The Justice Department's attempt to avoid public scrutiny of the sweetheart plea deal it gave to Joe Biden's son, Hunter, has blown up in its face.
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The Myth of Learning Disability
In advertising, it’s called weasel type, those tiny bits of typography which explain the nut of the matter (Offer expires on May 31, 1997. Employees of XYZ Corp. are ineligible). So, here goes the weasel type of this discourse. I am not a teacher. Nor am I a mother. Not even a research scientist, a...
The Political Roots of America’s Inflation Problem
Americans are paying more for lifeās necessities, they have meddling policy makers to blame.
Continental Drift
Both recent and longer-term history throw fight on British distinctiveness within the European Community. It is apparent that enthusiasm for the EC, let alone a federal Europe, is limited in Britain, and that much of the history of political convergence over the last 40 years is to be sought in the calculations of particular politicians...
Death at the Wal-Mart
Rockford made the national news again in late May, when the wire services ran shocking headlines about a pregnant shoplifter gunned down by police at a local Wal-Mart. Talk radio buzzed with angry debates between those who congratulated the police on a job well done and those who couldn’t understand how officers could possibly shoot...
Mechanical Nihilism
This is a book about life in a society from which higher goods have been expelled, leaving no place for love, wonder, or beauty.Ā The ācompulsionā of the title is that which guides people in such a setting.Ā In default of anything better, people fall under the dominion of itches, obsessions, and impositions, and mistake...
Those Enigmatic Steppes
As one sign of Chekhov’s greatness, his very name is invoked (in adjective form) to assess the work of others. But even while Chekhovian has been called into service on numerous occasionsāin recent years, for example, to epitomize such disparate playwrights as Lanford Wilson and Beth Henley, or a bit earlier to position Lillian Hellman...
Revolution and Tradition in the Humanities Curriculum
A few years ago I found myself in the belly of the beast. To be more accurate, I was actually in the appendix of the beast, the Department of Education, giving a paper on curriculum reform. Secretary Bennett, who preceded me, spoke with his accustomed exuberance of the then current crisis in the humanities and...
Equality, Left and Right
Among the significant changes on the American intellectual right in the last 50 years is the growing emphasis on equality. From the speeches of Jack Kemp and the collected works of Professor Harry V. Jaffa to the arguments advanced for Proposition 209 in California, it seems that equality is not only a principle worthy of...
The Ants and Elephants of Swedish Politics
In February, I returned to Sweden after a 15-year absence, and discovered a very different land. In 1976, Americans were viewed with suspicion. We carried the immediate legacy of the Vietnam imbroglio and a vague reputation as “protofascists.” These were the heady early days of Prime Minister Olaf Palme. The Swedes were, as always, polite,...
Toward Real Conservatism
According to most prominent Democrats, the United States is being seriously hurt by the conservatives running Washington today.Ā While their allegations about the damage being done by those in power may be plausible, what warrants skepticism is the premise behind the allegations.Ā Do those whom the Democrats criticize deserve to be called āconservativesā?Ā Given their...
Faulknerian Presentism
The Life of William Faulkner. Volume 1: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897ā1934 512 pp., $34.95 The Life of William Faulkner. Volume 2: This Alarming Paradox, 1935ā1962 656 pp., $34.95 by Carl Rollyson University of Virginia Press Readers might be excused for exclaiming, āWhat! Another Faulkner biography?ā Yet one can make a case for a...
Friday Breakfast
Robinson Crusoe, as the lit boys would say, is an “iconic” character, whose mastery over natureāand over the savage Fridayāexpresses the West’s sometimes contemptuous sense of superiority over other cultures. In the 500-year-long iconoclastic age that is just now coming to an end, icons are made only to be broken, and in such films as...
āImagineā a New National Anthem
Attempts to erase or denigrate our countryās past are now routine. Men and women once regarded as heroes and great Americans are regularly attacked as racists, sexists, and capitalists, their statues of remembrance removed in the popularĀ sport of statue-toppling.Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Sadly, such contempt for our past and for Americaās ideals was likely...
Restoring the Republic
A history textbook used by thousands of college freshmen for the last twenty years tells fledgling citizens that democracy is the system of government which “trusts the average man to free himself from tradition, prejudice, habit, and by free discussion come to a rational conclusion.” This tissue of sophistry encapsulates the derailment of republican self-government...
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...
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...
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...
The Retreat From Realism
The essence of conservatism is realism. Conservatives properly study the bloody lessons of history and recognize the ambiguous temper of human nature. They reject the grand but unworkable schemes for radical reform proposed by the socialist left. They favor local and state programs over federal ones, because they fear that the plans of a distant...
What Civilization Remains
We once had a book about Eastern Europe at home, in between the encyclopedias and Robinson Crusoe.Ā I do not remember its title nor the authorās name, but it contained highly atmospheric black and white photographs of Rumanian scenes.Ā There were baroque chateaux, sturgeons, eagles, wolves, bears, wild boar, bends in the Danube, flowered meads...
Our Man From Boeing
Has the Arms Industry Captured Trumpās Pentagon? By Mandy Smithberger and William D. Hartung The way personnel spin through Washingtonās infamous revolving door between the Pentagon and the arms industry is nothing new. That door, however, is moving ever faster with the appointment of Patrick Shanahan, who spent 30 years at Boeing, the Pentagonās second...
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...
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...
China’s Lord of Heaven
I have been spending my spring sabbatical in China.Ā As I am a sinologist, specializing in traditional Chinese poetry, there is nothing surprising in that, except that I have not been here since 1981, when I led a tour group for less than three weeks.Ā Most of my work has been that of the classicist,...
Israelās Strategic Dilemma
Israel will face an impossible strategic situation if it enters urban warfare in Gaza. Far from being a sign of weakness, exercising restraint in the face of Hamasā provocations is the sound and politically profitable course of action.
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...
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...
We Happy Few
Regarding Jeff Minickās April 2019 article, āHappy Warriors:ā The reason the Left is winning is because they actually fight for their side in the culture war while the Right does not. And since, as the saying goes, politics is downstream of culture, the winner of the culture war is going to dominate the political system....
The Tower of Babble
The first call comes late on a Friday night. “Welcome back,” says Mark Dahlgren, the organist at St. Mary’s Shrine, who is nine months through the one year of probation he received for hugging a tree at Tom and Jan Ditzler’s farm (see “For Keeps! A Christian Defense of Property,” Views, April). “You probably haven’t...
Syria: Idiocy Meets Mendacity
To be charitable to President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry et al, their case for starting war against Syria now is no worse than Bill Clintonās and Madeleine Albrightās excuse for attacking Serbia in 1999 or George W. Bushās and Colin Powellās justification for attacking Iraq in 2003. It is slightly better than...
āWokeā Evolution
A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwinās Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution Ed. Jeremy DeSilva Princeton Universtiy Press 288 pp., $27.95 The complex debate about the place of Darwinian theory in discussions about humankindās nature has been further complicated by an academic left that has taken up trashing Darwināwho is, after...
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...
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 Curse of Activism
Activist, activism: These are two of the ugliest, falsest, and most sinister words in the English language.Ā As citizens of the Age of Activism, subject to the unremitting harassment of activists who refuse to leave society in peace, we need to understand the phenomenon they represent, as well as to recognize it. According to my...
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...
Citizen Sunflower and Americaās Future
Cancer imposes innumerable indignities on its victims.Ā In addition to possible death, the disease, its complications, and its treatment also force patients through the most inhumane gauntlet of our health-care system.Ā When youāre not giving a blood sample, youāre likely hooked up to an IV full of toxins or being zapped with near-lethal doses of...
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...
Unserious Nation
How stands John Winthrop’s “city upon a hill” this Thanksgiving? How stands the country that was to be “a light unto the nations”? To those who look to cable TV for news, the answer must at the least be ambiguous. For consider the issues that have lately convulsed the public discourse of the American republic....
Curiosity as a Social Force
āCurious Barbaraās got her nose in a sling,ā goes the Russian admonition against prurience, more puzzling, if anything, than the equivalent English adage concerning the killing, in similarly umbrageous circumstances, of the cat. Why should Barbara meet with such a fate? Just how did it happen that curiosity brought about the death of Fluffy? As...
The Nightmare That Wakes Us Up
G.K. Chesterton had a low opinion of his own abilities as a novelist.Ā ā[M]y real judgment of my own work,ā he confessed, āis that I have spoilt a number of jolly good ideas in my timeā: I think The Napoleon of Notting Hill was a book very well worth writing; but I am not sure...
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...
Eminent Southrons and Cinematic Slander
Some folks have been kind enough to notice my absence from these pages, and a few have been even kinder and expressed regret at it. The fact is that my wife Dale and I are working on a book. It will be called 1001 Things Everyone Should Know about the South, and we hope to...
Machine Politics
“Modern liberty begins in revolt.” āH.M. Kallen In 1943, in the midst of the dark years of World War II when collectivism seemed to be sweeping all before it at home and abroad, three fiercely independent and feisty women, all of them friends and libertarians devoted to what was then called “individualism,” hurled mighty manifestos...
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...
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...
Shine, Perishing Republic
Murray Rothbard recently described American conservatism as “chaos and old night.” Apart from the nasty implication that we are all dunces, there is something to what he says. It is getting harder every year to figure out just what it is that makes a conservative. Consider Newt Gingrich-the Carl Sagan of politics. He wants to...
Social Placebos & Cures
Martin Carnoy, Derek Shearer, and Russell Rumberger: A New Social Contract: The Economy and Government After Reagan; Harper & Row; New York. Richard Cornuelle: Healing American: What Can Be Done About the Continuing Economic Crisis; G. P. Putnam’s Sons; New York. Each of these books purports to disĀcuss economics, hence the direct refĀerence to “the...
Liberal Worship and Conservative Judgment
Joyce Carol Oates: The Profane Art: Essays and Reviews; E. P. Dutton; New York. Kenneth S. Lynn: The Air-Line to Seattle: Studies in Literary and Historical Writing about America; The University of Chicago Press; Chicago. Beyond any reasonable doubt, Matthew Arnold knew far more than did Samuel Johnson. Curiously, however, he was far less confident...
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...
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...