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...
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Traveling in the Black
“I never save less than $400 on a round-trip ticket Kennedy-de Gaulle,” said the 40ish, balding businessman in the paneled bar of his Manhattan club. “I fly Concorde to Paris once a month. My secretary buys my New York-Paris ticket, which is presently around $1,200, and books my return. In Paris I change dollars at...
On the Way Out of Iraq
Dr. Srdja Trifkovicās āIraq: The Way Outā (American Proscenium, August) is the most promising piece I have seen since it became apparent that our initial military victory marked the beginning of our warfare in that country, not the end.Ā For more than a year, I have been advocating to those (precious few) who would listen...
Jihad Undefeated
Events are the building blocks of history. Narrative historians, starting with Thucydides, have focused on what they regarded as significant occurrences in order to present and evaluate the past. Ā The import of some events can be recognized by astute observers almost as soon as they occur. Edmund Burkeās 1790 Reflections on the Revolution in...
The Big Inequality
Readers who have been following the often-heated debate on Capital in the Twenty-First Century are likely to be astonished by the mildness of the authorās tone, and by his relaxed rhetorical manner.Ā Indeed, Professor Pikettyās book owes nothing to its famous namesake beyond its title, as well as, more substantially, its grounding assumption that economics...
Russia’s Bloody Gold
‘Lasciate ogni speranza” -Inferno, by Dante Alighieri The history of gold mining in Russiaāa record of the greatest abuses of human rights ever perpetratedāhas seldom been told. The use of slave labor in state-owned Russian mines goes back to the 19th century, when Lithuanian, Polish, and Ukrainian patriots who rebelled against Russian occupation were put...
“This Land Is My Land”
The pressures that swelling populations exert against natural resources often increase economic inequality. Fortunately, unequally distributed wealth and power can result in forms of ownership that achieve environmental protectionāfor example, the arrangements of Colombian ranchers in the province of Cordoba. As Juan Forero writes in the New York Times (August 6): “A few years ago,...
Personal Moral Values
Marines are a direct lot, not much given to subtlety. Their simple nature enables them to spot a ruse from the 500-meter line, and, on the issue of sodomites, they have quickly identified as nonsense Mr. Clinton’s doublespeak about “status” and “conduct.” Marines, well known for advertising their “status” by their “conduct,” know that the...
NATO After Libya: A Threat to European Stability
Ā Address given on Monday, August 29, at the international conference Central Europe, the EU and the new Russia at the Czech Parliament in Prague. More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, NATO is an obsolete and harmful anachronism. It has morphed into a vehicle for the attainment of misguided American...
Papagueria: II
Past Robles Junction where the road coming north from Sasabe meets Highway 86 we crossed onto the Papago reservation heading west toward the Indian capital of Sells, no lights ahead save the constellation of the Kitt Peak Observatory lifted high against the night sky by the bulk of the Baboquivari Mountains, and almost no traffic....
Reprise in Vegas
The long drive from Belen to Rancho JuĆ”rez seemed to HĆ©ctor an endless agony.Ā He found the place in the greatest confusion, AveMarĆa vacillating between grim determination and hysterics as she packed a suitcase, JesĆŗs āEddieā tramping back and forth in the sitting room, shaking his fist and vowing to track down ContracepciĆ³nās fiendish paramour...
Stranded by the Time Machine
“I don’t know whether it’s a good thing to run after our grandchildren and descendants.” Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā -Dobrica Cosic Ā H. G. Wells: Experiment in Autobiography; Little, Brown; Boston. Ā H. G. Wells in Love; Edited by G.P. Wells; Little, Brown; Boston. Ā Anthony West: H. G. Wells, Aspects of a Life; RandomĀ House;Ā New York....
Good News
Good News Blues What I started to say, my original impulse, was wrong. Not all wrong, but, anyway, riddled with error and inconsistency. I started to say this: that in many ways, speaking (as we one and all must) from my own limited angle, my assigned point of view, the times we seem to be...
The Puzzle of France
Robert Gildea, professor of modern history at Oxford, is the author of some half-dozen volumes dealing with France after 1800 or, in one case, Europe as a whole.Ā Most are broad studies or learned surveys (the terms are not intended as pejorative), very detailed, usually concentrating on one or more aspects of the picture.Ā One...
The Gentile Church Act II: An Excursus
To understand how the Church disentangled itself from Judaism, it is necessary to know a little bit about what the term “Jew” means. Modern Christians often seem to think that all the Old Testament patriarchs are Jews, though Adam and Abraham are obviously the ancestors of many nations. The “children of Israel” are, in tradition,...
The Proletarian Weapon
No sooner had George W. Bush entered the White House and its previous occupants padded off to Harlemāwith as much public swag as they could pack into the helicoptersāthan the news media suddenly began to discover “layoffs,” “downturns,” and a looming economic crisis that threatened to strip the flesh from the eight fat years that...
Cabbages and Worms
Umberto Bossi does not like journalists. His stock epithet for the gentlemen of the pressāapplied to them almost as regularly as “swift-footed” precedes Achillesāis vermi (worms), although he sometimes falls back on servi sciochi (idiot servants). Not too long ago, at a Lega Nord meeting, Bossi caught sight of the press corps covering the event...
The Decivilizing Century
When I contacted Transaction to request a review copy of the paperback edition of The Strange Death of Moral Britain (the hardback appeared in 2004), I was told I would have to wait for a few weeks, because they were completely out of stock of the first print run.Ā Perhaps this book has struck a...
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...
Books in Brief: December 2022
Short reviews of The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism, by Matthew Continetti, and The Black Boom, by Jason Riley.
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 ...
Banana Republicans
Shortly after the election of 1988 one grand old man of the Republican Party told me he thought Mr. Bush could do a creditable job so long as his administration faced no major crises. The very minor crisis of the abortive coup in Panama was the first serious test of this thesis, and it would...
The Problem With Womenās Sports
There are two sorts of men in the United States: those who follow sports and those who do not. If you do not, you probably do not know that the Chicago Skyāyes, that is their nameārecently won a national championship. If you do follow sports you also donāt know the news about the Chicago Sky,...
The New Sexual World Order
The New Sexual World Order is taking shape, thanks to the Peace Gorps, the United Nations, and the U.S. Congress. In late September, Dr. J. Ricker Polsdorfer, the Peace Corps’ director of medical services in Africa, was fired for promoting abstinence as a method of preventing AIDS. Dr. Polsdorfer’s crimes, according to the Peace Corps...
Our Free, Christian Land
St. PetersburgāA while back, synagogue members and civil rights groups picketed the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, when the Coral Ridge Ministries held a conference on “Reclaiming America for Christ.” The local newspaper reported, “Thousands of Christian activists from across the nation discussed such topics as, ‘reclaiming the public schools,’ ‘battle for our...
Government by the People
HĆ©ctor Villa was, by nature, a patient, long-suffering man.Ā Even so, he arrived home in a cross mood that evening, at the end of an unusually frustrating day.Ā First, there had been the traffic ticket; next, his unproductive meeting with Mrs. Ahmadinejihad.Ā Finally, heād been unable to meet with the school principal, after waiting for...
Nostalgia Trips
“Long ago there was something in me but now that thing is goneā¦That thing will come back no more.ā – F. Scott Fitzgerald Ā Douglas Unger: Leaving the Land; Harper & Row; New York. Ā William McPherson: Testing the Current; Simon & Schuster; New York. Ā It would be off the mark to regard Douglas...
Cop in the SPLC’s Crosshairs
Schoolchildren all across America are taught they live in the Land of the Free and that freedom of speech is a bedrock right. This is patently untrue, especially if one falls into any of these unfortunate demographic categories: Christian, white, Southern, or male. God help you if, like me, you fall into all four. Aside...
The Great American Outlaw
When Public Enemies was making the rounds in theaters across America last summer, doing nearly $100 million of business domestically, I was reminded that we Americans love our outlawsānot our criminals, mind you, but our outlaws.Ā It is a distinction with a difference.Ā Criminals prey on the weak and vulnerable, mug old men and snatch...
Race and the Classless Society
A few months ago I was on a long plane ride when something rather startling happened: Someone sitting near me was actually polite.Ā He was in the seat immediately in front of mine, and before reclining he turned to look over his shoulder and askedāasked!āif I would mind if he leaned a little bit into...
Margaret Fuller in Rome
“Oh Rome! my country! city of the soul! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee!” āLord Byron, Child Harold’s Pilgrimage What is the greatest lost work of ancient literature? Was it Arctinus’ epic Aethiopis, which told of the battles of Achilles against Penthesilea, the Amazon Queen, and Memnon, black King of the Ethiopians?...
Fourteen Russian Hoaxes and What Explains Them
In the ongoing effort to redefine the governmentās relationship with American citizens and obtain control over their political speech and choices, hoaxes surrounding Russia have been the go-to play.
Always Something to Say
There are very few neoconservatives, people disagree on who they are, and they have no popular following or definite organizational structure.Ā Even so, they have deeply affected American public life for 40 years. Their influence has not gone unopposed.Ā The term neoconservative began as an insult and remains one.Ā Opponents tie the tendency to foreign...
O Canada
If the fuss over Canada’s Meech Lake Accords has you confused, William Gairdner’s The Trouble With Canada is a fine place to turn to. The book is a solid personal jeremiad against the egalitarian evils taking root in Canada, and the spineless politicians who make it possible. Gairdner fits the conflict over Quebec into this...
Whose Modernity?
When Pat Buchanan’s new book, The Great Betrayal, appeared in April, the hysteria that greeted it was entirely predictable. Not only does Mr, Buchanan challenge the free trade orthodoxy that is dominant among economists and policymakers in both political parties, but he also makes clear that the economic nationalism he champions is only a part...
The Real Clarence Thomas
Bitter attacks, tenacious defenses, and great promotionānot to speak of the best TV in a generationāhave made David Brock’s book on The Real Anita Hill a best-seller. As Brock admits, he proves neither Clarence Thomas’s innocence nor Anita Hill’s perfidy. But by scouring the transcript of the Senate hearings, he does show that Hill’s reputation...
Music of the Peers
I recently attended a performance by the quartet known as Montreux, a group which, as you may know, records for Windham Hill. I had first seen Montreux perform a couple years back during Detroit’s international jazz festival that’s called, coincidentally enough, Montreux/Detroit. Those whose sensibilities were shaped by rock and roll may know Montreux-the-city only...
Throwing Off the Yoke
As a display of āAmerica Standing Together,ā āEverybody Pile on Falwellā was even more dramatic a spectacle than āThree Firemen Holding the Flag.āĀ Following televised remarks by the founder of the Moral Majority to the effect that the terrorist attacks of September 11 conveyed Godās wrath against a nation that has been commandeered by heretics...
To Arms!
Concerning Scott P. Richertās reservations about secession, as expressed in the October Rockford Files (āTo Secede or Succeed?ā): Maybe āmany proponents of secession seem reluctant to considerā some of the alleged drawbacks of secession.Ā There certainly are risks.Ā The architects of unitary nationalism werenāt dummies.Ā The grants economy, the safety net, Social Security, and the...
Going Rove
The idea that the āfar rightā is on the cultural warpath is, like most liberal canards, the exact opposite of the truth.Ā See, for example, the sort of treatment handed out to the victor in Delawareās GOP senatorial primary.Ā The conservative Catholic Christine OāDonnell, a 46-year-old Sarah Palin knockoff, was immediately held up for ridicule...
On Liberal Education
My definition of liberal education as the education of liberals no longer sounds provocative. Liberalism, having failed and failed disastrously in all its political experiments from church disestablishment to women’s suffrage to food stamps, still reigns triumphant, with hardly a rival, in the empty corridors of the Western mind. How failed? The church is disestablished,...
Devil’s Mama
The rockets that, according to KhruĀshĀĀchev, were coming off his production line ālike sausagesā ran on kerosene and liquid oxygen.Ā So did Soviet foreign policy.Ā The kerosene was operational secrecy, an ingredient virtually unchanged since the 1920ās, whereby the regime concealed its expansionist aims.Ā The oxygen was maniacal braggadocio, which persuaded the West to see...
Bursting the Wineskin
Novitiate Produced by Maven PicturesĀ Written and directed by Maggie BettsĀ Distributed by Sony Pictures ClassicsĀ Growing up in the 1950ās, I was regaled with many stories about nuns and their punishing ways.Ā Having attended Roman Catholic grammar school through the third grade, I did some regaling myself despite knowing full well that my tales...
Hobbles and a Bridle
Neither Art Antilla nor I felt like getting drunk. We stood away from camp on the cliff edge above Devil’s Hole canyon, drinking black coffee while the Commissary Commandos huddled around the campfire with their whiskey bottles and someone pitched a bowling ball over the talus slope to the creek bottom 800 feet below for...
Transhumanism and the Cure for Suffering
Are there evolutionary purposes to human suffering? And, if so, what might these tell us about how to alleviate it through artificial intelligence and whether we should?
Back in the Locker
As I write, itās already been three weeks since the Academy Awards broadcast on March 7, and Iām still surprised that the judges for Hollywoodās annual ceremony of self-love named The Hurt Locker Best Picture of 2009, awarding it six Oscars in all.Ā The pooh-bahs of mediocrity voted for art rather than commerce, and so...
The Devil You Know
I read Rosemaryās Baby for the first time in late October.Ā I had watched Roman Polanskiās 1968 film adaptation years ago, but I had never bothered with Ira Levinās novel, assuming that it would have, at best, the literary merit of an Amityville Horror, and surely not rise even to the level of an average...
The Unbearable Bulldozers of Walmart
A theory about the mafia that was advanced in these pages by the late Samuel Francis about 15 years ago explains how Walmart, Costco, and Home Depot drive out your corner grocery, the local pharmacist, and Joeās Hardware.Ā The national expansion of these blights isnāt free enterprise.Ā Itās more akin to the nationwide expansion of...
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 Two Nations
Localism is the emergent political movement that presents the best alternative to globalism.