According to former New York Police Commissioner William Bratton, New York City is safer than it has been in years. And if you believe that, I’ve got a great deal for you, on a slightly used bridge. Last December, the NYPD announced that violent felonies had dropped 17.2 percent for the previous 12 months, their...
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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...
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...
The Problem With Womenās Sports
There are two sorts of men in the United States: those who follow sports and those who do not. If you do not, you probably do not know that the Chicago Skyāyes, that is their nameārecently won a national championship. If you do follow sports you also donāt know the news about the Chicago Sky,...
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...
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 Italian Revolution
The more I learn of Italy, the less I know. Several years ago I thought I understood the essentials of the Italian political scene, that I was a Tocqueville in reverse. But ignorance was Tocqueville’s great advantage, too, and it is always easier to make out the forest when you are willing to ignore the...
The Obamanation of Desolation
The appearance of John McCain and Barack Obama at Saddleback, Californiaās “purpose-driven” church marks the ultimate ascent of Rick Warren to the Gantry-in-Chief of the P.T. Barnum Church of America. Warrenās success is living proof of Barnumās oft-quoted observation that there is a sucker born every minute. In the event, Obamaās imitation of Christianity was...
Ritual, Tragedy, and Restoration
The Deer Hunter received the Academy Award for best picture at the Oscars ceremony in 1979. The film was much criticized by some for its Russian roulette sequences, especially the alleged āracismā on display in the filmās depiction of the Viet Cong. But The Deer Hunter is truly a mythic, poetic work of art. The...
Is Putin the ‘Preeminent Statesman’ of Our Times?
“If we were to use traditional measures for understanding leaders, which involve the defense of borders and national flourishing, Putin would count as the preeminent statesman of our time. “On the world stage, who could vie with him?” So asks Chris Caldwell of the Weekly Standard in a remarkable essay in Hillsdale College’s March issue...
The Future of War
The United States and almost all other states are caught up in the biggest change in war in about 350 years. The state is losing its monopoly on war.
Our Sacred Anticanon
I arrived a few minutes late for the meeting with the hippie roofer.Ā Two many DUIs had cost him his driverās license, and I had to take him to the home-improvement store.Ā āBeen to church?ā he asked.Ā Dressed in a suit at 10:30 on Sunday morning, I was forced to admit the fact.Ā āIāve read...
Unconstitutional
“Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?” āThomas JeffersonĀ Not long ago Time magazine celebrated America with a special issue. Among the ornaments of this production was an essay...
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.
A Stand-Up Comic Stands Up for God: Evan Sayet Obliterates the Atheist Origin Myth
The humorless left long ago met its match in Evan Sayet. Now the comic is offering the same treatment to militant atheists, packing an intellectual punch with his wit.
Watching the Money Brought to You by Nokiaā¢
Itās Friday evening, and you have arrived at your local multiplex with your ten- and twelve-year-old boys and two of their very closest friends.Ā Youāve come to see the best movie $150 million can make.Ā You cannot remember just when, but it seems you idly mentioned to your wife earlier in the week that you...
What Trump Has Wrought
Should Donald Trump fall short of the delegates needed to win on the first ballot (1,237), there is growing certitude that he will be stopped. First by Ted Cruz; then, perhaps, by someone acceptable to the establishment, which always likes to have two of its own in the race. But Washington, the city of self-delusion,...
Naming the Bard
“Vera nihil verius” āLegend on the coat-of-arms of Edward de Vere It’s not the same as saying that God is dead, or the world is flat, or the check is in the mail. Yet one would think that Charlton Ogburn had committed that kind of atrocity, judging by the reaction of most orthodox Shakespearian scholars...
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...
Time for the Truth About the Pandemic
We need the truth about what saved lives and what actually ended up killing our loved ones and neighbors.
Bruce Springsteen
For the life of me, I canāt see why anyone under the age of, say, 55 would want to listen to Bruce Springsteen, never mind revere him as a deep and important artist, or pay upward of $200 to be crammed into a football stadium to attend one of his concerts.Ā Surely the only pertinent...
The Inner Darkness
Every society has its mythology, its particular set of heroes and monsters. In North America over the last decade, the figure of the demon or monster has come to be represented by the serial killer, an image that is now quite ubiquitous in popular culture. In a typical chain bookstore, a B. Dalton or Waldenbooks,...
Turn to the Dark Side
As members of the House of Representatives were moving toward impeachment hearings that should make Bill Clintonāwhatever the outcomeāone of the most infamous politicians in American history, Republicans in both houses of Congress decided to give the President everything he was asking forāmore federally funded teachers to corrupt the children and $18 billion of boodle...
A Welcome Anniversary
On July 13, the German weekly Junge Freiheit celebrated its 15th anniversary.Ā This is astonishing, considering the outrages committed against the publication, including the burning of its printing facilities in 1994 and the five-year-long public warning against the paper issued by the provincial government of Nord-rhein-Westfalen for āintimations of a disposition sympathetic to the far...
American Proscenium
The Ingersoll Prizes On December 8, 1983, in Chicago’s Ritz-Carlton hotel, The Ingersoll Prizes were awarded for the first time. Mr. Jorge Luis Borges was the recipient of the T.S. Eliot Award for Creative Writing, and Mr. James Burnham received the Richard M. Weaver Award for Scholarly Letters. The Reverend Richard John Neuhaus, theologian and...
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...
Raiching the Constitution Over the Coals
The Supreme Court is often described as the final redoubt of statesā rights.Ā In the last decade, we have heard much about the Courtās āNew Federalismā jurisprudence.Ā The Court, we have been warned, is seeking to return the Constitution to the horse-and-buggy days of yesteryear.Ā Legal oracles such as the New York Timesā Linda Greenhouse...
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...
The Price of Hillary
No secretary of state will come to that office with stronger pro-Israel credentials or closer ties to the Jewish community than Sen. Hillary Clinton, Douglas Bloomfield assures his readers in The Jerusalem Post. Good for them, and for Bosniaās Muslims and Kosovoās Albanians; but for the rest of us Mrs. Clintonās appointment as the third...
On ‘Letter From the Heartland’
I would like to express how much I enjoy reading Chronicles, and particularly the “Letter From the Heartland” that Jane Greer writes. But “Eastern Montana: a gigantic plate of congealed gravy”? Harsh words from Greer (December 1988), one of the unfortunate residents of North Dakotaāthe state where the interstate curves so that a driver won’t...
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...
Will Joe Repudiate His Segregationist Friends?
“Apologize for what? Cory should apologize. He knows better. There’s not a racist bone in my body.” Thus did a stung Joe Biden answer rival Cory Booker’s demand he apologize for telling contributors, in a southern drawl, “I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland, He never called me ‘boy.’ He always called me...
Suffering Narratives
On September 14, as horrifying images broadcast from New Orleans dominated the nation’s headlines, USA Today, citing as its source Charles Currie, head of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, reported that as many as a quarter of the Hurricane Katrina “evacuees” would fall victim to Post Traumatic-Stress Disorder (PTSD) and require long-term professional care....
Semite Sympathy
I commend Taki for his courageous article in the July Chronicles, āNothingās Easy About Israel.ā Taki mentioned āthe irony in my case is that I am a man of the right siding with a pro-leftist cause, that of the Palestinians.ā Well, I feel the same way, but my case is even more ironic or strange...
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...
Beyond Moral Equivalency
“The triumph of demagogies is short-lived. But the ruins are eternal.” āCharles Peguy Jeane Kirkpatrick has given us two useful ways to think about that segment of the American intelligentsia that continuously finds fault with virtually everything this country does: they are the “blame America first” crowd and the believers in “moral equivalency.” After reading...
Greatness of Heart in Manzoniās “The Betrothed”
Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed is an exemplar of artistic accomplishment, full of true heroism and the struggle between good and evil in singular souls, as well as a shrewd and profoundly political vision.
How the Medical Industryās Consensus on Sex Changes Fell ApartĀ
High-ranking officials in the Biden administration worked with a transgender NGO to promote mutilating sex-change procedures for minors, according to a recent court-ordered document release.
On the Way Out of Iraq
Dr. Srdja Trifkovicās āIraq: The Way Outā (American Proscenium, August) is the most promising piece I have seen since it became apparent that our initial military victory marked the beginning of our warfare in that country, not the end.Ā For more than a year, I have been advocating to those (precious few) who would listen...
The Gentile Church Act II: An Excursus
To understand how the Church disentangled itself from Judaism, it is necessary to know a little bit about what the term “Jew” means. Modern Christians often seem to think that all the Old Testament patriarchs are Jews, though Adam and Abraham are obviously the ancestors of many nations. The “children of Israel” are, in tradition,...
World Citizens on Main Street
“It’s a small, small world,” or so chirp the marionettes of Michael Eisner’s Disney, the outfit that brought you NHL hockey in Orange County and a free Pocahontas glass with the purchase of a Happy Meal at the McDonald’s in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In fact it is not a small world, at least for those...
Russia’s Bloody Gold
‘Lasciate ogni speranza” -Inferno, by Dante Alighieri The history of gold mining in Russiaāa record of the greatest abuses of human rights ever perpetratedāhas seldom been told. The use of slave labor in state-owned Russian mines goes back to the 19th century, when Lithuanian, Polish, and Ukrainian patriots who rebelled against Russian occupation were put...
A Sinner in Paradise
White sky, white earth. In the foreground a fenceline: three strands of barbed wire stretched taut between crooked posts cut from a juniper forest growing along the sandstone hogback, the bottom strand running in and out of low drifts of scalloped snow. The brushy tips of sagebrush vibrating on a stiff wind above the snowglaze,...
Cabbages and Worms
Umberto Bossi does not like journalists. His stock epithet for the gentlemen of the pressāapplied to them almost as regularly as “swift-footed” precedes Achillesāis vermi (worms), although he sometimes falls back on servi sciochi (idiot servants). Not too long ago, at a Lega Nord meeting, Bossi caught sight of the press corps covering the event...
“This Land Is My Land”
The pressures that swelling populations exert against natural resources often increase economic inequality. Fortunately, unequally distributed wealth and power can result in forms of ownership that achieve environmental protectionāfor example, the arrangements of Colombian ranchers in the province of Cordoba. As Juan Forero writes in the New York Times (August 6): “A few years ago,...
On Academic Publishing
Chronicles‘ May issue (“Who Killed the Book?“) leaves open the question of how scholars publish their books now that the university presses have abandoned all pretense of serving the academic community. Short-run scholarly monographs ā300-700 hundred copiesāare the primary medium of scholarly communication at that level of technical mastery and expert knowledge required for serious...
Digital Enthusiasm
At a recent dinner party someone remarked that the two secure careers remaining in America are business and science.Ā There are also education and academia, but since both have been for several decades now radically inhospitable to anyone to the right of Howard Dean, no one thought it necessary to mention them.Ā I thought at...
Halting the Leftward Lurch
The centrist right has capitulated to the triumphant march of the left, but true conservative opposition, such as Sam Francis offers, is attacked as far-right extremism.
The Myths of the Social Sciences
Several years ago one of my former roommates at Harvard, now an economist with the United Nations, dropped by for a visit. We drifted into an informal review of the social science courses we had taken at Harvard in the late 1950’s. The one overriding memory that we both had of those courses was that...
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,...