At the time of his election to the papacy, many thought that Pope Benedict XVIās approach toward Islam would be, by and large, no different from that of his predecessor, the late John Paul II.Ā But Benedictās now-famous speech at the University of Regensburg and the ensuing reactions in the Islamic world have shown that...
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Causing Divisions
AIDS, like abortion, seems to have divided the religious community along conservative and liberal lines. One might suppose, in a reasonably rational society, that the increasing availability of contraceptives would reduce the incidence of abortion. However, in the United States at least, abortion has risen dramatically with the availability of contraceptives. Similarly, one might have...
Hell Man
From the June 2000 issue of Chronicles. Ā Ā Ā Ā “My views on Hammett expressed [above]. He was tops. Often wonder why he quit writing after The Thin Man. Met him only once, very nice looking tall quiet gray-haired fearful capacity for Scotch, seemed quite unspoiled to me. (Time out for ribbon adjustment.)” āRaymond...
Just War or Just Another War?
Political experts are certain that war with Iraq is on the horizon, though there is some disagreement about how distant that horizon might be.Ā The way the Bush administration and media pundits invoke the words ājusticeā and ājust warā without actually calling attention to the historical criteria for a just war has been disconcerting.Ā The...
Soviet Spies and Agents of Influence
Probably the greatest triumph in public opinion manipulation in modern history was the West’s elevation of the Soviet Union into a symbol of righteousness and a country beyond criticism. This triumph was all the more notable because from day one of the Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin’s system, to quote Robert Conquest, “had as one of its...
One World, One Leader, One god
The unity of Christendom and the restoration of the American republic are themes that have intertwined their way through the numbers of this magazine, like the twin strands of the DNA double helix. The message does not always meet with approval. Recently, a man of wealth and influence told us that he was no longer...
One Law for the Left…
For many weeks the press in Britain have been obsessed with the Jimmy Savile sex scandal, and it has many months to run.Ā Savile, who died in 2011, aged 84, was a superstar entertainer for the BBC, and his programs attracted millions of viewers.Ā The BBC needed Savile and his huge audiences to justify the...
Turkish Tally
A few years ago, my wife and I set off to spend a sabbatical year in Spain, but thought we would go via Turkey. The idea started with a new Swiss “motoring” map that laid out the highways in firm red lines. We also wanted to go to the Aegean islands of Greece. We’d been...
Americanism, Then and Now: Our Pet Heresy
On January 22, 1899, Pope Leo XIII addressed an encyclical (Testem benevolentiae nostrae) to James Cardinal Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore, intended āto suppress certain contentionsā that had arisen in America āto the detriment of the peace of many souls.āĀ In essence, Leo feared that some American Catholic intellectuals, including a number of bishops, were finding...
The Alternative Candidate
Several thousand feet below a smoke cloud 20,000 feet thick and 1,500 miles in diameter, the American West looks so peaceful, so at ease, so normal, no matter that over a million acres of it are on fire. The fires, most of them started by dry lightning strikes and burning out overmature forests thickened with...
Leonardoās Little Joke
The Da Vinci Code Produced by Columbia Pictures Directed by Ron Howard Screenplay by Akiva Goldsman from the novel by Dan Brown Distributed by Sony Pictures At one point in The Da Vinci Code, the marvelously funny movie based on Dan Brownās as nearly hilarious novel, Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), renowned cryptologist for the Direction...
Wrongful ‘Rights’
“Men ambitious of political authority have found out the secret ofĀ manufacturing generalities. āĀ -Sir Henry Sumner Maine Donald Lambro: WashingtonāCity of Scandals; Little, Brown; Boston.Ā Richard E. Morgan: Disabling America; Basic Books; New York. The contemporary American political scene does not encourage optimism.Ā Donald Lambro, author of Fat City, documents in minute detail the all-too-numerous Washington scandals....
Conservative Commons
American conservatism in the late 18th century was unlike the European species, where popular “peasant” and articulate “aristocratic” conservatism were able to develop together and to maintain a common front against the ascendant bourgeoisie. With the exile of loyalists and the waning of the old Federalists, American conservatism was effectively decapitated; nevertheless, a popular conservatism...
The (Politically) Supreme Court
The great sound and fury over the nomination of Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court included many grand proclamations from all sides concerning the original intentions of the constitutionalists and the relevance of those intentions to our society today. It is clear to anyone with a modicum of knowledge about the great issues involved...
Prosperity
Declining prosperity is now a settled fact of American life. Prosperity is not measured by the dayās average of stock speculation, or the profits of bankers, or the munificence of government subsidies and salaries, or the consumption of luxury goods, or even by the Gross Domestic Product.Ā It is amazing how in a few short...
The Tyranny of Violence
Much has been said and written about the growing divide in American society between left and right, including in the pages of this magazine. But there is another growing divide in this country that is arguably more urgent, one that transcends ideological differences. It is a fight between those who seek to preserve order and...
Bats and Weasels
The Dark Knight Rises Produced and distributed by Warner Brothers Directed by Christopher Nolan Written by Christopher and Jonathan Nolan Hope Springs Produced by Escape Artists and Mandate Pictures Directed by David Frankel Written by Vanessa Taylor Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Ā Christopher Nolan doesnāt do things by halves.Ā His third Batman movie, The Dark Knight...
Caledonians of the Heartland
Celebrating St. Andrew’s Day (November 30) is not uncommon among Scots, especially in the English-speaking world, but the widespread commemoration of the birthday of the poet Robert Burns (January 25), even by non-Scots or “Scots for a day,” sets this national group apart from all others. No other national heritage rests so heavily on the...
The Terrestrial God
It all depends on what we mean by “sacralizing” and “sacred,” and to a lesser extent by “secular.” The fact that Professor McKnight is a student of Eric Voegelin should not be left unmentioned in this regard, because for the recently deceased great scholar, “sacred” remained an elusive term. The word certainly referred to a...
The New Middle East Strategic Landscape
Without U.S. engagement the Middle East is assuming peace and stability as a new balance of power quickly develops.
Using Howard Stern to Build Hillary’s Dream
As I sit down to write this, on the Sunday afternoon before the second presidential debate, the media feeding frenzy over remarks made by Donald Trump 11 years ago continues unabated.Ā The content of those remarks reminded me of one of the more interesting pieces I’ve read about the improbable rise of Trump, an article...
Books and Book Reviewing, or Why All Press Is Good Press
When Bob Woodward published Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, in October of 1987, two things made that book news. One was his assertion that William Casey, the late director of the CIA, had admitted to knowing about the transfer of funds in the Iran-contra deal. The other was the skepticism over Woodward’s claim...
Andrew Lytle and the Cultivation of American Letters
The name of Andrew Lytle should be better known than it is: he has been a distinguished novelist and author of some widely anthologized short stories; an essayist, historian, and memoirist; an editor of the Sewanee Review for many years; and a teacher of creative writing at the University of Florida and the University of...
The Uses of Diversity: Recovering the Recent Past
One of the more interesting recent books of popular history, Paul Johnson’s Modern Times, stakes out the period between the outbreak of World War I to almost the present. In Johnson’s intellectual framework, the boundaries of modernity are marked by two great revolutionaries: Albert Einstein, who threw the thinking world into a turmoil of doubt...
Comprehending the Absurd: The U.S. Balkan Policy
Ā Over the past two decades the decisionmakers in Washington have acquired and internalized a bias in Balkan affairs that falls outside the parameters of rational debate. As Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute has noted, such policy is not as inconsistent as it seems: āTime after time the U.S. policy makers would ask what...
On David Horowitz
It’s a pity that Chronicles chose a shallow and vindictive reviewer like Justin Raimondo (“David Horowitz and the Ex-Communist Confessional,” June) to vet Radical Son for the Chronicles audience. Justin’s animus toward me (based on a public clash we had some years ago) is transparent enough, but his reading of my text is so bizarre...
Soros at Davos
In his latest interview for Sputnik Radio International, Srdja Trifkovic discusses an unusually revealing performance by George Soros at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. [You can listen to the interview here.] Sputnik:Ā George Soros has launched an attack on Chinaās President Xi Jinping in his speech at the WEF in Davos, saying that artificial...
Democracy and the Golden Mean
A naive visitor arriving in the United States from abroad might conclude from the popular emphasis on āmoderationā in contemporary American political discourse that Americans live under a government that represents a moderate theory of the appropriate scope and power of the state and harbors only modest political ambitions.Ā If he happens to be a...
Notes on Art Patronage
Art patronage has had a long, uneven, and agitated history, and ideas about it appear to have long ago been settled: we call “great ages” those with intellectual and artistic brilliance, and we also add that these achievements were largely public, since taste and splendor were manifested first of all in buildings, churches, town halls,...
These Foolish Things
Barbara W. Tuchman: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam; Alfred A.K Knopf, New York. Ā William L. Shirer: 20th Century Journey: A Memoir of a Life and the Times. Volume II: The Nightmare Years, 1930-1940; Little, Brown & Company, Boston. Ā The world of nations, like the world of nature, is characterized by...
The Peculiar Path
A Bavarian legal scholar who has been attached to the U.N. Secretariat and to the E.U. Commission in Brussels, Josef SchĆ¼sslburner has disagreements with the German Basic Law, enacted in 1949 as an interim constitution for the West German Federal Republic.Ā The author describes this guiding document and the circumstances that helped shape it as...
Who’s Slave and Who’s Massa?
Of all the strange bedfellows that politics attracts, one of the oddest is the enduring liaison between the black civil-rights establishment and white liberal academics. One partnerāthe academic auxiliaryāis most dutiful. It is always there: demanding legislation, concocting dubious constitutional interpretations, justifying quotas, or consoling struggling minority students. Criticizing the civil-rights establishment’s agenda invites the...
Conspiracy Realism
Ā Anyone claiming that international bankers, multinational company executives, members of the Bilderberg Group, elite academics, senior judges, United Nations officials and European Union strategists are working together to undermine the remnants of sovereignty and identity of old Christian nations through mass Third World immigration would be dismissed by ourĀ bien pensantsĀ as a conspiracy theorist. A...
Losing Federalism
Human liberty has two distinguishable but inseparable dimensions: the liberty of the individual to act according to his own reason and the corporate liberty of a moral community to pursue a vision of the good lived out in institutions and traditions that bind generations.Ā These two dimensions are necessarily in tension.Ā The individualās autonomy can...
Wheelerās Progress
On October 15, 1905, Burton K. Wheeler stepped off a train at the Northern Pacific depot in Butte, Montana, thinking that he had seen more of the West than Lewis and Clark but wondering if his luck had run out.Ā After looking up every lawyer in town (Wheeler had graduated from the University of Michigan...
Beating Affirmative Action
Is the composition of the Supreme Court the be-all and end-all of important societal conflicts?Ā Are there effective ways that conservatives can address these conflictsāmanifest in political battles over such things as affirmative actionāapart from the Court? The Supreme Courtās decision in Fisher v. University of Texas, handed down on June 23, means affirmative action...
A Road to Nowhere
āThatās my toll booth,ā Tom Ditzler says, laughing when his wife, Jan, mentions the portable toilet that the county has left stationed on an island in the road.Ā āEvery car has to drop a quarter in as they pass by.ā This November day is bitter, in more ways than one.Ā After almost three years of...
The Rise and Fall of a Paleoconservative at the Washington Times (Part II)
Less than two months after Washington Times editor-in-chief Wes Pruden in June demoted me to the rank of editorial writer and cut my salary by 25 percent, yet another cloud began to form on my horizon. In May 1994, I had given a speech at a conference on “Race and American Culture” in Atlanta sponsored...
Reality by the Tail
Luisa Valenzuela: The Lizard’s Tail; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; New York. Ā The Lizard’s TailĀ reflects two important tendencies in Latin American fiction. One is a sense of obligation to make social and political commentary. Few Latin American writers escape the pressures to be active participants in the solution of economic, political, and cultural problems. As...
Conservative Commons
This article first appeared in the December 1987 issue of Chronicles. American conservatism in the late 18th century was unlike the European species, where popular “peasant” and articulate “aristocratic” conservatism were able to develop together and to maintain a common front against the ascendant bourgeoisie. With the exile of loyalists and the waning of the...
The New Dual Monarchy
Canadians often try to explain the fundamental nature of Canada, both to themselves and to visitors, by comparing it with other countries. The United States most obviously comes to mind, especially since television has increasingly obliterated any differences in American and Canadian popular taste. But there are other analogies that are more instructive. Surface manners...
Pope’s World and the Real World
Pope Francis’s four-day visit to the United States was by any measure a personal and political triumph. The crowds were immense, and coverage of the Holy Father on television and in the print press swamped the state visit of Xi Jinping, the leader of the world’s second-greatest power. But how enduring, and how relevant, was...
Midwife Crisis
A few things can be said with certainty of the BBCās Call the Midwife: None of those babies are swaddled tightly enough.Ā Car births arenāt the greatest, but Iāve seen worse than the one in Season Four.Ā And if Sister Evangelina doesnāt know why Sister Monica Joan paired the ass and the angel in her...
Limited By Bias
Yale Scholar’s articles found in Nazi paper, read the headline in the New York Times for December 1, 1987. Paul de Man was a prolific member of the Yale Hermeneutical Mafia, which made the term “deconstructionism” an academic byword. By the time he passed away in December 1984, he was Sterling Professor of Humanities at...
The Surley Skies & Other Civil Slights
What kinds of behavior does our culture encourage? The question is ever in style, and usually a pat and misleading answer is on the tongue of every commentator. Greed, bellicosity, phoniness, racism, sexism, and speciesism come immediately to their minds. However, the question inevitably is worthy of a more meaningful analysis. Our culture has accomplished...
Persecutions to Come
āThe only true spirit of tolerance consists in our conscientious toleration of each otherās intolerance.ā āS.T. Coleridge Consider the unfortunate case of Prof. Thomas Klocek, whose story is one of many examples of intolerance recounted in D.A. Carsonās most recent book.Ā Klocek engaged in a brief debate with a group of Palestinian student activists at...
East Is East and West Is Wuss
If a civilized man, as it is sometimes said, can hold two ideas in his mind at the same time, post-civilized man goes one step farther and sees nothing wrong with maintaining contradictory opinions on any subject that comes up: We say simultaneously that the Russians are animalistic drunkards with no aptitude for the free-market...
Geostrategic Challenges in 2020
As we approach the last year of this centuryās second decade, the United States is still the most powerful state in the world, safe from direct threats by foreign state actors. Two oceans separate America from actual or potential hot spots on other continents, while its neighbors to the north and south are harmless and...
The Best Reality Money Can Buy?
The Perfect Storm Produced by Baltimore Spring Creek and Warner Bros. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen Screenplay by William D. Wittliff, based on Sebastian Junger’s book Released by Warner Bros. The Patriot Produced by Centropolis Entertainment and Mutual Film Company Directed by Roland Emmerich Screenplay by Robert Rodat Released by Columbia Pictures With few exceptions, there...
The Quintessential Hollywood Affair
'Bogie & Bacall' explores the dichotomy between the image of a perfect Hollywood couple and the dark reality of one of the most famous marriages in Hollywood.Ā