As Mikhail Gorbachev moves forward in his role as the new Vozhd of the USSR, he must take pride in a unique achievement. In a few years, he has managed to internationalize a Russian wordāglasnostāand by its repeated use at home and abroad has dazzled the world with miracles that have yet to materialize. Whatever...
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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...
Syria: A Classic False Flag Atrocity
Whenever there is a widely publicized atrocity in a country gripped by civil war, followed by an orgy of the pornography of compassion, it is sensible to ask cui bono and to examine all evidence in minute detail. When an incident is immediately used as grist for the interventionist mill, it is reasonable to assume...
Take a Hand
Thereās no analysis to speak of in Bill Minutaglioās and Steven L. Davisās account of life and events in the cityāDallasāthat much of the world came to hate after the Kennedy assassination.Ā There is instead chronological recitation: this person, that person; words, deeds, threats, accusations, pleas, apologies, gestures; an amassing and piling up of facts,...
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.”...
Spain Embraces Change: Canceling the Past
For the last four years, change has been in the air in Spain, following the election of Prime Minister JosĆ© Luis RodrĆguez Zapatero, leader of the Spanish Socialist Workersā Party.Ā And thanks to his reelection in March of this year, we can look forward to more of the same. There have been abrupt changes to...
Midwife Crisis
A few things can be said with certainty of the BBCās Call the Midwife: None of those babies are swaddled tightly enough.Ā Car births arenāt the greatest, but Iāve seen worse than the one in Season Four.Ā And if Sister Evangelina doesnāt know why Sister Monica Joan paired the ass and the angel in her...
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...
Media Hysteria
Not since Pat Buchanan ran for President has the media hysteria reached the level brought on by the (aborted) nomination of Professor Lani Guinier to head the civil rights division of the Justice Department. “Ms. Guinier Buys Into Calhounism” screams the headline attached to an anti-Guinier diatribe by neoconservative columnist Paul Gigot. “Quota Queen” shouts...
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...
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...
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...
McDumb and Dumber
With more and better fast-food choices available than ever before, why do Americans continue to reward the mediocrity that is McDonaldās?
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...
Comment
Democracy, its failures, weaknesses, and sins not withstandĀing, is the only political system in which the entire social body is to decide on who should conduct its affairs in its name. By the electoral process the majority’s opinion is consecrated as a source of legitimate political power. Annals record many variations of democratic societies in...
Recalling the Case Against Female Suffrage
I was asked once on a radio show whether the arguments I was making against feminism wouldn’t also lead me to oppose women voting. I pointed out that though I personally favored giving women the vote, the case against female suffrage was a very respectable one, and was most visibly urged by women when female...
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...
The Trump Indictment and the Triumph of Critical Legal Studies
The indictment of Donald Trump marks the ascendancy of a progressive legal theory that argues all law is merely politics, and makes the courts into a battlefield for political campaigns.
Dirty Secrets: Race-Norming Lives On
A year after the nasty secret got out of how race-norming works on the nation’s most widely used job test, the establishment news herd suddenly discovered the story. There were spots on NBC Nightly News and the Today Show, a front-page story in the Washington Post, an editorial in the New York Times, and a...
Courting the Catholic Vote
The current Presidential race has witnessed an unprecedented drive, especially by the GOP, to court the Catholic vote.Ā Democrats, who for decades snookered Catholics into believing that theirs was the party of the laborer and the immigrant, are finding their social-justice platform of little use among Catholics who find Democrat enthusiasm for infanticide and āgay...
Zero Plus Ten
Harald JƤhner's Aftermath offers a panoramic view of the process of recovery for Germans in all occupation zones during the first 10 years after World War II.
By Merit Raised
āSatan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence; and, from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires . . . insatiate to pursue Vain war with Heaven . . . ā āJohn Milton In his most recent book Charles Murray argues that over the course of more than five decades American society has...
Do What You Wish
Artificial intelligence is forging a world less free, and filled by individuals less equipped for freedomāor simply less equipped, period.Ā
A Spy Thriller to the Wise (Review: Agent Zigzag)
It is almost inevitable that a reader of my interests and disposition should slightly miss the point of this book, described in a Daily Express blurb as āa good spy thriller,ā and that is precisely what I propose to do. Spy thrillers are plentiful; ...
An Essay on the State of France
What follows is not an anthropometric description of France, but neither does it reflect the fancy of the author: It is what one can see of France from a certain distance, which blurs the finer details but allows the main features to stand out.Ā When looking at the Great Wall of China from a certain...
Smokers in the Arsenal
Several years after he was forced into retirement, Otto von Bismarck was asked what could start the next major war.Ā āEurope today is a powder keg,ā he replied, āand the leaders are like men smoking in an arsenal . . . I cannot tell you when that explosion will occur, but I can tell you...
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...
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...
Prophet of the Left
I first met my future colleague Raymond Williams in 1959, when I was a young lecturer in English literature at Cambridge and he still a tutor in adult education in Oxford. His best-known book. Culture and Society 1780-1950 (1958), had just appearedāa late-Marxist interpretation of English intellectual life since the French Revolutionāand what I principally...
Ohio Gets Nice on Crime
In my new home of Ashland, Ohio, there is a sign that welcomes all comers to āThe World Headquarters of Nice People.ā It seemed to me as if the entire town conspired to make my move as pleasant as could be. This is āMidwestern Niceā in a nutshell. But Iāve found the flavor of American...
The Mathematics Behind the Man
Ananyo Bhattacharyaās biography of the genius mathematician John von Neumann is rich in details about the man's work but lacking in characterizations of the man himself.
To Hell With Culture
“The corruption of man,” Emerson wrote, “is followed by X the corruption of language.” The reverse is true, and a century later Georges Bernanos had it right: “The worst, the most corrupting lies are problems wrongly stated.” How pertinent this is about so many matters present, including the use of the word culture. My conservative...
Trump Drones On
How Unpiloted Aircraft Expand the War on Terror They are like the camelās nose, lifting a corner of the tent. Donāt be fooled, though. It wonāt take long until the whole animal is sitting inside, sipping your tea and eating your sweets. In countries around the worldāin the Middle East, Asia Minor, Central Asia, Africa,...
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...
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...
We Say Grace, We Say Ma’am . . .
The news descended with crushing force: I must be getting really old. Rising from the dinner table, I had pulled back my wife’s chair, and our waiter complimented me. He complimented me for the kind of civil and reflexive action to which my generation was bred in the post-World War II years? Ah, yes; he...
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...
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 ...
Idling, Week 1
Ā Idling: A Public and Entirely Self-Serving Diary Ā 1 September 4,2011.Ā A few words by way of justification for wasting time, mine as much as yours, on talking about nothing. I have always been by inclination an idle man, the sort who is too lazy to balance his checkbook or do his taxes until the...
The Quest for Community
āA sense of the past is far more basic to the maintenance of freedom than hope for the future.Ā The former is concrete and real; the latter is necessarily amorphous and more easily guided by those who can manipulate human actions and beliefs. āRobert Nisbet, The Quest for Community The trouble with labelsāwhether adopted voluntarily...
Grow Old Along With Me
“I grow old learning many things,” said Simonides, a poet X well known for his wisdom and for his longevity: He lived to be almost 90. Although, as my old teacher Douglas Young pointed out, Simonides’ statement might be interpreted to mean “too much education makes one prematurely old,” the point is clear enough and...
Outcome-Based Education
Outcome-Based Education, which has been around awhile under other names, has gradually become Big Education’s main answer to the chorus of cries for “reform” that followed the Department of Education’s publication of the A Nation at Risk report ten years ago. Its bland label is frightfully misleading. If this were a product in the grocery...
Intrigue and Stealth
Watergate was once again the site of intrigue and stealth, only this time the GOP head of state couldn’t wait to tell the world about what it all had produced: something called the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The White House was in a panicked rush to complete the free trade accord, linking the...
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...
Israel: Tactical Winner, Strategic Loser
The events in Gaza since July 7 have shown, not for the first time, Israelās difficulty in coping with the challenges of asymmetric warfare. The problem first became apparent in Lebanon exactly eight years ago (July-August 2006), when Hezbollah ā the weaker party by several orders of magnitude ā was able to exploit Israeli political...
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...
Rights of the Wild and Tame
Conservationists tend to be shy of using any arguments but the merely “economic,” partly in the odd belief that these are more “rational” than other and overtly “sentimental” ones, and partly because “economic” reasoning seems likely to appeal to a larger audience.Economic arguments are not bad ones: it is indeed incompatible with any sort of...
John Bull Turns Johnny Reb
Since the 1940’s, Americans have been slowly introduced to the idea that national sovereignty is a dangerously outmoded concept that must give place to a broader and more generous understanding of our place in the world: national defense became bound up with the principle of collective security; national welfare tied to foreign markets (and foreign...
The Life of an ‘Old Republican’
From the December 1990 issue of Chronicles. Nathaniel Macon (Dec. 17, 1758- June 29, 1837), “Old Republican” statesman, the foremost public man of North Carolina in the early 19th century, was the sixth child of Gideon and Priscilla (Jones) Macon and was born at his father’s plantation on Shocco Creek in what later became Warren...