Two challenging words of the title of this essay stand somehow between us and ourselves, so that we will have to get around the distortions unnecessarily presented by minority and culture in order to see the freedom and even the substance that is closer than we are ordinarily able to perceive. The lesser is minority,...
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Study in Scarlet
“The Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.” āH.H. Munro Roger’s Version, John Updike’s latest novel, can be understood best if seen in intimate and serious connection with Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. First, the cast of characters: Hester (Esther), Arthur Dimmesdale (Dale Kohler), Roger Chillingworth (Roger Lambert), and Pearl (Paula/Poopsie). The setting...
Remembering G. K. Chesterton
Fashions do not feed us, they only ensnare us. They do not satisfy us, they only contribute to our ongoing dissatisfaction with the fleetingness of everything. But they always seem more appealing and urgent than what really matters and what will remain after the fashions have fled. English writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was once...
The New Federal Cities
Ā Ā Ā Ā “It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of London. There is Mortimer’s, the tobacconist, the little newspaper shop, the Coburg Branch of the City and Suburban Bank, the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane’s carriage-building depot. That carries us right on to the other block.” āArthur Conan Doyle, The...
The Skull Beneath the Skin
Gone Girl Produced by New Regency Pictures Directed by David Fincher Screenplay by Gillian Flynn, from her novel Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox If only James Thurber were still with us.Ā Iād love to hear him address Gone Girl, both Gillian Flynnās novel and David Fincherās film adaptation thereof.Ā Why?Ā Because the story trades on...
Something Rotten in the State
Ā With the number of Secret Service members and agents caught up in the partying-with-prostitutes scandal in Cartagena now at a dozen, and six already gone, how much wider and deeper does this go? No one can take pleasure in seeing Secret Service agentsāwhose deserved reputation is that they will “take a bullet” for the...
Why They Fought
The late Jean-FranƧois Revel wrote a once-famous book with the title Comment les dĆ©mocraties finissent.Ā Revel was not a stupid man, and I thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon āwe tired the sun with talking,ā but as a political philosopher, he was a prisoner of the leftist ideology that treats terms like equality and democracy as substantial...
Recapturing the Constitution
In a landmark five-to-four decision last spring, in United States v. Lopez, the Supreme Court announcedāfor the first time in almost 50 yearsāthat Congress had exceeded its interstate commerce powers. At issue was a federal statuteāthe Gun Free School Zones Act of 1990āwhich forbade the carrying of firearms within one thousand feet of a school....
The Abolition of Learning
In 1997, the headmaster of the English secondary school in which I was teaching ordered a bibliocaust.Ā The inspectors were coming, and he wanted our library to look up-to-date.Ā All the old stuff had to go; only bright, modern volumes relevant to the contemporary curriculum were to be on the shelves.Ā Each department was told...
Redemptive Weeding
The Constant Gardener Produced by Potboiler Productions and Scion Films Directed by Fernando Meirelles, Screenplay by Jeffrey Caine from John Le CarrĆ©ās novel Distributed by Focus Features Whatās in your medicine chest?Ā Aspirin, ibuprofen, antibiotics?Ā Let me prescribe another medicine: John Le CarrĆ©ās disturbing novel, The Constant Gardener (2001), and its recent screen adaptation directed...
The Virginian Roots of American Values
“There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians.”Ā āBarnard Elliott Bee We were British colonists for a long time. From the first permanent English colony on the mainland of North America Jamestown, 1607) until the first guns of the American War of Independence (outside Boston, 1775) is 168 years. That is...
The Rules of Debate No Longer Work
Gun rights activist Dana Loesch recently complained that she had been denied the right to respond to her critics on Twitter, according to a story reported in theĀ New York Post. Unlike her adversaries, who are free to swing away at her, Loesch is not allowed to use Twitterās fact-checking platform to correct their misstatements. Loesch...
A New Grand Strategy
Strategy is the art of winning wars, and grand strategy is the philosophy of maintaining an acceptable peace.Ā America is good at the former and often confused on the latter.Ā Making the world safe for democracy (Wilson 1917) or fighting freedomās fight ordained by history (Bush 2002) may be dismissed as tasteless yet harmless rhetoric...
Rediscovering Philadelphia
“There is no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.” āMontesquieu The theme that unites the short, somewhat disparate eight chapters of this book is the use by the Supreme Court of unenumerated rightsāthat is, rights beyond those specifically enumerated in the Bill of Rightsāto invalidate state...
Books in Brief
Women in Combat: Unnatural, Foolish, Immoral, by Mark C. Atkins (Cottage Grove, TN: Gildersleeve Publications; 212 pp., $10.99).Ā Mark Atkins describes himself as a āfailed Marineā who has never been in combat and who writes āwith the same authority as that little boy who cried, āThe Emperor has no clothes!āĀ He is also a businessman...
The Big Bore of Arkansas
āāJour printer, by trade; do a little in patent medicines; theatre-actorātragedy, you know; take a turn at mesmerism and phrenology when thereās a chance; teach singingāgeography school for a change; sling a lecture, sometimesāoh, I do lots of thingsāmost anything that comes in handy, so it aināt work.Ā Whatās your lay?āā āThe Duke, Huckleberry Finn...
The (New) Ugly American
The regime we live underāthe regime of the United States Constitutionābegan with a set of clear understandings. One was that the federal government was to be the servant of the people. It was to be confined to the specific powers the people “delegated” to it, pursuant to the general welfare and common defense of the...
Old Route 66
Now, Iām a poor Oakie and Iām heading out west. Iām pulling a long trailer and my carās doing its best. We hit a long mountain and she began to boil. She blew a head gasket and it started dripping oil. The wheels is out of balance, she shimmies and she shakes. But it keeps...
New York vs. New York
From the July 2001 issue of Chronicles. Ā Ā Ā Ā “The feeling between this city and the hayseeds. . . is every hit as hitter as the feelings between the North and South before the War. . . . Why, I know a lot of men in my district who would like nothin’ better...
Sympathy for Palestinian Misery
The October 7 attacks by Hamas were not justified, but neither was the Israeli response. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has changed little since I first witnessed it 40 years ago.
The Christian and Creation
Where does man fit into nature? What is his response to the created universe? Lynn White has argued that the Christian position is at the very heart of the environmental crisis. He, and others, see the biblical view of the dominion of man over nature as being responsible for our misuse of our natural resources....
Sold, Not Bought
If you want to understand our current financial woes, skip the economists and go directly to the premiere analyst of the Great Depression, James M. Cain.Ā His 1943 novel Double Indemnity (originally a 1936 serial that ran in Liberty) explains far better than spreadsheets the moral origins of our present financial misadventure. Cain once remarked...
On Judaism
I, like many scholars, stand in awe of the accomplishments of Jacob Neusner, but his August “Letter From Inner Israel: Continental Judaisms, R.I.P.” seems unusually insensitive and bizarre. Neusner accuses continental European Judaism, in the aftermath of Nazi and Soviet barbarism, of insularity, suspicion, lack of learning, and lack of faith. I should have thought...
Otto von Habsburg: The Facts
Ā Mr. James Bogle denies [āIt is ludicrousā] that Otto von Habsburg was an enthusiastic supporter of the jihadist side in the Bosnian war. Since Habsburgās support of the Muslim side in the Bosnian war is uncontentious, the claim is āludicrousā only if Bogle denies that Alija IzetbegovicĀ wasĀ a jihadist. On that subject the record is...
Never Paranoid Enough
āTrust no one.āĀ The landmark TV series The X-Files used that catchphrase in depicting a world riven with conspiracies that reach to the highest levels of the U.S. government.Ā Dana Scully and Fox Mulder, the fictional FBI agents who attempted to unravel these grand conspiracies, make the occasional appearance in Kathryn Olmstedās Real Enemies.Ā Man...
The Coming War with China?
Over the past few weeks we have witnessed a rapid and (for the past half-century) unprecedented worsening of relations between the United States and China. It is uncertain, for now, whether this is the result of a deliberate shift in strategy by Washington or the cumulative effect of a series of incremental moves and counter-moves...
Pluralism in Miniature
Science was a sacred cow in the United States in the 1950’s. The words “Science says . . . ” came with all the force of an imperial command. Pluralism has taken on the same status in the late 1980’s. As soon as the words “Our pluralistic society will not permit . . . ”...
Bouillabaisse by Ear
Years before many Americans noticed him, France’s socialist president made a career while provoking contrary sentiĀments. He evidently prefers not to beĀ understood. Conservatives governing America must nonetheless decide what to think about a ruler who supports us and opposes the Soviets in Europe while opposing us and supporting Soviet allies in Latin America. This biography...
The Wonder of Academe
“The high-minded man must care more for truth than for what people think.” āAristotle While being interviewed on William Buckley’s Firing Line, Harry Ashmore remarked that he had allowed the subject of his Unseasonable Truths: The Life of Robert Maynard Hutchins to tell the story of his life and work through the numerous quotations that...
Man, Man, and Again Man
“Qualis aitifex pereo” -Nero I cannot remember a time when I was not what would be called an environmentalist. I spent much of my childhood on an earth unconstricted by concrete streets and unburdened by the weight of buildings. I was never happier than when I was out fishing with my father or picking berries...
A Night on Bald Mountain
HĆ©ctor, who had never camped out in his life before, was entirely unprepared for the nighttime cold of the desert in late spring.Ā And he had failed as well to anticipate the utter and complete blacknessāthe blackness of outer space, of nothingnessāof the desert night.Ā Though JesĆŗs āEddieā built a blazing fire that lit up...
Looking for Moral Foundations (in All the Wrong Places)
A debate unfolded in March last year in American Greatness between Chronicles contributor Mark Pulliam and the Claremont Instituteās Edward Erler, a devotee of Harry Jaffa. According to Erler, Robert Bork and others who adhered to strict constitutional originalism were essentially moral nihilists because they would not apply natural law standards to our governing document....
Time for the Press To Do Its Job
The press hates Donald Trump. That’s not a newsflash. The bias the press shows toward most Republicans turns to outright hostility when it comes to Trump. Once you’ve convinced yourself your opponent is an evil racist, it’s not hard to justify doing anything you can to stop him. Many in the press corps have admitted...
Violence in Iraq
Violence in Iraq has escalated, following the February 22 attack on the revered Shiite shrine al-Askari in Samarra.Ā Some 200 Sunni and Shiite mosques were attacked, burned, or bombed in the two-month period after the attack.Ā The weekly toll of explosions, retaliatory attacks, and targeted killings has prompted many commentators to describe the chaotic conflict...
College Sports Are Essential
Despite the resentful envy most academics have for athletes, sports are critical to a balanced education.
A Mortal Blivet
A review of The Edge of Darkness (produced by GK Films, Icon Productions, and BBC Films; directed by Martin Campbell; screenplay by William Monahan and Andrew Bovell from the original television script by Troy Kennedy Martin; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures). In The Edge of Darkness, director Martin Campbell has tried to compress the six...
The Fascist Moment
In an essay on Nietzsche written in 1947, Thomas Mann spoke of “the fascist epoch of the West” in which “we are living and, despite the military victory over fascism, shall continue to live for a long time.” Gene Edward Veith, Jr., dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Concordia University of Wisconsin...
Roots of Radicalism
“The purity of a revolution can last a fortnight.” āJean Cocteau Magisterial works of history are almost always informed by a tragic sense of life. Some recall epochal transformations that were as lamentable as they were inescapable. Still others dramatize the clash of two valid, but irreconcilable, principles. Among the latter, certainly, are the best...
Second-Time Charms
Second-term U.S. presidents tend to focus more on world affairs than on domestic issues, for good or for ill.Ā In January 1957, Dwight Eisenhower authorized the commitment of U.S. forces āto secure and protect the territorial integrity and political independenceā of any nation that requested help against communist aggression.Ā Ronald Reagan, after his reelection in...
Johnson in His Time
Every well-read person used to know Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, and, knowing that collection, knew who Richard Savage wasāor at least knew who Richard Savage told people he was. Richard Savage was a minor poet and convicted murderer, a charming rascal and rackety man about town entirely lacking normal instincts of prudence and self-preservation....
Upstarts Like Shakespeare
Iāve no more desire than the next Anglophile with a framed colored engraving of the queen-empress on his office wall to pull down the aristocracy; to take away their estates and paintings and seats in the Lords and ancient Rollses resting on blocks in stables where the racing stud used to breed. And yet I...
Thoroughly Modern Muslims
Allah (taāala) said, {They thought that their fortresses would protect them from Allah but Allah came upon them from where they had not expected, and He cast terror into their hearts so they destroyed their houses by their own hands and the hands of the believers.Ā So take warning, O people of vision} [Al-Hashr:2]. In...
Those Dying Generations
Elegy Produced by Lakeshore Entertainment Directed by Isabel Coixet Screenplay by Nicholas Meyer from a novel by Philip Roth Distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films Burn After Reading Produced by Relativity Media and Studio Canal Directed and written by Joel and Ethan Coen Distributed by Focus Features Elegy, Spanish director Isabel Coixetās adaptation of Philip Rothās...
Larry Ellisonās Golden Age
Larry Ellison has an idea.Ā The relentlessly self-promoting CEO of Oracle Corp., a Silicon Valley software company famous for its ability to grab government contracts, envisions post-September 11 America as a country where everyone walks around with a āsmart card.āĀ Days after the terrorist attacks, the opportunistic Ellison was all over the media claiming that...
Horsemen, Draw Nigh!
The title of Chalmers Johnsonās latest book, the last in his trilogy of empire, invokes the Greek goddess of retribution.Ā He named the first book in his trilogy after the CIA term for the harmful unintended consequences that sometimes result from the agencyās covert policies.Ā āBlowback,ā he wrote, āis but another way of saying that...
Retooling the Conservative Movement
Samuel Francis’s newest book, composed of 30 essays originally published in Chronicles between 1989 and 1996, is much more than a collection of articles about matters of passing concern. Rather it attests to Francis’s singular efforts in constructing a strategy by which Americans might recapture their nation from the decadent establishment now in power. He...
Three Strikes and Youāre Out
April 2005 will mark the third mayoral election since I arrived in Rockford at the end of 1995.Ā In that first election in April 1997, Rockfordās first (and, so far, only) black mayor, Democrat Charles Box, was running for his third term.Ā For eight years, the city had been under a federal court order to...
Space Art
“The land of the heart is the land of the West.” Catholic readers of American literature have always recognized that the difference between Eastern and Western fiction is the difference between New Canaan, Connecticut, and Tuba City, Arizona. A. Carl Bredahl’s book is a comprehensive as well as original attempt at defining the nature, of...
The Other Face of Multiculturalism
“The values of the weak prevail,” wrote Friedrich Nietzsche, “because the strong have taken them over as devices of leadership.” This brief and rather cryptic remark contains virtually all we need to know about why contemporary movements like multiculturalism, feminism, homosexualism, and anti-white racism are such powerful trends in modern American and other Western societies....
Haleyās Career Died Because of the GOPās Poison Ideology
This is what happens to leaders who despise their voters and whose contempt for the culture, faith, and heritage of their people is palpable and overpoweringāto the point that such leaders cannot contain themselves.