āShop Like You Mean Itā read the ads for a nearby mall every āHoliday Season.āĀ The obvious question is: Mean what?Ā The ad agency probably wants us to get into the spirit of the season of wasteful expenditure and conspicuous consumption, but, if we interpreted their ungrammatical sentence not according to the intention but according...
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The Presidentās Painted Corner
A prudent power will always seek to keep open as many options as possible in its foreign-policy making. An increasingly rigid system of alliances, coupled with mobilization blueprints and railway timetables, reduced the European powersā scope for maneuver in the summer of 1914 and contributed to the ensuing catastrophe. The United States, by contrast, entered...
Uncle Sam’s Child
The recent election season opened with hopes high for an intelligent debate of family issues. The 1991 Final Report of the National Commission on Children (on which I served) seemed to have broken the moral and political logjams that had long prevented this dialogue. The commissioners had decided, after extensive argument, to avoid the mistake...
Sex, Propaganda, and Higher Education
Over the past few years, college administrators and faculty committees have been tackling a relatively new ethical question raised on campuses across the nation: What about sex between faculty members and students?Ā Older professors can remember when the answer to that question would have been obvious.Ā Some can even recall a time when the question...
Our Demographic Destiny
If dispassion is the tone best suited for writing about contentious ethnic and demographic issues, this lucid survey of the numbers question across much of the Northern Hemisphere deserves every plaudit. With palpable restraint and sometimes maddening equivocation, demographer Michael Teitelbaum and historian Jay Winter survey the intertwined issues of birth rates, immigration, and other...
Athens and Jerusalem V: The Germanization of Christianity
Some Tedious but Necessary Preliminaries The title of James C. Russell's The Germanization of Medieval Christianity: A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation does not sound like the opening shot in a war against Christianity. Ā However, ever since Sam Francis' apparently glowing review, conservative neopagans, atheists, and Nordicists have trumpeted the book ...
Ending āDonāt Ask, Donāt Tellā
If you want to know why it isnāt a bright idea to permit homosexuals to serve openly in the military, consider the subject of āsnorkeling.ā That, according to The Atlantic, was one of Rep. Eric Massaās occupation specialties as a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy. You might have heard of Mr. Massa. He quit...
The State Versus the American Culture
Prominent figures on the intellectual andĀ political right are increasingly questioning the superiority of markets over government. In the cultural realm, that argument has a long history, with traditionalists arguing that market forces undermine morality and cause an ever-increasing vulgarization of culture and society. Libertarians agree that this is true but celebrate the outcomes, or at...
George Soros and the Cult of Death
The Financial Times has selected George Soros as its Person of the Year. According to the paper, this choice was made both as a reflection of his achievements and for the values he represents: He is the standard bearer of liberal democracy and open societyā¦ For more than three decades, Mr Soros has used philanthropy...
The Lyric of Tradition
“The Lyric of Tradition” is an essay written nearly twenty-five years ago by the late Donald Davidson, celebrated American poet, critic, and philosopher of cultural change who developed, out of his own artistic practice, a comprehensive theory of the role of literature in a healthy society. It was a view not at all like those...
Viva la Musical Comedy
A few months before I saw the musical Les Miserablesāactually a few months before it opened at the Kennedy Center last DecemberāI heard it. The show’s publicist had sent me a tape of the London version. When I first listened to it, I felt disappointed. It sounded more than a little like Evita, with the...
Globalists & Nationalists: Who Owns the Future?
Robert Bartley, the late editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal, was a free trade zealot who for decades championed a five-word amendment to the Constitution: “There shall be open borders.” Bartley accepted what the erasure of America’s borders and an endless influx or foreign peoples and goods would mean for his country. Said...
Uncle Sam and the Third Balkan War
Whenever you hear the New World Order crowd whining about the obligation of the “international community” to come to the rescue of a “multiethnic democracy” threatened by “nationalism,” get ready for Uncle Sam to be dragged off on a fool’s errand. This term, “multiethnic democracy,” the prime exemplar of which is supposedly the United States,...
The Ideological Temptation of the Media
There have been, in recent decades, two focal points around which radical, utopian ideologies could concentrate. As a result, these two focuses-labor unions and youth-were surrounded by a veritable cult, and they acquired power, both political and cultural, even though the second of the two focuses was not, as such, organized, let alone structured. Power...
The Constitution Knows
What is the justification for abortion?Ā Is abortion a moral or therapeutic concept?Ā Medical or legal?Ā Sociological or personal?Ā These considerations underlie Gosnell: The Untold Story of Americaās Most Prolific Serial Killer, a narrative of the comprehensive criminal enterprise of Kermit Gosnell, M.D., Philadelphiaās notorious baby killer and drug trafficker, by the Irish journalists Ann...
This Land for Hire
“Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens); the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.” āGeorge Washington The day after Bill Clinton’s election, the new leader...
Letter From the Classroom: Mashie Niblicks of the World, Unite!
My charming, patient Post-War British Fiction-studying undergraduates are currently becalmed in the brackish waters of Lawrence Durrellās Justine, the first novel of his Alexandria Quartet.Ā I say ābrackishā because Mr. Durrell can scarce forbear to use the adjective when Alexandriaās salt-sea breezes blow off the torpid waters of the port.Ā Torpidāthereās another word to conjure...
Beyond Conservatism
“Paleoconservatism” is an awkward word, but then what it purports to describe is an awkward thing. The word in the English language that it most resembles is “paleontology”āthe scientific study of fossilsāand a fossil is precisely what most of the enemies of paleoconservatism accuse it of being. Coined in 1986 or ’87, the word was...
Avoiding Democracy
Does America exist anymore, or is the nation only a fantasy concocted out of old Frank Capra movies, civics classes, and pamphlets from the Department of Education? The weight of the evidence suggests the latter. Twenty years agoāancient history by the standards of the pressāa considerable number of young men who refused to fight in...
A Report on the Warfare Used Against Language Critics
A few years ago when I read Grammar and Good Taste by Dennis E. Baron, I was surprised by the contempt with which the author, a linguist teaching at a university, spoke of language critics. I was aware, of course, of the ritual cursing of traditional grammar and grammarians by some writers of introductory books...
The Ice Storm
This morning, an icy December predawn, about 5:30, Oncor, our utility company, performed a miracle.Ā Iām not sure if anyone actually said, āLet there be light!ā; but for a certainty, there was lightāand heatāand it was good.Ā After more than 55 hours without electrical power, my wife and I, our three animals, and an array...
Letter From Rockford: How the Little Guys Won
Editors’ note: Our hometown of Rockford, Illinois, is celebrated by pollsters as one of the most demographically average cities in the United States. Not surprisingly, then, our political, economic, and cultural trials reflect those of the country at large. In “Letter From Rockford,” a recurring column, Rockford writers will examine local issues that have national...
The Witch
She was a witch, I swear, she was a real witch! āGogol When my novella, which I was writing obsessively all my senior year at the Academy and a year after that, was accepted by a publisher and I was given a modest advance, I decided to buy myself an apartment. I, of course, didn’t...
On the Lam From the Census Bureau
Iām hiding outāfrom the Census Bureau.Ā True, they usually donāt send out U.S. marshals with guns and handcuffs.Ā But Iām playing it safe anyway, because the Bureau has been after me since I failed to fill out its treasured questionnaire, āThe American Community Survey.ā Iāve been through this before.Ā I donāt mind if the government...
The Dream Ticket
[McCain and Soros: The Most Dangerous Man in America, Bankrolled By the Most Evil Man in the World] āWhile the natural instincts of democracy lead the people to banish distinguished men from power,ā Tocqueville wrote in Democracy in America, āan instinct no less powerful leads distinguished men to shun careers in politics, in which it...
āIt Takes Brass To Get Goldā
All things at Rome are for sale. āJuvenal Thomas Jefferson has left us an account of a supper-table conversation in the very earliest days of the U.S. government.Ā Vice President John Adams (who was intended by nature for a preacher) declaimed at length about the virtues of the British government, which, he said, if purged...
Crime Story: The Godfather as Political Metaphor
From the October 1992 issue of Chronicles. Probably not since Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind has a popular novel influenced Americans as deeply as Mario Puzo’s The Godfather. Appearing in 1969, the book remains, according to the inflated come-on of its publisher’s blurb, “the all-time best-selling novel in publishing history.” If true, that claim...
Conservative Credo IV: The Abortion Debate
The Abortion Debate In the 20th century the most powerful and difficult transitions in human life have been turned into political war zones in which the different sides routinely invoke the power of government to establish and enforce their points of view.Ā Few debates have been so heated as those involving the decision to terminate...
Arguing With Jesus
Professor Neusner, one of the world’s most accomplished scholars in the field of religious studies, begins by proclaiming that as a practicing and believing Jew he says a polite “No” to another practicing and believing Jewābut one who made extraordinary claims for himself āJesus of Nazareth. Both the “No” and the politeness come out clearly...
Onward, Christian Nationalist
Self-described Christian nationalists should be focused on repairing the disastrous mistake of liberalism and returning to objective moral foundations.
The Future of American Nationalism
“All the evidence shows that differentiation which is not fragmentation is a source of strength. But such differentiation is possible only if there is a center toward which the parts look for their meaning and validation.” āRichard M. Weaver One of the most interesting of many superb memoirs of the American Civil War is that...
Trump in Helsinki: The Score (I)
The hysterical media/establishment/Deep State reaction to President Trumpās comments in Helsinki is based on a lie. U.S. intelligence chiefs, current and former, fire back at Trumpāa sample offering from the NPRāquotes Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats as saying the U.S. intelligence community has been āclear in our assessments of Russian meddling in the 2016...
Ground Zero Mosque: Correcting the Non-Debate
Excerpts from a speech at Providence College given on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Two sets of fallacies have dominated the mainstream debate about the Ground Zero mosqueāand before we go any further, letās get this straight: it is a mosque, frantic insistence by the Qusling elite to use one euphemistic misnomer ...
The Christian Roots of WEIRDness
The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Henrich Picador 704 pp., $24.00 Christianity has blessed us with essential elements of the Western world that we should want to preserve, even while it has also produced corrosive pieces of our current cultural predicament. The bizarre political quasi-religion of antiracist wokeism, with its ressentiment-driven obsession with...
A 28th Amendment
How different this country would be if we had a 28th Amendment which read: “An amendment approved by the legislatures of three-fourths of the States shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of this Constitution.” Three-fourths of the states, if they desired, would then be able to change the Constitution without the...
Teaching Religion and Religious Teaching
Some years ago, I was in Washington, D.C., for the annual convention of the American Academy of Religion, a vast gathering of college professors teaching in the area of Religious Studies, when an astonished cabdriver asked me who all these hordes of people were. When I explained the conference to him, he whistled and said,...
Print the Legend
At the Alamo, Davy Crockett either: A. Died while swinging old Betsy; B. Came radically disconnected when he torched the powder magazine; C. Surrendered to the Mexicans, who tortured, then killed him, along with six other Anglo survivors of the siege. Does it matter immensely which of these versions of Crockett’s death commends itself to...
Shelter From the Storm
The trial of 12 sanctuary workers in Tucson has heated up an issue which is being hailed in many quarters as the great moral issue of the 1980’s. The movement, whose members provide protection to illegal immigrants from Central America, is protesting the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service’s refusal to recognize Salvadoran and Guatemalan emigrants...
Some Thoughts on the Debate
I do not know who won last nightās debate, but I do know who lost: Jeb Bush. His comments consisted largely of empty platitudes, weakly delivered. He came across as someone who didnāt really want to be President, or at least didnāt want to work for it. I watched the debate at a gathering of...
Who Is Pete Schaub?
When Pete Schaub, a business major in his senior year at the University of Washington at Seattle, couldn’t get into an overenrolled business course for the first quarter of 1988, he signed up for “Women 200: Introduction to Women Studies” instead. He was expecting to learn about “the history of women and the contributions that...
My Country 60’s
I lived in Vermont from 1962-71, and I met many of what I later came to call 60’s people. While I recognized them for what they were at the timeāthat required no great penetrationānevertheless there were things about them that puzzled me: Why did they suddenly appear in droves there and then? Why were they...
My Conversation With Alex Jones
I always had the general impression that radio shock-jock Alex Jones was a hucksterābasically an entertainer, as opposed to a serious person.Ā Iād never bothered to listen to his broadcasts, and all I knew about him was secondhand.Ā My recent encounter with Jones gave me the chance to find out the truth for myself. The...
Traveler’s Tales
Coelum, non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt was Horace’s observation on the narrowing effects of travel: “Those who go across the sea change their weather but not their mind.” It is the rare tourist who gets more out of his expeditions than a confirmation of his prejudices. One of the most intelligent visitors to...
Infamies
Exactly 60 years before the terrorist attacks of 2001, September 11 became a day of infamy for many Americans because of what Col. Charles A. Lindbergh said to an audience in Des Moines, Iowa, that day.Ā Speaking as a member of the America First Committee, Lindbergh warned his listeners, in words that immediately became world-famous,...
Politics and Economics in America
All things at Rome are for sale. āJuvenal Thomas Jefferson has left us an account of a supper-table conversation in the very earliest days of the U.S. government.Ā Vice President John Adams (who was intended by nature for a preacher) declaimed at length about the virtues of the British government, which, he ...
Honest Journalist
Why are the phrases āhonest journalistā and āfree pressā so often greeted with a snicker?Ā Of course, everyone exempts his own columnist or talking head from the general condemnation, but most Americans also exempt their own congressman from the universal condemnation of Congress as a body made up of toadies and swindlers.Ā To see the...
The Latest Jewish Ghetto
Long before ethnicity became the focus of studying neglected groups and culturesāthe black, Judaic, Chicano, and feminist counterpart to “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it”āleading intellectuals such as Simone de Beauvoir, in feminist studies; Harry A. Wolfson, in Judaism as part of the Western philosophical tradition; Eugene Genovese and John Hope Franklin, in...
The Dream Ticket
āWhile the natural instincts of democracy lead the people to banish distinguished men from power,ā Tocqueville wrote in Democracy in America, āan instinct no less powerful leads distinguished men to shun careers in politics, in which it is so very difficult to remain entirely true to oneself or to advance without self-abasement.ā Some 170 years...
John McCain: The Score
Now that a week has passed since Sen. John Sidney McCain III was given a truly presidential sendoff in Washington, it is not in poor form to try and amend the gushing record presented by the media and the bipartisan establishment. The plaudits and perorations are well known, including Meghan McCainās amazing claim that Americaās...
The Personal Is Not the Political
The Lives of Others Produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk and Creado Film Directed and written by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics Breach Produced and distributed by Universal Pictures Directed by Billy Ray Screenplay by Adam Mazer and William Rotko Anyone who wants to know what it is like to live in a...