Liberalismās Glorious Age of parliamentary democracy, nation building and national consolidation, free trade, and empire, of which Great Britain was the chief power and paramount symbol, reached a catastrophic close in 1914.Ā After 1945, liberalism in renovated form attempted to launch a modern Glorious Age dominated by the Pax Americana and the United Nations and...
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Pariahs and Favorites in East Central Europe
“How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.” āNeville Chamberlain Persons with roots in Central and Eastern Europe know that to speak with minimal competence about that part of the world...
America Through the Looking Glass
Not so long ago anticommunist conservatives used to rail against the mirror fallacy, the leftist assumption that the Soviet Union could be studied in Western terms. If only we could strengthen the hand of the doves and “responsible” elements, we could keep the country from falling into the hands of the hard-liners and hawksāthe Soviet...
The Worst of Days for Trump & Trumpists
President Donald Trump, it turns out, was being quite literal when he told us Jan. 6 would be “wild.” And so Wednesday was, but it was also disastrous for the party and the movement Trump has led for the last five years.Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Wednesday, the defeats of Senators Kelly Loeffler and David...
The War on Fat
The war on fat rages on, andāwouldnāt you know itāone of the leaders in the crusade against fat is, well, on the heavy side.Ā Jacob Sullum of Reason writes that Kelly Brownell, āa Twinkie tax advocate who never tires of comparing Ronald McDonald to Joe Camel,ā actually sports āan extra chin and an ample gut.āĀ ...
The Seven-League Crutches
Sideswiped by a car, Randall Jarrell died 34 years ago at the age of 51. That he has remained a presence as a writer and even as a man is vividly testified to by these books, which bring back a lot of memories, and different kinds of memories. Randall Jarrell was a force, even a...
Wisconsin Apocalypse
Since I was going to fish in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, I decided like any bookish person to read some books about the place. I expect I own all of Gordon Weaver’s ten or twelve books, and I went digging through them again to sec which ones were set in Wisconsin. Besides growing up in...
The Great Portcullis
In the third week of August someone pushes the button and brings summer to an end in the Mountain West, though beautiful weather and Indian summer lie ahead. Typically the change comes with the discharge of a powerful thunder cell, seemingly no different from any other electrical storm but collapsing into a gray leaden overcast...
Whose Country Is This?
With the support of 70 percent of its citizens, Arizona has ordered sheriffs and police to secure the border and remove illegal aliens, half a million of whom now reside there. Arizona acted because the U.S. government has abdicated its constitutional duty to protect the states from invasion and refuses to enforce Americaās immigration laws....
The Future Past
Archeofuturism, a concept that arose on the French New Right in the 1970s, charts a path toward a rebirth of tradition amid a future convulsed by technological change.
A Dirty Little Secret
Holland has a dirty little secret. In the North Sea resort of Scheveningen, there is a prison where you can be indefinitely incarcerated without trial, or where you can be delivered on the orders of an ad hoc “court” that sometimes issues warrants only after politically motivated arrests have been made. The court is ten...
Retreat From Eden II
Last summer the inimitable Taki and I were staying under the same roof at the London house of our friend Natasha.Ā I have loved our angelically guileless hostess for a quarter of a century, Taki since she was a baby, but all this is just a pompous way of relating that, like I this fateful...
Polemics & Exchanges, September 2022
A note from our new Publisher, Robert Roach, and a letter on 'staying sane' during these crazy times.
The Canadian Alliance
Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day, I asserted a few months ago in Chronicles (“Taking Stock,” Views, November 2000), would “seek to persuade Middle Canadian voters that the [governing] Liberals are their enemies, not their friends.” I also argued that he didn’t “play by his enemies’ rules,” and that his party was “a viable alternative to...
Frozen Souls
Kelli Moye has become the pretty young face of America’s culture of death. Standing trial for the cold-blooded murder of her newborn daughter, she has provided us with a test case for Middle America. Should Roe v. Wade ever be overturned, states and municipalities will once again be free to pass legislation regulating abortion. How...
Aliens and Knaves
District 9 Produced by Key Creatives and WingNut Films Directed and written by Neill Blomkamp Distributed by Sony Pictures Ā Forty-five years ago, radio humorist Jean Shepherd wondered why filmmakers invariably portrayed alien invaders as intellectually light years ahead of human beings.Ā Wasnāt it possible, he mused, that extraterrestrials might be a tad slow on...
Still Printing the Legend
I have to admit, I began reading Roger D. McGrath’s article āThe Real McCoy,ā (Sins of Omission, August) about Tim McCoy with the suspicion that he was just pulling my leg, but was drawn in enough to read it to the end.Ā There really are people in this world like Tim McCoy, whose lives keep...
Land of Obama
āA corrupt society has many laws,ā observed the Roman historian Tacitus. The Founding Fathers knew this aphorism, and their work reflects it, from the Articles of Confederation to the Federalist to the Tenth Amendment.Ā They designed these documents to save this country from the plague of āmany laws.āĀ And the inaugural addresses of nearly all...
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.
Displaying Moral Outrage
Canadian officials have been badgering the United States for deporting Syrian Maher Arar from New Yorkās John F. Kennedy International Airport in October 2002.Ā The Canadian government, however, is not entitled to display such moral outrage.Ā Mr. Arar was removed from the United States for alleged terrorist connections. Ā Because he held both Canadian and...
Patriotism
Patriotism, once thought of as “the last refuge of a scoundrel” (Dr. Johnson) is now the last resort of a failed leader. The word entered the vocabulary of Theresa May for the first time yesterday. The Sunday Telegraph carried this headline over her name: WE MUST COME TOGETHER AS PATRIOTS TO VOTE DEAL THROUGH. This,...
Lost in Iraq: The Election, Republicans, and Conservatives
In one of the most memorable lines in American political history, Joseph Welch, the patrician Boston lawyer, asked Sen. Joseph McCarthy, āHave you no sense of decency?āĀ Traditional conservatives should be asking the so-called neoconservatives if they have no sense of shame. In the pages of Vanity Fair, on various television interviews, and in other...
In God We Fail
The recent flood of secession petitions in the wake of the re-election of President Barack Obama has raised secession to something more than the curiosity or esoteric joke that it has been heretofore.Ā In the 1990ās an occasional newspaper article appeared about the League of the South or the Vermont independence movement, treating them as...
The “Respectable Right”
The Respectable Right turned savagely against Michael Levin last spring for holding unacceptable views on the reasons for differing levels of measurable intelligence among the races. Thus Peter Collier, in organizing a Second Thoughts conference for those who had rallied to “democracy” from the 60’s New Left, disinvited, after having invited, the controversial Professor Levin....
On Life and Law
Aaron D. Wolf’s condemnation of civil disobedience by pro-life activists (Cultural Revolutions, October) strikes me as a classic case of sloppy thinking, characterized by what Hannah Arendt called the inability to grasp elementary distinctions. Wolf’s sweeping denial that one may break the law even for a good cause is not good law. There exists in...
Socialism and Reality in Central America
“It is good also not to try experiments in states.” āFrancis Bacon As a term, imperialism underwent a number of visions and revisions at the turn of the century when the fact itself was receding. There was Bernard Bosanquet’s British interpretation and, in France, the Baron de la Seilliere’s multivolume opus. Such were radically redefined...
Bill Clinton and the Ground Zero Mosque: A Perfect Fit
Ā Former President Bill ClintonĀ declared his strong support for the Ground Zero mosqueĀ in an interview broadcast on September 12. He also suggested a clever new spin to the promoters of the project. Much or even most of the controversy, he said, ācould have been avoided, and perhaps still can be, if the people who want...
The War on Christmas
Ā One of the signature features of Western politics in the last few decades is the rise of the cultural Marxism known as “political correctness.”Ā As advocated by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, leftists have worked their way through the institutions of the West, leaving a trail of cultural devastation in their wake.Ā A hallmark...
Making Choices, Taking Chances
The Girl on the Bridge (La Fille sur le pont) Produced by Films Christian Fechner and France 2 CinƩma Directed by Patrice Leconte Screenplay by Serge Frydman Released by Paramount Pictures Saving Grace Produced by Homerun Productions and Portman Entertainment Group Distributed by Fine Line Features Directed by Nigel Cole Screenplay by Mark Crowdy and...
Girls of the Golden West
Prospective readers should not be put off by the words āwomen writersā in the title of this book.Ā Catharine Savage Brosmanās emphasis is not on the ideological but rather on the intellectual and artistic identity of her subjects, which complement the masculine sensibilities of their male counterpartsāWalter Van Tilburg Clark, Tom Lea, John S. Van...
Picking Up the Pieces
Great Britain is in troubleāpolitically, economically, and culturallyāand Phillip Blond wants to change this.Ā He blames both the political right and the left for having created an atomistic society in which all pursue self-interest to the detriment of society as a whole. Blond explains how Britain got into this predicament and then gives several chapters...
The Late Hit on Judge Kavanaugh
Upon the memory and truthfulness of Christine Blasey Ford hangs the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, his reputation, and possibly his career on the nation’s second highest court. And much more. If Kavanaugh is voted down or forced to withdraw, the Republican Party and conservative movement could lose their last best hope for...
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...
Playing Pointless Games
Lanham is certainly ambitious enough. He proposes to resolve “three overlapping perplexities”: a literacy crisis so widespread it has shaken our national self-esteem as an educated democracy; a school and college curriculum that no longer knows what subjects should be studied or when; and a humanism so directionless, unreasoned, and sentimental that it seems almost...
On Spain
Joseph E. Fallonās article āThe American Myth of World War Iā (Vital Signs, January) contained a statement suggesting that the United States, in displacing Spain as an imperial power, had taken on some of Spainās characteristics. In one respect, there is a striking similarity between Spainās century of imperialism (the 16th) and Americaās (the 20th).Ā ...
Hugging Himself
James Boswell (1740-95), whose frank and revealing London Journal sold are than a million copies, is the most “modern” and widely read 18th-century author. His circle of friendsāJohnson, Burke, Gibbon, Reynolds, Hume, Goldsmith, Garrick, and Fanny Burneyāwas the most brilliant in the history of English literature. Cursed with a morbid Calvinistic streak, Boswell had uneasy...
White Sprinters
For several years now, professional baseball has been pouring millions of dollars into developing black players.Ā Evidently, the number of black players, at least American blacks, has been in decline.Ā NASCAR is funding programs to develop black drivers after fielding complaints that the sport is too white.Ā Similarly, the NHL now has a āDiversity Programā...
A Rapid Untergang?
The Western world in general, and Europe in particular, are threatened not only by a numerically small, overtly jihadist cadre of āradicalizedā individuals engaging in terrorism. The West is in mortal peril from a demographically explosive, ideologically highly developed, yet decentralized and structurally amorphous Islamic movement. To discuss the world-historical implications of this movementāwhich has...
Virginia Governor Northam, Racism, and the Gadarene Swine of 2019
You would have thought Virginia Democrat Governor Ralph Northam had been a co-conspirator in the assassination of Martin Luther King, given the reaction to what appeared to be a page in his 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook. Both the Democrats on the Left and the āvirtue-signalingā Republicans and movement conservativesāthat is, the near entirety...
What Are Hate Crimes?
Hate crimesāwhat are they? In Newport, Rhode Island, a mixed-race couple complained that threats from their white neighbors had driven them from their home. Generous contributions from strangers helped the family to find a new place and to pay the rent. Local police, however, were suspicious from the first and eventually charged Tisha Anderson with...
Judicial Taxation Without Representation
There is an unattributed quotation that says, “The average taxpayer is the first of America’s natural resources to be exhausted.” The American people have turned away from a big, activist federal government because they feel they have been forgotten; in fact, taxpayer resources have long been exhausted. Today, average Americans, forgotten by the bloated bureaucratic...
Locally Owned and Operated
How about three news items from a typical week in a Southern university town (Chapel Hill, May 1990), just to get the old motor warmed up after last month’s absence? A new law against urinating on the sidewalks resulted in a dozen arrests, nearly all of them beer-drinking students too pressed to wait or too...
Democratsā Noncitizen Voting Scam
Across the country Democrats, like New York City Mayor Eric Adams, are pushing for the disaster of allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections.
Croatian Generals Sentenced at The Hague
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Zagreb and other Croatian cities over the past week to protest the conviction of two Croatian generals by the UN war-crimes tribunal in The Hague. The ICTY sentenced Ante Gotovina to 24 years in jail and Mladen MarkaÄ to 18 years for their role in...
ClassicsāPast Ideology and Persistent Reality
This year the Ingersoll Foundation has decided to present the Richard M. Weaver Award for Scholarly Letters to a professor of classics. Amidst joy and gratitude, this will bring to the fore some of the uneasiness that has been associated with the word and concept of “classics” for a long time, an uneasiness that seems...
An Election Without a Mandate
Washington PostĀ columnist Paul WaldmanĀ somehow contortedĀ the mixed, and yet unresolved, 2020 election results to simultaneously claim that mandates do not really exist, but that Joe Biden nonetheless has one. It is important to refute this spurious claim because Biden and Kamala Harris will use any excuse they can to push a laundry list of progressive legislation...
What We Wish Donald Trump Would Say to Prime Minister Netanyahu
A transcript of the conversation Donald Trump ought to have had with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to Mar-a-Lago.
My Only Light
One of the things that James VI of Scotland liked about becoming James I of Englandāapart from the moneyāwas that as head of the Church of England he would never be bossed about by a Scotch Calvinist minister again.Ā Moreover, unlike his predecessor Elizabeth I, who never cared much for that aspect of her job,...
Nouns Have Gender
āCongratulations!Ā Itās a boy!ā Does that sound like hate speech to you?Ā No?Ā Well, obviously, youāre a cisgender bigot. Thatās how Slateās C.S. Milloy sees it . . . Wait, you donāt know what a ācisā is?Ā Whatās wrong with you? In todayās gender-studies-enriched society, a ācisā is a āyou,ā or āyour wife,ā or all...
Is The Pope Catholic?
In July, the Pope endorsed a statement that ruffled some feathers in the Protestant aviary, and it turns out that the statement actually revealed that a number of Protestants arenāt all that Protestant anymore.Ā They demonstrated this slide away from Reformation confidence by being upset by the revelation that Pope Benedict XVI still believes that...