Mark Levin, in his best-selling book The Liberty Amendments, is absolutely right about two things: First, the Courts, president, and Congress are not playing the roles assigned to them by the Constitution.Ā The Court is deciding the countryās social and cultural issues; the president freely amends laws and drops Tomahawk missiles on people without going...
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Down Ecuador Way, Part I
Latin elections are such vibrant theater, unlike our plastic-coated, high-tech soap operas, I thought I might catch the presidential election in Ecuador this year. Besides, there was an off-again, on-again war with Peru to give an edge to the trip. Not long into the journey I got all the edge I would need for the...
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...
A Good Communitarian Is Hard to Find
“Never say No when the world says Aye.” āE.B. Browning This thoughtful and provocative analysis of the new communitarianism can profitably be viewed as a case study in how liberalism, not unlike scheming alien forces in sci-fi movies, assumes new and attractive forms to beguile the unwary. Put otherwise, the liberalism of the New Deal...
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...
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.
Our Clueless Professor
Have we ever had a president so disconnected from the heart of America? On Friday night, at a White House iftar, the breaking of the Ramadan fast, Obama strode directly into the blazing controversy over whether a mosque should be built two blocks from Ground Zero. Speaking as though this were ...
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...
Letter From Australia: America Down Under
Vietnamese gangs shake down proprietors of small businesses for protection money. Blacks have enormously high rates of drug addiction, alcoholism, crime, and out-of-wedlock births. Pakistanis, Lebanese, and Nigerians drive cabs. Japanese buy up downtown highrise and choice beachfront properties. Chinese and Koreans take control of sections of the intercity. East Indians and Arabs run small...
Is ‘Little Rocket Man’ Winning?
As of Dec. 26, Kim Jong Un’s “Christmas gift” to President Donald Trump had not arrived. Most foreign policy analysts predict it will be a missile test more impressive than any Pyongyang has yet carried off. What is Kim’s game? What does Kim want? He cannot want war with the United States, as this could...
America, From Republic to Ant Farm
In July I took my four children back to the South Carolina village in which they had spent their earliest years. The most frequent topics of conversation were still, in order, Hurricane Hugo and its aftermath, a public school controversy that appeared to pit blacks against whites but really concerned the ambitions of a New...
Dead Romans and Live Americans
āLibero Ingressoā says the little sign on the doors of an Italian shop.Ā English speakers who know enough Italian to translate the words, Free Entrance, sometimes wonder if there was a time when Italian shopkeepers charged customers an admission fee, to be refunded, perhaps, if a purchase was made.Ā It is just the sort of...
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...
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,...
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...
Why I Am Not a Socialist
Though Chesterton disliked socialism intensely, he did not regard it as the most serious danger facing Western civilization.Ā Writing in 1925, he describes the socialist state as something ācentralized, impersonal, and monotonousā but suggests that this is also an accurate description of the societies in the modern industrialized West that regard themselves as enemies of...
Aliens and the Alienated
American leftists today yearn for a more receptive proletariat. They have virtually given up on the white working class, which they feel has been subverted by bourgeois values and the consumer society. Instead they have turned towards people of non-European stock to build a new base. The anti-Western “multiculturalism” that has become so controversial at...
Lots of Smoke Here, Hillary
Prediction: If Hillary Clinton wins, within a year of her inauguration, she will be under investigation by a special prosecutor on charges of political corruption, thereby continuing a family tradition. For consider what the Associated Press reported this week: The surest way for a person with private interests to get a meeting with Secretary of...
Jerks on a Shopping Spree II
Ā A Random Walk Through the Mall The adventure begins as you drive into the parking lot.Ā Ā In the many states where traffic laws do not extend to private property, the lot should have a large sign:Ā Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Malls are private property, and when some cowboy pulls out of a parking...
The Laboratory of the Apocalypse
Americaās ācollective Westā is plagued with serious neuroses. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor OrbĆ”n recently provided a compelling summary.
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...
From Castro to Cancun
Iāve long wanted to go to Cuba for the same reason that most Americans my age might.Ā I wanted to see a place that has, for most of my life, been shrouded in mystery.Ā It has been difficult for me to accept the idea that a country only 90 miles off our coast, home to...
Pugin and the Gothic Dream
When peace came to Europe in 1815, Britain was in the unique position of possessing empire, wealth, and power, which would make possible a century of commercial and industrial growth and prosperity. There were disquieting signs, however. The capitalism that Mill and Ricardo would advance was entering a mature phase, so that the age of...
A Spy Thriller to the Wise
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.Ā Spy thrillers are plentiful; they are summer reading at its Sardinian beachiest.Ā To review one...
Christian Rout in the Culture War
Ā A Democratic Congress, discharged by the voters on Nov. 2, has as one of its last official acts, imposed its San Francisco values on the armed forces of the United States. “Don’t ask, don’t tell” is to be repealed. Open homosexuals are to be welcomed with open arms in all branches of the armed...
Anti-Semitism in Antiquity: The Case of Apion
I have a passing interest in aĀ first-century rhetorician and Hellenized Egyptian named Apion, who is the target of a famous polemic by Flavius Josephus, a member of the Jewish priestly class who became the court historian of the Flavian emperors. Published in Greek but known by its Latin nameĀ Contra Apionem, Josephusās diatribe faults Apion for...
A Man for Distinctions
“The Jews are a race apart. They have made laws according to their own fashion, and keep them.” āCelsus Jacob Neusner’s bibliography is as long as the laundry list of a professional football team. Only in his mid-50’s, Neusner has published more than two hundred booksāincluding detailed studies of the various rabbinic commentaries on the...
Clint Eastwood and Moral Equivalency
Since at least the late 60ās, there has been an effort in academe and in Hollywood to make all cultures morally equivalent.Ā More recently, there has been an effort to make āindigenous culturesāāwhatever that meansāmorally superior to Western civilization.Ā I was thinking of all this when I read an interview with Clint Eastwood that appeared...
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...
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,...
On Pearl Harbor
My experiences aboard a Navy aircraft carrier that often entered and departed Pearl Harbor, each time passing by the U.S.S. Arizona, overrode George McCartney’s review of Pearl Harbor (In the Dark, August). I think the film is outstandingāindeed, one of the best of its kind ever produced. It splendidly teaches history to American generations that...
The Decline and Splendor of Nationalism
No political phenomenon can be so creative and so destructive as nationalism. Nationalism can be a metaphor for the supreme truth but also an allegory for the nostalgia of death. No exotic country, no gold, no woman can trigger such an outpouring of passion as the sacred homeland, and contrary to all Freudians more people...
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...
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....
Post Mortem
“A genera] who sees with the eyes of others will never be able to command an army as it should be.” āNapoleon I In Senate hearings in 1991, General Al Gray, the Marine Gorps Commandant, was asked to describe the role of the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1987 mandating “jointness,” or the operational integration of the...
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,...
French Vocabulary
“La Preference Nationale“ has reentered the French political vocabulary. In June, former Prime Minister Edouard Bahadur shocked the French establishment by calling for an open national debate on the tabooed questions of immigration and the French identity. The dialogue would inevitably include Jean-Marie Le Pen and his National Front (FN), which continues to grow in...
Revolt of the āKarensā
Moms for Liberty, a proud group of American parents, is retaking control of their childrenās educations from the government leftists now destroying it.
The Present Age and the State of Community
The Present Age begins with the First World War, the Great War as it is deservedly still known. No war ever began more jubilantly, among all classes and generations, the last including the young generation that had to fight it. It is said that when Viscount Grey, British Foreign Minister, uttered his epitaph of the...
Fallen Walls
I studied the weather for four days before making a break for the south, slipping between the winter storms along icepacked roads wreathed with snowsnakes across sun-glazed plains in the direction of the Salt Lake Valley, where much of the snow had evaporated, under a stiff northwesterly wind and horses and cattle at American Fork...
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...
Who Will Judge the Judges?
Abraham Lincoln, in his 1860 Cooper Union speech, asked, āWhat is the frame of government under which we live?āĀ The answer must be, he said, the Constitution of the United States.Ā The answer today, as Chroniclesā reviewer of Quirkās and Bridewellās Judicial Dictatorship stated in 1995, is a judicial dictatorship imposed by the Supreme Court.Ā ...
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...
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...
Biden Is Not My President ā¦ Or Anybody Elseās
The ship of state is without a captain. The willingness by so many to put party and programs ahead of the best interests of the country is appalling.
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...
Vol. 2 No. 4 April 2000
The fruits of NATO’s splendid little war in Kosovo are becoming apparent. Russia has revised its defense doctrine to make it easier to press the nuclear button. The new national security strategy promulgated by Acting President Vladimir Putin calls for “expanded nuclear containment” while pledging to resist Western attempts to dominate the globe. This policy...
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...
What Would Jefferson Do?
Are the Dixie Chicks traitors?Ā Lead singer Natalie Maines boldly announced at a concert in London, just before the beginning of our recent armed incursion into Iraq, āJust so you know, weāre ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.āĀ The firestorm that ensued involved coordinated radio boycotts of the Chicksā music...
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...