Posters around town said there would be a meeting about Nicaragua at the local senior center. The speaker, “Director of the Municipal Art Gallery” in a large California city, was going to show slides taken during her recent two-week tour of Nicaragua. It, of course, turned out to be a propaganda session. She had gone...
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Dirty for Dirty
“Nothing is easier than to blame the dead.” -Julius Caesar American In the 1944 movie Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Spencer Tracy, playing Col. Jimmy Doolittle, briefs his flyers before they take off to bomb their Japanese targets by telling them that they are almost certain to be killing civilians and that, if any of them...
Commendables
Holy Water for the Rich Bernard Murchland:Ā TheĀ Dream of Christian SocialĀis,; American Enterprise Institute; Washington, D.C. Christianity and socialism exert tremendous influence in our world. Not surprisingly, some people have sought to harness these powerful forces together in one unified engine of change. Today, we hear talk of a “Christian social conscience” and “liberation theology.” Bernard...
The Crux of the Matter
The Passion of the Christ Produced by Icon Productions Directed by Mel Gibson Screenplay by Benedict Fitzgerald and Mel Gibson Distributed by Newmarket Film Group I recently posted a review of Mel Gibsonās The Passion of the Christ in my In the Dark section of our website (Chronicles-Magazine.org).Ā I expressed my admiration for the film...
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...
Mexican Mosques, Brazilian Buddhists
Diana Eck has produced some of the most valuable modern work on Indian religion.Ā Her best-known book is probably Banaras (Columbia University Press, 1998), a wonderfully detailed examination of the sacred geography of the holy city that Westerners used to call āBenares.āĀ That book was so good because of Eckās ability to understand the symbolic...
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...
Inside the Defense Departmentās Anti-White Schizophrenia
The U.S. Military both needs and hates white men.
Sizing Up the Feline Uproar
We all have our perspectives.Ā In London recently, I found that many of the locals had stayed up until the early hours of a wet Monday morning to watch Super Bowl 50 on television, and judging from the T-shirts being paraded around town there seems to be a particular groundswell of support among British youth...
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...
Curiosity as a Social Force
āCurious Barbaraās got her nose in a sling,ā goes the Russian admonition against prurience, more puzzling, if anything, than the equivalent English adage concerning the killing, in similarly umbrageous circumstances, of the cat. Why should Barbara meet with such a fate? Just how did it happen that curiosity brought about the death of Fluffy? As...
The Media War Against the Serbs
In the Yugoslav conflict, misinformation has exceeded anything ever witnessed during World War II. Television coverage of the war has appealed to emotions and weakened our faculties for critical analysis, leaving them vulnerable to manipulation by opinion-makers. To win any media war today, it is of prime importance to hire a good public relations firm....
Cuba: Whatās Next?
The limited economic changes introduced by Gen. RaĆŗl Castro in Cuba following the decades-long rule of his brother, the revolutionary communist Fidel Castro, encouraged some observers to proclaim the end of communism and the dismantling of the totalitarian system in the island. Notwithstanding RaĆŗl Castroās own statements that he was not elected to restore capitalism,...
American Samizdat
John Derbyshire is among the most prominent and prolific of writers of the paleo or nationalist right.Ā I think of him as a Tory, and his writing as Swiftian.Ā Some readers of this magazine are likely regular readers of his online essays, a selection of which, all culled from the year 2013, have been reprinted...
Obamaās Pope
Mr. Neumayrās comprehensive and exhaustive work, a fine example of investigative journalism, should deeply worry Catholics, laity and clerics alike. Jorge Mario Bergoglio is the first Latin-American pope in Catholicismās centuries-long history.Ā He is also, Neumayr quips, āthe Pope they have been waiting for,ā whose messages support Marxists and Marxism, shockingly unlike the statements issued...
A Glimmer of Hope in the Holy Land
Mahmoud Abbasās convincing victory in the Palestinian presidential election on January 9 provided a piece of good news in an otherwise somber Middle Eastern landscape.Ā Often described as an old Fatah apparatchik with little charisma and popularity, Abbas managed to win 62 percent of the 775,000 votes cast in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and...
Becoming George Orwell
Ā Ā Ā Ā “The best guesser is the best prophet.” āGreek Proverb George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903 in Motihari, India, where his father worked for the Indian Civil Service as a sub-deputy opium agent in charge of manufacturing the narcotic for transport to China. His mother, the daughter of a...
On Terrorism in the West Today
Every time a bomb explodes in the West it is a boon for journalists.Ā They photograph weeping people, tell us how implacable the government will be, and, without breaking stride, warn us that more is likely to come.Ā But so far I have never come across any serious reflection on the rationale for the bombings,...
A Nation of (Proletarian) Immigrants
One of many reasons conservatives are so often at a disadvantage in political discussions is that we do not see why there should be any discussion, since we do not recognize a problem open to discussion at all. Take, for instance, assimilation.Ā If you do not believe the United States should be accepting immigrants in...
Is the Bailout Plan Breeding a Greater Crisis?
At his March 24 press conference, President Obama demonstrated that he is capable of understanding issues as presented to him by his advisers and able to pass on the explanations to the press. The question is whether Obamaās advisers understand the issues. Obamaās advisers are focused on rescuing banks and the insurance company AIG. They...
The Christian Zionist Threat to Peace
In assessing the political conditions necessary to establish a lasting peace in Israel-Palestine, Americans are confronted with a theological question: Does the Bible insist that Christians take a certain view regarding the treatment of the Jewish people in particular, their presence in the Holy Land, or the placement of the borders of Israel? One particular...
O Captain, My Captain
Captain Phillips Produced by Trigger Street Productions Directed by Paul Greengrass Screenplay by Billy Ray Distributed by Columbia PicturesĀ Captain Phillips, the film, has come under fire since its opening, as has the eponymous captain of the Danish container ship Maersk Alabama, which was hijacked by Somali pirates in 2009.Ā Complaints against Richard Phillips have...
Letter From Minneapolis Criminal Chic
The gap between Middle Americans and our cultural elite is nowhere wider than on questions of crime and punishment. While activists on the bench and in academia have crafted ever more rights and privileges for those accused and even convicted of crimes, they have given short shrift to the rights and welfare of current and...
In This Number
Like many historical questions,Ā critical reassessments of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and then Nagasaki 75 years ago have moved generally from right to left. In the 1950s and even later, whenĀ National ReviewĀ was unmistakably on the right, challenges to this decision were almost the orthodoxy of the day.Ā The first time I saw...
The New Age in Copenhagen
For centuries philosophers have grappled with the question of how society should be organized. The overarching issues involve the maintenance of order and the distribution of political power. While the answers to these knotty problems varied greatly from Plato to Burke, there was a belief that these concerns were essential lineaments in social organization. Even...
Comply or Die: Vax-Partheid in the Operating Room
For nearly 20 years, I’ve reported on America’s medical welcome mat for chronically sick illegal aliens. Under a 1986 federal law, “unauthorized immigrants” with conditions such as kidney disease and cancer cannot be denied emergency room care, regardless of their immigration status or inability to pay. Open-borders politicians insist health care is a “right” that...
Picturing a Lesbian Wedding
Americans are getting a taste of unintended consequences from overly broad public-accommodation laws enacted in the past half-century.Ā Christian business owners are especially burdened when individuals practicing what once was considered perversity are deemed āsuspect classesā and are thus entitled to heightened legal protection. A prime example is Elane Photography v. Willock.Ā Elane Photography is...
Odds and Ends, Ends at Odds
Why doesn’t President Joe Biden place illegal immigrants in college dorms? They would be around people who love them and want them here. They would get better food, housing and medical care. And they would get a firsthand look at the open-mindedness and tolerance of the young American left. Just as the welfare state changed...
Unto Them a Child Was Born
Normality is a fragile concept, and that observation is nowhere more true than in sexual matters.Ā In making that point, I am not questioning the existence of absolute moral standardsāquite the contrary.Ā Rather, I am suggesting that, once a society loses its religious moorings, it drifts into startling novelties with a haste even more vertiginous...
The Wolf Week in Review: Race to the 90’s
Another week has come and gone, and here are some highlights and cultural trends. Republicans Want to Draft Your Daughter Whether your daughter ought to be compelled to sign up for spilling her guts in a regime-change adventure that will ultimately bring to power another Islamic regime is a question that has gone mainstream.Ā And...
The Impeach-Trump Conspiracy
Pressed by Megyn Kelly on his ties to President Trump, an exasperated Vladimir Putin blurted out, “We had no relationship at all. . . . I never met him. . . . Have you all lost your senses over there?” Yes, Vlad, we have. Consider the questions that have convulsed this city since the Trump...
Race, Crime, and the Media
If five whites carjacked a black couple, tortured them for hours, then dumped the bodies, the national news media would descend upon the benighted city in which the dastardly crime occurred and, having reported the unspeakable deeds, subject the rest of us to rants on racism and harangues on hate.Ā It happened with James Byrd,...
Trail Life: A Christian Answer to the Boy Scouts
When Boy Scouts of America (BSA) announced their decision to welcome and validate openly homosexual boys six years ago, Cub Scout mom Theresa Waning saw the writing on the wall. Shortly after BSAās announcement, the church chartering her sonās troop, like many other churches across the country, revoked their BSA charter, leaving Waningās son and...
The Unpardonable Heresy of Tucker Carlson
Our diversity is our greatest strength. After playing clips of Democratic politicians reciting that truth of modern liberalism, Tucker Carlson asked, “How, precisely, is diversity our strength? Since you’ve made this our new national motto, please be specific.” Reaction to Carlson’s question, with some declaring him a racist for having raised it, suggests that what...
Frankfurt School Tories
It is a strange world in which allegedly conservative politicians will go to great lengths to demonstrate their politically correct bona fides.Ā For years, we have witnessed this tendency within the Republican Party.Ā A recent example is the new Republican Party website (www.gop.com), which one might confuse for the websites of the NAACP or La...
Ideological Ardor
Laurie A. Recht, a legal secretary in New York, received encomiums from the press and various and sundry others for endorsing the court-ordered plan for integrated housing in Yonkers last year. In fact, when Ms. Recht was the only speaker in favor of the integration proposal at an open hearing, arguing that the City Council...
Can a Pope Change Moral Truth?
That joking retort we heard as children, “Is the pope Catholic?” is starting to look like a serious question. Asked five years ago about a “gay lobby” in the Vatican, Pope Francis responded, “If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?” As judgment was thought to...
Obamaās Game
I was away in Europe when President Obama delivered his third State of the Union Address, hence a belated commentary. Obamaās carefully crafted speech sounded more like the opening shot in the reelection race than a set of serious policy proposals. His āblueprint for the future,ā which supposedly will bring about ...
Blowing for Elkhart
Hobbled as I am by residual injuryāI wear an ankle brace and limp a bitāand wheeling a large cornet/flugelhorn case, I was grateful when a man much younger than I held open a door for me as I entered the lobby for Elkhartās Lerner Theatre.Ā I was there plenty early to play a concert set,...
What Makes a Nation?
When Fernand Braudel died in 1985, The Times of London called him “the greatest of Europe’s historians.” In spite of Braudel’s great merits, many would question this accolade. Indeed, he may be assigned a place among those contemporary historians who justify, by their oeuvre, the sociological school, and who therefore have “betrayed” the historian’s true...
Of Wrath, Lies, and Heroes
Snowden Produced by Endgame EntertainmentĀ Directed by Oliver StoneĀ Screenplay by Kieran Fitzgerald and Oliver StoneĀ Distributed by Open Road Films Sully Produced by Malpaso ProductionsĀ Directed by Clint EastwoodĀ Screenplay by Todd KomarnickiĀ Distributed by Warner BrothersĀ Anyone Hillary Clinton hates usually wins my admiration by default.Ā Edward Snowden, then, should be at the...
The Bear and His Claws
“The wisdom of all these latter times, in princes’ affairs, is rather fine deliveries, and shiftings of dangers and mischiefs when they are near, than solid and grounded courses to keep them aloof.” āSir Francis Bacon No matter where the finger roams on the map, the question inevitably arises: What are the Russians trying to...
From America With Love
U.S. Commandos Are a āPersistent Presenceā on Russiaās Doorstep āThey are very concerned about their adversary next door,ā said General Raymond Thomas, the head of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), at a national security conference in Aspen, Colorado, in July.Ā āThey make no bones about it.ā The ātheyā in question were various Eastern European and...
A Fire Bell in the Night for Norway
Ā “Like a fire bell in the night,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1820, “this momentous question … awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.” Jefferson was writing of the sudden resurgence of the slavery issue in the debate on Missouri’s entry into the Union, as...
Think of the Children
It seems things donāt change much after all. Consider these recent hysterical comments. āThereās scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult,ā said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, age 30. āAnd it does lead, I think, young people to have a legitimate question: Is it OK to still have children?ā Gyrating chanteuse...
Postmortem
“We would rather run ourselves down than not speak of ourselves at all.” āLa Rochefoucauld When the reputable and talented die, it is often their fate to have their privacy examined in detail. This is a mixed blessing at best. How chilling it is to remember that Nijinski’s feet were cut open to see if...
The Villas of New Mexico
āHey, compadritoābring the mail along with you when you come inside!ā HĆ©ctor Villa shouted through the open window to JesĆŗs JuĆ”rez, his friend, who was just letting himself into the yard by the front gate where the mailbox, painted red-white-and-blue, stood on a barbershop post. HĆ©ctor āPanchoā Villa was having a pleasant Saturday morning in...
Jerks: The Individualist, Part I
The Rugged Individualist āWho is John Galt?ā I donāt know, and I couldnāt care less, but lots of disgruntled young people waste time on the internet asking this question, as pointless as it is pretentious.Ā Ā John Galt was, of course, the fictional protagonist of Ayn Randās mammoth novel,Ā Atlas Shrugged, in which he leads a work-stoppage of...
The New Environmentalism
More change has occurred in the environmental movement during the past ten years than in its entire previous history. Its thrust has become less ideological and more pragmatic, less New Age and more scientific. It is increasingly grounded in the databases of atmospheric science and the genetic models of conservation biology. The practice of conservation...
Letter from Russia (II): Gloomy Economic Picture
This yearās Moscow Economic Forum (MEF) opened on Thursday at the Lomonosov State University under the slogan A New Strategy for Russia. The panelistsāprominent academics, businessmen and senior managersāwere brutally blunt in their diagnosis of the causes of Russiaās economic woes, and especially critical of the countryās Central Bank for continuing to follow a neoliberal...