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...
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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...
Speaking of Hell
Did Pope Francis deny the existence of Hell? If previous episodes in this pontificate are any guide, those who earnestly seek a definitive answer will likely discover that, much like the natural fate of the Tootsie Pop, the world may never know. But before the rest of us have a catharsis of confirmation bias, letās...
Something to Remember
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...
The Revenge of History
History has a way of taking its revenge on those who would violate it. It does not forget. Mikhail Heller and Aleksandr Nekrich are some of the few Soviet-born intellectuals who have studied how much current Soviet policies and propaganda abuse Russian history. Their book is an eloquent effort to set straight the historical record...
Texas Rebellion
You must have noticed that the National Education Association, the New York Times, ABC, NBC, CBS, left-wing bloggers, and even the Dallas Morning News went ape in March over the outcome of textbook deliberations in Texas.Ā It seems that the state board of education, dominated by political and social conservatives, prescribed changes in model curricula...
Ishmael Among the Scriveners
The heroic age of modern poetry has been over for some time. The learned reactionaries who shaped it for two generations have all been dead for many years: Eliot (1965) and Pound (1972), ValƩry (1945) and Claudel (1955), Ungaretti (1970) and Montale (1981). Diverse in style and technique, the great modernists were all ambitious in...
Confiscate ‘Em, Dano!
Hawaii is a liberal state. Despite being heavily Catholic, it was the first state to legalize abortion. There is no death penalty, or even life sentences. Labor unions still wield considerable power. The Democratic Party enjoys one of its most solid majorities in the country. Most of the few Republicans in elected office are barely...
WWIV, naturally
When did World War II start? An American is entitled to think it started with the attack on Pearl Harbor, as, clearly, the world without the United States is only a world in part. But ask an Englishman, and he will say the world war began some two years earlier, when Britain declared war on...
Racak Revisited
Back in 1994, a major news item proved unfit for publication in any “mainstream” media outlets in the United States. It concerned the possibilityāwhich turned into a virtual certaintyāthat the Bosnian Muslim government staged the infamous “marketplace massacre” in Sarajevo, killing 66 of its own people. The U.S. government promptly blamed the Serbs. In subsequent...
The Noble Savage
A sequel to Dances With Wolves is reportedly scheduled for release in 2011.Ā Not only did Dances create a romantic American Indian who never existed, it reversed the roles of the Sioux and the Pawnee.Ā This kind of thing has been going on for hundreds of years, beginning with various European writers who, far removed...
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...
Campus Rebellion
Itās a story told regularly in the conservative media.Ā A student pleads for advice: The professors at his college or university are left-wing, and he must choose between regurgitating the leftist propaganda in class discussions, term papers, exam answers, and essays for an A, or telling the truth for a low grade.Ā What to do?...
The Garden of Alejandra Ruiz: A Short Story
It was April and beginning to warm up in the mountains. Snow melted from the deep basins, especially from the exposures facing south and, in shrinking, formed pictures on the slopesāa snow hawk, a pack of running coyotes, an antelope. Alejandra Ruiz knew these animals would disappear as the sun slid into its higher arc,...
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...
The Music of ChanceāAn APA Diary
Any young philosopher who aspires to an academic career must, especially in these days of fiscal restraint and feminized privilege, include in his plans a trip to the annual American Philosophical Association (APA) Convention, a curious hybrid of frenetic job-hunting and highbrow hobnobbing widely reviled as “the meat market.” Although Pacific and Central Divisions of...
A Pilgrimage to Jasna GĆ³ra
Three Polish nuns, wearing traditional robes and habits, stand in a circle, studying their train schedule.Ā Little sleep and the absence of coffee on the night train from Berlin contribute to my slow reasoning.Ā āCan you direct me to the platform for Cze? stochowa?ā I inquire.Ā The eldest nun points to a platform, and then...
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...
Perfidious Pence
Former President Trump is growing more vocal in his criticism of former Vice President Mike Pence for certifying the 2020 Presidential election. At a Texas rally on Jan. 29, Trump said that Pence could have sent electoral votes from disputed states back to their state legislatures, thereby overturning the 2020 presidential election results. Trump followed...
A Political Obituary
When Jack Kemp ducked out of the presidential run, who really regretted it? Mostly, leaders on the left. He was their foil to the other Republicans. When Kemp yelped at voters for being insufficiently loving of the urban poorānobody, not even Jesse Jackson, can mau mau like Kempāthe media could complain that others aren’t “reaching...
Post-Lebanon II: Constructing Narratives
A friend who has just returned from Lebanon told me that one of the jokes he heard before leaving Beirut was that the Bush administration decided to hire Hezbollah as one of the faith-based organizations that would help in the rebuilding of post-Katrina Louisiana.Ā After all, the Lebanese Shiite group has been assiduously reconstructing the...
The Problems of Contemporary Journalism
Contemporary Journalism suffers from many problems; to help us understand them, a quick imaginative exercise might be useful. Not too long ago, the South Carolina legislature had to decide on the emotive issue of whether to remove the Confederate battle flag from atop the state Capitol. The issues involved were complex, and too familiar to...
Anarch’s Journey
Ernst JĆ¼nger was 20th-century Germanyās most prolific writer.Ā Throughout his long lifeāhe lived to age 102āhe chronicled the upheavals of that most violent century.Ā Despite his talent and output, JĆ¼nger remains virtually unknown in America.Ā One reason is language; the other, politics.Ā JĆ¼nger was an unrepentant man of the right.Ā Yet no less of a...
Deconstructing Miss Dixie
College-football season has begun again in the South.Ā Here in Alabama, football is more like a religion than a sport.Ā Having both attended and taught at The University of Alabama from the 1970ās through the 1990ās, I was at ground zero of college-football fanaticism, and I must confess that I still like the excitement. But...
Trump Claims Obama and Hillary Are āFounderā and āCo-Founderā of ISIS, Media Feign Amnesia
No one paying attention with even one eye and half an ear can be ignorant of the fact that when it comes to this yearās election the MSM are lying shills for Hillary. But now it seems theyāre all suffering from amnesia too. The latest āOMG, Trump said that!ā moment is The Donaldās claim that...
Trump and the Culture of Political Correctness
Why would the much-married Donald Trump, billionaire, self-promoter, real-estate developer, and leading figure in the world of flashy entertainment, a man who until recently apparently accepted the views of his class on hot-button political and social issues, suddenly become the leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination? The manās been successful in a variety of...
Trouble With Iran
Iranās President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared on October 26 that āIsrael must be wiped off the map.āĀ Invoking the words of Ayatollah Khomeini, he told an audience of 4,000 cheering students that a new conflict in Palestine would soon remove āthis disgraceful blot from the face of the Islamic world.ā The statement, made in the midst...
European Anti-Americanism: Nothing New on the Western Front
I visited Western Europe recently to learn more about the critical attitudes of intellectuals and other opinion Āmakers (primarily academics and journalists) toward the United States. I was especially interested in how such European critiques resembled those produced by American intellectuals. I also wanted lo learn something about the connections between animosity toward the U.S....
Who Promoted Private Ryan?
Forty-eight hours after Donald Trump wrapped up the Republican nomination with a smashing victory in the Indiana primary, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he could not yet support Trump. In millennial teen-talk, Ryan told CNN’s Jake Tapper, “I’m just not ready to do that at this point. I’m not there right now.” “[T]he bulk...
An American Prophet
āA prophet is not without honor, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.ā āMark 4:4 AĀ half-dozen biographical essays or theses have now been written on George Kennan, including John Lukacsās recent and compelling George Kennan: A Study of Character (2007).Ā This latest endeavor, by Lee Congdon, is...
The E.U.ās Soft Underbelly
E.U. enthusiasts have recently scored a hat trick of good news.Ā First, there was the election of Rothschild banking protĆ©gĆ© Emmanuel Macron to the presidency of France along with a parliamentary majority, followed by the much-improved pre-election poll ratings of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and now the Toriesā loss of their partyās once solid parliamentary...
Who Wants War with Iranāand Why?
In the run-up to Christmas, President Donald Trump has been the beneficiary of some surprisingly good news and glad tidings. Sunday, Vladimir Putin called to thank him and the CIA for providing Russia critical information that helped abort an ISIS plot to massacre visitors to Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg. Monday found polls showing Trump...
The Angry Summer
Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight . . . āPsalm 144:1 According to the Washington Post, McAllen, Texas is an āall-American city,ā albeit one āthat speaks Spanish.āĀ So itās small wonder that āimmigration isnāt a problem for this Texas townāitās a way of life.āĀ ...
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...
The Lord’s Shepard
We had known it was a āwhite roadā when we had found it on the map, but when my wife and I got to the start of it, we hesitated.Ā There was a sign at the junction, and it made us stop and think: RD 103 EN LACUNE CIRCULATION DANGEREUSE ET DĆCONSEILLĆE. En lacune wasnāt...
Journalism
These are conflicting notions: warm feelings, no matter from which spiritual or emotional fount they emanate, must end in a bit of unfairness. The only human construct that firmly believes in and widely proclaims its ability to be exempted from this rule is, of course, the New York Times. For many years, the Times succeeded...
Reign of Terror: A Bastille-Day Meditation
On the anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille, an accounting of the sadistic Reign of Terror is in order.
Islamic State and the Theater of Jihad
The Al Khansa Brigade is the all-female fighting force of the organization that calls itself the Islamic State (IS).Ā Al Khansa, we are most unreliably informed, has 60 members, many of whom are British.Ā Their leader is reputedly a privately educated Scotswoman.Ā These amazons are, weāre told, particularly cruel, force captive local women to be...
The Struggle for the Soul of the Supreme Court
During Joe Bidenās 2020 campaign for president, when his fortunes were at their nadir, Joe Biden promised that he would nominate the first black woman to the United States Supreme Court. He reportedly made this pledge to James Clyburn (D-S.C.), the powerful African-American congressman, in return for Clyburnās help in securing the black vote in...
Why Wokeism Is Not Marxist
At present, it is not a Marxian anti-capitalist left that most threatens our society. It is a wokeism perfectly happy to consolidate progressive business monopolies with massive economic power over individual lives.
J.D. Vance and Childless Cat Ladies: Cue the Outrage
Every news cycle spent on castigating J.D. Vance for his āchildless cat ladiesā comment is one less news cycle spent on the outrageous radical beliefs of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Give Me Wilderness, Or Give Me . . .
Better than anyone before or since, Frederick Jackson Turner explained the peculiarly American fascination with wilderness that continues to perplex and, occasionally, to annoy European observers. In his instantly famous paper delivered before the American Historical Association’s annual meeting 101 years ago. Professor Turner declared, “American social development has been continually beginning over and over...
Marvelous Exhibitions
Nocturnal Animals Produced by Fade to Black ProductionsĀ Directed and written by Tom Ford,Ā based on Austin Wrightās novel Tony and SusanĀ Distributed by Focus FeaturesĀ Doctor Strange Produced by Marvel and Disney StudiosĀ Directed and written by Scott DerricksonĀ Distributed by Walt Disney StudiosĀ Erstwhile fashion designer turned film director Tom Ford seems to...
Tom Flemingās Complainte
George Garrett used to tell the story of a young writer who visited him in York Harbor, Maine.Ā The writer, who had worked in a prison, wore a cap emblazoned with the letters SCUP, which stood for something like South Carolina Union of Prisons.Ā Sharing some of Georgeās sense of humorāwhich bordered on the wickedāhe...
The GOPās Clinton
During the Republican presidential debate on May 15, Ron Paul, the constitutionalist from Texas, flatly stated that the terrorist attacks on September 11 were retaliation for U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Rudy Giuliani shot back a mendacious rejoinder: āThatās an ...
Gore’s Double Standard on Firearms
Speaking in Atlanta this May, Al Gore joined the National Rifle Association and numerous police unions in supporting federal legislation to override state laws regulating the concealed carrying of handguns. Many states do not allow out-of-state, off-duty police officers to carry handguns. The Vice President wants to force communities to allow non-resident, off-duty visitors, who...
Three Against the World
In the political writings of Alexis de Tocque-ville (1805-1859), Francis Lie-ber (1798-1872), and Walter Bagehot (1826-1877), we find insights, opinions, and warnings of great current applicability, especially with regard to international affairs.Ā The task Professor David Clinton sets himself in this excellent study is not, however, primarily to draw conclusions concerning the present but to...
Not A Place for the Linear & Logical Minded
The art world, never a place for the linear-minded and logical among us, seems to be in an exceptionally strange way these days. Here a woman “performance artist” makes a career of doing vile things with yams while squeaking about phallocentrism; there a young man, presumably in the same spirit, castrates himself before a camera....
Society Before Government: Calhoun’s Wisdom
John C. Calhoun was the last great American statesman.Ā A statesman must be something of a prophetāone who has an historical perspective and says what he believes to be true and in the best long-range interest of the people, whether it is popular or not.Ā A politician, which is all we have now, says and...