āWhile the natural instincts of democracy lead the people to banish distinguished men from power,ā Tocqueville wrote in Democracy in America, āan instinct no less powerful leads distinguished men to shun careers in politics, in which it is so very difficult to remain entirely true to oneself or to advance without self-abasement.ā Some 170 years...
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John McCain: The Score
Now that a week has passed since Sen. John Sidney McCain III was given a truly presidential sendoff in Washington, it is not in poor form to try and amend the gushing record presented by the media and the bipartisan establishment. The plaudits and perorations are well known, including Meghan McCainās amazing claim that Americaās...
The Populist Challenge to Multiculturalism
What an Austrian news magazine terms the “March on Vienna,” Jƶrg Haider’s “Freedom Party” took 23 percent of the November 1991 vole. Remarkably, this had followed a dismal showing four years earlier when his party garnered only 8 percent of the total vole and appeared on the verge of deterioration. Handsome and energetic, the 42-year-old...
The End of the Innocence
This town aināt big This town aināt small. Itās a little of both they say. And our ball club may be minor league But at least itās Triple A. . . . We donāt worry ābout the pennant much We just like to see the boys hit it deep Thereās nothing like the view From...
George Soros, Megalomaniac
From the August 1997 issue of Chronicles. “It is a sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything,” confessed George Soros to a British newspaper, “but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.” Recalling youthful fantasies of omnipotence in his 1987...
Diagnosing the Right as Pathological
While President Joe Biden was supposed to turn down the temperature and restore normalcy to our political life, rhetoric from those in power increasingly echoes with dark references to āhomegrown terroristsā and āextremistsā emerging from a process of radicalization. For months after the inauguration, the ruling class maintained Washington, D.C. as a fortress city, complete...
Moonstruck Morality Versus the Cosmos
āWho is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon . . .āØterrible as an army with banners?āāSong of Songs 6:10 āSi direbbe che persino la luna si ĆØ affrettata staseraāosservatelo in altoāa guardare a questo spettacolo.ā (āOne might almost think that the moonājust look at him up thereāhurried up tonight to...
Homeland Security
American national security is a fundamental responsibility of the U.S. government.Ā Throughout the history of the United States, from the founding of the republic to the 21st century, Americans have debated the best way to meet this responsibility.Ā For much of that history, the sound advice of President Washington to āsteer clear of permanent alliancesā...
Stop Playing the Leftās Game
WhenĀ ChroniclesĀ asked me toĀ provide a refutation of Donald Trumpās 1776 Commission report (āRejecting the ‘Proposition Nation,āā April/May 2021), I knew it would be controversial. I was right. Michael Anton wrote a lengthy rebuttal atĀ American GreatnessĀ (āAmericans Unite,ā May 1, 2021). I donāt mind Anton circling the wagons to defend his friends. That is admirable. That said, his...
Yankee Slavers
“Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.” āEdmund Burke The better part of a century ago, the great scholar A.E. Housman observed that most of the new books that came across his desk served no purpose whatever “except to interrupt our studies.” This is certainly the case today...
The Mandela Mandala
Every year, the Christian calendar is more and more marginalized by anti-Christian āholidaysā and commemorations.Ā In 2013, the first week of Advent, by decree of President Obama and National Public Radio, was displaced by Nelson Mandela Week.Ā Since we were only in December, I could not wait to see what our masters will pull out...
Uncommon Properties
Pick up any newspaper at random, and you will come upon story after story of children being murdered, beaten, and molested. I begin this chapter on Monday, October 19, 1992, and looking over the Chicago Tribune I discover: a frontpage story on Chicago schoolchildren venting their grief over the murder of their friends, a headline...
Euro Irreversible?
The international media have for some time depicted Finland as the black sheep of the European Union because of her reluctance to pay for other member countriesā debt and thus help to save the eurozone from its present crisis.Ā This impression was reinforced by recent statements made by senior government officials in Finland, including foreign...
America: A Growing Servility
Here is Part 1 of the English version of Thomas Fleming’s interview with the Serbian magazineĀ Geopolitika,Ā on the decline of America: Geopolitika:Ā What has happened to the United States?Ā Observers in and outside of America have been commenting on America’s decline, both as a world power and as an inspiration and model for other countries.Ā Within living...
Arguing With Jesus
Professor Neusner, one of the world’s most accomplished scholars in the field of religious studies, begins by proclaiming that as a practicing and believing Jew he says a polite “No” to another practicing and believing Jewābut one who made extraordinary claims for himself āJesus of Nazareth. Both the “No” and the politeness come out clearly...
Law in Lehi: A Case of Abuse
Lehi, Utah, is somewhat familiar to those who have seen the movie Footloose. The small Mormon community provided Hollywood with the perfect setting for a tale of adolescent rebellion against parental and religious authority. Yet shortly after the movie’s release Lehi’s pious image was ruptured by a child abuse scandal. One morning in the summer...
Crackers & Roundheads
“The Celt in all his variants from Builth to Ballyhoo His mental processes are plaināone knows what he will do, And can logically predicate his finish by his start.” āKipling Despite all that has passed since, the Civil War is still at the center of American history. No one has ever doubted this in the...
A Report on the Warfare Used Against Language Critics
A few years ago when I read Grammar and Good Taste by Dennis E. Baron, I was surprised by the contempt with which the author, a linguist teaching at a university, spoke of language critics. I was aware, of course, of the ritual cursing of traditional grammar and grammarians by some writers of introductory books...
The Witch
She was a witch, I swear, she was a real witch! āGogol When my novella, which I was writing obsessively all my senior year at the Academy and a year after that, was accepted by a publisher and I was given a modest advance, I decided to buy myself an apartment. I, of course, didn’t...
Easy to Vote, Easy to Cheat
Peruse left-wing media reports and Twitter trends and one will discover that claims that āTrump wonā are labeled as misinformation. Polling numbers, however, show that many Americans hold exactly the opposite view, and think that Bidenās claim to the presidency is questionable. Ā Underlying such contention is the thorny question of who is and who...
Kidnapped
This book was first published in England as The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century.Ā Neither title describes the book very accurately.Ā It is really an extended meditation on Browneās life and interests as they strike a 21st-century science writer who likes to ride a bicycle and who, like Browne, lives in...
A Very American Hotel
Forty years is a long enough stretch, but it seems far less than half a lifetime ago when, as a surly British teenager, I found myself clutching an all-day pass to the 1974 Worldās Fair in Spokane, Washington.Ā I was there on my summer vacation from Cambridge, and it seemed to me an almost satirically...
Americaās āFemale Futureā Has Open Borders
Females dominate U.S. immigration policymaking, media, and legal positions. The gender imbalance is liberalizing the countryās immigration laws.
O Literature, Thou Art Sick
The present condition of literature (as that term is ordinarily understood), at least in America, is obviously unhealthy.Ā Its illness is the result not only of internal undermining, āthe invisible wormā of Blakeās āThe Sick Rose,ā but of external conditions, the āhowling stormā on which the worm (however implausibly) rode.Ā External and internal decline, all...
Bring Me Their Scalps!
The common notion that white settlers invented scalping is nonsense.
Panic on the Left
It is no exaggeration to describe the Western left as living in a state of panic in these days of the mass invasion of Europe from the Islamic Middle East, jihadist violence on the Old Continent and now the New one, the nationalist risorgimenti in the member countries of the European Union, and the enthusiasm...
The Latest Jewish Ghetto
Long before ethnicity became the focus of studying neglected groups and culturesāthe black, Judaic, Chicano, and feminist counterpart to “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it”āleading intellectuals such as Simone de Beauvoir, in feminist studies; Harry A. Wolfson, in Judaism as part of the Western philosophical tradition; Eugene Genovese and John Hope Franklin, in...
The Ideological Temptation of the Media
There have been, in recent decades, two focal points around which radical, utopian ideologies could concentrate. As a result, these two focuses-labor unions and youth-were surrounded by a veritable cult, and they acquired power, both political and cultural, even though the second of the two focuses was not, as such, organized, let alone structured. Power...
Sex, Lies, and the Media
Paying attention to the news may be dangerous to your physical and moral health. I am sure it lowers the IQ. It is not so much that news reports contain lies (though they frequently do) or that reporting and commentary on subjects ranging from Global Warming to Hate Crimes are mere propaganda exercises (as they...
My Conversation With Alex Jones
I always had the general impression that radio shock-jock Alex Jones was a hucksterābasically an entertainer, as opposed to a serious person.Ā Iād never bothered to listen to his broadcasts, and all I knew about him was secondhand.Ā My recent encounter with Jones gave me the chance to find out the truth for myself. The...
This Land for Hire
“Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens); the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.” āGeorge Washington The day after Bill Clinton’s election, the new leader...
The Personal Is Not the Political
The Lives of Others Produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk and Creado Film Directed and written by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics Breach Produced and distributed by Universal Pictures Directed by Billy Ray Screenplay by Adam Mazer and William Rotko Anyone who wants to know what it is like to live in a...
Mexifornicating the Californicated
Victor Davis Hanson, a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno, writes often and writes well.Ā I have two of his books on ancient Greece.Ā He is the only author who has ever explained to me how difficult it was to wreak permanent agricultural devastation on a typical Greek city-state: Pulling out grape vines...
My Country 60’s
I lived in Vermont from 1962-71, and I met many of what I later came to call 60’s people. While I recognized them for what they were at the timeāthat required no great penetrationānevertheless there were things about them that puzzled me: Why did they suddenly appear in droves there and then? Why were they...
Avoiding Democracy
Does America exist anymore, or is the nation only a fantasy concocted out of old Frank Capra movies, civics classes, and pamphlets from the Department of Education? The weight of the evidence suggests the latter. Twenty years agoāancient history by the standards of the pressāa considerable number of young men who refused to fight in...
Crime Story
Probably not since Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind has a popular novel influenced Americans as deeply as Mario Puzo’s The Godfather. Appearing in 1969, the book remains, according to the inflated come-on of its publisher’s blurb, “the all-time best-selling novel in publishing history.” If true, that claim in itself is no mean accomplishment, considering...
Uncle Sam and the Third Balkan War
Whenever you hear the New World Order crowd whining about the obligation of the “international community” to come to the rescue of a “multiethnic democracy” threatened by “nationalism,” get ready for Uncle Sam to be dragged off on a fool’s errand. This term, “multiethnic democracy,” the prime exemplar of which is supposedly the United States,...
The Education of Everyman
Classical professors looked forward with a mixture of eagerness and anxiety to the recent $40 million version of the Odyssey on NBC. Would the production reveal Homer, or would the Hollywoodification of his poem so distort the plot that we would be spending the remainder of our careers disabusing students and others of false impressions?...
āPersonal Moral Valuesā
The Commandant of the Marine Corps, General James Conway, has courageously defied the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and his Commander-in-Chief with public testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee opposing lifting the ban on homosexuals serving in the Armed Forces.Ā āBan,ā of course, hardly describes the current policy.Ā Homosexuals who keep their inclinations relatively...
Letter From Rockford: How the Little Guys Won
Editors’ note: Our hometown of Rockford, Illinois, is celebrated by pollsters as one of the most demographically average cities in the United States. Not surprisingly, then, our political, economic, and cultural trials reflect those of the country at large. In “Letter From Rockford,” a recurring column, Rockford writers will examine local issues that have national...
Collateral America
The Mirror Test is John Kael Westonās testament and witness to seven years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.Ā Weston worked as a State Department political officer alongside U.S. Marines and Army soldiers in some of the most dangerous areas of both countries, advisingāand sometimes overrulingāAmerican military commanders in what became political nation-building operations growing...
On the Lam From the Census Bureau
Iām hiding outāfrom the Census Bureau.Ā True, they usually donāt send out U.S. marshals with guns and handcuffs.Ā But Iām playing it safe anyway, because the Bureau has been after me since I failed to fill out its treasured questionnaire, āThe American Community Survey.ā Iāve been through this before.Ā I donāt mind if the government...
True Love Ways
For the past 40 years, Rockfordās Midtown district has seen more downs than ups.Ā Centered on Seventh Street from First Avenue to Broadway, southeast of the main part of downtown, Midtownāonce a bustling commercial and cultural center at the heart of a Swedish neighborhoodāwas, for far too long, a haven for prostitution and drug use.Ā ...
On the Clear and Present Danger
Scott P. Richertās article on the Islamic school in Rockford (āThrough a Glass, Darkly,ā The Rockford Files, April), was extremely tastefulāand also very disturbing. There are several Islamic private schools here in Washington, D.C.Ā The Washington Post did a story on the phenomenon a couple of years ago, listingĀ some of the same selling points...
Time and the Tide in the Southern Short Story
Perhaps since the War Between the States itself, and certainly since the literary Southern Renascence became conscious of itself in the 30’s and 40’s, educated Southerners, and Southern writers especially, have taken their sense of history as a point of pride. Now, as the end of the century approaches, one may be tempted to wonder...
Shelter From the Storm
The trial of 12 sanctuary workers in Tucson has heated up an issue which is being hailed in many quarters as the great moral issue of the 1980’s. The movement, whose members provide protection to illegal immigrants from Central America, is protesting the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service’s refusal to recognize Salvadoran and Guatemalan emigrants...
Democracy, Real and Imagined
Revisionist-historian and anarchist anthropologist David Graeber insisted in a book he co-wrote before his death last year that agriculture was to blame for the sorry state of humanity. According to the departed scholar, hunter-gatherers lived happily in bands until agriculture was invented, which led to surpluses, population growth, private property, tribes, cities, chiefs, tyrants, bureaucrats,...
A Great Refusal
As I have previously observed in these pages, each of the ratification conventions with which the people of the 13 original states passed judgment on the handiwork of the Great Convention had its own distinctive dramaā structural characteristics which in the end colored the meaning of the Constitution in the communities by which it was...
Redskin and Whitewash
“In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean nude.” āChronicles, 1992 The profusion of the anti-Western virus released by the quincentenary of Columbus’ landfall on the Caribbean island of San Salvador has become the mental equivalent of the AIDS epidemic, fatally infecting millions of promiscuous and incautious intellectuals and subintellectuals. For the literary ghetto, Kirkpatrick...
Recovering the Dignity of Truth
We Episcopaliansāweāre just so special, donāt you know?Ā We worship in such special ways.Ā Our churches look so special, as do we ourselvesāan indication of our social gifts.Ā And when we fight, when we commence to break the church furniture over one anotherās headsāat such moments weāre just, you might say, disgustingly, regurgitatingly special; so...