Some 30 years ago, I read Stuart Brentās The Seven Stairs, an autobiography about the authorās life-long love affair with his books and his Chicago bookshop, once a Mecca for bibliophiles and authors.Ā Brentās customers included patrons like Katharine Hepburn and Ernest Hemingway, and he counted among his friends numerous writers, including Nelson Algren. Though...
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The Struggle for the Soul of the Supreme Court
During Joe Bidenās 2020 campaign for president, when his fortunes were at their nadir, Joe Biden promised that he would nominate the first black woman to the United States Supreme Court. He reportedly made this pledge to James Clyburn (D-S.C.), the powerful African-American congressman, in return for Clyburnās help in securing the black vote in...
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...
Memo to Trump: Trade Bolton for Tulsi
“For too long our leaders have failed us, taking us into one regime change war after the next, leading us into a new Cold War and arms race, costing us trillions of our hard-earned tax payer dollars and countless lives. This insanity must end.” Donald Trump, circa 2016? Nope. That denunciation of John Bolton interventionism...
Roll, Jordan, Roll
So the anti-Confederate backlash comes to Dallas . . . but, then, maybe not. Maybe that isn’t fundamentally what happened when the Dallas school board, in June, voted to rename mostly black and Hispanic Jefferson Davis Elementary School for Barbara Jordan, the late Houston congresswoman. Here, likely, is what happened: Within the community at large,...
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...
The Gate to Quagmire
A team of Yugoslav journalists from Narodni Telegraf recently visited Camp Bondsteel, invited as guests to what used to be their country. Bondsteel is the largest U.S. military base in the Balkans, and in what seems a bad omen, the biggest that the U.S. military’ has constructed since Vietnam. It is being erected in the...
An Establishment Unhinged
Calling for a moratorium on Muslim immigration “until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on,” Donald Trump this week ignited a firestorm of historic proportions. As all the old hate wordsāxenophobe, racist, bigotāhave lost their electric charge from overuse, and Trump was being called a fascist demagogue and compared to...
No Peace for Iraq
From Operation Desert Storm, unleashed against Iraq by President George Bush, up to the present moment, the attack on Iraq has been relentless. As I write, a report of a U.S. sortie over Iraqi skies and a clash with Iraqi anti-aircraft guns is hitting the wiresāyet another skirmish in the continuous low-level warfare that has...
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...
The Never-Trumpers Are Never Coming Back
With never-Trump conservatives bailing on the GOP and crying out for the Party of Pelosi to save us, some painful truths need to be restated. The Republican Party of Bush I and II, of Bob Dole and John McCain, is history. It’s not coming back. Unlike the Bourbons after the Revolution and the Terror, after...
Policing and Profiling
A growing nationwide disdain for police officers has resulted from several highly publicized shootings of āunarmedā minority men who have resisted arrest or attacked officers.Ā The mediaās rhetoric has inflamed passions, resulting in the murders of two New York policemen seated in their cars, and the assassination of four Lakewood, Washington, officers eating in a...
The Bell Curve and Its Critics
Since its publication late last year, The Bell Curve by Charles Murray and the late Richard Herrnstein has encountered a barrage of criticism for emphasizing the societal implications of IQ differences. Some critics argue that the work rests upon “bogus” and “outdated” theories of intelligence. Others charge that the book promotes dubious scientific claims. One...
Shall We Fight Them All?
Saturday, Kim Jong Un tested an ICBM of sufficient range to hit the U.S. mainland. He is now working on its accuracy, and a nuclear warhead small enough to fit atop that missile that can survive re-entry. Unless we believe Kim is a suicidal madman, his goal seems clear. He wants what every nuclear power...
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...
Diary of a Driftless Conservative
āHillsboroās a conservative community,ā said Robert, and for three days and three nights I attempted to figure out what he meant. He said it right after we arrived at his shop, high atop a lush, sylvan hill off Beaver Creek Road, five miles south of Hillsboro in Western Wisconsin, the āDriftless Area.āĀ Itās called ādriftlessā...
What a Swell Party This Is
The final presidential election of the millennium is still more than a year away, but by last summer rumblings of discontent with the plastic dashboard figurines who are the leading candidates of the two major plastic dashboard political parties were already audible. The rumblings first attracted national notice when Pat Buchanan, in the course of...
What We Are Reading: August 2021
āAfter the quiet 1950s…incidents of political violence again became more frequent and now we may be in the middle of another wave of sociopolitical instability.ā Thus five years ago wrote Peter Turchin, a University of Connecticut professor specializing in āhistorical social science,ā a.k.a. Cliodynamics. After 2020ās violent nationwide political protests and the pandemicās destruction of...
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...
Out of the Toxic Fog of Feminist Anger
Domestic Extremist is a book we desperately need, hitting all the right keys and in the breezy, entertaining tone familiar to anyone who has read its author online.
The Whippoorwill
Ā Ā Ā Ā “The pure products of America go crazy.” āWilliam Carlos Williams The go-to-hell attitude, unique features, and deceptive talent by which we know Robert Mitchum (1917-1997) were the product of his heredity and experience. His father was a Scotch-Irish South Carolinian with some Amerindian bloodāhe died young in a railroad accident. His...
Claude Polin: A Remembrance
My wife and I shall visit Paris again this fall, as we have done for years, but the city will be an empty place for us following the death of our dear friend and my revered colleague, Claude Polin, on July 23.Ā Mercifully, Claude was spared the horrors of modern death in a nursing home...
The Crossroads Merchants
āStandinā at the crossroad I tried to flag a ride Didnāt nobody seem to know me everybody pass me byā āRobert Johnson I went to Charlotte in search of the New South and found it in a museum, the Levine Museum of the New South on 7th Street in Uptown Charlotte.Ā Like most historical museums,...
Space Invaders: Part I
As Americans continue their flight to the South from the regions that they’ve already ruined, I continue to monitor the low-intensity conflict between Yankee settlers and Southern natives. This public service is needed, I think, because we just don’t know much about what’s going on. Foundations and government agencies tended to see Southern migration to...
Theresa May: A Political Obituary
The time for Theresa Mayās political obituary is at hand. I write it with relish. There never was a politician on whom the gods lavished such favors, and who squandered their gifts with such perverse determination. She was presented with the leadership of the United Kingdom on a silver plate, without having to fight for...
A Tale of Two Disasters: The Balkans and the Middle East
Ā Yesterday and today (October 14-15) Iāve been taking part in an interesting conference at the Patriarchate of Pec, in the occupied Serbian province of Kosovo. Organized by Bishop Jovan (Culibrk), an old friend of Dr. Flemingās and mine,Ā The Balkans and the Middle East Mirroring Each OtherĀ marks the centenary of the First Balkan War and...
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...
Worrying the Southern Bone
Longtime readers of Chronicles are familiar with John Shelton Reed, who used to write a column for this magazine.Ā Those less familiar may recall the occasional news story based on the latest intelligence-gathering done by the University of North Carolinaās Center for the Study of Southern Culture, which Professor Reed founded.Ā Well-known among his fellow...
A No Longer āGreatā Britain
The Tories are coming apart at the seams and cannot stich up their poor performance or divisions. But a new right is rising.
Rescuing Story From History
By the end of the 18th century, the novel had already begun to replace the rich variety of narrative genres that preceded it. This is a familiar theme in the history of the arts in the modern period. One particular artistic form comes to be preferred for its freedom; it crowds out the other forms,...
Strictest US Lockdown Can’t Stem California COVID Cases
COVID-19 vaccine may have arrived, but government lockdowns are far from over. On Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson reinstated a strict lockdown in the United Kingdom, citing a surge in infections and hospitalizations fueled by what officials say is a more transmissible variant of the coronavirus. “It is clear that we need to do more...
Faith and the Dismal Science
Our old friend Tom Woods has painted himself into a corner. Portraying himself as an uncompromising ultratraditionalist who will have no truck either with the Novus Ordo or with anyone who does not condemn the Orthodox to Hell, he nonetheless takes it upon himself to contradict the Churchās fundamental teachings on morality and society. Woodsās...
The Price of Empire Globalism and Its Consequences
From the June 1997 issue ofĀ Chronicles. I know it will strike many people as odd to call the current foreign policy of the United States a form of “empire building” or “imperialism,” and of course none of our leaders would ever call it that. They would prefer some such term as “peacekeeping” or “spreading democracy”...
Circuit Rider
A town without a saloon is like a woman without a heart. I made Blanding, Utah, before sundown, checked into the Best Western Motel, and rang up the front desk from my room. “Is the Elk Ridge Restaurant within walking distance from here?” “It’s just half a block away.” “Do they have a liquor license?”...
Objective, Burma!
The Burma campaign included some of the most charismatic and colorful soldiers of World War II: Vinegar Joe Stilwell and his X-Force, Claire Chennault and his Flying Tigers, Frank Merrill and his Marauders; the British commanders Harold Alexander, William Slim, Archibald Wavell, Claude Auchinleck, Orde Wingate and his Chindits, and Lord Louis Mountbatten, luxuriously ensconced...
Iraq as āIntelligence Failureā: We Told You So
āW,ā a.k.a. āour Commander in Chief,ā is apparently even more blindly stubborn and willfully ignorant than I had thought.Ā As of this writing (December 2006), he is still distancing himself from the Iraq Study Groupās efforts to provide him cover for a withdrawal from the Middle East morass he has drawn us into.Ā Bush Senior,...
Macron’s Victory: A Dark Day for Europe
Emmanuel Macronās predictable victory in the second round of the French presidential election on May 7 is bad news for France and detrimental to the prospects of Europeās cultural and demographic survival. For details see my June column in Chronicles: he is a paradigmatic pastiche of Europeās postmodern transnational elite, a former international banker and...
We Ought to Like Ike
As a second-year West Point cadet in March 1969, I was returning to my room after chemistry class midafternoon on a Friday. As I stepped inside Pershing Barracks, I saw a number of cadets huddled around a note posted on the stairway railing. In neat penmanship were the words: āGeneral Eisenhower died this morning.ā Neither...
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...
The Gay Nihilism of Umberto Eco
Simone Weil wrote, with respect to literature, that “nothing is more beautiful, wonderful, ever new, ever more surprising, more sweetly and lastingly intoxicating than the good. Nothing is more arid, sad, monotonous and cranky than the had. Such are authentic goodness and evil. The fictional good and bad are opposite. The fictional good is cranky...
Syria: Too Much “Intelligence”
Only a few weeks into the latest round of horrors in Syria, we are getting used to the debasement of āintelligenceā to serve the crudest political ends.Ā In September, President Hollande showed the U.N. secretary general and journalists round the French military intelligence HQ at Creil north of Paris, where the amazed visitors admired the...
How We Got Here
Itās very well indeed to find an author of Chilton Williamson, Jr.ās distinction and intelligence bidding us to a discussion of democracy.Ā We need to have such a discussion.Ā And if you really want to know why we need to have it, consider the tenor of national conversation during the presidential campaign.Ā Take, for instance,...
The Color of Culture
As an observer of the educational scene at Stanford University during the last 14 years, I am taking the liberty of offering some comments on the proposed reforms in the course on Western culture. Among my professional interests has been a prolonged concern with the philosophy of education and with the philosophy of the curriculum....
The Fourth Choice
If you are looking for a reason to vote for Ralph Nader, the way both parties are handling the āgay marriageā issue should give you lots of data.Ā John Kerry, when asked his opinion of āgay marriage,ā looks like a dog getting a bath, as Chris Hitchens puts it.Ā Kerry says he personally opposes āgay...
Rose Hill College
Historians of the future who look back at us, assuming the survival of critical intelligence in the future, will characterize our times as the Age of Bureaucracy. A time in which nearly every human endeavorāreligion, education, economy, national defenseāwas swallowed up in huge institutions which existed for their own sakes rather than for the purposes...
Mr. Kaine and the Muslim
Though Democrats in Virginia are generally more fiscally conservative than their brethren in such tax-and-spend environs as Massachusetts or New York, some issues require them to adopt the boilerplate liberal platitudes and positions.Ā Immigration is one of them.Ā Islam is another.Ā Together, the two are a ticking time bomb, perhaps literally.Ā The governor of Virginia...
Conservatives and the Free Market
When everyone “hastens through by-paths to private profit,” Samuel Johnson remarked confidently in 1756, “no great change can suddenly be made.” So the market can be conservative in its effects. The notion is startling, especially from the pen of an 18th-century Tory, and it hardly matters for the moment whether the market Johnson had in...
The Death of Satire
The absurdity of the modern left, and rise of victim culture, make quality satire impossible. Absurdity is now taken seriously and cannot be mocked.
Patriotic Conservative
āFor God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.ā ā2 Timothy 1:7 āWhen neither their property nor honour is touched,ā wrote Mach-i-avelli, āthe majority of men live content.āĀ The American people, it is safe to say, do not live content.Ā Our property is...
Revolution in the Air
Thanks to a November election upset, Kafka, South Dakotaāhome of Lagado Universityāis poised to become the vanguard college town of 21st-century America. Joe Steele, a Lagado University English Department adjunct running as a candidate of the Farmer-Activist- Worker-Grad Student Alliance (a coalition of the Revolutionary Democratic Workers’ Party, the Workers’ Party of Democratic Revolutionaries, the...