Several years ago one of my former roommates at Harvard, now an economist with the United Nations, dropped by for a visit. We drifted into an informal review of the social science courses we had taken at Harvard in the late 1950’s. The one overriding memory that we both had of those courses was that...
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Hollywood Blues
āA fact is not a truth until you love it.ā āShelby Foote AĀ while back, I wrote a piece for a Festschrift in honor of Walter SullivanāPlace in American Fiction: Excursions and Explorations.Ā My piece, āPlaces We Have Come From, Places We Have Been,ā argued that my own fiction and poetry, like that of so many...
Obamaās Trampling on Godās Turf Now
Yes, Virginia, there is a religious war going on. It is for the soul of America. And traditional Christianity is besieged. In a January visit to the Vatican, American bishops were warned by Benedict XVI that
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...
Broken Windows
Your Excellency: My schedule this past summer gave me the opportunity to attend daily Mass.Ā Nearly every noon found me seated in the pews, garnering the giftsāfewer distractions, the bare-bones order of worship, the solace of quiet prayerāoften missing on crowded Sundays.Ā Those 40 minutes of reflection in the middle of a hectic day allowed...
Postcommunist Judaism
After two days of intensive sight-seeing in St. Petersburg, Russia, not so much a city as a cemetery holding the remains of what was once a city, I returned to Finland and turned on the St. Petersburg TV channel that we get here in Ć bo. St. Petersburg TV was broadcasting a show Ć bout Russian Jews...
The Obama Plot to Sabotage Trump
Devin Nunes just set the cat down among the pigeons. Two days after FBI Director James Comey assured us there was no truth to President Trump’s tweet about being wiretapped by Barack Obama, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Trump may have had more than just a small point. The U.S. intelligence community,...
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,...
Arms and Thomas Jefferson
The greatest enemy of government power in the early American republic was Thomas Jefferson. It is no wonder, then, that Jefferson has been so aggressively vilified by the partisans of political correctness. Jefferson was likewise disdained by many in the 19th and early 20th century who, quite rightly, saw his ideas as an obstacle to...
Imperial Capital but America-First Nation
“Let someone else fight over this long blood-stained sand,” said President Donald Trump in an impassioned defense of his decision to cut ties to the Syrian Kurds, withdraw and end these “endless wars.” Ā Are our troops in Syria, then, on their way home? Well, not exactly. Ā Those leaving northern Syria went into Iraq....
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...
What the Editors Are Reading
Iāve been reading and rereading Raymond Chandlerās novels for more than 30 years; also his Letters, the best epistolary volume by an āAmericanā writer (Chandler was an Englishman who arrived in Los Angeles as a young man to work for an oil executive), with the sole exception of Flannery OāConnorās The Habit of Being. Chandler...
Speech for Speech’s Sake Free
One of the unfortunate after-effects of the so-called “Red Scare” of the early 50’s was the triumph of the “no limits” interpretation of the First Amendment, which has poisoned American political thought ever since. It goes something like this: the McCarthyite “reign of terror” permanently discredited the idea that you can suppress speech in a...
Should US-Saudi Alliance Be Saved?
Over the weekend Donald Trump warned of “severe punishment” if an investigation concludes that a Saudi hit team murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Riyadh then counter-threatened, reminding us that, as the world’s largest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia “plays an impactful and active role in the global economy.” Message:...
The Silence of the Lambs
Here’s how it stands with Western civilizationāwhat’s left of it, I meanāinsofar as various Westerners are concerned. You keep your lip buttoned whenever foes, internal as well as external, jump up and down on you, kick you around, make known their fondest wish is to do you in, ideals and all. You hope for the...
The American Exception
A favorite exhortation of those seeking to further restrict or remove the private possession of firearms in the United States is to “look at other countries,” where lower murder rates are supposed to be a result of gun control laws. The underlying presumption beneath these laws is that guns cause crime. Getting rid of guns,...
Redistricting Apartheid
Elbridge Gerry’s infamous salamander district pales in comparison to the monster- like menagerie birthed in redistricted states that fall under the preclearance requirement of Section Five of the federal Voting Rights Act. Although Virginia’s state constitution requires that “every electoral district shall be composed of contiguous and compact territory,” the feds overruled it and mandated...
The Country Writer
I am as grateful for this award as I am surprised by it, and I certainly did not see it coming. Obviously, it cannot be easy to feel worthy of an award bearing the name of T.S. Eliot, and so probably I ought to say that I am grateful, but unconvinced. The etiquette attendant upon...
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...
Letter From Quebec: Talking About Culture
The Action DĆ©mocratique du QuĆ©bec (ADQ) is a conservative partyāat least by Quebec standards.Ā It is led by 35-year-old political wunderkind Mario Dumont.Ā In the recent elections for the National Assembly, the ADQ shattered Quebecās two-party system (the federalist and centrist Liberals and left-wing sovereigntist Parti QuĆ©bĆ©cois), winning 31 percent of the vote (up from...
The Magnificent Tarkington
The Midwest is a lucky place for an American novelist to be from. Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, and Theodore Dreiser all made good money by holding up their native region to international ridicule, while Hemingway and Fitzgerald did even better by simply escaping to the East and eventually to Europe. Both, it is true, set...
Tremendous Twaddle
There was a time, not long ago, when Britons just laughed at political correctness, seeing it as a Californian cult that no one with any common sense could ever take seriously. Even now, one comes across Conservative politicians who will say that such and such a news story is evidence of “political correctness gone mad”āas...
Guilty of ā¦ What, Exactly?
It has been amazing to see the number of very smart people who stumble over explaining exactly what Trump was convicted of doing.
Which Way for Rand Paul?
Of all the Republican successes in the midterm elections, perhaps none has the potential to be as consequential as the elevation of Rand Paul to the U.S. Senate from Kentucky.Ā Paul was the biggest and most genuine Tea Party triumph in November.Ā As the son and ideological heir of U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), he...
Turkey’s Gamble
Following the AKP (Justice and Development Party) victory in February 2002, Turkeyās clout has been steadily increasing in the Balkans, the Arab world, and the predominantly Muslim regions of the former Soviet Union.Ā Prime Minister Rejep Tayyip Erdoganās government is pursuing a neo-Ottoman agenda that blends Islamic revivalism with nationalism.Ā Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutogluās concept...
The Sensual and the Savage
Yes, God, Yes Directed and written by Karen Maine ā Produced by Maiden Voyage and RT Features ā Distributed by Vertical Entertainment Waiting for the Barbarians Directed by Ciro Guerra ā Screenplay and novel by J. M. Coetzee ā Produced by Iervolino Entertainment and Ithaca Pictures ā Distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films Zulu (1964) Directed...
Professor Burnham, Mafioso Costello, and Me
Not long after the conviction of Alger Hiss, Professor James Burnham, Karl Hess, and I met in my apartment on Riverside Drive to discuss a matter that had concerned us for some time. Jim Burnham was then working on his book The Web of Subversion. Karl, like me, was a Newsweek editor, and he had...
Australia: The Evil Hypocrisy of the Jewish Establishment
Ā Even before the recent victory of rightwing Catholic Tony Abbott’s Liberal-National coalition in Australia, the previous Labor government was instituting measures to stem the flow of mass immigration. Outgoing leftist PM Kevin Rudd said of the new measures: “Asylum seekers who come here by boat without a visa will never be settled in Australia.”...
Will They Still Love Us Tomorrow?
L. and M. and their two blond preschool sons have escaped, after years of stealthy planning and saving and months of waiting. Not the gaunt East European urchins we expect, they step off the plane as if from the pages of Family Circle, self-conscious in our applause, the little boys in Velcro sneakers, M. movie-star...
An Unpeaceable Kingdom
It was one of those Saturday nights that spills over into Sunday morning. Invited into the home of a main-line Protestant couple in split-level northern New Jersey, the 40ish group was made up of Jews and Roman Catholics from the neighborhood and of visiting Southern Baptists from Texas. After enjoying much conversation and suffering the...
The French Revolution in Canada
In their British North America (BNA) Act of 1867, the Fathers of Canada’s confederation produced a work of genius. The two senior levels of government were awarded separate and exclusive powers: Ottawa over national matters; provincial governments over property and civil rights and “generally all matters of a merely local or private nature in the...
When Democracy Comes to Town
It was one of those political pundit panels on C-SPAN. Mona Charen, neoconservative columnist, was asked to sum up her experiences in the Kemp-for-President campaign in 1988. Miss Charen grew unwontedly misty-eyed: “The [democratic] process,” she sighed wistfully. “The process was so wonderful.” It is doubtful if any of the presidential candidates or their handlers...
Visionary Fiction
Susan had set up the ironing board in the kitchen and upended the iron there while she sprinkled her blouse. I could not detect the heat waves rising from the face of the iron, but the morning sun showed them clearly on the refrigerator door, curling and uncurling in hypnotic arabesque. That became my image...
The Cassandra of Caroline County
āA crocodile has been worshipped,ā wrote John Taylor of Caroline, āand its priesthood have asserted, that morality required the people to suffer themselves to be eaten by the crocodile.āĀ Such was his final judgment on the central government of the United States and the advocates of its power.Ā This prophecy, if such it may be...
A Fascist Rightāor a Hysterical Left?
If Trump’s supporters are truly “a basket of deplorables . . . racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic” and “irredeemable,” as Hillary Clinton described them to an LGBT crowd, is not shunning and shaming the proper way to deal with them? So a growing slice of the American left has come to believe. Friday, gay waiters...
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 Meaning of Kursk
The Ukrainian incursion into the Kursk territory is unlikely to change the outcome of the war in Ukraine. The refusal to see that is only prolonging Ukraineās misery.
Can Poland Be Polandāand Stay in the EU?
“Let Poland be Poland!” That was the call of American conservatives, four decades ago, when the Solidarity movement of labor leader Lech Walesa arose in the port city of Gdansk to demand their freedom of the Communist system imposed upon Poland by the Soviet Union after World War II. A decade later, Poland broke free...
Giving America Priority in Trade Policy
As the global-trade establishment becomes more insulated from the growing criticism of people still rooted in theirĀ native soil, it is missing the turn in world events that is frustrating its efforts.Ā Examples abound.Ā The latest round of trade-liberalization negotiations has never managed more than a crawl since it was launched by the World Trade...
Sam Francis Was Right
It has been seven years since Sam Francis died.Ā But the years since his untimely death merely show the accuracy of his insights.Ā Francisās writing was marked not only by loyalty to the people from whom he came but by an unswerving devotion to telling the truth about the way the world really is, not...
The Call of Blood
We Americans pride ourselves on being a nation of rootless individuals, cut off from the history that chained Old Europe to a cycle of wars and revolutions and bound to one another not by ties of blood and soil but only by the bloodless abstraction of self-evident truths.Ā Rooted in no one place, our corporate...
Desperate NeverTrumpers and the Constitution
A year ago the op-ed writers who present themselves as tutors to the nation insisted that Donald Trump could not and would not become president.Ā Progressive pundits were certain of thisāafter all, they didnāt know anyone who was voting for him.Ā The Republican wing of the commentariat, however, was equally sure that Trump would fail:...
What Will Be the New American Cause?
After the Great Pandemic has passed and we emerge from Great Depression II, what will be America’s mission in the world? What will be America’s cause? We have been at such a turning point before. After World War II, Americans wanted to come home. But we put aside our nation-building to face the challenge of...
The Flight of the Lone Eagle
Ā Ā Ā Ā “There is a hawk that is picking the birds out of our sky. She killed the pigeons of peace and security. She has taken honesty and confidence from nations and men. She is hunting the lonely heron of liberty.” āRobinson Jeffers, “Shiva” The competition to be the first to traverse the Atlantic...
Obamaās Strategic Doctrine: W Lite
Ā The Obama Administrationās āDefense Strategic Guidanceā (DSG), which was unveiled on January 5 as part of the broader programmatic document,Ā Sustaining US Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense, has been greeted with neoconservative howls of rage. The document āsends a clear message to Americaās adversaries: Go for it,ā was the view of theĀ Washington TimesĀ editorialist,...
Of Men and Supermen
Hollywoodland Produced by Miramax Films Directed by Allen Coulter Screenplay by Paul Bernbaum Distributed by Focus Features Of the entertainment industryās many venerable traditions, cashing in on dead celebrities ranks just below rehabilitating headliner junkies.Ā Untold millions have been made under the guise of immortalizing fallen performersāthink of James Dean, Elvis, John Lennon.Ā And who...
New Zealand Attacks: Repercussions and Perspective
Terrorist attacks against Muslims in the Western world are extremely rare. This morningās carnage in two mosques in New Zealand, with the death toll currently at 50, is the first major event of its kind since the Quebec City mosque shootingāover two years ago ā which killed six persons. (As for the alleged āIslamophobic incidentsā...
The U.S. Needs to Change Course Right Now in Ukraine
Americans do notāand should notācare whether an ethnically divided, strategically unimportant, historically contested Slavic subregion or two in eastern Ukraine ultimately takes orders from Kyiv or Moscow.
Free Fallin’
Rockford, Illinois,Ā has lived through more than its share of economic downturns.Ā The most notable, of course, was during the Reagan Recession, when one in four Rockfordians were unemployed.Ā The city climbed up out of that trough, only to lose a number of its oldest and largest manufacturers through the frenzied rounds of mergers and...
A Dying Dictatorship
Avenida 21, number 3014, is a nondescript house in an Havana suburb.Ā The paint is peeling; the walls are plain; the rooms are sparse.Ā Inside lives Elizardo Sanchez Santa Cruz, a Cuban dissident working to free the Cuban people.Ā The task is not easy.Ā Despite the collapse of communism elsewhere, here āpolitical repression has been...