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...
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The Religion of Neoconservatism
Did you ever wonder why Jewish neoconservative thinkers never argue “from” Judaism, in the way in which Michael Novak argues from Roman Catholicism, and Richard Neuhaus argues from Lutheran Christianity? That is to say, Judaism never forms a point of departure and never defines a court of appeal. For the Jewish neoconservatives Judaism simply does...
War Without End, Amen
I have often complained that the self-styled progressive of our time never tells us where he wants to go. Progress implies a destination, and restāsweet and blessed restāonce you have arrived. But that would imply a natural human order to return to, or to attain. And then what? Then what? The progressive sweats. He...
57 million babies and counting, RIP
Something died in America 42 years ago today. Thatās when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its 1973 edict, Roe v. Wade, forcing all 50 states to almost completely legalize abortion on demand ā even those states that already had legalized it. About 57 million babies have been killed since. But something more died: Maybe...
The GameStop Saga Unravels Stakeholder Theory
The GameStop saga shows some “equity” movements are more equal than others. Stakeholder theory, the corporate version of social justice, attempts to install this hopelessly amorphous concept of “equity” in the business world. Equity, unlike equality, demands different treatment of individuals and different distribution of resources based on need, identity, and historical injustices. But now...
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...
The Reminiscences of Earl Wild
I was thinking recently about Earl Wild for several reasons: his achievement as a pianist; his substantial and extended contribution to the āRomantic Revivalā through his performances and recordings; and my own memories of exchanges with him after three of his appearances in New York City. When I beheld him backstage, standing far away from...
A Test for Trump and His Rivals
The path to the nomination for anyone other than Trump is exceedingly narrow. Voter composition and mobilization efforts will be key for Trumpās rivals.
A Week of Mondays
āThere is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.āĀ āRalph Waldo Emerson What helps set this study apart is its still largely verboten subject.Ā Joseph Scotchie devotes his attention to that part of the American right that Lee Edwards, Jonathan M. Schoenwald, and William Rusher...
A Highly Personal History
Scott P. Richert remembers local historian Jon Lundin. Weāre about 50 miles east of Toledo, cruising along the Ohio Turnpike on our way to Cleveland for the wedding of longtime Chronicles contributor Tom Piatak. Satisfied from a lunch of cabbage rolls, ...
Russell Kirk and the Negation of Ideology
āThe magnificent cause of being, / The imagination, the one reality / In this imagined world . . . ā āWallace Stevens Though ten years have passed since his death on April 29, 1994, Russell Kirk has yet to be the subject of a definitive intellectual biography.Ā In his own posthumously published autobiography, The Sword...
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...
Is Thomas Woods a Dissenter? A Further Reply, Pt. 4
Next let us turn to Woodsā comments on my discussion of scarcity as an economic concept.Ā I again quoted Paul Samuelson who introduces the topic as fundamental to economic analysis and concludes by saying:Ā āIf you add up all the wants, you quickly find that there are simply not enough goods and services to satisfy...
The Other America
Remembering, as I often have cause to do, the late Samuel Francisās formulation āanarcho-tyranny,ā I have an enhanced respect for the wonder that is our nation, for the wisdom of the government, and for the phonetic ambiguity of the word mandate, particularly as related to the blow for freedom and equality struck by the latest...
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...
A Picturesque, Unprofitable Craft
Ā Ā Ā Ā “Poetry is the Devil’s wine.” āSt. Augustine In his prophetic poem “The Silence of the Poets,” Dana Gioia imagines a time in the not too distant future when poetry will be a completely lost art. “A few observers voiced their mild regret / about another picturesque, unprofitable craft / that progress...
Scandalizing Uncle Ez
Without doubt, Ezra Pound was a remarkable poet. His best verse is beautifully cadenced, delicately chiseled. Herbert Read described him as “an alchemist who transmuted the debased counters of our language into pure poetic metal. ādeferentially. Eliot called him il miglior fabbro, the better craftsman. Pound was a brilliant critic, too. InĀ scores of widely read...
From Here to Eternity
“Weaponsāguns, knives, brass knuckles, cigarette lighters . . . ” The young man’s voice trails off. If he were not waving his metal-detector wand at us, I might think that he was offering to sell us a gun or two, not asking us if we were carrying any. “No, they’re all in the trunk,” Chronicles‘...
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...
Polemics & Exchanges: February 2024
Chronicles readers discuss Taki's controversial December column on Palestinian misery, also, some praise for Stephen Presser's recent review, "Scalia Gets the Biography He Deserves."
Foiling a Terrorist Plot
U.S. Intelligence claims to have foiled an Al Qaeda plot to explode a radioactive ādirty bombā in an American city.Ā Abdullah al-Muhajir, a 31-year-old American-born U.S. citizen of Latin American origin, made the mistake of traveling to Chicagoās OāHare International Airport from Pakistan after concluding his terrorist training.Ā Had he taken the trouble to travel...
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...
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,...
When the Cure Is the Poison
John Agresto is full of ideas about what needs to be done to fix the broken liberal arts tradition. Unfortunately, his proposed plan wonāt workāthey're too liberal.
A Republic Not an Empire
Foreign policy, the elites of both Beltway parties tell us, is not an issue in this election year. By that, they mean it is off the table, a matter already decided upon and settled by those who know what is best for America. So they, and their media auxiliaries, redirect our attention away from foreign...
Singing Our Song
In the summer of 2014, a āsurgeā was on at the southern border, particularly in my home state of Texas, stimulated by the Obama administrationās signals that it was planning a mass amnesty and had no intention of enforcing immigration laws.Ā It became painfully obvious that the border crisisāthe near total collapse of any controls...
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...
What āBlackā Really Means to the Left
Kamala Harrisās ancestry matters less to the left in defining her than does Harrisās consistently woke politics which, for them, is part and parcel of black identity.
Neocon Follies
Doug Liman has performed half a public service with his new film, Fair Game.Ā By retelling the story of the neoconservative attack on Amb. Joseph Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame, he has once more exposed how eager these ideologues are to destroy anyone who gets in their way.Ā Unfortunately, he stops short of reaching...
On Fire
Christopher Checkās review of W.G. Simmsā A City Laid Waste: The Capture, Sack, and Destruction of the City of Columbia (āTotal War,ā September) was an excellent consideration of that volumeās importance in current topical terms.Ā If Southerners were allowed to know the true story of the invasion and burning of the civilian South by U.S....
The Dakota Men
“What ever happened to real men . . . the kind of men with good old-fashioned values like honesty, integrity, sincerity, and ambition?” asks FOODāFarmers of Ongoing Determinationāin a promotional flier. It turns out that they think they have a corner on the real-man marketāand I’m willing to let them suspend my disbelief. North Dakotans...
The Long March Through the Constitution
In the opinion of Marshall DeRosa, one of the contributors to this book, The transition from statesā rights to unitary nationalism, i.e., domestic imperialism, was the most significant development in American politics.Ā This marks one of the worst fears of the framers coming to fruition, tyranny. That is a self-evidently correct judgment.Ā It is also...
Our Constitutional Covenant With Death
“The compact which exists between the North and the South,” proclaimed William Lloyd Garrison in an abolitionist declaration of 1843, “is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.” When the Southern states concluded that they were no longer bound by what their enemies regarded as a compact with the devil. Garrison and his...
The Cardinal Vicar
āKiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish . . . ā āPsalm 2:12 Twenty-one centuries will have passed since He promised to come in His glory, 21 centuries since His prophet wrote, āBehold, I come quickly.āĀ For centuries, then, men had beseeched Him with faith and fervor, āO Lord our God hasten...
Germans in the Dock
“The German may be a good fellow, but it is better to hang him.” āRussian Proverb This is a disturbing book: not simply because the author, an assistant professor of government at Harvard, points an accusing finger at the German people whom he implicitly accuses of having been Hitler’s willing accomplices in the implementation of...
Insurgent Islam and American Collaboration
The cultural schism between the Western and Eastern halves of European Christian civilizationāmarked principally by their respective religious traditions, Roman Catholic and Protestant in the West and Orthodox in the East, may or may not prove fatal. One issue stands above all others in determining the outcome: the Islamic resurgence that has rapidly come to...
John Addison Howard, 1921-2015: A Remembrance
John Howard, founder of The Rockford Institute (publisher of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture), passed from this world on August 7, 2015, a week shy of his 94th birthday.Ā He is survived by his wife, four children, and nine grandchildren.Ā A memorial service in his honor was held on August 29 at Westminster Presbyterian...
Gaines Elites Play
“Lord knows where that went,” Boris Yeltsin croaked to one of his Kremlin aides sometime last September. Yeltsin, according to Kremlin sources, was replying to a query from the International Monetary Fund on the expenditure of nearly two billion dollars worth of an IMF “tranche” targeted to stave off impending Russian financial disaster in the...
Transnational Injustice
The International Criminal Court is a political court, no less than the one which convicted Donald Trump in New York.
Child Abuse at Waco
“For the sake of the children” has emerged as one of the most dangerous phrases in American politics. President Clinton has invoked children’s alleged dependence on the federal government not just for his putatively child-oriented programs (such as the misnamed Department of Education), but also for issues that have only a tenuous connection to children,...
Living With the Questions
It was hot out there, the sun glaring down on us in our suits and ties.Ā The air was sort of smoky, the way it usually is down here near the Gulf Coast.Ā A parade of suits and uniforms marched behind the fire truck.Ā The casket was sitting in back, and the sun glared off...
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....
Money, Money, Money
American Jews (like other organized subgroups in American society) do some things superbly well and fail at others. Where we are strong, there is our weakness. When I consider the mistakes we American Jews make, these simple truths explain much. By “mistakes,” I refer to enormous, fundamental errors of public policy: the management of Jewish...
Tradition, Old and New
“Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?” (Matthew 15:3). Jesus had many negative things to say about the dangers of placing excessive emphasis on tradition; in the passage quoted above, he goes on to cite the prophet Isaiah, “In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of...
āBless the Lord, All You Works of the Lordā
In one of the first episodes of the latest Star Trek series, Enterprise, the crew, a few weeks out from Earth on the ship’s maiden voyage, has become homesick. Suddenly, an inhabitable planet appears off of the port side. There are no signs of humanoid life, but the captain sends a small team down to...
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...
A Ruthless Charm
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. was bred in the bone for his role on the stage of 20th-century American history.Ā His father, the historian Arthur Meier Schlesinger, was already a rising academic star when Arthur Jr. was born in 1917 in Iowa City, while, on his motherās side, the prominent 19th-century historian, George Bancroft, was said to...
Edward Abbey: R.I.P.
“By retaining one’s love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable.” āGeorge Orwell With the death of Edward Abbey, aged 62, in March of last year, the Western portion of what once was really the United States lost her greatest defender of...
The NPR-Listening āElite 1%ā
The publicly subsidized programming of National Public Radio draws a mostly white, high-income earning audience with degrees from elite institutions. It should be no surprise this group trusts government to uphold its interests, given they have the same interests.
Intellectual Operator
It is a distinct possibility that we leave to posterity writers and works from which the future curious will conclude that this century was the stupidest, most verbose and obscene, altogether the worst in the historical record. What else can you say of a century that elected Michel Foucault as one of its mĆ¢itres Ć ...