One result of the rebalanced political power in Congress and the rise of the Tea Party within the Republican Party is that we are all likely to be spared talk about ācompassionate conservatismā for the next couple of years; anyway, until the GOP discoversāas is more than likely to happen in 2012āthat conservatism of the...
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Fourth Generation War Comes to a Theater Near You
Mobs loot, burn, and vandalizeĀ while politicians advocate defunding the police. A commune was established in Seattle and turned intoĀ Lord of the FliesĀ while government did nothing. Blacks demand equal treatment from police despite a violent crime rate many times greater than that of whites, and mainstream media will not report honestly the differences in crime rates....
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 Arrhythmic Heart of England
The city of Leicester is about as far from the sea as one can get in England.Ā But one sweltering August day, when everyone else was heading down to the beaches, we were driving in the opposite direction so that I could fill in a long-troubling gap on my mental map of England.Ā I had...
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 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.
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...
How Not to Write a Direct-Mail Package (Or, Their Mistake Is Your Gain)
Ā I’m a direct-mail junkie. It’s not that I admire those who kill trees and fund the U.S. Postal Service in order to sell magazines no one in his right mind would read and that future historians will not even bother to reference in a footnote. No, it’s a pragmatic kind of addiction. It’s my...
Repudiating the Debt
Murray Rothbard spelled out inflationās devastating consequences before proposing his heretical solution: repudiation.
Repudiating the National Debt
In the spring of 1981, conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives cried. They cried because, in the first flush of the Reagan Revolution that was supposed to bring drastic cuts in taxes and government spending, as well as a balanced budget, they were being asked by the White House and their own leadership to...
The Globalists go for Broke: The Russian E-mail Hacking Story
The Democratsā hissy fit over the Trump election victory continues, with the usual suspects piling on with claims that the Kremlin hacked the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaignās e-mails in order to help Trump get elected. Obamaās deputy national security advisor, Ben Rhodes, upped the ante by claiming that Putin personally directed the...
A Party Without Guests
At the last American Political Scientists Association (APSA) convention in Chicago (September 3-6, 1987), I was immediately struck, and happily so, by the unusual attention given to historical matters. This certainly was a reflection of the convention’s theme that was a response to last year’s bicentennial celebration of the national Constitution. Nevertheless, there were two...
Ask Dr. Grants
How do I get a grant? You first must get an application. Forget about those grants for which you cannot apply, such as MacArthur Fellowships, which are essentially designed for people already known, which is to say celebrities, or incipient celebrities. Once you get the application, read its guidelines carefully to make sure you qualify...
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...
The Pernicious Myth of āTwo Americasā
Earlier this year, Melinda Byerley, CEO of the TimeShareCMO marketing company in San Francisco, wrote a Facebook post in which she offered her fellow Americans some helpful advice for improvement: āOne thing middle america [sic] could do,ā Byerley suggested, is to realize that no educated person wants to live in a shithole with stupid people....
Prison Pencil, Supermarket Crayon
“Poets in our civilization,” a famous poet wrote in his most famous essay, “must be difficult.” He went on to explain his thought, and his Englishspeaking audience understood him. When the thought was translated, it went on living in other languages. But would an English-speaking audience understand his famous lines: Please come with me When...
Mainline Marital MĆ©lange
We know the stereotype, do we not? Eyes like marbles, jaw clinched tight as a bear trap; icy baritone voice; accusatory finger slashing the air.Ā Yea, brothers and sisters, hear the word of the Lord, Who condemns . . . For some wacko reason, popular culture (you know what I meanātalk shows, movies, plain old...
Committing Political Suicide
The 109th Congress was ugly to behold.Ā Spendthrift, irresponsible, incompetent, corruptālike the pigs who were transformed into the farmers they had displaced in George Orwellās Animal Farm, the Republicans ended up looking like the Democratic legislative establishment they had toppled just a dozen years before. This proved to be politically inconvenient.Ā After all, it was...
Leokadia and Fireflies
Named Stefanie Karawinski, Iām seventeen years old.Ā The woman in the title of the story, Sister Mary Leokadia, is perhaps fifty.Ā Because the nuns at my grade school here in Superior wear black habits and white, scarf-like wimples covering their hair and ears, I canāt tell their ages.Ā They belong to an order founded for...
Middle American Mellow?
Since the 1960’s, American politics at the national level has primarily consisted of an endless search for a new majority. The Democratic Party’s embrace of the civil-rights movement kicked off the quest by undermining the New Deal coalition that combined white Southerners with white, ethnic, Northern union members, allowing the Republican Party to invade the...
Fax for Pax
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...
Rich Man, Poor Man
When the late Tony Snow stepped down from his position as President George W. Bushās press secretary, he explained that he simply could not āmake it on $168,000 a year.āĀ The comment didnāt play well in Peoria. The media downplays the enormous wealth enjoyed by disgraced chief executive officers of bankrupted companies, special-interest moguls, lobbying...
Setting the Record Straight on Liberal Fascism
The right is often accused of fascist tendencies in many of todayās political diatribes. A typical response is for the right to return the same accusation toward the left, a fact Edward Ring explores in aĀ recent article forĀ American Greatness, citing Jonah Goldbergās famous bookĀ Liberal Fascism. Ring provides an intellectual service by bringing up the relationship...
A Tool by Any Other Name
Chatbots do not have a political bias. Just ask them.
Failure to Communicate
Recent weeks have exposed the American governmentās relationship to its citizens as one devoid of trust or good will. In response, Americans must demand transparency.
Back to the Stone Age II E
Ā What is the alternative to respect for responsible authority?Ā If we assume that all foods, recreations, forms of music, and manners of life are equal, then Liberals are right to demand social, political, and tax neutrality on traditional sauerkraut and on every other issue that might involve government control, including same-sex marriage, abortion, and...
THE OLD REPUBLIC
Artur Schnabel . . . once said of Beethoven’s sonatas that “this music is greater than it can ever be played.” . . . The stories of American history are better than they can ever be told. Ā Ā Ā Ā āfrom David Hackett Fischer, “Telling Stories in the New Age,” March 1997 In my...
The Heart’s Own Instinct
Presbyterians have a particular reputation. We are a rather staid bunch, more comfortable in the environs of the country club than those of the chicken farm, more atuned to the hoity-toity, less to hoi polloi. We’re called the frozen chosen, more for accuracy’s sake than for endearment. We read old and dusty books about doctrines...
Ukraine: Western Voices of Reason
Over the past week a number of articles have appeared in mainstream Western publications, penned by respectful Western authors, which are (in all likelihood unwittingly, I must add) out-Trifkovicing Trifkovic in their assessment of the tragedy in Ukraine. Having made many of the same points over the past nine months, I am glad to say...
The Robot’s Focus
By the time Tony Blair stood down as prime minister to give his rival Gordon Brown the opportunity to lose office ignominiously, he had become as unpopular on the left as he had always been on the right.Ā A Journey is his attempt to explain himself, not so much to what he calls, alternately, āthe...
Scandals in the Church
The Roman Catholic Church in the United States must regard 2002 as one of the most traumatic years in Her history.Ā Any Catholic who hoped that the media might eventually find a new subject for horror stories would have been further disheartened this past January, when television and print media suggested that a whole new...
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...
I Love to Tell the Story
My old teacher, the classicist (and Scots Nationalist) Douglas Young, once interrupted a boring conversation about television by declaring loudly, “Speaking of Aeschylus . . . ” When one of his naive colleagues insisted, “But Douglas, no one was speaking about Aeschylus,” Young responded, “Yes, but I want to be speaking of Aeschylus.” This month,...
The Ghost of Hitler in the 21st Century
Today marks the 133rd anniversary of the birth of Adolf Hitler, and this year also coincides with the English-language publication of Hitlerās National Socialism, by Rainer Zitelmann, a distinguished German historian and free market economist. Reprising material from his German scholarship of more than 30 years ago, Zitelmann presents his provocative, well-founded interpretation of the Nazi...
Marching Off Into Tyranny
In last weekendās edition of CounterPunch, Alexander Cockburn updates the ongoing persecution of Sami Al-Arian by federal prosecutors. Al-Arian was a Florida university professor of computer science who was ensnared by the Bush regimeās need to produce āterroristsā in order to keep Americans fearful and, thereby, amenable to the Bush regimeās assault on U.S. civil...
The Poet Player
Were the contemporary Paris audience of The Gambler to hear, as the curtain went down on Jean-FranƧois Regnardās minor comic masterpiece of 1696, that the apparently chance sequences of dice values in a game of hazard like backgammon can be shown to obey certain mathematical laws, which are knowable, they would have laughed more heartily...
A āCommunistā Education Remembered
Belgradeās Tenth Gymnasium was a well-proportioned neoclassical building in a leafy park three miles from the city center.Ā Built by King Alexander shortly before his ill-fated trip to Marseilles, it bore his name until the Partisansā victory in 1945 and was considered a very good secondary school.Ā Many of its students came from the provinces...
Sacraments of Death
Among the sacraments of the Christian churches, the one most frequently received is the Lord’s Supper, also known as the Eucharist or Holy Communion. In the classic English language liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer, the ministrant offering the consecrated bread will say, “The Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, broken for thee, preserve...
The House I Hide In
In 1945, liberal Democrat FrankĀ Sinatra recorded a song about the meaning of America, āThe House I Live In.ā It was a perfect match for the honeyed voice of the young Sinatra, one that Sinatra continued to sing as his voice matured and his politics moved rightward. I have been vaguely familiar with the song since...
The Real Crimes of Russiagate
For a year, the big question of Russiagate has boiled down to this: Did Donald Trump’s campaign collude with the Russians in hacking the DNC? And until last week, the answer was “no.” As ex-CIA director Mike Morell said in March, “On the question of the Trump campaign conspiring with the Russians . . ....
Shoddy Goods, Shoddy Selves
Victor Navaskyās memoirs, which discuss his longtime relation to the Nation and how he came to publish that magazine, create for the reader two misleading impressions before he gets beyond the dust cover.Ā Contrary to the blurbs of Bill Moyers, Barbara Ehrenreich, E.L. Doctorow, and Kirkus Reviews, this book is neither āelegantā nor āsubversiveā nor...
Tulsi at the Turning Point
Tulsi Gabbard's farewell to the Democratic Party sounds more like a declaration of war. Most of her remarks would pass muster at a Trump rally.
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 Teaching of Humanities and Other Trivia
“Humanities” is Western society’s name for the academic expression of its fundamental values. There are other branches of learningāmedicine, law, engineering, and business, all of which benefit from the humanitiesābut only the “liberal arts” reflect a society’s soul, central beliefs, highest aspirations, and ultimately its culture. Yet during the last half-century America has witnessed the...
The Words of Muhammad (PBUH)
When confronted with an American convert to Islam who has studied overseas, itās hard not to think today of the celebrated case of John Walker Lindh, āthe American Talibanā captured by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and brought back to the United States to stand trial.Ā āAbdulā knows that, yet heās chosen to be brutally honest...
Mayor Pete and the Politics of Woke Advertising
Pete Buttigieg was not elevated to his cabinet post because he has tested experience with transportation. He was put there as a woke advertisement by a less-than-principled president trying to appease the culturally radical demographic in his party.
Jacob Rees-Moggās Conservative Clinic
If you wanted to imagine a British Donald J. Trump, Jacob William Rees-Mogg would not spring to mind.Ā Mogg is younger than Trump (49 to Trumpās 71), thinner, and pale instead of orange.Ā If they were cheeses, Mogg would be Stilton, and Trump would be Jack.Ā Mogg has excellent mannersānot something the 45th American President...
Fire-Breathing Cowards
In 1963, when I was a junior in high school, Saturday-night dances were held at an old beach club near the Santa Monica pier.Ā The club had once been exclusive and elegant but had long fallen on hard times, and its ballroom was rented for various functions.Ā At first, most of those going to the...
Military Unintelligence
Nothing is riskier in lifeāat any rate, for those interested in discovering that elusive thing, the ātruthāāthan to assume that what one has personally experienced years ago can be a useful guide in judging present problems.Ā It is particularly true when the time gap between the two exceeds 50 years.Ā This said, I feel almost...
Honor Killings in Canada
As Canadians were preparing for the Christmas season, they were shocked to learn that Aqsa Parvez, a 16-year-old Muslim girl from the Toronto area, was strangled to death by her devout father, a cab driver of Pakistani origin.Ā It appears her crime was a refusal to wear the traditional hijab when she was not at...