Just what is a truly Christian, or biblical, view of politics and government, and what difference does it make for public policy? Doug Bandow, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, treats this and many other questions with a fresh perspective. Not to be pigeonholed, he works for a largely libertarian think tank but espouses policies...
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Was NATO Deformed From Birth?
In a message commenting onĀ my article on NATOās strategic purposeĀ in the post-cold war era and its current use as a tool of United States hegemony in Europe,Ā ChroniclesĀ Editor Paul Gottfried raised an intriguingĀ question: āIs it really possible to divorce the striving for continued American hegemony in Europe from the founding of NATO as a ādefensive pactā?...
Howling at the Heavens
The Grey Produced by 1984 Private Defense Contractors in association with Liddell Entertainment Directed by Joe Carnahan Script by Joe Carnahan and Ian Mackenzie Jeffers from Jeffersā story Distributed by Open Road Films Ā We tell one another stories to help us face death, knowing the stalker to be ever at our heels. Not that...
Fear of Crime Is the Real Problem
Crime is back in the news and hardly a day now passes without headlines about shootings at largely peaceful funerals and all the rest. The obvious question is whether this soaring criminality will render big cities like New York City unlivableāa return to when movie audiences cheered Charles Bronson inĀ Death Wish. Todayās crime is deceptively...
Neoconservative Ideology
The neoconservative ideology of Western (preferably American) democracy and free markets is a form of secular religion.Ā The door to this secular church begins to open to the sinner when he starts surfing the internet, watching CNN, eating at McDonaldās, and reading the gospel according to Tom Friedman.Ā And he (āor sheāāadding that is itself...
On Agrarianism
I enjoyed Mark Winchellās āTracts Against Capitalismā (Vital Signs, January) when it presented facts regarding the Agrarians, but I must take issue with a number of his opinions. Peaceful Valley residents have more than two options regarding Wal-Mart.Ā They could, for example, form a corporation (non-profit or otherwise) to buy the land in question, or...
Swan Song From Our Second Worst President
President Obamaās final State of the Union address was long on themes and short on specifics.Ā It clearly was an attempt to secure a legacy of accomplishment.Ā That attempt is at best questionable.Ā It is important to divide Obamaās record between what he failed to do and what he has succeeded in doingāmost of it bad. Either...
A Great Non-Event
The presidential election of 2000 is one of the great non-events of modern history. Paradoxically, it may have a powerful effect in waking people up to the reality of what we laughingly call our “democratic institutions.” So far from this election calling into question the “wisdom of the Founding Fathers,” it proves they were right...
DECLINE AND FALL
I cannot swear that we are completely on the other side of the age of reciprocal misunderstandings and ignorance, but I would venture that at this moment, in the late 20th century, our democracies are closer and more similar than ever before. On both sides of the Atlantic, we face the same big social questions,...
Unreal Men, Unreal Times
There is no question that the concept of manhood is a shell of what it once was.Ā In popular culture, men are depicted as being slightly dim-witted, obsessed with video games, sports, and fast food.Ā āGuys,ā we are told, rush to Hardees because they canāt fix their own breakfast.Ā Although one can see a great...
A Tale of Two Cities
Many American Jews suffer culture shock when they first visit Tel Aviv.Ā Having grown up watching reruns of the movie Exodus, they imagine Israelis as yarmulke-wearing cowboys valiantly defending their land against attacks from vicious tribes of Arab terrorists.Ā Arriving in Tel Aviv, they find a bustling city full of secular, middle-class Israelis practicing their...
Are the Saudi Princes True Friends?
The 633-word statement of President Donald Trump on the Saudi royals’ role in the grisly murder of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi is a remarkable document, not only for its ice-cold candor. The president re-raises a question that has roiled the nation since Jimmy Carter: To what degree should we allow idealistic values trump vital...
Trump Is Right about NATO, Brussels Attacks
This week Donald Trump ignited another furor, this time for asking the simple question of whether Americaās commitment to NATO is worth it. The following day, Brussels was hit by jihad terror attacks. Ā Johnny on the spot, Senator Ted Cruz accused Trump of surrendering to ISIS and to Putin in the face of the...
An Exercise in Futility
Never in the field of Arab-Israeli conflict was so little expected by so many from so few. That is the accurate and near-universal verdict on the opening of the latest series in the longest-running soap opera in the world. The three key roles are the same as ever. Two of them have been played with...
Against āProgressā
Is todayās life of convenience really better, more human, and more fulfilling than the kind of lives our forebears lived in which the struggle of everyday life pointed always to the sacred?
Out On a Limb
“Such was that happy garden-state, While man there walked without a mate. . . . “ āAndrew Marvell Kingsley Amis has been practicing the writer’s trade long enough to have produced a full shelf of books. Last year’s Stanley and the Women was not only his 17th novel but a signal that three decades have...
How Long Has This Been Going On?
We live in revolutionary times of rapid technological change, and yes, it is a little disconcerting when the rules morph and the practices mutate.Ā But I did predict years ago that vinyl would be back, and so it is.Ā This yearās junque is next yearās antique.Ā And I remember back even to Before Vinyl. A...
Affirmative Agitprop
The University of Michigan is now the scene of the most important battle over affirmative action since the Bakke case at Stanford, settled so inconclusively some 25 years ago by the Supreme Court.Ā There is absolutely no question that Ann Arborās undergraduate and admissions policies are based on a principle of racial preference that, in...
Actually, Obama Backs Defending Borders
Chronicles readers might assume President Obama and his administration favor open borders. Not true. From an actual news story in the Wall Street Journal: āMr. Kerry repeated demands that Russia-backed separatists pull back their troops and heavy weapons and that Moscow seal its side of the border.ā Itās part of the dissolution of what used...
Richard Holbrooke: An American Diplomat
Ā A few hours before Richard Holbrookeās death last Monday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a group of Americaās top diplomats gathered at the State Department for a Christmas party that he was āpractically synonymous with American foreign policy.ā Her assessment is correct: Richard Holbrookeās career embodies some of the least attractive traits of...
In the Beginning
If it is true that the Constitution of the United States is to be construed by its intent rather than by mysterious and highly malleable forces of “evolution,” then recovery of the intellectual context out of which it arose is of the highest priority. However, the discovery of intent is primarily a question of historical...
Joe Manchin: Racist or Profile in Courage
In 1859, Abraham Lincoln related the tale of an Eastern monarch who charged his wise men with discovering words that would everywhere and always be true. The wise men went away and returned to present the monarch with this six-word sentence: “And this, too, shall pass away.” So, the question: How long will Sen. Joe...
Will There Always Be an England?
Recent events raise the question whether an England that has imported so many different peoples of the world is still recognizable.
Organized Coercion
Ā The more it changes, the more it’s the same, hmmm? In this present instance, meaning our country’s seemingly fresh-scented wrangle over union power. The scent isn’t fresh at all, nor is the wrangle. The arguments are old, the question at stake is old: namely, when is the public interest served by giving organized coercion...
The GOPās Secret Weapon
If the war with Iraq was largely the work of the Likudnik faction that has commandeered the Bush administrationās Middle East policies, the liberation of Liberia on which the President suddenly embarked the nation last summer seems to have originated at least in part with yet another lobby of questionable loyalties.Ā On July 7, as...
Books in Brief
Open Every Door: Mary Mottley-Mme. Marie de Tocqueville, by Sheila Le Sueur, translated by Claudine Martin-Yurth (Mesa, AZ: Dandelion Books, 340 pp., $26.95).Ā Alexis de Tocquevilleās wife was Mary Mottley, an Englishwoman.Ā His biographers have never written more than a couple of sentences about her.Ā This is regrettable because Mary was an extraordinary woman, because...
Modern Elections and Heads of Households
What makes voting for your ruler a legitimate practice? Jean-Jacques Gore prattled nonstop throughout November about the need for “every vote to count” because then, and only then, would the “will of the people” be expressed. And Republicans offered no real counterargument, other than the sage comment of (President?) Bush: “We’ve counted the votes; now...
Obamaās Biden Problem
Despite our high expectations, Vice President Joe Bidenās first months in office were disappointing. This, remember, is the man who opened the more recent of his two futile runs for the presidency by saying of Obama that he was āthe first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I...
The First Debate: Advantage, Clinton
The debate was not a hands-down victory for Hillary Clinton, as the media pack predictably claims, but on Monday night Donald Trump missed a great opportunity to damage her credibility and question her record. For that reason she has grounds to feel pleased with the outcome. Clinton was the first to mention Wall Street, but...
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Paradox
I was delighted in the fall of 1992 to discover a new VJ on MTV, named Kennedy, who declared herself a Republican during her first week on the air under friendly questioning from a fellow VJ. Asked whom she was voting for, she said “Bush/Quayle” with a smileāshe was proud not only of the Bush...
Critic’s Choice
Like any civilized society, America reveres its artists. Unfortunately, in this as in most other things, we tend to go overboard. Consequently, we are all too often subjected to the spectacle of a ludicrous buffoon like Gore Vidal on national television pontificating on public policy questions, or a Norman Mailerāa man who once stabbed one...
The Politics of Air Strikes
To bomb or not to bomb?Ā As I write, that is the question being debated in the Palace of Westminster.Ā The Conservative government, predictably enough, is itching to join the attacks on ISIS in Syria.Ā Prime Minister David Cameron says we cannot leave it to France and America to obliterate terrorists in the Middle East...
Mass Illegal Migration Makes Us Sicker, Not Stronger
The Biden administrationās chaotic, illegal approach to immigration prioritizes importation of people with questionable health records over the well-being of U.S. citizens.
Observations After Ten Years
The questions I ask myself from time to time are: What is the Ingersoll Milling Machine Company doing with its own philanthropic organization? What does Ingersoll have to do with philanthropy at all? We are engaged in a highly technical international machinery business, which is extremely demanding because of surging technology, because there are competitors...
A Zeitgeist of Another Color
Among the many questions about the new presidency of George. Bush with which the lips of Washington were afroth this spring was whether Lee Atwater is for real. The thirty-seven-year-old head of the Republican National Committee who made the name of Willie Horton as familiar to American households as the Domino’s Pizza gremlin is one...
Come and Gone
Ross Perot had come and gone before a monthly magazine had time to take him seriously-another victory for long deadlines and broad views. Many of our friends and colleagues nearly sprained their ankles hopping onto the Perot bandwagon, but I could never work up any enthusiasm for someone whose stock answer to the big questions...
A Pretense of Knowledge
In recent years, there has been a spate of valuable books on Soviet espionage, subversion, and penetration of the Westābooks inspired or prompted by the opening of Soviet secret files, the publication of the Venona intercepts (communications between Soviet agents and Moscow), and the writings of former KGB officials. Among these are Stephen Koch’s Double...
Gay Marriage in the Dock
In the 2012 election, same-sex marriage made gains at the ballot box for the first timeāhowever narrowlyāin all four states where āmarriage equalityā was presented to the voters for decision.Ā Have the American people been successfully fooled? Maybe the more germane question is, Are large numbers of the American people self-deceived about homosexuality?Ā We must...
Marxism and Its Guardian
“Long promise and short observance is the road that leads to the sure triumph.” ā Dante Inequality under socialismāor under putative socialismāremains largely unknown and barely underĀ stood in the West even by the educated public. If by now the political practices of countries insisting on being called socialist (sometimes even democratic) are better grasped,...
The Treasury of Virtue
From the December 1991 issue of Chronicles. “Contrary to widespread belief, evidence is accumulating that Western democracy is in continuous and serious decline,” writes Claes Ryn in the opening of this eloquent, concise, and hard-hitting manifesto that goes immediately to the heart of our times. “Many commentators proclaim democracy’s triumph over evil political forces in...
An Albanian Travelogue
Ā Iāve just returnedĀ from Albania, almost 22 years after visiting that country for the first time. In July 1991 I went there on an assignment withĀ U.S. News & World Report, only weeks after the countryās borders were finally opened to foreigners after 45 years of hermetic isolation. I have visited many countries over the years,...
A Moment of Anticipation
Are we tired of winning yet? This is the question Donald Trump kept telling us weād be asking ourselves if he succeeded in taking the White Houseāand I have to confess the answer is an emphatic āNo!ā Join me on a journey through the past, when the editors of Chronicles and the friends and followers...
Tongues of Fire: Americaās Phony Immigration Religion
We now add immigration amnesty to the arsenal of styrofoam clubs Republicans use for beating Democrats and driving voters to the polls.Ā āWe need immigration reform,ā so we hear, ābut the President has violated the Constitution!ā For most Republicans, the āpath to citizenshipā is not a question of āif,ā but of āwhen.āĀ They talk of...
Re: It’s All Over/Facebook IPO
Ā Tom, the Facebook IPO went about how I predicted it would. I’d been trying to figure out how to short Facebook out of the gate, because it simply seemed obvious that Facebook’s business model cannot, in the long run, support even the $38 opening price (and perhaps not even in the short run). Zuckerberg...
Bidenās Master Airbrushers in the Media
On July 21, President Joe Biden held a townhall in Cincinnati, taking questions from gushingly friendly CNN ājournalists.ā The room in which he spoke was half empty. From all appearances,Ā Biden confirmed the suspicions of his criticsĀ that he is failing mentally and that what his āadvisersā told him to say parroted the views of the left...
If My Daddy Could See Me Now
September 11, 2001, we are often told, āchanged everything.āĀ In Washington, D.C., and Baghdad, Iraq, that may have been true.Ā President George W. Bush and a handful of his advisors, who had been itching for a fight with Iraq since before the inauguration, now saw their opening.Ā It would take another year and a half...
A Pacified Globe
If Ted Williams bats third in the Red Sox lineup on opening day at Bostonās Fenway Park in A.D. 2115, then Peter Augustine Lawlerās worst nightmare will have been realized. Lawler, a professor of government at Berry College in Georgia, has written Aliens in America as a jeremiad against the brave new biotech revolution that...
Pre-election Scandals Disappear Down Media Rabbit Hole
Whereād everybody go? Whatever happened to the Jeffrey Epstein case? Traces of the Durham Report, which was investigating those who manufactured the story of Russian interference in the 2016 election, seem to have also disappeared from view. Or what about Hunter Biden? His laptop full of secrets and the possible corrupt practices of his father,...
Trump & the PressāA Death Struggle
Alerting the press that he would deal with the birther issue at the opening of his new hotel, the Donald, after treating them to an hour of tributes to himself from Medal of Honor recipients, delivered. “Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. . . . President Barack...
Environmentalism, Culture, and Politics
The following remarks are excerpted and arranged from a series of letters exchanged between Ed Marston, publisher of the environmentalist newspaper in Paonia, Colorado, High Country News, and Chilton Williamson, Jr., of Chronicles, in response to questions posed by Mr. Williamson during January and February 1996. Does a traditional Western culture exist today, and are...