On September 1, 1957, a pretty French girl by the name of Patricia and an Italo-French couple, Feruccio and Ellen, joined me in the old harbor of Cannes waiting to board the super-new luxury liner Cristoforo Colombo.Ā Our destination was Capri, and we had decided to go on the spur of the moment.Ā Capriās season...
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Magna Mater, Full of Grace!
“Nature, which is the time-vesture of God and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish.” āThomas Carlyle I don’t believe I realized, until I began reading up on the subject of Deep Ecology, how far the rot of despair and self-loathing has penetrated the Western world. Multiculturalism as an expression of the...
Letter From Pale: The War Industry
There were two reasons for my visit to Belgrade last fall. His Beatitude, the Serbian Orthodox patriarch Lord Paul (82 years old), invited me to his official residence to honor me for “my endeavour to interpret objectively the all-Serbian tragedy.” I was decorated with the Order of St. Sava I, the highest decoration of the...
Ashli Babbitās Warning for 2024
Jack Cashillās āAshli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6ā exposes the weaponization of the law against citizens.
More Anti-Catholic Hysteria
“Eight Hundred Dead Irish Children thrown into the sewer by Catholic nuns.” So charged Rod Dreher last week at The American Conservative. Dreher was referring to the findings of local Irish historian Catherine Corless, who found that 796 children died at a home for unwed mothers and their children operated in Tuam by the Bon...
The Greatest Fear of Those Who Rule Us
Rush Limbaugh passed away on Ash Wednesday at age 70. I heard that news on the radio after leaving noon services at my church. At first, I felt a profound sadness and a touch of anger. The past year has thrown a barrage of punches at Americans. For those who loved Limbaughās programāI only listened...
The Gales of November
āYouāre probably not going to like this,ā David Dale Johnson said, ābut Iām suggesting we ask the Board of Review to reduce the assessment by $30,000.āĀ I had retained David as a hired gun in my attempt to get our houseās assessment, and thus our property taxes, lowered.Ā David knows a thing or two about...
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Pundits have been calling them ādesigner babiesā since the first egg was fertilized and nurtured ex utero more than a quarter-century ago.Ā Little Louise Brown was her parentsā biological child, however, who happened to begin life in a test tube for medical reasons: Her motherās Fallopian tubes were blocked.Ā Pioneering British physicians used laparoscopy to...
Selma, 50 Years On
On Martin Luther King Day, 2015, how stand race relations in America? Selma, a film focused on the police clubbing of civil rights marchers led by Dr. King at Selma bridge in March of 1965, is being denounced by Democrats as a cinematic slander against the president who passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965....
Don Quixote at West Point
A recent incident at West Point involving my wife and our little daughter has given us much to ponder. The initial responses, and later silences, of the military authorities were both surprising and perplexing. I became even more reflective and pensive, however, after my own well-informed and honest and very candid West Point classmates further...
Moments, Redeeming and Otherwise
Snatch Produced by Columbia Pictures Directed and Written by Guy Ritchie Released by Sony Pictures Shadow of the Vampire Produced by Saturn Films Directed by E. Elias Merhige Screenplay by Steven Katz Released by Lion Gate Films Thirteen Days Produced by Kevin Costner and Beacon Communications Directed by Roger Donaldson Screenplay by Ernest R. May...
Philosophy in an Old Key
In the ancient world no one could talk or read too much about philosophy. Wealthy Athenian nobles, Plato and Xenophon, for instanceāeven Roman emperors, like Marcus Aureliusālived for the hours they could devote to philosophical discourse. The pagan’s conversion to philosophy was as important to him as conversion to Christ was for a Christian. When...
Lee Marvin, Marine
I first met Lee Marvin in 1964.Ā I had seen him around town for several years.Ā He lived on Latimer Road in Rustic Canyon, a part of our then small, quaint hamlet of Pacific Palisades.Ā He had four children, but his marriage was on the rocks, and he was spending many an evening drinking at...
The Realms of Gold
In Vienna, during the decade before the Great War, an astounding concentration of creative genius coincided with the final stages of political collapse.Ā The work of Hofmannsthal, Musil, Broch, Schnitzler, Kraus, Werfel, and Zweig in literature; Mahler, Wolf, and Schƶnberg in music; Krafft-Ebing and Freud in psychology; Wittgenstein and Buber in philosophy; Schiele and Kokoschka...
Pick Yourself Up
In his Inaugural Address, President Obama declared: āStarting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.āĀ The President was paraphrasing Fred Astaire from the 1936 movie Swingtime.Ā Fred and Ginger sang Jerome Kernās song āPick Yourself Up,ā which begins, āNothingās impossible I have found, / For...
Where Trump’s and Bibi’s Interests Clash
On Monday, President Donald Trump designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization, the first time the United States has designated part of another nation’s government as such a threat. Iran’s Supreme National Security Council responded by declaring U.S. Central Command a terrorist group. With 5,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and 2,000 in Syria,...
The Only Way Out Is Through
It might be tempting for conservatives to withdraw to their own local enclaves within a larger culture so dominated by the left, but that strategy of retreat is a surefire way to lose in the end.
Between Fear and Conceit
H.M. Maisky was the Soviet ambassador to Britain from 1932 to 1943.Ā In June 1943 Stalin ordered him to quit London.Ā After returning to Moscow, Maisky was posted henceforth to unimportant positions.Ā In 1953 he was imprisoned; two years later he was released.Ā He died in 1955. In London (and from time to time in...
An Obscene Carnival
The obscene carnival of digging up an American hero who died 141 years ago has come to an end. No arsenic was found in Zachary Taylor’s remains, proving that he was not poisoned, which any competent and sensible historian could have told you without this grotesque and impious exercise. (Even if significant traces of arsenic...
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.
Gigantic Weaknesses
One of the sights that most amazed me as I approached the center of Moscow for the first time was a huge poster, stretched across the flat rooftop of a large building not far from the Kremlin, boldly advertising PHILIPS in large letters that needed no further explanation.Ā Not to be outdone by the famous...
Books in Brief: July 2021
Who Is My Neighbor? An Anthology in Natural Relations,Ā by Thomas Achord and Darrell Dow (584 pp., $24.99).Ā The headmaster of a classical Christian school has teamed up with a statistician to collect and sort thousands of quotations pertaining to human relationships from myriad religious, political, and historic figures. The result is an invaluable reference for patriots...
Haiti and American Empire
Think of all the ink spilled on foreign policy during the 80’s. Yet for all of Clinton’s “accomplishments” on foreign policy (Middle East “peace,” NAFTA, Haiti), the subject did not even appear on the political radar screen during the 1994 elections. Frankly, voters do not care, and no fact of American political life brings a...
Not a Fit Topic for Discussion
William Jefferson Clinton and his supporters have stepped up their efforts to restore republican government to the United States. Responding to the Starr reportāand the accompanying boxes of documentation sent to Congressāthe President’s liberal champions took up the chant that “It’s all about sex” and argued that the real debate in the House Judiciary Committee...
Come to a Close
The Bennett interregnum has come to a close at the Department of Education. The former secretary of education had his shortcomings, but the vice with which he was most frequently chargedābeing “confrontational,” failing to “build coalitions with educators”āwas actually his greatest virtue. Bennett knew better than to attempt significant reform by backroom dealings and conciliation...
War Party Targets Putin and Assad
Having established a base on the Syrian coast, Vladimir Putin last week began air strikes on ISIS and other rebel forces seeking to overthrow Bashar Assad. A longtime ally of Syria, Russia wants to preserve its toehold on the Mediterranean, help Assad repel the threat, and keep the Islamic terrorists out of Damascus. Russia is...
Trumpās Short Recession
Donald Trump has a better track record of avoiding economic downturn than any Republican president since the GOP was founded in 1854. āA trough in monthly economic activity occurred in the US economy in April 2020,ā a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) panel announced in July. āThe previous peak in economic activity occurred in...
In Memoriam: Gen. Alexander Lebed, 1950-2002
When I first met General Alexander Lebed, shortly after he was forced to retire from his military career in 1995, he was a crusty soldier with great political ambitions, itching for action but visibly uncomfortable in mufti.Ā His tie knot was too wide and his parade-ground bass sounded coarse and unmodulated.Ā His face, with more...
Rockefeller Center
On a rainy July afternoon I stood on the Promenade at Rockefeller Plaza and beheld Prometheus unbound. There he was, his golden self sprawled against the wall of the erstwhile skating rink (in summer it is transformed into an outdoor cafe), holding the flame in his right hand, his gift to mankind. Above him is...
In Trouble Again
Jean-Marie Le Pen is in trouble again. Imagine if Pat Buchanan had just scored a major political success, which had put him within reach of real political powerāand then, just as he was reaching out to taste the fruits of years of hard work, political opponents threw a minor legal charge at him. Conviction on...
Regulation Issue
“Occupational regulation has served to limit consumer choice, raise consumer costs, increase practitioner income, limit practitioner mobility, deprive the poor of adequate services, and restrict job opportunities for minoritiesāall without a demonstrated improvement in quality or safety of the licensed activities.” S. David Young, who teaches accounting and finance at Tulane University, brings economic analysis...
The Singer and the Song
Memory and testimony have kept alive the reputation of Fernando de Lucia, and so have the four hundred recordings that tenor made between 1902 and 1921. His old discs- Gramophone and Typewriters, Fonotipias, and Phonotypesāare among the most fascinating of historical recordings. What they suggest about the man and his context has inspired Michael Henstock...
As America Recedes, China Rises
As our July Fourth celebrations were beginning, the U.S. quietly closed and abandoned Bagram Air Base, the largest American military base between the Persian Gulf and the South China Sea. Afghan looters were soon seen scavenging inside the base. The long retreat of the American Empire is underway, and this longest war is likely to...
Indiaās COVID Debacle and its Strategic Implications
Update: Paragraph 12 has been added to provide more background information on the economic differences between India and China. In the last seven daysĀ India has seen more COVID casesĀ than any other country in the world. The official death toll is over 200,000, although the countryās flawed mortality statistics lead experts to believe that the true...
Hanging With the Snarks: An Academic Memoir
There seemed to be little interest among audience members [at a scholarly meeting] in whether the ideas I had presented were true, only in whether their application would bring about results they liked. āJason Jewell Ā I used to have a running argument with a colleague, a great scholar now gathered to his fathers, during...
The Canonization of John Lewis
The extravagant tributes conferred by the conservative establishment on the onetime civil rights leader and longtime Atlanta Democratic congressman John Lewis are as ineffectual as they are utterly tasteless. Lewisās moments of fame came when he accompanied Martin Luther King, Jr., on his March on Washington in 1963,Ā demonstrating for what became the Voting Rights Act....
I’ll Take My Sit
Because itās reasonable to assume that Gerald Russello (āThe Agrarian Burden,ā Reviews, October) is highly knowledgeable of his chosen subject, the Southern Agrarians, I must conclude that his avoidance of their intellectual hypocrisy (or worse) is by choice and not by accident. Iāll Take My Stand was written by a dozen academics, most comfortably ensconced...
Letter FromĀ South Africa
I spent March 1985 inĀ South Africa as a guest of several South African universities. I lectured toĀ academic audiences, traveled in the rural areas of Transvaal and the CapeĀ Province, spent a day in Soweto, visited the Crossroads slum in Cape Town andĀ the Black township of Alexandra in Johannesburg. I talked to Black ser vantsĀ and Black leaders,...
A Topic of Concern
Public-school finance, as a topic of concern, reminds us that the egalitarian impulse lives on imperishably.Ā Mankind must be hard-wired to scratch the ears of the perceivedāgenerally self-definedāunderdog, before siccing him on the perceived top dog. Public schools, financed with public monies, were probably overdue their share of the action; but, boy, are they catching...
Breakup of the West?
By the time Air Force One started down the runaway at Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily, to bring President Trump home, the Atlantic had grown markedly wider than it was when he flew to Riyadh. In a Munich beer hall Sunday, Angela Merkel confirmed it. Europe must begin to look out for itself, she...
Brief Mentions: The Sixties
The disappointing qualities of this final volume of Edmund Wilson’s diaries, due partially to surfeit (over 2,000 pages of The Twenties, The Thirties, The Forties, and The Fifties precede these almost 1,000), have finally to do with the limitations of the modern secular intellectual mind as it wrestles with the perceived insufficiency, tawdriness, and dishonesty...
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.
Institutionalizing Compassion
Writing in the mid-1980ās, Forrest McDonald observed that Americaās founders would have recognized their handiwork as late as the early 1960ās, but not after.Ā Despite technological changes, the Civil War, the Progressive Era, the New Deal, and two world wars, the governments most Americans dealt with were state and local.Ā Except for the draft board...
“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...
Ivermectin: Horse Hockey Versus Truth
Shhhhh. The information I’m about to share with you is dangerous and subversive. You cannot publish it on social media platforms without risking scary labels and permanent suspensions. You and anyone you discuss this topic with will be called anti-science “kooks,” “conspiracy theorists” or “quacks.” So be it. I’ve been called every pejorative name in...
The Restructuring of America
Restructuring: that’s one way the recent wave of take-overs, breakups, and buyouts of major US corporations has been described. Others see it in more pejorative terms. “Violating the rules of prudence” said a Wall Street Journal editorial. “The buyout bomb,” The New York Times called it. “When everything’s for sale, you lose something,” is the...
Hope in Little Platoons
For 26 years, I taught hundreds of home-educated students, including my own children. My checkered teaching career also includes a semester in a university, two years at a prison, and two years in a public high school. During my last 15 years of that teaching, I conducted seminars for homeschoolers in Asheville, North Carolina, offering...
Soundtrack to the New Old South
[A look at the Drive-By Truckers] Sometime in the early 1990ās, while attending an event called a āsong swapā in Athens, Georgia, I met an extraordinarily gifted songwriter named Patterson Hood. The swap itself was essentially a ...
Therapeutic Totalitarianism
Paul Gottfried has spent a useful career shining his lantern of truth into the dark corners of Americaās political consciousness.Ā In After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State (1999), he examined the rise and consolidation of centralized managerial regimes across the Western world.Ā Gottfried documented what should have been obvious to every educated man:...
Caudillo and Generalissimo
“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.” āEdmund Burke Not long before his death on November 20, 1975, Francisco Franco asked a young aide if he thought Spain’s future was “inevitably democratic.” On receiving an affirmative reply, he gazed sadly into the distance and said no more. The...