Everyone hates Walmart nowadays.Ā Environmental groups protest the companyās āgreenwashing,ā numerous violations of the Clean Water Act, and contribution to suburban sprawl.Ā Traditionalists detest Walmartās displacement of small, family-owned businesses with big-box stores that serve as little more than cash drop boxes for the Bentonville, Arkansas, mother ship.Ā Organized labor, as expected, objects to the...
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Getting Naked in the Public Square
Ā In 1984, Richard John Neuhaus, then still a Lutheran pastor, publishedĀ The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America. The book was, as they say, an “immediate sensation,” in no small part because Neuhaus’s central claimāthat religious voices were being forced out of political debate by the federal courts’ mistaken emphasis on the separation...
Liberality, the Basis of Culture
The Ultimate Homeschool. ā . . . redeeming the time, because the days are evil.āāEphesians 5:15 āGo day, come day. Lord, send Sunday.ā My paternal grandmother could be counted on to say these words at least once per week. Whether burdened with some mundane task or confronted with the evidence of human frailty, the prospect...
Science Fiction, R.I.P.
To register the obituary long after the fact: science fiction is dead. Aficionados of the genre who acquired their taste for it in the 1950’s and 60’s probably already know this. What they might not know is that the death of science fiction has significance for the state of American culture in 1997. With the...
Buckley Revisited, Again
William F. Buckley, for all his strengths, left behind a deeply flawed magazine and movement, which was very much to his demerit.
Christian NationalismāA Catholic Integralist View
Natural law, not liberalism, directs Man to his proper end.
The Teaching Evolution
The teaching evolution is back in the news, in a case that the mediaāwith their usual sensationalismāare comparing to the Scopes trial of 75 years ago. On August 10, Steven Green, legal director of the Washington-based Americans United for Separation of Church and State, sent a letter to the Kansas State Board of Education, threatening...
Europe’s Hollow Socialism
With the victory of the Social Democrats in Germany, a year and more after Labour finally managed to win a British election, 11 of the 15 states in the European Union now have governments in the socialist tradition. That is surprising. Socialism is yesterday’s idea, after all, and since the Soviet collapse of 1989-90, hardly...
Our Pushover President
Our Pushover President by Patrick J. Buchanan ā¢ November 24, 2009 ā¢ Printer-friendly “This state visit is . . . a terrible mistake,” said Rep. Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. “He is illegitimate with his own people, and Brazil is now going to give him the air of legitimacy...
Defense of Bill Buckley
It is hard to know where to begin in responding to Jack Trotterās profile of a founding father of the modern conservative movement (āRemembering William F. Buckley, Jr.,ā April/May 2020). In discussing Buckleyās background, Trotter relies heavily on John Judisās biography, Patron Saint of the Conservatives (1998). While Judis seems to provide an objective account,...
Law and/or Order
All civilization rests upon the executioner. Despite our feelings of revulsion, “He is the horror and bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world, and at that very moment, order gives way to chaos, thrones topple, and society disappears.” Joseph de Maistre’s insight has alarmed most readersāamong them not a few Catholic...
The Undemocratic Coup
In effect, the Democrats have successfully executed nothing short of a coup dāĆ©tat, the first in American history.
Hot, Cold, and Tepid
The only substantive change to my character that I have observed over time is in the workings of the spleen, the abdominal organ once regarded as the seat of what are now called the negative emotions.Ā When I was young, the objects of my hate were precious few, though, of course, I used to fulminate...
Getting Somewhere
Jackson Hole is burning up. Gerry Spence had to evacuate his ranch ahead of the wildfires, and Dick Cheney could be next. Here above timberline in the Snowy Range of the Medicine Bow Mountains, 400 miles to the southeast, the breeze is cool, the grass is fresh and green, and the ponds of standing water...
Living With the Iconoclasts
New Orleans has a complicated past, a reality made evident in a politically manufactured controversy that has been building since last July.Ā Our mayor, a term-limited white Democrat and the flickering end of a political dynasty, asked the city council to consider removing four prominent monuments shortly after the murders of black members of a...
On Decterās Philly
Samuel Francis is to be congratulated for having written one of the best essays on the American conservative establishment (āQueen of the Damned,ā Principalities & Powers, August) that I have seen.Ā Dr. Francis correctly notes that the appointment of Midge Decter as president of the Philadelphia Society, a once stimulating conservative debating club, points to...
Civil Rights or Property Rights?
The interplay of race and economics in America has produced a new variant of political economy that we might call “multicultural capitalism,” a system in which property is, for the most part, privately owned, but its ownership is conditional on the race, sex, andāin some casesāthe sexual orientation of the owner. In the pursuit of...
Jack Bauer, Agent of Anarcho-Tyranny, U.S.A.
Jack Bauer is an American heroāof sorts.Ā He tortures suspects.Ā And executes them.Ā And decapitates them.Ā āIām gonna need a hacksaw,ā he famously declared after dispatching a pervert who knew the men behind a planned nuclear attack on Los Angeles. If you have never watched the television program 24, you should try it for two...
Farewell to Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy is gone, having secured his place in the literary canon. At his best, McCarthyās often terrifying, but deeply religious, tales are a moving spiritual and aesthetic experience. May he rest in peace.
Boethius and/or Cassiodorus
American conservatives used to be fond of saying that the United States have entered a decadent period something like that of the Roman Empire.Ā Since American conservatives do not read history, they were never very clear on the period they had in mind, but let us assume they mean the third century, when the empire...
Out and About
The American Empire has been on the minds of at least some conservatives for about two decades, ever since the sudden collapse of the Soviet Empire caught us all by surprise.Ā It isnāt that Americans havenāt argued about empire before: From the 1890ās until December 7, 1941, there was an on-again, off-again but very lively...
Ahistorical Admonitions
“One age cannot be completely understood if all others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.” āOrtega y Gasset In The Politics of Human Nature, Thomas Fleming has boldly undertaken to delineate a system of natural politics. A classicist by training, Fleming believes that “the collapse of Roman...
The Dirty Fact About College Admissions
Pitting the state of Texas against four students who had been denied admission to the University of Texas School of Law because of their skin color, the recent Hopwood v. Texas case could spell doom for racial preferences in public education if affirmed by the Supreme Court. The Sth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, whose...
Who Defines America?
A country is a land and a people.Ā A people, in turn, are constituted by interlocking networks of common ways, memories, and understandings, together with symbols that serve as rallying points, all of which enable them to carry on life together and look forward to a common future. So who are the American people?Ā The...
Limited Hangout
Donald Rumsfeld has produced, four years after his departure from government, a memoir of no stylistic distinction.Ā It contains few if any interesting revelations, save, perhaps, those relating to President Nixonās choice of vice presidents.Ā For what it does contain, it is at least twice as long as it should be.Ā There is a great...
Black Hole Singing
There are three basic types of complexity a reader encounters in contemporary poetry.Ā The first type arises when inexperienced poets have not yet developed sufficient intellectual and emotional depth to understand their subject matter or have not yet developed an adequate command of language.Ā The resulting product is muddled rather than deep.Ā The second is...
āFine Peopleā Hoax: Too Good To Be Untrue
Unfortunately for Trump, the left still considers the myth that Trump called Charlottesville neo-Nazis āvery fine peopleā too good to be untrue, despite the lack of evidence.
Whatās Good for General Motors . . .
How did big corporations become the prevailing form of enterprise in the United States?Ā The standard answer is that bigger is better.Ā Concentrated industry, we are told, allows managerial efficiency, huge economies of scale, and the ability to undertake bold research and development and apply it to better products and increasingly efficient process technology.Ā But...
The Life You Save
There have been dozens of books and hundreds of articles written about Flannery OāConnor (1925-64) in America alone, and considerable attention from overseas as well.Ā Indeed, R. Neil Scottās new Flannery OāConnor: An Annotated Reference Guide to Criticism describes 3,297 books, articles, dissertations, and masterās theses by 2,474 different authors.Ā Though she died at age...
FBI and Justice Department Are Greatest Threat to Constitution
The Constitution was never intended to justify surveillance and political interference by un-elected bureaucrats.
Atheism: What a Joke
Ā Assuming, no doubt, our anxious world could use a good laugh, Stephen Hawking undertakes to provide one. He says the universe created itself. The theory itself isn’t the joke. The joke is the dogged persistence of atheists trying in the face of common sense to persuade the world as to the wisdom they see...
Fritz Langās Liliom: Less Catholic, still Christian?
ā. . . there are three things that last for ever: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of them all is love.āĀ 1 Corinthians, 13:13 (The New English Bible with the Apocrypha, 1970). On February 7, 2011, Art Livingston posted to this blog a discussion of the early Hollywood talkie, Liliom (1930), based on the...
Reservation Blues: Notes From Indian Country
Just outside Tucson, Arizona, lies a foreign country. It is not Mexico, although that is close by, but Tohono O’odham Nation, an Indian reservation the size of Connecticut that is home to some 30,000 people. Larger than many countries, the Tohono O’odham Nation is a place of astonishing and austere beauty. Seldom visited, it harbors...
University of Michigan
Nowhere is the right of free expression more hotly debated than on our nation’s campuses. The recent controversy at my school, the University of Michigan, is a prime example. On January 9, U-M sophomore “Jake Baker”ā a/k/a Abraham Jacob Alkhabaz, a 21-year-old Kuwaiti-American who uses his mother’s maiden nameādid what he often did: he signed...
The Lady From Niger
“There once was a lady from Niger Who smiled as she rode on a tiger. They returned from the ride With the lady inside And the smile on the face of the tiger.” āOgden Nash Christopher Patten warns at the start that his engagingly written book is not a memoir. Though the core of it...
The Chic and the Psychic
I already sounded the alarm in last month’s letter. This really is an impossible city to get out of And so, having bid my farewells, I’m still here, despite the fact that the rent has been paid in advance on a perfectly adequate little aerie over the Grand Canal in Venice. The place even has...
āHello, Lenin!ā Three Components of Americaās Misguided Foreign Policy
by Edward Lozansky and Jim Jatras Since the end of the Cold War, American foreign policy could almost have been designed to undermine our national interests. Whether under Republican George W. Bush or Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, we have seen āregime changesā and ācolor revolutions,ā facilitation of global jihadism while claiming to combat...
And the Skies Are Not Cloudy All Day
Deborah Epstein Popper is a graduate student in geography at Rutgers University, and Frank J. Popper chairs the university’s urban studies department there: in New Brunswick, New Jersey, about as far away from the Great Plains, in every way, as you can get. The Poppers published a long article in the December 1987 issue of...
Telling Your Abortion Story
The promoters of infanticide have a new weapon in their arsenal. āStorytellingā is the new āsafe, legal, and rareā of the pro-abortion movement.Ā See as Exhibit A the new HBO documentary,Ā Abortion: Stories Women Tell, released a few weeks ago in select theaters. The film focuses on women in Missouri, a state where only one abortion...
Mishmash
To judge from its title, we could reasonably expect this book to be about the growing gulf between women and men.Ā Yet Andrew Hacker, a professor of political science at Queens College, spends much of the book reciting differences between the sexes that have always existed.Ā With cumbersome detail (as if imparting new and fresh...
Foreign Policy as Spiritual Warfare: A Conversation With Aleksandr Dugin
The influence of the man known as "Putin's brain" cannot be truly understood without understanding his spiritual beliefs.
The Anti-Politician
At the declaration by Donald Trump that he is a candidate for the presidential nomination of the Republican Party, media elites of left and right reacted with amusement, anger and disgust. Though he has been a hugely successful builder-businessman, far more successful than, say, Carly Fiorina, who has been received respectfully, our resident elites resolutely...
Operation Futility
Mark Bowden was interviewing a retired U.S. military officer for his book Black Hawk Down when a framed photograph caught his eye. In it, a group of jubilant solthers posed around the corpse of a bloody, fat man. Curious, Bowden asked about the picture. “That, my friend, is Pablo Escobar,” the officer said to Bowden....
The Iron Rod of American ‘Liberalism’
From the November 1988 issue of Chronicles. In America, as in Britain, institutions, movements, political phenomena, historic events and geographic features have been given names and labels that bewilder and startle the rest of the world: the German “Westwall” of World War II became the “Siegfried Line” (in World War I that lay in northern...
Whereās Joe McCarthy When You Need Him?
Many Americans are so disappointed with the Bush administration that they are tempted to vote for John Kerry.Ā Some Democrats who spent the past 80 years waiting for the Revolution to blow over may think theirs is still the party of āRum, Romanism, and Rebellion,ā as it was dubbed in 1884, but, by the 1960ās,...
Earning Your Protest
Like many young men graduating high school in 1966, my father took a fast track to the politically seething, war-shattered jungles of a small country on the other side of the world.Ā He had no middle name, no college degree (nor any aspirations of pursuing one), five siblings, and no ārich dadā culture to be...
Blizzard
Storms and other phenomena of nature have their own distinct sounds.Ā Those who have survived a tornado often say that it sounded ālike a train.āĀ A volley of cannon fire accompanies every thunderstorm.Ā The gale-force winds of a hurricane howl at nearly 200 miles per hour, as the rain strikes objects with the velocity of...
Our Sacred Anticanon
I arrived a few minutes late for the meeting with the hippie roofer.Ā Two many DUIs had cost him his driverās license, and I had to take him to the home-improvement store.Ā āBeen to church?ā he asked.Ā Dressed in a suit at 10:30 on Sunday morning, I was forced to admit the fact.Ā āIāve read...
Pulling the Trigger
At the end of the Episcopal Church, U.S.A.ās General Convention last summer, an academic friend, not an Episcopalian, asked me, āWhat argument is advanced against blessing polyamorous unions by those Episcopalians who favor the blessing of same-sex sexual unions?Ā Or do they pull the trigger and say that the blessing of same-sex unions is only...
Israelās American Chattel
I do not believe the National Intelligence Council could function effectively while its chair was under constant attack by unscrupulous people with a passionate attachment to the views of a political faction in a foreign country. The tactics of the Israel Lobby plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency and include character assassination, selective misquotation,...