Will Washington, Tel Aviv, Riyadh, and Tehran Face Off in a Future Cataclysm? Ā With Donald Trumpās decision to shred the Iran nuclear agreement, announced last Tuesday, itās time for the rest of us to start thinking about what a Third Gulf War would mean. The answer, based on the last 16 years of American...
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Schools Then and Now
The present agitation around Allan Bloom’s book, The Closing of the American Mind, reminds me of the many similar debates I have witnessed in this country during the last four decades. At almost regular intervals the mediocrity of our system of education, from grade school to university, is demonstrated, denounced, deplored, and pilloried. Committees are...
Targeted Assassinations: Killing the Republic?
Contrary to the popular slogan, the September 11 attacks did not change everything.Ā They did, however, transform how Americans, and especially American officials, think about both war and executive power.Ā The resulting āWar on Terrorā has been under way for a dozen years. In a traditional war, whether formally declared or unofficially fought, the battlefield...
Crowned With Thorns and Glory
[Jefferson Davis: Unconquerable Heart, by Felicity Allen (Columbia: University of Missouri Press) 808 pp., $34.95] “As the tug bore him away from the ship, he stood with bared head between the files of undersized German and other foreign soldiers on either side of him, and as we looked, as we thought, our last upon his...
Guns Incorporated?
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review McDonald v. City of Chicago, a case that presents the watershed issue of whether the individual right to bear arms under the Second Amendment, established in 2008 in District of Columbia v. Heller, applies to states.Ā Most Court observers agree that it appears very likely that the...
Is the System Rigged? You Betcha.
“Remember, it’s a rigged system. It’s a rigged election,” said Donald Trump in New Hampshire on Saturday. The stunned recoil in this city suggests this bunker buster went right down the chimney. As the French put it, “Il n’y a que la verite qui blesse.” It is only the truth that hurts. In what sense...
Dark Contract
Matthew Bruccoli is, perhaps, the leading biographer of modern American novelists. With this book he scores something of a triple, as it appeared soon after his acclaimed lives of Fitzgerald and O’Hara. Like his other works, it is exceptionally well-produced. It is a handsome book, with a full apparatus of notes and documents. There is...
The Scandal in T.S. Eliot’s Life
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), dead now for more than 20 years, continues to vex those for whom his poetry is not completeāor is not completely to be understoodāwithout an intimate knowledge of his biography. At the time of his death, of course, Eliot’s reputation was somewhat in decline, despite the Nobel Prize of 1948, the Order...
The Return of the Neocons
The disastrous denouement of the Iraq war, and the revelation that we were lied into invading a country that represented no credible threat to us, had supposedly discredited the authors of that reckless adventureāthe neoconservatives centered in and around the American Enterprise Institute.Ā AEI served as the headquarters of the neocon network in Washington, a...
The Truth in Stereotypes
The stereotype is in disrepute. The word is often defined in purely negative terms. Some definitions construe the stereotype as necessarily possessing the negative charge that does, indeed, energize many stereotypes. Other definitions see as inseparable from the stereotype the inappropriate application of the stereotype to those members of the stereotyped group who do not...
Monotheism vs. Polytheism
Can we still conceive of the revival of pagan sensibility in an age so profoundly saturated by Judeo-Christian monotheism and so ardently adhering to the tenets of liberal democracy? In popular parlance the very word “paganism” may incite some to derision and laughter. Who, after all, wants to be associated with witches and witchcraft, with...
Giving America Priority in Trade Policy
As the global-trade establishment becomes more insulated from the growing criticism of people still rooted in theirĀ native soil, it is missing the turn in world events that is frustrating its efforts.Ā Examples abound.Ā The latest round of trade-liberalization negotiations has never managed more than a crawl since it was launched by the World Trade...
When They Bare the Iron Hand
āBeware the people weeping / When they bare the iron handāĀ āHerman Melville, āThe Martyrā It is one of the most famous photographs of the nineteenth century: Alexander Gardnerās picture of four hooded figures dangling from a gallows in the old federal penitentiary in Washington, D.C. on July 7, 1865.Ā On that sweltering afternoon, about...
The Sacralization of Black Lives Matter
Perhaps Iām going crazy, but I thought I just heard NBC News and other respected information sources report that the recent burning of two Black Lives Matter (BLM) signs is being investigated as āpotential hate crimesā by the Washington, D.C. police. Apparently these alleged hate crimes occurred as BLM and its sister organization (or rather,...
Sam Francis Was Right
It has been seven years since Sam Francis died.Ā But the years since his untimely death merely show the accuracy of his insights.Ā Francisās writing was marked not only by loyalty to the people from whom he came but by an unswerving devotion to telling the truth about the way the world really is, not...
To End WarsāTrump vs. Sanders
Barack Obama sought as his legacy to bring an end to the two longest wars in U.S. history. On Oct. 15, he, again, admitted failure. The 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan will remain another year. And, on Inauguration Day 2017, 5,500 U.S. troops will still be there. Why cannot we leave? Because, if we do,...
Degrade and Fall
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. āEdmund Burke I was reading Arthur Goldhammer’s translation of Maurice Lever’s Sade as the Senator Packwood scandal raged on, and although I wouldn’t want to draw any unwarranted comparisons between the two bonhommes, the parallels between Ancien RĆ©gime France and contemporary America are unmistakable. Debauchery reigns...
Warren Harding and FDR
Warren G. Harding sought a peaceful world; Franklin D. Roosevelt deceived the nation into total war. No two U.S. presidents were more diametrically opposed on the issues.
Making Men out of Boys
āAs a busily growing animal, I am scatterbrained and entirely lacking in mental application.Ā Having no desire at present to expend my precious energies upon the pursuit of knowledge, I shall not make the slightest attempt to assist you in your attempts to impart it.Ā If you can capture my unwilling attention and goad me...
No Place for Humanity: Our Free-Chosen Dystopia
By the time of Donald Trumpās inauguration, George Orwell was at the top of Amazon.comās best-seller list.Ā Readers had developed a sudden passion for antitotalitarian literature, it seemedānot only for Orwellās Nineteen Eighty-Four but for Hannah Arendtās Origins of Totalitarianism as well.Ā And with the surge of interest in Orwell came a sales revival for...
The Creativity Profession
It has always been my impression that people who talk and write most about the creative process are not usually very creative. It’s sort of like a corollary to that old maxim, “Those who can’t do, teach”; those who can’t create, analyze creativity. Conversely, I must confess that as a book critic who also publishes...
A āWokeā Crusader at Germanyās Helm
Angela Merkelās unprecedented 16 years in power came to an end on Dec. 8 when Olaf Scholz was sworn inĀ as the new German chancellor, symbolically breaking with tradition by omitting āso help me Godā from the oath. Scholz steered his Social Democratic Party (SPD) to the dominant position in last Septemberās general election by presenting...
Alabama Supreme Courtās Embryo Ruling Embodies Americaās Legal Heritage
Many on the left have denounced the Alabama Supreme Courtās ruling in a fertility clinic case as an imperious act of ātheocracyā or āChristian nationalism.ā Nothing could be further from the truth.
Italyās Push for Euthanasia: An End to āPointless Sufferingā
Thanks, in part, to the presence of the Roman Catholic Church, Italy has remained one of the least secularized countries in the European Union.Ā At present, however,Ā the Italian government, led by Prime Minister Romano Prodi, seems hellbent on irking the Catholic Church with its legislative initiatives, including its attempt to legalize homosexual unions and...
The End of the Berlusconi Era
Ā Silvio Berlusconi has been around for so long that it is hard to imagine Italian politics without him occupying the center stage. The end of his era is nigh, however, to the relief of his opponents as well as many of his erstwhile supporters. Berlusconi announced on Tuesday night that he would resign as...
Erasing Mason-Dixon
TheĀ South has an enduring status as a region somewhat separate from the main thrust of American life. The tension beĀtween agrarian and commercial impulses in American society, epitomized by the yeomen idealized in Thomas Jefferson’sĀ Notes on the State of Virginia and the striving industrial class whose rise was promoted by Alexander Hamilton’s ReĀports as Secretary...
Border Insecurity is Election Interference
In what amounts to election interference and dilution of the franchise for citizens, sanctuary communities are allowing and even encouraging participation of noncitizens in their local and municipal elections. Citizens need to speak out now before itās too late.
We, Who Are Always About to Die
Gladiator Produced by DreamWorks Directed by Ridley Scott Screenplay by David H. Franzoni and John Logan Released by MCA/Universal Pictures Frequency Produced by New Line Cinema Directed by Gregory Hoblit Screenplay by Toby Emmerich Released by New Line Cinema Despite its flagrant historical inaccuracies and its preference for spectacle over drama, Ridley Scott’s Gladiator is...
Enemies Within and Above
Within a few hours of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon last September, it had become commonplace for even high-ranking government officials and elected leaders to say publicly that Americans would just have to get used to fewer constitutional liberties and personal freedoms than they have traditionally enjoyed. Of course,...
On Misrepresented Monsters
I enjoyed reading George McCartney’s review of Monsters From the Id in the November 2000 issue of Chronicles (“Frankenstein’s Children,” Opinions). However, it contains some misrepresentations of what I had to say on the relationship between sex and horror. To begin with, the Ford Foundation never funded Alfred Kinsey’s sex surveys; it is the Rockefeller...
Come Into the Garden, Maud
A year after the American debut of Jascha Heifetz in 1917, James Huneker wrote an interesting sentence in the New York Times: āMuch has been said of Heifetz and his musical gifts compared with great violinists of the timeāYsayĆ«, Kreisler, Elman, Zimbalist, Kubelik, and Maud Powell.āĀ We notice that one of these great violinists is...
A New Bottom Line
In his provocative book Ideas Have Consequences, Richard Weaver offered some poignant observations regarding modern times. Western man, he wrote, has fallen prey to a “falsified picture” of the world, characterized by materialism and an egotism which assumes that “man’s destiny in the world is not to perfect himself but to lean back in sensual...
Obamaās Manufactured Border Crisis
This summerās border crisisāthe near total collapse of any controls or security at our southern border, especially in South Texasāwas manufactured by the Obama administration as a means of forcing through a mass amnesty, either via Congress or by executive fiat.Ā Legalizing millions of illegal aliens now resident in these United States is the immediate...
Another Reason Why the Agrarians Lost
Andrew Lytleās āThe Hind Titā is the best essay in Iāll Take My Stand (1930), not only because it focuses on the small, independent farmer, the class the Agrarians most admired, but also because Lytle nails the volumeās primary thesis to the church door, the dilemma his region and nation faced in 1930āthe choice between...
Welcome to Dodge City
On the American frontier of previous centuries, the possession of a firearm was often a key to survival. In this regard, the frontier of 20th-century America, although different geographically, is very much like earlier frontiers. As different waves of Europeans arrived in North America, each took a distinct approach to trading guns with the Indians....
Christopher Hitchens and the Days of Rage
On March 23, the Associated Press published a story dealing with sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church to little fanfare. It noted that allegations of sexual abuse involving the Catholic Church in the United States dropped in 2009, and that most of the alleged offenders āare dead, no longer in the priesthood, removed from...
A ‘Damascus Road’ Vision for Castro?
You might have another notion entirely. I prefer to see the fruits of Raul Castro’s semi-conversion to Catholicism before reaching conclusions as to his sincerity. “I read all the speeches of the pope, his commentaries,” said Raul on Sunday, following a meeting at the Vatican with the hugely popular Pope Francis, “and if the pope...
Friendly Reminders
A fine summer day it was, and as I walked down my quiet country road I smugly congratulated myself for being unafraid of any bills that might lie waiting in the darkness of the rusty old mailbox.Ā I made a mental note to get a new one, perhaps an elaborate one.Ā Now, where would I...
Screen
Seeing Red Ā Red Dawn; Directed by John Milius; Written by John Milius and Kevin Reynolds; MGM-UA Entertainment. Ā by C. P. Dragash Ā There is a common daydream among men who grew up in the years between the Berlin blockade and the Cuban missile crisis: the Russians have invaded the American heartland, and a...
A Divisive Statement
The Dixie Chicks have caused quite a stir in Lee Greenwoodās America.Ā To recap, for those who have taken E. Michael Jonesā advice and drop-kicked their television set out the front door: On March 10, during a concert in London, singer Natalie Maines said, āJust so you know, weāre ashamed the President of the United...
India, Jihadās Permanent Battleground
Teams of heavily armed terrorists carried out seven coordinated attacks in Indiaās financial capital
Maybe It’s Not Time to Head for the Hills
In the wake of the Supreme Courtās decision in Obergefell recognizing a non-existent right to gay marriage in the Constitution, there have been numerous articles stating that America has accepted gay marriage and that social conservatives should now shut up.Ā A variation of this theme has been taken up by certain social conservatives such as...
Muddling Masses
“My opinion with respect to immigration is that, except of useful mechanics and some particular descriptions of men or professions, there is no need of encouragement.” āGeorge Washington In May 1991 rioting Central American immigrants looted and burned stores and destroyed police cars in Mount Pleasant, a declining, “multicultural” Washington neighborhood that overlooks the White...
Pernicious Myth of āFree Tradeā
In the last week of September the House of Representatives passed legislation aimed at imposing trade sanctions against China unless it lets its currency appreciate, thereby reducing its export advantage. In a subsequent speech clearly aimed at China, Japan and Brazil, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner attacked currency policies likely to ...
Super Savior
Superman Returns Produced and distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures Directed by Bryan Singer Screenplay by Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris The American Civil Liberties Unionās executive officers must be on vacation somewhere off the telecommunications grid.Ā This supposition occurred to me as I watched Bryan Singerās Superman Returns.Ā Although the film takes off the wraps...
Restoring the Republic One Grandfatherās Desk at a Time
If we can shake off the faddish disorders of this chaotic age and once again embrace our foundational principles the soul of America will again be ordered and our republic restored.]
Which Way for Rand Paul?
Of all the Republican successes in the midterm elections, perhaps none has the potential to be as consequential as the elevation of Rand Paul to the U.S. Senate from Kentucky.Ā Paul was the biggest and most genuine Tea Party triumph in November.Ā As the son and ideological heir of U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), he...
Kamala Harris, Hollywood, and the āAaron Sorkin Democratā
Kamala Harris as the Democratic Partyās presidential nominee means the age of the Aaron Sorkin Democrat may have reached its end.
Second Thoughts
These days everyone is having second thoughtsāabout Vietnam and the 60’s, about American history, about what it means to be a liberal and what it means to be a conservative. Rather than be left out of the rewrite, I too have been having second thoughts about what I did and did not do some 20...
Iran Faces Greater Risks Than It Knows
Stephen Kinzer's book, All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, tells the story of the overthrow of Iran's democratically elected leader, Muhammad Mosaddeq, by the CIA and the British MI6 in 1953. The CIA bribed Iranian government officials, businessmen and reporters, and paid ...