A few months ago and despite my better judgment, I spent some time watching the NFL playoffs. Seeking relief from rather than in work, I soon was reminded that the tube is a conduit of malaise and of pop cultural propaganda. For every glimpse of the tenacious gifts of Dan Marino, there were hours of...
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The Poison and the Antidote
No historian worth his honoraria ascribes major social change to a single factor.Ā That is ideology, not history.Ā Nonetheless, an ideology has been and remains a large cause of Americaās cultural and moral decline over the past half century.Ā It is an ideology whose origins, history, and goals are known only to a few academics,...
The Myth of the Spanish Civil War
One of the last great leftist myths of the 20th century is that the Spanish Civil War was a struggle of republican democracy against nationalist fascism. In reality, it was a violent mass-collectivist revolution put down by Spanish moderates and conservatives.
Smearpolitik
After several weeks of fulminating about John Kerryās war record and the medals he presumably awarded himself, at least some veterans of the Stupid Party eventually got down to the real point about the man who wants to replace ...
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....
Envy and the Consumerism of the HaveāNots
You can make a good argument that, by the late 20th century, the Seven Deadly Sins had become the Seven Lively Virtues.Ā In the 1960ās, the media lauded the anger of students who bombed police stations and set dormitories on fire.Ā Hollywood glorified lust the way it had once glorified chastity.Ā Government at every level...
The Good Life
āSay, I guess America is just about the best country that has ever existed in the history of mankind.ā I have been hearing this assertion all my life and never fully understood what is intended, unless it is merely one of those ahems that we Americans inject into a conversation when we have nothing to...
The Political Roots of America’s Inflation Problem
Americans are paying more for lifeās necessities, they have meddling policy makers to blame.
Equality Takes a Beating
Several weeks ago I was watching a program on the BBC called Would You Risk Your Own Life to Save a Complete Stranger?Ā In Britain, few people apparently would.Ā Far more common is the story of a young girl who was beaten severely in a London subway by several āyouths.āĀ The attack took place on...
The View From Mount Nebo
Last summer this expansive sagebrush basin at the lower end of the Wyoming Range made the annual encampment of the Rainbow Family of Living Light, spawn of a congestive civilization. Fifteen thousand strong, they organized according to their various pursuits: drinking, drugs, nudity, fornication, andāfor all the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department knowsācannibalism and human sacrifice....
Talking Facts: The New Anti-Semitism
In October 1992 Commentary printed an “observation” by David Glasner, “Hayek and the Conservatives,” which abounded in glaring disinformation. The pictures there given of the America First movement as a rallying point for anti-Semitic kooks and of the Old Right as a collection of bigoted psychopaths, pending the arrival of the neoconservatives and their Hayekian...
The Gutsy Ann Coulter
My old compatriot from law school Ann Coulter has a habit of writing columns not designed to advance her interests as a columnist. When Coulter’s friend Joe Sobran died, she wrote a column praising Joe without reservation.Ā Given the relative power of Joe’s friends and Joe’s enemies, some wondered if this was wise. Indeed, another...
Virtual Neighborhoods
āāI am half sick of shadows,ā said The Lady of Shalott.ā āWeāve turned into a nation of TV watchers, video-game players, and virtual sex addicts,ā observed the cheerful old cynic. āHow is that so different,ā asked the resentful 30-something adolescent, āfrom earlier generations that spent all their time reading poetry and fiction or going 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...
Screen: Zoology
Screen Zoology Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes; Directed by Hugh Hudson; Screenplay by P. H. Vazak and Michael Austin, based on Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Buroughs; Warner Brothers. Greystoke raises a large number of questions, most of which will not be addressed here. For example, thereās the question...
Prophesying War
As the summer before the first anniversary of the September 11 attack drew to a sweltering end, the Bush administration desperately sought some plausible reason for the war against Iraq that its chieftains so desperately wanted to wage.Ā The appeal to the āweapons of mass destructionā that Saddam Hussein supposedly harbors and which he was...
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...
One For the Road
In the summer of 1956, a junior transport minister activated a green traffic light in the middle of a field in Lancashire.Ā That was the signal for a bulldozer to flatten a hedge and start shifting soil.Ā In a suitably Monty Pythonesque twist, the bulldozer ran out of petrol a few seconds later. Such were...
Where Did Our Property Rights Go?
William Pitt the Elder, in his Speech on the Excise Bill delivered before the House of Commons, encapsulated our Founding Fathersā view of property rights when he said, āThe poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown.Ā It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may...
Assaulting the Compact
One afternoon last winter, I was trying on jackets in a department store dressing room when a woman with a child entered the compartment next to mine. The child was cranky; the woman was chatty. Choosing hope over reality, as mothers in chancy situations often do, the woman said, “Be a good boy, Jeffrey. This’ll...
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...
Does America Deserve to Be āGreat Again?ā
It will take more than an economic revival to make America great again. Weāre going to need a moral revival, too.
In Hong Kong, It’s US vs. China Now
At first glance, it would appear that five months of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong had produced a stunning triumph. By September, the proposal of city leader Carrie Lam that ignited the protestsāto allow criminal suspects to be extradited to China for trialāhad been withdrawn. And though the protesters’ demands escalated along with their tactics,...
Corruption and Contempt
Ā Ā Ā Ā “Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil.” āThomas Babington For those readers who know very much about Niccolo Machiavelli, the most striking feature of Michael Ledeen’s new book, which tries to explicate a number of...
Mercy Is Courage
The Hobbit Produced by New Line Cinema, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Wingnut Films Directed by Peter Jackson Written by Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens Distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures For this monthās column, Iāve enlisted my son Liam to write the review, since he knows far more than I do about J.R.R. Tolkien and Peter Jacksonās film...
Is Thomas Woods a Dissenter? A Further Reply, Pt. 2
Dr. Woodsā article, āCatholic Social Teaching and the Market Economy Revisited: A Reply to Thomas Storck,ā is, I must admit, superficially attractive. It appears to crush opposition under a weight of impressive learning. But, I would suggest, when his assertions are examined, Woodsā citation of authorities, like his argument in general, fails. I begin with...
Why Doesnāt GOP Congress Subpoena TPP Documents?
President Obama continues to keep secret the documents on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. Congressmen can see the documents only if they pledge not to reveal the contents. Then why doesnāt Congress just subpoena the entire contents of the documents and publish them on the website of the Library of Congress? In 2003 the Congressional...
America’s Christian Heritage
The phrase “America’s Christian Heritage” might irritate any hearers who do not want to be classed as members of the tribe that first received its name in Antioch (Acts 11:26). But wait: we recognize that one does not have to be a member of the family to be remembered in a will, nor be of...
The Lure of Rural Life
Thomas Jefferson believed that virtue was to be found in the Spartan simplicity of ancient Greece rather than in the decadent cities of Caesar’s Rome. Agriculture, Jefferson wrote, was what developed moral and political virtue. Big cities corrupted people, he thought, and neither city men of commerce and capital nor city men who labored could...
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....
Letter From England: A Time to Stand
A non-Christian friend of mine recently announced that she is thinking of getting married.Ā I would usually greet such news with joy, but, in this case, I was aware that my friend had married before.Ā As I had no reason to doubt the validity of her previously contracted ānaturalā (i.e., nonsacramental) marriage, and, as there...
America First 1941/1991
Douglas Wilder made a splash in New Hampshire last August, when he devoted a pre-campaign speech to the theme of putting America first. “We cannot focus all our energies on the international arena at the expense of America’s finances and economic health.” Denying he is an isolationist, Wilder asked, “If jobs are going to be...
The Media as Fun-House Mirror
The publication of Russ Braley’s Bad News represents a landmark moment in the history of current affairs. No longer will it be possible for some enthusiastic and devoted reader of the New York Times to argue his position without recognizing the extent to which this newspaper has systematically colored the major events of this century....
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.
The Hunt Is Up
On September 15, 2004, Tony Blair cried havoc and let slip the dogs of war.Ā They were particularly ugly dogs.Ā Ill-bred, untrained, snarling, spitting, hate-driven mongrels led the pack; half-witted lapdogs yapped along behind, their pampered noses tight up against the backends of those in frontāexcept when taken momentarily away to add a feeble, unintelligent...
Dignity
The phrase human dignity is as ubiquitous today in enlightened global discourse as human rights.Ā Indeed, the two are intimately connected, the first being regarded as a subset of the second, as in, āthe right to human dignity.āĀ But dignity in this context is used abstractly and in a universal sense, rather than concretely and...
Questions! Questions! Ever More Questions About the Way We Are Now
āYou canāt make a republic without republicans.ā āStendhal Just askingā What happens to a āservice economyā when people no longer have the money to pay for service? What happens when āprecisionā bombs and missiles are not really as precise as they are supposed to be? What happens to a country where judges make up the...
Abysmal Answers
Your Excellency: In June, I began reading The Inferno.Ā This is my first excursion into Danteland, as I like to call it.Ā (What do you think, Your Excellency?Ā Wouldnāt The Divine Comedy make a great theme park?Ā āVisit Danteland!Ā Have the hell scared out of you!Ā Get a taste of heaven!āĀ Think of the rides,...
Treason Against the New Order
I was doing my best to mind my own business on a very busy Saturday. My wife was in England, and after nearly two weeks of playing mother, I was catching up on the laundry, shopping for the dinner I would have to prepare, and, in between trips to the store, I had to take...
Liberal Culture
CBS versus Law & People A little doubt likely invades anyone who listened to a recent CBS Evening News story about the U.S. governmentās war on drugs. The networkās ālegalā correspondent, one Fred Graham, informed his audience (peopleās right to know) that the government was singling out so-called celebrities for investigation. At a certain point...
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...
Birth of a Non-Nation
In the United States, liberation from foreign domination and liberation from the past (the republican and democratic features of government) were largely the result of the American Revolution, which was spontaneous in origin, successful, moderate in its outcome, andāabove allāsupported by a considerable part of the population. This fortunate historical experience may lead many Americans...
The Legacy of 1789
One man, one vote. It seems such an obvious, such a simple principle. What can possibly hinder its implementation in South Africa, where blacks are barred from the exercise of citizenship rights, or Israel, where West Bank Palestinian children take to the streets demanding self-government and civil rights, or New York City, where the Board...
Is Trump’s Russia Policy Being Hijacked?
In crafting the platform in Cleveland on which Donald Trump would run, America Firsters inflicted a major defeat on the War Party. The platform committee rejected a plank to pull us deeper into Ukraine, by successfully opposing new U.S. arms transfers to Kiev. Improved relations with Russia were what candidate Trump had promised, and what...
Two Oinks for Democracy
In the year 2000, many conservatives, with or without holding their noses, turned out to vote for George W. Bush.Ā One of the Republicansā strongest selling points during the campaign was Governor Bushās oft-repeated declaration that his administration would not engage in nation-building experiments.Ā After eight years of President Clintonās busybodying in the Balkans, where...
Reality TV News
From pro-war to antiwar, from uncritical acceptance of government pronouncements to principled skepticism, the American mediaās perspective on the war has veered drunkenly from one extreme to another.Ā They not only trumpeted the lies put forth by the War Party but gave them credulous and even solemn attention, then turned on a dime and descried...
The Unbearable Illegitimacy of American Law
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...
Dumb and Number
Girls mature physically and socially earlier than boys, God’s way of bettering the survival odds for female children. This accelerated maturation coupled with the intrinsically feminine culture of public education, where the ideal student is a little woman, accounts for the scholastic dominance of girls in the early grades. But as puberty strikes the old...
John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark Cases Defy the Rule of Law
The rule of law is the American answer to despotism and totalitarianism. It is under attack today by the very people meant to uphold it.
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...