Education has long been a political hot potato in Britain. For decades it has been the central issue that links national politics to the politics of the localities, the politics of class, and the politics of party. This might appear surprising in a society where over 90 percent of schoolchildren are educated in government schools,...
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Why Putin’s Pipeline Is Welcome in Germany
During a joint interview with Jens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian secretary-general of NATO, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, fresh from his bout with the Chinese in Anchorage, took on Angela Merkel and the Germans. Issue: Nord Stream 2, the Baltic Sea pipeline Vladimir Putin is building to complement his Nord Stream 1 and carry more natural...
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...
On Samuel Francis and the League of the South
Dr. Samuel Francis seems to think that those of us who hope to reform the American empire by devolution are suffering from an “infantile disorder” and pursuing a goal neither possible or desirable (Principalities & Powers, February). Then he turns around and admits that nothing else has worked. His only hope seems to be a...
Surprised by Believers
St. Patrickās Church is now a modern structure consisting of two red-brick tetrahedrons sprung up, like some poisonous mushroom, over the transformed landscape.Ā The original building, Old St. Patrickās, is down the street from the usurper, crouching in the shadows, dreaming of the days when a Roman Catholic church could never have been mistaken for...
Donāt Blame Calvin
In ā1865: The True American Revolutionā (Views, April) Claude Polin asserts that Calvinism somehow led to the division between North and South.Ā Such an assertion is unsupportable.Ā The main flaw lies in his defining Calvinism as built upon self-confidence that leads men āto rely exclusively on themselves to steer their lives.āĀ The key tenet of...
Blazing Brooks
Fifty years ago, a cry went out for a man with laughs. Mel Brooks answered the call.
I’ve Got a Secret
Back in November and December, while Republicans across the country were writing letters, calling in to talk radio, and even taking to the streets to protest Al Gore’s attempt to steal the election in Florida, their fellow party members in Rockford remained strangely silent. They must have found it disquieting when the Bush campaign kept...
The Filthy Rich
Ā I haven’t investigated, but I’m sure of it. A pollster in ancient Babylonia was sampling the citizenry on a proposal to raise money by taxing the vineyards and flesh pots of the obscenely rich. I don’t know a word of ancient Babylonian, but can we doubt the response went something like, “You bet! Go...
A Warring Visionary
The Crusader: The Life and Tumultuous Times of Pat Buchanan by Timothy Stanley New York: Thomas Dunne Books 464 pp., $27.99 British scholar Timothy StanleyĀ has produced the first significant biography of Patrick J. Buchanan, describing his life from his boyhood in Washington, D.C., up ...
Global Retch
Nearly four years after George Bush, on the eve of the Persian Gulf War, first popularized the expression “New World Order,” is there anyone in the United States who does not greet that phrase with either a grin of sarcasm or a growl of hatred? The answer, in a nutshell, is yes. The expression may...
Love’s Old Sweet Song
I once had the privilege of hearing Professor Polhemus deliver some of these pages as a lectureāthe passage on the terrible end of Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, which I have found as superb to read in 1990 as it was to hear in 1986. I also once heardāand watchedāhim do a number on The...
Myth and Phobia
Orlando Figesā new book does much to shed light on a conflict long neglected by contemporary historians and is likely to become the preeminent work on the Crimean War.Ā However, the book suffers from serious shortcomings that prevent it from becoming a military history of such caliber as Antony Beevorās and Max Hastingsā works. Figes...
Adventurous
Your Excellency: October and November in these mountains often seem to me a time of melancholy and bereavement, of Demeter grieving the loss of Persephone, the good earth receding into itself.Ā In Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe, who grew up less than a mile from here, and who lies buried around the corner, connected October,...
Louis Bromfield’s America
Malabar Farm drew a large crowd the summer day I was there, mostly busloads of the elderly on excursion from the “senior centers” of Ohio. They came to see Louis Bromfield’s legacyāthe once famous agricultural experiment that is now a state park. Most of their interest centered on the tour of Bromfield’s “Big House,” his...
Osama bin Laden: The Balkan Connection
The U.S. and British embassies were shut down in Sarajevo on October 17 after receiving threats from Bosnian Muslims and their foreign co-religionists resident in Bosnia who profess outrage at the bombing of Afghanistan. “This step has been taken due to a credible security threat to the official U.S. presence in Bosnia-Herzegovina” a U.S. official...
Stretching Angles and Banishing Angels
Geometry, most high school students will attest, is a dull subject. This dullness, however, is not only inescapable but essential. Memorizing theorems and deriving proofs is no fun, but doing such tasks teaches usāas “relevant” and “creative” courses in “communication” or “personal development” do notāthat the mind must submit to truth, not the other way...
The Obama Presidency: The Triumph of (Lots of) Experience Over (a Little) Hope?
It has been an awful two decades.Ā Say what you will about Ronald Reagan, he did not leave people feeling depressed, even hopeless.Ā Then came four years of George H.W. Bushāan honorable man, but hardly an inspiration.Ā And his tax and regulatory policies were largely indistinguishable from those of the Democrats. Then we endured eight...
Wages Stagnate, Even Neocons Notice
Ā Farsighted conservatives have warnedĀ for decades that globalization was leading to wageĀ stagnation in the United States. This was, for example, aĀ major theme in Pat Buchanan’sĀ The Great Betrayal, published in 1997. The less farsighted are beginning to catch up. Recently,Ā David Frum published a chart from the Bureau of LaborĀ Statistics on his website, which was thenĀ picked up...
The Chain Reaction of Academic Lying
An uneasy relationship with the truth seems especially prevalent in Americaās most prestigious schools. Ambitious academics quickly realize that upward mobility requires a knack for convincing deceit. Long gone are the days when brilliant scholarship was the ticket to moving up the ladder. The provost who can say with a straight face, āall of our...
Substandard: The End of an Illusion
The sale of The Weekly Standard should put paid to any lingering illusion that the neoconservative empire was anything but a Potemkin village.Ā Allegedly, Rupert Murdoch sold the magazine for one million dollars to Philip Anschutz, the billionaire owner of Clarity Media Group, but the price seems either much too high or much too low.Ā ...
Restoring Families by Restricting Government
When we view the monumental seats of government, the palaces and temples of ancient and medieval civilizations, we are awed by their architectural grandeur, the art and culture to which they testify, and the sheer effort they represent. While they are indeed a part of our cultural heritage, these edifices are better understood as monuments...
Out Where the West Began
Flying home from the East, I usually honor crossing the Mississippi as the occasion for my first double dry martini, which means that passing the Hundredth Meridian, equidistant between the towns of Kearney and North Platte, Nebraska, is generally the cause for celebrating with the second. For at least a century and a half, the...
Learning to Behave
When I heard on the radio one morning in 1974 that Friedrich Hayek had won the Nobel Prize in economics, my first thought was, “Not our Friedrich Hayek?” A few hours later, upon meeting a libertarian acquaintance of some prominence, I asked, “Did you hear about Hayek?” The reply was: “No. Did he die?” I...
Infernally Yours
The Departed Produced and distributed by Warner Brothers Directed by Martin Scorsese Screenplay by William Monahan In The Departed, a raucously sordid meditation on the ways of the lower-class Boston Irish, director Martin Scorsese has included a passing tribute to Carol Reedās peerless film, The Third Man.Ā Reedās adaptation of Graham Greeneās novella concludes with...
Undemocratic Democrats
According to John Harwood in The New York Times, public support for
#FillTheHotTub
Thereās an ancient adageāancient in terms of our Internet Age, at least: If youāre not paying for the product, you are the product.Ā Do you think Facebook is free?Ā Take a look at those ads in your Facebook feed, and over on the right-hand side of the page.Ā Ever wonder why so many of them...
At the Golden Spur
It was Saturday, the day before Earth Day in the Golden Spur Bar in Magdalena, and one of our always-informal meetings of DUCA and DUWA was in progress. That is, three cowboys (Drunken Underemployed Cowboys’ Association) and I (substitute “Writers'” for “Cowboys'”) were drinking tequila shots and Coors, and doing what, other than rewarding but...
Boris Derangement Syndrome
Boris Derangement Syndrome has broken out in Britain. It is similar to the more widely documented American affliction, Trump Derangement Syndrome. BDS and TDS epidemics spread when the media and political classes are confronted with an empowered leader they cannot stand. Boris Johnson, the new Prime Minister, makes his critics so angry they become demented....
Schadefreude over Michael Mooreās divorce?
Despite my disagreements with him, Iām saddened at documentarian Michael Mooreās civil divorce. Raised a Catholic, his marriage likely is sacramental, which means he still would be married whatever decision is made by the courts of the civil government he loves so much and seeks to expand ad infinitum. Yet I also have some schadefreude...
Twin Threats to the Land of Fire
My first stroll through Fountain Square in the walking district of Baku, Azerbaijan, revealed the warp and woof of the city.Ā If I didnāt know otherwise, had someone told me that I was on the Zeil promenade in Frankfurt, Germany, rather than in a country just north of Iran, I would have believed him.Ā The...
Trump Turns the Tide with Blunt Talk About Kamalaās Identity
The forbidden truth of the 2024 campaign is that Kamala Harris is an unqualified, race-hustling phony. Donald Trump is the only one with the courage to say it.
Comment
History, in the end, remembers a society more by its culture than by its politics. If a modern American knows little about the dramatists and poets and sculptors of ancient Greece or Rome, he knows even less about their political leaders. The point is well put in an anecdote told in the Soviet Union: a...
BTK Killer
Dennis Rader, the disgusting, twisted pervert who flattered himself with the moniker “BTK” (for “bind, torture, and kill”), is a living witness to the existence of the Devil. On August 18,2005, he was sentenced to 175 consecutive years in prison for ten grisly murdersāthe harshest sentence that Judge Gregory Waller of the Wichita district court...
Boys Will Be Boys
When my daughter, Katie, was in the fifth grade, her grammar school conducted a week-long series of tests inspired by the White House to promote physical fitness for schoolchildren.Ā Children who completed the tests with passing marksāthe standards for passing were not highāreceived a certificate from the President.Ā The kids ran, jumped, and stretched, and...
An Orthodox Muslim: Bin Laden’s Theology and Terrorism
One annoying old canard, reinserted into the mainstream media reporting of Osama Bin Ladenās death, is the claim that his theology representsĀ a radical break with traditional Islam. The usual propagandists and apologists for ānormative Islamāāpeaceful and tolerant, and totally at odds with terrorist violenceāare back peddling their old wares. CNN had Ebrahim Moosa, a professor...
Donating the Rope
On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became Germanyās Chancellor after the corporate Germany decided to bet on him āĀ in spite of his radical rhetoric āĀ because it believed it could control him. On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama will become the 44th president of the United States in large part thanks to gigantic contributions from corporate...
Syria: A Deep State Victory
The latest escalation of the Syrian crisis started with the false-flag poison gas attack in Douma on April 7.Ā It was followed a week later by the bombing of three alleged chemical-weapons facilities by the United States, Britain, and France.Ā The operation had two objectives. The first was the Permanent State interventionistsā intent to reassert...
Special-Interest Democracy
“Millions endeavoring to supply Each other’s lust and vanity.” Ā Ā – Bernard Mandeville Ā Milton and Rose Friedman: The Tyranny of the Status Quo; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; San Diego, CA. Ā Amitai Etzioni: Capital Corruption; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; San Diego, CA. Ā It is a commonplace that modern democracy suffers from a grave malady, namely...
The Empire State of Mind
Nigel Biggar's sophisticated history of British colonialism does not ignore the many benefits reaped by the recipients. His work is relevant to all Western nations, now threatened by faux radicals.
The Easter Rising and the IRA
In April 1991 an aged Rolls Royce, vintage 1949, drew up to a small crowd outside the post office in Dublin. The president of the Irish Republic, Mary Robinson, stepped out for a brief ceremony, lasting less than half an hour, to mark the 75th anniversary of the Easter Rising in 1916, when a group...
Bill Clinton and the Ground Zero Mosque: A Perfect Fit
Former President Bill Clinton declared his strong support for the Ground Zero mosque 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...
That Bloodbath in the Old Dominion
The day after his “Silent Majority” speech on Nov. 3, 1969, calling on Americans to stand with him for peace with honor in Vietnam, Richard Nixon’s GOP captured the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey. By December, Nixon had reached 68 percent approval in the Gallup Poll, though, a year earlier, he had won but...
Six of One
Since his election to the Senate in 1984, Mitch McConnell has been the bĆŖte noir of Kentucky progressives.Ā Like Halleyās comet, the slogan āDitch Mitchā has appeared again and again, and McConnellās adversaries have made a recurring cathartic ritual of venting hatred upon him.Ā Time after time, Mitch has come out on top, forcing even...
All the Chips Are on the Table Now
“As everyone knows, I made it clear that my first choice for the Supreme Court will make history as the first African American woman justice.” So Joe Biden promised. Since the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, however, Biden has refused to produce a list of Black female judges and scholars whom he would consider...
The Ghosts of Christmas Past
“Now in history,” wrote Chesterton, “there is no Revolution that is not a Restoration.” A collective memory, a vague but compelling collection of shadows that bind us to the past, seems to whisper a perennial, bittersweet hymn to the numbed ear of man, particularly modern man. Every nation, tribe, or clan has passed on tales...
Childocentric
Europeans accuse Americans of being childocentric, and I guess I’d have to plead guilty. My nine-year-old daughter is the apple of my eye. I want her to live in a society that is moral and free, that looks as much as possible like the old American Republic, unsubverted by the welfare-warfare state and its allied...
The Cop-Murdering Extremist Who Inspires Pro-Palestinian Campus Radicals
The celebration of Wesley Cook, aka āMumia Abu-Jamal,ā a cop-killing thug and member of a lawless cult of child abusers and anti-social criminals, by todayās campus radicals is telling.
Target Hit, No Bullās Eye
āWar is a perpetual struggle with embarrassments.ā āColmar von der Goltz The Assassinsā Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 480 pp., $26.00 George Packerās The Assassinsā Gate aptly exposes the incompetence of the Bush administrationās occupation of Iraq.Ā The author has traveled to Iraq many times to talk...
Solemn Joy and Hot Gospel
āTwas the middle of that sacred time of year when all Americans pause to remember what is most importantāChristmas Shopping Season. I had just walked through the automatic doorway of MediaPlay, out in what was then the edge of Rockfordās wasteland (the East State Street shopping corridor, which has since sprawled itself all the way...