āRepublics exist only on tenure of being agitated.ā āWendell Phillips If anything might have transformed the presidential election of 2004 from a dull ritual of mass democracy into an interesting and perhaps even meaningful act of civic decision, it would have been the presence of Patrick J. Buchanan, whose wit and sharp conservative intelligence enlivened...
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The Skeptical Mind
āSkepticism is less reprehensible in inquiring years, and no crime in juvenile exercitation.ā āJoseph Glanville In an intellectual climate characterized by conformity and wishful thinking, John Gray is among the most interesting and consequential thinkers contemporary Britain has to show.Ā From his office at the London School of Economics (where he is professor of European...
Cold Comfort
Ambling through the Museum of the History of the City of Helsinki I find myself in a small projection room where a film about the history of Helsinki during the last 70 years is shown. It is poignant and telling. There are shots from the late 1930’s of young, smiling, large-boned Finnish women in their...
The Terror of the Obvious
There is a painting on my wall that fascinates me. That is partly because it is beautiful, partly because of the story it tells. It is a large Dutch oil of 1658 by Hendrik van Vliet, better known for his church interiors, and it shows two men solemnly seated at a dark table lit only...
Conspiracy
History, wrote Voltaire, is the sound of wooden shoes running up the backstairs and of silken slippers running downāa remark that implies that the real story of high politics is never what we are able to see but always a tale hidden from public view. Since he lived in an age of despots, enlightened and...
Privatization in Serbia
In articles dealing with the 2002 presidential election in Serbia, I have made passing references to Zoran Djindjic as āSerbiaās kleptocratic prime ministerā and to his ācorrupt establishmentā that ācontrols the economy and the media more stringently than Milosevic had ever done.āĀ While such designations would be considered unremarkable by most of Serbiaās impoverished and...
The Link Line: The Art of Indoctrination
The University of Wisconsin’s main campus in Madison has relished, at least since the anti-war movement of the 1960’s, its image as one of the most radical and leftist colleges in America. In order to cement that status well into the next century, the university is now selling and nationally distributing a package of “Health-Line”...
Intellectual Operator
It is a distinct possibility that we leave to posterity writers and works from which the future curious will conclude that this century was the stupidest, most verbose and obscene, altogether the worst in the historical record. What else can you say of a century that elected Michel Foucault as one of its mĆ¢itres Ć ...
Enemies
Skyfall Produced by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer and Eon Productions Directed by Sam Mendes Written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and John Logan Distributed by Columbia Pictures Lincoln Produced by 20th Century Fox and Dreamworks Pictures Directed by Steven Spielberg Written by Tony Kushner Distributed by Touchstone Pictures No less an authority than Vatican Cityās daily newspaper,...
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...
Finding Beauty
Beauty is the battlefield where God and the devil war for the soul of man. āFyodor Dostoyevsky In the last five years, a heightened awareness of beauty and the mystery of beauty has played with my senses more than at any other time in my life, excluding, perhaps, my childhood, when the world so often...
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...
A Tale of Two Cabals
Imagine yourself at a fashionable party, a century ago, in Belgravia, the Upper East Side, or the Ballplatz.Ā After-dinner brandy is served, Augustas are lit, and the talk turns to world affairs.Ā The host asks his guests what they deem to be the issue that threatens peace and stability more than any other. A senior...
The Freemen Trial
Ever heard of the Federal Protective Service? Like the commercial saysāyou will. I was taking a photo of the federal courthouse in Billings, Montana, when the police pulled up and stopped me. They asked me for my I.D. When I looked more closely at the cop’s badge, I realized it wasn’t the Billings Police. It...
Horror in Europe
On New Yearās Eve 121 German women were subjected to sexual attacks, robbery and violence by āconcentric ringsā of a thousand Middle Eastern and African migrants in and around the central railway station in Cologne. Women and girls were surrounded, poked and jeered at as āwhoresā and even worse insults; their blouses were ripped and...
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...
Socialists and Democrats Will Rule Serbia
The political situation in Serbia is both unprecedented and unexpected. No analyst had predicted, three or four months ago, that the election on May 11 would result in such impressive gains by the Democratic Party (Demokratska ...
Dialogue of Self and Soul
Years ago, I was a different person. I looked different, thought differently, acted differently. And yet I am also the same person; there is no doubt in my mind that the “I” of, say, 10 years ago is fundamentally the same person as the one now writing this review. Evidently “I” cannot be identified neatly...
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...
The Dead Soul of Stephen Paddock
What was his motive? Why did he do it? Why did Stephen Paddock, 64, rent rooms at the Mandalay Bay hotel, sneak in an arsenal of guns, a dozen of them converted to fully automatic, and rain down death on a country music concert? “We will never know,” writes columnist Eugene Robinson. “There can be...
Report From Rome: Berlusconiās Comeback?
Ā Ah, Italian politics . . . This scene reminds me of my native Serbia: corruption, sleaze, scandals, cushy jobs for the boys, andĀ dramatis personƦĀ that changes but little from one decade to another. Thereās also the same resentment at various dictates coming from the German-dominated European Unionāof which Italy (unlike Serbia) is a member, but...
Inhuman Rights
Since the father of the French (and, by now, European) New Right, Alain de Benoist, sent me an inscribed copy of his most recent book, Au-DelĆ des Droits De LāHomme (Krisis, 2004), I read the text attentively.Ā Like him, I have wondered why natural rights (now called human rights) have become, in the words of...
Hungary: Steady as She Goesā¦
Upon his return from a week-long stay in Budapest, Srdja Trifkovic provides an assessment of Hungaryās current political scene in his weekly roundup of world affairs for Serbiaās top-rated Happy TV network. He also looks at the central European countryās role in EU politics, which occasionally may appear disproportionate to its modest size and resources....
Teaching the “Unteachable”
On the last day of the school year, I sat at my desk. My students had not yet arrived, and I was considering making a decision that would affect the rest of my life. The machinery that precipitated my dilemma had been set in motion a year earlier. Having recently earned a B.A. as an...
The Evil of Banality
“The banality of evil” is one of those vapid and misleading phrases that can churn up a tidal wave in a mud puddle. In a trivial sense, Nazi bureaucrats were banal enough, but there was a heroic dimension to the evil of Hitler and Goering, a delirious striving toward the superhuman that commands our attention,...
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...
The Left-Hand Path
Last May, the New Republic carried an informative article about how contemporary exponents of Cabala, a school of Jewish mysticism dating from the Middle Ages (if not earlier), have shaped the minds (such as they are) of such celebrities as Mick Jagger, Britney Spears, Demi Moore, and Madonna.Ā The Material Girl herself was quoted from...
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...
Remembering Casals
Talking to musicians or composers has its values, but it seldom adds much to what we know of music. Mozart’s letters to his father give you a few insights into the creative process, but Beethoven’s are merely a peep into his psyche. Of all the composers who have written about their work and that of...
Serbia Humiliated
Ā On October 5, 2000, in an almost bloodless coup by the security forces staged against the backdrop of massive street protests, Slobodan Milosevic was removed from power in Serbia. Ten years later, many of those who cheered his downfall then (this author included) have nothing to celebrate. In the run-up to āPeti oktobarā they...
Of Innovators and Men
The forces of innovation, guided by the power elite, are directed against traditional societies and the objective moral order.
Exporting Political Correctness
During the early days of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the White House frequently trotted out Laura Bush to laud our soldiersā heroic efforts to āliberateā women.Ā These were not wars of aggression or conquest.Ā They were wars for āeducation,ā the former schoolteacher averred: āThe United States government is wholeheartedly committed to the full...
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...
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....
Those Deadly, Depressing, Syncopated Semiautomatic Assault Rifle Blues
An Exercise in Calculated Hysteria The semiautomatic rifle has been part of the American scene for nearly a century. In 1903 the Winchester Repeating Arms Company marketed the first commercially successful semiautomatic rifle. It was not designed as a military arm, and no sales were made to the US Army. The new rifle was marketed...
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 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...
Advice From an Old Coot
My dear Hobson, Given your exasperated response to my advice on making big bucks in the Land of O (āSurviving the Budget Crisis,ā Correspondence, March), I conclude that your university taught you to appreciate the literary tools of sarcasm, sardonic humor, hyperbole, and irony.Ā Points to you, nephew: You have acquired a carpenterās box with...
In Praise of Sex and Violence
All the best authorities agree: there is too much sex and violence in America. Social critics say that pop culture is reinforcing a cult of violence, which they trace back to the savage days of the American frontier; preachers launch jeremiads at the explicit eroticism of MTV, and Planned Parenthood pretends to have the jumps...
What Neocons Do on Their Summer Vacations
It is not today exactly a secret of state that neoconservatism has become the dominant expression of what passes for the American ārightāāand that its victory is also the reason why it is necessary for more serious conservatives to use the qualifying phrase āwhat passes forā when referring to the American right and to place...
The Fear of Crisis
In the November 1986 Encounter, the Princeton University economist Harold James sets out to tell us “Why We Should Learn to Love a Crisis.” His explanation is not quite what we would expect from a champion of a market economy. In that economy, he says, crises serve a necessary function; states should not try to...
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....
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...
A Ukrainian Tragedy
Having designated a traditionalist, conservative, overwhelmingly Christian Orthodox Russia as the enemy, the rulers of an Orwellian "Great Reset" West will be free to cancel conservatives of all stripes even more radically than before.
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...
Waste of Money
More Equal Than Thou Judith A. Baer: Equality Under the Constitution: ReclaimĀing the Fourteenth Amendment; Cornell University Press; Ithaca, NY. Ā Among the amendments to the Constitution, none were ever more morally justified nor more desperately needed than the three which abolished slavĀery and gave blacks the rights of citizenship and of equal protecĀtion under...
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...
Intransigent Diplomacy
There is a disturbing pattern over the decades in Washingtonās negotiations with countries deemed to be adversaries.Ā It is a tendency to adopt a rigid stance marked by unrealistic demands that make achieving a settlement virtually impossible.Ā Often, harsh economic sanctions against the target country reinforce the provocative diplomatic posture. Most recently, that conduct has...
A Snow Job on Rodeo Drive
Bridge of Spies Produced by DreamWorks SKGĀ Directed by Steven SpielbergĀ Screenplay by Matt Charman,Ā Ethan Coen, and Joel CoenĀ Distributed by Touchstone PicturesĀ Steven Spielbergās new movie Bridge of Spies recounts the Cold War spy swap America made with the Soviet Union in 1962.Ā We gave the Russkies atom spy Col. Rudolf Abel (Mark...
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...