What is individualism? John Stuart Mill answered this question with a theory of rights. Mill looked for a “simple” theoretical principle that could distinguish the liberty of the individual from that of the state. Not only is there no such principle, but we miss the full character of individualism if we try to grasp it...
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The Sex Quiz
“Is it possible heterosexuality is a phase you will grow out of? Are you heterosexual because you fear the same sex? If you have never slept with anyone of the same sex, how do you know you wouldn’t prefer it? Is it possible you merely need a good gay experience?” Far from rhetorical questions and...
He Got Them First
āTraitorsā words neāer yet hurt honest cause.ā āScottish Proverb The destruction of Sen. Joe McCarĀthy, says M. Stanton Evans, was never about what he did: The real issue has always been the larger question of what happened to Americaāand the worldāat the midpoint of the twentieth century, what it meant, and who was responsible for...
Shooting One Another in the Land of the Free
Gods and Generals Produced and directed by Ronald F. Maxwell Screenplay adapted from Jeff Shaaraās novel by Ronald F. Maxwell Released by Warner Bros. Opening in 2003, director Ron Maxwellās Civil War film, Gods and Generals, was swept from the multiplexes within two weeks by a torrent of critical hysteria.Ā āJingoistic goat spoor,ā raged one...
The Real Crisis of Higher Education
The current debate about the state and future of higher education seems to center on the question of whether a college degree is a āprivilegeā or a āright.āĀ The loudest argument is that any high-school graduate who has followed a ācollege pathwayā and has made decent grades should be admitted to a state institution of...
Comment
The case study of Teheran and Yalta can be ultimately reduced to the question: Should the President of the United States lie? Pericles would have thought so, “for there is justice in the claim that steadfastness in his country’s battles should be a cloak to cover a man’s other imperfections; since the good action has...
Not a Prayer
“(Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon . . . “ āSamuel Taylor Coleridge Individualism is the question of first concern to the future of the West. The dread argument of the individual case is, I think, the fundamental idea of modernism. Books like those by Turner and Bellah &...
Going the Distance
Homeschooling parents are all too aware of the hazards they face in signing up a beloved child for four years at Ivy U, Good Old State U, or even Used-to-be Christian College. Even if the institution in question does not hand out condoms like candy during orientation week and does not require courses that indoctrinate...
Let Us Pray (But to Whom?)
In May, the Supreme Court held that the First Amendmentās Establishment Clause is not offended when a city council opens its meetings with a short prayer (Town of Greece v. Galloway).Ā While this result seems to be an example of commonsense constitutionalism, conservatives should not be too quick to pat the Court on the back.Ā ...
Storytellers and Fakers
A writer, asked during a literary party what her new novel was about, turned on the questioner with an expression combining irritation, indignation, and pity, and replied, “My novels aren’t about things!” Some time later, this same writer would denounce Stephen King in print for hogging the marketplace and for his alleged role in censoring...
The Party’s Over
The two most elemental questions raised by the Pete Rose gambling scandal were: do actions have consequences? and do the rules mean anything? With Rose’s suspension from major league baseball, in keeping with the rules of major league baseball, came one answer to both questions: yes. But the affair raised other questions whose answers weren’t...
Bulgarian Conference
Hillary Clinton wisely chose to spend her 23rd wedding anniversary at a women’s conference in Bulgaria rather than in Washington with her husband. The White House claimed that Mrs. Clinton had decided to attend the October conference months earlier, but the timingāless than a week after the House of Representatives voted to open an impeachment...
The Strange Career of Individualism
What is individualism? John Stuart Mill answered this question with a theory of rights. Mill looked for a “simple” theoretical principle that could distinguish the liberty of the individual from that of the state. Not only is there no such principle, but we miss the full character of individualism if we try to grasp it...
Methodists and Sex
The United Methodist Church, having declined from 11 to 8 million members in the United States, spent millions on a television and newspaper ad campaign called āOpen Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors.ā Those millions were probably wasted, however. The ad campaign has been overshadowed by unwanted publicity over increasingly routine battles about homosexuality. Last fall,...
The Real American Dilemma
This remarkable editorial by Chroniclesā longest-serving editor offered one of the first and best analyses of Americaās immigration problem.
Breast-Beating and Myth-Exploding
The wavering course of United States foreign policy and our fumbling initiatives in the world’s trouble spots have turned a brighter spotlight upon governmental decision-making in this vital area. Our performances in Iran, Lebanon, and Nicaragua have raised questions about the capacity of our open government to deal with these recurring problems. And neither our...
No-Fault Citizenship
The United States has bestowed upon 3.1 million persons the new designation of “lawful” in place of “illegal aliens,” which is what they were called when they arrived in our midst. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 attempts to right our mutual difficulty by putting these immigrants in line to become permanent resident...
Why Kimberly Cheatle Had to Resign
Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle committed the only inexcusable sin in Washington today: She inadvertently helped Trump.
Are Globalists Plotting a Counter-Revolution?
On meeting with the EU’s Jean-Claude Juncker last month, Donald Trump tweeted: “Both the U.S. and the E.U. drop all Tariffs, Barriers and Subsidies! That would finally be Free Market and Fair Trade.” Did Larry Kudlow somehow get access to Trump’s phone? We know not. But, on hearing this, Steve Forbes, Stephen Moore and Arthur...
No Capitulation: A Call to Southern Conservatives
The following speech critical of the conservative establishment is one that I did not give at The Charleston Meeting, in Charleston, S.C., whither I was invited by its organizer Gene dāAgostino, as a speaker for the evening of April 14. After espying copies of my book on antifascism for sale on a table in the...
The Southern Tradition and the Black Experience
I am, to say the least, honored to receive your Richard Weaver Award and to be invited to share some thoughts with you tonight. Richard Weaver observed, in Ideas Have Consequences: “There is ground for declaring that modern man has become a moral idiot. . . . For four centuries every man has been not...
New Online āMating Sitesā Skip the Soulmate
Boomer parents are frustrated by their lack of grandchildren. Meanwhile, millennials complain about the lack of romantic partners.Ā Ā Never fear, technology has provided a solution! No longer must millennials date to find the love of their life, marry, and have children. Now they can shop online to find the perfect person to breed with before...
An Adversarial Culture
Following the U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, John Walker Lindh, also known as Suleyman al-Faris and Abdul Farid, got his 15 minutes of fame the hard way.Ā Or perhaps it is more proper to say that he was the object of a Two Minutes Hate by many on the right, even as his arrest...
Scholarly Pornography
ā[T]he most heroic sentiments will lose their efficacy, and the most splendid ideas will drop their magnificence, if they are conveyed by words used commonly upon low and trivial occasions, debased by vulgar mouths, and contaminated by inelegant applications.ā āSamuel Johnson In January 2005, one of the premier scholarly publishers in the English language, Princeton...
Infomercial: An Algorithm for the Web
News Item: “Al Gore helped lead the federal response to Y2K, hut that doesn’t mean his own Internet operations went hug-free. The computer glitch took a tiny bite out of Gore’s campaign Web site. The damage came inside his “virtual town hall,” where a message from a supporter was dated January 3, 19100. . ....
Priests and Pedophiles
“Catholic priests claim to be celibate, but we know what they’re really up to. Most of them seduce women, the rest like little boys. Priests trap them in the confessional, and when the priests are found out, the bishops let them off with a slap on the wrist. Celibacy, hierarchy, secrecy, the confessionalāthose are the...
Platoās Euthyphro: Introduction
It has been a while since I posted a Booklog entry. Ā It is not for lack of reading, on my part, but most of my reading has been either rather technical--Sicilian history, Pre-Socratic philosophy, the history of marriage--or too light to merit discussion. Ā In preparing for our own Sicilian Expedition, ...
Angels to Govern Us
“If men were angels,” James Madison wrote, “no government would be necessary.” Or, “if angels were to govern men, no controls on government would be necessary.” Madison believed that men are about as good as they can ever be, and since no angels are available to rule, we need checks and balances. Thomas Jefferson added...
Bribemasters
‘The devil’s boots don’t creak.’ āScottish proverb Many who take money from him, attend his conferences, or publish their articles in his publications will point to his anti-Communism. Others support the civil liberty issues he seems to embody. Some reassure themselves by seeing the influential people with whom he travels. A few employ the rationale...
Silver or Lead: The Reverse Assimilation of the Southwest
Texas attorney general and gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbot committed what is commonly called a political gaffe earlier this year when he said what every thinking person this side of the Rio Grande already knew: Mass immigration from Mexico means the importation of Mexican corruption and the steady erosion of law and social trust that too...
Hand-Me-Down Truth
In 1912, a group of Oxford fellows began meeting to work out a minimalist common creed that would be acceptable to all Christians. William Temple, future archbishop of Canterbury, was the guiding spirit of the group, which argued its way down to an inoffensive consensus entitled Foundations. The Oxford Seven ended up setting aside miracles,...
Is There a Khilafah in Your Future?
Discussions of jihad terrorism and the best defense against it rarely avoid entanglement in the contentious question of the relationship of terrorist actions to Islam as a religion.Ā Is the terrorism an aberration of Islam, or is it, judged in light of history, the prevailing orthodoxy?Ā Indeed, the question is an important one, and, in...
The Patsy
In general I am not a fan of conspiracy theories.Ā A good historian learns that, in regard to controversial events, the simplest explanation is the one most likely to be accurate.Ā I long ago took to heart Napoleonās maxim that you should not blame on hidden machinations what can be more readily explained by incompetence....
Interview With a Condemned Academic
Michael Millerman was a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto when he got into trouble. The trouble wasnāt drugs or alcohol, debt, or academic improprieties. Nor was he troubled by poor academic performance. The trouble was that he was reading, examining, and translating the works of controversial political thinkers influenced by Martin Heidegger. His...
Counting People and People Who Count
My curriculum vitae still includes a paragraph describing my activities as an āeducational consultant,ā though it has been some years since I went to Washington to read grants or evaluate schools for the Department of Education.Ā It was all time wasted, less profitable than time wasted on politics.Ā Politicians, to their credit, know that it...
Walking the Neocon Plank
For a political reporter looking for a good story, a national convention has become a pretty barren field.Ā Journalists typically just enjoy the expense account, skip most of the scripted, focus-grouped speeches, and listen instead to Jack Germond or David Broder reminisce about the Taft-Eisenhower floor fight of 1952 or the Chicago riots of 1968.Ā ...
The Cowardice of āPatriotic Courageā
That Donald Trump bothered to challenge the official outcome of the November 2020 election was an annoyance to a number of congressional Republicans, representatives and senators alike. Remarks issued on Jan. 6 by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as the Senate was about to confirm the election of Joe Biden reflect these views: We cannot...
Boethius and Lady Philosophy
As founder of the intellectual tradition of the West, Saint Augustine has one peer: Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, a Roman of noble antecedents who spent his life in the service first of literature, then of the Gothic kingdom of Theodoric, and always, throughout a life that compassed literary success, high office, and political disgrace, of...
Facts and Opinions
āI think itās been very hard for Speaker Boehner and Republican Leader McConnell to accept the fact that taxes on the wealthiest Americans should go up a little bit, as part of an overall deficit reduction package.ā This haplessly phrased bit of Obamaspeak is one out of many illustrations of a confusion between fact and...
Revolution
Times of crisis are not distinguished by respect for rightsāalthough, paradoxically, all revolutions claim to be mounted in the name of rights. During our War of Independence, criticism of the patriot cause was an invitation to a lynching, and Jefferson defined the Tory as “a traitor in thought, if not in deed.” In 1773 George...
Sociology of the Gods
āThe eternal gods do not lightly change their minds.ā āHomer, Odyssey Rodney Stark is considered by many to be the greatest living sociologist of religion.Ā Generations of English-speaking students have used his textbook Sociology, now in its eighth edition.Ā Stark was one of the founders of the theory of religious economy, which replaced the earlier...
Fall of a Titan
Pat Buchananās new bookĀ is another tour de force.Ā Suicide of a Superpower builds on the prophetic warnings first articulated in such earlier books as The Great Betrayal; A Republic, Not an Empire; and, most importantly, Death of the West.Ā The current work exhibits the most famous paleoconservativeās trademark word-crafting verve, encyclopedic knowledge of history...
The Ancestry and Legacy of the Philosophes
Edmund Burke records that two thirds of the Anglican clergy initially supported the French Revolution.Ā He wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France to show that the Revolution was not merely an understandable effort at reform but an entirely unique intellectual and spiritual pathology.Ā A language for this disorder of the soul did not exist...
Counting People and People Who Count
My curriculum vitae still includes a paragraph describing my activities as an āeducational consultant,ā though it has been some years since I went to Washington to read grants or evaluate schools for the Department of Education. It was all time wasted, less profitable ...
Tradition and Justice
“We have forgotten the origin of morality in fact and circumstance.” āWendell Berry Alasdair MacIntyre is our most relentless tracker of the crisis of the liberal regime. In After Virtue, he recounted the history of the triumph of “emotivism” in ethics. In Whose Justice? Which Rationality? he has begun the process of pointing the way...
The Russo-German Symbiosis in the First and Second World Wars
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the retreat of Leninist forces within the empire, hosannas have rung out in the Western world. “The Cold War is over, the Cold War is over,” the leaders of the West have exclaimed, and demands to turn swords into knitting needles have filled the air. At every...
A Question of Power
Movies come and movies go, but probably never in the history of American film has more controversy greeted any movie than that which met Mel Gibsonās The Passion of the Christ before and after its debut on Ash Wednesday.Ā We all know what the controversy was about.Ā It had nothing to do with the qualities...
Hating Babies, Hating God
When I sat down to write this article, Google reminded me that, when it comes to the issue of contraception, the stakes are very high.Ā To check the date of publication of Dr. Charles Provanās important work The Bible and Birth Control, I typed āCharles, Provan, Bible, Birth Controlā into the mother of all search...
Cowboy Capitalism Lessons From the Asian Meltdown
As the Asian financial and currency crisis spun out of control, the world glimpsed the dark side of the new international economic order. It is highly efficientālinking global markets for goods and moneyābut dangerously unstable and asymmetrical. For speculators, traders, bankers, and tycoons, there are unlimited opportunities to make money in the global economy. They...
Censorship: When to Say No
Every April since 1981 the American Society of journalists and Authors sponsors an “I Read Banned Books” campaign. They routinely trot out copies of children’s books like Alice in Wonderland or Mary Poppins and modern classics like Ulyssesāall of which have been censored by somebody somewhere. One of them inevitably quotes Jefferson on tolerating “error...