Females dominate U.S. immigration policymaking, media, and legal positions. The gender imbalance is liberalizing the countryās immigration laws.
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Conservative Credo IV: The Abortion Debate
The Abortion Debate In the 20th century the most powerful and difficult transitions in human life have been turned into political war zones in which the different sides routinely invoke the power of government to establish and enforce their points of view.Ā Few debates have been so heated as those involving the decision to terminate...
What’s Wrong With the Intellectuals?
The intellectual classes and the Gnostic revolution.
The Puritanism That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Every society places some kind of restriction on personal conduct, and limitations are usually most visible in the areas of sexual behavior and the use or abuse of particular foods or intoxicants. Restrictions might be formal and legal, perhaps enforced by a specialized morality police or vice squad, or there may be informal social sanctions...
Honest Journalist
Why are the phrases āhonest journalistā and āfree pressā so often greeted with a snicker?Ā Of course, everyone exempts his own columnist or talking head from the general condemnation, but most Americans also exempt their own congressman from the universal condemnation of Congress as a body made up of toadies and swindlers.Ā To see the...
Immigration: The Greatest Government Failure of Our Times
Migration is a reality that concerns no more than 200 million people on earth now living outside their country of origināthat is, only three percent of the worldās population.Ā Why should we even talk about it?Ā The reason is simple: Global statistics are worthless; the whole phenomenon is concentrated in Europe and the United States.Ā ...
The Christian Roots of WEIRDness
The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Henrich Picador 704 pp., $24.00 Christianity has blessed us with essential elements of the Western world that we should want to preserve, even while it has also produced corrosive pieces of our current cultural predicament. The bizarre political quasi-religion of antiracist wokeism, with its ressentiment-driven obsession with...
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...
Toward One Nation, Indivisible
It is time we looked at the world from a new perspective, one of enlightened nationalism. Cliches about a “new” global economy aside, there has always been an international economyāever since Columbus stumbled onto the Western Hemisphere while seeking new trade routes to the East, in the hire of a nation-state, Spain. The Dutch East...
The Root of All Evil
When George Bernard Shaw decided to devote himself to the destruction of civilization (or, as he would have preferred to call it, the cause of socialism), he spent years studying political economy.Ā As Chesterton put it in a book devoted to his longtime friend, Here was a man who could have enjoyed art among the...
Universities and Students of South America
By 1921, a few years after the Bolshevik revolution, students at Argentine universities had begun to agitate for equal rights with professors and were demanding the same rights for the cleaning staff. It sounds like the spring of 1968 in Paris and Columbia University, but in South America it was old stuff by then. Students...
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...
The Diaphanous Bud
There are innumerable ways to apĀproach The Name of the Rose.Ā Its author, Umberto Eco, is an Italian, a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna. The book is a best-seller in Italy, France, Germany, and here; it has received awards including the Premio Strega, the Premio Viareggio, and the Prix Medicis.Ā The book, translated into...
Ground Zero Mosque: Correcting the Non-Debate
Excerpts from a speech at Providence College given on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Two sets of fallacies have dominated the mainstream debate about the Ground Zero mosqueāand before we go any further, letās get this straight: it is a mosque, frantic insistence by the Qusling elite to use one euphemistic misnomer ...
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...
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...
Anniversary of the Modern West
Some of the greatest events in human history simply fail to register in popular consciousness. Last year, we rightly heard a terrific amount about the Reformation, or at least, about its early Lutheran phase. But the spring of 2018 actually marks the 400th anniversary of the outbreak of the Thirty Yearsā War, another critical event...
Moonstruck Morality Versus the Cosmos
Ā āWho is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon . . . terrible as an army with banners?ā āSong of Songs 6:10 āSi direbbe che persino la luna si ĆØ affrettata staseraāosservatelo in altoāa guardare a questo spettacolo.āĀ (āOne might almost think that the moonājust look at him up thereāhurried...
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...
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...
Beyond Conservatism
“Paleoconservatism” is an awkward word, but then what it purports to describe is an awkward thing. The word in the English language that it most resembles is “paleontology”āthe scientific study of fossilsāand a fossil is precisely what most of the enemies of paleoconservatism accuse it of being. Coined in 1986 or ’87, the word was...
Conspiracies Against the Nation
The Reagan Administration’s Baby Doe policy is finally being tested in the Supreme Court. Supporters see the law as a necessary guarantee of the rights of handicapped infants whose lives are threatened by selfish parents and amoral physicians. The Federal government has a positive obligation, they insist, to send investigation teamsāBaby Doe Squads, as they...
Playing at God
Is the development of the modern sciences and related technologies a good or a bad thing?Ā The question is by no means a recent one.Ā Not only was it raised at the inception of such development by its very promoters, like the humanist Rabelais, but it dates back to the beginnings of Western civilization, since...
Feeling Like Russians Again
“The status of the American Negro is that of an oppressed national minority, and only a Soviet system can solve the question of such minorities,” William Z. Foster, long-time chairman of the Communist Party, U.S.A., wrote in his 1932 book, Toward Soviet America. Accordingly, the right of self-determination will apply to Negroes in the American...
Equality or Privilege
“Everything in American politics always comes down to the race question,” says one of our collaborators. School choice plans, for example, are either condemned for enabling the white middle classes to liberate their children from the hell of public schools or praised for giving black families the prospect of sending their children to the suburbs....
Postmortem on an Unjust War
This issue of Chronicles commemorates what I suppose is an anniversary, of sorts.Ā It has been nine years since the February 2003 issue questioning the legitimacy of the war in Iraq was published, an anniversary which also roughly corresponds to the planning leading up to and including the prosecution of the war. Aside from the...
Will Americans Submit to a Second Lockdown?
On March 24, President Donald Trump said he wanted the country and the economy “opened up and just raring to go by Easter.”Ā Easter came and went. And Trump was mocked for being aspirational and unrealistic. Yet, with Ascension Thursday at hand, 40 days after Easter, the president seems to have been ahead of his time....
The Scandal of Pentagon Spending
Your Tax Dollars Support Troops of Defense Contractor CEOs Hereās a question for you: How do you spell boondoggle? The answer (in case you didnāt already know): P-e-n-t-a-g-o-n. Hawks on Capitol Hill and in the U.S. military routinely justify increases in the Defense Department’s already munificent budget by arguing that yet more money is needed...
A History of American Identities
In After Nationalism, Samuel Goldman explores three historical attempts at answering the question, āWhat does it mean to be an American?ā
A Mayor for London
Welcome to Britain.Ā The day I arrived, just as Londonās mayor officially declared the city open for the Olympic Games, there were two-hour lines to pass through border controls at Heathrow, and that was just for us lucky British passport holders.Ā Earlier that morning, police had been forced to intervene to deal with unrest after...
Thinking About Internment
I am going to ask what Churchill would have called some naughty questions, and offer some impertinent answers. I apologize in advance for the extreme political incorrectness of what follows. In the hope of persuading the reader that I raise these issues with no pleasure at all, I shall preface them with some personal notes....
Commies in D.C.āAgain
Did Asian operatives, some of them connected with the People’s Republic of China, influence the White House, the Department of Commerce, and other offices of the executive branch? This is one of the questions of the day concerning the Clinton administration. The Senate Committee on Government Affairs has said that it “believes that high-level Chinese...
Human Rights and Self-Government
In the United States, the federal system of government is undergoing profound changes that compel students of American politics to rethink traditional ideas about national identity. Questions such as: “What does it mean to be a citizen of the United States?” and “What are the duties and privileges of U.S. citizenship?” and “In what manner...
Dissecting a Dirty Election
My strongest impression from the UnitedĀ Statesā 2020 general election is that the process by which we record and count votes is an unholy mess, wide open to fraud. Counting was suspended for hours without explanation; great tranches of mail-in votes appeared out of nowhere; vote monitors were denied access; and the counting process continued for...
The Modern Left Is Not Marxist, It’s Worse
Is the current left Marxist? In a provocativeĀ commentary, Bill Lind explores this genealogical question, and, unless Iām mistaken, the left and much of its media opposition would second his conclusions. Since Antifa describes itself as Marxist, when itās not calling itself anarchist, and since leading figures of the Democratic Party, like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria...
The New Kohlonization
The euphoria that accompanied the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, should still be fresh in our minds. We remember the scenes of people dancing on the Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate, total strangers embracing each other, sharing bottles of champagne. We remember the party atmosphere that culminated in reunification...
The College Bubble
The university graduation season this past spring dumped another seven million job seekers onto the sputtering economy.Ā A June headline in the New York Times painted a dismal picture of their likelihood of finding employment: āDegrees but No Guarantees: Faltering Economy . . . Dims Prospects for Graduates.āĀ In response, the mortarboard horde took to...
Promises to Keep
The modern temper shows a fatal tendency to break large moral and historical questions into smaller technocratic ones and to tinker with each of these as a separated “policy problem.” Unfortunately for advocates of this approach, the immigration debate presents us with what is essentially a moral problem, requiring the use of the moralāeven of...
The Truth About Hungary
I met Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor OrbĆ n in May of last year.Ā With a few others, we shared breakfast before the opening session of the second Budapest Demographic Forum.Ā He was every bit the āfootballerā I had been told to expect.Ā Of modest stature, he movedāeven at age 54āwith an assured athleticism. This event was...
Liberal Slander
At events such as the Episcopal Church’s General Convention, held last July in Denver, traditional believers get slandered in all sorts of ways, most of them indirect but effective. (And the most energetic apostles of inclusivity, dialogue, and openness never, ever call the slanderers to account.) Issues, a daily one-page sheet of commentary, provided several...
Barack in Wonderland
Ā When Congress, split seven ways from Sunday on the question, squelched legislation granting resident status for those formerly called “illegal aliens,” President Obama said, in effect, so what?āwe’ll do it anyway. And so he did it anyway, announcing last Friday the birth of a new immigration policy affecting an estimated 800,000 illegals. These illegalsāaccording...
The Neoconservatives’ Latest Purge
The recent neoconservative attack on Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson shows what happens when conservatives dare question U.S. support of Israel.
Remembering Carl Schmitt
Carl Schmitt boldly addressed the most pressing political questions at a time of deep social and ideological division. His thought continues fascinating young scholars.
The Old West’s Deadly Doctor
Most Americans know of Doc Holliday only as Wyatt Earpās sidekick. He was much more than that. He was not only one of the most colorful characters in the Old West but also one of the most feared. He acquired the nickname āDocā honestly, earning a degree in dentistry and practicing in several towns. However,...
Passage of a Rite
This was the first time Iād gone deer hunting alone.Ā Granted, I had often engaged in the act of hunting by myself.Ā Ever since I was old enough to hunt apart from someone else, my practice had been to split up from the others after a brief initial hike.Ā Even though we might be separated...
Back to the Stone Age I: Addendum
Ā This added section, which goes between the discussion of Machiavelli and the discussion of reason and tradition, is intended to sketch out a few operating rules for how conservatives should approach a question. 2BĀ Coherence and Casuistry Most conservative movements and initiatives fail and fail badly… Ā Failure is often the result of betrayal,...
Credo for Conservatives IV: Abortion
Questions of life and deathāabortion, contraception, in vitro fertilization, stem cell research, euthanasia, and suicideāform a fissure in the American political geography, dividing (typically) left from right, but also moral from immoral, andāall too oftenāsane from insane. In this discussion there will have to a few rules. Ā Since the goal is to discover principles of...
An American Dilemma
In 1976, the Episcopal Church, U.S.A., met in General Convention to consider, among other things, two questions: the adoption of a new Book of Common Prayer and the ordination of women.Ā Whether they knew it or not, the delegates were actually resolving a deeper, more disturbing dilemma: whether to remain orthodox or to remain respectable....
The Practice of Politics
This is a history of liberalism as it appears to an intelligent, well-informed, and thoroughly convinced English liberal who worked for many years as an editor and correspondent for The Economist.Ā It is useful as a sympathetic exploration of the stages through which the political outlook that rules us today has advanced. The book is...
Passion and Pedantry
“Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk this way?” āW.B. Yeats William Butler Yeats’s picture of the scholar is not a pretty one (“All cough in ink. All wear the carpet with their shoes.”) and literature does not give us many scholarly heroes. Most literary pedants are like George Eliot’s Casaubon; boring, impotent...