Brief reviews of Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization, by Edward Slingerland, and Index, A History of the, by Dennis Duncan.
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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...
The Speech
It was by all accounts reminiscent of the Rev. Dr. King himself and evenādare we say it?āof the Great Emancipator.Ā Yet whatever its emotive puissance, Barack Hussein Obamaās recent oration on race was reminiscent of King and Lincoln in more ways that one: It was a few threads of truth stitched into a tapestry of...
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 Sorrows of Solipsism
Solaris Produced by James Cameron and 20th Century Fox Directed by Steven Soderbergh Screenplay by Steven Soderbergh from Stanislaw Lemās novel Distributed by 20th Century Fox Adaptation Produced by Propaganda Films Directed by Spike Jonze Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman from The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean Distributed by Columbia Pictures Steven Soderberghās...
A New Global Strategy
Over the years we have often lamented the absence of grand-strategic thinking within the U.S. foreign-policy establishment. For the past quarter-century, successive administrations have displayed a chronic inability to deploy Americaās political, military, economic, and moral resources in a balanced and proportionate manner, in order to protect and enhance the countryās rationally defined security and...
The Unmeaning of Unmeaning
A computer was the victor on a popular television game show, easily defeating its human competitors; an arms race is under way involving militarized robots that can take the battlefield in the place of inferior humans; in Japan, artificial-intelligence software has outperformed college applicants on a standardized college-entrance examination. Our machines are becoming a part...
Exhibitionism as a Way of Life
In mid-January, those Parisians (like myself) who are still interested in literary matters were aroused from the smug complacency in which we had been wallowing for several weeks, as dazed survivors of the millennial earthquake and the pyrotechnic cancan put on by a shameless Eiffel Tower, by an unexpected thunderclap. The thunderclap was ignited by...
Coping With Street Crime
Any cogent discussion of crime must begin by casting aside the obfuscations of criminologists and social scientists who habitually lump together all types of crime. But while most people can be made to wax indignant against fraud or against such abstract “crimes” as insider trading, or even become outraged at employees taking pencils from their...
Rome as We Found It
In horse-and-carriage days, foreign visitors to Rome, after an arduous Alpine crossing, commonly entered the city from the north, by the Milvian Bridge which has existed since the second century B.C. Here, on October 28, 312, Constantine had a vision of Christ on the eve of his victory over his rival, Maxentius. Since that time,...
To Lose a War
President George W. Bushās highly anticipated prime-time speech to mark the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America was supposed to be nonpartisan and conciliatory.Ā It offered him an opportunity to present mature thoughts on one of the most momentous events in this countryās history, to correct several manifest flaws in his conceptual approach...
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...
Return to Rome
Paul Theroux laments that the world is aging badly, that the world he knew as a young man has nearly vanished, that the decline and decay of precious things is everywhere apparent.Ā Theroux should know; he travels more than I do.Ā Also my own ventures at home and abroad depressingly confirm his impressions.Ā Except when...
Theseus in the Moral Maze
Roger Scruton has had a long and paradoxical career as a kind of intellectual outlawāa sage of the badlands that hem in the p.c. pale.Ā Aesthete, philosopher, author, journalist, lecturer, broadcaster, farmer, fox hunter, even musicianāhe has been all of these things, an often solitary small-c conservative voice in milieux dominated by the forces of...
What Price Victoryāin the Coronavirus War?
The same day the number of U.S. dead from the coronavirus disease hit the 15,000 mark, we also crossed the 15 million mark on the number of Americans we threw out of work to slow its spread and “bend the curve.” For each American lost to the pandemic, 1,000 Americans have lost their jobs because...
Winning Is Everything, Isnāt It?
A review of Vincere, written and directed by Marco Bellocchio; produced by Offside and Celluloid Dreams; distributed in America by IFC Films. Feminists began proclaiming that the personal is the political during those dreamy 70ās of the last century. This, as Iāve noted elsewhere, is a proposition that every sane ...
The Proofs of the Christmas Pudding
Bethlehem. Ah. Yes. There we were as a matter of fact, and not many weeks ago, either. Also at Nazareth. Alsoāof courseāat Jerusalem, where everybody goes who goes to the Holy Land, with a sense of immense events and occasions to be taken in, the more so as Christmas draws near. I can say this...
How Trump Turns Postmodernist āTruthā Against Itself
Trumpās bombastic candor is actually a deeper form of truth-telling.
An Elegy to a Writer
Pearl Craigie, the long forgotten novelist and playwright “John Oliver Hobbes,” who died in 1906, is due for resurrection. She has haunted me for over 40 years. It was through my study of the Anglo-Irish novelist George Moore in the 1940’s (particularly through Joseph Hone’s biography of him), that Mrs. Craigie first came into my...
Beware the Limelight
“Who can keep up with anything these days?” āDenis Donoghue, The New Republic, 3/10/86 “If a National Theater is to be in only one city, it should, of course, be in New York, the center of the country’s cultural life and the fount of its theatrical traditions. That’s where the acting and directing talent would...
See Dick Potty
Weāve lost, I regret to inform you, yet another civilization-shattering battle.Ā I mean the one over your daughterās right to use a public restroom without worrying whether there is a dude doing his business in the stall next to her.Ā This would be the same as the battle over your wifeās right to undress and...
An Englishman in His Near Abroad
Samuel Johnson was nearly 64 when he made an unexpected journey.Ā One day in 1773, the internationally renowned lexicographer, essayist, poet, and novelist, who somehow combined being one of the great thinkers of Europe with being a personification of bluff Englishness, suddenly switched his great gaze north, in search of a dream of youth.Ā His...
Unforgetting Franco
The history of Spain's peaceful transition to democracy from Franco's dictatorship is being rewritten by a left bent on vengeance and political control.
Electoral Franchise Blues
If you want to create and preserve a constitutional republic, you must be careful about who gets to vote. Once this sacred right is granted, it can never be withdrawn.
JASTA: Usual Suspects Get Ready to Gut Law Letting 9/11 Families Sue Saudis
Youād think that after three and a half decadesā working in Pergamum-on-the-Potomac, not to mention over 17 yearsā service with the U.S. Senate, oneās capacity to be scandalized would have been exhausted. But even this jaded observer canāt help being a bit shocked by the sheer sleaziness of the Obama Administration, Congressional leaders of both...
Crime Story
“Behind every great fortune there is a crime,” wrote HonorĆ© de Balzac in a cynical sentiment that Mario Puzo chose as the epigraph of The Godfather. The line at once establishes the metaphor that dominates the book as well as the films and carries us into the essentially Machiavellian worldview that pervades them and to...
Turkish Tally
A few years ago, my wife and I set off to spend a sabbatical year in Spain, but thought we would go via Turkey. The idea started with a new Swiss “motoring” map that laid out the highways in firm red lines. We also wanted to go to the Aegean islands of Greece. We’d been...
The Case for American Secession
There has always been talk about secession in this country by those variously disgruntled on both the right and left, but, since the last presidential election, which revealed deep-seated divisions in American society over a variety of fundamental issues, that talk has grown exponentially.Ā Such talk is not likely to lead to a dissolution of...
The Frontier: America’s Broken Template
While visiting out-of-state friends in Jackson last summer, I was involved in a conversation with a just-married couple who had moved to Wyoming two months before from Los Angeles for the now-familiar purpose of escaping drive-by shootings, berserk retired football stars, and the multifarious Sons and Daughters of Emma Lazarus. In the course of our...
Double Down: Illegal Aliens and Crime
For too long now I have heard that illegal immigrants are not criminals and that they have come to America only to work.Ā Not really.Ā Whether or not they want to work, they have already committed a crime by illegally entering the United States.Ā I am still naive enough to think that national sovereignty should...
Can We All Get Along?
Nobody ever called the late Rodney King a model citizen of Los Angeles. But he gave the world what was likely the most plaintive, plangent query of our time. He wanted to know, in the aftermath of the LA burning, “Can we all get along?” Can weāhuhārather than wallop each other and turn the air...
The Mystery of Arthur Koestler
“It is notgood to look too long upon these turning wheels of vicissitude, lest we become giddy.” Ā Ā āSir Francis Bacon It was apt that 1984, the Orwellian Year, should see the reissue of ArĀthur Koestler’s two-volume autobiogĀ raphy (first published some three decĀ ades ago) and that the year should also see the...
Remembering Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston mocked the professional victims and race hustlers of her day and advocated for a positive, noncombative black identity. She was a woman of the right.
Tyranny In a Good Cause
Democracy or Republic? might well be the title of the D debate between liberals and conservatives on the nature of the American political system. (In the view of some liberals, the easiest way to spot a conservative is the habit of referring to America as a republic.) Democracy, in the strict procedural sense of one...
Un Hombre, Un Voto
āRepresentatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.āĀ This line from Section 2 of the 14th Amendment must have seemed fairly straightforward to its authors.Ā In light of the first sectionās elevation of blacks to full citizenship...
Leonardoās Little Joke
The Da Vinci Code Produced by Columbia Pictures Directed by Ron Howard Screenplay by Akiva Goldsman from the novel by Dan Brown Distributed by Sony Pictures At one point in The Da Vinci Code, the marvelously funny movie based on Dan Brownās as nearly hilarious novel, Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), renowned cryptologist for the Direction...
Ancestors
With the deaths of Robert Penn Warren and Walker Percy the specter of the star system is loose again in the land. “Who will be their successors? Who will pick up their mantle?” It’s a plaintive cry, predictable but genuine, largely journalistic and academicāa spume from the wave of canon-makingāthinned by its basis in literary...
Your Pink Hat Is Transphobic
If Madonna were a standard white person, her appearance at the August 2018 MTV Video Music Awardsāat which she delivered a rambling, self-referential soliloquy about the influences sheād absorbed from Aretha Franklin while costumed in an alarming getup that might, in Hollywood parlance, be described as āBride of Frankenstein Meets Ancient Egyptian Concubineāāwould have brought...
Putinās Gamble: Playing the Terrorist Card
When Russian President Vladimir Putin called President Bush shortly after the September 11 terrorist attacks to express his solidarity, pundits East and West took this as a sign of what one American columnist called the coming āearthquakeā in U.S.-Russia relations.Ā Putin was aiming to shift his policy focus westward, away from his previous āEurasianistā effort...
The (Politically) Supreme Court
The great sound and fury over the nomination of Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court included many grand proclamations from all sides concerning the original intentions of the constitutionalists and the relevance of those intentions to our society today. It is clear to anyone with a modicum of knowledge about the great issues involved...
A League of Our Own
Nineteen ninety-two was an opportunity for Americans to reflect on both their past and their future. In less than a month, we celebrated the birthday of Columbus and the transfer of power from the New Deal to the Big Chill, from the civics-class pieties of George Bush to the Penthouse improprieties of Bill Clinton. I...
Bats and Weasels
The Dark Knight Rises Produced and distributed by Warner Brothers Directed by Christopher Nolan Written by Christopher and Jonathan Nolan Hope Springs Produced by Escape Artists and Mandate Pictures Directed by David Frankel Written by Vanessa Taylor Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Ā Christopher Nolan doesnāt do things by halves.Ā His third Batman movie, The Dark Knight...
Signs and Revelations
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Produced by Blueprint PicturesĀ Written and directed by Martin McDonaghĀ Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures Lady Bird Produced by Scott Rudin ProductionsĀ Written and directed by Greta GerwigĀ Distributed by A24Ā Three Billboards is hilarious; yet it could hardly be sadder.Ā How can it be both at once?Ā Thatās director...
Saving the Humanities
While political battles rage over why Johnny cannot read, the teachers of Johnny’s teachers enjoy virtual immunity from public scrutiny. Their intellectual profile remains invisible to the public eye. In a sense, this is understandable. They were educated in the rarefied atmosphere of this country’s great universities where the life of the mind is protected...
Imran Khan and the Problem of ‘Radical Islam’
In his speech to the UN General Assembly on September 27, Pakistanās prime minister Imran Khan claimed that “Islamophobia” has grown at an alarming pace since 9-11.Ā Saying that he wanted to clear some of the misunderstanding surrounding Islam and its followers, Khan specifically criticized ācertain Western leadersā for employing labels like āradical Islam.ā It is...
Causing Divisions
AIDS, like abortion, seems to have divided the religious community along conservative and liberal lines. One might suppose, in a reasonably rational society, that the increasing availability of contraceptives would reduce the incidence of abortion. However, in the United States at least, abortion has risen dramatically with the availability of contraceptives. Similarly, one might have...
The New European Parliament: An Interview With Bill Cash, MP
“You are walking on water now, but you will drown in Europe.” So said British Member of Parliament and Euroskeptic leader Bill Cash to the newly installed Prime Minister Tony Blair during a parliamentary debate in May 1997. “Drowning” is a term that applies well to the heavy setback suffered by leftist parties all over...
Clueless in the Congress: The Reauthorization of a Reckless Bill
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the No Child Left Behind Act are up for reauthorization again.Ā This process typically entails legislators tweaking the billāa caveat here, a zinger there.Ā Almost always, it translates into more money. Representatives George Miller (D-CA) and Howard āBuckā McKeon (R-CA) of the Committee ...
Hell Man
From the June 2000 issue of Chronicles. Ā Ā Ā Ā “My views on Hammett expressed [above]. He was tops. Often wonder why he quit writing after The Thin Man. Met him only once, very nice looking tall quiet gray-haired fearful capacity for Scotch, seemed quite unspoiled to me. (Time out for ribbon adjustment.)” āRaymond...
Onward and Upward
Like the Roman cursus honorum, the ascending path of neoconservative success is carefully prescribed. Instead of the progress from aedile to consul, however, the journey leads through hackwork up to the glories of publishing with Basic Books, appearing on TV talk shows, and gracing the mastheads of neocon magazines. David Frum managed to move through...