“When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome is terror. It ends in forced labor camps and in the fumes of the gas chamber.” āFlannery O’Connor In response to the charge of obsession with a “single issue,” pro-life activists contend that the abortion debate is really paradigmatic. As Joseph Sobran suggested...
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A Mainstream Conservative
In a sane world, Dinesh DāSouza would not merit a single inch of this column.Ā The greater Middle East, Islamic terrorism, Korea, the Balkans, the imperial mind-set, and many other problems and challenges America faces around the world would take precedence over the musings of a self-designated āconservative intellectualā with few original ideas and little...
Germany Encapsulates the Westās Totalitarian Drift
The recent totalitarian drift in Germany shows what happens when Western people cannot suppress the nagging doubt that they are not morally responsible actors but unquestioning consumers of predigested choices.
Obamaās Mosque Visit: Wrong Message, Wrong Venue
President Barack Obamaās Wednesday speech at the Islamic Society mosque in Baltimore, a venue tainted by a long history of preacing radicalism, summarizes his thinking about Islam and national security. That address has troubling implications and deserves detailed scrutiny. OBAMA: ā[I]f weāre serious about freedom of religionāand Iām speaking now to my fellow Christians who...
Lech Walesaās Winsome Call for Globalization
For the last 20 years of the worldās bloodiest century, Lech Walesa, along with Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II, was a man on a pedestal in my pantheon of contemporary heroes, one of those who had helped bring about an end to communism in Eastern Europe and the demise of the Soviet Union.Ā ...
The Anti-Prometheans
Barack Obamaās words āWe are the ones weāve been waiting forā have come to stand as the motto of his presidency.Ā (Their author was actually the black Caribbean bisexual poetess June Jordan.)Ā Similarly, āThis is the one weāve been waiting forā is a succinct representation of the issue of climatic change the international left has...
Immigration and Ideology
It was the first meeting of The John Randolph Club, held somewhere in the wilds of Texas.Ā I was there at the urging of Murray Rothbard, who was enthusiastic about this gathering of libertarians and paleoconservatives in the wake of the Cold Warās end.Ā With the commies out of the Kremlin, said Murray, the Old...
In Search of a New Free-World Leader
Is Vladimir Putin the new leader of the free world? All we currently know is that the job seems open, and that Putin has seemingly sent in his resume, showing openness to the idea of an anti-Islamic State alliance with British Prime Minister David Cameron. For contrast, see Barack Obama’s demeanor while talking to the...
The Legacy of Leon Redbone
Leon Redbone left the scene in 2015āI donāt mean that he expired, but simply that he retired.Ā There was mention at the time of health concerns, but he was through with television appearances and concerts and touring, and with recording as well.Ā There has been almost nothing about him on the national scene since then,...
Deo Vindice
One day last September I was visited by a couple of guys who were writing a cover story on the South for a Dutch magazine. They had been to Darlington, Tuskegee, Oxford, Charleston, and other shrines of Southern culture, and I was pleased to see that Chapel Hill was still on the list. Over Allen...
The Quintessential Hollywood Affair
'Bogie & Bacall' explores the dichotomy between the image of a perfect Hollywood couple and the dark reality of one of the most famous marriages in Hollywood.Ā
Unpalatable Values: Culture as Gastronomy
To American readers the name A.A. Gill may mean nothing, but in England the restaurant and television critic of the Sunday Times is a cultural force to be reckoned with.Ā A witty autodidact, with plenty of disdain for the pieties of the moment, to easily deafened ears he is a Jeremiah of the petit-four and...
Gianni, Get Your Gun
One of the most important reasons for the sweeping victory of Silvio Berlusconi and his House of Liberty in the recent Italian election was concern for public safety, which ranks as the number-one issue on the minds of voters, according to some polls. Berlusconi promised to do whatever was necessary to make people feel safer,...
To Ban or Not to Ban Critical Race Theory: A Debate
Not to Ban, by Walter E. Block: Extirpating Critical Race Theory (CRT) from schools is a hot-button issue for many politicians. While I do not take a position for or against CRT, I would like to assess the propriety of CRT being debated and taught at colleges and universities. Both proponents and opponents say that...
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. Not really. Whether or not they want to work, they have already committed a crime by illegally entering the United States. I am still ...
Every Which Way But Up
“The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.” āAristotle Readers of Chronicles may vaguely recall Michael Lind as the contributor of a few articles to this magazine in the late 1980’s and early 90’s, but they should have no problem recognizing...
The New Dual Monarchy
Canadians often try to explain the fundamental nature of Canada, both to themselves and to visitors, by comparing it with other countries. The United States most obviously comes to mind, especially since television has increasingly obliterated any differences in American and Canadian popular taste. But there are other analogies that are more instructive. Surface manners...
A Skeptic on the Road of Saints
A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith, by Timothy Egan. Viking Press 384 pp., $28.00 āMen go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tide of rivers, the vast compass of the ocean, the circular motion of the stars, and yet...
The Empire Quacks
By comparing America to the empires of the ancient world and Europe, Charles Maier has attempted to answer the question, Is America an empire?Ā While his book reveals an author of immense learning, Among Empires is unsatisfying, not only because Maier answers his question in the negativeāafter presenting a great deal of evidence that seems...
Pope’s World and the Real World
Pope Francis’s four-day visit to the United States was by any measure a personal and political triumph. The crowds were immense, and coverage of the Holy Father on television and in the print press swamped the state visit of Xi Jinping, the leader of the world’s second-greatest power. But how enduring, and how relevant, was...
The Film’s the Thing
MankĀ Directed by David Fincher ā Written by Jack Fincher ā Produced by Netflix International Pictures ā Distributed by Netflix Citizen Kane (1941) Directed by Orson Welles ā Written by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles ā Produced by Mercury Productions ā Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures Netflix is currently streaming Mank, a film dramatizing...
Douse the Flames, Mr. President!
Ā Barack Obama’s statement that the death of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy that cries out for a more thorough investigation was the right and necessary thing to say. But it fell far short of what was needed: a presidential call for a halt to the rhetoric that is stirring up racial rage and inflaming...
Free Pass to Disneyland
The economy Soviet Ć©migrĆ©s leave behind is property called irrational. Consider the economy they enter in the United States as described in an article that recently appeared in the Soviet paper the Independent. “The benefits (in America) are real. Our son attended an excellent private school for which he didn’t pay a cent. Then he...
Sodomy and the Lash
Sodomy and the lash, according to Winston Churchill, were the outstanding features of the British Royal Navy. The United States Navy will be at least half-British, if the American courts have their way. The homosexuals’ battle plan to gain acceptance, which includes taking dates to the Officer’s Club, now involves 100 or so discrimination claims...
New England Against America
“The fiction of Mr. Simms gave indication, we repeat, of genius, and that of no common order. Had he been even a Yankee, this genius would have been rendered immediately manifest to his countrymen, but unhappily (perhaps) he was a Southerner. . . . His book, therefore, depended entirely upon its own intrinsic value and...
A Plague on Both Their Houses
āLayze Ameeze de tayze ameeze sont mayze ameeze.ā A drunken redneck recited this at me late one night in 1965, at Andyās Lounge.Ā Andyās was one of Charlestonās last āblind tigersāāa speakeasy, complete with gambling and homely B-girls, that defied even the closing laws that the other scofflaw establishments observed.Ā I went there often to...
Journalism
A Plague on Both Your Houses Women have always been our cenĀsors. Mrs. Grundy was a household word for inflexible propriety a good 30 years before Dr. Bowdler produced his expurgated version of Shakespeare. Times and manners change, and the American Mrs. Grundys took up, in succession, Abolition, Women’s Suffrage, and TemperĀ ance,butitremainedtruethat: Many are...
Animals and “Other Awkward Cases”
“[After creating man] He immediately created other animals besides. God’s first blunder: Man didn’t find the animals amusing – he dominated them and didn’t even want to be an ‘animal.'” -Friedrich Nietzsche Ā Bernard E. Rollin: Animal Rights and Human Morality; Prometheus Books; Buffalo, NY. Ā Mary Midgley: Animals and Why They Matter; University ofGeorgia...
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...
Hijacking History
The most important thing to know about this volume is that its authors were the principal formulators of the infamous National History Standards of 1995. The United States Senate was so dismayed by the History Standards that it voted 99 to I to reject the efforts of this trio of historians from UCLA. History on...
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...
A Nation of Losers
Pat Buchananās threnody on The Death of the West has upset Mr. Buchananās conservative enemies, who cannot forgive him for violating the GOPās famous 11th Commandmentānot āThou shalt not speak ill of other Republicans,ā but āThou shalt not bite the hand that feeds us.āĀ No one can actually dispute Buchananās main thesis: that European America...
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...
What Ails the Historical Profession?
Academic historians are too uncritically receptive to Utopian thinking. Too many believe in what Kari Mannheim described as the striving for a new world order, an order which “would shatter all existing reality.” This utopianism should not be identified too closely with historical materialismāor with Marxism, which claims to rest on a materialist foundation. Academic...
Janie’s Got a Gun
The bodies were barely cold at Ft. Hood when Slate.com writer William Saletan unlimbered his guns.Ā It is, he announced, time for the military to lift its policy exempting women from combat.Ā His reason?Ā A female civilian cop, Sgt. Kimberly Munley, took down Maj. Nidal Hasan and stopped the shooting spree that left 13 dead...
Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie Hebdo
Was the murder of 11 members of the staff of a French āsatiricalā magazine a civilized act? Even to ask that question seems absurd. Was the weekly output of the staff of that magazine a contribution to civilization? Even to ask that question seems brutish at best, and invites cries of āblaming the victimā and...
The First Philosophic Age
It can confidently be claimedāand has already been by several reviewers in the philosophers’ trade journalsāthat this book is absolutely indispensable to anyone wanting hilly to understand the whole range of Hume’s writings. That range includes much more than the Treatise, the two Enquiries, and the Dialoguesāthe four works normally studied in university courses in...
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 ...
Utopia and Dystopia on the Saint Lawrence
A quarter of Canada’s 30 million people live in the province of Quebec. About five million are French Canadians, largely descended from hardy Norman peasants who came here 300 years ago. A quarter of the five million want to secede from Canada. A larger (but indeterminate) proportion favor as much autonomy as possible without risking...
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...
Affirmative Action and the Lubavitcher Rebbe
As if it wasn’t bad enough that the 92-year-old Menachem Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, died without an heir, or that he sorely disappointed a considerable faction of his most zealous disciples by refusing to cheat death and thus show himself as the Messiah, what followed the traditional seven days of mourning turned out to be...
The Lavender Baboon
āO comrade lustrous with silver face in the night.ā āWalt Whitman IĀ first heard about ābrain freezeā from an amiable fellow who was vending Italian ices.Ā He pointed out that, if the ices were not consumed carefully, the freeze would penetrate the palate into the brain.Ā In fact, I did experience brain freeze that way.Ā But...
Diplomacy and Fatuity
Lately our national leaders seem to have taken it into their heads that their first obligation upon taking office is to get ready to write their memoirs once they leave it. We’ve had Nixon’s and Johnson’s, Kissinger’s massive volumes, and now Vance’s and Brzezinski’s. Jimmy Carter reportedly has a high-tech memoir in preparation, the entire...
Shades of White
“Mankind is in crisis . . . a long crisis which began 300, .and in some places, 400 years ago, when people turned away from religion. . . . It is a crisis which led the East to Communism and the West to a pragmatic society. It is the crisis of materialism.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Following...
Vol. 3 No. 2 February 2001
The world is breathing a sigh of relief now that the American electorate has found the cure for the mad-cow disease that has afflicted U.S. foreign policy for so many years. Still, her memory lingers in world capitals, where they continue to tell Madeleine Albright storiesāfor example, of her repeated unsuccessful attempts to procure an...
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...
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...
Between Gibraltar and a Hard Place
The crisis in British politics deepens. Everything changed Sunday, when the European Union, without further debate, approved the Withdrawal Agreement that is Theresa Mayās work. That Agreement is now set in stone, with no further changes possible for the EU/UK. And the dynamics of politics are revolutionized. The Withdrawal Agreement has been greeted with dismay...
Citizen Faulkner
If we wish to understand and profit from a great artist, the essential thing to grasp is his vision, as unfolded in his work.Ā Much less important is something that, unlike the God-given vision, he shares with all of usāhis opinions.Ā Still, the opinions of a creative writer with the societal breadth and historical depth...
The North’s Southern Cash Cow
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...