Almost 80 years ago, Julien Benda published his tirade against the intellectual corruption of his time, La Trahison des Clercs. The “scribes” in question are those who traffic in words and ideas. For generations before the 20th century, Benda wrote, members of the Western intellectual elite made sure that “humanity did evil, but honored good.”...
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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...
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 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...
The Empire: Not So Great in ā08
Iraq will continue to top the list of American foreign-policy concerns in 2008.Ā While tactical successes in Baghdad and the Anbar Province were achieved in 2007 through the U.S. forcesā marriage of convenience with various Sunni Arab tribal leaders and former Saddam loyalists who detest Al Qaeda even more than they dislike the Americans, translating...
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,...
The Media May Be Responsible for Countless COVID Deaths
Late last year I wrote how a personal bout with COVID-19 changed my perspective and gave me hope that the pandemic wasnāt as dire as many made it out to be. My perspective changed in part thanks to a private practice doctor who had great success in treating COVID. According to him, COVID, if treated...
Giving Up on the Suburbs
In the last week of February, the Pennsylvania Republican Party met to decide whether or not to censure U.S. Senator Pat Toomey for multiple offenses, chiefly for criticizing his Republican colleagues for daring to question whether Joe Biden was truly the winner of the 2020 presidential election. Toomey had declared that the āevidence is overwhelming...
Christchurch: The Sharia Enabling Act
Violent incidents, perpetrated by the opponents of a tyrannical regime, tend to enable such regimes to become openly terrorist.Ā They may have been on a brutal trajectory all along, but their enemiesā acts of desperate defiance (or plain insanity) often facilitate their transition to the level of oppression which had been desired all along. Charlotte...
Poems of the Week: Marvell
Ā Ā Andrew Marvell wrote masterpieces in several genres of verse, from satire to love poems to the most ambitious ode in the language. Ā While it is foolish to use words like “the greatest” of any one poet, the worth of this libidinous Puritan is beyond question.Ā Some of Marvell’s satires are quite amusing, particularly...
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 ...
Chained Bible
The Church of England is now a citadel of advanced liberalism.Ā It went over to secularism long ago, and its zealots intensify their hold upon doctrine and practice.Ā The charge sheet includes, but is not confined to, support for the transgender lobby, for illegal immigrants, and for pandenominational movements.Ā The Church smiles upon the āmarriageā...
Ignoring Truth(er)
I enjoy Justin Raimondoās contributions to Chronicles (and Antiwar.com), and I concur with his characterization of Alex Jones (āMy Conversation With Alex Jones,ā Between the Lines, November), especially the astute observation that Jones seems the perfect tool to discredit those who question conventional wisdom.Ā Imagine my surprise, therefore, at Mr. Raimondoās illogical ridiculing of those...
Who Speaks Now for the GOP?
Ā Last Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul rose on the Senate floor to declare a filibuster and pledge he would not sit down until either he could speak no longer or got an answer to his question about Barack Obama’s war powers. Does the president, Paul demanded to know, in the absence of an imminent threat,...
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...
William Morris in Tokyo
Mingei: Japanese Folk Art, an exhibition consisting of 115 paintings, sculptures, ceramics, furniture, lacquers, toys, and other artifacts, opened at the Brooklyn Museum on July 12 and remained on display through September 30, 1985. Most of the art of Japan is imbued with simplicity, directness, and a tremendous sense of design. Japanese work in the...
Turkeyās Oil Ties With ISIS
In his latest RT interview Srdja Trifkovic discusses Russian accusations that Turkey is buying large quantities of oil from the Islamic State, with President Erdogan and his family directly benefiting from the smuggling operation RT: We are going live to Srdja Trifkovic, Foreign Affairs Editor of Chronicles magazine. Russia has asked Turkey for open access...
Lies, Damn Lies, and Absurdities
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...
Our Judicial Dictatorship
Do the states have the right to outlaw same-sex marriage? Not long ago the question would have been seen as absurd. For every state regarded homosexual acts as crimes. Moreover, the laws prohibiting same-sex marriage had all been enacted democratically, by statewide referenda, like Proposition 8 in California, or by Congress or elected state legislatures....
A Confusing Message
George W. Bush, between Thanksgiving and Christmas last year, gave a series of speeches seeking to justify his policy in Iraq.Ā The opening shot came at the Naval Academy in Annapolis on November 30, when he outlined the new āNational Strategy for Victory in Iraqā and declared that there is no alternative to a complete...
Caesar’s Column
If anything could make the modern presidency look good, it is the modern Congress. Intended by the Framers, through a misinterpretation of the British constitution, to offer a check to the executive branch, the federal legislature has in fact evolved into merely its partner and more often its lackey. The President now openly intervenes in...
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...
White Liberals, Black Racists
On March 3, 1994, ABC-TV’s Nightline devoted its half hour to the question of deteriorating relations between blacks and Jews. As background, the program showed clips of newsreels from the civil rights era, the “halcyon days”āand yearsāof unity between Jews and blacks in the 1950’s and early 60’s. The narration then jumped to the 1980’s...
What Pat Buchanan Gets Wrong About the Contested Election
Despite Pat Buchananās record as a Trump-supporterĀ sans pareil,Ā his most recent column, on why Trumpās challenges to the Biden victory are both futile and possibly harmful, is profoundly unsettling. It is also based on questionable assumptions.Ā āIt seems a certainty that not enough electoral votes could be flipped from Biden to Trump to overturnās Joe Bidenās...
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...
Open Borders Subject Women and Girls in the U.S. to Rapes and Wanton Violence
Dangerous anti-female attitudes are invading our country because of open borders.
Dropping the Masks
The 1997 movie Wilde opens with a shot of Oscar Wilde (played by Stephen Fry) being lowered by bucket into a Colorado silver mine, where he recites his poetry and chats with shirtless, sweaty miners, who are obviously thrilled at a visit from such a renowned visitor.Ā I thought it was at least half Hollywood...
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...
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...
In Our Own Image
Reading Charlotte Allen’s study, The Human Christ: The Search for the Historical Jesus, I was reminded of King of Kings, the Technicolor treatment of the New Testament I saw with some friends when it opened in 1961. On screen, Jesus turned out to be blue-eyed, square-jawed, and indisputably Californian. This was worth a smile. But...
The Bush White House
The Bush White Houseās use of unreliable information in building its case for war with Iraq prompted continued congressional calls for a full investigation after CIA Director George Tenetās July 16 closed-door testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.Ā The intelligence chief took responsibility for a highly questionable claim about Iraqās alleged nuclear-weapons program in President...
Moral Impressionism
Vanilla Sky Produced by Cruise-Wagner Productions Directed by Cameron Crowe Screenplay by Cameron Crowe, based on Abre Los Ojos Released by Dreamworks and Paramount Pictures In Vanilla Sky, director Cameron Crowe and producer/actor Tom Cruise have created an American version of Spanish director Alejandro Amenabarās 1997 feature, Abre los Ojos (Open Your Eyes).Ā I have...
The NBC Commander-in-Chief Forum: Advantage Trump
On Wednesday night Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump spoke at the same prime-time television event for the first time. The āforumā was not a debate; the candidates appeared back-to-back, answering Matt Lauerās questions about their qualities and qualifications to be commander-in-chief. He let Clintonāwho appeared firstāspeak without disruption, but repeatedly interrupted Trump. On the other...
The Truce Is Over
Toleration in public life, the agreement to disagree peaceably, is one of the great achievements of Western man. Toleration can sometimes be found in static societies, but in dynamic societies, it is rareāsave for a few recent centuries of European civilization. The disaster of the 17th-century religious wars andāeven more, perhapsāthe discovery of the practical...
Antonin Scaliaās Flexible Constitution
Who is to decide?Ā This question animated Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, who died of natural causes in mid-February.Ā He was the longest-serving member of the current Supreme Court.Ā Nominated by Ronald Reagan in 1986, Scalia was known for his acerbic wit and fidelity to the text of the Constitution, as understood by those who ratified...
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...
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.
Brown Revolution in Ukraine: The Neo-Nazis’ Charm Offensive
The radical organization “Right Sector” is the hidden force behind the armed overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych.Ā Even the openly neo-nazi political party “Svoboda” led by the urologist-turned-aspiring fuhrer Oleh Tyahnybok seems almost respectable, compared to the militant thugs of “Right Sector”. That has not prevented such diverse media outlets as New York Times and Steve...
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,...
On Macleans’ Account
Donāt you guys ever give up?Ā Sean Scallon (āLetter From Canada: A Pocket Full of Sovereigns,ā Correspondence, November 2002) writes that, āFrom reading [the Macleans] account, you might guess that the sovereignty question in Quebec has been solved . . . that is what Canadaās establishment, from Macleans on down, would like to believe.ā What...
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...
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...
Making History
The best historical writings, whatever their subject matter, have certain characteristics in common. All display a deft mastery of primary sources, building up from a solid base of fact without allowing the data to drag them down into pedantry. They also bear on their faces both an open and honest viewpoint and objectivity. That is,...
Time Will Tell
As if he still had somewhere to get to, Neil Simon finally arrived in 1986: 25 years after his first play, Come BlowĀ Your Horn, opened on Broadway 1 or 18 plays and four musicals later. With more than a third of the decade remaining, Time magazine had the audacity to proclaim Broadway Bound “the best...
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...
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...
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...
Trumpās Doctrinal Problem
President Donald Trumpās speech to the U.N. General Assembly on September 25 was met with audible disrespect from some of the assembled globalist cognoscenti (representatives of many barbarous regimes included), and with blind hostility from the media and commentariat.Ā This was unsurprising, because the opening segment of his half-hour address sounded like the summary of...
Only in a Place Like This
In America, we can judge the significance of an event by the pre-maturity and questionable taste of the memorabilia it spawns. In mid-January 1989, three months before the Women’s International Bowling Congress (WIBC) was scheduled to descend upon Bismarck, North Dakota (pop. 45,000), the J.C. Penney store was selling T-shirts that claimed “I Survived Bowling...