Ā Ā Ā Ā “Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God.” āPsalms LXXXVII This rich and complex book is on one level the summing up of a controversy over a properly Christian, specifically Catholic, view of politics which has pitted the author, a theologian, against certain “neoconservative” thinkers, notably Richard Neuhaus, Michael...
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The Economic Impact of Immigration: Paying for the Privilege
IĀ stopped paying attention to Time many years ago.Ā My twin brother and I, already plotting our emigration to the United States, subscribed as college students in England in the 1960ās to get some sense of this world-straddling āindispensable nationāāas Clinton administration Secretary of State Madeleine Albright later called it, possibly ...
Power to the People!
The world is broken. There was a time when those words would have been considered unremarkableāa truism, even.Ā Of course the world is broken: Our first parents, Adam and Eve, broke it.Ā They did so by their sin.Ā They had everything that any man or woman could ever reasonably want: a paradise to live in,...
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...
A Brazen Plan
Shortly after midnight on May 24, the ship Pai Sheng slipped into San Francisco Bay. With at least 200 people jammed below deck, the ship docked at Fort Point, at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge. The 19th-century fort, built to guard the city against invaders and once a Coast Guard station. has long...
On Being a Pariah
In summer and autumn 2001, as Iain Duncan Smith, Michael Portillo, Kenneth Clarke, Michael Ancram, and David Davis slugged it out to see who would become the new leader of Britainās Conservative Party, colorful stories began circulating about Duncan Smith, who was widely regarded as the rightās great white hope. An ex-Army officer and the...
The Body’s Vest
Casting the bodyās vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide. āAndrew Marvell (1621-78), āThe Gardenā Browsing through the poetry section at Borders, I came upon a sole copy of a new book of poems by Fred Chappell, Shadow Box.Ā I have been an admirer of Chappellās fiction for years, especially his novel I...
THE OLD REPUBLIC
Artur Schnabel . . . once said of Beethoven’s sonatas that “this music is greater than it can ever be played.” . . . The stories of American history are better than they can ever be told. Ā Ā Ā Ā āfrom David Hackett Fischer, “Telling Stories in the New Age,” March 1997 In my...
Ceremonies in the Catacombs
The following is the text of Mr. Paz’s address at the 1987 Ingersoll Prizes Awards Banquet. It moves me to be the recipient of the T.S. Eliot Award, established by The IngersoU Foundation to honor poets and writers of different languages. The emotion I feel is only natural. Primarily because of the award itself and...
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...
Quaint Honor
Thirteen Produced by Antidote Films and Michael London Productions Directed by Catherine Hardwicke Screenplay by Catherine Hardwicke and Nikki Reed Distributed by 20th Century Fox I am writing this review in my room at Hertford College in Oxford University, where I am attending the Evelyn Waugh centennial conference.Ā Waugh studied at Hertford from 1921 to...
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...
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...
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...
Russia and China: Beyond the Axis of Convenience
On January 27 Dr. Trifkovic presented a paper on the geostrategic significance of the Russo-Chinese partnership at theĀ Dado Center for Interdisciplinary Military StudiesĀ of theĀ Israel Defense ForcesĀ in Glilot, north of Tel Aviv. We bring you his remarks in a slightly abbreviated form. Ā Almost exactly 116 years ago, in January 1904, Sir Halford Mackinder gave a...
Why Souls Fly Away
“Some parrots are legale but why cage exotic birds at all?” āChris Wille, NAS Don’t ask me, was my first thought. The last parrot I owned wasāI swearākilled 10 years ago by an ex-friend who, with Joseph Krutch, believed that hunting was the ultimate evil. He left the bird loose in a room with my...
Andrew Lytle Talks
Andrew Lytle lives in a log house on the Assembly Grounds in Monteagle, Tennessee. It is a busy area in summer, but in the wintertime most of the other houses are closed, and he has few immediate neighbors. The house is built on a cross plan and has somewhat unusually high ceilings. Most often Mr....
Grounds for Suspicion
Republican voters have every right to assume bad faith from Democrats and their vote-counters, who have unscrupulously tried to increase their partyās power while behaving unethically toward electoral opponents.
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...
Why Does Suicide Have a Bad Reputation?
Whether and when we enter this world is decided not by, but for us. Nor is it up to us to decide when to leave it. Most of us would like to stay longer than we are allowed ābut our lifespan is ordained by forces beyond our control. We are quite resigned to this; however,...
Hard Living on Easy Street
With the falling leaves and falling temperatures, hordes of newspeople looking for the hungry and homeless descended on the missions and the shelters. Now collectively called Street People, Streetniks (my term) became the “darlings of the press”; every day, in every paper, we are brought up to date about them. USA Today for example, recently...
A Monumental Proposal
I was recently perplexed to see in the news that Harvard, the oldest institution of higher learning in the nation, had declared that, though master has no etymological relation to slavery (but rather to magister), the word would nevertheless be abandoned as a title for a resident supervisor of student housing, and be replaced by...
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...
The House I Hide In
In 1945, liberal Democrat FrankĀ Sinatra recorded a song about the meaning of America, āThe House I Live In.ā It was a perfect match for the honeyed voice of the young Sinatra, one that Sinatra continued to sing as his voice matured and his politics moved rightward. I have been vaguely familiar with the song since...
Pigs Is Pigs
Politics is like the weather: No matter how blue in the face we talk ourselves, no matter how many virgins we sacrifice to Odin, our leaders do not improve, and the drought continues.Ā The fates who determine the destinies of nations are no more obedient to our words than the little gods of wind and...
Congress vs. the Second Amendment
“A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” āThe Second Amendment Like a recidivist criminal free to strike at will, the United States Congress slashed the Bill of Rights last year, tearing through the widely ignored Second...
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...
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 ...
Forty Years After
Americans have grown fond of celebrating anniversaries of one kind or another. I first noticed this new habit during the national thrombosis over the Statue of Liberty back in 1986, but more recently the habit has swollen into something like an epidemic. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, we have endured the anniversaries of...
Vol. 1 No. 11 November 1999
What was the most important story unfit to print in 1998? No, it wasn’t Kosovo: Chronicles may have been among the first to expose the Clinton administration’s many lies, crimes, and misdemeanors in the Balkans, but that particular cat is now out of the bag. There is a story still largely unknown, however, and so...
Do Sex Scandals Matter?
Trump, Boebert, Gibsonāor any candidateāmight have moral character flaws, but candidates who are personally objectionable are often politically indispensable.
Economist in the Pulpit
“Dosn’t thou ‘ear my ‘erses legs, as they canters awaay Proputty, pioputty, proputtyāthat’s what I ‘ears ’em saay.” āAlfred Tennyson George Stigler won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1982, the second member of the Chicago School to win that award in less than a decade (the other being Milton Friedman in 1976). These prizes...
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...
Dixie Peaceniks?
People donāt like it when you mess with their heritage. The Bolsheviks tried to destroy Russian nationalism, in particular massacring Russian Orthodox bishops, priests and nuns. But when Hitler invaded, not enough Russians fought for Marx, Lenin and dialectical materialism. So Stalin allowed Metropolitan Bishop Sergius to be elected patriarch, brought some of the surviving...
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...
Multiculturalism and Islam
“Some say there is an inevitable clash between Western civilization and Western values, and Islamic civilizations and values. I believe this view is terribly wrong. False prophets may use and abuse any religion to justify whatever political objectives they haveāeven cold-blooded murder. Some may have the world believe that almighty God himself, the merciful, grants...
Freudianism and Its Discontents
Freudian Fraud has an intriguing but difficult-to-prove thesis, namely that Freudian thought radically altered American society for the worse. An “audit of Freud’s American account,” says Torrey, shows more debits than credits. He believes the chief liability inherent in the Freudian system is its tendency to undermine traditional notions of responsibility. “Don’t blame me, blame...
The Pernicious Myth of āTwo Americasā
Earlier this year, Melinda Byerley, CEO of the TimeShareCMO marketing company in San Francisco, wrote a Facebook post in which she offered her fellow Americans some helpful advice for improvement: āOne thing middle america [sic] could do,ā Byerley suggested, is to realize that no educated person wants to live in a shithole with stupid people....
On Being āRight Wingā
As I write these words, just after the November 7 elections, liberal Democrats are enjoying a well-earned gloat on their victory over the right wing.Ā Just one question: What does right wing mean? Iāve puzzled over this question for years.Ā Iāve also posed it to liberals, who canāt really answer it.Ā They apply this term,...
Religion Is Always There
The varied and complex relations between religion and power can be understood only by means of extensive comparisons, between nations and across time.Ā Who better to demonstrate this than Prof. David Martin, the doyen of the comparative sociology of religion? Martinās first achievement is to refute āthe general theory of secularisation,ā which has enjoyed so...
Still Riding the Rails
The only interruption in 32 hours of driving was a five-hour respite in a no-star motel somewhere in western Nebraska. Physically exhausted and emotionally inebriated by the nearness of the destination, I marveled at the sight of a Union Pacific freight train, eastbound, in the evening’s final thrust of amber sunlight. It steadily snaked its...
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...
Is the West Disintegrating?
On Jan. 1, 2002, the day that euro coins and banknotes entered into circulation, my column, “Say Goodbye to the Mother Continent,” contained this pessimistic prognosis: “This European superstate will not endure, but break apart on the barrier reef of nationalism. For when the hard times come, patriots will recapture control of their national destinies...
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, ...
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,...
Kultur Ohne Gott
IĀ began this novel, set in Germany between the two world wars, after watching Valkyrie.Ā I found the film both shallow and grandiose, dominated by clicking heels and clashing chords; the choice of Tom Cruise to play Claus von Stauffenberg was singularly inept.Ā Cruise is a Hollywood celebrity; the personality of Stauffenbergāan aristocrat, soldier, and man...
Trumpism: The Myth, the Man, and the Mandate
Trump and the movement he started have suffered from inconsistent objectives and dubious accomplishments. It is increasingly hard to believe that his comeback campaign can succeed.
Timely, and Timeless
Reading James Schall is like talking to James Schall.Ā About a decade ago, when I knew intimately the meaning of US ARMY (āUncle Sam Aināt Released Me Yet!ā) and orders deployed me for a week downrange to Washington, D.C., and its environs, I contacted Father Schall, and we agreed to meet at the best place...
Is the American Empire Worth the Price?
“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight,” Samuel Johnson observed, “it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” And the prospect of a future where Kim Jong Un can put a nuclear weapon on a U.S. city is going to cause this nation to reassess the risks and rewards of the American Imperium....