Come down the Danube through a “painters’ paradise” of low hills, past a “bosky island,” around a bend where suddenly the spires and parapets and bustling quays spread before you “in a pearly, blue-gray light.” Glimpse the Royal Castle, its cupola “studded with stony warts, a suggestion of an old Magyar warrior’s semibarbaric helmet.” Debark...
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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...
Perspectives on RPW
The late Mark Winchellās recently published Robert Penn Warren: Genius Loves Company is a collection of essays focusing on Warrenās close associations and literary affinities.Ā Warren was known as a kind and generous man who encouraged other writers in their work, helped those in need, and nurtured fragile friendships over a lifetime, sometimes with people...
Violent Revolution
This past spring, while Congress was engaging in its usual mock debate about tightening immigration, hundreds of thousands of Mexican-Americans took their case to the streets.Ā In the first round of demonstrations, Chicanos, waving Mexican flags, demanded rights for illegals and declared that all those who favored enforcing the law were racists. We all heard...
Politics Is Policy
āDrain the swamp!ā Donald Trump declared in every campaign speech of 2016.Ā He meant, of course, the Swamp of Washington, D.C., home of the labyrinthine network of centralized bureaucracies that control our lives.Ā Itās also called the Deep State and the Permanent Bureaucracy. Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama as well as the two Republican...
Reconquista de Villas
HĆ©ctor Villa was discovering the hard way that running afoul of the authorities in America is like riding a horse into quicksand, as Rodolfo Fierro, the Centaurās chief executioner, had had the misfortune to do: You escape from the fatal mire only by miracle (something God had not seen fit to vouchsafe poor Fierro). For...
Letter from a Legend
Chroniclesā editors should be commended for publishing several hard-hitting articles on the leftās pernicious censorship and particularly for providing an interview with a young friend of mine, Michael Millerman, who has been victimized by academic bigots (āInterview with a Condemned Academic,ā Chronicles, August 2019). Like Michael, I have written on Leo Strauss and Martin Heidegger...
Pirates of the Mediterranean
On June 30, the government of Israel committed an act of piracy when the Israeli Navy in international waters illegally boarded the Spirit of Humanity, kidnapped its 21-person crew from 11 countries, including former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney and Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire, and confiscated the cargo of medical ...
Chesterton and the Cowardly Cocktail?
G.K. Chesterton famously derided cocktails. Is there any hope for those of us who love both Chesterton and cocktails, or must we choose one and reject the other?
Cultural Coma
When Magic Johnson announced that he was retiring from basketball because he had tested positive for the HIV virus, the nation fell into the kind of cultural coma that is all too common in recent history. The national television networks interrupted regularly scheduled programs for live coverage of Magic’s news conference and ran nightly retrospectives...
Seventy Years Old and an NBA Star (in My Mind)
Iām 70 years old, 5ā7ā, and a bit past my ideal measurement on the Body Mass Index. Letās say I wake up tomorrow morning, look at myself in the mirror, and suddenly decide Iām capable of hitting three pointers in the National Basketball Association. I see myself soaring through the air like Michael Jordan, ball...
For Keeps!
Tom Ditzler, a veteran, buys 30 acres of rural farmland. For 50 years, he and his wife, Jan, live there, rearing two children, Cassandra and Christina. Tom comes to know the contours of his property by heartāthe creek that runs across his land, the wetlands surrounding the creek, the hills and woods that rise up...
The Liberal Hawksā Neoconservative Allies
The problem with President Barack Obamaās foreign policy is not that it is ātoo pragmatic,ā as recently alleged. The problem is that Obama combines the broad ideological assumptions of liberal interventionists with a leadership style that allows people more doctrinaire than he to dominate the internal debate and decision-making process. Libya is the product of...
What We Are Reading: September 2023
Short reviews of Middlemarch, by George Eliot, and Shane, by Jack Schaefer.
Crime Genes and Other Delusions
In his closing argument before jurors in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, Deputy District Attorney Christopher A. Darden described Simpson as being “out of control” when he allegedly killed his former wife and Ronald Goldman. Mr. Darden pointed to a series of events in the hours before the brutal killings that, having ignited the short...
A Dissenting Voice
Judge Danny Boggs of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is, for believers in the rule of law, a hero.Ā Judge Boggs, in an extraordinary dissenting opinion published in May, revealed profound problems with the majority of his courtās approach to law in an affirmative-action case and pointed out that his chief...
Intelligent Design
Intelligent design had its day in court in Dover, Pennsylvania, and the result was sadly predictable.Ā So was the reaction to it. The evolutionist and atheist left ballyhooed the decision as another victory for science over superstition, and for the separation of Church and state.Ā The intelligent-design crowd vowed to continue fighting, and talk radio...
The Progressive Racism of the Ivy League
If the definition of racism is deliberate discrimination based on race, color, or national origin, Yale University appears to be a textbook case of “systemic racism.” And, so, the Department of Justice contends. Last week, Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband charged that “Yale discriminates based on race… in its undergraduate admissions process, and that race...
Tom Roeser, R.I.P.
Tom Roeser was perhaps Thomas to his parents and teachers and those who never met him.Ā But for those of us fortunate enough to have glided within his ambitāeven for a few momentsāhe was āTom.ā There was no pretense about him.Ā There was no standing at one or two removes from him.Ā He was warm...
An Inconvenient History
Over the past decade, climate change has been a permanent fixture in the headlines, and its implications are frightening.Ā Depending on whom you believe, the earth might be on the verge of a warming trend that could devastate much of human civilization.Ā If this is even partially true, we might need to consider radical solutions,...
Please Tread on Me
āSic Semper Tyrannis.ā āfrom the Great Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia āI want everybody to hear loud and clear that Iām going to be the president of everybody.ā āGeorge W. Bush āI hope we get to the bottom of the answer.Ā Itās what Iām interested to know.ā āGeorge W. Bush AĀ bit of folklore, often...
Cultural Genocide
Cultural genocide is a legal term sometimes used to describe the planned destruction of an ethnic or religious identity. The English, in solidifying control over their islands, did their best to obliterate the historical memory of Scottish Highlanders and Irish Catholics, and the national socialists of Bill Clinton’s party are doing the same thing here...
On Saving Canada
Kevin Michael Grace begins his profile of Conrad Black (āThe Fall of Lord Blackadder and Lady Manolo (of Blahnik),ā News, June) with a piece of hearsayāan observation that āCanada isnāt worth saving,ā supposedly uttered by David Frum to me and by me to Mr. Grace. David has never said such a thing to me, and...
Call It Insourcing
Americans are likely to hear more about āinsourcingā as the 2012 presidential campaign unfolds.Ā President Barack Obama advanced the term during a February 15 trip to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Ā āYouāve all heard enough about outsourcing,ā he explained.Ā āWell, more and more companies like Master Lock are now insourcing.Ā Theyāre deciding that if the cost of doing...
The Straussian Sidestep
Dr. Germana Paraboschi’s Leo Strauss e la destra americana (Leo Strauss and the American Right) is one of the few serious studies of the American right to come out of Italy. Dr. Paraboschi is a young scholar, born in Milan in 1961 and now living just outside Pavia. She spent several years in the United...
The Inner Logic of Civil Rights
In 1861 U.S. President Abraham LincolnĀ launched a war of conquest against the South, and legend claims it was all for the abolition of slavery, officially declared by the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.Ā Yet exactly 101 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the forcefully reinstated Union, signed the Civil Rights Act...
The Paris Terrorist Attacks: Eurocrats in Denial
In the wake of the bloody terrorist attacks in Paris, French President Francois Hollande has asked for extended emergency powers and has promised an intensified assault on Islamic State in Syria. Hollande has further called on the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution on combating terrorism as a basis for forming a āunifiedā multi-national...
Joe Biden, the New Brezhnev
Leonid Ilych Brezhnev presided over the irreversible decline of the USSR during his 18 years in power, initially as Secretary-General of the Soviet Communist Party and later also as chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. He was two years younger than Joseph Biden is today when he died in 1982, but ā just...
Mr. Kennanās America
No admirer of George F. Kennanās should be surprised by the angry tone of the reviews his recently published Diaries has been receiving.Ā Of the several I have read, in the British as well as the American press, all were, to some extent or another, willfully unsympathetic.Ā That is only to have been expected, Kennan...
Groovy Solipsism
Inherent Vice Produced and distributed by Warner Brothers Directed and written by Paul Thomas Anderson, based on the novel by Thomas Pynchon Birdman Produced by New Regency Pictures Directed and written byĀ Alejandro GonzĆ”lez IƱƔrritu Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures You never know what youāll learn at the movies.Ā Watching the two films under review this...
An Enduring Feast
Some cult writers are admired more for what they mean than for what they accomplish. The works of the novelist, diarist, and prolific reviewer Anthony Powell (1905-2000) enjoyed only modest commercial success; Powell grouched to his British publisher in 1961, “I perfectly realise that I am not an enormous seller, but I am a seller,...
Place and Presence, Holy Hills and Sacred Cities
In classical times, the city was a sacred place, bounded by a wall, in which civilization occurred, and to live outside the city was to be uncivilized.Ā To be the founder of a city was to be god-like, so that there are at least six Alexandrias, the work of Alexander the Great; several Antiochs, named...
Netting Reagan, or All the President’s Legs
When Thomas Mann joined the West Coast galaxy of refugees from Hitler, he was writing Doctor Faustusāa study of, among other things, national character and demonology. The word meant roughly the same as what Michael Rogin means by it: the countersubversive drives that label, persecute, and sometimes eliminate pernicious forces in the body politic. In...
The Swiss Dream
Swiss people are sovereign in a way the people of France, Britain, Germany and the United States are not.
The War of Wars
I have lost the battle with my garden, the only war I care about these days.Ā The Drought (yes, I mean to capitalize it, to personify it as if it were an angry god) has scorched the yard, and there is no such thing as victory in the face of such an enemyāonly the hope...
Remembering Christopher Lasch
Christopher Lasch, who for many years served as chairman of the history department at the University of Rochester and who was famous for his commentaries on American social history, including such books as The Culture of Narcissism and Haven in a Heartless World, died in March 1994 at the age of 61. Those who knew...
Every Man a Victim
“Mankind is tired of liberty.” āBenito Mussolini An acquaintance of mine, who is not particularly conservative, once heard a television newsman quack about how bad the 1950’s were. Disgusted, he burst out, “What was wrong with the 1950’s? People were norma/then!” People certainly seem a lot less “normal” nowadays. Charles J. Sykes has written a...
Pulling the Plugs
“Culture looks beyond machinery.” āMatthew Arnold A generation ago, the strongest voice raised against materialism, scientism, and the depredations of technology and mass communication was that of rhetorician and second generation agrarian Richard Weaver. In books like Ideas Have Consequences and Visions of Order, Weaver combines a disdain for technological culture in general with grave...
Trivial Pursuits
David Pryce-Jones: Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir; Ticknor & Fields; New York. A Chime of Words: The Letters of Logan Pearsall Smith; Edited by Edwin Tribble; Ticknor & Fields; New York. Logan Pearsall Smith: All Trivia: A Collection of Reflections and Aphorisms; Ticknor & Fields; New York. Leslie Fiedler once observed that “in our day,...
True Tar-Heel Tales
Abe Lincoln and Al Capone Sometimes āUncleā Bud disappears for a week or two on āfishing trips.āĀ He always has a nice car for trips, usually a Buick with a big trunk.Ā Pays cash for āem,Ā too.Ā Always says he got the money from cashing in his āG.I. insurance.āĀ Less said about that the better.Ā ...
The Five Good Reasons
Atheists have no god to worship.Ā This is by no means a tautology.Ā Belief in god is ingrained in our nature, and Anselmās proof is the nearest thing to an effective rebuttal of atheism.Ā Put in simple terms, Anselmās argument is that we know that god exists because we have the category god in our...
The Republican WarāOver War Policy
Rand Paul had his best debate moment Tuesday when he challenged Marco Rubio on his plans to increase defense spending by $1 trillion. “You cannot be a conservative if you’re going to keep promoting new programs you’re not going to pay for,” said Paul. Marco’s retort triggered the loudest cheers of the night: “There are...
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...
Is War in the Cards for 2015?
“If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you,” said Calvin Coolidge, whose portrait hung in the Cabinet Room of the Reagan White House. Among the dispositions shared by the two conservatives was a determination to stay out of other...
On Franklin Sanders
The commitment to principle of coin and precious metals dealer Franklin Sanders (“The Most Dangerous Man in the Mid-South,” February) is well known to his customers and fellow coin dealers. He is even better known to the “freedom movement” through his newsletter The Moneychanger. Sanders reveals his true priority when he says, “In 1980, I...
Moving Targets: The Trouble With Early Primaries
The 2008 presidential contest has dominated political news for over a year, starting almost immediately after the 2006 midterm elections.Ā Most of the coverage has devolved, as it always does, to discussion of the āhorse raceā among the candidates, the competition for fundraising, and an insufferably large number of debates and fora that few actual...
Oiling Up the Wheels of Justice
He is the clown prince in a continent whose rulers boast of more clowns among them than all the circuses of the world combined.Ā He uses more black shoe polish on his hair than a company of Rumanian hussars use on their thigh-high boots, and plasters more makeup on his face than Norma Desmond.Ā He...
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...
Un Monstre Ć©trange
To translate a play by Corneille (1606-84), one of the ābig threeā dramatists (along with Racine and MoliĆØre) of the classical period in France, is to challenge most trends of contemporary American taste, starting with the reigning, and deplorable, standards of behavior and language.Ā Corneilleās plays are in rhymed alexandrine couplets; the diction is elevated...
Main Street U.S.A.
We the People… The world, my friends, is going to… and that’s just the point: We don’t know where in the world the world is going. Only that it’s moving at a high speed, in ways likely to upset existing orders. And the People are driving this showāthe People, yes, as Carl Sandburg entitled his...