Reading this account of David Brockās journey from the ābigotedā right to a left-liberal politics that allows him to embrace his homosexuality was no kind of pleasure.Ā Luminous observations in the book are few and far between, while betwixt them are ponderous revelations pertaining to Davidās sexual awakening, his relations with a āblond blue-eyed dreamboat...
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Ron Paul Rising
When the Old Gray Lady finally deigned to take notice of Ron Paulās presidential bid, it was in the form of a long piece in the New York Times Magazine by Christopher Caldwell, a piece that confirmed the definite feeling of dĆ©jĆ vu I get when I note the energy, the enthusiasm, and the surprising...
What Would Ike Do?
In November 1956, President Eisenhower, enraged he had not been forewarned of their invasion of Egypt, ordered the British, French and Israelis to get out of Suez and Sinai. They did as told. How far we have fallen from the America of Ike and John Foster Dulles has been on painful display this March. An...
Letters From Rome: Italy’s Russiagate-Wannabe
Back in the Eternal City after three years, and there is another political scandal on the horizon. Or at least the local media machine (every bit as bad as its U.S. equivalent) would have us believe there was. The target: Matteo Salvini, Italyās famously Euroskeptic interior minister. The accusation: corrupt dealings between his Lega party...
Gay Times on the Right
Ā Hardly a day goes by that someone does not email or telephone me with the news that some allegedly conservative writer has finally endorsed “Gay Marriage.” Ā I’d rather not name names, but the most amusing so far has been an online screed declaring Andrew Sullivan the “most important political writer of his generation.” Ā All...
Discrimination and Prejudice
Some of the confusion in thinking about matters of race stems from the ambiguity in the terms that we use. I am going to take a stab at suggesting operational definitions for a couple terms in our discussion of race. Good analytical thinking requires that we do not confuse one behavioral phenomenon with another.Ā Ā ...
The Tragedy of American Education
Robert E. Holloway is a high school teacher in suburban Northern Virginia. He is probably considered a decent man by his neighbors, a competent educator by his peers, and a figure of some authority by his students. He is the embodiment of much that is wrong with this countryās education system, however: a bigot, a...
Stand My Ground
Purchasing a house in a city with double-digit unemployment and some of the highest property taxes in the country may well be a definition of insanity.Ā Buying such a house on foreclosure, unable to make the purchase contingent on the sale of your current home, undoubtedly is. Yet here we areāconsidering taking that leap into...
Californiaās Triumph of Low Expectations
California conservatives know that the unexpectedly convincing victory of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger in the October 7 recall race cannot possibly result in any serious changes in the governance of this increasingly nutty state, yet most people I talk to are quietly pleased at the turn of events.Ā This is not naivetĆ© but the result of...
The Life of the Mind in Glitter Gulch
For seven years (1989-96), I was a full time faculty member at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). I grew up in Las Vegas, earning a B.A. in philosophy from UNLV in 1983 before going to graduate school. In August 1996, my wife and I left Nevada and moved to Southern California, where I...
Vivek Ramaswamy and the Propositional Nation
The latest Republican to announce his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election offers a vision of the American identity as a set of ideals rather than a shared historical experience.
The “Contragate” Hearings
The “Contragate” hearings have been a poor substitute for daytime soap operas and do not begin to match the thrills of Watergate. Perhaps it is because we have heard them before: arrogantly inarticulate congressmen scoring points off frightened bureaucrats, an administration that turns to private contractors to carry on apparently illegal activities, and an imperialist...
The Cabal Strikes Back
Ever since the exposure in the mainstream media last year of the neoconservatives as a fifth column that engineered the present boondoggle in Iraq, dragged the United States into a foreign war for the transparent benefit of Israel, and concocted what are now known to have been lies about Iraqās āweapons of mass destructionā and...
Obama v. BibiāFight to the Finish
In his desperation to sink the Iran nuclear deal, Bibi Netanyahu is taking a hellish gamble. Israel depends upon the United States for $3 billion a year in military aid and diplomatic cover in forums where she is often treated like a pariah state. Israel has also been the beneficiary of almost all the U.S....
“All Men Are Created Equal”
“When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another . . .” The necessity has occurred. The 13 colonies have a long history as self-governing societies, a condition that is now threatened. As all governments derive their just powers from...
A Stranger to His Kind
“Poetry,” declared T.S. Eliot, “is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not an expression of personality, but an escape from personality.” More than one set of eyebrows has arched at that pronouncement. For surely we read in part to know the man behind the work. A blind bard,...
Searching for Foes in the Post-Cold War Era
Despite the President’s and Congress’s promises, the budget is unlikely to be balanced in the year 2002. The bulk of the promised spending cuts come after the year 2000, and future Congresses and Presidents are unlikely to be any more willing than present ones to make tough political decisions. Equally problematic is the fact that...
Learning from Lenin
Vladimir Lenin observed inĀ State and Revolution (1917) that āall previous revolutions perfected the state machine, whereas it must be broken, smashed.ā He meant, as Marx had written in The Civil War in France (1871), that āthe working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes.ā Power,...
Curious Behavior
Jerome Bruner: In Search of Mind: Essays in Autobiography; Harper & Row; New York Ā The so-called cognitive revolution occurred during the career of Jerome Bruner, and his history is essentially its history. At the time Bruner entered the field of psychology it was almost totally dominated by various offshoots of Behaviorism. Behaviorism rests on...
The Socialist Surge That’s Not Coming
One of the really cool things about democracy is that voters tend to get what they wantāwhich, um, can also turn out to be one of the really uncool things about democracy. A thing of real terror, if you want the truth. I tiptoe past the presidential election of 2016 on my way to look...
Letter from Canada: Legislating Oppression
The appointment of a Parliamentary Task Force on Participation of Visible Minorities in Canadian Society was the latest in a series of attempts to persuade Canadians that their country must beĀ come a miniature United Nations in order to substantiate a political theory. The theorist is Pierre Elliott Trudeau; his theory is that “nations belong...
If Nixon Had Been Friends With Bob Woodward
For starters, I propose to say the unthinkable: the unnamed coauthors with Bob Woodward of this book are President and Mrs. Clinton. All the inside stories dealing with the first 18 months of the Clinton administration, the reported dialogue, who said what to whom, and the secret memoranda were, I believe, handed to Mr. Woodward...
Regression and Renewal
In February 1941, the world was at war. Nazism and fascism ruled virtually all of Europe and parts of Africa. Imperial Japan was poised to conquer much of East Asia. Joseph Stalin still controlled the world’s largest land mass, although Hitler was soon to shake Stalin’s throne. That year, Pitirim A. Sorokin, born in 1889,...
Wind in Their Sails
Pro-Family lobbyists on Capitol Hill had a strong wind in their sails last March: the phrase “H.R. 6” had become a verb, meaning “to unleash a tsunami of angry phone calls, letters, and faxes from concerned citizens.” H.R. 6 was a bill to reauthorize (at increased funding levels) the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)...
Disasters Averted
Last nightās divine surprise is important more for the many bad things that will not happen than for the good ones that may happen. That Donald Trump won in spite of his many blunders, and in spite of the mainstream media machine acting as an integral part of Hillary Clintonās campaign, indicates the magnitude of...
Jerks II: Hard Wired
Ā Nearly everyone in his right mind complains about cell phones going off in church or the people who shout into their phones in airports or on the plane, but those Jerks are for the most part anonymous strangers whom we shall never see again. Ā Any attempt to correct them might backfire. Ā But what about...
Mighty Seer, in Days of Old
Itās near the end of October, and the air is crisp and cool.Ā The wind blows hard here on the prairie, the thermometer failing to reflect the chill you feel on your skin and in your bones.Ā A smattering of pinks, reds, and oranges coat the white-cored, cottony fingers floating against the pale-blue morning sky.Ā ...
Trifkovic on Russiaās Strategic Crossroads
In his latest RTRS interview (Bosnian-Serb Republic public TV service), Srdja Trifkovic talks about Russiaās complex political and economic power structure, which is mostly at odds with the image of an authoritarian Kremlin monolith presented in the Western media. [Video hereāTrifkovic segment starts at 6 minutes. Excerpts, verbatim translation from Serbian.] Q: Professor Trifkovic, youāve...
Dotting the I in Idiot, Crossing the T in Tyranny
On Sunday we were on our way to church, when I remembered that I had heard on the radio that the Illinois State Police were going to make a big push to arrest drivers who had committed the greatest crime against man and God known to the modern police, that is, they had failed to...
Breakfast With Bin Laden
I sat down to write this column in the Big Bagel, as I call New York City, and it was to be about the latest hagiography of Winston Churchill, a man I not only dislike but consider to be a war criminal par excellence.Ā Then I heard the sirens outside my house and was deafened...
Artists, Punks, and Techies in the Golden City
If I recall correctlyāalways aĀ Ā dangerous way to start a sentenceāit was sometime in the early to mid-ā70s that John D. Berry wrote in his fanzineĀ HitchhikeĀ about a line of thinking that placed value on having āa sense of place.ā My memory hasnāt retained where he got this notion fromāpossibly from an issue ofĀ Whole Earth Catalogābut the...
Tar and Feathering the South
Demonization as a political and social stratagem knows no temporal or geographical bounds; it is a ploy as old as civilization itself. The objective of the game is to dehumanize an opponent (an individual or a group) in order to gain public support for his marginalization or destruction. Modern America abounds with examples of the...
Rejecting āSystemic Racismā
The latest election cycle did not deliver happy results for the political right. Our dismay is compounded by the strong impression of an unfair result. Ā Whatever you think of the integrity of last Novemberās elections, it cannot be denied that in the months prior a great many very big thumbsāWall Street, Silicon Valley, the...
Finally Made It
John Paul II has finally made it. He’s right up there with Adolf Hitler and The Computer. On January 2, he joined the ranks of heroes and villains honored as Time magazine’s “Man of the Year.” Oddly enough. Time did not go out of its way to portray the Holy Father as you would expect....
The Prism’s Prison
Sometimes it seems that I have become the master of a single plaintive note, sung by the disembodied voice of the patron saint of grasshoppers, Marie Antoinette, from somewhere beyond the tomb.Ā And it is true that often, when I reread whatever I have written, I am reminded of Russian dictionaries of fenya, or for...
What Matters?
The November 2011 issue of Chronicles has a major problem on page five. In āAborted Economyā (American Proscenium), John C. Seiler, Jr., writes, and the editors boldly highlight in a pull-quote, a statement about āthe 1973 class of āfetal matter,ā as the pro-aborts call them.ā I have reread the article several times looking for support...
Gnostic Newt
The hallmark of the sophomoric mind is that it knows the sorts of things that adult minds do but has not yet figured out how to do them. Bright undergraduates who solemnly inform their professors that they plan to write term papers applying what they have read about the latest fads of pop psychology to...
Keeping Asheville Weird
On this Friday evening, the Drum Circle has formed in Pritchard Park.Ā The drummers, many of them on the downhill side of 40, follow the lead of a tall black man standing before them.Ā The music is primitive and repetitious, like the drumming in one of the old Tarzan flicks.Ā In front of the drummers...
The Wrong War
I am nervous about the course I am teaching, this coming fall, about World War II.Ā As I will explain to the class from the outset, there are a few things I do not know about the topicānamely, when the war began, when it ended, where it happened, who were the key protagonists on each...
The Ryancare RoutāWinning by Losing?
Did the Freedom Caucus just pull the Republican Party back off the ledge, before it jumped to its death? A case can be made for that. Before the American Health Care Act, aka “Ryancare,” was pulled off the House floor Friday, it enjoyed the supportāof 17 percent of Americans. Had it passed, it faced an...
The New Middle East
On March 20, President George W. Bush marked the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war by stating that the decision to remove Saddam Hussein from power was and always will be the right one.Ā His view is not that of the majority of Americans, who are citing the high costs in American...
The Hate That Dare Not Speak Its Name
The grand strategy of the Democratic Party has become to exploit the growing diversity of the American electorate to construct a Coalition of the Fringes. One result has been the cultural acceptance of anti-white racism.
āWalk Like a Man, Talk Like a Manā
My father believed in progress almost to the end of his life, when changing his mind would scarcely have made any difference.Ā Like most liberals, he regarded traditional institutions as so many barriers to manās continued improvement, and yet, like most good men who are liberals, his head was contradicted by his heart: He despised...
Yellow Peril (Part II)
Do not be put off by the sensationalist title. This is a solid geopolitical and economic study of power in the Pacific during the 20th century. Basing their prophesy on the record, George Friedman and Meredith Lebard conclude that a second U.S.-Japanese war is highly probable in the early 21st century. The authors do not...
Is Trump Facing a 1960s’-Style Revolt?
Sunday morning, President Trump announced that the world’s worst terrorist, the head of the ISIS caliphate who had raped an American woman, had received justice. About to be captured and carried off in a helicopter by U.S. special forces, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi blew himself up with an explosive vest in a compound in northwest Syria....
Unignorable Flashpoints
As the nation prepares to go to the polls to elect the 45th president of these United States, two flashpoints may determine the outcome. The first is Islamic terrorism.Ā It was almost funny to listen to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio inform us that a bomb set off in the Chelsea district wasnāt...
Free Health Insurance for Migrants Is Lunacy
In blue state after blue state, Democrats are pushing to give migrants taxpayer-funded health coverage. It's a knife in the back of hardworking Americans who struggle to pay medical bills.
Why Are the Nutjobs Trying to Kill Political Opponents All Left-Wingers?
The Left has had a violent streak going back at least as far as Karl Marx's calls for a global revolution of the proletariatāand the French Revolution even before that.
Buzzards and Dodos
George Core (Editor of the Sewanee Review) Talks With George Garrett About the Quarterlies Shortly following his appearance on a panel about book reviewing at the annual Miami Book Fair, this interview with George Core took place in a 15th-story hotel room high above downtown Miami, its boarded-up storefronts and decay, its winos and druggies...
The Unseen Caravaggio
I went to the Caravaggio exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a rainy Tuesday morning, hoping to avoid the crowds that gather at big name art events these days. The streets were fairly empty, and I could feel the temperature drop along the line of fountains as I passedāa cozy moment before moving...