Contrary to the claims of Marxism, economics does not determine the political structure of a country; rather, the political structure of a country determines its economic system.Ā The Soviet Union was proof of that.Ā In the case of the U.S. government, this can be seen in the adoption of tariffs, beginning in 1789.Ā The tariffs...
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On Dead Monkeys
In Thomas Flemingās otherwise excellent article āDead Monkeys and the Living Godā (Perspective, April), he makes a couple of minor missteps that add undue credence to the modernistsā case.Ā I have not read Steven Weinbergās books, so I am only going on the evidence presented in Dr. Flemingās column, but, if Weinberg does lump Intelligent...
Remembering Leo Strauss
The political theorist Leo Strauss (1899-1973) is perhaps an unlikely subject for Chroniclesā āRemembering the Rightā series. Although no one can deny the extensive influence of his ideas on the conservative (and later, neoconservative) movement in America during the Cold War and beyond, Strauss usually gave the impression that he was not a conservative in...
The War on White Teachers
“It’s a new day, and a new way!” exulted Adelaide Sanford on television in early 1985. A black supremacist and member of the New York City Board of Education, Sanford was the candidate for schools chancellor of the Reverend Al Sharpton and “activist attorneys” Alton Maddox and C. Vernon Mason (both of whom have since...
Petraeus and the Senate Chickens
The central character in the little morality play spun out by the Bush administration in making the case for āstaying the courseā in Iraq is Gen. David Petraeus, commander of our forces in Iraq and the savior of the neoconsā war.Ā His much-vaunted report was to elucidate the conditions for āvictoryā once and for all,...
Taking Down The Donald
If his Republican opponents will not take down Donald Trump, Fox News will not only show them how it is done. Fox News will do the job for them. That is the message that came out loud and clear from last Thursday’s debate in Cleveland, which was viewed by the largest cable audience ever to...
Contradiction and Collapse
The modern conflation of democracy with the welfare state to the contrary, there is, in fact, a vast, actually unbridgeable, gulf between these two things.Ā Democracy had previously assumed a citizenry independent enoughāsocially, financially, intellectually, and morallyāto be able to form fair, balanced, and informed opinions concerning public matters and issues of state.Ā The welfare...
The Corporate Citizen National vs. Transnational Economic Strategies
Transnationalism isn’t a term that is familiar to the American people. According to Peter Drucker, a leading advocate of transnationalism, a transnational company is one that operates in the global marketplace; that does its research wherever there are scientists and technicians, and manufactures where economics dictate (in many countries, that is); and that has a...
Still At the Still Point
Thirty-one years ago, when I had aspirations as an up-and-coming critic in the Catholic press, I wrote an essay on T.S. Eliot that was published in the Jesuit weekly, America. I thought it daring to suggest that the major poet of our time was something less than the robust Christian figure which an effective propagation...
The Illusion of Privacy
We canāt live in the past, but we should minimize our overexposure to online technology.
Holding a New Line
At the time of his election to the papacy, many thought that Pope Benedict XVIās approach toward Islam would be, by and large, no different from that of his predecessor, the late John Paul II.Ā But Benedictās now-famous speech at the University of Regensburg and the ensuing reactions in the Islamic world have shown that...
The Revolution in Civil Rights Law
It has been nearly 30 years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. By banning discrimination in employment and public accommodations the law was meant to minimize the role of race in the daily lives of Americans. Its result has been the opposite. The doctrine of “disparate impact” has had the astonishing...
Our Interest in Turkey
Trying to spread democracy in the Middle East has always been a bad idea.Ā The quagmire in Iraq is largely thanks to George W. Bush and his team extending the original mission from depriving Saddam of his (nonexistent) weapons of mass destruction to the establishment of a democratic Iraq as a first step to transforming...
Culture War, Whether We Like It or Not
We need to rethink how we fight the ascendant cultural left, which does not consider truth an arbiter.
Three From the Past
Unknown Produced by Studio Canal Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra Screenplay by Oliver Butcher and Stephen Cornwell Distributed by Warner Bros. Adjustment Bureau Produced and distributed by Universal PicturesĀ Directed and written by George Nolfi, adapted from āAdjustment Team,ā a story by Philip K. Dick Limitless Produced and distributed by Relativity MediaĀ Directed by Neil Burger...
World of War
With the two brief exceptions of Baghdad and Spain over a millennium ago, the history of Islam has been that of a long decline without a fall.Ā What started as a violent creed of invaders from the desert soon ran out of steam, but the collective memory of earlier successes lingered on as proof of...
Immigration and Marriage in America
Listening to the news media, youād think that Americans simply donāt understand marriage.Ā One in two marriages fails.Ā Public schools peddle theories about āalternative familiesā with such textbooks as Heather Has Two Mommies.Ā Single women run hither and yon looking for Mr. Goodbar, who turns out to be a white-frocked fertility guru equipped with a...
The Flawed Attempt to Make a Religion for the Right
In these troubled times of pandemics, racial conflict, and economic instability, disagreements over American conservatism may not sound particularly important. Yet, when ācancel cultureā tactics are being applied to the right, the meaning of conservatism is no longer just an academic talking point. This hostile climate has rekindled robust debate on what exactly conservatism means....
Supply-Side Mercantilism
It is hard to believe that only a few years ago, political economy was dominated by talk of zero-sum socieĀties and the limits to growth. Today, the talk is all of job-creation, reindustrialization, and high-techinvestĀment. This reversal in outlook is one of the clearest indicators of the ascenĀdency of right-wing themes in American politics. The...
A Hothouse of Goofiness: The American Book Industry
The renowned American jazzman Charlie Parker, introduced to Jean-Paul Sartre in a Paris club during the 1949 jazz festival, reportedly said, “I’m very glad to have met you, Mr. Sartre. I like your playing very much.” According to writer Boris Vian, who also played trumpet and often served as master of ceremonies at the club,...
The End of the NCC?
The declining National Council of Churches, once the mouthpiece of Americaās mainline Protestant denominations, is struggling to find a new purpose.Ā At its May 2002 board meeting, the NCC discussed its latest ecumenical outreach, an attempt to incorporate Roman Catholics and evangelicals.Ā Called āChristian Churches Together in the U.S.A.: An Invitation to a Journey,ā the...
Big Brother Sits for a Portrait
“It is highly desirable that people heading the party movement, be, at last, depicted in powerful Rembrandt colors in all their robust vitality.” āK. Marx What Khrushchev in his secret speech at the Congress of the Soviet Communist Party called “Stalin’s cult of personality” is, in fact, the most common and the most stable component...
The Coming Ordeal
This latest book by the former secretary of state illustrates the difficulty of separating a piece of writing from its creator (Alan Greenspan on macroeconomics, Bill Gates on information technology, Steven Spielberg on cinematography. Would a similar, slim volume attract national attention if came from an assistant professor at a Midwestern college? Would it be...
Fads, Facts & Fools
The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan’s Computer Challenge to the World by Edward A. Feigenbaum and Pamela McCorduck; Addison-Wesley; Reading, MA. The Rise of the Computer State by David Burnham; Random House; New York. A few years ago, CB radio antennae sprouted on the roofs and trunks of autos like alien growths from an...
Polemics on Polemics
When I delivered Liberty: The God That Failed into the hands of my publisher, I did so with no little trepidation.Ā Supported entirely by Protestant, secular academic, and other non-Catholic sources, including the work of numerous historians of the first rank, its detailed, 700-page counternarrative of the rise and fall of what the moderns call...
It’s Sovereignty, Stupid!
On March 18, President Bill Clinton tested the waters on the foreign trade issue. These waters had been heated up by Republican contender Patrick Buchanan’s attacks on “unfair trade deals,” which had hurt Americans for the benefit of transnational corporations. Speaking in New Orleans, Clinton defended his “free trade” policies, quoting John F. Kennedy and...
How to Win the War Against Christmas
In the seven years since my first essay on the War Against Christmas appeared in Chronicles, I have had no trouble writing at least one such essay per year, because each year brings new and outrageous attempts to suppress the public celebration of Christmas.Ā My favorite example was the 2002 winner of VDare.comās invaluable War...
Quebecās New State Religion
In June 2005, the National Assembly of Quebec adopted Bill 95, which changed the nature of religious and moral teaching in all schools across Quebec.Ā Before 2008, parents could choose between Catholic, Protestant, and nonreligious options.Ā Now all students in both public and private schools are required by law to take a course on religious...
Moscow Notebook
Here I am in Russia, for the third time in two months. This means the FBI should start an investigation, if it has not done so already. This time I was invited to a conference (āExporting Democracyā) at the Russian State University for the Humanities on Thursday. As is often the case with Russian conferences,...
Last of the Romans
Andrew Crocker did not attend his graduation exercises at Michigan State University in East Lansing on May 2. He was home dealing with family matters. So he missed the honorary doctorates. Shirley Weis, a graduate of MSUās College of Nursing, received a doctorate of Science as the first woman and first non-physician to serve as...
Cultural Conservation
A few years back, when the air was fresh and the world was new, some of us thought that the election of Ronald Reagan was only the beginning of the beginning of “morning in America.” It is a common mistake. Some decades have an identity for those who set their mark upon them. In periods...
Christians Against Terrorism
Tony Blair is madāreally mad.Ā Nasty people keep blowing up things in his London, and he is going to do something about it.Ā At a press conference in late July, he told the world that he wants to make it illegal for British subjects to leave Britain for advanced terrorist training in Pakistan.Ā The hidden...
Putin & Xi Have Red Lines, Too
What are Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping up to? In recent days, Russian tanks, artillery, armor, trucks, and troops have been moving by road and rail ever closer to Ukraine, and Moscow is said to be repositioning its 56th Guards Air Assault Brigade in Crimea. Military sources in Kyiv estimate there are now 85,000 Russian...
National Service
“I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.” āJohn Milton On February 25, 1906, to a full assembly at Stanford University, William James gave his most famous speech, “The Moral Equivalent of War.”...
Newsweeklies In Hell
Every Easter and Christmas at least one of Americaās three newsweekliesāTime, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Reportāincludes articles trashing Christian dogmas.Ā For Easter 2010, Newsweek featured a piece by religion editor Lisa Miller blurbing her new book, Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination With the Afterlife. Concerning the resurrection of men, she wrote, āItās a supernatural...
The Road to Cascadia
They call it Cascadiaāa land of plunging waterfalls and snowcapped mountains, a mythical kingdom of towering trees and raging rivers. Here in Seattle, capital of this Arcadia, the sleekly modernistic Space Needle rises up against the backdrop of Mount Rainier, which dominates the horizonāa distinctly Cascadian juxtaposition of mountain and cityscape, forest and skyscraper, greenery...
Texas and the Big Freeze
It became up close and personalĀ real quick. A favorite restaurant for brunch was closed on Valentineās Day, a Sunday, because it was already cold and icy. So my wife and I walked to a place only blocks from the house. Then, the power at our home in Austin went off around 2:00 a.m. on Monday....
Freedom From Religion
The recent āflapā over the Ground Zero Mosque is the meaningless debate we have come to expect from American political debates, which are a mere exchange of platitudes.Ā The only interesting part is the common ground occupied by both sides.Ā The left says that the First Amendment and the universal human right to enjoy religious...
Syria: Avoiding Another Quagmire
Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee last April, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned of the potential consequences of U.S. military involvement in the Syrian conflict.Ā It could hinder humanitarian relief operations, he said, embroil the United States in a significant, lengthy, and uncertain military commitment, and strain relationships around the world.Ā āAnd finally,ā he...
Giving Aid and Comfort to the Enemy
The Supreme Courtās ruling in Lawrence v. Texas has created panic and confusion among conservatives.Ā They want to support the three conservative justices who dissented from the Supreme Courtās ruling that struck down Texasā sodomy statute, but they donāt quite know why.Ā Justice Scalia, they say, must be wrong in thinking that a rational distinction...
The Ghosts of Sigmaringen
On a recent trip to Germany I took a day off to visit Sigmaringen, on the upper Danube some 20 miles north of Lake Constance. This town of ten thousand with a massive castle towering over it ā or, more precisely, this castle with a town attached ā interested me as the site of a...
The Peter Principle
All across America this Valentineās Day platoons of men will stand at the counters of flower shops and grocery stores, clutching cards, chocolates, and roses to their chests, tokens of affection for their wives and lady friends (and sometimes, no doubt, for both).Ā Their dilatory homage to the patron saint of love always brings a...
On Dueling, Divorce, and Red Indians
In February 1861, Joseph Sadoc Alemany, the first Roman Catholic bishop of the state of California, wrote an urgent pastoral letter to his flock.Ā This letter was published immediately in the New York Freemanās Journal, and for this indiscretion its editor was imprisoned for a year in Fort Lafayette, and his presses were shut down.Ā ...
In Loco Parentis, Part II
My ten years of research have finally paid off. My article in theĀ February 1991 Chronicles, “In Loco Parentis: The Brave New Family in Missouri,” has led to nationwide opposition to the Parents as Teachers (PAT) program that began here in Missouri. As a result of this article, I have been over whelmed with hundreds of...
Falling In (and Out of) Line
As I write, we have reached the stage of the Republican primary cycle that, since at least 1988, requires a pronouncement from the highest levels of the GOP: Now is the time for other candidates to back out and for all Republicans to support the frontrunner.Ā Continuing the battle for the nomination will serve no...
Unclassical Tragedy
Wired: The ShortĀ Times & Fast Life of John Belushi by Bob Woodward; Simon and Schuster; New York. Bob Woodward is an aggressive journalistĀ who has helped reveal the secrets of SupremeĀ Court Justices and a president. Like his previous efforts, Wired is a best-seller full of gossip and intrigue. Excerpts have appeared inĀ the Washington Post, New York...
The Real Fight Is Here at Home
On our refrigerator door, we have posted photos and stories of Marines who have lost their lives in the Iraq war.Ā Among them are Cpl. Jason Dunham and Lance Cpl. Aaron Austin.Ā Dunham was 22 when he dived onto a grenade to protect his buddies in K Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines.Ā A top high-school...
The Pros and Cons of Immigration: A Debate
Jacob Neusner, Graduate Research Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies, University of South Florida Martin Buber Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Frankfurt Immigration nourishes America, affirming the power of its national ideal: a society capable of remaking the entire world in the image of humanity in democracy. No country in the world other than...
Acts of God and Others
The collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa on the motorway that links Italy to Monte Carlo and the French Riviera reminds me of one of the great American novels: The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Hereās my attempt to modify the memorable first sentence of Thornton Wilderās 1927 masterpiece about the role of God...
Obama’s Trampling on God’s Turf Now
Ā Yes, Virginia, there is a religious war going on. It is for the soul of America. And traditional Christianity is besieged. In a January visit to the Vatican, American bishops were warned by Benedict XVI that “radical secularism” posed “grave threats” to their Catholic faith. Your religious freedom is being circumscribed, said the pope....