“Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.” āShaw In a recent issue of The Nation, John L. Hess complains about the current flow of books demythologizing the venerated martyrs of the American left. So what if new historical research suggests that the Rosenbergs (or at least one of them) were actually guilty? So what...
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Another Life of C.S. Lewis
In 1949 Chad Walsh, at that time an obscure poet and literary critic at Beloit College in Wisconsin, published the first book on C.S. Lewis. Entitled C.S. Lewis: Apostle to the Sceptics, this long out-of-print volume is still one of the best books written on the subject. In the forty years since Walsh established himself...
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...
Polemics & Exchanges: February 2024
Chronicles readers discuss Taki's controversial December column on Palestinian misery, also, some praise for Stephen Presser's recent review, "Scalia Gets the Biography He Deserves."
When the Cure Is the Poison
John Agresto is full of ideas about what needs to be done to fix the broken liberal arts tradition. Unfortunately, his proposed plan wonāt workāthey're too liberal.
Mutiny In Paradise
In December 1787 His Majesty’s armed transport Bounty crept out of Portsmouth harbor on a clandestine mission, heading for the vast and largely uncharted South Pacific. Tahiti, a tiny pinpoint of land in the Polynesian Islands, was the goal. In October 1788, the Bounty dropped anchor in Tahiti’s spectacular Matavai Bay. In April 1789, she...
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...
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...
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...
Islam’s Conquest of Europe
“Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide,” wrote James Burnham in his 1964 Suicide of the West. Burnham predicted that the mindless magnanimity of liberals, who subordinate the interests of their own people and nations to utopian and altruistic impulses, would bring about an end to Western civilization. Was he wrong? Consider what is happening...
What āBlackā Really Means to the Left
Kamala Harrisās ancestry matters less to the left in defining her than does Harrisās consistently woke politics which, for them, is part and parcel of black identity.
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...
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...
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...
The Teaching of Humanities and Other Trivia
“Humanities” is Western society’s name for the academic expression of its fundamental values. There are other branches of learningāmedicine, law, engineering, and business, all of which benefit from the humanitiesābut only the “liberal arts” reflect a society’s soul, central beliefs, highest aspirations, and ultimately its culture. Yet during the last half-century America has witnessed the...
Bush Republicanism Is Dead and Gone
“The two living Republican past presidents, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, have no plans to endorse Trump, according to their spokesmen.” So said the lead story in the Washington Post. Graceless, yes, but not unexpected. The Bushes have many fine qualities. Losing well, however, is not one of them. And they have...
The Plains States and America’s Future
The halls and vast columned spaces of the St. Scholastica convent in Atchison, Kansas, are dark and empty now. The sisters who filled these buildings with busy religious life for several generations are dead or departed into the secular world with the virtual demise of convent life as a result of Vatican II. I talk...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Finland, Democracy, and Those Cartoons
The Danish newspaper Jyllands Postenās publication of the satirical cartoons depicting Muhammad prompted a crisis that touched the whole of Scandinavia.Ā The drawings were greeted with outrage and violence from Muslims and their liberal defenders throughout the world.Ā Danish flags were burned in Arab cities; Danish embassies were firebombed in Syria and attacked in London;...
Transnational Injustice
The International Criminal Court is a political court, no less than the one which convicted Donald Trump in New York.
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...
Machine Politics
From the December 1993 issue of Chronicles. “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...
It Can’t Happen Here!
Ā Friday, thousands in Moscow, giving Nazi salutes and carrying placards declaring, “Russia for the Russians!” marched through the city shouting racial slurs against peoples from the Caucasus. In Nigeria, Boko Haram, which is Hausa for “Western education is sacrilege,” massacred 63 people in a terror campaign to bring about sharia law. Seven churches were...
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...
Would War With Iran Doom Trump?
A war with Iran would define, consume and potentially destroy the Trump presidency, but exhilarate the neocon never-Trumpers who most despise the man. Why, then, is President Donald Trump toying with such an idea? Looking back at Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen, wars we began or plunged into, what was gained to justify the...
Back to the Stone Age II E
Ā What is the alternative to respect for responsible authority?Ā If we assume that all foods, recreations, forms of music, and manners of life are equal, then Liberals are right to demand social, political, and tax neutrality on traditional sauerkraut and on every other issue that might involve government control, including same-sex marriage, abortion, and...
I Love to Tell the Story
My old teacher, the classicist (and Scots Nationalist) Douglas Young, once interrupted a boring conversation about television by declaring loudly, “Speaking of Aeschylus . . . ” When one of his naive colleagues insisted, “But Douglas, no one was speaking about Aeschylus,” Young responded, “Yes, but I want to be speaking of Aeschylus.” This month,...
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...
In Contention
3:10 to Yuma Produced by Tree Line Films Directed by James Mangold Screenplay by Michael Brandt and Halsted Welles Distributed by Lionsgate The Nanny Diaries Produced and distributed by The Weinstein Company Directed and written by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini 3:10 to Yuma began as a 15-page Elmore Leonard short story, as bare...
Letter From Texas: Gott Mit Uns
As modern imperialism grows, even the regions within those countries under its rule become homogenized.Ā Within the subnational regions, smaller ethnic enclaves, with their diverse cultures, tend to take one of two paths.Ā They become tourist traps where the natives are totally ignorant of their own histories, differences, and contributions to the larger groups, until,...
UVA: Facts Versus the Leftās Narrative
For a news professional, it is hard to say which is more discouraging: that Rolling Stone published an imaginary tale of gang rape from a crazy college girl without double-checking her story, or that no one at Rolling Stone was fired after the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism issued a report that revealed top-to-bottom...
The NPR-Listening āElite 1%ā
The publicly subsidized programming of National Public Radio draws a mostly white, high-income earning audience with degrees from elite institutions. It should be no surprise this group trusts government to uphold its interests, given they have the same interests.
Witness Un-Protection Program
Abdul Kahnās face had remained entirely expressionless throughout the forty-five minutes required to get the wireless router that connected the three computers in the house back up and running, yet HĆ©ctor felt as certain that he had been recognized by the other man as he was in making his own identification. Heād experienced an excruciating...
Alien Worlds
She was a handsome woman, Raylene Thomason, not what you’d call beautiful, but with Cherokee blood that gave her a broad pleasant face with a clean jawline and steady dark eyes. She took her looks so much for granted that it seemed she paid no attention, and maybe she didn’t. Her appearance was useful for...
Key Proposals
President Bush announced in September that he would partially support key proposals for intelligence reform made by the September 11 Commission, which, in its final report, recommended a sweeping restructuring of the U.S. intelligence apparatus.Ā The commission called for the appointment of a National Intelligence Director (NID) who would have full authority over the personnel...
Obama Versus the Supreme Court
The Supreme Courtās power has become virtually unchecked: Amending the Constitution to reverse an erroneous Supreme Court decision is nearly impossible, and Congress has proved too timid to use the other weapons the Constitution provides to check the Court, including its power to restrict the jurisdiction of the federal courts.Ā As a result, the Supreme...
Tucker Carlson and the Struggle for Civilizational Sanity
Tucker Carlson, please come back soon.
Allied Crimes Against Humanity
The book cannot be closed on World War II until the American and British people know the full story of the crimes their governments committed against anticommunist Russians, Yugoslavs, and others who desperately wanted to avoid Soviet terror and who, nevertheless, were turned over to Stalin’s killer squadsāall in violation of American and British traditions...
A Brilliant, Fading Bliss
Trekking north along the closest major artery, Canada-bound travelers are treated to a small hotel with a decorative windmill, several car dealerships, and a shopping center with a McDonaldās, a Blockbuster, and a Subwayāall common manifestations of the Pax Americana.Ā Then, however, they reach a graveyard. Bisected by Front Street, the bricked-in cemetery with decorative...
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...
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...
The I-Word
Your Excellency: This past May, I attended commencement ceremonies at Christendom College, where James, the oldest son of my oldest friend, was graduating with a degree in philosophy.Ā Some of our fellow countrymen would declare such a degree about as useful as the dresses once modeled by Twiggy.Ā (Do you remember Twiggy, Bishop?Ā She was...
Hanging Rudy Out to Dry
Back in 1987, this writer was invited by friends to advise them on a press conference they had called to oppose President Reagan’s signing of an INF treaty to remove all nuclear missiles from Europe. My advice: Deplore the treaty; do not attack the president. The next day, Howard Phillips declared that Ronald Reagan had...
The Avenging Deity as a Rational Projection of the Wounded Ego
Ā Ā Ā Ā “So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant’s plea, excus’d his devilish deeds.” āMilton, Paradise Lost The locus classicus of all informed discussion on the subject of the political essence of totalitarianism is the following passage from Plato’s Republic: If you are caught committing any of these crimes on a...
John F. Kennedy: Character and Camelot
John F. Kennedy first gained national attention at the age of 23. His book Why England Slept, published in 1940, became a best-seller and earned the new Harvard graduate plaudits as a man of learning and thoughtfulness. Kennedy was heard from again in the summer of 1944 when the New York Times carried a front-page...
Murder in the Wasteland
The mystery novel, to borrow a line from Original Sin, has all the virtues of its defects. “The mystery,” Baroness James explained in a recent Washington Post interview, “deals with the planned murder” and is thus confined to a certain formulaic structure in which a detective protagonist confronts an often unsavory lot of suspects, all...