The Reagan Court has been a source of great expectation for conservatives. If only a few more superannuated justices would retire (or die), then we could have the court’s unchecked authority in our own hands. A favorite target of pious hopes and voodoo dolls is the apparently senile Thurgood Marshall. An example of tokenism at...
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Mimesis and Perjury
A tidal wave of intellectual, and sometimes financial, fraud is hanging above the happy tropical village of American academia, threatening to crash down on it and sweep it away into the off-shore reefs. The danger has a distinctly different appearance if observed from the Olympian heights where physical scientists view the approaching storm with Lucretian...
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Roe v. Wade and the Confusion of Sen. Collins
Neat! We know what the Supreme Court debate is all aboutāthe debate, that is to say, over who shall take retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy’s seat. The debate is about abortion. Or so declares Sen. Susan Collins, the Republican moderate from Maine, whose vote could prove essential to confirmation of whatever nominee the White House puts...
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Is Afghanistan a Lost Cause?
“We are there and we are committed” was the regular retort of Secretary of State Dean Rusk during the war in Vietnam. Whatever you may think of our decision to go in, Rusk was saying, if we walk away, the United States loses the first war in its history, with all that means for Southeast...
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Poisonous Intoxicants
The Master Produced and distributed by The Weinstein Company, together with Annapurna PicturesĀ Written and directed by Paul Thomas AndersonĀ Ā The Master is another travesty by the supposed wunderkind Paul Thomas Anderson.Ā In 2005 he gave us his rendition of Upton Sinclairās 1927 novel Oil in There Will Be Blood.Ā Unfortunately, he left out...
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Who Killed Detroit?
Who killed the U.S. auto industry? To hear the media tell it, arrogant corporate chiefs failed to foresee the demand for small, fuel-efficient cars and made gas-guzzling road-hog SUVs no one wanted, while the clever, far-sighted Japanese, Germans and Koreans prepared and built for the future. I dissent. What killed Detroit was Washington, the government...
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A Cautionary Tale
When pro-life activist James Pouillon was murdered in Owosso, Michigan, on September 11, I read a few dozen accounts from both national and Michigan news sources and quickly decided I had a handle on the story.Ā Harlan Drake, the man who has admitted to murdering Pouillon, seems deeply disturbed, and he had murdered another man...
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Joe Sobranās Timeless Lesson on Americaās Role in the World
I met Joe Sobran in early 1997 at a conference near Chicago on the American intervention in the Balkans. It was not his area of primary interest, but he understood all of the key issues because he understood U.S. foreign policy and its domestic roots. His diagnosis, which applied then, in Bill Clintonās second term,...
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China, Russia, and NGOs
Russiaās January 2006 law limiting the operation of NGOs, especially those with foreign funding, has earned her pariah status.Ā What Western audiences rarely hear is that Russia has good reasons to crack down on some NGOs. A network of high-profile, internationally funded NGOs (specifically, the Russian Privatization Center and its offshoots) were instrumental in the...
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European Union: R.I.P.?
Ā When communism collapsed in Moscow, Prague and Belgrade at the end of the Cold War, ethnic nationalism surged to the surface in all three nations and tore them apart into 24 countries. Economic nationalism is now resurgent across Europe. And it is hard to see how a transnational institution like the European Union, run...
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The Never Trumpers: Sore Losers With Thin Skins
Emerald Robinson recently wrote a witty piece for The American Spectator puncturing the pomposity of the Never Trump wing of the conservative movement. At least one member of that wing, the thin-skinned Jonah Goldberg, now the holder of the “Asness Chair in Applied Liberty at the American Enterprise Institute,” was not amused, and he let...
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The Other Side of Peace
Ā Ā Ā Ā “Uzivajte u ratu, uzivajte, O braco moja i vojnici, Jer mir ce’ biti gori . . . “ (“Enjoy war, enjoy, Oh my brothers and soldiers, because peace will be worse . . . “) āAn old Serbian war song There is a belief among the peoples of the Balkans that...
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On Blinkeredness
The Cold War rages on for Christie Davies (āIslam and Breivikās Bombs,ā News, October).Ā He even referenced the āevilā Russian/communist in drawing a bead on the āevilā Muslim. And what evils are the Muslims of Europe guilty of?Ā Davies is upset that women are expected to wear headscarves (read: act modestly) in Muslim neighborhoods, a...
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Slavery as a Political Construct
The New York Timesā 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History by David North and Thomas Mackaman Mehring Books Inc. 378 pp., $24.95 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project by Peter W. Wood Encounter Books 272 pp., $28.99 Imagine a country in which the major newspaper of its most populous city launches...
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Letter from Spain: Post-Election Imbroglio
This year my winter retreat in Gran Canaria coincides with an unprecedented political crisis in Spain which may herald some trouble for the Brussels-based superstate. More than a month has passed since the inconclusive general election on December 20. It has marked the end of the decades-long duopoly enjoyed by the center-right Peopleās Party (Partido...
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What the Editors Are Reading: March 2021
Someoneās head must have rolled at the Aspen Institute when Anand Giridharadasā book came out. Giridharadas didnāt miss a rung as he climbed the American establishmentās social ladder: born in Shaker Heights, schooled at Sidwell Friends, the University of Michigan, and Harvard, employed at McKinsey, the International Herald Tribune, and The New York Times, and...
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Obama’s Fatal Mistake
Never underestimate the stupidity of our rulers. When Judge Andrew Napolitano of Freedom Watch asked me if I thought President Obama would intervene in Libya, I said, āNo, heās too smart for that.āĀ I attribute my misreading of events to my reading of the Presidentās general demeanor.Ā Obama projects the aura of a disinterested scientist,...
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Waugh on Film
The High Green Wall (1954) Adapted for The General Electric Theater Columbia Broadcasting System Directed by Nicholas RayĀ Teleplay by Charles Jackson In 1929, Evelyn Waugh wrote that film was āthe one vital art of the century,ā an accolade he would later qualify.Ā While he came to believe that cinema had ātaught [novelists] a new...
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Our New Circus
“John Glenn returns to space!” the headlines screamed, and I found myself screaming back, “I don’t care!” I guess it’s a generational thing: I wouldn’t understand. Why did so many peopleāespecially children of the Baby Boomācare that this man, who has spent his entire life feeding out of the public trough (with a little dessert...
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Drawing the Blairite Battle Lines
Speaking to a Labour Party conference in October, British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a vainglorious speech he may live to regret. His words heartened some of his more enthusiastic supporters, but shocked the shires and clarified the ideological battle lines. Even some naive neoconservatives, like Paul Johnson and Lady Thatcher, who had long maintained...
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Peanut ButterāThe Next Menace
Day 1. A celebrity chokes to death on a peanut butter sandwich. Day 2. Headlines: “Celebrity’s Fatal Snack.” “Shocked Fans Mourn Hero.” The American Alliance of Alarmist Research Groups (AAARG) reports that 10,000 Americans died in 1992 from choking on peanut butter, and demands warning labels, tougher laws, and increased federal spending. Victims Advising People...
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The Judgment of History
Satire is a difficult form these days. Reality keeps calling, and raising. Let me tell a story that illustrates the difficulty. Last November, when President Reagan’s Teflon began to wear thin, pundits began to write about how his “place in history” was being jeopardized. My buddy Tim, a historian, casually suggested that a President really...
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Christmas 2018: Not the Worst of Times
“Deck the halls with boughs of holly,” goes the old Christmas carol. “‘Tis the season to be jolly.” Yet if there were a couplet less befitting the mood of this capital city, I am unaware of it. “The wheels are coming off,” was a common commentary on the Trump presidency on Sunday’s talk shows. And...
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A Perpetual Censor
When Supreme Court Justice Byron White announced his retirement from public life in March of this year, a shudder rippled down the spines of Washington conservatives. Previously, when one or another of the Court’s Nameless Nine had declared his intention to quit the pleasures of wrecking the laws and customs of local communities he had...
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AOC and GOP Suicide
As the new Congress was sworn in early in January, the Republican Party unveiled a plan for its own assisted suicide.Ā In fact, Mitt Romney got started before he was even seated as the latest senator from Utah.Ā On January 1, he published an op-ed in the Washington Post in which he accused President Trump...
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The Fornicatorsā Mass
Your Excellency: Recently, I read in our diocesan newspaper of the āgay and lesbian Massā offered at St. Peterās Church in Charlotte.Ā According to the article, this Mass was a means of comforting those who have been ostracized by the Church and of ensuring a welcome for homosexuals that would incorporate Church teachings and pastoral...
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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...
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The Scandal in Vancouver
I am not alone in being utterly astounded by the fact that Dr. Srdja Trifkovic has been refused entry into Canada.Ā This amazing decision is all the more scandalous in that it was taken ad hoc in response to the hate campaign by self-declared representatives of one Bosnian ethnic group ...
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Beyond AI, Our Cyborg Future
Rogue AI has so far been nothing more than a sci-fi cliche, but now artificial intelligence is proving difficult for human beings to control.
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The Mediaās Triumph Wonāt Last Forever
After the parliamentary and presidential elections of 2005, Poland finally appeared to have recovered from her postcommunist malaise, having brought a coalition of center-right and patriotic parties to power.Ā These included the Law and Justice Party (PiS), led by the twin Kaczynski brothers, Lech and Jaroslaw; the ultra-Catholic League of Polish Families (LPR), led by...
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Break a Leg
In 1963, when Tyrone Guthrie produced his first season at the new Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, the States did not have much in the way of regional theater. In a country whose two most famous actors are, respectively, a President and a presidential assassin, Ronald Reagan and John Wilkes Boothātwo actors who, in other words,...
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Burning Down Camelot
One of the more annoying gaucheries of the British tabloid press is that of always referring to the Kennedys as āAmerican royalty.āĀ Back in 1963, with JFK still alive and in the White House, I escorted C.Z. Guest, a true American patrician, to a Park Avenue party given by Sam Spiegel, producer of Lawrence of...
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NATO-Russia Collision Ahead?
“U.S. Poised to Put Heavy Weaponry in East Europe: A Message to Russia,” ran the headline in The New York Times. “In a significant move to deter possible Russian aggression in Europe, the Pentagon is poised to store battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and other heavy weapons for as many as 5,000 American troops in...
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Whispers From Kirk
Stan Evans has described bodies of thought as having ālifecyclesā; they emerge, thrive for a while, and, unless continually nourished, eventually hollow out and pass away.Ā Having reached the end of its lifecycle, liberalism, as a coherent body of thought, is dead.Ā There are still liberals, of course.Ā But the tradition derived variously from John...
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OrbĆ”n’s Hungary Defending the Family
On Dec. 15 the Hungarian Parliament passed aĀ constitutional amendmentĀ banning adoption of children by same-sex couples. The government-sponsoredĀ Ninth Amendment declares, succinctly and clearly, that a childās parents are āthe mother, a woman, and the father, a man.ā ItĀ defines familyĀ as ābased on marriage and the parent-child relationā and forbids homosexual propaganda directed at minors. TheĀ gender of a...
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For Love of the Muse
“All that matters now is poetry In which the feeling is the thought.” āfrom “Paysages Legendaires” When writing about the poet Peter Russell, it is hard to know where to begin. First, there is the matter of his prolificness, and the sheer vastness of his oeuvre: Russell, who describes poetry as being “dangerously near the...
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The Revolution That Wasn’t
āA tremendous victory for property rightsāāthatās how the Castle Coalition described voter approval of Initiative 31, which placed limitations on the power of eminent domain in Mississippi.Ā The November 8, 2011, results made Mississippi the 44th state to modify the power of eminent domain in response to the U.S. Supreme Courtās ruling in Kelo v....
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Lenin’s Tomb
Vladimir Lenin, by his confidence and cunning, left his impression on history and remains relevant 100 years after his death.
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Biden Commits US to War for Taiwan
The United States will go to war to defend Taiwan if China invades the mainland. That is the commitment made last week by President Joe Biden.
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Chicken Soup Starring: The Marx Bros.
Ā Ā Ā Ā “How can tyrants safely govern home I Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?”āWilliam Shakespeare There is something compelling in reading about spies and something compelling as well about spying, or we would not have so many spies to read about, fictional or not. Our century has been a century of spies:...
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Manual Control
Russian political analyst Vladimir Pastukhov once wrote that state power, or vlast, and not law āholds a sacred status in Russia.āĀ Russians, according to Pastukhov, experience state power as a āmystical entity,ā a ālife giving substance,ā a ādeityā in its own right, from whom, in times of trouble, the narod (the people) expects answers. Anna...
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Can Democracy Hold Us Together?
If America were a company and not a country, we would have long ago dissolved the corporation, split the blanket, and gone our separate ways. What still holds this disputatious and divided people together?Ā Ā Ā Ā Consider. In announcing the $900 billion stimulus bill to deal with the pandemic, Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not mention...
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Take the Deal, Mr. President
If Barack Obama is sincere in his policy of āno nukes in Iranāno war with Iran,ā he will halt this rude dismissal of the offer Tehran just made to ship half its stockpile of uranium to Turkey. Consider what President Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollah himself have just committed to do. Iran will deliver 1,200 kilograms,...
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What We Are Reading: August 2023
Immigration proponents make obvious contradictory claims. They repeat endlessly that recent immigrants are integrating just as fully as earlier immigrants did. Yet they also want to turn the idea that āAmerica is a melting potā into a prohibited microaggression. If it really is happening, why is it a moral crime to mention it? They lose...
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Return to McSorrento
In the 1970ās, when I lived in America, McDonaldās, apart from being a fast-food chain, was a powerful symbol of everything that was wrong with that country.Ā Neither I nor anybody I knew ever referred to the leviathan as a source of nourishment; invariably, its name was placed in a quarantine of ironic quotation marks,...
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Seven Simple Proposals to Fix Our Broken Elections
Joe Biden may have declared victory, but whether he or Donald Trump officially wins the presidency may remain undetermined for weeks, even months, and even then we may see the election brought before the Supreme Court. Who knows? What we do know is that this election has delivered a mess not seen since 2000, when...
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The Recovery of the West
There are dangers in a daughter writing her father’s biography: the danger that she will be too uncritical if her relationship with him were close and affectionate; or, as is more common these days, that she will be too critical if it were not. Similarly, she may rely too much on her own reminiscences or...
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Immigrationāand the Politics of Hate
As luck would have it, we Chronicles editors were thinking about immigration, the theme of the January issue, when the President issued his marching orders on Univision. I was not especially interested in the details drawn up by the Presidentās clueless policy advisors: One way or another, he and they are bound and determined to...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Flags of Our Fathers Produced by Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, and Steven Spielberg Directed by Clint Eastwood Screenplay by William Broyles, Jr., and Paul Haggis, from the book by James Bradley and Ron Powers Distributed by DreamWorks Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures Because I thoroughly enjoyed the book, because Clint Eastwood is the director, and...