“Where so’er I turn my view All is strange, yet nothing new; Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong.” āSamuel Johnson Epicurus had an answer for everything. The universe consisted of nothing except atoms and void; the qualities of matter and of our sensory experienceāhardness, color, heaviness, etc.āwere determined completely by the size,...
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Pakistan: The Problem, the Solution
The most significant fact to emerge from the killing of Osama Bin Laden is that Pakistanās military intelligence service (ISI) had been sheltering him for years. This confirms what we have been warning for the best part of the past decade: that Pakistan is an irredeemably flawed entity, unable to turn itself into a stable...
Many Children Left Behind
āNo Child Left Behindā: That poll-tested slogan is the centerpiece of an artfully designed, meticulously implemented p.r. campaign designed to portray Texas as a hotbed of educational reform and achievement. Certainly, the Texas accountability system has put some focus on teaching basic literacy skills to low-income children who may have been ignored in decades past.Ā ...
Condescension Slides South
I’d forgotten that a Barnes and Noble bookstore had opened in the old department store building. As I walked back to my car in the Baltimore suburb of Towson, I remembered what I’d seen in the other bookstore closer to home, so I changed my path a little, pushed open the heavy door, and headed...
The Long Take
Beyond the Hills Produced by Canal+Ā Written and directed by Cristian MungiuĀ Distributed by Sundance SelectsĀ Ā Beyond the Hills is Cristian Mungiuās fictionalized account of the widely reported story of an exorcism performed at a Rumanian Orthodox monastery near Tanacu in 2005.Ā A disturbed young woman who had been living there had become violently...
The Revolt of the French Masses
Charles de Gaulle, on the subject of Algeria: “Pinay, the facts may prove me wrong, but History will prove me right.” Finance Minister Anoine Pinay: “But, Monsieur le PrĆ©sident, I thought History was written with facts.” Since for the vast majority of human beings historic myth, as AndrĆ© Malraux believed, is infinitely more appealing than...
Polonophobia
Since the fall of the Soviet Empire, no former Soviet captive nation has fared as badly as Poland in the American press. In the last year alone, unqualified denunciations of alleged Polish atrocities against Jews, most open to question, have been put into the New York Times, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Toronto Star, Toronto...
Crossroads America
“Dangers by being despised grow great.” āEdmund Burke Although preelection polls indicated that likely voters would favor candidates who supported immigration control, Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Ross Perot did not consider the issue worth mentioning during the recent presidential contest. But if our leaders wish the “i” word would go away, in the future...
A Different Past
Sometimes historical scholarship tells us more about the present than about the past. In June 2005, an exhibit of Omar ibn Saidās The Life, the only known autobiography written by an American black while in bondage, was on display in the lobby of the U.N. headquarters.Ā What made it even more significant was that The...
On Buffalo and Bias
Sheldon Hackney, president of the University of Pennsylvania, was recently chosen to head the National Endowment for the Humanities. Dr. Hackney has been described by the Chronicle of Higher Education as something of a moderate with a passion for free expression. I won’t rehash his credentials as a defender of free speech, except to say...
East-West Talks in Vienna
The title of these reminiscences avoids the word “negotiations,” because the latter implies some form of compromise. During my service as head of the U.S. delegation to the Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction (MBFR) talks in Vienna during 1981-83, I learned that the East does not operate on the premise of “give and take” and...
On Janet Reno
As this article and this issue of Chronicles go to press, the United States Senate Judiciary Committee will be considering whether Dade County State Attorney Janet Reno is, by her character, fit to serve this nation as Attorney General. My own opinion is, no. In the 1988 Dade County, Florida, general election, I was Attorney...
The Real āMuslim Banā
After five days of MSM hysteria, President Trump remains justifiably unruffled by the establishment organsā opprobrium. His January 27 executive order on immigration and refugees is reasonable and legal, and it enjoys strong popular support. In the medium-to-long term Trump has much bigger fish to fry than a temporary ban on citizens from seven failed,...
Throne and Altar
āWhether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of Godā ā1 Corinthians 10:31 My father, God rest his soul, was very fond of Thai food, with its quickly sautĆ©d noodles and peppery Ć©lan.Ā Not far from his condominium in the Rossmore section of Los Angeles, there was a...
Flannery Flummery
“[I]f I were not a Catholic, I would have no reason to write, no reason to see, no reason to feel horrified or even to enjoy anything . . . I feel myself that being a Catholic has saved me a couple of thousand years in learning to write.” Ā Ā Ā Ā āFlannery O’Connor...
Nobody but the People
In the “Prologue” to his massive biography of Sen. Joe McCarthy, historian Thomas Reeves describes a scene that took place in Milwaukee, in the senator’s home state, in November, 1954, only a month before his colleagues voted to condemn him and thereby effectively to terminate his career. The scene was a mass celebration of McCarthy’s...
When Immigration Becomes Migration
āSan Pietro si fece la barba prima per sĆ© e poi per gli altri.ā (āSaint Peter shaved himself first and then other people.ā) āA proverb from Lazio, near Rome Americans believe that they are unusual.Ā They use the word āuniqueā as a term of praise so often that it has lost its status as a...
As a City Upon a Hill
“A steady Patriot of the World alone, The friend of every country ā but his own.” Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā -George Canning Ā Ā John Crewdson: The Tarnished Door: The New Immigrants and the Transformation of America; Times Books; New York. Ā Victor Ripp: Moscow to Main Street: Among the Russian Emigres; Little, Brown; Boston. Ā Lewis A. Coser:...
The Surrender of Political and Military Sovereignty
Sovereignty is a people’s ability to govern its internal affairs and protect its independence against outside interference. Military power has always been the most obvious pillar of sovereignty. Clausewitz’ dictum that the object of war is “to compel your opponent to do your will” means that the victor substitutes his sovereignty for that of the...
Is Thomas Woods a Dissenter? A Further Reply, Pt. 3
Next we must look at another rhetorical device of Woods which serves to distract the attention of the reader from the point at issue and to prejudice him against what I actually wrote.Ā Woods mentions the interventions of bishopsā conferences into economic matters.Ā As a matter of fact I said absolutely nothing in my article...
Thoughts On Mikhail Bulgakov
I always think of Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov with tenderness, as if he were my relative, and a very close and dear one at that. Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was not my relative. I was not even fortunate to know him personallyāhe died a few years before I was born. Once, in a conversation with the editor...
An Aura of Prophecy
āA republic, if you can keep it.ā āBenjamin Franklin More often than not, historians of antebellum American politics loseĀ their perspective, and perhaps their good sense, when they encounter John C. Calhoun. The other great men in the political history of the United States during that era-John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster and Henry...
Letter to the Bishop
Your Excellency: A few years have passed since we corresponded. After my last letter to you, Iām afraid I took a wrong path, crashed and burned, and now stagger forward, burdened by more ordinary trespasses. But still a believer, grateful, as Graham Greene had the wheezing old priest murmur at the end of Brighton Rock,...
Sola Scriptura: The Case for the Crusades
āWoe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the staff of my anger, and my indignation is in their hands.Ā I will send him to a deceitful nation . . . ā āIsaiah 10:5-6, Douay-Rheims Confronted by the rise of insurgent Islam and the political reality of jihad, many Christians, eager to formulate a...
A Spectacle of Joy, With a Touch of Discomfort
Over the weekend of March 11, our daughter, Virginia, was married in the Arches National Park near Moab, Utah.Ā She said she wanted to be married in a place surrounded by natural beauty, well away from trite tourism.Ā After some web-surfing, she picked the Delicate Arch (one of the most photographed natural arches in the...
Uncivil Liberties
The United States Commission on Civil Rights has degenerated into an appendage of the Clinton reelection campaign through its attempt to stop, through intimidation, the petition drive in Florida to clamp down on illegal immigration; at stake are 25 electoral votes for the Democratic incumbent. The commission was established under the Civil Rights Act of...
Of Landlords, Leases, and Calico Indians
In 1845, James Fenimore Cooper wrote Satanstoe, the first novel of The Littlepage Manuscripts, a trilogy Cooper conceived as a fictional response to the New York āanti-rentā uprising that, since 1839, had pitted leasehold tenants against their patrician landlords.Ā It was a struggle that, in Cooperās view, threatened the property rights enshrined in the Constitution.Ā ...
Marriage and the Law
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Courtās 4-3 ruling, in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, that the Massachusetts constitutionāif not the federal Constitutionārequires the state to allow same-sex marriages has thrown nearly everyone into a good old-fashioned tizzy.Ā The Massachusetts court somehow discovered that it was āarbitraryā and ācapriciousā and therefore legally impermissible to limit the...
The Hague Tribunal: Bad Justice, Worse Politics
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once referred to the Cheka as “the only punitive organ in human history that combined in one set of hands investigation, arrest, interrogation, prosecution, trial, and execution of the verdict.” He was probably mistaken about “human history,” but his anger was just. What he chronicled was indefinite imprisonment without trial; investigations and indictments...
Transcendent Memory
The significance of the pastāthe past of a minute or an hour ago, 100 years ago, or 5,000 years agoāis of consuming interest to me; many writers are concerned with the effects of time on people and institutions. The past provides writers with most of their raw material. Proust had only to taste a sweet,...
Man on Holiday
John G. West is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, a nonpartisan public-policy think tank that conducts research on technology, science and culture, economics, and foreign affairs.Ā The Instituteās Center for Science and Culture is notable for challenging various aspects of evolutionary theoryāmaintaining, for instance, that evolutionary biology has failed to answer many salient...
The Revolution in Waco: Torching the Constitution
A hundred years from now historians, if they are still permitted to research and write, will argue about when the United States started down the slippery slope to totalitarianism. Many Southern historians believe it began with the erosion of the U.S. Constitution occasioned by President Lincoln’s disregard of that document and by the Reconstruction Era....
The Agony of Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev has evidently imagined that a government turned virtuous would elicit a generous response from a naturally virtuous people. It is an “immaculate misconception” because the Russian people, always lethargic in the face of their leviathan government, have endured in the Soviet experiment a unique erosion of Edward Gibbon’s old Greco-Roman ideal of civic...
Remembering Hilaire Belloc
A dangerous mind rediscovered.
Shame and Science
A sex tour of Italy was the last thing I had on my mind when I decided to take two children along with me on a recent lecture tour, but each trip I take seems to construct itself thematically like an overwritten modern novel in which every scene reeks of symbolic significance. This time the...
Nations Within Nations
By the end of 1998, it was no longer possible for any informed and honest person to claim that the massive immigration experienced by the United States since the 1970’s was not significantly altering the culture, economy, and politics of the nation. Last summer, the Washington Post, long a zealous opponent of immigration restriction, published...
History as Paranoia
There are many conservative, intelligent people who will happily tell you that there is no such thing as the absolute truth of history, only different, mutually complementary versions. History, they will say, is a mutable, fluid continuum, whose multiple truths are constantly undergoing revision and revaluation in one another’s reflected light, as well as in...
The Rump Right
Ā Ā Ā Ā “A perfect democracy is the most shameless thing in the world.” āEdmund Burke For some time now it has been the opinion of European political theorists that right and left have become antiquated points of reference. Allegedly, these terms, archaic by the time of the Cold War, were kept in use...
Passion and Pedantry
“Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk this way?” āW.B. Yeats William Butler Yeats’s picture of the scholar is not a pretty one (“All cough in ink. All wear the carpet with their shoes.”) and literature does not give us many scholarly heroes. Most literary pedants are like George Eliot’s Casaubon; boring, impotent...
Detroit: The Calm After the Storm
The message on the downtown wall was brief, and the writer got straight to the point.Ā āWhitey,ā it read, āGet out!Ā Your [sic] stupid f–ken [sic] prejudice [sic]!Ā Hit Eight Mile Road!āĀ After a couple of crude but potent illustrative doodles, it was signed, āMad and Dangerous.ā If you were looking for the authentic voice...
The Western Way of War From Plato to NATO
When I first began reading of the ancient world as a child, I was mystified by the collapse of the Greek city-states and the fall of Rome. How could such a thing come to pass? It seemed perfectly reasonable that Egypt, Sumer, and the Hittite kingdom should have come and gone, but not Periclean Athens...
Stemming the Tide
On August 9, 2001, during a speech from his ranch in Crawford, Texas, President George W. Bush put an end to several months of debate surrounding government funding of research on stem cells derived from human embryos.Ā After discussing his administrationās research into the matter and declaring his own ādeeply held beliefsā in science and...
Technovandals and the Future of Libraries
There are discussions at all levels of government about the future of libraries. The federal government is proceeding with plans for the I-WAY (otherwise known as the National Information Superhighway), blithely assuming that it will, at a time and cost and in a manner unknown, supersede most if not all library services and programs. It...
On Monopolies
I found myself in complete agreement with Donald W. Livingstonās (and thus Thomas Naylorās) arguments for downsizing the U.S.A. (āA āContainment Policyā for the New Cold War,ā Vital Signs, May).Ā The very next article, however, left me bewildered (āWhatās Good for General Motors . . . ,ā Vital Signs).Ā It was hard to believe that...
The Private Worlds of the Mind
On the morning of July 13, 1985, as I noted in my journal, I woke with an exceptionally clear recollection of a dream. In it my wife, Elizabeth, and I were in a high-ceilinged Victorian room with brown walls fashioned of rotating metallic discs. From there, we moved outside onto New York City’s Park Avenue,...
Ann Romney Asks the Right Question
Ā When Hillary Rosen said that Ann Romney had “never worked a day in her life,” it was among the better days of the Romney campaign. For Rosenāpresent whereabouts unknownāboth revealed the feminist mindset about women who choose to become wives and mothers and brought Ann Romney center stage. Before a Connecticut audience recently, Mrs....
The Practice of Politics
This is a history of liberalism as it appears to an intelligent, well-informed, and thoroughly convinced English liberal who worked for many years as an editor and correspondent for The Economist.Ā It is useful as a sympathetic exploration of the stages through which the political outlook that rules us today has advanced. The book is...
Books in Brief: February 2022
Christianity and Social Justice, by Jon Harris (Reformation Zion Publishing; 160 pp., $14.99). In this slim discussion of social justice and its relationship, or non-relationship, to Christianity, Jon Harris, a Protestant theologian and Baptist minister, addresses the topic long after he observed the āincursion made by the social justice movementā into the Baptist seminary where he...
Be Not Afraid
In Leviticus, God gives Israel a number of blessings and curses that describe the benefits and consequences of keeping (or failing to keep) the Sinai covenant.Ā One of the ācovenant cursesā is curiously descriptive of the jittery culture of fear in which we now live: But if [they] will not hearken unto me, and will...
Two Bad Choices: Assimilate or Die
In resurrecting the melting pot as the antidote to multiculturalism, Heycke neglects a better option: the return to American tradition.