This yearbook, prepared by Freedom Houseāa private nonprofit foundation from New Yorkāis the tenth in the series of annual comparative surveys of political and civil liberties in the world. Started in 1972, the Freedom House project to assess the status of freedom around the globe has become an indispensable gauge for anyone interested in the...
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Hawkeye Econ 101
“Directions for Iowa’s Economic Growth” ought to be required reading for every local and state government body, to say nothing of the boys in Washington (the less said about them, the better). Drafted by a University of Iowa research team under the direction of the Iowa Department of Economic Development and the Planning and Research...
In the Name of ‘Democracy’
The American Revolution made democracy the preferred government for the modern age. The only trouble with American democracy is the constant redefinition of the word.
Political Passions, Part II
American churches cannot make up their minds. Do they serve God or an Uncle Sam who for a long time has been looking a great deal like Mammon? On patriotic holidays the choirs sing that bloodthirsty and nonsensical anthem to war and slaughter ironically titled “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” and pastors give sermons...
The Serfs of Silicon Valley
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism;Ā by Joel Kotkin;Ā Encounter Books;Ā 244 pp., $28.99 Ā In the summer of 2003 my bride,Ā our three little kids, and I headed to Chicago for that all-important summer job after my second year of law school. We acquired a āsummer leaseā for an apartment on North Orchard Street in the highly sought-after neighborhood of...
Italyās āPopulistā Government
In Italyās general election on March 4, two parties routinely derided by the corporate media as āpopulistā won almost 70 percent of the votes cast. A coalition led by Matteo Salviniās League (Lega, formerly known as Lega Nord, LN) won 37 percent of the vote and a plurality of seats both in the Chamber of...
Jerks I
The full title should be: Jerks, How to Spot them and How to Deal with them without becoming one of them yourself. The Jerk is the defining character of postmodern America. Ā What the Man of Faith and the Man of the Sword were to the Middle Ages, the Jerk is to our own age. Ā To...
Leopold Tyrmand, 1920-1985
I am honored by the invitation to reflect with you on the life of our friend and colleague Leopold Tyrmand. There are those here who knew Leopold longer and better than I. But in the last several years I came to know him well enough that I am not surprised by the remark of one...
“America First” In Name Only
The America First Policy Institute is the latest group of swamp creatures masquerading as America First populists.
Defending Ourselves Without Hate
The radicals under the flags of Antifa and Black Lives Matter who are trashing our cities and destroying our monuments say they are fighting against āwhite supremacy.ā BLM, on its website, lists as chief among its goals to āend white supremacy forever.ā The prominent Rose City Antifa chapter lists on its site white supremacy as...
Old Answers to Old Questions
After a decade or two of introspective breast-beating, educators are turning from an examination of what is wrong with public schooling to what is right with private schooling. This latest entry to the field examines religious education in the United States. Nearly 5.1 million students attend some sort of private school (K-12), eschewing for whatever...
Christian Right Conspiracy
Paul Krugman is a professor of economics at Princeton University who, in his eagerness to obtain appointive office in a future Democratic administration, has moonlighted for some years now as a columnist for the New York Times, where he has worked assiduously to develop talking points for Democratic candidates.Ā His ambition is transparent, and it...
Trump Raises the Stakes With CNN
Last week, the White House revoked the press pass of CNN’s chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, and denied him access to the building. CNN responded by filing suit in federal court against the president. Acosta’s First and Fifth Amendment rights had been violated, said CNN. The demand: Acosta’s press pass must be returned immediately...
Ron Paul Rising
When the Old Gray Lady finally deigned to take notice of Ron Paulās presidential bid, it was in the form of a long piece in the New York Times Magazine by Christopher Caldwell, a piece that confirmed the definite feeling of dĆ©jĆ vu I get when I note the energy, the enthusiasm, and the surprising...
Crimeās Black Adhesive
Sterling Hayden was as an actor and soldier, he had the resolution to make his participaĀtion in his films and his career more than well-earned.
Bad News From Africa
In previous books, now classics of travel writing, Paul Theroux described his long train journeys through India and Russia, South America, and China; his ramblings around England and the Mediterranean; his paddling through Oceania.Ā More interested in people and landscape than in history and art, Theroux combines description and interpretation with social criticism and political...
Fragments of Tile
By definition, an anthology is a collection of stories, poems, excerpts from literary works, etc., that are published together because they represent a particular time period, literary style, or theme. What to include and what to leave out is always a problem; however, The Sierra Club Desert Reader: A Literary Companion, edited by Gregory McNamee,...
Revisiting the Round Table
The Green Knight Directed and written by David Lowery ā Produced by Ley Line Entertainment ā Distributed by A24 In a world where chivalry is an alleged tool of the patriarchy, it seems odd that the story of the Green Knight, one of the most famous tales of the Arthurian legend, remains popular today....
Opera: Grand and Not So Grand
People sometimes seem to be prejudiced against opera for reasons that are arbitrarily unconvincing.Ā These reasons turn out to be an antipathy based on class (opera is the province of the privileged), or antipathy resulting from sheer musical ignorance.Ā (Trained voices donāt appeal to the contemporary ear.)Ā These two specious reasons are important because the...
Clean Jim, Dirty Harry, and Barry the Beer-Drinker
The conservative press lost no time in converting the Henry Louis Gates affair into a morality play that pitted a loose-lipped race-baiting President against a squeaky clean policeman with an excellent record in what is politely termed
Wokeness Is No Laughing Matter
I remember once hearing someone who dealt with such things point out that there was one particular trait characterizing all cult religions: the lack of a sense of humor, not only with regard to others, but in relation to themselves as well. Cult religions, after all, are usually obsessed with one doctrine, to which all...
Code Yellow
Talk about the failure of fundamental journalism!Ā In any other professionāmedical, legal, financialāthe guilty party would be struck off.Ā In journalism, the guilty partyāas in Rolling Stoneācontinues on its merry way of disinformation and downright fabrication.Ā Some Duke University lacrosse players must be nodding their heads, as in weāve seen it all before.Ā Letās start...
Comments Anyway
Edward Paul Abbey 1927-1989 NO COMMENT āInscription on Edward Abbeyās grave marker, Cabeza Prieta wilderness, Arizona My friend Edward Abbey, dead these 13 years, is finally the subject of a formal biography, published last year by the University of Arizona Press and written by a man who never even met him.Ā Most biographers, of course,...
The Brown Revolution: A Noxious Brew
The recent Brown Revolution in Ukraine, which saw the overthrow of the legitimate (if corrupt and bumbling) Yanukovych government, is a triumph of Western Ukrainian nationalismāan ideology characterized by a violent Russophobia and antisemitism.Ā The rabid neo-Nazis of Oleh Tyahnybokās Svoboda (āFreedomā) party and Dmytro Yaroshās militant Right Sector are just the latest manifestation of...
Robbing the Middle
I thank Robert Charron for his kind words (āWealth Transfer,ā Polemics & Exchanges, February), most welcome in the rather discouraging intellectual environment of France.Ā Iām sorry to have given the impression I was falling for the Robin Hood fallacy.Ā The main idea I was trying to convey is that the typical democratic politician (with notable...
Hate Speech Makes a Comeback
Well, it sure didnāt take long for the Tucson Truce to collapse. After Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot on Jan. 8 by a berserker who killed six others, including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl, and wounded 13, the media were aflame with charges the right had created the climate of hate in which...
Books in Brief
Digital Is Destroying Everything, by Andrew V. Edwards (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 232 pp., $34.00).Ā Edwards, a digital-marketing executive, states at the beginning of this book that it was not his intention to write āa rant against all things digital.āĀ Nevertheless, his evaluation of what the digital revolution has wrought comes closer to an...
Waugh After Waugh
From the October 1998 issue of Chronicles. When, after a stint in the British Army which left him crippled for life, Auberon Waugh went up to Oxford in 1959, by his own admission he knew nothing of the place apart from what he had read in his father’s novel, Brideshead Revisited, describing the Oxford of...
The Nutball the Neocons Wanted in NATO
Even interventionists are regretting some of the wars into which they helped plunge the United States in this century. Among those wars are Afghanistan and Iraq, the longest in our history; Libya, which was left without a stable government; Syria’s civil war, a six-year human rights disaster we helped kick off by arming rebels to...
Letter from Canada: Legislating Oppression
The appointment of a Parliamentary Task Force on Participation of Visible Minorities in Canadian Society was the latest in a series of attempts to persuade Canadians that their country must beĀ come a miniature United Nations in order to substantiate a political theory. The theorist is Pierre Elliott Trudeau; his theory is that “nations belong...
Our European Cousins
“All great peoples are conservative . . . “ āThomas Carlyle What does it mean to be “rightwing”? Since the term and its companion “left-wing” first appeared in the wake of the French Revolution to describe, respectively, those who opposed and those who supported the revolutionary agenda and legacy, one plausible meaning of “right-wing” is...
Trespassing in the City
A medieval European ventured outside his walled city warily, knowing that robbers lurked in the wilds beyond the reach of the feudal order. In late 20th-century America, we have turned this aroundāfor most of us, it is only when we venture into the city that we concern ourselves with the lawless. They thrive there, provided...
The Post-Christian Moral Order
Wokeness isnāt Marxism. Itās the new moral order for the managerial State.
Lastest With the Leastest
Since Professor Wills has a way of relating episodes that transforms the dramatic into the soporific and turns the concrete into the abstract, this first biography of Forrest to be written since 1944 is probably the last that anyone should read. An unrelenting tendentiousness warps his interpretation of even the most transparent matters, so that...
Cardinal Stepinac: Another View
Ā It pains me to disagree with a writer I like and admire, butĀ Srdja Trifkovicās piece on Cardinal StepinacĀ makes no attempt to explain, much less understand, why Catholics respect and admire this brave Croatian martyr. Trifkovic takes umbrage at Pope Benedictās treating Stepinac as a āsaintly figureā and of saying this about him: āPrecisely because...
Letter From Vienna: Antemurale, Once Again
The socialist-conservative coalition led by Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, which collapsed on July 7, had been faltering for months. When I arrived in Vienna two days later, the only surprising element in what appeared to be a mundane story concerned its immediate cause. Eighteen months of endless bickering over Austriaās economic, fiscal or social policy could...
Rejecting āSystemic Racismā
The latest election cycle did not deliver happy results for the political right. Our dismay is compounded by the strong impression of an unfair result. Ā Whatever you think of the integrity of last Novemberās elections, it cannot be denied that in the months prior a great many very big thumbsāWall Street, Silicon Valley, the...
On the Thrill of the Kill
In āThe 99thās Last Missionā (Correspondence, October 2002), Brian Kirkpatrick discusses his fatherās attitude toward service in World War II.Ā I was born in 1920, a close contemporary of Dr. Kirkpatrickās father.Ā I served in six major battles of World War II, from before the beginning until after the end, and while one manās experience...
Keeping Asheville Weird
On this Friday evening, the Drum Circle has formed in Pritchard Park.Ā The drummers, many of them on the downhill side of 40, follow the lead of a tall black man standing before them.Ā The music is primitive and repetitious, like the drumming in one of the old Tarzan flicks.Ā In front of the drummers...
Russia Is Not the Great Rival; China Is
While all facts are true, not all facts are relevant. And what are the relevant facts in this crisis where 100,000 Russian troops are now stationed along the Ukrainian border? Fact one: There is not now and never has been a vital U.S. interest in Ukraine to justify risking a war with Russia. History tells...
Lost in Wonderland
It’s a brave new world out there. Factory workers are made of metal and plastic; money, an increasingly abstract proposition, is made and lost not in workshops and fields but on flickering screens; databases grind through a million mainframes, assembling your biography and mine to a fantastic degree of detail; food is synthetic, and only...
Rotten to the Core
āLet us gamble with reason in the name of life,ā urges Pascal in his celebrated statistical proof for the existence of God.Ā āLet us risk it, for the sake of a win that is infinitely great and just as probable as the loss, which is to say nonexistence.āĀ With the cynicism of an inveterate gambler,...
The New Middle East
On March 20, President George W. Bush marked the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war by stating that the decision to remove Saddam Hussein from power was and always will be the right one.Ā His view is not that of the majority of Americans, who are citing the high costs in American...
Con Inc. Tries to Smear Pat Buchanan as an Anti-Semite Once Again
The United States is not Israel. Understanding that does not make you an anti-Semite or even hostile to Israel. Itās just reality: a concept that appears increasingly elusive to GOP leadership and establishment conservatives.
The Way to Translate
There are people who think the classics are a dated luxury.Ā Anyone who believes that should stay far away from the Christian Bible. Itās been many years since I was able to read the New Testament in English.Ā Now, donāt think Iām showing off there.Ā My Greek is not wonderful, and I find a parallel...
Farmers and Thinkers
Between the eighth and sixth centuries B.C. there appeared the polis, the Greek city-state, an elusive entity which nurtured and defined ideals still central to Western European views of all that is “civilized.” How did the Greeks, up until then an unimportant and generally poor folk on the margins of Mediterranean society, manage this miracle?...
A Revolution to Save the World
“Beyond Left and Right” was the tide of the Antiwar.com conference which brought together Pat Buchanan and Alexander Cockburn, Justin Raimondo and Lenora Fulani (to say nothing of two Chronicles editors) in the same room (if not all at the same time) for a broad critique of the aggressive New World Order launched by the...
Unignorable Flashpoints
As the nation prepares to go to the polls to elect the 45th president of these United States, two flashpoints may determine the outcome. The first is Islamic terrorism.Ā It was almost funny to listen to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio inform us that a bomb set off in the Chelsea district wasnāt...
Detroit Shakedown
Stevie Wonder wants to become mayor of Detroit. He’s had some trouble determining precisely when the election will be held, but no matter. He believes that he can be the mayor of Motown in the 90’s. Now, this is no Sonny Bono and Palm Springs. Bono is decidedly a working-class stiff compared with the Retin...
Two Cheers for Howard
āIt aināt over till itās over,ā said Yogi Berra at his most Chestertonian.Ā Charles de Gaulle, in more meditative style, observed: āLes fins des rĆ©gimes sont toujours tristes.āĀ Both maxims are relevant in the context of Australiaās general election on November 24, 2007, which saw John Howardāprime minister since 1996ācrushed by an untried but personally...