Despite its optimistic title, Recovering American Literature is really about the severity of illness, the magnitude of loss. In a book weighted with evidence, Peter Shaw shows literature has suffered by subverting art to politics. Substituting the dogma of political correctness for universal themes and metaphysical questions, academics since the 1960ās have been reinterpreting the...
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Truth in Poetry
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79) is considered to be among the most important American poets of the 20th century.Ā She was a U.S. Poet Laureate and won a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and the Neustadt International Prize.Ā Her collection Questions of Travel (1965) may be the best known.Ā Perhaps her literary reputation outpaces her true...
Faith in the Dock
What was once known as the WestāWestern Europe and North Americaāhas largely abandoned its Christian roots and fallen into apostasy.Ā In fact, it has succumbed to neopaganismāa practical atheism that, similar to 18th-century Deism, relegates God (if He exists) to a peripheral role in oneās life.Ā People in increasing numbers do not believe it is...
The Honeymoon is Over
The Carter, er, Clinton, honeymoon is over, so far as Fm concerned. Even before his inauguration, Bill Clinton had exhausted our patience with his reckless comments on throwing the doors open to AIDS-carrying Haitians and admitting sodomites into the military. The sociopaths of the American press were in ecstasy, now that they had the chance...
Liberating Students From the Liberators
The “liberal arts” have come to mean the arts that turn people into liberals. Anti-Christians as early as Montaigne have played on the expression as the “liberating” arts. Montaigne must have known that artes liberales, translating directly from the Greek, refers to the skills and practices that distinguish the character of the free man from...
Jinping Takes Up the U.S. Challenge
Is the U.S. up for a second Cold Warāthis time with China?Ā What makes the question newly relevant is that Xi Jinping’s China suddenly appears eager for a showdown with the United States for long-term supremacy in the Asia-Pacific and the world. With the U.S. consumed by the coronavirus pandemic that has killed 100,000 Americans and...
The Intransigent Uninvited
Today the United States takes in annually more than twice as many immigrants as all other countries in the world put together. Many Asian countries permit no immigration at all, and openly despise foreigners. The top U.S.immigrant exporter last year, Mexico (with 95,039), is also a vigorous deporter, sending back an average of 150 Central...
Liberalism as Addiction
Modern liberalism, so apt to see every social pathology as a form of mental or emotional illness, invites the application of a similar perspective on itself. Whether the issue in question has to do with teenage promiscuity, adultery, prostitution, drug and alcohol abuse, kleptomania, school shootings, child abuse, gang warfare, or corruption in government (though...
Books in Brief
Undocumented: A Dominican Boyās Odyssey From a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League, by Dan-el Padilla Peralta (New York: Penguin Books; 320 pp., $17.00). I read Dan-el Padilla Peraltaās memoir of his illegal residency in the United States last week while on vacation in Germany, another country arguing about immigration. The book answered several questions...
Lincolnās Other War of Aggression
Lincolnās war against Southern independence is just one component of the American Civil War.Ā Like a Matryoshka doll, the Civil War opens up to reveal a set of nested wars, one inside another.Ā There is Lincolnās war against international law; his war against the Congress; his war against the judiciary; his war against the Bill...
Teaching About Riots and Democracy
[The setting: a classroom on a liberal arts campus somewhere in the American northeast. A young, very enlightened professor addresses students in her course āGetting Woke, Bashing the Fash: Intro to Critical Studiesā following a screening of the 13-minute video of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot shown at the opening of the latest impeachment trial...
The Strange Case of Julian Assange
Ā Sometimes I don’t know why I bother. Ā What, after all, is the point to entering into any public discussion of controversial matters? Ā Each side of the question has made up its mind before the facts are in, and the respective champions of the issue or debate are, depending on who has washed your brain,...
Silly Chickens and Rotten Eggs
The foolishness of political debate in America has discouraged me from writing this column, but I have decided to come out of semi-retirement to ask this chicken-and-egg question: Which came first in America, the narcissistic obsession with personal trivia or the blogosphere? In other words, did Internet blogging reduce the mentality of young Americans to...
After 2022 Setback, GOP Race Is Wide Open
The 2024 Republican presidential race is wide open. After the disastrous mid-terms, a Trump resurgence is far from inevitable.
On Honest Abe
I am an unabashed loverānot a worshipper (I reserve that for Someone Else)āof Abraham Lincoln, forever grateful for what he was and what he did for our country.Ā While I donāt question the patriotism of Chroniclesā editors, I believe it is supremely ironic that you publish your magazine from the āLand of Lincoln,ā since you...
Beware Elise Stefanik’s Moneyman
Did “America First” conservatives really “win” the battle over the GOP’s congressional leadership last week? Old-guard Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney may be out of power as the House Republican Conference chair. But her replacement, New York GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik, is a swampy shape-shifter whose campaign coffers are filled with open borders, radical social liberal,...
Comment
The contemporary ideological debate on social issues sometimes resembles a squabble between two second-graders as to which has the tougher father. Common sense and principle fall victim to pride and enthusiasm. Conservative and liberal have too often become, in modern usage, handy but meaningless epithets tossed about by single-issue demagogues for their own political convenience,...
End Game
The latest, and perhaps the best, book to be written in the wake of the Great Recession raises an important question: Why is it that Americaās self-appointed elite refuses to learn from its long record of failure and futility in economic management that its ideas and policies are all wrong? The answer is provided by...
Unce Samās Harem III
I began this discussion with a promise to elucidate the question of Ms. Palin's candidacy.Ā In general, I have been pointing out that by nature, tradition, and revelation, the sexes have been assigned quite different ...
Untitled
Asked in ever more incredulous tones, the question is warm with sympathy on the lips of friends and cold as Damask steel in the mouths of enemies. “Why Palermo?” One frivolous reply is that, back in Venice, the crab season is now over; the white-sneaker hydra of package tourism is about to hot-millipede it over...
Camps & Nature Abhors
Camps Regarding Jerry Salyerās āLeftists, Creationists, and Useful Idiotsā (Correspondence, October), I will paraphrase the excellent letter from Richard Mastio (āTrump and the GOP,ā Polemics & Exchanges) that opened the issue: Are conservatives so blind, so self-serving, so cavalier, so very arrogant as to believe that by ridiculing Answers in Genesis and elevating Francis Collins...
Thoughts on Brown People
A nine-year-old boy in Phoenix earned a three-day suspension from the Abraham Lincoln Traditional School for committing a āhate crime,ā reports the Arizona Republic.Ā The boy reportedly used the phrase ābrown peopleā while arguing with another student.Ā He was then questioned by a detention-room officerāthe mother of the offended ābrown personāāwho demanded to know āwhy...
A Christmas Parable
It was beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. The stores were staying open until midnight, and the crowded malls were noisy. But all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. We had just settled down for a long winter’s nap, when there was a clatter on the roof and...
Honestly, Abe!
āA city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.ā āMatthew 5:14 How many Americans are aware that Abraham Lincoln was well known for telling dirty stories, engaged in antics (like playing with his feet) when he did not want to answer questions, and was flippant when his attention was called to Union soldiersā...
Exceptional America
Tocqueville was the first author to apply the adjective exceptional to America, but the complimentāif he meant it as a complimentāwas a backhanded one, referring narrowly to circumstances that āconcurred to fix the mind of the American upon purely practical pursuits.āĀ Certainly, he had nothing in mind comparable to the notion of āAmerican exceptionalismā that...
Who’s Wearing the White Hat?
In the heartland’s fiercest modern-day shoot-outāfarmers versus lawyers and bankersāit’s hard to tell the good guys from the bad. Charles Niska, farmer and father of eight, is serving two consecutive one-year sentences in the North Dakota State Penitentiary for illegal practice of law and jumping bail. Niska got into trouble helping his neighbor Richard Schmidt...
The Academic Blues
When I left the University of Chicago a few years ago, I felt the whole world lay ahead and that every opportunity was open to me. I decided to go on with graduate school but took some time off to work as a research associate for a think tank in Washington, DC. One problem that...
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...
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 ISIS Coming to Damascus?
Who rises if Assad falls? That question, which has bedeviled U.S. experts on the Middle East, may need updating to read: Who rises whenĀ Assad falls? For the war is going badly for Bashar Assad, whose family has ruled Syria since Richard Nixon was president. Assad’s situation seems more imperiled than at any time in this...
Conservatives and the Gay Agenda
Ā Ā Ā Ā āThe average American watches over seven hours of television daily.Ā Those hours open up a gateway into the private world of straights, through which a Trojan Horse might be passed.ā āMarshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen, āThe Overhauling of Straight Americaā (1987) If one had not already been convinced that the gay-rights...
Saints or Stockbrokers?
“As long as virtue was dominant in the republic so long was the happiness of the people secure.” āRobert E. Lee John P. Diggins raises various, often profound, questions about the moral foundations of America as a political society. Diggins is fond of calling attention to what he considers the underlying cultural tensions in American...
Speaking Truth to Power
Why is there no adversarial press in the United States? Why do the media seem so afraid of news stories that threaten to embarrass or destroy governments? These questions may seem curious in a society that prides itself on freedom of the press and where the media are often criticized for excessively negative criticism of...
Egypt: Tips for Serious Travelers
My “Letter from Egypt,” with a comprehensive analysis of the country’s political, economic and social situation is coming in a few days’ time. For starters, let me present our readers with a few practical tips on how to make the most of this incredible country without spending many thousands of dollars/euros and without being herded...
Commeration of Amiens
On August 8th, 1918, the battle of Amiens began, with stunningĀ success. It was a masterpiece of planning and execution, utterlyĀ different from the blood-soaked failures of previous attacksāwhichĀ included the Kaiserschlacht of July 1918. Amiens was a surpriseĀ attack led by some 500 tanks, with infantry following 200 yards behindĀ the creeping barrage. No artillery had opened up before...
Destroyers and Keepers
On becoming an historian long ago, I was most attracted to the period of American history from Jefferson to the great conflict of 1861-65.Ā Were I a young historian today, rather than one well over the hill, I think I would take up instead the Progressive Eraāhistoriansā convenient label for a period covering roughly the...
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...
āMultiracial Whitenessā Is the Latest Leftist Branding Iron
Fraser Myers recently asked atĀ SpikedĀ how blacks and Latinos could vote for Donald Trump and in some cases enthusiastically join demonstrations for him, given the supposedly obvious fact that that Trump is a white supremacist. According to Myers, New York University professor Cristina BeltrĆ”n answered this troubling question in theĀ Washington PostĀ in a memorable gloss on āwhitenessā:...
Hillary’s Postmodern Job Interview
Laws passed by men are funny: No matter how precisely theyāre worded, they donāt enforce themselves.Ā They need someone to do the job of enforcing them.Ā And the scope and magnitude of the laws in question donāt alter this existential reality; even the Constitution requires someone to execute its provisions. Some may recall from civics...
On Family Life
In the November 1996 issue of Chronicles, there is a review (“Heathen Days” by Gregory McNamee) of John Gillis’s book A World of Their Own Making. I do not know whether to blame the reviewer or the author, but I find many of the statements questionable. McNamee says “Gillis combs the census records to show...
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...
No Nongovernmental Publishing Houses
I recently returned from a visit to Moscow, Leningrad, and Kiev, and there is no question about there being more freedom to express ideas. But reports of change are exaggerated. There are still no nongovernmental publishing houses. Two of the more popular journals, Ogonyok and Literaturnaya Gazeta, are sold out quickly and there is a...
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...
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...
Rethinking U.S. Naval Strategy
As we enter the centuryās thirdĀ decade, an openly interventionist team will imminently take back control of Americaās foreign policy. Geopolitical instability may become acute, and a dispute over maritime rights is the most likely form of escalation. Asia-Pacific is the most likely theater. And the most important underlying factor leading to military conflict is a...
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...
A Measured But Practical Hope
If man is the measure, it cannot be right to tell him what to do.Ā We cannot be forced to be free or ordered to be equal.Ā Neither theoretical refinements nor practical compromises can resolve such basic contradictions or keep them from leading to unprincipled and irrational conduct that eventually proves self-destructive. Savor that felicitous...
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,...
The Last of the Royals
When historians survey Europeās 20th century, rarely do they question the fundamental evil of the old irrelevant monarchies and aristocratic regimes, and the obvious necessity of replacing them with progressive socialist and nationalist substitutes.Ā A strong case can in fact be made that those ancien regime states disappeared some decades too early, and that had...
Toward a Hard Right
What is the meaning of the election of 2004 for the American Hard Right?Ā The question, of course, presupposes that there is such a thing as a āHard Rightā distinct from the Mossadās Station Pentagon, or the āmoral valuesā evangelicals, or the Girly Boysā Jamboree.Ā By āHard Right,ā in this context, I mean neither what...