Hereās how youāll know the conservative movement means something again: when the Conservative Political Action Conference moves its annual meeting from Washington, D.C., to Rockford.Ā Or Dubuque.Ā Or Peoria.Ā Or Helena.Ā Or San Antonio.Ā Or Bakersfield.Ā Or Murfreesboro. Anywhere but the District of Corruption. Conservatives flock from around the country to CPAC, expecting to advance...
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Capitalism: The Conservative Illusion
Ā Ā Ā Ā āāIf a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed.ā āFriedrich Nietzsche When the Cold War ended in 1991, American conservatives rejoiced over the triumph of democratic capitalism, which had struggled for over half a century, first against the rise of fascism, and then against the Soviet bloc and...
American Handgunners Seek Vatican Recognition
From time to time, the Catholic Church has to address the thorny problems caused by those liberal faithful who challenge her principles and tenets. Much more rarely do we hear about initiatives coming from the other side of the spectrum, since these initiatives generally do not pose any threat to Church doctrine, but are limited...
Eternal Dividends
No one could accuseĀ M. Stanton Evans, who lost his battle with pancreatic cancer at age 80 on March 3, of becoming a professional conservative.Ā He was a trailblazing conservative, having been there, for instance, when William F. Buckley, Jr., launched Young Americans for Freedom at his estate in Sharon.Ā Indeed, Stan was more than...
Overturn!
The overruling of Roe is the greatest triumph to date of the conservative legal movement. The Court had no business inventing a constitutional right to abortion.
Highway Music
American literature, Wallace Stegner once observed, is not so much about place as motion: we are a restless people, and we write restless books that hurtle us from A to B with a blur to mark our passage. Discounting Stegner’s own lovely evocations of place in books like Wolf Willow and Grossing to Safety, one...
Reform From Within
Across Serpukhvskaya Street from my apartment is a vintage Soviet-style “Palace of Culture,” its blank concrete walls topped by an immense neon sign. Ten years ago it offered lectures on class consciousness to factory workers; now it houses a discotheque, which plays American rock music until 6 A.M. Ten years ago an order from the...
Rothbard Against the Dismalists
[This review first appeared in the November 1994 issue of Chronicles.] “Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy.” āThomas Fuller In his keynote speech to a meeting of the John Randolph Club, Murray N. Rothbard exhorted his colleagues to take up the task he sees as central to the success of their movement: nothing less than...
The 40th Anniversary of Fahrenheit 451
At the outset I must admit that this is probably the most outrageous piece of logrolling you have laid eyes on in a generation. Yet, reading over Professor Trout’s essay, I gave in to temptation and herewith add my analysis and recommendation. I do so mainly because we have moved quietly, and sometimes not so...
Prairie Dog
Fairbanks has an interesting hypothesis: that early prairie women loved the plains and their adventurous lives here as much as pioneer men did. I have never believed in the myth that every pioneer woman was long-suffering, silently hating the prairie and the man who brought her here. I was pleased to think that I’d found...
The Cost of Madness
This compendium on immigration by editors of the National Research Council (NRC) includes the work of 14 scholars, among them economists, demographers, and sociologists. At least one of the contributors is a strong advocate of high levels of immigration, while another has recently criticized current policy for ignoring the decline in skills and levels of...
Trump-Kim Summit: The Score
At the end of their meeting in Singapore, President Donald Trump and North Koreaās Chairman Kim Jong Un signed a document in which Trump ācommitted to provide security guarantees to the DPRK,ā while Kim āreaffirmed his firm and unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.ā In principle this is a reasonable formula which...
Suspending Relations
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, with a membership of some two million under the leadership of Archbishop Iakovos, suspended its relations last June with the National Council of Churches. This came as welcomed tidings to all who are serious about authentic belief in Christ. In an explanatory letter to the NCC bosses, the Primate of North...
Small-Town Schizophrenia
Ā Ā Ā Ā “I see the rural virtues leave the land. “ āOliver Goldsmith Garrison Keillor, the writer, has finally made it big. Five years ago a regional cult figure and occasional contributor to the New Yorker, Keillor has now vaulted on to the cover of Time and to the top of the New...
Every State Is a Border State Now
The death of Jacques Price serves as a reminder of just how thoroughly our institutions have been turned against Americans at every level.
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An Historian of Imagination
Forrest McDonald, the great historian of the American founding and early Republic, passed away on January 19 at the age of 89.Ā Born in Orange, Texas, McDonald earned his doctorate from the University of Texas-Austin in 1955, and taught at Brown University, Wayne State University (Michigan), and the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.Ā He retired to...
Immanentizing the Eschaton
Around this time every year, I find myself in the strange circumstance of writing a column before Ash Wednesday that wonāt appear until after Easter Sunday.Ā If the overarching theme of my column were something other than Rockford as a microcosm of America, this situation might not seem so odd.Ā Every year, however, Iām haunted...
A Box Office Sensation
Batman was the summer’s box office sensation. Responses to the film followed the usual pattern: audiences and lowbrow critics loved it; highbrow critics turned up their noses. Pans from serious film critics are the best recommendation a movie can get. Yes, it is a dark and violent movie, and yes, Michael Keaton is a perfectly...
Science and Wisdom
This is a remarkable book that will, however, be read by few.Ā Its great fault is its defense of America, Christianity, and Western culture.Ā The authors also make the egregious error of criticizing modern and postmodern thought, which they believe must be effectively combated if the Western world is to survive. In a vibrant culture,...
A Frivolous, Open-Ended War
There has never been a war in American history so strategically ill-conceived as the one currently developing against the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria. The Mexican war of 1846-47 was essentially an aggressive operation to take Alta California and New Mexico, and to cement the status of Texas. It was limited in its...
Revolt of the 300-Pound Beefy Guys
Discontent is the parent of all radicalism, and in these happy days, Pat Buchanan’s third and ever more radical challenge to the globalist ruling class may not attract the political following it deserves. The national happiness that smothers healthy political disgruntlement is due to the success, by conventional standards, of the Clinton presidency. There is...
Epicene Europa
āRoll up the map of Europe; it will not be wanted these ten years.ā āWilliam Pitt (1806) āNothing,ā goes the Johnsonian clichĆ©, āconcentrates a manās mind more wonderfully than the prospect of being hanged.āĀ This very natural reaction may explain why a whole raft of intellectuals, journalists, and even politicians, none of whom was previously...
Fearful Symmetry
The Tailor of Panama Produced by John le CarrĆ©, John Boorman, and Kevan Barker with Columbia Pictures Directed by John Boorman Screenplay by John le CarrĆ©, John Boorman, and Andrew Davies Released by Columbia Pictures One of my favorite films is Carol Reed’s 1960 adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel Our Man in Havana, which tells...
Macron to Trump: ‘You’re No Patriot!’
In a rebuke bordering on national insult Sunday, Emmanuel Macron retorted to Donald Trump’s calling himself a nationalist. “Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism; nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism.” As for Trump’s policy of “America first,” Macron trashed such atavistic thinking in this new age: “By saying we put ourselves first and the...
Afghanistan’s Democratic Process
George W. Bush bailed last September’s parliamentary election in Afghanistan as “a major step forward” for the country’s democratic process. When the results were published at the end of October, however, it became obvious that the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) will be dominated by warlords, veteran jihadists, and former Taliban officials. The new legislature will...
Setting History Straight
Having sensed in the 1990ās that most European and American reporting about the Balkans was suspect, I find that this investigative study by a young German journalist, associated with the publication Junge Welt, fills in gaping holes in the received account of a controversial phase of recent history.Ā Contributing to my uneasiness over the establishmentās...
The War Toys Meltdown
At Circus World, Mattel’s Rattlor, a Masters of the Universe character, glares at his potential purchasers. “Sounds fearsome battle rattle before attacking,” the package advertises. The action figure is an “evil snake man creature with the quick strike head.” Price: $3.98. LJN Toys, Ltd., on the other hand, offers Thundercats Berserkers Hammerhand, which comes complete...
Becoming Extinct
Iraq’s Christians may be on their way to extinction, thanks to the Bush administrationās decision to topple Saddam Husseinās regime.Ā Today, Iraqās mostly Catholic and Orthodox Christians are fleeing the country, with their destination of choice being, ironically, Syria, another target for āregime changeā on the neoconservative hit list. More than two years ago, Chronicles...
Our Immigration Problems
Our immigration problems briefly received national attention last year when boatloads of illegal Chinese migrants landed on American shores. Yet, because many of these illegals made bogus claims of political asylum, some political leaders spoke as if asylum abuse were the only real problem. Representative Lamar Smith (R-Texas) set the record straight when he observed...
The Troubled Waves of Stillwater
Stillwater Written and directed by Tom McCarthy ā Produced by PGA ā Distributed by Focus Features Body and Soul (1947) Directed by Robert Rossen ā Screenplay by Abraham Polonsky ā Produced by Enterprise Productions ā Distributed by United Artists A good example of what not to do when using a real-life story as...
The Curse of the iPhone
Young people have never been famous for their political acumen. Recall theĀ Childrenās Crusade of 1212Ā when thousands of unarmed youngsters attempted to march to the Holy Land to convert Muslims with persuasion and divine inspiration. Nevertheless, the current generation exhibits a level of political naiveite that would certify the children of the 1212 disaster as rocket...
Investing in the Future
āThere is no more potent instrument of fate in 19th-century fiction than the legacy.āĀ So writes a female columnist in Britainās best newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, before going on to say some rude things about trust-fund babies.Ā According to the lady, a will stands as a symbol of the ābaleful power of crabbed old age...
Diversity Through Sport
Because spectator sports play a dominant role in American culture, many have tried to use them to change our society.Ā Such social engineering happens in Americaās inner cities, which would come as no surprise to most people.Ā But it also happens in such unlikely places as the Arrowhead Region of northeastern Minnesota and, specifically, in...
Demonizing the Orthodox
I teach seventh- and eighth-graders at the St. George Orthodox Church School in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, a purely volunteer task that takes 45 minutes out of my Sunday and two hours out of the rest of the week. The school, which extends from kindergarten to grade 12, is attached to St. George’s Church, the Antiochian...
Variations on a Theme
I pretty much devoured the āMinority Culturesā issue (February) in one sitting.Ā Every issue is stellar, but the great thing I find again and again is that reading all these fine writers is like loving so many different works of a particular composer that it is hard to make up oneās mind as to which...
International Community
In April, Condoleezza Rice made a stunning display of her keen analytical mind and verbal agility.Ā During a joint press conference with the Hungarian foreign minister, the secretary of state found herself defending the Bush administrationās decision to abstain rather than veto a U.N. resolution turning over crimes committed in the Darfur region of the...
A Terrible Twilight
George Dangerfieldās The Strange Death of Liberal England was published in 1935.Ā It is an exceptionally well-written book and became a cult classic, its haunting title suggesting a mysterious crime, as in a thriller.Ā Dangerfieldās theme was the decay of the civilization created by the British Liberal movement in the years that led up to...
Define “Imperialism”
Lewis Namier liked to tell the story of an English schoolboy who was asked to define “imperialism” on an examination paper. “Imperialism,” the budding proconsul wrote, “is learning how to get along with one’s social inferiors.” In the Edwardian twilight of the British Empire, that answer might have sufficed to win a scholarship to Balliol,...
George Bush, Protectionist
āIāve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system,ā President Bush told CNN, defending his offer of $17 billion in loans to the Big Three āto make sure the economy doesnāt collapse.ā Thus did Bush concede that protectionism, if a critical U.S. industry is in peril, must trump free-trade ideology. For in offering the bailout...
Trouble in the City
“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” āC.S. Lewis Recently named Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago, Jean Bethke Elshtain has a keen eye that sees through the haze of fashionable ideologies....
Israelās Lesson for 2024: A Liberal Crackup
The new New Left has the potential to spark a civil war among progressives, especially as causes like Black Lives Matter and anti-police policies entwine with "anti-colonial" and anti-Israel ideology.
A Message for Boys
The steamy morning reminded the congregation that Baltimore is on the shore and was once considered part of the South. The heat and the elderly substitute for the vacationing rector made the service informal and cozy, but if I had known the small church didn’t have air conditioning, I might have chosen some other Sunday...
Epiphanies of Grace
āThere is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Ā Books are well written, or badly written.Ā That is all.ā Ā Ā Ā Ā āOscar Wilde, from the Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde wrote several first-rate plays, on which his literary reputation principally rests, and a number of mostly...
Scottish Weakness and Muslim Impudence
The decision to release the Libyan terrorist Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi from a Scottish prison has caused much anger in the United States.Ā (Megrahi was convicted for his part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988, which killed a total of 270 people.)Ā Indeed, many Americans...
Good Friday, Bad Earth Day
Ā When I turned on my computer this morning, I got reminders from both Yahoo and Google that today was…Earth Day. Ā I didn’t actually expect the lords of Silicon Valley to acknowledge the real significance of today. Still, it is striking that the secular world contrives to ignore a day that inspired music such...
Virtually Unnoticed
Thomas Jefferson’s birthday went virtually unnoticed earlier this year, the 250th anniversary of his birth. Nothing is more indicative of how badly we Americans have squandered our moral capital and betrayed the substance of our history. We did have, of course, President Clinton’s inaugural journey from Monticello, though it is hard to imagine anything further...
ACT-UP of the Newspaper Industry
USA Today is the ACT-UP of the newspaper industry. Last April 8 the paper outed Arthur Ashe, forcing him to reveal the fact that a 1983 blood transfusion left him HIV positive. USA Today also recently outed former television newscaster Linda Ellerbee, bullying her into a public discussion of her double mastectomy. As Ellerbee revealed...
Talk to Me
The last 20 years have seen the proliferation of a machine that stores, organizes, and retrieves information: the computer. It can perform repetitive tasks without error or fatigue, analyze problems too complex for the human brain, and collate great quantities of information. The power of the computer, however, has its drawbacksāamong other things, it allows...
Mr. Bush and the Mexican Murderer
When he was governor of Texas, President George W. Bush presided over the execution of 152 murderers.Ā Yet today, as if to turn the phrase āDonāt mess with Texasā on its head, El Presidente wants to stop the Lone Star State from giving the hot shot to a Mexican murderer and rapist. As disturbing as...