The following is an interview I conducted earlier this year with Dr. Nikola Koljevic, a well-known Shakespearean scholar and the current Vice President of the Bosnian Serbs. Dr. Koljevic has been a professor at the University of Sarajevo, Stanford, and the University of Michigan, In 1990, he was elected to the Bosnian parliament (one of...
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How the Market Stamps Out Evil
In the year before the 1994 election, Ralph Reed announced that the Christian Coalition would broaden its focus. It would go beyond traditional social issues like abortion and school prayer and include economics. He made the case that the security of the American family, a central concern of any Christian political organization, is affected by...
George W. Bush: Wilsonian Liberal
If constitutional liberties are as old as the republic itselfĀ (older if you include the tradition of English common law), violations of those liberties are just as old.Ā John Adams and Thomas Jefferson threw their political opponents in jail, Andrew Jackson pursued a policy of genocide against this continentās original inhabitants, and Abraham Lincoln unleashed...
Publicly Funded Art
Publicly Funded Art is causing a stir now in Los Angeles, where a mural citing (in part) the Pledge of Allegiance has drawn fire from a neighborhood group. The Little Tokyo Community Development Advisory Committee complained that placing a mural featuring the pledge above LA’s Little Tokyo was, at the very least, insensitive to the...
The Structure of Meaning
Levy’s latest and very ambitious new book is an inquiry into the fundamental characteristics of political order from two perspectives: philosophical anthropology and the political philosophy of Eric Voegelin. The outcome is a vigorous defense of our institutions and traditions. The anthropological perspective has its roots in Max Scheler’s work in the 1920’s and 1930’s....
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...
Practical Ways to Protest Election Fraud
The growing evidence of massive fraud in the 2020 elections should distress and sicken all voters, Democrats and Republicans alike. Kill votersā trust in the election process, and youāre putting a knife into the heart of our republic. This whole year has shown that Americaās elite maintain a culture that blithely ignores the concerns of...
The Price Of Free Verse
“A post in our times,” wrote Thomas Love Peacock, “is a semi-barbarian in a civilized community.” What Peacock meant by civilized community is not too hard to guess: that rational, humane, progressive society of Britain and Northern Europe, which Peacock’s eccentric friendsāShelley, Coleridge, and Byronāall seemed bent on destroying. Poets were barbaric, because they continued...
Politics in the Anti-Christian Age
So what is the real significance of Barack Obamaās victory?Ā Punditsā fingers and tongues have been flying, of course, scoring the triumph in a variety of ways: the terrible legacy of slavery and racism has been dealt a conclusive blow; the Democratic Party has displaced the Republicans as the party of Middle America; the nation...
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...
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...
Remembering William F. Buckley, Jr.
Two years after the death of the man whom one of his biographers, John Judis, dubbed the patron saint of modern conservatism, Encounter Books brought out a splendidly packaged omnibus volume of his columns and essays, entitled Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations (2010). On the cover, William Francis Buckley stands...
Trump & The Post: Whose Side Is Mitt On?
If there is a more anti-Trump organ in the American establishment than The Washington Post, it does not readily come to mind. Hence, in choosing to send his op-ed attack on President Donald Trump to the Post, Mitt Romney was collaborating with an adversary of his party and his president. And he knew it, and...
Twenty Years Later: The Legacy of NATOās War against the Serbs
Twenty years ago the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, led by the United States, waged a relentless 78-day bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, consisting of Serbia and Montenegro (March 24-June 10, 1999). This act of naked illegal aggression marked a significant turning point, not only for America and NATO but also for everyone...
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...
Bitten and Smitten
Spider-Man Produced and distributed byĀ Columbia Pictures Directed by Sam Raimi Screenplay by David Koepp Y Tu MamĆ” TambiĆ©n Produced by Besame Mucho Productions Directed by Alfonso CuarĆ³n Screenplay by AlfonsoĀ and Carlos CuarĆ³n Released by Twentieth Century Fox Where would we be without eros?Ā Would Antony have thrown away an empire?Ā Would Dante have written The...
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...
Identity and Appearances
Seen from certain angles, Dover Castle looks like the most formidable fortress in the world.Ā Far below, the English Channel is a vision in ozone and aquamarineāthe deeps dotted with shipping, the Pas-de-Calais shimmering with memories, the chalky cliffs ant-tunneled with ancient emplacements, a pristine Cross of St. George snapping in the breeze from the...
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...
The Insatiable Presidency
Suddenly everybody is writing about Lyndon JohnsonāRobert Caro, Robert Dallek, Joseph Califano: holding the late President’s lanky carcass up to the light, prodding and poking to see what the man was made of. The political pathologists differ among themselves. Caro, in two volumes, with two more due, has virtually nothing good to say about his...
A Trick Question
“Globalization”āwhen did it become a central tenet of conservatism? According to Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead, it was in the New Deal era that the US “rejected isolationism and economic nationalism” in favor of the “globalization of our daily lives.” The text of Whitehead’s address to the September meeting of the Economic Policy...
The Republican Party May Be Trying to Throw the 2024 Election in Key States
There are signs that the Never Trump faction of the Republican Party is preparing to throw the 2024 election in key battleground states to prevent Trump from becoming president again.
The German Resistance
Certain actions should never be taboo in a modern Western democracy.Ā These include public criticism and protest of government policies, as well as presenting alternatives to those policies.Ā Yet in present-day Germany, citizens are slandered, censored, and persecuted by their own government and media for doing just that. In early 2013, an economist, a former...
Adventures in Education
Sir Thomas More: Why not be a teacher?Ā Youād be a fine teacher; perhaps a great one. Richard Rich: If I was, who would know it? Sir Thomas More: You; your pupils; your friends; God. Ā Not a bad public, that. āRobert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons Last spring, students at Chelsea Academy performed...
A Thing in Itself
My Sicilian friend Manlio has something in him of the late Curtis Cate, who was a mutual friend of mine and Tom Flemingās and a frequent contributor to these pages.Ā When Curtis died in 2006 aged 82, I did not think to write an obituary.Ā For some reason, one whose perennial argument with the heart...
Dobsonās Choice: Politics and the Spirit of Martyrdom
During the 1990ās, under the guidance of Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich, the Christian Right learned to hate Hillary Clinton, and all her lies, and all her empty promises.Ā To them, she is (to borrow from Dr. Sam Loomis) pure evil.Ā She is a feminist who looks down her nose at women who stay home...
The Un-Civil Liberties Union
When I undertook a study of the ACLU, I had no idea that the politics surrounding my investigation would prove to be as revealing as the research itself. Maybe more so. My first taste of the politics of the ACLU came during an interview with Aryeh Neier, past executive director of the ACLU. The interview...
Ann Coulter Interview: Part One
Last week saw the publication of Ann Coulter’s new book on immigration,Ā AdiĆ³s America! This is an important book. Although Coulter sounds a number of themes that will be quite familiar to Chronicles readers, she also breaks new ground, particularly in her detailed description of how mass immigration is harming ordinary Americans. It also comes out...
Communism, Nationalism, Liberalism
I chose the three words in my title because they summarize the situation in Eastern Europe, a situation simple yet complicated, tragic yet full of hope. I apologize for the cliches, but they become more profound as this article proceeds. Notwithstanding those who advertise the “clear and present danger” of a communist comeback (and who...
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...
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...
Seminary Boot Camp
Your Excellency: Please forgive my extended holographic hiatus.Ā What with the āpriestly scandals,ā the ābishop scandals,ā the decline and death of one pope and the election of another, I assumed you and your fellow shepherds had your hands full.Ā Besides, I had little to offer by way of helpful suggestion.Ā How could I?Ā Our diocesan...
Travel Ban, and Beyond
The Supreme Court decided on June 26 to allow key parts of the Trump administrationās ātravel banā to go into effect temporarily.Ā This was an unexpected victory for the Presidentāand for common sense.Ā Until the Court hears the full case in October, the administration will be able to bar travelers from six majority-Muslim countries who...
Neocons, Naxalites, and National Demise
The neoconservatives have promoted an aggressive U.S. foreign policy that they term ābenevolent global hegemony.āĀ In other words, they demand, to paraphrase Pat Buchanan, āan empire, not a republic.ā What makes the American Empire an unprecedented historical phenomenonāthe one instance in which the creed of American Exceptionalism holds trueāis that the U.S. government, unlike previous...
Unit 731
Every time I ask my college students if they are familiar with Nazi atrocities, the collective reply is āOf course.āĀ Nearly all of them have also heard of Dr. Josef Mengele and his horrific medical experiments conducted at Auschwitz.Ā The āAngel of Deathā has been the subject of countless lectures, articles, books, movies, and documentaries.Ā ...
Now is No Time to Boycott the Olympic Games
It would be a huge mistake to make the games yet another casualty of the culture war. It will make little difference, and only deprive us of something unspeakably beautiful.
Presidential Campaign Should Change the Trade Debate
While the antiwar rhetoric that fueled the early days of the Democratic presidential primaries has not gone away, attacks on President Bushās dismal record of net job losses have now taken precedence. Unfortunately, Rep. Dick Gephardt, the first to drop out of the race, was the only Democratic candidate with a record of opposing the...
A New Right Arises in Poland
The year 2019 was an eventful one in Polish politics. Out of a boring and meaningless dispute between two wings of Polish liberalism, there arose a new political force determined to shake up Polandās political culture. Eleven MPs from the new Confederation Party appeared in the Polish Parliament, the Sejm, after last Octoberās parliamentary elections....
An American Revolution
On January 17āless than 24 hours after presenting his credentialsāthe new U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, met with a group of Russian opposition figures, ācivil-society activists,ā and street-demonstration leaders at the U.S. embassy in Moscow.Ā It was a provocative first move, the equivalent of a new Russian ambassador in Washington ostentatiously hosting the leaders...
Remember the Maine
Henry Luce coined the phrase “The American Century” as an expression of the militant economic globalism that has characterized American policy from the days of William McKinley. Luce, the publisher of Time and Fortune, was the child of missionaries in Chinaāa product, in other words, of American religious and cultural globalism. It is no small...
In Georgia, a Reminder of a Halcyon West
Even in the beginnings of winter, Georgiaās capitol Tbilisi emits a warmth. One should expect this from a city known for its many hot springs, but the warmth experienced goes much beyond the sulfur baths popular with tourists and locals alike. Tbilisi, with its 1.4 million residents, is inviting in a way that few cities...
Mapping a Digital Dystopia
In Atlas of AI, Kate Crawford explores the many ways our social structures are disturbingly affected by the rise of technocracy, from the environment to the workplace to corporate and governmental surveillance and data collection.
From Wellstone to Franken: The Era of Gopher Goofiness
What happened to Minnesotaāthe stolid Nordic-and-German prairie republic, the mother of vice presidents, the place where Democrats were āFarmer-Laborā and seemed to mean it?Ā Lately, when it comes to statewide office, Sven and Ole have been serving up not their usual hotdish and egg coffee but an uncharacteristic booya of Slavs and Jews, Easterners and...
Is Secession a Solution to Cultural War?
As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs. Yet, given the divisions among us, deeper and wider than ever, it is an...
Dealing With the Devil
Ralph Sarchie exudes an aura of intense strength when he walks into a room.Ā A fit, middle-aged man with heavily tattooed arms (pictures of his daughters and tough cop tattoos, like one that reads New York Untouchables) and a buzz cut, who speaks with a Queens accent straight out of Martin Scorceseās Goodfellas, Sarchie has...
Get Big or Get Out
Most people think of E.F. Schumacher today (to the extent that they think of him at all) as some sort of vaguely leftist harbinger of the environmentalist movement.Ā His most famous work, Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, is often reduced to āBuddhist Economics,ā the title of one of the essays collected therein.Ā ...
You Should Have Been Here Yesteryear
California was imagined and named before it was discovered.Ā In 1510 in Seville there appeared a novel that would have Fabio on the cover today.Ā Written by Garcia OrdĆ³Ć±ez de Montalvo, Las sergas de EsplandiĆ”n is a romance of chivalry that vividly describes the adventures of a fictitious Christian knight, EsplandiĆ”n.Ā In defending Constantinople against...
Trans Tyranny in Public Schools
Schools across the country have adopted a controversial policy of hiding the LGBT statuses of students from their parents. Sold to the public as an effort to protect children from abuse, the policy effectively circumvents parental consent and notification about their childrenās health, safety, and well-being. One Texas family told Chronicles how they fought...
Why Are You Happy?
Walker Percy never tired of asking a simple question: why are people happy in circumstances that ought to make them miserable? It was a question he set for himself in his first collection of philosophical essays, The Message in the Bottle, and in one way or another his best novelsāThe Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, Love...