This volume of short stories seems to me to represent, as a book, two distinct levels of meaning. The first and most insistent of these levels is of course as a diverse gathering of brilliant fictions, each one a self-justifying experience. The variety of voices and subjects is itself refreshing and rewarding; the high standard...
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Bondage Boy Goes to School
In a state where the rock ‘n’ roll hit “Louie, Louie” was banned from the airwaves after the governor deemed it subversive, Indiana University (IU) is no stranger to controversy. One of its most famous professors was Alfred Kinsey, whose work is continued by such scholars as Leon Pettiway, author of the recent university press...
The Hole in the Heart
Morphine puts you to sleep, explains a pompous savant in Moliere, because it is a soporific.Ā By this tautology is the great dead void at the core of Western civilization exposed, finally and, I dare say, mercilessly.Ā What vitality, what resistivity, what transcendent stubbornness our spiritual truth once possessed (āEven if it were proven me...
Journalists and Other Anthropoids
It is over 60 years since the Scopes Trial attracted journalists like Henry Mencken and Joseph Wood Krutch to Dayton, Tennessee, and yet the teaching of evolution is once again as controversial asāit was in 1925. Most of the debate is carried out between militant fundamentalists and equally militant materialists. While most of the fundamentalists...
The Perpetual Family
āAnd Adam called his wifeās name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.ā āGenesis 3:20 The first time I ever visited Saint Peterās Basilica in the Vatican, it was in the company of a pretty Irish-American girl from Massachusetts named Evelyn.Ā Her father was some kind of Democratic politician back home.Ā She and...
Bad For Your Health
Cigarette smoking is bad for your health. But so are automobiles, candy bars, fast food, martinis, television, and even sunshine. Since the days of James V and I, we have heard about the dangers of tobacco. So why all the fuss surrounding the cigarette industry this spring? Even more absurd than Representative Henry A. Waxman’s...
The Civil War of the Right
The conservative movement is starting to look a lot like Syria. Baited, taunted, mocked by Fox News, Donald Trump told Roger Ailes what he could do with his Iowa debate, and marched off to host a Thursday night rally for veterans at the same time in Des Moines. Message: I speak for the silent majority,...
Remember the Nazarenes: An Interview With Bishop Warduni
According to the latest available figures, no fewer than two million Iraqis, many of them Christians, have been chased out of their homes by the militiamen of the Islamic State, and now their tragic plight may fall into oblivion amid the indifference of international public opinion, especially in the West. But there are men who...
A Disillusioned World
Democracy has meant so many things over the past 2,500 years that it is really impossible to make any comprehensive statement about it that applies to all of its usages.Ā The historical record shows that what people called democratic government and democratic society existed for millennia before the birth of the Industrial Revolution in the...
Cultural Marxism Is Marxist
A shadow haunts the world. Over the last 75 years it has spread its errors over everything: art, education, music, architecture, manners, morals, and thought itself. What is this colossal Harpy? Cultural Marxism. Commonly known as political correctness or multiculturalism, cultural Marxism is an ideology that serves as a religion among Americaās elites. You cannot...
Chicken Little Is a Christian
“Good News.” -Title of a novel by Edward Abbey about the collapse of civilization in the American Southwest The chief victim to date in the so called Culture War is neither George Bush nor the Republican Party but “the Environment,” or what Christians used to call Creation. In the more than two decades since environmentalism...
The Soros Left Guns for ALEC
Vote for Chicagoland politics, get Chicagoland politics. Inspired by President Obamaās slash-and-burn tactics on his opponents, Democrats, radical labor, and left-liberal activists have begun full Saul Alinsky-Bill Ayres-style assaults on conservative and libertarian groups.Ā Media Matters for America is the barking brigade leading the charge.Ā A battalion in the war is another website called Color...
A āWokeā Crusader at Germanyās Helm
Angela Merkelās unprecedented 16 years in power came to an end on Dec. 8 when Olaf Scholz was sworn inĀ as the new German chancellor, symbolically breaking with tradition by omitting āso help me Godā from the oath. Scholz steered his Social Democratic Party (SPD) to the dominant position in last Septemberās general election by presenting...
American Naifs Bringing Ruin to Other Lands
According to news reports, the U.S. military is shipping ābunker-busterā bombs to the U.S. Air Force base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. The Herald Scotland reports that experts say the bombs are being assembled for an attack on Iranās nuclear facilities. The newspaper quotes Dan Piesch, director of the Centre for International Studies...
Books in Brief
The Rise of Andrew Jackson: Myth, Manipulation, and the Making of Modern Politics, by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler (New York: Basic Books; 448 pp., $32.00).Ā Andrew Jackson ran for President in 1824 and was defeated by John Quincy Adams, the son of former President John Adams.Ā In 1828 he tried again and...
Pink Elephants on Parade
More than ever before, homosexual characters and situations are being featured on television.Ā Needless to say, the lay of TV Land is overwhelmingly favorable: cheery, cuddly, cute, and camp. The first of such programming originated in the formerly Great Britain, either imported directly (East Enders, Absolutely Fabulous) or adapted to the American small screen (All...
Diana
āGreat is Diana of the Ephesians!ā cried the craftsmen of Ephesus.Ā They had heard of the threat to their occupation posed by Paul (Acts 19: 24-29), who was violently against the making of images.Ā Demetrius, a silversmith, had made a just complaint: āSo that not only this our craft is in danger to be set...
Implanted IDs: Click Here!
Applied Digital Solutions (ADS) announced in March that it had filed for FDA approval of its tiny ID implant, VeriChip, and the Florida-based company performed its first commercial implant on three local children on May 10, promising āeasy access of medical rec-ords.ā While both announcements were greeted with surprise, ADS had already revealed that it...
Something to Remember
Francis Parkman concluded his monumental account of France and England in North America with the Peace of Paris of 1763, by which France ceded Quebec, once and for all, to the British Empire.Ā In an uncharacteristically smug observation on the aftermath, Parkman described the French Canadians as āa people bereft of every vestige of civil...
The End of the Berlusconi Era
Ā Silvio Berlusconi has been around for so long that it is hard to imagine Italian politics without him occupying the center stage. The end of his era is nigh, however, to the relief of his opponents as well as many of his erstwhile supporters. Berlusconi announced on Tuesday night that he would resign as...
The Death of Laken Riley: A Case of Res Ipsa Loquitur
Laken Rileyās death was the product of deliberate policy choices that delivered predictable results with the precision of a Swiss watch.
War on Whites
Alabama Republican congressman Mo Brooks generated outrage among the usual suspects in early August by telling radio talk-show host Laura Ingraham that the Obama administrationās push for amnesty for illegal immigrants is āa part of the war on whites thatās being launched by the Democratic Party.Ā And the way in which theyāre launching this war...
Shifting Ground
Kenneth Miller, a professor of biology at Boston University, has produced a beautifully written work. His book is intended to refute every objection to the more or less universally accepted doctrine of evolution, to discredit its opponents, and to assert the compatibility of strict evolutionary doctrine with religion. Ever since Darwināand especially since the rise...
The End of a Myth
āEconomy, n.Ā Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.ā āAmbrose Bierce Ā āThat was the summer of seventy-three,ā writes Forrest McDonald.Ā āRemember it well, and cherish the memory, for things will never be that good again.āĀ This is from his little book...
Enemies Within and Above
Within a few hours of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon last September, it had become commonplace for even high-ranking government officials and elected leaders to say publicly that Americans would just have to get used to fewer constitutional liberties and personal freedoms than they have traditionally enjoyed. Of course,...
Whatās the Big Idea?
The Village Produced by Touchstone and Blinding Edge Pictures Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures The Manchurian Candidate Produced and distributed byParamount Pictures Directed by Jonathan Demme Screenplay by Daniel Pyne from the novel by Richard Condon George Axelrod (1962 screenplay) MarĆa, Full of Grace (MarĆa, llena eres de...
The End of the Affair?
At 6:07 A.M. on May 29, 2003, in a BBC Radio broadcast, reporter Andrew Gilligan commented on mounting criticism of the Blair governmentās rationale for going to war against Iraq.Ā Citing an anonymous āofficialā involved in the preparation of the Joint Intelligence Committee dossier used to justify the military campaign, Gilligan said that [The dossier]...
Conservative Media Needs to Stop Taking Their Opponentsā Side
Members of the establishment conservative media are wimps when it comes to responding to the leftās accusations about white American āsystemic racism.ā Whether itās refusing to stand for the national anthem at sports events, substituting theĀ Black National Anthem for the Star-Spangled Banner on PBS, announcing fireworks shows on Independence Day are a āracistā activity, or...
Partial Prognoses
Paul Fussell has written an interesting entertainment that examines the American class structure. It is basically descriptive and impressionistic and espouses no cause. It is filled with keen insights and amusing anecdotes and is consequently a relaxing, nontaxing book. In essence, it meshes with a vast Western literatureāboth scholarly and pedestrianāthat enthrones class as the...
The Mental Time Machine
The Metropolitan Opera has a new production of Bizetās Carmen, which premiered in New York City last New Yearās Eve.Ā I read the review by Anthony Tommasini, the New York Timesā most competent music critic, who understands singing as well as he knows operatic literature.Ā Mr. Tommasini raved over the production, the work of the...
Egypt: Steady As She Goes
Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman has announced that President Hosni Mubarak was stepping down from the office of president of the republic āand has charged the high council of the armed forces to administer the affairs of the country.ā In other words, the Army has taken over. This is the least bad outcome on offer...
Against the Black Pill
We suffer an oligarchic, feminizing regime that is hostile to most of the defining elements of traditional American identity. But, we also enjoy a golden age of dissent. Now is not the time for despair.
The Moral Tale of Two Cities
[Above: Texas Governor Greg Abbott] The “progressive,” so to speak, vision of politics and public life envisions tighter and tighter government control over economic life, along with looser and looser controls over human behavior. I think you’d refer to the overall design as a paradox: a clash of methods and objectives.Ā Ā Elizabeth Warren wants...
Partisan Revisionism
Richard Miles presents a new history of Carthage, which aims to show the land of Dido and Hannibal in a new light and rehabilitate the Punic state from what the author considers neglect and prejudice on the part of later historians.Ā Miles especially succeeds in his descriptions and analysis of the military history of Carthage...
The Alienation of Henry Adams
The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams by Davis S. BrownĀ ScribnerĀ 464 pp., $30.00 Ā Henry Adams (1838-1918) was born in the waning years of the early Republic. As he entered into adulthood after the Civil War, the country he saw emerging did not please him. The new...
At Ford, Diversity Is Job One
The chairman of Ford Motor Company, Jacques Nasser, in a videotaped address to a group of top executives forced to endure another in a series of “diversity-training” seminars, stated that he did not like the sea of white faces in the audience and that one of his prime directives was to ensure that in the...
Christophobia
In the December 1999 issue of Commentary, Irving Stelzer took Peter Brimelow to task for wanting to restrict immigration. Setting the facts aside, Stelzer accuses Brimelow of being a fan of the “old-line WASP population” that had produced perk-laden corpocrats who so mismanaged America’s major companies as almost to bring the economy to ruin before...
Are the Bells Tolling for Amy, Liz, and Joe?
By the end of February, the race for the Democratic nomination may have come down to a choice of one of three white men. Two are well into their 70s, and either would be the oldest president ever inaugurated. The third is a 38-year-old gay in a same-sex marriage who would be our youngest president...
Food Fight
Is anyone who thinks, as I do, that ādim sumā is Chinese for ādamn soonā or that āsushiā is Japanese for ābaitā even remotely qualified to write on food?Ā Actually, I often volunteer unsolicited comments, more or less printable, as the case may be.Ā I have noticed that the most thoughtful people I know prefer...
COVID-19, Catholics, and Illegal Alien Charities
It seems there’s no sanctuary from draconian mask and vaccine mandates. You can’t get on a plane, go to school, work at a hospital, perform onstage, compete in sports, exercise at a gym, worship in church or walk outside without the long shadows of Big Pharma and the COVID-19 control freaks looming over every aspect...
Books in Brief: November 2020
Promised Land: How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America , 1929-1968,Ā by David Stebenne (Scribner; 336 pp., $28.00). Dear David: I used the title of Sergio LeoneāsĀ The Good, the Bad, and the UglyĀ as my grading rubric for your submission on the 20th-century American middle class. Your work recaps the periodās economic, social, cultural, and...
Montana on the Move
With this latest novel, Ivan Doig completes his McCaskill trilogy, begun in 1984 with English Creek and followed in 1987 with Dancing at the Rascal Fair. Ride With Me, Mariah Montana is good Doig, and that means readers can expect crisp dialogue, rapid pace, vital language, and many satisfied- hours with this handsome volume from...
Big Emerging Mistakes
The theory that “big emerging markets” (BEMs) m the Third Worid will be the driving force of the world economy, and thus of worid politics, has been at the core of the Clinton administration’s foreign policy. As Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade during President Clinton’s first term, Jeffrey E. Garten was the principal author...
Federalism vs. Secession
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the people.” āThe Tenth Amendment Following the passage of the national gun ban wrapped in pork, Representatives Gingrich and Gephardt congratulated each other for their bipartisan cooperation and remarked...
Trading With Gorbachev
It was 1979 and the Carter administration was coming to a close when Larry Brady, the Commerce Department’s deputy director for export administration, testified before the Ichord Subcommittee of the House Armed Services panel. Run by conservative Democrat Richard Ichord, the subcommittee was trying to determine whether the Kama River Truck plant, which was built...
Shiny, Happy People
Like death, suffering is inescapable. It represents the burden of being. But too often today, Americans are trying to escape it with therapeutics and chemicals, neatly packaged as happiness in a bottle.
Sublimal Messages
From a black background an eerie, white sphere illuminates three ice cubes in a glass of clear liquid. At first, there is nothing special about the pallid image, except maybe the lack of color. But look again. Below the glass the bold white letters read “ABSOLUT SUBLIMINAL.” Something tugs at your memory. The word “Subliminal”...
Islamic State and the Theater of Jihad
The Al Khansa Brigade is the all-female fighting force of the organization that calls itself the Islamic State (IS).Ā Al Khansa, we are most unreliably informed, has 60 members, many of whom are British.Ā Their leader is reputedly a privately educated Scotswoman.Ā These amazons are, weāre told, particularly cruel, force captive local women to be...
Nick at Nite, TV, and You
Every night, in prime time, a changeling can enter your living room, an inhuman creature secretly usurping a human’s place. It’s an unnatural presence, an electronic phantom with vast and secret motivations; but its presence is so enjoyable and comforting, as well as so familiar (it hastens to assure you), that you really don’t mind...
The Origins of the Jerk
Ā (Inspired by Clyde Wilson) Every human society has had its share of offensive or annoying people: busybodies and bores,Ā poseursĀ and bullies, cheapskates andĀ Ā check-grabbers, hypocrites and egomaniacs.Ā Ā You might even be able to define some societies by the offensive characters they tend to produce or by the qualities they find most offensive. Ā Southerners used to regard...