Every well-read person used to know Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, and, knowing that collection, knew who Richard Savage wasāor at least knew who Richard Savage told people he was. Richard Savage was a minor poet and convicted murderer, a charming rascal and rackety man about town entirely lacking normal instincts of prudence and self-preservation....
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Getting Out of Dodge
The Founding Fathers intended the “Enumeration” (Article I, Section 2) not only as a means of assuring representational equality among the states but as a graph displaying the growth of the American nation in size and prosperity. For almost 200 years, the decennial census could plausibly be accepted as doing that. The last three censuses...
The New Sexual World Order
The New Sexual World Order is taking shape, thanks to the Peace Gorps, the United Nations, and the U.S. Congress. In late September, Dr. J. Ricker Polsdorfer, the Peace Corps’ director of medical services in Africa, was fired for promoting abstinence as a method of preventing AIDS. Dr. Polsdorfer’s crimes, according to the Peace Corps...
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...
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. The pooh-bahs of mediocrity voted for art rather than commerce, and so...
Retooling the Conservative Movement
Samuel Francis’s newest book, composed of 30 essays originally published in Chronicles between 1989 and 1996, is much more than a collection of articles about matters of passing concern. Rather it attests to Francis’s singular efforts in constructing a strategy by which Americans might recapture their nation from the decadent establishment now in power. He...
The Whippoorwill
Ā Ā Ā Ā “The pure products of America go crazy.” āWilliam Carlos Williams The go-to-hell attitude, unique features, and deceptive talent by which we know Robert Mitchum (1917-1997) were the product of his heredity and experience. His father was a Scotch-Irish South Carolinian with some Amerindian bloodāhe died young in a railroad accident. His...
Shades of Blue
The Rockford Public Schools, as longtime readers of Chronicles know, have seen more than their fair share of troubles.Ā With the end, in June 2002, of the 13-year-long desegregation suit and its accompanying rule by the federal courts, and the hiring of Dennis Thompson as superintendent in 2004, however, the school board has begun to...
The Crossroads Merchants
āStandinā at the crossroad I tried to flag a ride Didnāt nobody seem to know me everybody pass me byā āRobert Johnson I went to Charlotte in search of the New South and found it in a museum, the Levine Museum of the New South on 7th Street in Uptown Charlotte.Ā Like most historical museums,...
In a Precarious Condition
The NATO airstrikes against the Republic of Yugoslavia have suddenly precipitated us 60 years back. We find ourselves faced with events which strangely resemble the aggression directed by Germany, first against Czechoslovakia, then, with the aid of the Soviet Union, against Poland. It was striking to hear President Bill Clinton compare his “essentially humanitarian” action...
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,...
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...
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...
Who Lost the World Bush 41 Left Behind?
George H.W. Bush was America’s closer. Called in to pitch the final innings of the Cold War, Bush 41 presided masterfully over the fall of the Berlin Wall, the unification of Germany, the liberation of 100 million Eastern Europeans and the dissolution of the Soviet Union into 15 independent nations. History’s assignment complete, Bush 41...
Black Power and the 1619 Project
Radically recasting Americaās formative years would be damaging enough, but The New York Timesā ā1619 Projectā is applying that same radical intellectual perspective on American history to contemporary social issues and problems. That intellectual perspective has its own history. It developed in earnest during the tumult and chaos of the Black Power radicalism of the...
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...
On Liberal Education
My definition of liberal education as the education of liberals no longer sounds provocative. Liberalism, having failed and failed disastrously in all its political experiments from church disestablishment to women’s suffrage to food stamps, still reigns triumphant, with hardly a rival, in the empty corridors of the Western mind. How failed? The church is disestablished,...
Grand Strategy Revisited
In an election campaign dominated by domestic issues, foreign themes have appeared as isolated snippets.Ā Questions regarding what to do about Syria or Iran, or how to manage relations with China and Russia, produce stock responses unrelated to the broad picture.Ā These are among the most important questions facing political decisionmakers, foreign-policy practitioners, and their...
Biting the Bullet
The flyleaf of this book sports a quote (āOne finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevskyās originalā) from an enthusiastic notice in the New York Times Book Review of a new translation of The Brothers Karamazov, which the Pevear-Volokh onsky tandem unleashed upon the English-speaking world a quarter of a century ago.Ā As the author...
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...
Syria: Too Much “Intelligence”
Only a few weeks into the latest round of horrors in Syria, we are getting used to the debasement of āintelligenceā to serve the crudest political ends.Ā In September, President Hollande showed the U.N. secretary general and journalists round the French military intelligence HQ at Creil north of Paris, where the amazed visitors admired the...
GOP: Adios, WASP!
Ā I’d be the last one to suggest that the Republican National Convention should be a bastion of Christian orthodoxy, and I’m sure no one goes there for the liturgy. Ā But still. Ā The schedule ought to tell us something about the “values” of the GOP, don’t you think? Ā I meanĀ priorities, what sort ofĀ faceĀ you want to...
Civil Rights or Property Rights?
The interplay of race and economics in America has produced a new variant of political economy that we might call “multicultural capitalism,” a system in which property is, for the most part, privately owned, but its ownership is conditional on the race, sex, andāin some casesāthe sexual orientation of the owner. In the pursuit of...
In a Tizzy
Igor Ivanov, Russia’s foreign minister, is usually calm, cool, and collected, but he looked nervous during his March 22 press conference. Ivanov, known among Kremlin siloviky (members of the defense/security apparatus) as something of a wimp, adopted an uncustomary frown and set about lambasting Washington’s recent “unfriendly acts,” especially the March 21 expulsion of six...
Pernicious Myth of “Free Trade”
Ā In the last week of September the House of Representatives passed legislation aimed at imposing trade sanctions against China unless it lets its currency appreciate, thereby reducing its export advantage. In a subsequent speech clearly aimed at China, Japan and Brazil, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner attacked currency policies likely to result in āshort-term distortions...
Obamaās War?
āWe have to be as careful getting out as we were careless getting in,ā says Barack Obama of the U.S. war in Iraq. Wise counsel. But is Barack taking his own advice? For he pledges to shift two U.S. combat brigades, 10,000 troops, out of Iraq and into Afghanistan, raising American forces in that country...
Out and About
The American Empire has been on the minds of at least some conservatives for about two decades, ever since the sudden collapse of the Soviet Empire caught us all by surprise.Ā It isnāt that Americans havenāt argued about empire before: From the 1890ās until December 7, 1941, there was an on-again, off-again but very lively...
Trumpās Comprehensive Volte-Face
During the presidential campaign and in the immediate aftermath of his election victory, Donald Trump had made a number of conciliatory remarks about Russiaās president Vladimir Putin and the possibility of substantial improvement in relations between Washington and Moscow. On the campaign trail he also made the well-publicized statement that NATO was obsolete, and last...
An American Prometheus
Sprawled on the sands of the New Mexico desert, Isador Isaac Rabi was witness on July 16, 1945, to a demonstration of scientific power so spectacular that neither his welder’s glasses nor his analytical training could fully shield him from its awe-inspiring effects: Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I...
Iraq’s Collapse
The war in Iraqās outcome was never in doubt, but the magnitude and speed of the Iraqi regimeās collapse are nevertheless puzzling and deserve closer scrutiny. In terms of numbers and available equipment, the Iraqi military was theoretically a foe worthy of respect.Ā Its past performance was by no means abysmal.Ā It suffered serious reverses...
Something Is Missing
“If anyone wish to migrate to another village, and if one or more who live in that village do notwish to receive him, if there he only one who objects he shall not move there.” Ā Ā Ā Ā āThe Salic Law, c. 490 In this commentary on the American experiment, Michael Barone declares that...
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...
Signs of the Sandinistas
The mural is old and faded, a reminder of headier days when the world looked ripe for violent revolution. Three years of neglect, the effects of a tropical climate, and petty vandalism have combined to give the mural its present appearance of a long-forgotten billboard along some abandoned stretch of rural highway. Yet the huge...
Happy at Home
“No changes have been made in the text of the book for this printing,” Robert Nisbet wrote in his preface to the 1970 edition of The Quest for Community. Nor have changes been made in the new ICS Press edition, though it does carry a 13-page foreward by William A. Schambra that attempts to locate...
What Became a Legend Most?
Poor Zoe. Poor William. Poor Lillian. As if it were a conspiracy to compensate for what they deemed a distortion of the facts, the critics seized Zoe Caldwell’s one-woman show Lillian, written by William Luce, as an occasion to say more about Lillian Hellman than to discuss the biodrama they were offered. The most prevalent...
Kim Jong-il, the Leader from Hell
Ā Kim Jong-il, the North Korean āDear Leaderā (as well asĀ Secretary-General of theĀ Workers’ Party of Korea, Chairman of theĀ National Defense Commission, Supreme Commander of theĀ Korean People’s Army, etc, etc.) is dead at 69. The news that theĀ diminutive leaderĀ of the most unpleasant despotism in the world is no longer going to regale us with his...
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.
In Praise of Elites
Being a lifelong elitist myself, I have long had a sneaking sympathy for a Trollope character, Sir Timothy Beeswax. In The Dune’s Children (1880), Beeswax is a dignified old politician who lives not for power but, quite unashamedly, for the trappings of office. Parliament, he believed, was a club so eligible that any Englishman would...
THE PARTY STATE
In Washington, D.C., access and influence go hand-in-hand; they are the stock and trade of the lobbyist, the lawyer, and the political advisor. They are, as well, the biggest “skill” current officeholders and staff members can take with them when they leave the government. Ā Ā Ā Ā āfrom Pat Choate, “Puppets for Nippon,” May...
Old Story, New Resonances
A New World Begins: The History of the French RevolutionĀ by Jeremy D. Popkin;Ā Basic Books;Ā 640 pp., $35.00 Ā Zhou Enlai was asked in theĀ early 1970s what he, one of the architects of the Chinese communist revolution, thought of the French Revolution. His response: āToo early to say.ā The international press seized upon that comment, which satisfied...
Trump Dumps the Do-Nothing Congress
Donald Trump is president today because he was seen as a doer not a talker. Among the most common compliments paid him in 2016 was, “At least he gets things done!” And it was exasperation with a dithering GOP Congress, which had failed to enact his or its own agenda, that caused Trump to pull...
See, I Told You So
In commenting on the reaction to Rush Limbaughās drug addiction, fellow radio talk-show host Michael Savage used the biblical quotation, āLet he who is without sin cast the first stone.āĀ When antidrug warrior Limbaugh was exposed as a subject of a criminal drug investigation, however, it was inevitable that the self-described āepitome of morality and...
A New Global Conservative Agenda: Order vs. Chaos
Excerpts from Srdja Trifkovicās presentation at the International Conservative Round-Table Conference held in Milan, Italy, on June 13, 2017. The event in the Lombard capital was co-sponsored by the Lega Nord and the Russian Party of Action. It is in their cultural and moral diseases that Europe and America certify that they share the same...
Child Abuse, the State, and the Russian Family
It was another episode in a series of shocking crimes against children.Ā Little Sasha, just three years old, was pulled from the frigid waters of the Pekhorka River in January 2009.Ā He was bound to a car battery with adhesive tape, his body battered and bearing the marks of cigarette burns.Ā It was the second...
Burnham Agonistes
āWho says A must say B.ā āJames Burnham Most adult conservatives as well as many educated people know that James Burnham was an anticommunist author and columnist for William F. Buckleyās National Review; a number of others will be aware that Burnhamās name seems to flap through the corridors of early 20th-century American intellectual history,...
Kelly Loeffler’s Missed Opportunity in the Georgia Run-off Debate
On the evening of Dec. 6, I watched the debate between Sen. Kelly Loeffler and the Reverend Raphael Warnock, who are running against each other for a U.S. Senate seat from Georgia with the runoff election scheduled for Jan. 5. As a non-leftist I am anxious to see the Georgia Senate seats now up for...
In Praise of Christian Walls
āA person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian,ā Pope Francis declared on his flight back to Rome last week.The political implications of his statement have been considered in some detail in recent days, but his assertion also needs to be examined in the light...
Time to Share the Foreign Policy Vision (If Any)
The way to have the foreign policy you want is first to figure out what kind of foreign policy you want. It is a task at which American leaders grow less and less adept, possibly on account of Americans’ general inability to figure out what they want: involvement, isolation or variations of the two? What,...
The Mitt-Mike Religious War
Four weeks before New Hampshire and three weeks before the Iowa caucuses, the Republican race has become a proxy religious war. On one side is a Baptist preacher who called homosexuality
The (New) Ugly American
The regime we live underāthe regime of the United States Constitutionābegan with a set of clear understandings. One was that the federal government was to be the servant of the people. It was to be confined to the specific powers the people “delegated” to it, pursuant to the general welfare and common defense of the...