“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...
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Cinematic Imagination Under Siege
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Produced and Distributed by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation and Walter Wanger Productions Directed by Don Siegel Screenplay by Jack Finney and Daniel Mainwaring I recently proposed Don Siegelās 1956 science-fiction film Invasion of the Body Snatchers as required viewing for directors who have lost their way.Ā I was thinking...
The Revenge of History
History has a way of taking its revenge on those who would violate it. It does not forget. Mikhail Heller and Aleksandr Nekrich are some of the few Soviet-born intellectuals who have studied how much current Soviet policies and propaganda abuse Russian history. Their book is an eloquent effort to set straight the historical record...
Revitalizing Rockford
In January, this column will celebrate its fifth anniversary. When Tom Fleming and I originally conceived of the idea back in 1998 (as an occasional āLetter From Rockfordā to be written by various local activists), we were capitalizing on the fact that ...
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...
A Few Comments on A Strange Liberty
In his new book, former Mises Institute President Jeff Deist writes incisively about the evils associated with the modern administrative state, including an important discussion of the late Murray Rothbardās views on immigration.
Law and Liberty
Letās say that a state passed a statute proscribing teachers from teaching reading in a language other than English until the student had passed the eighth grade.Ā Violation of the statute was a misdemeanor.Ā The stateās rationale was to assure that immigrant children learned English and assimilated.Ā In fact, the state declared that teaching immigrant...
Atrocities Azteca
Nearly every celebration of Mexican heritage by Mexicans in the United States now features references to the Aztecs and some form of traditional Aztec dance, called La Danza Azteca.Ā This would be something like the Irish celebrating Oliver Cromwell and the Cromwellian confiscations and settlementāonly worse.Ā Few Mexicans today, on either side of the border,...
On Reversing Course
In āNow He Knows the Rest of the Storyā (Rockford Files, May), Scott P. Richert wrote that Paul Harvey āreversed course on the Vietnam Warā in 1970, having previously been a supporter.Ā I remember distinctly that he made this decision as he drove his son to Canada to avoid the draft.Ā But I am sure...
A Lawyer’s Lawyer
Judge John Roberts of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, whom President George W. Bush has nominated to take the place of retiring Associate Justice Sandra Day OāConnor, is what we used to call a ālawyerās lawyer.āĀ He comes fromĀ Harvard College, Harvard Law School, the Harvard Law Review, a...
Feminism Fatigued
The feminist centuryāoursāis markedly different from any period known . . . I was going to say “to man” but perhaps we don’t talk that way anymore. Events have transformed the relationship of the sexes from one in which men occupied most leadership roles to one in which women make laws, minister the sacraments, and...
The Toilet Paper Flagship: Creative Resistance to Pandemic Restrictions
For over a year now, governments across the world have introduced and enforced a series of arbitrary restrictions on their citizens and their businesses, but not without a certain degree of pushback. Some small businesses in Germany have found a creative way to maneuver around the diktats of Chancellor Angela Merkel and other governmental leaders.Ā The...
With the GOPāOr Without It
Donald J. Trump is the political issue of our time.Ā Yet Mr. Trump is, in a very real sense, peripheral to present events.Ā He is a result, not the effective cause; a symptom, not the disease.Ā The significant thing is not the rebel candidate but the crisis of the Republican Party, so long arriving, which...
Black Murder
Imagine the devastating effect, even on the mass of young black men who successfully resist the temptation to violence, of Gwen Guthrie’s song Ain’t Nothin’ Coin’ On But The Rent: Boy, nothing in life is free / That’s why I’m asking you what can you do for me / I’ve got responsibility / So I’m...
I Gave Them a Sword
Frost/Nixon Produced by Imagine Entertainment and Studio Canal Directed by Ron Howard Screenplay by Peter Morgan Distributed by Universal Pictures Ā On August 9, 1974, the day Richard Nixon officially resigned from the presidency, I discovered just how rabid political hatred could become short of taking up arms.Ā I was in my faculty cubicle after...
Deconstructing Miss Dixie
College-football season has begun again in the South.Ā Here in Alabama, football is more like a religion than a sport.Ā Having both attended and taught at The University of Alabama from the 1970ās through the 1990ās, I was at ground zero of college-football fanaticism, and I must confess that I still like the excitement. But...
Racak Revisited
Back in 1994, a major news item proved unfit for publication in any “mainstream” media outlets in the United States. It concerned the possibilityāwhich turned into a virtual certaintyāthat the Bosnian Muslim government staged the infamous “marketplace massacre” in Sarajevo, killing 66 of its own people. The U.S. government promptly blamed the Serbs. In subsequent...
Beating Down Greece
I was sad to read that the Attikon Cinema on Stadiou Street in central Athens was burned down by anarchist scum pretending to protest against the E.U. Nazis.Ā The Attikon was built in 1870 as part of a beautiful, ochre-colored neoclassical edifice constructed by a German architect, only to be torched 142 years later by...
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...
Learning Goodness
From the July 1988 issue of Chronicles. If is ironic that the thoughts of this essay, extracted from a commencement address I gave at Claremont McKenna College in the spring of 1987, celebrate an old Stanford University tradition of submerging all students in the classical thought of the West as a precondition to graduation, no...
The Heart of Darkness
When the Vietnam War ended in 1975, over 58,000 Americans had lost their lives over the course of almost 20 years.Ā Whatever one may think of the justice or prudence of the U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia, only the most callous of souls regards that loss of life with complete indifference. When the Northern Illinois...
Fascism in Montford
During the early morning hours of Monday, March 31, an unidentified person or persons smashed out the window of a ten-year-old Honda Civic parked on Cumberland Street in the neighborhood of Montford in Asheville. The car is registered in my name. My son, who works here in Asheville, had used the car for several years...
Something Rotten in the State
Ā With the number of Secret Service members and agents caught up in the partying-with-prostitutes scandal in Cartagena now at a dozen, and six already gone, how much wider and deeper does this go? No one can take pleasure in seeing Secret Service agentsāwhose deserved reputation is that they will “take a bullet” for the...
On Helping Taiwan
In his article āOut on a Limb: Americaās Pledge to Defend Taiwanā (Vital Signs, December), Ted Galen Carpenter does not discuss whether it is in Americaās national interest for Taiwan to fall under the control of the Beijing regime.Ā Instead, he argues that our Asian allies may not support our defense of the island.Ā To...
Who Promoted Private Ryan?
Forty-eight hours after Donald Trump wrapped up the Republican nomination with a smashing victory in the Indiana primary, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he could not yet support Trump. In millennial teen-talk, Ryan told CNN’s Jake Tapper, “I’m just not ready to do that at this point. I’m not there right now.” “[T]he bulk...
Field of Schemes
Except for the filming of 61Ā¤, the upcoming movie about the home-run race between Yankees Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris in 1961, there was no action last summer at Tiger Stadium. The Detroit Tigers have ditched their historic home at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Trumbull and are entering their second season at their...
Myths, Visions, Passions
Martin Seymour-Smith: Robert Graves: His Life and Work; Holt, Rinehart & Winston; New York. Douglas Archibald: Yeats; Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY. Although the era of āHigh Modernismā is well in the past, the pantheon of modern literature still seems to many a palace of confusions. The paradoxes and contradictions, the conflicting impulses that informed...
Ubuntu!
From the December 2009 issue of Chronicles. William Murchison gets right to the point in his eloquent account of mainline Protestantismās near-terminal degeneration, written poignantly from an Anglicanās perspective: Whenever traditional Christianity clashed with late-twentieth-century culture, the Episcopal Church normally weighed in on the side of the culture: for enhanced choice in life, for more...
Waco in Moscow
The standoff between President Yeltsin and the Russian Parliament ended in flames and gunfire that can be compared to the sad scenes of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. Even the scare tactic of round-the-clock rap music was emulated by Russian spetsnats troops. Having crushed his opponents, Mr. Yeltsin returned Russia to its familiar...
Diary of a Peripheral Male
Midatlantic It has been a long day for this straight European male. O’Hare Airport is a decompression chamber between Middle America and the rest of the world: rude United clerks who act as if they own the airline; the gauntlet of guards at the X-ray machines, none of whom is able to speak English; and...
The Rules of Debate No Longer Work
Gun rights activist Dana Loesch recently complained that she had been denied the right to respond to her critics on Twitter, according to a story reported in theĀ New York Post. Unlike her adversaries, who are free to swing away at her, Loesch is not allowed to use Twitterās fact-checking platform to correct their misstatements. Loesch...
Thoroughly Modern Millies
So I spurred my mule, and I went riding on down the road Minding my own business, ānā I wasnāt bothering a soul. So finally I rode into town, And I seed the man standing at the window, pulling off his clothes. Every time heād pull off a piece, he threw it out the window....
The One Civilization
Popular culture in the West, and especially in North America, is an illusion, mostly electronic, that does not feed the soul.Ā Indeed, it claims to do nothing but feed the senses, and as such it tends toward universal barbarism, fostering ignorance and encouraging violence. Beneath the illusion there is, however, one great civilization, and it...
Who Wants War with Iranāand Why?
In the run-up to Christmas, President Donald Trump has been the beneficiary of some surprisingly good news and glad tidings. Sunday, Vladimir Putin called to thank him and the CIA for providing Russia critical information that helped abort an ISIS plot to massacre visitors to Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg. Monday found polls showing Trump...
What This Country Needs
“The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!” āHamlet, Act I, Sc.5 The Amazing Media Machine, dripping oil and self-satisfaction, roared to new life with Jeb Bush’s declaration of his presidential candidacy. At lastāsomething to talk about. We have Jebā”Jeb!” as the campaign button puts...
Canāt Get No Satisfaction
Brokeback Mountain Produced and distributed by Focus Features Directed by Ang LeeScreenplay by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana from a story by Annie Proulx An enlightened colleague recently asked me what I thought of director Ang Leeās film Brokeback Mountain. When I told him I thought it a dreary, sappy soap opera, he smiled pityingly...
The Lord’s Shepard
We had known it was a āwhite roadā when we had found it on the map, but when my wife and I got to the start of it, we hesitated.Ā There was a sign at the junction, and it made us stop and think: RD 103 EN LACUNE CIRCULATION DANGEREUSE ET DĆCONSEILLĆE. En lacune wasnāt...
A Valediction for Enoch Powell
Enoch Powell is dead, and it is as if a hill has suddenly vanished from the horizon. British life, conservative life, political philosophy, economic philosophy, classicism, Biblical studies, and learning generally are all the poorer for the death of this English original. Powell was a man of many contradictionsāclassicist and romantic, patriot and imperialist, politician...
An American Non-Hero
Sen. John McCainās death at 81 on August 25 was followed by effusive praise from everyone who is anyone in the Permanent State.Ā His memorial service at Washingtonās National Cathedral on September 1 confirmed that, inside the Beltway, even death is eminently political.Ā It was the biggest gathering of the nationās bipartisan establishment and its...
Old Route 66
Now, Iām a poor Oakie and Iām heading out west. Iām pulling a long trailer and my carās doing its best. We hit a long mountain and she began to boil. She blew a head gasket and it started dripping oil. The wheels is out of balance, she shimmies and she shakes. But it keeps...
Putting the Shoe on the Other Foot
For hypothetical purposes, letās say Joe Biden had spent the last four years in the White House and Donald Trump was the challenger. What if Biden was the one being dumped from office, despite evidence that Trump supporters engaged in questionable electioneering? What if election workers in heavily Republican areas had mistreated poll watchers in...
Lies and Consequences
The Post Produced by DreamworksĀ Directed by Steven SpielbergĀ Screenplay by Liz Hannah and Josh SingerĀ Distributed by Twentieth Century FoxĀ The Phantom Thread Produced and distributed by Focus FeaturesĀ Written and directed by Paul Thomas AndersonĀ The Post is Steven Spielbergās account of the Washington Postās 1971 decision to publish the Robert McNamara-ordered report...
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 Christian and Creation
Where does man fit into nature? What is his response to the created universe? Lynn White has argued that the Christian position is at the very heart of the environmental crisis. He, and others, see the biblical view of the dominion of man over nature as being responsible for our misuse of our natural resources....
The Merchants of Death of Sunset Boulevard
Playwright Robert Sherwood, the six-foot-seven weather vane of midcentury liberalism, once complained, “The trouble with me is that I start off with a big message and end with nothing but good entertainment.” That’s no trouble at all, as writer-director Preston Sturges insisted in his wonderful film Sullivan’s Travels (1941), but then Sherwood was unduly modest....
On Internment
Roger McGrathās article āAmerican MAGIC and Japanese-American Spiesā (Sins of Omission, October 2002) deserves a reply. I am not ignorant of the MAGIC?intercepts, but I insist that the United States was wrong to put the Nisei into concentration camps.Ā California Japanese born in Japan did become enemy aliens on December 7, 1941, subject to internment.Ā ...
Italian Lessons
Two or three times a week, after dinner, I watch the traffic jam outside Franco’s bar. What causes it nobody knows, but a perfectly ordinary intersection of two perfectly ordinary country roads is suddenly blocked. Nobody knows why the best watermelon is the one with the smallest spot on the bottom, or how come the...
A Divisive Statement
The Dixie Chicks have caused quite a stir in Lee Greenwoodās America.Ā To recap, for those who have taken E. Michael Jonesā advice and drop-kicked their television set out the front door: On March 10, during a concert in London, singer Natalie Maines said, āJust so you know, weāre ashamed the President of the United...
An American Prometheus
Sprawled on the sands of the New Mexico desert, Isador Isaac Rabi was witness on July 16, 1945, to a demonstration of scientific power so spectacular that neither his welder’s glasses nor his analytical training could fully shield him from its awe-inspiring effects: Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I...
āTech Totalitariansā vs. the Right
The ātech totalitariansā of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Google have been joined by financial services corporations like Paypal in not only āde-platformingā and censoring alternative voices on the Right but āde-financingā them by blocking access to their services. Paypal is teaming up with the leftist, anti-Christian Southern Poverty Law Center to determine who to ban...