Despite the ocean of ink that has been spilled in the last several months on the “religious right,” perhaps the most sensible comment about it, or at least about its journalistic coverage and political analysis, was penned by John F. Persinos in an article published in the magazine Campaigns and Elections last September. “When examined...
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Another Biden With Tax Problems
It should be no surprise that the president who constantly berates Americans to pay ātheir fair shareā and who wants to send the IRS after more Americans has a family full of entitled tax cheats. Hypocrisy is the Democrat way.
Labor Betrayed by the Progressive Left
The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America by Gabriel Winant Harvard University Press 368 pp., $35.00 Once upon a time, there were academic historians on whom the public could rely for help in accurately understanding the world in which we live. Scholars such as Samuel Eliot...
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?...
Secularists vs. Suicide Bombers
“What apparently happened was that the Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. . . . We can give them training, we can give them equipment; we obviously can’t give them the will to fight.” Thus did Defense Secretary Ash Carter identify the root cause of the rout of the Iraqi army in Ramadi....
Change and Its Consequences
Last October I journeyed to Moscow by invitation for a conference on conversion from military to civilian production. Upon arrival, my colleague, Professor Constantine Danopoulos of the political science department at San Jose State University, and I were informed that the meeting had been shifted to December to coincide with the Congress of the Supreme...
The Democratic Religion
A half-century ago, a politically ambitious intellectual celebrity named Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., defined liberalismās role as that of offering solutions to problems and solving them.Ā Even in the heyday of the Vital Center, that was far from a complete representation of liberalismās self-perceived task.Ā Today, when āadvanced liberalismā (the phrase is James Kalbās) is...
Italyās Push for Euthanasia: An End to āPointless Sufferingā
Thanks, in part, to the presence of the Roman Catholic Church, Italy has remained one of the least secularized countries in the European Union.Ā At present, however,Ā the Italian government, led by Prime Minister Romano Prodi, seems hellbent on irking the Catholic Church with its legislative initiatives, including its attempt to legalize homosexual unions and...
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...
Life and Death in a House Divided
The Supreme Court’s recent decision to review a Missouri abortion case has raised the spirits of the pro-life movement. In his appeal, Missouri’s attorney general asked the Court to reconsider Roe v. Wade, the landmark civil rights decision that made pregnant women and their physicians sole arbiters over who is born and who is not...
A Prince of Our Disorder
“Very few care for beauty; but anyone can be interested in gossip.” āC.S. Lewis In 1982 The Village Voice published an article accusing the famous Polish emigre writer Jerzy Kosinski of being a fraud. The authors (Geoffrey Stokes and Eliot Fremont-Smith) argued that Kosinski’s novels had all received extensive and unacknowledged “help” from various editorial...
Truth or Consequences: Redefining Plagiarism
A Trojan horse has passed through the gates of the academy, virtually unnoticed. The Sinon is Keith Miller, an assistant professor of English at Arizona State University and author of Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Its Sources (1992), and the subversive offering is his essay in the January 20...
Reagan and Trump: American Nationalists
Since World War II, the two men who have most terrified this city by winning the presidency are Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. And they have much in common. Both came out of the popular culture, Reagan out of Hollywood, Trump out of a successful reality TV show. Both possessed the gifts of showmenāextraordinarily valuable...
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...
Processions of the Damned
“Well, fellow, who are you?” demands the Earl of Warwick of a character who appears on stage for the first time at the end of George Bernard Shaw’s play Saint Joan. “I,” huffs the man who has just burned Joan of Arc at the stake, “am not addressed as fellow, my lord. I am the...
Die, Sterling!
Down with a resounding bang comes the wrath of that great moral institution, the National Basketball Association, upon the noggin of L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling.Ā Boo! Hiss! Get the hook!Ā And once youāve paid your $2.5 million fine, Sterling, for the offense of lax language during a private conversation, why donāt you just die?Ā ...
There Are Left the Mountains
Archibald MacLeishā”macarchibald maclapdog macleish,” e.e. cummings dubbed himāwondered, from his sinecure as Librarian of Congress in 1940, why “the writers of our generation in America” had such a provincial indifference to the war in Europe. They seemed, in Bernard De Voto’s phrase, more interested in Paris, Illinois, than in Paris, France. The reaction to this...
Judging the Serbs
On May 25, 1993, the U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 827, which established the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991. Of course, by ignoring the atrocities that occurred in the Balkans during 1941-1945 and by...
The Facts Behind the Greek Melodrama
Greece is now technically in default, having failed to pay its $1.8 bn monthly installment to the IMF which was due June 30. Contrary to the mainstream media treatment of the story, there will be no ripple effect and no major financial crisis. The Greeks are in dire straits, but their economy (the size of...
Taking the Tenth
A year or so ago, a concerned citizen asked Carl Fox, our district attorney, to listen to 2 Live Crew’s nasty album As Nasty as They Wanna Be. Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of the Duke English department had just argued in the New York Times that the album’s lyrics were a valid expression of...
Christopher Hitchens and the Days of Rage
On March 23, the Associated Press published a story dealing with sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church to little fanfare. It noted that allegations of sexual abuse involving the Catholic Church in the United States dropped in 2009, and that most of the alleged offenders āare dead, no longer in the priesthood, removed from...
The Post-Abortive Culture
The recent passage of the Texas Heartbeat Act, signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott on May 19, has resulted in feverish alarums across the land. These came after the U.S. Supreme Courtās refusal to block the law in late September, following an emergency application made by over a dozen Texas abortion providers and their...
What Empire?
One tangible effect of all of our recent wars has been a marked proliferation of U.S. military bases around the world.Ā Since the end of the Cold War, the number of countries that host American bases has increased by almost one third, to over 60.Ā Whether this proliferation has been a serendipitous result of unavoidable...
Is Common Sense Realism Making a Comeback?
The real battle being fought in America today is not between the right and the left. It is a battle between common sense and nonsense.
Never Paranoid Enough
āTrust no one.āĀ The landmark TV series The X-Files used that catchphrase in depicting a world riven with conspiracies that reach to the highest levels of the U.S. government.Ā Dana Scully and Fox Mulder, the fictional FBI agents who attempted to unravel these grand conspiracies, make the occasional appearance in Kathryn Olmstedās Real Enemies.Ā Man...
Things Are Looking Up
Damsels in Distress Produced by Westerly FilmsĀ Written and directed by Whit StillmanĀ Distributed by Sony Pictures ClassicsĀ Ā Is there a better remedy for depression than watching Fred Astaireās films?Ā Violet Wister (Greta Gerwig), the heroine of Whit Stillmanās magisterial Damsels in Distress, doesnāt think so.Ā Neither do I.Ā The medical and psychiatric communities...
Cultural Radicalism Is the Problem, Not Bolshevism
Socialism is cool again in America, but itās not your fatherās socialism. It is no longer āthe rival but the patsy of state capitalism,ā as Nathan Pinkoski writes in a penetrating article in Law & Liberty entitled āThe Strange Rise of Bourgeois Bolshevism.ā The villain of this new socialism āis not the bourgeois but the...
The Price of Hillary
No secretary of state will come to that office with stronger pro-Israel credentials or closer ties to the Jewish community than Sen. Hillary Clinton, Douglas Bloomfield assures his readers in The Jerusalem Post. Good for them, and for Bosniaās Muslims and Kosovoās Albanians; but for the rest of us Mrs. Clintonās appointment as the third...
Highway Robbery
On our Disneyland day, the first time for all of us, we rose at 6 A.M. to be sure to get there early, as we’d been warned to do. We showered, dressed, wolfed a donut in the Comfort Inn lobby, and proceeded to our Hyundai, parked in back. The right rear window was shattered. The...
Politicians Are Incentivized to Embrace Useless COVID-19 Restrictions
Over the weekend Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, took to Twitter to criticize Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker for not taking more assertive government action to slow the spread of the coronavirus. āMassachusetts has more new COVID cases per capita than Georgia, Florida, or Texas,ā observed Jha, who also...
U.S. Riots: A Guide for Foreigners
On June second, Dr. Trifkovic gave an interview to Serbiaās most popular morning news program, Pink TVās Novo jutro (The New Morning) on the ongoing disorder in American cities. We bring you a slightly abbreviated transcript of his remarks in English. The first question concerned the causes and background of these extraordinary events. Video:Ā https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTniTDXM4kEĀ Ā [Transcript starts...
Whereās Joe McCarthy When You Need Him?
Many Americans are so disappointed with the Bush administration that they are tempted to vote for John Kerry.Ā Some Democrats who spent the past 80 years waiting for the Revolution to blow over may think theirs is still the party of āRum, Romanism, and Rebellion,ā as it was dubbed in 1884, but, by the 1960ās,...
The Real War
In a small cafĆ© in Belgrade nearly 20 years ago, I had a drink with a young man named Michael.Ā He was an architect and, like many people I met there, was no friend of the Soviet regime, which was the subject of our conversation.Ā I had just visited the Soviet Union, passing through Belgrade...
Canceling the Cancelers at Yale Law School
A U.S. Court of Appeals Judge announces he will no longer hire clerks from Yale Law School. Others should join him right away.
What Mean Ye By These Stones?
Following the 1862 battle at Perryville, the angry Unionists who held the Kentucky town declined to bury their slain foes.Ā When the stench and sight of wild hogs gorging themselves on corpses finally proved unbearable, the task of laying the dead to rest fell upon one Henry P. Bottom, the secessionist upon whose once-prosperous farm...
A New Campaign
Donna Shalala, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, recently said at a press conference: “We have the knowledge and the technology to prevent the spread [of AIDS]. What we have lacked until now is the political will.” The press conference was held to introduce the latest government-sponsored nightmare: a series of commercials,...
An Infantile Disorder
“Why, we could lick them in a month!” boasts Stuart Tarleton soon after the Confederates fire on Fort Sumter in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind. “Gentlemen always fight better than rabble. A monthāwhy, one battle.” At that point, young Mr. Tarleton is interrupted by Rhett Butler, a rather darker character in Mitchell’s novel than...
Mismatch
Philip Larkin, the poet-librarian of Hull University, died December 2, 1985, over 29 years ago.Ā In the years since Andrew Motion published the first biography (1993), and Anthony Thwaite published both the first complete edition of the poems (1989) and the first collection of letters (1992), a small industry has grown up devoted to the...
Renaissance in Education
When I accepted President Reagan’s appointment to be chairman of the National Council on Educational Research, I did so because I welcomed the opportunity to learn firsthand how professional bureaucrats approached America’s many and increasingly serious educational problems. After some time spent at my appointed task, I realized that bureaucrats were not capable of solving...
US and Catholicism in Crisis
During the 1950s, the twin pillars of worldwide anti-communism were Dwight Eisenhower’s America and the Roman Catholic Church of Pope Pius XII. During the 1980s, the last decade of the Cold War, Ronald Reagan and the Polish pope, John Paul II, were the pillars of resistance. When Pope Francis arrives in Washington on Tuesday afternoon,...
Tales From the Dark Side
āAll great peoples are conservative; slow to believe in novelties; patient of much error in actualities; deeply and forever certain of the greatness that is in law, in custom once solemnly established, and now long recognized as just and final.ā āThomas Carlyle Both Justin Raimondoās Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative...
All Roads Lead to Florence
Peter: āLord, wither goest thou?ā Christ: āI go to Rome to be crucified.ā The monastic choir stalls of the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence were occupied not by the hermit-monks of the Camaldolese Order to whom they belonged but by laymen, members of the Platonic Academy.Ā From the lectern, the Latin periods...
Adolf Hitler, Our Contemporary
Hitler is 123 today, and he is alive and well. The FĆ¼hrer is going strong not because a vast neo-Nazi conspiracy is about to take over the Western world, kill the Jews, expel the Muslims and make April 20 the Day of Aryan Rebirth, but because he is an all-time favorite of the neoconservative-neoliberal duopoly...
Conservatives Leninists and the War on Terror
One long-standing hallmark of Western conservative thought is the emphasis on the rule of law.Ā Earlier generations of conservatives understood that, without such constraints, liberty would be imperiled and a free society would ultimately descend into tyranny.Ā As Lord Acton observed, āPower tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.āĀ Even during the 20th century,...
The Seven Stairs and AIDS
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...
Singin’ the Publishing Blues
I like a traveling circus. The American Historical Associationās annual conference periodically sets up its tent at the New York Hilton. Since I live nearby, I subject myself to its clown car of characters every half decade. But this year, I saw the confabās book fair as an opportunity to introduce myself to the editors...
Zora’s World v. Brown
The 60th anniversary of the Brown v. the Board of Education is being celebrated today with far more pomp than has accompanied Independence Day celebrations in recent years. Not surprisingly, Michelle Obama took the occasion to condemn not just the growing trend of resegregation in public schoolsāa nasty term for neighborhood-based schoolsābut also the persistence...
Consuming Ourselves
When my wife and I were searching for a house in 1996, we had a few basic requirements: We wanted an older home with a decent-sized yard for our children; we wanted to live in an actual neighborhood, not a new, vinyl-sided ranch development; we wanted to be relatively close to Chroniclesā office; and we...
Campus Terror
At 3:00 p.m. on February 14, I was sitting in the political-science graduate assistantsā office in DuSable Hall at Northern Illinois University.Ā Ten of us were chatting, waiting for 3:30 classes. At 3:10, my friendās cell phone rang.Ā āJoe just called,ā she said after hanging up, her face ashen and her eyes wide.Ā āHe says...
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...