Francis Parkman concluded his monumental account of France and England in North America with the Peace of Paris of 1763, by which France ceded Quebec, once and for all, to the British Empire.Ā In an uncharacteristically smug observation on the aftermath, Parkman described the French Canadians as āa people bereft of every vestige of civil...
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Belief Suspended
The Time Machine Produced and distributed by DreamWorks and Warner Bros. Directed by Simon Wells Screenplay by John Logan from a novel by H.G. Wells Monsterās Ball Produced by Lee Daniels and Mark Urman Directed by Marc Forster Screenplay by Milo Addica and Will Rokos Released by Lions Gate Films I first read H.G. Wellsā...
The Saint of the Sourdoughs
More than 20 years ago, I presented a paper on the Old West at an historical conference and was surprised to find that I upset several female professors in the audience.Ā I had not disparaged their frontier sisters.Ā Quite the opposite: I described how strong, courageous, enterprising, and successful were many of those pioneer women.Ā ...
In a Trump Hunt, Beware the Perjury Trap
Asked if he would agree to be interviewed by Robert Mueller’s team, President Donald Trump told the White House press corps, “I would love to do it . . . as soon as possible. . . . under oath, absolutely.” On hearing this, the special counsel’s office must have looked like the Eagles’ locker room...
A Moderate Proposal
In America today, nearly every month brings a new occasion to renew the Culture War over religion in the public square.Ā By next year, our sensitive multicultural elites might insist on celebrating āHearts and Flowers Dayā on February 14 and āDrink Beer and Wear Green Dayā on March 17. Americans have not always been such...
The Counterrevolution Against Globalism
On August 19, 1991, the people of the Soviet Union awoke to music from Tchaikovskyās Swan Lake playing on national television. Swan Lake would play continuously that day as the āhard lineā State Emergency Committee staged its coup against the first and last Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev, who had been arrested at his Crimea vacation...
Too Dangerous to Read
I offer a moral dilemma.Ā Are there books or fictional works so dangerous that they should not be taught in school or college, and that should as far as possible be kept from a general audience?Ā Some observers would apply this label to political tracts like Adolf Hitlerās Mein Kampf, but however loathsome its content,...
Conservatism at Midwinter Spring
[What follows is a meditation on T.S. Eliotās poem āLittle Gidding.āĀ All indented quotations, with apologies to their author, are taken from Eliot.] What we call the beginning is often the endĀ And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from . . . The first step,...
Margaret Fuller in Rome
“Oh Rome! my country! city of the soul! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee!” āLord Byron, Child Harold’s Pilgrimage What is the greatest lost work of ancient literature? Was it Arctinus’ epic Aethiopis, which told of the battles of Achilles against Penthesilea, the Amazon Queen, and Memnon, black King of the Ethiopians?...
Will ‘Ukraine-Gate’ Imperil Biden’s Bid?
With the revelation by an intel community “whistleblower” that President Donald Trump, in a congratulatory call to the new president of Ukraine, pushed him repeatedly to investigate the Joe Biden family connection to Ukrainian corruption, the cry “Impeach!” is being heard anew in the land. But revisiting how this latest scandal came about, and how...
Russia, Ukraine, and the Return of Nationalism
The Russia-Ukraine War has become a proxy fight between American-led globalism and the alternative: a multipolar world of nation-states free from American hegemony.
Music of the Peers
I recently attended a performance by the quartet known as Montreux, a group which, as you may know, records for Windham Hill. I had first seen Montreux perform a couple years back during Detroit’s international jazz festival that’s called, coincidentally enough, Montreux/Detroit. Those whose sensibilities were shaped by rock and roll may know Montreux-the-city only...
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.
Radical Populism on the Volga
On May 8, 1995, President Boris Yeltsin addressed an auditorium filled with gray-haired war veterans, their chests bedecked with rows of ribbons and medals, and told them of the cost of victory in the Great Patriotic War. Citing new archival research, Yeltsin revealed the “terrifying figure” of 26,549,000 Soviet citizens “lost” in the war against...
Romancing the Skull
āI have found little āgoodā about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.ā āSigmund Freud An old professor of mine once joked that ecumenism was a case of āthe bland leading the bland,ā an epithet that could just as appropriately describe contemporary humanism.Ā Cast your net at Google, and you will haul...
On Might
“I chant the new empire . . . “ āWalt Whitman Walt Whitman sang what he sawāin 1860, he gave a name to Madison’s and Jefferson’s vision of the new commonwealth. “[Our success],” Jefferson had said in 1801, “furnishes a new proof of the falsehood of Montesquieu’s doctrine, that a republic can be preserved only...
Abbey Lives!
Fifteen years after I arrived in the West, I can no longer recall how I first became aware of Edward Abbey, though I do know that I had been the book editor of a national magazine for nearly four years before the name penetrated my consciousness. (The parochialism of the New York literati.) But I...
Middle American Revolution Begins
Donald Trumpās victory in the presidential election was greeted with shock and disbelief in many quarters.Ā My favorite example of this occurred at my law-school alma mater, where students traumatized by the thought that ideas regularly denounced by the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post had triumphed in a national...
The Everlasting Frontier
Although the American frontier was officially closed 118 years ago, Americans remain in thrall to its mythic spell and the romance of the American West.Ā Europeans have always viewed our cultural obsession with condescension, though they themselvesāthe Germans and the Italians especiallyāare hardly immune to its allure.Ā (On my first visit to the Grand Canyon...
Bursting the Wineskin
Novitiate Produced by Maven PicturesĀ Written and directed by Maggie BettsĀ Distributed by Sony Pictures ClassicsĀ Growing up in the 1950ās, I was regaled with many stories about nuns and their punishing ways.Ā Having attended Roman Catholic grammar school through the third grade, I did some regaling myself despite knowing full well that my tales...
Accidents & Ignorance
A. J. P. Taylor: A Personal History; Atheneum; New York. Ā With the exception of Edward Gibbon, there have been few great historians who have written their autobiographies. The reason for this should be fairly clear. While some historians, such as Macaulay or Mommsen, led interesting lives, and some, such as Lewis Namier, are interesting...
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.
Iran and Nuclear Hubris
The āIran Nuclear Dealā was killed by President Trump on May 8, which came as no surprise to anyone who had heard a Trump campaign speech in 2016 or to those who were aware that Trump had recently hired John Bolton and Mike Pompeo.Ā Surprise or not, it was an imprudent move. Ever since the...
The Afghan Debacle
Ā The Obama administrationās strategy in Afghanistan is in tatters. This monthās violence, sparked off by the reported burning of Qurans at an American military base, has claimed at least thirty lives. Two of the dead were U.S. Army officers murdered at their post inside the Afghan Interior Ministry, supposedly one of the most secure...
Is America Up for a Naval War with China?
Is the U.S., preoccupied with a pandemic and a depression that medical crisis created, prepared for a collision with China over Beijing’s claims to the rocks, reefs, and resources of the South China Sea? For that is what Mike Pompeo appeared to threaten this week. “The world will not allow Beijing to treat the South...
What has Happened to Masculinity in 21st Century?
On Saturday morning, September 22, I switched on Fox News and there witnessed a gaggle of five garrulous women, all talking at the same time, allĀ vacuous and empty headed, and all saying basically nothingāa so-called āpanelā discussing the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court and the last-minute and largely-unfounded accusations hurled...
The Business of Souls: When Experts Attack, Part II
Hereās what I canāt figure out: How in the world did Saint Patrick evangelize all of those Druid priests and clan chieftains without a mission statement?Ā After all, history and tradition tell us that he walked around preaching and performed an occasional miracle.Ā But how did he know what his mission was?Ā And then, there...
The Autocrat of the Dinner Table
“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue?” āEdmund Burke Murray Rothbard was like the elephant the blind Chinamen in the story tried to describe. Everyone who knew Murray saw only one or two sides of him: There was Murray the happy warrior who campaigned for the soul of the Old Right, the New...
The Rules of Debate No Longer Work
Gun rights activist Dana Loesch recently complained that she had been denied the right to respond to her critics on Twitter, according to a story reported in theĀ New York Post. Unlike her adversaries, who are free to swing away at her, Loesch is not allowed to use Twitterās fact-checking platform to correct their misstatements. Loesch...
Vocation
Calvary Produced by Reprisal Films andĀ The Irish Film Board Ā Directed and written byĀ John Michael McDonagh Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures In his novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), James Joyce has the father of his protagonist, Stephen Daedalus, bitterly complain of the Irish people, āWe are an unfortunate priest-ridden...
The Great San Jose Finger Flap
I recently watched a television special about the life and times of Jessica Mitford, and the program took me back fifteen years or so to my first meeting with Jessica. It was mid-December, the beginning of the Christmas recess at San Jose State College, and Jessica had been informed that, at the close of the...
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.
Religion or Ethnicity?
When people in the academy study “Judaism,” they tend to pursue the history of the ethnic group, the Jews, rather than describe, analyze, and interpret the religion, Judaism. In the realm of high culture, the Judaic religious tradition, beginning with the revelation at Sinai, is deprived of its rightful presence alongside the world’s other great...
Rejecting E.U. Membership
E.U. Membership was rejected by 77 percent of the Swiss on March 4. Inevitably, parallels are being drawn with what happened in Denmark last September, when the Danes rejected further E.U. integration by saying “no” to the euro. The Swiss, however, did not even want to begin investigating incorporation into the European Union. As in...
The Origins of the Jerk
Ā (Inspired by Clyde Wilson) Every human society has had its share of offensive or annoying people: busybodies and bores,Ā poseursĀ and bullies, cheapskates andĀ Ā check-grabbers, hypocrites and egomaniacs.Ā Ā You might even be able to define some societies by the offensive characters they tend to produce or by the qualities they find most offensive. Ā Southerners used to regard...
On Helping Taiwan
In his article āOut on a Limb: Americaās Pledge to Defend Taiwanā (Vital Signs, December), Ted Galen Carpenter does not discuss whether it is in Americaās national interest for Taiwan to fall under the control of the Beijing regime.Ā Instead, he argues that our Asian allies may not support our defense of the island.Ā To...
Waco in Moscow
The standoff between President Yeltsin and the Russian Parliament ended in flames and gunfire that can be compared to the sad scenes of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. Even the scare tactic of round-the-clock rap music was emulated by Russian spetsnats troops. Having crushed his opponents, Mr. Yeltsin returned Russia to its familiar...
Old Route 66
Now, Iām a poor Oakie and Iām heading out west. Iām pulling a long trailer and my carās doing its best. We hit a long mountain and she began to boil. She blew a head gasket and it started dripping oil. The wheels is out of balance, she shimmies and she shakes. But it keeps...
NATO Unhinged
Lord Hastings Ismay, Winston Churchillās trusted military advisor and NATOās first secretary-general (1952-1957), famously quipped in the early days of his tenure that the purpose of the Alliance was to ākeep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.ā In the early 1950s Ismayās adage made sense. Stalinās armored divisions, encamped in...
Mismatch
Philip Larkin, the poet-librarian of Hull University, died December 2, 1985, over 29 years ago.Ā In the years since Andrew Motion published the first biography (1993), and Anthony Thwaite published both the first complete edition of the poems (1989) and the first collection of letters (1992), a small industry has grown up devoted to the...
Short Views
Some people love to go to Washington. The sight of so much power and wealth is exhilarating, especially for young conservative writers who discover that their names are recognized on the Hill. For many, however, the reaction is just the reverse. Within a few hours they are mulling over certain scriptural passages in Eliotā”Oh my...
The Christian and Creation
Where does man fit into nature? What is his response to the created universe? Lynn White has argued that the Christian position is at the very heart of the environmental crisis. He, and others, see the biblical view of the dominion of man over nature as being responsible for our misuse of our natural resources....
There Goes the Neighborhood
The contractor is gone, the painter has departed, and the electrician has shed light where before there was only darkness.Ā The house glints fresh green as the afternoon sun finally pierces the clouds on this unusually warm winter day: 65 degrees in full sun.Ā Asphodel are arising from their winter graves, ghostly white and waving...
On the Wings of a Snow White Dove
When you have over an hour to kill downtown in a major city, time seems to slow to a stop.Ā Fortunately, the Roman houses beneath the Palazzo Valentini, which we were waiting to visit, are a stoneās throw from the column of Trajan.Ā On that warm and sunny day in February, we took over an...
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...
Steadfast Sessions
President and five-star Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said that a man must ābelieve in his luckā in order to lead.Ā Jeff Sessions is such a man.Ā He has not only survived multiple setbacks, considered career ending by many, but has consistently come out ahead.Ā Most recently, his early and conspicuously vocal endorsement of Donald Trump...
What This Country Needs
“The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!” āHamlet, Act I, Sc.5 The Amazing Media Machine, dripping oil and self-satisfaction, roared to new life with Jeb Bush’s declaration of his presidential candidacy. At lastāsomething to talk about. We have Jebā”Jeb!” as the campaign button puts...
As Long as Iām Doing It
Writingāliterary creation in the fullness of the sense that we have known it in the previous century and even in the one before, from the French and Russian masters, the daft Irish, the mad Yankees, the haunted Southerners (and from elsewhere, of course)āsometimes seems to be on the way out.Ā Senses of language, of irony,...
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...
All Roads Lead to Florence
Peter: āLord, wither goest thou?ā Christ: āI go to Rome to be crucified.ā The monastic choir stalls of the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence were occupied not by the hermit-monks of the Camaldolese Order to whom they belonged but by laymen, members of the Platonic Academy.Ā From the lectern, the Latin periods...