Nowhere is the right of free expression more hotly debated than on our nation’s campuses. The recent controversy at my school, the University of Michigan, is a prime example. On January 9, U-M sophomore “Jake Baker”ā a/k/a Abraham Jacob Alkhabaz, a 21-year-old Kuwaiti-American who uses his mother’s maiden nameādid what he often did: he signed...
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The Empire At Europe’s End
In the German name for Austria, Osterreich, Reich denotes more than “empire” in the sense of territorial extension; there is also a certain spiritual content. In the Middle Ages, empire meant the Eastern Roman Empire of Byzantium, and after Christmas Day 800, when Charlemagne was crowned by Pope Leo XIII, the Sacer Imperator Romanus was...
Running With the Mob
The New York Mob ain’t dead, but it’s far from the robust times it enjoyed when the five New York crime familiesā Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Luccheseāsingle-handedly controlled the city’s powerful labor unions and ran roughshod over the burgeoning construction, trucking, garbage-hauling, and garment industries. Federal, state, and local law enforcement officials, who have...
Whereās Joe McCarthy When You Need Him?
Many Americans are so disappointed with the Bush administration that they are tempted to vote for John Kerry.Ā Some Democrats who spent the past 80 years waiting for the Revolution to blow over may think theirs is still the party of āRum, Romanism, and Rebellion,ā as it was dubbed in 1884, but, by the 1960ās,...
Of Death and Diapers
Our Endangered Children: Growing Up in a Changing World by Vance Packard; Little, Brown; Boston. Who Will Take the Children? A New Custody Option for Divorcing Mothersāand Fathers by Susan Meyers and Joan Lakin; Bobbs-Merrill; Indianapolis. Secular liberalism is the supreme doctrine of the sovereign self. As such, its failures are particularly obvious at the...
Chewing the Toad
Thereās a sucker born every minute. For just $99.00 and a used ticket stub for Wonder Woman, if you order by midnight tonight, you can enroll in a course on Healing Toxic Whiteness.Ā It is taught by a young woman named Sandra Kim, a person of āmultiple marginalized identities,ā as she describes herself; with what...
Remembering George Grant
The Unconventional Tory In an age beset by anxiety over the survivalĀ of the nation-state and social traditionalism, the Canadian thinker George Parkin Grant (1918-1988) is an indispensable guide to making sense of the modern predicament. Although he contributed to the field of political philosophy, his major works feel more like the stuff of prophecy. In...
The State of the Fake News
And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that are in paradise we do eat: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die. And the...
The State of the Art
This volume of short stories seems to me to represent, as a book, two distinct levels of meaning. The first and most insistent of these levels is of course as a diverse gathering of brilliant fictions, each one a self-justifying experience. The variety of voices and subjects is itself refreshing and rewarding; the high standard...
La Condition Humaine
Zoo Produced and Directed by Frederick Wiseman Released by Zipporah Films Much Ado About Nothing Produced by Kenneth Branagh, David Parfitt, and Stephen Evans Direction and Screenplay by Kenneth Branagh Released by The Samuel Goldwyn Company Frederick Wiseman’s rigorous documentary style disdains the unctuous narrator’s voice-over explanations to the audience of what it ought to...
The Significance of the Region in American History
During the early 1920’s, 30 years after he had written his famous essay on the significance of the frontier in the nation’s history, the great American historian Frederick Jackson Turner published two other works on the democratizing role of what he termed the “section.” Sections, Turner wrote, “serve as restraints upon a deadly uniformity. They...
Successful Crimes
Crime is big business in the U.S. It is bigger than the billions of dollars that are made in the drug traffic every year and the astronomical revenues from prostitution, gambling, and armed robbery. (Robbers alone are estimated to cost us $355 thousand a day.) Even honest citizens gel a piece of the action: law...
Telling Your Abortion Story
The promoters of infanticide have a new weapon in their arsenal. āStorytellingā is the new āsafe, legal, and rareā of the pro-abortion movement.Ā See as Exhibit A the new HBO documentary,Ā Abortion: Stories Women Tell, released a few weeks ago in select theaters. The film focuses on women in Missouri, a state where only one abortion...
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges is anything but easy to accept, absorb, comprehend, and emotionally embrace. It’s not that his poems, short stories, and essays are all hard to read, for some of them have the lucidity and pure tone of a crystal form seen and struck. Others are admittedly trying, especially for those not cognizant of...
On Misrepresented Monsters
I enjoyed reading George McCartney’s review of Monsters From the Id in the November 2000 issue of Chronicles (“Frankenstein’s Children,” Opinions). However, it contains some misrepresentations of what I had to say on the relationship between sex and horror. To begin with, the Ford Foundation never funded Alfred Kinsey’s sex surveys; it is the Rockefeller...
Is There Hope for the Federal Courts?
In a radio address last year, President Clinton railed against congressional Republicans who were stalling on his nominees to the federal bench and had even threatened some sitting judges with impeachment. Their actions, he claimed, had endangered our tradition of judicial independence, and were an attack on the rule of law itself. The truth, of...
Liberality, the Basis of Culture
The Ultimate Homeschool. ā . . . redeeming the time, because the days are evil.āāEphesians 5:15 āGo day, come day. Lord, send Sunday.ā My paternal grandmother could be counted on to say these words at least once per week. Whether burdened with some mundane task or confronted with the evidence of human frailty, the prospect...
Remembering G. K. Chesterton
Fashions do not feed us, they only ensnare us. They do not satisfy us, they only contribute to our ongoing dissatisfaction with the fleetingness of everything. But they always seem more appealing and urgent than what really matters and what will remain after the fashions have fled. English writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was once...
Experiencing Civilization
Ā Ā Ā Ā “The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.” āGeorge Santayana When The Restoration of Christian Culture was first published in 1983, the Integrated Humanities Program, founded by John Senior and his fellow University of Kansas professors Dennis B. Quinn and Franklyn C. Nelick, had just had its...
Inch by Inch
A text, or an epigraph, for what I am going to say: some lines from John Ciardi’s poem about the Birdman of Alcatraz who was, among other things, a trickster of sorts. These words are from Ciardi’s poem “Snickering in Solitary”: In every life sentence some days are better than others; even, sometimes, better than...
The Triumph of Nice
Imagine reading an interview with the founder of a new Christian church.Ā As the interviewer points out, new denominations are scarcely a surprising story, so what makes yours so different and noteworthy?Ā Well, explains the prophet, we have a totally different attitude toward the Bible.Ā Our focus groups tell us that many modern people do...
Our Pushover President
Our Pushover President by Patrick J. Buchanan ā¢ November 24, 2009 ā¢ Printer-friendly “This state visit is . . . a terrible mistake,” said Rep. Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. “He is illegitimate with his own people, and Brazil is now going to give him the air of legitimacy...
Pop Culture and Politics: Passing By the Train Wreck
If Macbeth were alive today, he would probably make an appearance in the public confessional with Oprah Winfrey and, in all likelihood, would emerge as a prime candidate for Big Brother or one of the other ārealityā shows that crowd our airwaves.Ā Macbeth would be helped to come to terms with his domestic issues and...
America, Honor, and Building a Grocery Store from Scratch
A season of manual labor on a construction crew would better prepare American journalists to make observations about our politics than whatever it is they are doing now.
Anarcho-Tyranny Versus…Walmart?
Everyone hates Walmart nowadays.Ā Environmental groups protest the companyās āgreenwashing,ā numerous violations of the Clean Water Act, and contribution to suburban sprawl.Ā Traditionalists detest Walmartās displacement of small, family-owned businesses with big-box stores that serve as little more than cash drop boxes for the Bentonville, Arkansas, mother ship.Ā Organized labor, as expected, objects to the...
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.
Unnatural Causes
āFor me,ā wrote P.D. James in her āfragment of autobiography,ā Time To Be in Earnest, āone of the fascinations of detective fiction is the exploration of character under the revealing trauma of murder inquiry.āĀ Murder āis the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.āĀ As a writer...
Shifting Ground
Kenneth Miller, a professor of biology at Boston University, has produced a beautifully written work. His book is intended to refute every objection to the more or less universally accepted doctrine of evolution, to discredit its opponents, and to assert the compatibility of strict evolutionary doctrine with religion. Ever since Darwināand especially since the rise...
A āWokeā Crusader at Germanyās Helm
Angela Merkelās unprecedented 16 years in power came to an end on Dec. 8 when Olaf Scholz was sworn inĀ as the new German chancellor, symbolically breaking with tradition by omitting āso help me Godā from the oath. Scholz steered his Social Democratic Party (SPD) to the dominant position in last Septemberās general election by presenting...
Whatās the Big Idea?
The Village Produced by Touchstone and Blinding Edge Pictures Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures The Manchurian Candidate Produced and distributed byParamount Pictures Directed by Jonathan Demme Screenplay by Daniel Pyne from the novel by Richard Condon George Axelrod (1962 screenplay) MarĆa, Full of Grace (MarĆa, llena eres de...
Whig History and Lost Causes
It is totally misleading to present history as if its course was inevitable. The past cannot be understood if the elements of chance and contingency are ignored. To assume that what happened was bound to happenāthe teleological interpretation of historyātakes away the options facing individuals, groups, and governments in the past. It is analytically suspect,...
On Environmentalists
As an environmentalist with four decades of observation and experience with The Cause, I would like to respond to Chilton Williamson’s May column (“What Do Environmentalists Want?“). I think most citizens (and environmentalists) want a safe, clean, long-lasting, biologically diverse, and desirable place to live. Even, eventually, a population more in balance with what our...
The Persecution of John Demjanjuk
Ā “John Demjanjuk Guilty of Nazi Death Camp Murders,” ran the headline on the BBC. The lede began: “A German court has found John Demjanjuk guilty of helping to murder more than 28,000 Jews at a Nazi death camp in Poland.” Not until paragraph 17 does one find this jolting fact: “No evidence was produced...
Lincolnism Today
In the Anglo-American experience, the partisans of concentrated wealth and advocates for political centralization have long been connected.Ā Over the last three centuries, that connection has grown stronger, and in the United States this process accelerated dramatically during and after the Lincoln administration.Ā Lincolnism, the idea that the central state can and should use its...
The End of the Berlusconi Era
Ā Silvio Berlusconi has been around for so long that it is hard to imagine Italian politics without him occupying the center stage. The end of his era is nigh, however, to the relief of his opponents as well as many of his erstwhile supporters. Berlusconi announced on Tuesday night that he would resign as...
Monarchs and Pretenders
Mary, Queen of Scots Produced and distributed by Focus Features Directed by Josie Rourke Screenplay by Beau Willimon The Favourite Screenplay by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara Distributed by Universal Pictures Stan & Ollie Produced and distributed by Sony Pictures Classics Directed by Jon Baird Screenplay by Jeff Pope Can You Ever Forgive Me? Produced...
The Alienation of Henry Adams
The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams by Davis S. BrownĀ ScribnerĀ 464 pp., $30.00 Ā Henry Adams (1838-1918) was born in the waning years of the early Republic. As he entered into adulthood after the Civil War, the country he saw emerging did not please him. The new...
Food Fight
Is anyone who thinks, as I do, that ādim sumā is Chinese for ādamn soonā or that āsushiā is Japanese for ābaitā even remotely qualified to write on food?Ā Actually, I often volunteer unsolicited comments, more or less printable, as the case may be.Ā I have noticed that the most thoughtful people I know prefer...
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.
Enemies Within and Above
Within a few hours of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon last September, it had become commonplace for even high-ranking government officials and elected leaders to say publicly that Americans would just have to get used to fewer constitutional liberties and personal freedoms than they have traditionally enjoyed. Of course,...
Murder, She Wroteāand Lied
Kamala Harris fanned the flames of riots and refused to retract false statements.
Abolishing Compulsory School Attendance Laws
The state of Colorado recently did something revolutionary, at least it tried to. Last November, Republican State Representative Russ George introduced an amendment to Colorado’s “Children Code”āa set of laws dealing with child welfare issues, including the education of Colorado’s 650,000 studentsāthat would have abolished that state’s compulsory school attendance laws. A similar proposal was...
Our Conception of the World
When we argue about what should be taught in schools and colleges, at stake is our conception of the world. Our theory of the world tells us what we should teach, and whom we may ignore. Debates precipitated by Secretary Bennett’s important criticism of the Stanford curriculum centered upon the inclusion of formerly-ignored groups. But...
Cancer and American Films
Hollywoodās decades-long fascination with the 0the struggles of cancer patients may tell us more about the human condition than many people traumatized by the disease want to know.
Don’t Take Your Guns to Town, Paul
The honor of it all aside, Rep. Paul Ryan would do well to decline the speakership of the House. For it is a poisoned chalice that is being offered to him. The Republican Party is not, as some commentators wail, in “chaos” today. It is in rebellion, in revolt, as it was in the early...
Three Days in Sodom, Two in Gomorrah
“Party for a book? I’d love to,” I mutter to my host as we land in Sodom. Five days of vacation lie before me, and as we drive to the placeā”Where the old McAlpin used to be, downtown,” the limousine driver reminiscesāit is pleasant to think that people here still publish books. After a ride...
Learning From Our Hard Corona Days
The world has reached a new level of boredom, it seems. Lately, since the NBA has suspended its season, ESPN has been televising a different sort of basketball game: NBA players playing the basketball video game NBA 2K. In their oppressive boredom, people tune in to watch and, I suppose, to comment on and argue...
Governor Berry and the Mad Farmersā Liberation Front
Wendell Berryās voice is rich and mellow, carrying a slight grit that comes from weathering, age, and experience.Ā His accent is strong enough to flavor his words but mild enough to soothe his listeners.Ā It is a surprisingly gentle voice for one so radical. I sit listening to the Kentucky gentleman.Ā With me are a...
Remembering William Pitt
Long after his death, William Pitt is remembered as one of Englandās finest statesmen, a man who valued his country's mixed constitution and unique combination of high regard for the rights of man and a stable social order where king, nobles, and commoners all had their place.
The Punishment That Europe Imposed on Itself
The hegemonic clique that conducts American foreign policy has managed to bring Europe under control more firmly and radically than at any time during the Cold War. And this is not a temporary, transient phenomenon.