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...
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Unconstitutionally Vague
The Univ. of Michigan has not given up. Federal District Court Judge Avern Cohn’s August 1989 ruling that Michigan’s anti-discrimination and discriminatory harassment policy (inaugurated in April 1988) was unconstitutionally vague and overbroad merely sent administrators back to their drawing boards. After implementing an interim policy last September, University President James Duderstadt assembled three committees...
The Media Changes Its Tune on the āChinese Virusā
After months of praising the Chinese response to COVID-19 and trusting their data, the World Health Organization (WHO) has apparently finally found a bridge too far in their public relations game on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party. WHOās Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and the governments of 14 countries let loose a series of...
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...
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...
Old Story, New Resonances
A New World Begins: The History of the French RevolutionĀ by Jeremy D. Popkin;Ā Basic Books;Ā 640 pp., $35.00 Ā Zhou Enlai was asked in theĀ early 1970s what he, one of the architects of the Chinese communist revolution, thought of the French Revolution. His response: āToo early to say.ā The international press seized upon that comment, which satisfied...
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...
Exploits of the Noble Savage
Modern grievances are, at heart, about competition for resources, prestige, and power. All that has changed are the myths used to mask the claims and obscure reality.
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...
On Traditionalists
I had already read Robin Andersonās biography of Pope Pius VII, but if a book review or anything else has Thomas Flemingās name on it, I read it.Ā Alas, no more than nine lines into his review (āThe Church Militant,ā Reviews, August), I was startled by the first of several attacks on Catholic traditionalists that...
Kelly Loeffler’s Missed Opportunity in the Georgia Run-off Debate
On the evening of Dec. 6, I watched the debate between Sen. Kelly Loeffler and the Reverend Raphael Warnock, who are running against each other for a U.S. Senate seat from Georgia with the runoff election scheduled for Jan. 5. As a non-leftist I am anxious to see the Georgia Senate seats now up for...
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 . . . ”...
Avoiding the Iranian Debacle
It takes neitherĀ unique intellectual brilliance nor supernaturally honed intuitive skills to predict the consequences of hazardous foreign-policy moves.Ā On numerous occasions over the past decade and a half, I have advised against U.S. military interventions not because of my visceral isolationist zeal, but because I deemed the consequences of those actions to be contrary...
Terrorizing the Old Bag
Once upon a time, the New York Times called herself the Old Gray Lady; now, truth be told, sheās much closer to a Bitter Old Bag.Ā Long-winded, overexplained, tendentious, and biased against anything normal, the Times is more to be pitied than loathed.Ā And like a festering boil on an old bagās backside, Donald Trump...
The Angry Summer
Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight . . . āPsalm 144:1 According to the Washington Post, McAllen, Texas is an āall-American city,ā albeit one āthat speaks Spanish.āĀ So itās small wonder that āimmigration isnāt a problem for this Texas townāitās a way of life.āĀ ...
Journalism
These are conflicting notions: warm feelings, no matter from which spiritual or emotional fount they emanate, must end in a bit of unfairness. The only human construct that firmly believes in and widely proclaims its ability to be exempted from this rule is, of course, the New York Times. For many years, the Times succeeded...
A Pearl and Some Swine
Itās Lent, so naturally Iām thinking about Barack Obama.Ā Well, specifically, about his inauguration.Ā You remember, donāt youāthe day that hope became sight? I donāt want to be overdramatic, but it now seems obvious to me that President Obamaās inauguration explains just about everything thatās wrong with Christian churches in America. And really, this has...
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...
New Tricks
Steven Farron, who earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University and was a professor of classics for many years at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, has produced a masterly volume on the thorny subject of what is euphemistically termed affirmative action.Ā It doesnāt seem that an article, a book, or a collection...
Georgia: The Score
Russiaās recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia makes it imperative to analyze the situation in the Caucasus dispassionately and comprehensively. The mainstream media (MSM) treatment of the crisis has been predictably monolithic, however -- almost as biased (ābad ...
On Liberty and the Grand Idea
For a long time I thought I knew how to evade the discourse of the Grand Idea. It began when I was in the Yugoslav People’s Army. The war was barely over, but victory brought no greater liberty to those who had suffered the Nazi occupation, and the brainwashing in the barracks grew more and...
This Fourth of July, Letās Remember Who We Are
Any government, foreign or domestic, which tampers with our freedoms and attempts to impose āpolitical servitude,ā demands our fierce and unceasing opposition.
The Autocrat of the Dinner Table
“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue?” āEdmund Burke Murray Rothbard was like the elephant the blind Chinamen in the story tried to describe. Everyone who knew Murray saw only one or two sides of him: There was Murray the happy warrior who campaigned for the soul of the Old Right, the New...
Conservatism as Medicine
What are the basic tenets of modernity? What is the mind and temper of modern man? I would feel rather foolish to try to reply in a few paragraphs if I did not think that the spirit of modernity boils down eventually to only one idea that reappears constantly under an indefinite variety of guises....
Nation-Building
Bosnia is the United Nations’ first major experiment in nation-building, and the experiences of this multiethnic/multicultural state provide discouraging evidence that the “international community” is no more virtuous or high-minded than the old rogues who governed nation- states. Take the case of Thomas Miller, the United States ambassador in Sarajevo, who is rumored to have...
The Truth About Beauty
Apart from talking about cooking while eating and about eating while not eating, Italians have a favorite subject, a kind of pet peeve, which they touch upon at least a dozen times a day in that same disarmingly artless voice in which the English exchange news of the weather. It is a fact that the...
The Least Bad Option in Syria
Ā Until a few weeks ago, political leaders in the United States and Western Europe had claimed with monotonous regularity that the government of Syria was on the verge of collapse. āAssadās rule is coming to an end. It is inevitable,ā Jeffrey Feltman, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs,Ā told a Senate committee in...
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...
A Rough Sea Petrified
Vicky Cristina Barcelona Produced and distributed by The Weinstein Company Written and directed by Woody Allen Warning: In the review that follows, I have given away any number of plot points of the film. Ā In Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen has traveled farther from his beloved Manhattan than ever before but not an inch...
The Right Stuff Drugs and Democracy
Morphine is said to be good for people subject to severe depressions, or even pessimism. Although the drug first surfaced in a laboratory at the end of the last century, its basis, opium, had been used earlier by many aristocratic and reactionary thinkers. A young and secretive German romantic, Novalis, enjoyed eating and smoking opium...
Stepping Up to the Plate
At the end of Garet Garrettās Rise of Empire, the grizzled old prophet of the dystopia weāre living in held out hope to his conservative comrades and their intellectual descendants.Ā Although pessimistic by nature (at least so it seems to me), the Old Right journalist, novelist, and peerless polemicist ended his philippic against empire this...
The Barbarian Marshes
Celt, Roman, Angle, Saxon, Dane, Norman, Pictāand Bengali, Afro-Caribbean, Turk, Arab, Chinese. Glyndebourne, swan-upping, roast beef and Maypolesāand arranged marriages, bowing to Mecca, halal meat, chop suey. Harris tweedāand saris. Anglicanism and Catholicismāand Diwali, Rastafarian New Year, Ramadan. Milton, Shakespeare āand Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison. All of the former, traditionally British things have been, are...
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...
Good Country People
Loving Produced by Raindog FilmsĀ Directed and written by Jeff NicholsĀ Distributed by Focus FeaturesĀ Hacksaw Ridge Produced by Cross Creek PicturesĀ Directed by Mel Gibson Screenplay by Robert Schenkkan and Andrew KnightĀ Distributed by Summit EntertainmentĀ I first learned about miscegenation in 1958.Ā A student in my high-school religion class asked our teacher, Father...
From MLK to CRT
Martin Luther King cannot be retrofitted as a conservative. He was at heart an activist of the left, and his ideas were in large part a precursor to critical race theory.
Short Views
Some people love to go to Washington. The sight of so much power and wealth is exhilarating, especially for young conservative writers who discover that their names are recognized on the Hill. For many, however, the reaction is just the reverse. Within a few hours they are mulling over certain scriptural passages in Eliotā”Oh my...
The Future of Minority Culture(s)
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,...
The Mental Time Machine
The Metropolitan Opera has a new production of Bizetās Carmen, which premiered in New York City last New Yearās Eve. 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. Mr. Tommasini raved over the production, the work of the...
Texas Rebellion
You must have noticed that the National Education Association, the New York Times, ABC, NBC, CBS, left-wing bloggers, and even the Dallas Morning News went ape in March over the outcome of textbook deliberations in Texas.Ā It seems that the state board of education, dominated by political and social conservatives, prescribed changes in model curricula...
The Un-Magnificent Obsession
Almost precisely a year after the name of Monica Lewinsky began to displace those of Princess Diana and Jackie Onassis from the headlines of supermarket tabloids, the one-time object of Miss Lewinsky’s more tender affections emerged triumphant over his foes in what are still laughingly called the “conservative movement” and the “Republican Party.” The conservative...
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...
Remembering Michael Oakeshott
Michael Oakeshott warned that rationalism in politics leads to rigid, rule-bound governance, and to the imposition of the state's enterprise over and against the free association of individuals.
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...
Erasing Mason-Dixon
TheĀ South has an enduring status as a region somewhat separate from the main thrust of American life. The tension beĀtween agrarian and commercial impulses in American society, epitomized by the yeomen idealized in Thomas Jefferson’sĀ Notes on the State of Virginia and the striving industrial class whose rise was promoted by Alexander Hamilton’s ReĀports as Secretary...
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...
The Past as Prologue
David Vital describes his work as a political history, whose subject is the exercise of legitimate violence. He recounts how the Jews of Europe addressed the political crisis that overtook them between the end of the ancien regime in 1789 and the collapse of their rebuilt social order in Europe in 1939: His subject is...
Remembering John C. Calhoun
Though John C. Calhoun was a distinguished American statesman and thinker, he is little appreciated in his own country. Calhoun rose to prominence on the eve of the War of 1812 as a āwar hawkā in the House of Representatives and was the Hercules who labored untiringly in the war effort. While still a congressman,...
CNN and the Dating Game Killer
On July 24 we learned that Rodney James Alcala, the so-called āThe Dating Game Killer,ā died at age 77 of natural causes. Alcala was given that name because in 1978 he appeared onĀ The Dating GameĀ television program, just at the same time he was carrying out a killing spree that included at least five known and...
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...
Grand Strategy Revisited
In an election campaign dominated by domestic issues, foreign themes have appeared as isolated snippets.Ā Questions regarding what to do about Syria or Iran, or how to manage relations with China and Russia, produce stock responses unrelated to the broad picture.Ā These are among the most important questions facing political decisionmakers, foreign-policy practitioners, and their...