August 29, 2005, the day when hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, may have marked the beginning of the end of the American Empire.Ā Four years after the horrors in New York and Washington, D.C., showed the nationās vulnerability to external attack, the Hobbesian free-for-all in New Orleans demonstrated just how fragile it is internally....
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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.
Going Rove
The idea that the āfar rightā is on the cultural warpath is, like most liberal canards, the exact opposite of the truth.Ā See, for example, the sort of treatment handed out to the victor in Delawareās GOP senatorial primary.Ā The conservative Catholic Christine OāDonnell, a 46-year-old Sarah Palin knockoff, was immediately held up for ridicule...
Life and Death in a House Divided
The Supreme Court’s recent decision to review a Missouri abortion case has raised the spirits of the pro-life movement. In his appeal, Missouri’s attorney general asked the Court to reconsider Roe v. Wade, the landmark civil rights decision that made pregnant women and their physicians sole arbiters over who is born and who is not...
Ubuntu!
William Murchison gets right to the point in his eloquent account of mainline Protestantismās near-terminal degeneration, written poignantly from an Anglicanās perspective: Whenever traditional Christianity clashed with late-twentieth-century culture, the Episcopal Church normally weighed in on the side of the culture: for enhanced choice in life, for more laxity and less permanence in belief. Donāt...
Government by the People
HĆ©ctor Villa was, by nature, a patient, long-suffering man.Ā Even so, he arrived home in a cross mood that evening, at the end of an unusually frustrating day.Ā First, there had been the traffic ticket; next, his unproductive meeting with Mrs. Ahmadinejihad.Ā Finally, heād been unable to meet with the school principal, after waiting for...
Letter From Quebec: Talking About Culture
The Action DĆ©mocratique du QuĆ©bec (ADQ) is a conservative partyāat least by Quebec standards.Ā It is led by 35-year-old political wunderkind Mario Dumont.Ā In the recent elections for the National Assembly, the ADQ shattered Quebecās two-party system (the federalist and centrist Liberals and left-wing sovereigntist Parti QuĆ©bĆ©cois), winning 31 percent of the vote (up from...
Silencing the Dead
Tears sprang to my eyes in the fall of 2014 when I read of the short life and impending death of Lauren Hill. You may remember the story, too, though much in our culture works against the retention of stories like Laurenās for more than a few news cycles. This ill-fated young woman was set...
Gay Marriage, Before the Ruling
Justice [Antonin] Scalia: [W]hen did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage?Ā 1791?Ā 1868, when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted? . . . Has it always been unconstitutional? . . . You say it is now unconstitutional. [Theodore Olson, attorney arguing that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional]: Yes. Justice Scalia: Was it always unconstitutional?...
Truth or Consequences: Redefining Plagiarism
A Trojan horse has passed through the gates of the academy, virtually unnoticed. The Sinon is Keith Miller, an assistant professor of English at Arizona State University and author of Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Its Sources (1992), and the subversive offering is his essay in the January 20...
The Iron Rod of American ‘Liberalism’
In America, as in Britain, institutions, movements, political phenomena, historic events and geographic features have been given names and labels that bewilder and startle the rest of the world: the German “Westwall” of World War II became the “Siegfried Line” (in World War I that lay in northern France), the Near East became the Middle...
Tangerine Dreams
Behind the recent headlines here in Mexico of massive peasant protests, blocked highways and international crossings, and demands for NAFTA treaty renegotiation lay a few facts about incompetence, corruption, and inefficiency. The rural sector has brought its disputes to the Big Tamaleāas if Mexico Cityās 21 million inhabitants did not have enough headaches and two-hour-long...
Earning Your Protest
Like many young men graduating high school in 1966, my father took a fast track to the politically seething, war-shattered jungles of a small country on the other side of the world.Ā He had no middle name, no college degree (nor any aspirations of pursuing one), five siblings, and no ārich dadā culture to be...
Turkey’s Gamble
Following the AKP (Justice and Development Party) victory in February 2002, Turkeyās clout has been steadily increasing in the Balkans, the Arab world, and the predominantly Muslim regions of the former Soviet Union.Ā Prime Minister Rejep Tayyip Erdoganās government is pursuing a neo-Ottoman agenda that blends Islamic revivalism with nationalism.Ā Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutogluās concept...
Defining Racism
“Racism” and its derivative, “racist,” are oft-used words, and so we ought to know what they mean. But often we don’t, and we just fling them at each other, hoping they will wound, if not kill, the offensive person. One of my dictionaries (Standard College Dictionary, 1963) defines racism this way: ” 1. An excessive...
Brexit? Letās Not Make a Deal
āYou have delighted us long enough,ā said Mr. Bennet, speaking for all of us on the exhausted subject of Theresa May. We had hoped for closure before Christmas, since a Meaningful Vote on Mayās Withdrawal Agreement had been promised and this was surely destined for a massive defeat. But the Prime Minister pulled the vote,...
Throwing Off the Yoke
As a display of āAmerica Standing Together,ā āEverybody Pile on Falwellā was even more dramatic a spectacle than āThree Firemen Holding the Flag.āĀ Following televised remarks by the founder of the Moral Majority to the effect that the terrorist attacks of September 11 conveyed Godās wrath against a nation that has been commandeered by heretics...
The Unbearable Bulldozers of Walmart
A theory about the mafia that was advanced in these pages by the late Samuel Francis about 15 years ago explains how Walmart, Costco, and Home Depot drive out your corner grocery, the local pharmacist, and Joeās Hardware.Ā The national expansion of these blights isnāt free enterprise.Ā Itās more akin to the nationwide expansion of...
With Friends Like These
Was Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and then his body cut up with a bone saw and flown to Riyadh in Gulfstream jets owned by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman? So contend the Turks, who have video from the consulate, photos of 15 Saudi agents who flew into...
Hobbles and a Bridle
Neither Art Antilla nor I felt like getting drunk. We stood away from camp on the cliff edge above Devil’s Hole canyon, drinking black coffee while the Commissary Commandos huddled around the campfire with their whiskey bottles and someone pitched a bowling ball over the talus slope to the creek bottom 800 feet below for...
Newt, the Democratic Mole
Ā TheĀ New York Times‘ Bill Keller wants Hillary Clinton to replace Joe Biden on the Obama re-election ticket, but a better, likelier choice by far is availableāone Newton Leroy Gingrich, reputedly a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination but in fact, an Obama surrogate working for Democratic victory in November. I have proof. That’s to...
In Defeat, a Bush Opportunity
In Defeat, a Bush Opportunity by Patrick J. Buchanan ā¢ July 3, 2007 ā¢ Printer-friendly “I’ll see you at the bill signing,” said a cocky George W. Bush in Bulgaria, when he heard the Senate had just fallen 15 votes short of voting cloture on the Kennedy-Kyl immigration bill he had embraced. Bush returned home,...
That Other Plotāto Bring Down Trump
Well over a year after the FBI began investigating “collusion” between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has brought in his first major indictment. Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has been charged with a series of crimes dating back years, though none is tied directly to President Donald Trump or 2016....
New Writing From the Northwest
“Every kind of writing is good save that which bores.” āVoltaire The Pacific Northwest of the United States, embracing Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and western Montana, has long been a major source of agricultural and mineral wealth. For generations it has also served as a center for the fine arts, but only recently has it done...
The Matter of Money
Over the last year, the doings of the media have occupied center stage in the media themselves, an obsession that seems harmless if somewhat incestuous. There has been a tournament atmosphere surrounding the issue of whether the damsels CBS or ABC would fall to one or another suitor, and a sense of awe at the...
The Call of Blood
We Americans pride ourselves on being a nation of rootless individuals, cut off from the history that chained Old Europe to a cycle of wars and revolutions and bound to one another not by ties of blood and soil but only by the bloodless abstraction of self-evident truths.Ā Rooted in no one place, our corporate...
New York vs. New York
Ā Ā Ā Ā “The feeling between this city and the hayseeds. . .is every hit as hitter as the feelings between the North and South before the War. . . . Why, I know a lot of men in my district who would like nothin’ better than to go out gunnin for hayseeds.” āGeorge...
Learning Goodness
If is ironic that the thoughts of this essay, extracted from a commencement address I gave at Claremont McKenna College in the spring of 1987, celebrate an old Stanford University tradition of submerging all students in the classical thought of the West as a precondition to graduation, no matter what their major. This spring of...
Labor Betrayed by the Progressive Left
The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America by Gabriel Winant Harvard University Press 368 pp., $35.00 Once upon a time, there were academic historians on whom the public could rely for help in accurately understanding the world in which we live. Scholars such as Samuel Eliot...
The Deliberate Infection Myth of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Arguing with my liberal highĀ school teachers did not endear me to them. It got worse when a day or two after one of these disagreements I brought to class material demonstrating the teacher had been feeding us a false narrative. The teacher was not doing so intentionally but simply out of ignorance, having accepted a...
Obamaās Strategic Doctrine: W Lite
Ā The Obama Administrationās āDefense Strategic Guidanceā (DSG), which was unveiled on January 5 as part of the broader programmatic document,Ā Sustaining US Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense, has been greeted with neoconservative howls of rage. The document āsends a clear message to Americaās adversaries: Go for it,ā was the view of theĀ Washington TimesĀ editorialist,...
New Zealand Attacks: Repercussions and Perspective
Terrorist attacks against Muslims in the Western world are extremely rare. This morningās carnage in two mosques in New Zealand, with the death toll currently at 50, is the first major event of its kind since the Quebec City mosque shootingāover two years ago ā which killed six persons. (As for the alleged āIslamophobic incidentsā...
Presence, Real and Ersatz
The Talented Mr. Ripley Produced by Paramount Pictures and Miramax Films Directed by Anthony Minghella Screenplay by Anthony Minghella, from the novel by Patricia Highsmith Released by Paramount Pictures Anthony Minghella’s screen version of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley has beautiful photography, good acting, and real suspense. What it lacks is the element that...
Free Fallin’
Rockford, Illinois,Ā has lived through more than its share of economic downturns.Ā The most notable, of course, was during the Reagan Recession, when one in four Rockfordians were unemployed.Ā The city climbed up out of that trough, only to lose a number of its oldest and largest manufacturers through the frenzied rounds of mergers and...
Has the Bell Begun to Toll for the GOP?
Ā Among the more controversial chapters inĀ Suicide of a Superpower, my book published last fall, was the one titled, “The End of White America.” It dealt with the demographic decline of the white majority and what it portends for education, the U.S. economy, politics and national unity. That book and chapter proved the proximate cause...
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...
Judging the Serbs
On May 25, 1993, the U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 827, which established the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991. Of course, by ignoring the atrocities that occurred in the Balkans during 1941-1945 and by...
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.
No Further E.U, Enlargement After Croatia
Ā On July 1 Croatia became the 28thĀ country to join the European Union, and on current form there will be no further enlargement for many years to come. A look at the glaring dysfunctions in Croatiaās accession, compared to the double standards Brussels imposes on Serbia and Ukraine, is indicative of the peculiarĀ mitteleuropƤischĀ view of what...
Zora’s World v. Brown
The 60th anniversary of the Brown v. the Board of Education is being celebrated today with far more pomp than has accompanied Independence Day celebrations in recent years. Not surprisingly, Michelle Obama took the occasion to condemn not just the growing trend of resegregation in public schoolsāa nasty term for neighborhood-based schoolsābut also the persistence...
Economy and Independence
The president of the little village in West Michigan where I was born and raised (Spring Lake, population 2,360, sal-ute!) no longer wants to be village president.Ā The obvious solution to this conundrum seems to have eluded the 84-year-old Joyce Verplank Hatton.Ā Rather than resign the office, President Hatton has decided to take the road...
Ted Cruz and the Trump Takeover
The self-righteousness and smugness of Ted Cruz in refusing to endorse Donald Trump, then walking off stage in Cleveland, smirking amidst the boos, takes the mind back in time. At the Cow Palace in San Francisco in July of 1964, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, having been defeated by Barry Goldwater, took the podium to introduce a...
Abortion: No Libertarian Triumph
AĀ debate has broken out over the continuing viability of the āfusionā of libertarians and conservatives.Ā If the latter are represented by President George W. Bush and the 109th Congress, the alliance seems dead.Ā Concocting a coalition of libertarians and liberals isnāt going to be any easier, however.Ā Brink Lindsey of the Cato Institute has attempted...
A Mortal Blivet
A review of The Edge of Darkness (produced by GK Films, Icon Productions, and BBC Films; directed by Martin Campbell; screenplay by William Monahan and Andrew Bovell from the original television script by Troy Kennedy Martin; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures). In The Edge of Darkness, director Martin Campbell has tried to compress the six...
On Traditionalists
I had already read Robin Andersonās biography of Pope Pius VII, but if a book review or anything else has Thomas Flemingās name on it, I read it.Ā Alas, no more than nine lines into his review (āThe Church Militant,ā Reviews, August), I was startled by the first of several attacks on Catholic traditionalists that...
The Silence of the Lambs
Here’s how it stands with Western civilizationāwhat’s left of it, I meanāinsofar as various Westerners are concerned. You keep your lip buttoned whenever foes, internal as well as external, jump up and down on you, kick you around, make known their fondest wish is to do you in, ideals and all. You hope for the...
The Country Writer
I am as grateful for this award as I am surprised by it, and I certainly did not see it coming. Obviously, it cannot be easy to feel worthy of an award bearing the name of T.S. Eliot, and so probably I ought to say that I am grateful, but unconvinced. The etiquette attendant upon...
The Plot to Destroy Nixon
In his new biography Being Nixon: A Man Divided, Evan Thomas concedes a point. Richard Nixon, he writes, “was not paranoid; the press and the ‘Georgetown set’ really were out to get him.” Carl Bernstein’s review found Thomas’ book deficient in its failure to chronicle the “endemic criminality” of the Nixon presidency. Yet, recent revelations...
Solipsism, Genius & Madness
Edward Albee: An Interview and Essay; Edited by Julian N. Wasserman; University of St. Thomas; Houston, TX. Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Don Quixote; Edited by Fredson Bowers; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; San Diego. We often hear that language is under siege in America today, that it is being assailed on all sides by people who, either...
Royal Teddy
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., was the first of our Northeastern rich-boy presidents, blazing a trail for his kinsman Franklin, John F. Kennedy, and the two Bushes.Ā Even Nelson Rockefeller, who had no abilities and no popularity that was not bought and paid for, ended up a heartbeat from the executive mansion.Ā TR was also the first...