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Parents Need to Reject Kamala and Tampon Tim
Parents who care about their childrenās innocence and future, should not support Harris and her anti-parent running mate in November.
Peace in the Holy Land, Elusive as Ever
A year ago, the prospects for peace in Israel-Palestine appeared more promising than at any other time after Bill Clintonās failed Camp David initiative in 2000.Ā Arafatās death in November 2004 had removed a major cause of Palestinian corruption and incoherence, as well as the justification for Israelās refusal to accept direct talks.Ā Mahmoud Abbasā...
From There to HereāAnd Back Again
“All great peoples are conservative; slow to believe in novelties; patient of much error in actualities; deeply and forever certain of the greatness that is in law, in custom once solemnly established, and now no longer recognized as just and final.” āThomas Carlyle As the Clintons’ socialist steamroller grinds out new programs, new entitlements, higher...
A Constant Plague
Immigration problems continue to plague Europe. In France the Front National is finally fed up with the Gaullist right, which expects the support of the and-immigrant nationalists but treats them with contempt. Jacques Chirac is alarmed enough to begin borrowing the Front National’s rhetoric. When the Prime Minister, ditzy socialist Edith Cresson, called for a...
Politics and Civilization
William Pfaff, syndicated political columnist for the International Herald Tribune (Paris), is probably the most perceptive writer in the world today on European affairs, particularly as they affect and are affected by American policy. He is not as much of a political philosopher as some others, like Jacques Ellul and the late Bertrand de Jouvenel,...
Mr. Trump: America Doesnāt Need Tiny, Corrupt Montenegro in NATO
During the presidential campaign Donald Trump horrified the bipartisan foreign policy mandarinate by suggesting that NATO was āobsoleteā and useless against the only real threat faced by Europe: the massive influx of violent Muslims applauded by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the āEuSSRā bureaucracy in Brussels, and the Obama Administration. Trump also indicated that Americaās treaty...
Progress in the Sands
āThe mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.ā āWilliam McKinley What sets Sands of Empire apart from the growing list of books scrutinizing the Bush administrationās foreign policy is its philosophical ambition.Ā Where other authors have contented themselves with estimating the neoconservative influence on Americaās strategic posture or describing the nationās slouch...
Washing Onto the Pages
A new word, “hazing,” has washed onto the pages of the Soviet press with the wave of glasnost. It denotes the harassment, oppression, and humiliation suffered by new conscripts, “greenhorns,” at the hands of “grandfathers”āthe Soviet term for soldiers who are nearing the end of their conscription term. The subject was broached by Yuri Polyakov...
City of God
For better or worse, British religious writer Karen Armstrong is rapidly becoming a publishing phenomenon. Partly because of the demographics of an aging baby boom, religious books are becoming a very hot item on the best-seller charts, ranging from reports of cuddly angels who allegedly guard our steps, through the pour Ć©pater les bourgeois efforts...
A Southern Legacy
In all Eastern Orthodox Churches, this troparion or prayer is spoken or sung frequently in worship: āO Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance.Ā Grant victories to the Orthodox Christians over their adversaries; and by virtue of Thy Cross, preserve Thy habitation.ā This ancient prayer was, one might say, a ānational anthemā that was...
Obama on Foreign Policy: A Mysterious Work in Progress
The central theme of Sen. Barack Obamaās campaign for the presidency has been his call for āchangeāāalbeit often with few details about the nature of that change.Ā There is certainly a pressing need for change in U.S. foreign policy.Ā During the Cold War, Washingtonās strategy led to security free-riding by allies and clients, caused the...
Did Trump Goad and Guide the Pipe Bomber?
By Thursday, the targets of the mailed pipe bombs had risen to nine: George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Maxine Waters, John Brennan, Eric Holder, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Joe Biden and Robert De Niro. That list contains four of the highest-ranking officials of Barack Obama’s administration: the president himself, his vice president, his secretary of...
Nazis and Other Delusions: A Response to Hoppe
Recently, VDARE.com published Hans Hermann Hoppeās 2010 address to his Property and Freedom Society in Turkey. Hoppeās speech included his account of the 1996 meeting of the John Randolph Club, the last at which there was an organized libertarian presence, and a broader attack on the ideas of Pat Buchanan and Sam Francis. Hoppeās account...
‘Civil War’ Shows American Divisions Through a Glass, Darkly
Civil War centers around an imagined conflict within America set in a disturbingly near future or an alternate present.
Hillary Clintonās Arrogant Posturing
Ā Speaking in Dublin last Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that a new effort was under way by āoppressive governmentsā to āre-Sovietizeā Eastern Europe and Central Asia. She took a stab at Russia and her regional allies for their alleged crackdown on democracy and human rights, only hours ahead of meeting Russiaās foreign...
Orwell in Chains
George Orwellās āPolitics and the English Languageā remains a lighthouse, the beam sweeping past the scene for a moment of blinding illumination before passing on to darkness.Ā Though Orwell enjoined us against clichĆ©, Hamletās āMore honoured in the breach than the observanceā applies: Everybody lauds Orwell, but few appear to have read him.Ā And of...
The Geopolitics of Coronavirus
āNothing will ever be the same again!ā The clichĆ© is invoked whenever people think they are facing an event of metahistorical significance. Sometimes its use is justified: Sarajevo 1914, the Bolshevik Revolution, Hiroshima, and the fall of the Berlin Wall fit the phrase. More often it is not. Versailles 1919, JFKās assassination, Neil Armstrongās āgiant...
The Soldier’s Soldier
At 9:40 p.m. on Friday, October 23, 1942, the night sky on the Egyptian coast west of Alexandria was suddenly lit by three red flares, followed, a moment later, by the unearthly screech of 882 phosphorus-shell launchers and other heavy-artillery pieces coming to life.Ā The guns lined up virtually wheel to wheel, one every seven...
Passion in Private
Over the last ten years, A.N. Wilson has been compared to the great 20th-century English satirists: Waugh, Amis, and Barbara Pym. Now that he is in the process of writing a trilogy, it was inevitable that some critic would add to these the name of Anthony Powell. Of course, publishers like to compare the work...
#CallMeMilton
Like most individuals my age who have both X and Y chromosomes and a conventionally male sexual organ, I was assigned a specific identity at birth.Ā I obviously had no choice in the matter, though I can hardly blame the delivery-room doctor or my parents, since, in those benighted days, even the most enlightened members...
Has the Day of the Islamist Arrived?
Ā Sixteen months after the United States abandoned its loyal satrap of 30 years, President Hosni Mubarak, to champion democracy in Egypt, the returns are in. Mohammed Morsi, candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, is president of Egypt, while the military has dissolved the elected parliament that was dominated by the Brotherhood, and curbed his powers....
A More Perfect Union
In Pursuit is a philosophical exegesis on what is wrong with contemporary social policy analysis. In some ways it is a sequel to Murray’s Losing Ground, having much in common with Part IV (Rethinking Social Policy) of that influential book. Though this is a more enterprising work, it is also a less successful one, leaving...
Deep History
As I read the announcement and noted with admiration those receiving The Ingersoll Prizes, I can say in all humility that it never entered my head during the past several years that I might someday be so honored, and for that I thank you. I thank you also for the opportunity to make the following...
Screen
Goodbye, Peter Pan The Big Chill; Directed by Lawrence Kasdan It is unique in that it has something for virtually everyone to hate. Consider the characters, all eight. They are the types of people that our parents warned us about in the late 60’s and early 70’s: not the drug pushers who lurked behind bushes,...
A Brief History of Food
In 1960, novelist John Steinbeck circled the country in a pickup truck with a standard-bred poodle named Charley in a sort of cultural vision quest.Ā What he found was not always a pretty sight. His observations, published as Travels With Charley: In Search of America, included the prediction that his fellow Californians would lose the...
That Hideous Absolutism
To the modern mind, religion and magic are related.Ā Both are based on superstition, and both have been proved false by science.Ā C.S. Lewis thought otherwise: Magic is more closely related to science.Ā Both function as alternatives to religion, both lack skepticism, and, most importantly, both desire to control the world.Ā Science, not religion, is...
Meditations at Ft. Lauderdale Airport
I arrived at the Ft. Lauderdale airport to a line at the Spirit Airline ticket counter so long that I didnāt even contemplate whether to wait.Ā My flight to Laguardia wasnāt until 3:20 P.M., and it was only 11:00 A.M., so, after a leisurely lunch, I dropped my bags off and decided to look for...
The Empire Strikes Back
Prosecutors pick the person or target and then go searching for the crime. Trump supporters are the latest most glaring example of this inversion of justice, which if often called "lawfare."
The Language of Literature
“Poets who lasting marble seek Should carve in Latin or in Greek.” When I last quoted those lines of Edmund Waller, I was put down as a hopeless reactionary trying to restore Latin as the language of literature. In the case of the conservative journalist who missed the point, it would have been enough to...
Lonesome No More
All literary genres have their loyalists, but few have more devotedāand querulousāreaders than the Western. So when in the mid-1980’s rumors began to circulate that Larry McMurtry, hitherto known for his angst-ridden tales of modern Texas, was at work on an epic oater, shoot-’em-up fans began looking for a noose, sure that the bespectacled belletrist...
Ukraine and the Daunting, Haunting Rites of Spring
Events in Ukraine cannot help but remind observers of the haunting events of the spring of 1914.
Kennedy Catholicism
The indifference of Catholic elected officials to Church teachings is so common that it rarely attracts attention, but there are occasional exceptions.Ā When at least five fervently pro-abortion politicians took Communion at papal Masses this April, from the hands of the Popeās representative to the United States, even the New York Times and the Washington...
Revolting Parasites
Movements are always based on lies, and the lies begin with the titles and slogans that are chosen to advance āthe cause.āĀ Here in the United States, so-called liberals are really nonrevolutionary Marxists, while the people who call themselves conservatives are, at one extreme, libertarian capitalists who reject any principle or experience that cannot be...
Trumpās Global Vision and Challenges
Translated excerpts from Srdja Trifkovicās latest interview with the RTRS (the Bosnian-Serb Republic public media service).Ā [Video] Q: Thereās a whole host of generals among Trumpās appointees. Is he creating a junta? ST: First of all, we should differentiate between political generals and true soldiers. Men like Wesley Clark and Colin Powell, or even David Petraeus,...
The Voice of Democracy
āDemocracy Dies in Darkness,ā declares the Washington Post.Ā With apologies to Alexis de Tocqueville, I reply: Doesnāt something have to live first before it can die? There is one great advantage to the ongoing, interminable, and farcical āRussia investigationā that grips the Establishment and those who choose to be entertained daily by Americaās mass media.Ā ...
Has the Trumpian Revolution Begun?
The wailing and keening over the choice of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the EPA appears to be a lead indicator of a coming revolution far beyond Reagan’s. “Trump Taps Climate Skeptic For Top Environmental Post,” said the Wall Street Journal. “Climate Change Denial,” bawled a disbelieving New York Times, which urged the...
Cherished Void
From the July 1995 issue of Chronicles. Gene Roddenberry was a hustling ex-cop who wanted to strike it rich in television, and he did, with a series called Star Trek, which he once described (before his slide into self-mythicizing and lucrative licensing deals) as “Wagon Train To the Stars.” His public image has heretofore been...
Witchfinder: The Strange Career of Morris Dees
The trial, conviction, and death sentence of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995, passed quietly this year, far more quietly than most reporters and some political leaders wanted. The main reason for the calmness of the McVeigh proceedings was probably the utterly uninteresting mind, character, and personality of the defendant....
Beware of Mexicans Bearing Drugs
What is the Mexican drug war but a parable for our times?Ā Here is the blighted and poisoned fruit of the very policies that our rulers promised us would bring growth and development, prosperity and peace, justice and the rule of law to the whole world.Ā Those policies were free trade, unregulated capital and labor...
Phil Ochs and the Old Prof
Every student radical at Granada Hills High School showed up before firstperiod class on the morning of October 12, 1969ābut we didn’t stay long. Charged with excitement and righteousness, two dozen or so junior longhairs, freaks, yippies, and hippies formed a ragged line and marched past the classroom buildings, past the school gates, and onward...
Life in the Happy Valley
My friend Dr. Bob grew up in a coal town called Packard in eastern Kentucky, a place that was abandoned years ago. All that is left these days is kudzu growing over old foundations. He’s a neurosurgeon in Louisville now, and an amateur Kentucky historian, and my favorite tale of his is about the blue...
National Religion
Americans are a people of deeply held religious conviction.Ā If any has doubts, let him look on the most serious of our sacred holidays and believe. Naturally, it is a federal holiday, but that fact alone does not convey the magnitude of this special day.Ā For, unlike other federal holidays, this one carries with it...
A Number of Requests
Our “Letters From Prison“ (Correspondence, May 1992) elicited a number of requests for an update. The letter ended with “Frank,” a 26-year-old black man imprisoned in Illinois, in solitary confinement at a medium-security prison. He had been placed in isolation for his own protection, because the gang he had once belonged to, the Black Gangster...
America and France Turn Right
In Sunday’s first-round of regional elections in France, the clear and stunning winner was the National Front of Marine Le Pen. Her party rolled up 30 percent of the vote, and came in first in 6 of 13 regions. Marine herself won 40 percent of her northeast district. Despite tremendous and positive publicity from his...
Is Seattle Dying?
Not long ago, I found myself sitting one sunny Friday afternoon in the Unity Museum in Seattle, notebook in hand, as a group of fresh-faced college undergraduates participated in a debate over whether or not their city is dying. The general conclusion of the affair and the grim message of the students was that it...
Thereās More Where That Came From
When I first heard chamber music, it seemed an acquired taste, and subsequently a taste I acquired.Ā So I will recite some personal history without any illusion that it matters because it was my experience.Ā On the contrary: I think the story I know could be related to everyoneās exploration of music, because however you...
The Liberal Stampede to ‘Abolish ICE’
“No Borders! No Nations! No Deportations!” “Abolish ICE!” Before last week, these were the mindless slogans of an infantile left, seen on signs at rallies to abolish ICE, the agency that arrests and deports criminal aliens who have no right to be in our country. By last week, however, “Abolish ICE!” was no longer the...
Western āColonialism,ā Israel, and Anti-Semitism
What really explains the repeated historical periods of hostility toward Israel and the Jews.
To See the World and Man
Truthfulness and rationality are essential priorities in the discussion of public issues. Only by renouncing the strait jacket of ideology can we begin to see the world and man.