What are the basic tenets of modernity? What is the mind and temper of modern man? I would feel rather foolish to try to reply in a few paragraphs if I did not think that the spirit of modernity boils down eventually to only one idea that reappears constantly under an indefinite variety of guises....
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Notes From the Abyss
How are we-the campus conservatives-to think of ourselves in the sea of political correctness? Perhaps weĀ adopt the attitude of the left, and view ourselves as the real but unacknowledged victims of oppression, casualties in the war for diversity and sensitivity. It is our turn to be denied tenure, refused job interviews, not invited to speak...
Romanticism, Ever New
Modern music criticism has engaged in a Herculean endeavor to misunderstand Romanticism, both as a historic and as a modern phenomenon. The 19th-century Romantics are relegated to the status of antiques. Their musical language is declared suitable for the musical museums of formal concerts but not worth taking seriously by modern composers. Above all, the...
Dismantling the Empire
History never repeats itself, but we may compare certain pivotal events in the quest for meaning and order in an apparently chaotic world.Ā Ronald Reaganās victory in 1980 and Donald Trumpās unexpected triumph in 2016 differ in countless, relatively insignificant ways, but they share one key characteristic: True Americans have risen against an anti-America of...
Nick at Nite, TV, and You
Every night, in prime time, a changeling can enter your living room, an inhuman creature secretly usurping a human’s place. It’s an unnatural presence, an electronic phantom with vast and secret motivations; but its presence is so enjoyable and comforting, as well as so familiar (it hastens to assure you), that you really don’t mind...
Wal-Mart Super-sized
Wal-Mart is hated by some people for the very reasons others love it.Ā Liberals and leftists hate it because they allege Wal-Martās substandard wages turn employees into helots.Ā Libertarians and some conservatives love it because Wal-Mart, expanding like the Blob, represents no-borders planetary capitalism.Ā Wal-Mart is McDonaldās, only supersized. Whatever oneās opinion, a recent article...
The Deserts of Nations
In āA Mirror for Artistsāāhis contribution to Agrarianismās classic manifesto, Iāll Take My Stand, published in 1930āDonald Davidson attacked what he called āthe industrial theory of the arts.āĀ According to this Maecenas concept, industrialism can be counted on to create an artistic renaissance in which not the wealthy classes only but the plain people will...
It’s Trump’s Party, Now
Before the largest audience of his political career, save perhaps his inaugural, Donald Trump delivered the speech of his life. And though Tuesday’s address may be called moderate, even inclusive, Trump’s total mastery of his party was on full display. Congressional Republicans who once professed “free-trade” as dogmatic truth rose again and again to cheer...
American Interventionism: Then and Now
With tensions rising between nations such as Taiwan and China, as well as between Russia and Ukraine, many are wondering how involved the Biden administration will be. Should the United States leave these nations alone, or should they interfere? A look at the past through Stephen Wertheimās new book,Ā Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S....
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...
Vol. 1 No. 4 April 1999
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...
The Elite of El Bronx
The Hispanic elite have decided that the best way to control the lives of millions of Latin immigrants and illegal aliens flooding into America’s cities is to prevent them from learning English. The elites can then preside over a separate, parallel “Hispanic Nation,” full of angry, illiterate victims of “white racism.” Recent developments at the...
The Faustian Bargain of Dorian Gray
Albert Lewinās 1945 film, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is the perfect selection for this season of reflection about our mortality and the virtues we need to cultivate to make life worth living.
From Beyond the Pale
We saw them at dawn: a dozen men in ragged camouflage, lugging dull black weapons glinting like poised snakes. Their faces rugged like Arizona bluffs, dark brown or brick red, they moved without a sound, like the mist rolling out of the forest. Large and beefy, they stood around our campfire and smiled at us....
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...
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...
Rock and Roll Never Forgets
In the 1950’s any real American boy knew that whatever he wanted to be when he grew up, it was not an underemployed television father like Ward Cleaver or Ozzie Nelson. Our fictional heroes were from another time. They were the cowboys, frontiersmen, and pioneers who had taken risks that seemed inconceivable to a generation...
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...
Surfing the Void
There is a scene in Oliver Stoneās powerful and haunting antiwar film Born on the Fourth of July (1989), in which Ron Kovicās mother is bending down before the television (this is B.R.ābefore the remote) and wincing.Ā It is the Fourth of July, 1969, and long-haired antiwar protesters are surging through the capital with angry...
See the USA in Your Chevrolet in 1964
Pop pulled the sky-blue 1963 Chevy Impala out of the driveway in Wayne, Michigan.Ā With Mom and three kids along for what our family would call our 9,000-mile trip, he jogged a block to Michigan Avenue, which, as US 12, always beckoned West to Chicago and, beyond that, to California.Ā The kids: Johnny, nine; Caroline,...
Kings Row Revisited
The first paragraph of the first chapter of John Lukacsās Confessions of an Original Sinner (1990) concludes, āA conservative will profess a preference for and a trust in Ronald Reagan; a reactionary will not, and not because Reagan was a Hollywood actor but because he never stopped being one.ā The reactionary in me agrees with...
Unconstitutionally Vague
The Univ. of Michigan has not given up. Federal District Court Judge Avern Cohn’s August 1989 ruling that Michigan’s anti-discrimination and discriminatory harassment policy (inaugurated in April 1988) was unconstitutionally vague and overbroad merely sent administrators back to their drawing boards. After implementing an interim policy last September, University President James Duderstadt assembled three committees...
Hire Education
Technology as Reform Higher education has become hire education. That is the message of a series of recent books by Richard Mitchell, Charles Sykes, Thomas Sowell, Roger Kimball, Dinesh D’Souza, and Richard Huber. All of these writers would like to see academia reformed. Their proposals range from abolishing tenure (D’Souza and Sowell) to abolishing racial...
Real Reform
Communist poet Bertolt Brecht, after the 1953 risings in East Germany, suggested that the Communist government should just dissolve the people and elect a new one.Ā That is essentially what is happening in the United States.Ā The American government is dissolving the people and electing a new oneāin the name of shoring up and āgrowingā...
Fake Art
The problem of forged art, always a complicated one, has been made immeasurably more complicated in this century because of two factors. One, the appreciation of tribal art in its many varieties has coincided with the gradual disappearance of tribal living worldwide; thus some of the most vexing problems of authenticity in the art world...
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...
Answering Islam
Americans find it difficult to understand the Islamic threat.Ā It is not just that they have made the mistake of listening to presidential speeches on the āreligion of peaceā or dulled their wits reading the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.Ā The fault does not lie exclusively or even primarily with American schools,...
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.
Nor Shall My Sword Rest in My Hand
When the United States government was seeking to retaliate for the terrorist attacks last year, it was not too difficult to name the obvious targets: Afghanistan (of course), Iraq, Somalia, and the rest of the worldās bandit states.Ā Opponents of military intervention could make few effective arguments, but one point that was quite widely raised...
The Unentitled
āThereās something almost un-American about etiquette. . . . For a lot of Americans the idea that there are rules out there about the proper way to behave, rules more elaborate than just common sense, seems pretentious, European, like one more thing we fought the British to be free of.ā āNancy Updike, This American Life,...
A Desirable Transit Point
The Republic of Georgiaās desirability as an oil and natural-gas transit point has made her a pawn in a game that involves Washington, Moscow, Caspian Sea oil, and the fate of Iraq.Ā And this game is, in turn, part of the great game going on in Central Asia. Since September 11, 2001, American policymakers have...
Canossa
āWe shall not go to Canossa!ā declared more than one eminent German statesman. Theresa May loves Canossa, and cannot stay away from the place. For her the Castle of Canossa is the Europa Building in Brussels, whence she has just returned from another fruitless quest for mercy from the European Union. I see in my...
Exploits of the Noble Savage
Modern grievances are, at heart, about competition for resources, prestige, and power. All that has changed are the myths used to mask the claims and obscure reality.
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 ...
Journalists and Other Anthropoids
It is over 60 years since the Scopes Trial attracted journalists like Henry Mencken and Joseph Wood Krutch to Dayton, Tennessee, and yet the teaching of evolution is once again as controversial asāit was in 1925. Most of the debate is carried out between militant fundamentalists and equally militant materialists. While most of the fundamentalists...
Teach Migrant Children EnglishāBilingual Ed Is a Scam
Bilingual education creates linguistic chaos in the classroom, and it is failing nearly everywhere it is tried.
Black Hole Singing
There are three basic types of complexity a reader encounters in contemporary poetry.Ā The first type arises when inexperienced poets have not yet developed sufficient intellectual and emotional depth to understand their subject matter or have not yet developed an adequate command of language.Ā The resulting product is muddled rather than deep.Ā The second is...
Abraham the Unready
(This column is based in part on an address delivered at a “Colloquium on Lincoln, Reagan, and National Greatness” sponsored by the Claremont Institute in Washington, D.C., on February 12, 1998.) L’affaire Lewinsky was the obsession of the headlines and conversations of Washington throughout February, obscuring even the jolliness promised by another airborne stomping of...
Our Open (Borders) Secret
The long campaign of 2007-08, already sputtering out in fizzled squibs, childish ploys, and pointless personal recriminations, has offered few of the moments of drama or high comedy that Americans have rightly come to expect of our political candidates. The debates ...
Westerns: Americaās Homeric Era on the Silver Screen
Some time around 800 b.c., Homer put the heroic tales of the Achaeans into lyric form: battles, expeditions, adventures, conquests.Ā The tales were inspiring, heroic, tragic, triumphal.Ā Greeks recited Homerās iambic pentameter for centuries; so, too, did we as schoolchildrenāas inheritors of Western civilization.Ā We Americans, however, also have our own Homeric Era.Ā While the...
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...
Faith in the Hour of Trial
“Behold,” said the Lord, “I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves.” With this statement and by the Testament of His Own Blood, Christ inaugurated the Age of Martyrsāthe first 300 years of the Christian era during which, in Jesus’s words, “They will deliver you up to the councils, and they will...
The Unscholarly World of Scholarly Publishing
University presses are in trouble these days. Beset by a decline (intellectual and numerical) in the specialized academic readership to which they have always catered, encountering rising production and overhead costs, and supported with fewer and fewer dollars from their parent administrations, many of them now face the prospect of closing their doors or remaking...
āHello, Lenin!ā Three Components of Americaās Misguided Foreign Policy
by Edward Lozansky and Jim Jatras Since the end of the Cold War, American foreign policy could almost have been designed to undermine our national interests. Whether under Republican George W. Bush or Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, we have seen āregime changesā and ācolor revolutions,ā facilitation of global jihadism while claiming to combat...
Mishmash
To judge from its title, we could reasonably expect this book to be about the growing gulf between women and men.Ā Yet Andrew Hacker, a professor of political science at Queens College, spends much of the book reciting differences between the sexes that have always existed.Ā With cumbersome detail (as if imparting new and fresh...
Can’t Institutionalize Genius
The Institute for Advanced Study, the research center in Princeton, New Jersey, was founded 60 years ago around the figure of Albert Einstein. When I was named member (1989-1990) the inestimable William Safire said to me, “Oh, Jack! That’s where they send the geniuses!” So strong is the presence of Einstein that people hereabouts readily...
The Mysterious Dr. Qiu and the āCoincidence Theoryā of COVID
A key pandemic player is back in the Peopleās Republic of China and still working for the Peopleās Liberation Army.
Operation Futility
Mark Bowden was interviewing a retired U.S. military officer for his book Black Hawk Down when a framed photograph caught his eye. In it, a group of jubilant solthers posed around the corpse of a bloody, fat man. Curious, Bowden asked about the picture. “That, my friend, is Pablo Escobar,” the officer said to Bowden....
Speaking of JFK
That Presidentsāchief magistrates of the nationāought to possess solid character was taken for granted in the early Republic and for a long time thereafter. No longer is this the case. Character comes up for discussion mainly when someone like Gary Hart, caught with his pants down, throws the political odds-makers into a sudden tizzy. Even...
Enthusiastic Democracy
Less than a month after President Bush unbosomed his latest reflections on political philosophy before the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, one of the latest victims of his administrationās crusade to foster the āglobal democratic revolutionā in Iraq was grousing that what the administration planned for his country simply wasnāt democratic enough.Ā The Grand...