āRepublics exist only on tenure of being agitated.ā āWendell Phillips If anything might have transformed the presidential election of 2004 from a dull ritual of mass democracy into an interesting and perhaps even meaningful act of civic decision, it would have been the presence of Patrick J. Buchanan, whose wit and sharp conservative intelligence enlivened...
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Your Excellency: Recently you offered Mass at our church.Ā In your homily, which was quite inspirational, you urged parishioners to avail themselves more frequently of the Sacrament of Penance. Believe it or not, Your Excellency, I try to go to Confession every month or so.Ā As you stated in your homily, frequent confession helps us...
The Expanding Civil Rights Bureaucracy
American Multiculturalism and the Anti-Discrimination Regime is the definitive study on the transformative ramifications of the 1960s civil rights legislation.
Desperate Fatties
You Were Never Really Here Produced by Why Not Productions and the British Film Institute Directed and written by Lynne Ramsay, based on Jonathan Amesās novel Distributed by Amazon StudiosĀ Tully Produced by BRON StudiosĀ Directed by Jason ReitmanĀ Screenplay by Diablo CodyĀ Distributed by Focus FeaturesĀ This month we have twoāyouāll excuse the expressionāart-house...
Catch, Release, Repeat
The photo went viral: a little girl crying after sheād been separated from her mother at the U.S.-Mexican border.Ā Time photoshopped it so that the little girl was crying while the Evil Donald Trump looked down at her, looming over her like some giant troll as she sobbed for her mother.Ā It was tweeted and...
Is Thomas Woods a Dissenter? A Further Reply, Pt. 2
Dr. Woodsā article, āCatholic Social Teaching and the Market Economy Revisited: A Reply to Thomas Storck,ā is, I must admit, superficially attractive. It appears to crush opposition under a weight of impressive learning. But, I would suggest, when his assertions are examined, Woodsā citation of authorities, like his argument in general, fails. I begin with...
One Crisis Averted
Barack Obamaās re-election, while socially, culturally, and morally disastrous for the country, may prove the lesser of two evils when it comes to foreign policy, according to some pundits.Ā Perhaps, but only because Obamaās primary focus is on irreversibly changing the character and ethnic composition of the United States. Republicans, in the meantime, learn nothing...
A Forgotten Document
A few months after the close of the American Civil War there was a brief but intense and interesting correspondence between Lord Acton, the European historian of liberty, and General R.E. Lee, hero of the defeated Confederacy, on the issues of the war. In the course of this correspondence Acton commented that Appomattox had been...
Shaming
Knocked Up Produced and distributed by Universal Pictures Directed and written by Judd Apatow Juno Produced and distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures Directed by Jason Reitman Screenplay by Diablo Cody 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Produced by Mobra Films Directed and written by Cristian Mungiu Distributed by IFC Films Ā Thirty-five years ago,...
Dignity
The phrase human dignity is as ubiquitous today in enlightened global discourse as human rights.Ā Indeed, the two are intimately connected, the first being regarded as a subset of the second, as in, āthe right to human dignity.āĀ But dignity in this context is used abstractly and in a universal sense, rather than concretely and...
Cheap Thrills
Recently, the New York Times ran an article that described, at some length, California’s latest tourist attraction, a “theme park and dinner theater” called Tinseltown Studios. Located, appropriately, just a stone’s throw from Disneyland, Tinseltown is a $15 million complex that exists for the purpose of “simulating fame.” Purchase your $45 ticket (“designed to look...
America First 1941/1991
Douglas Wilder made a splash in New Hampshire last August, when he devoted a pre-campaign speech to the theme of putting America first. “We cannot focus all our energies on the international arena at the expense of America’s finances and economic health.” Denying he is an isolationist, Wilder asked, “If jobs are going to be...
The Wuhan Virus and Our Children
In Lewis CarrollāsĀ Alice in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter poses this riddle: āWhy is a raven like a writing desk?ā After some further conversation, the Hatter asks Alice:Ā Ā āHave you guessed the riddle yet?āā¦ āNo, I give it up,ā Alice replied. āWhatās the answer?ā āI havenāt the slightest idea,ā said the Hatter. Ā Weāve seen...
The Coming Slap in the Face
In June 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Kelo v. City of New London, depriving property owners of rights that virtually everyone has always assumed they had.Ā Very soonābefore you can say āsequel to Lawrence v. Texasāāthe Supreme Court will no doubt take up the issue of same-sex marriage.Ā You think...
The Curtain Descends; Everything Ends
Phoenix Produced by Schramm Film Koerner & Weber and Bayerische RundfunkĀ Directed and written by Christian PetzoldĀ Distributed by Sundance SelectsĀ The Gift Produced by Blue-Tongue Films and Blumhouse ProductionsĀ Directed and written by Joel EdgertonĀ Distributed by STX Entertainment and Showtime NetworksĀ German director Christian Petzoldās new film, Phoenix, begins with a perfectly dark...
Southern Gastronomical Unity
Why donāt yāall try to guessāgo aheadāwhich American region, in its unofficial anthem, celebrates food.Ā Answer?Ā The South.Ā Permit me, Suh: Darās buckwheat cakes and Injun batter, Makes you fat or a little fatter, Look away! Look, away! Look away! Dixieland. You see?Ā We have been in the eating business a long time down here,...
Misinterpreting Iranāand the World
āLearn to think imperially.ā āJoseph Chamberlain Imagine that, for a few years, you had been investing the money you had saved for your daughterās college education in one of those moderately conservative plans that provide some increase in the value of the investment without exposing it to major risks.Ā But then your financial plannerāletās call...
Sarkozy the Demagogue
Ā President Nicolas Sarkozy announced March 30 that French police have arrested 19 persons suspected of belonging to violent Muslim networks. āThese arrests are linked to the world of a certain sort of radical Islamism,āĀ Sarkozy toldĀ Europe 1 Radio, and added that automatic weapons were found in the homes of some of those arrested in the...
Voting for the Antichrist
This morning, the morning before Election Day 2016, I read a social-media post from an old friend who, over the past year, has felt the Bern and is now calling Donald Trump the Antichrist.Ā It reminded me of another political post, which declared that a certain presidential candidate is the sort who writes aghast the...
Pigs Is Pigs
Politics is like the weather: No matter how blue in the face we talk ourselves, no matter how many virgins we sacrifice to Odin, our leaders do not improve, and the drought continues.Ā The fates who determine the destinies of nations are no more obedient to our words than the little gods of wind and...
The Media War Against the Serbs
In the Yugoslav conflict, misinformation has exceeded anything ever witnessed during World War II. Television coverage of the war has appealed to emotions and weakened our faculties for critical analysis, leaving them vulnerable to manipulation by opinion-makers. To win any media war today, it is of prime importance to hire a good public relations firm....
Just Another Tequila Sunrise
It may be several years before the results of Census 2000 are available in anyy usable form, but certain trends have already begun to emerge from the raw data. Most significantly, as Chilton Williamson, Jr., and Roger McGrath have pointed out earlier in this issue, the Hispanic population in the United States continues to grow...
The Unbearable Illegitimacy of American Law
For some time now, American law and lawyers have had a legitimacy problem.Ā Most Americans must wonder how it is that unelected federal judges have the power to declare that no state government can punish consensual homosexual relations, prohibit abortion, or permit prayer in the schools (to mention just a few of the striking things...
Transatlantic Rifts
In the immediate aftermath of September 11, Europe was closer to America, politically and emotionally, than at any time since World War II.Ā For a moment, the threat of Islamic terrorism had rekindled a dormant awareness on both sides of the Atlantic of just how much the Old Continent and the New World have in...
Greater Than the French Revolution
On July 15, 1870, the French Empire mobilized its armed forces, and the following day, the North German Confederationāled by Prussiaāfollowed suit. Once the Franco-Prussian War was declared, actual combat began with startling rapidity. The Prussians won a decisive victory at Sedan at the start of September, capturing French Emperor Napoleon III. Even so, the...
Debunking the Myths About WWII
Victory in Europe Day is observed each year on May 8, remembering the key contributions of the United States and Britain to Germanyās defeat. The following day, May 9, commemoratesĀ the Day of Victory, which focuses on the crucial contribution of the Red Army to the collapse of the Third Reich. As it happens, May 9...
Will It Play in Peoria?
Chronicles readers may remember that in my last letter I described the “Russian Style” exhibition in London as a Soviet propaganda ballon d’essai, flown to test Western media response to the new nationalism emanating from Moscow. It is by no means coincidental that such a test should be made here rather than in the United...
Pragmatic Destruction
Greek writers, and writers coming after them for the next 2,000 years, attributed the short life and violent end of democratic governments to democracyās infallible tendency toward demagoguery and the dispossession of the wealthy and educated by the poor and ignorant.Ā TocqueĀville thought democracyās fatal weakness to be uniformity of thought and opinion, and the...
The Poison and the Antidote
No historian worth his honoraria ascribes major social change to a single factor.Ā That is ideology, not history.Ā Nonetheless, an ideology has been and remains a large cause of Americaās cultural and moral decline over the past half century.Ā It is an ideology whose origins, history, and goals are known only to a few academics,...
Trusting Whitey
On June 30, 2002, the Rockford school-desegregation lawsuit came to an end.Ā After 13 years of busing; the closing of numerous neighborhood schools, one of which is now a mosque and Islamic school; the construction of several massive (and massively overpriced) magnet schools, including a Spanish-language-immersion school and an environmental-science academy; white and middle-class flight...
Envy and the Consumerism of the HaveāNots
You can make a good argument that, by the late 20th century, the Seven Deadly Sins had become the Seven Lively Virtues.Ā In the 1960ās, the media lauded the anger of students who bombed police stations and set dormitories on fire.Ā Hollywood glorified lust the way it had once glorified chastity.Ā Government at every level...
The Lowdown on Music Appreciation
Music Appreciation is a revealing phrase: It doesnāt mean what it says.Ā It doesnāt mean that music is getting more expensive, though it is true that music is appreciating.Ā It doesnāt mean even a proper regard, as in āI appreciate your efforts.āĀ What it does mean is a matter more of pedantry than of anything...
Dropping the Ball on the Bomb
Unraveling modern confusion about the decision to drop the atomic bomb. There is still a remarkable amount ofĀ confusion about one of the last acts of World War II: the use of the atomic bomb. The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was horrible, but not more so than many other episodes of the war. To keep...
The Gutsy Ann Coulter
My old compatriot from law school Ann Coulter has a habit of writing columns not designed to advance her interests as a columnist. When Coulter’s friend Joe Sobran died, she wrote a column praising Joe without reservation.Ā Given the relative power of Joe’s friends and Joe’s enemies, some wondered if this was wise. Indeed, another...
Public Relations
“All the cars you see around here,” yet another taxi driver bringing me from the Grand Hotel Villa Igiea to the congested center of town began in a confidential undertone, “it wasn’t always like that, you know. Before, it was all carriages.” Then, after a pause that he reckoned was long enough for the average...
The Celtic Heritage of the Old South
Southerners are not like other Americans. Significant cultural differences have always separated them from the North. Even today cultural variations between Southern black and white people are fewer than those between white Southerners and white Northerners. In other words, the population of the United States is more divided culturally along regional lines than along racial...
Knights of the Invisible Empire
Back in the days when Southern merchants had to take the Ku Klux Klan seriously, the knights of the Invisible Empire liked to play a neat little trick on a store owner who had strayed too far from the path of racial rectitude the secret society demanded of him. Several Klansmen in plain clothes would...
Resistance
On my knees in the bright pebbly waters of Hermit Creek, I looked up from the cotton shirt I was wringing out to the buff-colored rim of the Kaibab Plateau, over 4,000 vertical feet overhead. “Its a long way down from up there,” I told Tom Sheeley, who had just arrived along the trail from...
Stop It
Stop-Loss Produced by Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, and MTV Films Directed by Kimberly Peirce Screenplay by Kimberly Peirce and Mark Richard Distributed by Paramount Pictures Ā On March 29, 2008, Suffolk County police officers vigorously fulfilled their sworn duty at the Smith Haven Mall in Lake Grove, New York.Ā Alerted by the mallās security...
Pulling the Wool Over Their Eyes: A Straussian Memoir
You may be taken aback by the first part of my title, but do not be.Ā Wool, after all, is that which warms us.Ā In the Ice Age, pulling wool over the eyes was tantamount to survival.Ā That sense lingers in the phrase āpull the wool over your eyesāāor their eyes, as we say, referring...
The Modern Myth of a Lockean Founding
Americaās Philosopher posits that Americans in the 20th century weaponized John Locke for their own ideological ends and read Locke into the American founding. This has given Locke an outsized importance as a means to an ideological end.
The Middle East Connection
Pat Buchanan set off political sparks during the 1992 primaries with his charge that President Bush was allowing foreign agents to run his reelection campaign. Ross Perot later fanned the sparks into a prairie fire with accusations that former government officials earn $25,000 and $30,000 a month representing foreign interests. Bill Clinton joined in with...
A Snow Job on Rodeo Drive
Bridge of Spies Produced by DreamWorks SKGĀ Directed by Steven SpielbergĀ Screenplay by Matt Charman,Ā Ethan Coen, and Joel CoenĀ Distributed by Touchstone PicturesĀ Steven Spielbergās new movie Bridge of Spies recounts the Cold War spy swap America made with the Soviet Union in 1962.Ā We gave the Russkies atom spy Col. Rudolf Abel (Mark...
Why Souls Fly Away
“Some parrots are legale but why cage exotic birds at all?” āChris Wille, NAS Don’t ask me, was my first thought. The last parrot I owned wasāI swearākilled 10 years ago by an ex-friend who, with Joseph Krutch, believed that hunting was the ultimate evil. He left the bird loose in a room with my...
Banking on Boris
On Wednesday, September 1, a homemade bomb exploded on the third level of the Manezh Square underground shopping mallādubbed “Luzhkov’s pyramid” by critics of the Moscow mayor’s taste in architectureāin the heart of Russia’s ancient capital, only yards away from the red brick walls of the Kremlin. Forty-one people were injured, but none thus far...
The Distributist Alternative: A Voluntary Safety Net
As an economic concept, distributism refers to a broad, voluntary distribution of wealth in land, labor, and capital.Ā The idea has its origins in Pope Leo XIIIās 1891 social encyclical Rerum novarum, which rejected Marxism and capitalismās laissez-faire variant, and in the works of Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton.Ā Bellocās Servile State (1912) recognizes that...
Battles of the Books
I have several times passed through Figline Valdarno without realizing it was the birth place of Marsilio Ficino, the head of the Platonic Academy of Florence. Ficino was a strange bird: part Platonist, humanist, and part Christian, he has sometimes been suspected of paganism or worse. Perhaps he was a pagan, somewhere in his mind,...
Digitize Me: For Your Disinformation
Digitomania is the compulsion to digitize all human activity.Ā Its compulsive nature is betrayed by the casual, thoughtless manner in which we are casting ourselves down the slippery cyberslope, āacknowledgingā the āperilsā yet completely unwilling and unable to pull ourselves back. Digitomania gaily mirrors 17th-century Europeās ātulipomania.āĀ That classic bubble is described with wicked humor...
Factious Fundamentalists
To judge by the tone, content, and amount of recent media coverage of Protestant Fundamentalism in general and television evangelists in particular. Fundamentalists are a collection of interchangeable religious parts that have grouped themselves into a united cultural force which grows stronger and more indivisible by the week. But the conclusion is incorrect because the...
To Have and to Hold
Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives by Michael A. Heller and James Salzman Doubleday 336 pp., $28.95 Aristotleās observation that philosophy begins in wonder has, for many, conjured up an image of a curious child, bright-eyed and fascinated with the world around him. Similarly, in this book about the philosophical...