You can almost always rely on conservative politicians to surrender their principles, even before the first shot is fired.Ā Within a month of President Obamaās second inauguration, Republicans were already selling out on the marriage issue.Ā When the GOP leadership contrived the Defense of Marriage Act (1996), I said at the time that in making...
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Trollopes in the Stacks
Nineteen ninety-two, if not quite an annus mirabilis, was a year “crowded with incident,” as Lady Bracknell would say. The repercussions of Gorbachev’s fall, the hot war in Bosnia that took the self-congratulatory edge out of the end of the Cold War, and the rise to power of Flem Snopes’ grandson illuminated American television sets...
Nil and Void: Beckett’s Last Gasp
During the ongoing, international celebration of Samuel Beckett’s 80th birthday, which commenced last spring, much is being said, written, and done to reiterate unequivocally his position as the preeminent playwright of our century. There is no debate, really, so much as an affirmation and an exploration of his unquestioned significance. The irony, of course, is...
A Question of Power
Movies come and movies go, but probably never in the history of American film has more controversy greeted any movie than that which met Mel Gibsonās The Passion of the Christ before and after its debut on Ash Wednesday.Ā We all know what the controversy was about.Ā It had nothing to do with the qualities...
Telling Stories in the New Age
Thank you for this honor, and for this very handsome prize. It means all the more because I am privileged to share it with Richard Wilbur. [Editor’s note: Richard Wilbur was the 1996 recipient of The Ingersoll Foundation’s T.S. Eliot Award for Creative Writing.] I have long admired the art and craft and wisdom of...
The Koch Billionaires Jump Into the Critical Race Theory Debate
The billionaire Koch familyālong a funder of conservative political causes and favorite whipping boy of the leftārecently announcedĀ its opposition to government bans on teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools, a fact which does not sit well with many on the right. In light of this recent announcement, we present a continuation ofĀ a debate on...
Noncompliance
Noncompliance with the 1990 census was massive: the Wall Street Journal reported on May 21 that only 75 percent of the forms had been filled out and sent in, “down from 90 percent a decade ago.” That’s good. Passive resistance against such intrusions is the least we should expect of ourselves as citizens. Thirty years...
Breast-Beating and Myth-Exploding
The wavering course of United States foreign policy and our fumbling initiatives in the world’s trouble spots have turned a brighter spotlight upon governmental decision-making in this vital area. Our performances in Iran, Lebanon, and Nicaragua have raised questions about the capacity of our open government to deal with these recurring problems. And neither our...
Boethius and Lady Philosophy
As founder of the intellectual tradition of the West, Saint Augustine has one peer: Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, a Roman of noble antecedents who spent his life in the service first of literature, then of the Gothic kingdom of Theodoric, and always, throughout a life that compassed literary success, high office, and political disgrace, of...
Revolution
Times of crisis are not distinguished by respect for rightsāalthough, paradoxically, all revolutions claim to be mounted in the name of rights. During our War of Independence, criticism of the patriot cause was an invitation to a lynching, and Jefferson defined the Tory as “a traitor in thought, if not in deed.” In 1773 George...
Sociology of the Gods
āThe eternal gods do not lightly change their minds.ā āHomer, Odyssey Rodney Stark is considered by many to be the greatest living sociologist of religion.Ā Generations of English-speaking students have used his textbook Sociology, now in its eighth edition.Ā Stark was one of the founders of the theory of religious economy, which replaced the earlier...
The Southern Tradition and the Black Experience
I am, to say the least, honored to receive your Richard Weaver Award and to be invited to share some thoughts with you tonight. Richard Weaver observed, in Ideas Have Consequences: “There is ground for declaring that modern man has become a moral idiot. . . . For four centuries every man has been not...
Independent Media Tribes
Last year, when the Washington Postās Michael Kelly was killed in Iraq, an anonymous contributor to the leftist web network Indymedia announced the sad news with the tasteless headline āWP Nazi columnist bites the Iraqi dust.āĀ Word spread quickly, especially after Glenn Reynolds, the hawkish proprietor of the widely read InstaPundit.com, declared that āthe Indymedia...
Plato’s Euthyphro: Introduction
Ā It has been a while since I posted a Booklog entry. Ā It is not for lack of reading, on my part, but most of my reading has been either rather technical–Sicilian history, Pre-Socratic philosophy, the history of marriage–or too light to merit discussion. Ā In preparing for our own Sicilian Expedition, though, I reread Plato’s...
The Prairie Populist Historian
William Appleman Williams (1921-1990) was dean of the New Left School of American diplomatic history. As one of the most influential American historians in the ā60s and ā70s, he gained a national audience for his anti-war, anti-globalist, and anti-imperial views. Odd as it might seem, it would be more likely these days that Patrick Buchanan...
Ghosts in the Graveyard
The bus from Budapest to Belgrade is full, and I am lucky to get a seat. We are a cosmopolitan lot. In addition to the two Americans (I am traveling with Bill Mills, or “Brat [brother] Bill” as he will come to be known), there are two Norwegian businessmen sitting across the aisle reading the...
Why Kimberly Cheatle Had to Resign
Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle committed the only inexcusable sin in Washington today: She inadvertently helped Trump.
A Pocket Full of Sovereigns
Downtown Montreal was full of revelers last March 10.Ā Despite subzero temperatures, they hit the streets, some wearing little more than a smile.Ā But each had a maple leaf somewhere, on a flag, a piece of clothing, a sign, or even in place of the proverbial fig leaf. Such was the scene described by Macleans...
The Reentry of Nature Ecological Restoration
Not long ago I participated in a delightful and in some ways unusual nature outing at a place called Poplar Creek, one of the forest preserves that make up an extensive system of green spaces in Chicago and its suburbs. For three or four hours some fifty of us cut and piled brush, planted seeds,...
Counting People and People Who Count
My curriculum vitae still includes a paragraph describing my activities as an āeducational consultant,ā though it has been some years since I went to Washington to read grants or evaluate schools for the Department of Education. It was all time wasted, less profitable ...
Who Is Henry Galt? Ayn Rand and Plagiarism
Can it be that a fraud has been perpetrated on the readers and admirers of novelist-philosopher Ayn Randāa literary and intellectual swindle that veers perilously close to plagiarism? That such a charge could be leveled at the author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged is irony bordering on farce. For the spirit that animated the...
History and Nature
Thanks for your response.Ā I enjoyed it immensely, and I believe you will understand that this is debate as it should be, not the invective that often substitutes for intellectual vibrancy these sad days. One of the pitfalls of this point in history is that everything ends up reduced to discussions of āslavery.āĀ One single...
Hating Babies, Hating God
When I sat down to write this article, Google reminded me that, when it comes to the issue of contraception, the stakes are very high.Ā To check the date of publication of Dr. Charles Provanās important work The Bible and Birth Control, I typed āCharles, Provan, Bible, Birth Controlā into the mother of all search...
Who Needs the Historical Jesus?
“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.” āHebrews 13:8 I have never heard of a book about “the historical Moses,” and while philosophers study the thought of Sophocles and Plato, few bother to tell us what the historical Sophocles really said, as distinct from what Plato says he said. Muslims know the historical Mohammed...
Cowboy Capitalism Lessons From the Asian Meltdown
As the Asian financial and currency crisis spun out of control, the world glimpsed the dark side of the new international economic order. It is highly efficientālinking global markets for goods and moneyābut dangerously unstable and asymmetrical. For speculators, traders, bankers, and tycoons, there are unlimited opportunities to make money in the global economy. They...
Neonatal Circumcision: Preventive Medicine or Mutilation?
During most of human history, religious explanations and rituals imparted meaning to people’s lives and justified controlling their conduct. Today, medical explanations and rituals often perform those functions. For example, masturbation and homosexuality were first forbidden on religious grounds, then on medical grounds. Being a male infant is, of course, not behavior. Accordingly, routine neonatal...
The Hijacking of Nationalist Conservativism
The 2016 election planted a nationalistic, populist battle standard reminiscent of the one that the pitchfork-wielding legions of the Old Right had once marched beneath. Now it appears at risk of being diluted and neutralized, as populist right-wing movements have been in the past. Consider the fate of Michelle Malkin. Malkin, a conservative columnist and...
The Real American Dilemma
This remarkable editorial by Chroniclesā longest-serving editor offered one of the first and best analyses of Americaās immigration problem.
The Future of Kosovo
The fate of Kosovo, Serbia’s troubled province, has in recent years received a good deal of attention in the world press, usually in connection with the actions of Serbia’s president, Slobodan MiloÅ”evic. A somewhat obscure communist until he became head of the Serbian Communist Party in 1986, MiloÅ”evic went to Kosovo in April 1987 to...
Forbidden Questions?
24 Key Issues That Neither the Washington Elite Nor the Media Consider Worth Their Bother Donald Trump’s election has elicited impassioned affirmations of a renewed commitment to unvarnished truth-telling from the prestige media.Ā The common theme:Ā you know you canāt trust him, but trust us to keep dogging him on your behalf. The New York Times...
Tragedy, Comedy, and Modern Times
This essay grew out of a request that I conduct a reprise of “The Bull’s Eye of Disaster,” my wrap-up conclusions on the Vietnam War that appeared in the August 1989 Chronicles, in light of what’s happened in the post-Cold War world since that essay appeared. I was thus thrust onto the stage of modern...
The Patsy
In general I am not a fan of conspiracy theories.Ā A good historian learns that, in regard to controversial events, the simplest explanation is the one most likely to be accurate.Ā I long ago took to heart Napoleonās maxim that you should not blame on hidden machinations what can be more readily explained by incompetence....
IRAQ: THE SCORE
In an essential article published on June 16, one of the key architects of the Iraq war, former ambassador John Bolton, argued that āUS focus must be on Iran as Iraq falls apart.ā He is unapologetic about the war itself, saying that āinevitably, analysts are rearguing George W. Bushās decision to overthrow Saddam Hussein, Barack...
A House Without Doors
For decades now CBS, ABC, and NBC have pretended on election night to be in hot competition to project the “winner” and “loser.” We know the act well: Dan, Peter, or Tom comes on the air and solemnly intones, “We can now project that President X is the winner in Florida.” As a viewer, I...
Christianity and Slavery in the Old South
Ā Ā Ā Ā “Slavery is as ancient as war, and war as human nature.” āVoltaire Americans, with their strong tendency to externalize the evil within them and to project it onto others, have been waging crusades to extirpate or crush one kind of evil or another for almost 200 years now. The Pelagian belief...
No-Fault Citizenship
The United States has bestowed upon 3.1 million persons the new designation of “lawful” in place of “illegal aliens,” which is what they were called when they arrived in our midst. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 attempts to right our mutual difficulty by putting these immigrants in line to become permanent resident...
A Geography of Snow: A Story
My father has to go out in a storm.Ā An eight-hour shift at the gasworks, then two or three hours tomorrow morning, All Soulās Day morning, in a bar where āHappy Hourā starts at 7:30 A.M. and ends at noon, and heāll walk home through the snow stinking of beer and CH4, the chemical composition...
Darwinian Liberalism
A brief article in The Spectator (May 19) by Fredrik Erixon speculates that President Emmanuel Macron of France, generally considered a liberal centrist Ć©narque, seems to be reconsidering his position following the anniversary of his first year in office.Ā Faced with the continuing rise of the right in Europe, the rebellion of Chancellor Merkelās conservatives...
Globalists & Nationalists: Who Owns the Future?
Robert Bartley, the late editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal, was a free trade zealot who for decades championed a five-word amendment to the Constitution: “There shall be open borders.” Bartley accepted what the erasure of America’s borders and an endless influx or foreign peoples and goods would mean for his country. Said...
Athens and Jerusalem V: The Germanization of Christianity
Some Tedious but Necessary Preliminaries The title of James C. Russell's The Germanization of Medieval Christianity: A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation does not sound like the opening shot in a war against Christianity. Ā However, ever since Sam Francis' apparently glowing review, conservative neopagans, atheists, and Nordicists have trumpeted the book ...
Ending āDonāt Ask, Donāt Tellā
If you want to know why it isnāt a bright idea to permit homosexuals to serve openly in the military, consider the subject of āsnorkeling.ā That, according to The Atlantic, was one of Rep. Eric Massaās occupation specialties as a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy. You might have heard of Mr. Massa. He quit...
A Conservative Case for Open Borders?
As I write this, the federal government remains “shut down” because congressional Democrats have committed themselves en masse to open borders. The Democrats know that they can secure congressional approval of President Obama’s unilateral DACA amnesty if they give President Trump funding for a wall on our southern border. But the Democrats are unwilling to...
The State Versus the American Culture
Prominent figures on the intellectual andĀ political right are increasingly questioning the superiority of markets over government. In the cultural realm, that argument has a long history, with traditionalists arguing that market forces undermine morality and cause an ever-increasing vulgarization of culture and society. Libertarians agree that this is true but celebrate the outcomes, or at...
Pietas and the Southern Agrarians
Pietasāthe ancient virtue of respect for family, country, and Godāis becoming increasingly difficult to practice in a nation driven half mad by guilt. Our nation’s past, once uncritically revered, is now uncritically condemned. Families are regarded as breeding pens of bigotry. And God is forever sticking His nose into areas where He does not belong,...
Ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
If you want to know why it isnāt a bright idea to permit homosexuals to serve openly in the military, consider the subject of āsnorkeling.ā That, according to The Atlantic, was one of Rep. Eric Massaās occupation specialties as a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy.Ā You might have heard of Mr. Massa.Ā He quit...
The Times Rides to Mueller’s Rescue
What caused the FBI to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign in July 2016, which evolved into the criminal investigation that is said today to imperil the Trump presidency? As James Comey’s FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller have, for 18 months, failed to prove Donald Trump’s “collusion” with the Kremlin, what was...
Ignorance Is Bliss
The question of whether the media has a liberal bias is, on the face of it, absurd.Ā No one who reads newspapersāfewer people with every passing dayāor watches the major networksāthose numbers are plunging alsoāis not fully aware that the liberal slant in the news is alive and thriving.Ā Nevertheless, Bernard Goldbergās Bias and William...
Sex, Propaganda, and Higher Education
Over the past few years, college administrators and faculty committees have been tackling a relatively new ethical question raised on campuses across the nation: What about sex between faculty members and students?Ā Older professors can remember when the answer to that question would have been obvious.Ā Some can even recall a time when the question...
Our Demographic Destiny
If dispassion is the tone best suited for writing about contentious ethnic and demographic issues, this lucid survey of the numbers question across much of the Northern Hemisphere deserves every plaudit. With palpable restraint and sometimes maddening equivocation, demographer Michael Teitelbaum and historian Jay Winter survey the intertwined issues of birth rates, immigration, and other...
Pietas and the Southern Agrarians
From the December 2000 issue of Chronicles. Pietasāthe ancient virtue of respect for family, country, and Godāis becoming increasingly difficult to practice in a nation driven half mad by guilt. Our nation’s past, once uncritically revered, is now uncritically condemned. Families are regarded as breeding pens of bigotry. And God is forever sticking His nose...