. âGood morning, Kim,â I said. âWhat brings you in so early?â Kim didnât answer immediately. ...
Books in Brief: January 2024
Short reviews of The Making of White American Identity by Ron Everyman, The Weaponization of Loneliness by Stella Morabito, and The Significance of the German Revolution by Edgar Julius Jung.