When Texas Child Protective Services seized the children of mothers belonging to the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, I wondered if the Independent Republic was turning Yankee.Ā The seizure was an abuse of power against the fundamental institution of all human societiesāthe family.Ā Fortunately, the ruling on May 23 by the stateās Third Circuit...
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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...
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?...
Space Art
“The land of the heart is the land of the West.” Catholic readers of American literature have always recognized that the difference between Eastern and Western fiction is the difference between New Canaan, Connecticut, and Tuba City, Arizona. A. Carl Bredahl’s book is a comprehensive as well as original attempt at defining the nature, of...
Serbia Betrayed by Her Leaders
Ā Talking to CKCU 93.1FM in Ottawa, Dr. Srdja Trifkovic considers the extraordinary readiness of the government in Belgrade to compromise Serbiaās national and state interests in order to demonstrate its subservience to the āinternational community.ā A recent batch of Wikileaks cables from the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade drastically illustrates the extent of institutionalized political...
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...
Time to Call It Quits: Some Thoughts on the Pandemic and the Future
Joy. Pure unadulterated joy. This is what I felt on the first of June when I stepped into my favorite coffee shop here in Front Royal, Virginia and found all of the employees except one without face coverings. Gone were the bandanas and surgical masks, and for the first time in a year I could...
Ancient Texts and Modern Readers
“Begin at the beginning,” was the King’s suggestion to Alice. “Go on to the end. Then stop.” Kurt and Barbara Aland of the Institute for New Testament Textual Research in MĆ¼nster, Westphalia, Germany, begin their book on the New Testament with Erasmus’ editio princeps of 1516, the first printed edition. They then survey the printed...
While America Sleeps
Ten years ago, it appeared that immigration restrictionists were poised to win some real political victories.Ā In 1992, Pat Buchanan had raised the previously untouchable issue in his presidential primary challenge to George H.W. Bush.Ā That same year, National Review, under the editorship of John OāSullivan, joined Chronicles in calling for deep cuts in legal...
Obama’s One Cheap Trick
I did not watch the President’s State of the Union Address. I hardly every watch such things, especially if I intend to write about them. What would be the point? The President’s boys and girls spend the previous week leaking the main talking points to the press to make sure that no one fails to...
Moving Beyond Myths
“The difficulty in life is the choice.” āGeorge Moore Please excuse the personal anecdotes scattered throughout this essay. As a woman, I found it difficult to write a standard third-person review and instead drew on my own experiences and emotions in responding to this book. Rejecting rationality, logic, and “vertical” thinking, I recognized that my...
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...
An Honest Reckoning
John le CarrĆ© could hardly imagine a better scenario: a spy-for-hireāonce a servant of Her Majestyās government, now selling his services in a foreign marketātakes payouts from two masters simultaneously, as both a police informant and a political dirty-tricks man.Ā He feeds political intelligence to the police, who use that innuendo to justify covert surveillance...
Scientific American Goes to Moscow
Who is Mr. Piel? He is an American, a Harvard graduate (1937 magna cum laude), and a journalist who has devoted his career to the promotion of public understanding of science. From 1947 to 1984 he was president and publisher of Scientific American and is now its chairman. (In 1984 his son, Jonathan Piel, became...
What the Right Needs Now
Amid an eloquent diatribe against the āwokeā left and its friends in the Deep State, Fox News host Tucker Carlson attributed to American Deplorables a sentiment that may more accurately reflect his own feelings: āAll they want to do is go back to how things were in 2005.ā Ā I heard myself responding out loud...
Kosovo, a Frozen Conflict
Ā Until a week ago it appeared that the government in Belgrade would give up the last vestiges of its claim to Kosovo for the sake of some indeterminate date in the future when Serbia may join the European Union. A series of unreciprocated concessions over the past few months have encouraged the KLA regimeās...
A Time to Reap
I do not know what the city-bred recollect of childhood, but one of my earliest memories is of a sunny Easter morning, when I was no more than three or four years old, standing in an unpaved lane that led down to a tiny farm: the bright new grass was pushing through last year’s burnt-over...
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...
The Yoke of Democracy
In a strange way, it appears that Adolf Hitler is still ruling Germany.Ā In the Federal Republic of Germany, the forces of ādemocracy,ā in the form of political parties, make political decisions by implementing the opposite of what they assume Hitler would have wanted.Ā Those political parties, the governing opposition, are ādemocraticā because American military...
The Ghost of Sherlock Holmes
In Sidney Lanfieldās 1939 production of The Hound of Baskervilles, we have a perfect ghostly reflection for spooky October viewing.
What Became a Legend Most?
Poor Zoe. Poor William. Poor Lillian. As if it were a conspiracy to compensate for what they deemed a distortion of the facts, the critics seized Zoe Caldwell’s one-woman show Lillian, written by William Luce, as an occasion to say more about Lillian Hellman than to discuss the biodrama they were offered. The most prevalent...
A Quota Queen for the Court
If the U.S. Senate rejects race-based justice, Sonia Sotomayor will never sit on the Supreme Court. Because that is what Sonia is all about. As the New York Times reported Saturday, the salient cause of her career has been advancing persons of color, over whites, based on race and national origin. āJudge Sotomayor, whose parents...
Class Allegories
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Produced by Chernin Entertainment Directed by Matt Reeves Screenplay by Mark Bomback and Rick Jaffa Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Snowpiercer Produced by Opus Pictures Directed by Bong Joon-ho Screenplay by Bong Joon-ho and Kelly Masterson Distributed by The Weinstein Company As titles go, Dawn of...
The American Exception
From the October 1993 issue of Chronicles. A favorite exhortation of those seeking to further restrict or remove the private possession of firearms in the United States is to “look at other countries,” where lower murder rates are supposed to be a result of gun control laws. The underlying presumption beneath these laws is that...
Searching for a Past That Never Was
In January 1995, residents of the small town of Libby, Montana, received a surprising invitation. Proffered by federal authorities, it announced that meetings would be held on the 28th, simultaneously at Libby and 28 other locations throughout Montana and Idaho, to discuss something called the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. Its purpose, they were...
Maryland, the South’s Forgotten Cousin
As recently as the 1930’s, elderly black people in rural Maryland were still keeping headstrong children in line with the admonition that something called “pattiroll” would “get” them if they didn’t behave themselves. “Pattirolls,” or patrols, were gangs of Union Army soldiers who rode throughout the moonlit countryside enforcing curfews in occupied Maryland during the...
Trump out-Trifkovicing Trifkovic
On December 10 Srdja Trifkovic was interviewed byĀ Mike Churchāwho presents a nationally syndicated radio talk showāabout his article āDefeating Domestic Jihad: A Program of Action,ā published on this site on December 4. We bring you the transcript of that interview. MC: Letās talk about your essay that you have published on Chronicles magazine website, āDefeating...
Come, Sweet Death
In the spring of 1975, C. Everett Koop, M.D., addressed a conference of Christian laymen in New Orleans on the topic of abortionāmore specifically, on the implications of Roe V. Wade. Among the changes he foresaw were a growing acceptance of infanticide as the “treatment of choice” for defective newborns and an increasing resort to...
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...
To Hell With College
I ask my readers not to be shocked by the title of this essay. “To Hell With Culture” was the title of my last essay published in Chronicles, in September 1994. Readers of it saw that I was not an enemy of culture; and now I am not an enemy of higher education. I wish...
Empty Gestures
Sin City Produced by Dimension Films Directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller Written by Frank Miller Distributed by Dimension Films and Miramax Films So you have been wondering what happened to Frodo, a.k.a. Elijah Wood, after he drifted off into that glorious sunset at the end of The Return of the King?Ā It seems...
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...
All That Jazz
I greatly enjoyed and appreciate Tony OuthĀwaiteās recent tribute to George Shearing (āNo Apologies for Jazz,ā Cultural Revolutions, April).Ā Well done. In late 1954 or early 1955 I twice traveled from my assignment at Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois, to the University at Champaign-Urbana to hear some live jazz. The first time, it...
Stomping Women
Ā This is politics in America. Item One: Ā NBC’s Matt Lauer asks the the California gubernatorial candidates if they will stop negative ads, and when Meg Whitman declines, she is booed by women. Ā This is supposed to mean something, when feminists and lesbians boo a Republican woman. Ā But feminists hate women and to the extent...
Be Sensitiveāor Else!
Horror stories about punishments for insensitive behavior on college campuses are old news. But leftist hypersensitivity has permeated everyday life in the real world as well. In Manassas, Virginia, a white woman called 911 at 3:08 A.M. to report that some black menāwhom she referred to as “niggers”āwere trying to break into her house. According...
Mildred Indemnity Always Twice Pierces the Double Postman
The sheer inanity of so much fiction today sends us necessarily to the past, and not always to Balzac and Trollope.Ā If we are looking for something readable and American and modern, then this gathering is just the thing.Ā Indeed, for sheer readability (if not for the finest quality), James M. Cain is hard to...
The Necessity of Christianity
To prove the necessity of Christianity in a few paragraphs would be an entirely foolishāif not preposterousāundertaking, were it not that volumes are not necessary to present a simple idea.Ā By āsimpleā I mean able to be stated with brevity at the cost of some bluntness, rather than easy to understand fully enough to make...
Bill OāReilly: the Big Dog Who did not Bark
Sherlock Holmes famously noticed the importance of a dog not barking. In the aftermath of the FOX Republican Debate there has been no discussion of the absence of FOX News (FNC) star Bill OāReilly. Before the debate OāReilly commented that his aggressive style of interviewing would be inappropriate to a news situation, where the object...
Coming Home
Itās 10:01 p.m. in Florence, and seven hours earlier in Chicago.Ā According to the live map on the back of the headrest in front of me, weāre somewhere over Canada, making a beeline for Sault Ste. Marie, still in the daylight, but rapidly losing ground.Ā As we turn ever more to the south, the darkness...
Why Not Crippling Sanctions for Israel and the U.S.?
In Israel, a country stolen from the Palestinians, fanatics control the government. One of the fanatics is the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Last week, Netanyahu called for
The Trouble With Russia
The Russian government has established a presidential commission charged with countering āattempts to harm Russian interests by falsifying history.āĀ The history it refers to is that of the 20th century, in which domestic and international crimes committed by the former Soviet Union played a salient and notorious role.Ā The Kremlin insists that the sacrifices made...
The Path to Modernity
The Hobbesian mayhem that struck Europe in the first half of the 17th century was not an event, or a series of events, befitting the designation of a war.Ā The plural form, as in the Napoleonic Wars, would be more apt.Ā It was a pancontinental minus-sum-game involving all major players (save Russia) that continued, relentlessly,...
Retooling the Conservative Movement
Samuel Francis’s newest book, composed of 30 essays originally published in Chronicles between 1989 and 1996, is much more than a collection of articles about matters of passing concern. Rather it attests to Francis’s singular efforts in constructing a strategy by which Americans might recapture their nation from the decadent establishment now in power. He...
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 West’s Fraudulent Democracies
Western elites consider transgenderist ideology and mass immigration foundational to democracy, while in truth they are destructive of all things democratic.
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...
Conservative Credo: Abortion, Conclusion
If the state is to protect life at any cost, doesn't this imply a financial obligation to preserve the life of any child, no matter how deformed or hopeless, no matter what it takes?Ā That means a considerable outlay of tax money, and in parallel cases, when the state assumes ...
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...
Everything You Wanted to Know About Putin and Crimea but were Afraid to Ask
Srdja Trifkovic interviewed by Mike Church on SiriusXM Patrot Radio: Mike:Ā I have been enjoying your writing for years at Chronicles, including your ruminations about our modern demonization of monarchy and how youāre trying to figure out: How did this greatest and oldest form of government get to the station in life where itās regarded as...
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night!
History is rewritten, memory is transformed, recognition is withdrawn, and the cultural context is recast.Ā The recent toppling of historical statues has proceeded so effectively that we can hardly remember a previous period of statue erection or insertion in Richmond, Virginia.Ā The former capital of the Confederacy had to be punished for its Monument Avenue,...