āNow he belongs to the ages,ā Edwin Stanton is supposed to have said, when he learned of President Lincolnās death.Ā In a trivial sense at least, Stanton was obviously correct.Ā We have Lincolnās face on the five-dollar billāa bill that used to be worth more than a Happy Meal, before Lincolnās disciples degraded the currencyāand...
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Soothe the Savage Soul
The Autobiography of Mark Twain, recently released, contains a reminiscence, dictated by the author, of a mass public meeting on the night of January 22, 1906, held as a fundraiser on behalf of Booker T. Washingtonās Tuskegee Institute on the occasion of its silver anniversary.Ā According to old Markās figures, 3,000 people filled the hall,...
Of Chance and Memory
Coincidence is the smile of luck, but it is also the laughter of misfortune.Ā A smile is singular, rather like tears; it appears meaningful insofar as it seems to have a precipitant cause.Ā Laughter, by contrast, is repetitive and mechanical; automatons may laugh, but they can scarcely be imagined smiling.Ā Thus, hysterical laughter is common...
Demography Destiny, for Us and China
Population matters, but continuity of character matters more. Without that, a nation ceases to be.
Reject False Prophets
In marked contrast to the optimism that the Bush administration and its supporters expressed about developments in Iraq as late as the spring of 2006, only a few diehards now deny that the security environment there is dire.Ā When Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) asked secretary of defense nominee Robert Gates whether the United States was...
Sinking Deals, Shifting Alliances
The tectonic change in the Indo-Pacific region is the most important geopolitical event of 2021. The countries along its shores account for roughly two-thirds of the worldās population. They produce the largest share of global gross domestic product, possess the most powerful military forces, and depend on the worldās busiest shipping lanes. It is also...
Ethnicity as a Way of Life
Years ago, an Hungarian friend of mine, eager to finish a novel, decided to go to Corsica to find the peace and quiet he craved. Some six months later, after he returned to Paris, I asked him if, during his stay, he had picked up any Corsican. Not much, he admitted, except for a phrase...
Our Free, Christian Land
St. PetersburgāA while back, synagogue members and civil rights groups picketed the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, when the Coral Ridge Ministries held a conference on “Reclaiming America for Christ.” The local newspaper reported, “Thousands of Christian activists from across the nation discussed such topics as, ‘reclaiming the public schools,’ ‘battle for our...
Race and the Classless Society
A few months ago I was on a long plane ride when something rather startling happened: Someone sitting near me was actually polite.Ā He was in the seat immediately in front of mine, and before reclining he turned to look over his shoulder and askedāasked!āif I would mind if he leaned a little bit into...
Always Something to Say
There are very few neoconservatives, people disagree on who they are, and they have no popular following or definite organizational structure.Ā Even so, they have deeply affected American public life for 40 years. Their influence has not gone unopposed.Ā The term neoconservative began as an insult and remains one.Ā Opponents tie the tendency to foreign...
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 ...
Is the Red Wave Back?
The red wave appears to be coming back. It is probable that toss-up races will break Republican. Republicans consistently lead Democrats on the generic congressional ballot.
The Battle of the Textbooks
Few things in life are as clear as the futility of a real debate on the clarity of Americaās religious origins. āDebate,ā I said? Lay a finger, unsuspectingly, on The New York Times Magazineās inspection of the attempt by so-called Christian fundamentalists to overhaul history textbooks, and you require treatment for first-degree burns. I refer...
Marina of Arc
Tomorrow, July 31, is a great moment in the history of British jurisprudence. Let me explain. If you believe, as do I, that our civilization is spiralling downward, you may agree that ā here as in Britain or anywhere else in the West ā courts of law are no different in this regard than apples...
Which Ones are the Enemy?
Ā For Southerners, the hatred of so many of their āfellow Americansā comes so steadily and predictably that it is usually best simply to ignore it and let the heathen rage. We are an easy-going, non-ideological, and Christian people, so most of us don’t even notice. However, theĀ Washington TimesĀ has usefully exposedĀ a particularly egregious example, an...
Why Roy Moore Matters
Why would Christian conservatives in good conscience go to the polls Dec. 12 and vote for Judge Roy Moore, despite the charges of sexual misconduct with teenagers leveled against him? Answer: That Alabama Senate race could determine whether Roe v. Wade is overturned. The lives of millions of unborn may be the stakes. Republicans now...
Rehabilitating Felix Frankfurter
American law school faculty is ofĀten given to unwise and thoughtless hero worship, to which even Felix Frankfurter occaĀsionally succumbed.
Can Trump Pull a Second Rabbit Out of the Hat?
“Apres moi, la deluge,” predicted Louis XV after his army’s stunning defeat by Prussia’s Frederick the Great at the Battle of Rossbach in 1757. “La deluge,” the Revolution, came, three decades later, to wash the Bourbon monarchy away in blood and to send Louis XV’s grandson, Louis XVI, and his queen, Marie Antoinette, to the...
Supernova
āNobility is the symbol of mind.ā āWalter Bagehot In times of texting and sexting, Twittering and wittering, there is something positively antediluvian about epistolary collectionsāa whiff of fountain pens and headed notepaper, morocco-topped escritoires in long-windowed drawing rooms looking out over lawns studded with cedars and peacocks.Ā Such fleeting evocations are lent depth and body...
Back in the Locker
As I write, itās already been three weeks since the Academy Awards broadcast on March 7, and Iām still surprised that the judges for Hollywoodās annual ceremony of self-love named The Hurt Locker Best Picture of 2009, awarding it six Oscars in all.Ā The pooh-bahs of mediocrity voted for art rather than commerce, and so...
The Electoral College: Rooted in Racism?
Prof. Akhil Amar of Yale Law School launched a salvo against the Electoral College.Ā In a piece published on December 12 at the website of Time, Amar claimed that the Electoral College has pro-slavery origins.Ā James Madison preferred it to a nationwide popular vote because he wanted Southern slaves to count in the tally of...
Deal With the Devil
For several months after last November, the American media raved about Barack Obamaās achievement in becoming the first African-American president of the United States.Ā I didnātāand couldnātājoin in the jubilation, for several reasons. First, it had always seemed to me obvious that we would have a black president someday.Ā When I was in junior-high school...
Vodka: An Appreciation
A few blogs ago, my devoted reader Louis from San Antonio asked me to share the mystical secrets of that famous elixir known as vodka. In the former Soviet Union – not only Russia, but even the Central Asian republics, drinking vodka involves a series of preparations and elaborate rituals, not far behind the famous...
Arms, Violence, and the State A Historical Perspective
Governments today seek to monopolize violence and to control the ability of people to defend themselves, their families, and their communities. In doing so, governments present themselves not only as representatives and protectors of their people, but also as the necessary end of the historical process. These views can be contested, not only by appealing...
An Arrogance Justified by Nothing
It was a revealing moment. Former GOP consultant turned Never Trumper Rick Wilson began ridiculing Trump supporters on CNN as ācredulous Boomer rube[s]ā who believe āDonald Trump is the smart one and yāall elitists are dumb.ā Muslim activist and New York Times contributor Wajahat Ali joined in, mimicking the rubesā supposed disdain for āYou elitists,...
A Global Village or the Rights of the Peoples?
The great conflicts of the future will no longer pit left against right, or East against West, but the forces of nationalism and regionalism against the credo of universal democracy. The lofty ideal of the global village seems to be stumbling over the renewed rise of East European separatism, whose aftershocks may soon spill over...
Forgetting Prisoner X
In the early months of 2010, a prisoner was brought to one of Israelās most secure prisons, the Ayalon facility in Ramla, and put in a cell designed to hold the murderer of Yitzhak Rabin.Ā None of the prison personnel were told so much as his name, nor was anything known about his alleged crime.Ā ...
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 ...
Islam and the West: An Irreconcilable Conflict?
“I worry greatly that the rhetoric coming from the Republicans, particularly Donald Trump, is sending a message to Muslims here . . . and . . . around the world, that there is a ‘clash of civilizations.'” So said Hillary Clinton in Saturday night’s New Hampshire debate. Yet, that phrase was not popularized by Donald...
Music Sounded Out
Now, you know I am indulging myself when I think of the nominated topic and come up with examples that are all piano recordings!Ā Thatās a limitation within a limitation, and I admit it.Ā And I am also aware that when we talk about sound, I am supposed to make noises like a hi-fi buff,...
Give Us Educated, Skilled Immigrants Yearning to Support Themselves
Biden is welcoming destitute migrants, instead of newcomers who are educated, have job skills to succeed in today's economy, speak English and arrive ready to provide for their families.
Dark Contract
Matthew Bruccoli is, perhaps, the leading biographer of modern American novelists. With this book he scores something of a triple, as it appeared soon after his acclaimed lives of Fitzgerald and O’Hara. Like his other works, it is exceptionally well-produced. It is a handsome book, with a full apparatus of notes and documents. There is...
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...
Twenty Years After the Fall, Part 2
Moscow, so the film title went, does not believe in tears, and stories of massacres by criminal gangs who control major enterprises, contract killings over business and political disputes, and savagely beat or kill journalists who donāt recognize the limits of Russian press freedom still pop up in todayās āmiddle classā Russia, where this sort...
An Endless Quest
The Dept. of Education, in its seemingly endless quest to discover new ways for students and teachers to waste their time, has approved a high-school course on the holocaust. Centered around a 400-page textbook called “Facing History and Ourselves,” the course is a semester-long exercise in intellectual and psychological nosepicking, an extended submersion into irrationalism...
The Sacralization of Black Lives Matter
Perhaps Iām going crazy, but I thought I just heard NBC News and other respected information sources report that the recent burning of two Black Lives Matter (BLM) signs is being investigated as āpotential hate crimesā by the Washington, D.C. police. Apparently these alleged hate crimes occurred as BLM and its sister organization (or rather,...
The Future of the American Resistance
As the American left brings all aspects of human life under the ideological command of an all-powerful state, the right needs to pursue a strategy of decentralization.
Waking Up to Dumbing Down
Chronicles readers may be rather tired of hearing about “dumbing down,” but the ugly term is just now starting to attain clichĆ© status in Britain. Conservative newspapers like the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail have begun to talk about dumbing down recently, in reporting, for example, that almost 200,000 children entering British secondary schools (11-...
Far From Over
Timothy McVeigh may have been sent off for life, but the Oklahoma City bombing case is far from over. It looks like the federal government knew all along that Oklahoma City, if not the Alfred P. Murrah building itself, would be the target of a terrorist attack, and somehow (or for some reason) failed to...
Only the Boring
Generally speaking, fans of early rock and roll fall into two categories: those who want to hear Roy Orbison’s “Only the Lonely” more than once a year, and those who don’tāand I belong to the latter group. One of the strengths of vintage rock was that it meant nothing more and nothing less than what...
The Dialectic of Suicide
āA nation never falls but by suicide.ā āR.W. Emerson The ambush was prepared and actually triggered several months before Samuel Huntingtonās Who Are We? appeared in print.Ā When Mr. Huntington, the author of The Clash of Civilizations and a leading political scientist at Harvard, published last winter an excerpt from his new book dealing with...
On Judicial Tyranny
“First Things Last” (March 1997) evinces the sharp analysis and pungent criticism we have come to expect from Samuel Francis. However, I disagree with him on one point. Francis contends that the controversial “laws” made by the Supreme Court are merely “permissive” in nature. Thus, unlike Sir Thomas More, who was commanded to sign an...
American Terrorists, Environmental-Style
Terrorists are on the loose in Americaāenviroterrorists.Ā In early August 2003, radical environmentalists apparently burned down an apartment complex under construction in San Diego.Ā Ecoterrorists next attacked four SUV dealerships in West Covina, a Los Angeles suburb. These crimes were likely perpetrated by the so-called Environmental Liberation Front (ELF), which has long boasted of committing...
Steve Bannonās Gladiator School: A View From Within
About 50 miles south and east of Rome, high in the Apennine mountains, lies the Charterhouse of Trisulti whose isolated magnificence prompted the German historian Ferdinand Gregorovius (who stumbled upon it in the 1850ās) to write in his classic work Years of Wandering in Italy, āIf a place exists where the human spirit can reach...
Alfred Rosenberg: The Triumph of Tedium
A few months after the outbreak of war, in January 1940, Nazi leaders held a merry meeting. They had plenty to be cheerful about. Poland had been crushed in a few weeks, and the new Soviet alliance had been “sealed in blood,” as Stalin put it. By a secret agreement in the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of...
The Creativity Profession
It has always been my impression that people who talk and write most about the creative process are not usually very creative. It’s sort of like a corollary to that old maxim, “Those who can’t do, teach”; those who can’t create, analyze creativity. Conversely, I must confess that as a book critic who also publishes...
Episcopalians Go Interfaith
An interfaith education conference in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Episcopal Church warned that evangelicals and evangelism are potential obstacles to positive relations between Christianity and other religions. Among the featured speakers at the Interfaith Education Initiative was Methodist theologian Wesley Ariarajah, a former official of the World Council of Churches who has denied the...
Our Man in Riyadh
Abizaid of Arabia What does President Trumpās recent nomination of retired Army General John Abizaid to become the next U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia signify? Next to nothingāand arguably quite a lot. Abizaidās proposed appointment is both a non-event and an opportunity not to be wasted. It means next to nothing in this sense: while...
Success Is Not Just About Skill and Talent
Attitude is just as important as skill and talent if you want to succeed in life. It's a lesson we need to learn early in life.
Conservative Credo: Abortion Rights
ABORTION AS SELF-DENIAL In a rationalist system of ethics, every basic principle must be stated in universal terms in which āIā am denied a privileged perspective.Ā I may not, for example, make rules that apply to everyone but meāonly the Congress of the United States is free to do that.Ā If I advocate an unrestricted...