As a new subscriber to Chronicles, I was drawn to Chilton Williamsonās reply to Mr. Patterson in the December issue (āStart Somewhere,ā Polemics & Exchanges).Ā He wrote that āideology by definition is silly.āĀ It made me recall my late Austrian friend, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn. Mr. Williamson may be aware of Erikās 1981 article, āThe Portland...
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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...
Tea Party Tory
Before the Tea Party philosophy is ever even tested in America, it will have succeeded, or it will have failed, in Great Britain. For in David Cameron the Brits have a prime minister who can fairly be described as a Tea Party Tory. Casting aside the guidance of Lord Keynesāgovernment-induced deficits ...
Liberalism: Collectivist and Conservative
From the July 1989 issue of Chronicles. I never exchanged a word with Richard Weaver. I knew him because he was a figure at the University of Chicago. I heard that he was a teacher who expected his students to meet a high standard of intellectual probity and rigor; I think that he expected the...
Plausible Deniability: The U.S. Assassination Program
Mercenary (Mer-cen-ar-y): Adjective (of a person or their [sic] behavior): Primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics; Noun: A professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army; Synonyms: adjective venal; noun hireling soldier of fortune Assassin (As-sas-sin): Noun 1. A murderer of an important person in a surprise attack for political...
Scouting and Sin
The Boy Scouts of America have recently been accused of sins against Democracy, in the form of discrimination against atheists, homosexuals, and women. Four recent lawsuits have challenged the organizational prerogatives of the Scouts. The families of nine-year-old twins Michael and William Randall of Anaheim, California, and eight-year-old Mark Welsh of Chicago are suing to...
The Christian Condition
“Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the Mysteries of God.” āThomas Ć Kempis This is, in fact, a book about two men, since, due to his strong personality and his close relationship to Georges Bernanos, the author plays an important part in it. “I wanted...
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...
Complaint Department
Americans complain endlessly about income taxes. And yet we hardly ever reflect on the heart of the matter: that even if every tax dollar were wisely spent, the very principle of the income tax is unfair. The purpose of taxes is to pay for government. In exchange for taxes we get highways, soldiers, and diplomats....
The Shameless Son
Jared Kushner should be ashamed of himself for his blatant, unfathomable, and utĀterly unacceptable profiteering from his faĀther-in-lawās presidency. But shame is a word unknown to the 45th presidentās son-in-law.
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....
Republics Ancient and Postmodern: From Rome to America
That Trump is a would-be dictator has been a recurring narrative on the left for nearly a decade nowāand so has the wish that he would be done away with, by one means or anotherāeven violence, if necessary.
Europeās Uncrowned Leader
āTotal German triumph as EU minnows subjugated,ā The Daily Telegraph headlines a report by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard on Chancellor Angela Merkelās latest diktat. Whoever wants credit must fulfill our conditions, she declared. Her conditions amount to capitulation by three vulnerable states on core policies, and further erosion of sovereignty for the rest of the eurozone. For...
Let the Kids Play Despite COVID
Even as COVID-19 vaccines keep rolling out in the millions, the fearmongering of the American media continues unabated. A recent CNN article instructs parents on āWhat to do if youāre vaccinated but your kids arenāt.ā While the Pfizer vaccine is authorized for people 16 and older, the other vaccines are only approved for those 18...
The Litmus Test for American Conservatism
Abraham Lincoln is thought of by many as not only the greatest American statesman but as a great conservative. He was neither. Understanding this is a necessary condition for any genuinely American conservatism. When Lincoln took office, the American polity was regarded as a compact between sovereign states which had created a central government as...
Coming Home
āThe people who go to St. Stanās arenāt Polish; theyāre Polish-American.āĀ Those words, blurted without thinking, have haunted me for almost a decade and a half.Ā Anna Mycek-Wodecki, then art director of Chronicles, was a true Pole.Ā Like Leopold Tyrmand, the founder of Chronicles, she was a refugee from communism.Ā Unlike Tyrmand, she was ethnically...
The Tiger, the Lion, and the Old Man
A day like today reminds you of how you got here, of the struggle, of the good in your lifeāand of a tiger, a lion, and an old man. The sun shines stark white, shimmering in a way that reminds you that it is a star, technically a yellow dwarf, but it seems not so...
āBetter Than Balkanā: Blood Against the Levelers
Ā Ā Ā Ā āExsilioque domos et dulcia limina mutant, Atque alio patriam quaerunt sub sole iacentem.ā āVirgil, Georgics II.511-12 Honestly, why bother any more?Ā If there is any unifying theme in the scribblings of genuine, bona-fide American conservatives, it is that our country is lost, whether to whoremongers or warmongersāor both.Ā Drum sets in...
Reagan’s Rhetoric
It may well be indicative of real progress in America that we are now able to read the Presidential speeches of a man that leading commentators frequently declared unelectable a decade ago. But now that Ronald Reagan’s electability is established beyond doubt, the national media have been busy tagging him as the “most ideological” of...
MoralityāTrotskyite vs. Christian
Did Hitlerās crimes justify the Alliesā terror-bombing of Germany? Indeed they did, answers Christopher Hitchens in his Newsweek response to my new book, Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War: āThe stark evidence of the Final Solution has ever since been enough to dispel most doubts about, say, the wisdom or morality of carpet-bombing German cities.ā...
The Guantanamo Question
Who should determine whether alien enemy combatants captured in Iraq and Afghanistan are properly in the custody of the U.S. government at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay?Ā The President and Congress have set up special military tribunals to make such determinations, but some federal judges and some critics of President George W. Bush...
North and South
The proprietor of the restaurant MāāAāā, known as āRicotta,ā likes to share with his intimate friendsāfor the most part fecund, avuncular family men who, between them, did upward of a thousand years in the high-security Section 2 of the cityās thistle-shaped Ucciardone jail, awaiting trial on accusations of various victimless crimes, usually involving government building...
A Great Perhaps
āI am going to seek a great perhaps . . . ā āFranƧois Rabelais Saleās theme is the restoration of āhuman scaleā in all our works: architectural, political, economic, educational, and technological.Ā His thesis is that only radical decentralization can achieve this aim.Ā Sale first ventured into this territory with a book called Human Scale,...
Fascism, Real and Imagined
A personal and national narrative of resistance to globalism Twenty years ago I somehow managed to get my act together and get out of Paris, where I had haunted a cheap hotel for a year in the wake of the death of Princess Diana like the ghost of the Marlon Brando character in Last Tango...
California Dreaming
You never know what Lady Fortuna has in store for you next. Having quit collegeāafter all, I knew what I wanted to do, and didnāt need lessons from some hippie in how to do itāI was shuttling between New York City and my parentsā house in the suburbs.Ā I was 19, aimless, and living at...
Being Bill O’Reilly
Some celebrities seem born with a natural star power that radiates from them like an angelic halo. Alcibiades had this kind of “charisma” that made him adored even by people who disliked him. To be a celebrity, as Willy Loman would say, it is not enough to be liked: You must be well liked. Musicians...
Chief Target
Hispanic voters remain the chief target of GOP strategists, at least in Texas.Ā In the wake of Republican Orlando Sanchezās December 1 runoff loss to Houstonās incumbent black mayor, Lee BrownāSanchez garnered 48 percent of the vote to Brownās 52 percentānews media and Republican apparatchiki were busy gushing about the growing electoral weight of āHispanicā...
Myths About Cuba Persist on the Left and Right
Recent debates over what to do about Cuba remain afflicted by myths, many going back to the origins of the Castrosā Communist regime. There have generally been two conflicting accounts of how this regime was established and its relation to the Cuban past, and both may need to be corrected. Some of the most childish...
The Trump Taps: The Surveillance State in Action
President Donald Trump has a habit of commenting (or tweeting) on topics that ātriggerā globalismās minions in the main stream media. In knee jerk fashion, the MSM will throw a hissy fit over a Trumpian remark, claiming the president is making baseless claims, that he ācites no evidenceā (a habit they should be familiar with)...
New Blood
The modern age has known many false prophets who have challenged the moral and spiritual beliefs of the Christian faith. Although churchmen have not always been vigilant in defense of traditional religion, one institution able to resist the secularizing trends of the 19th and 20th century has been the Catholic Church. But it has not...
ImmigrationāIssue of the Century
“Trump’s immigration proposals are as dangerous as they are stunning,” railed amnesty activist Frank Sharry. “Trump . . . promises to rescind protections for Dreamers and deport them. He wants to redefine the constitutional definition of U.S. citizenship as codified by the 14th Amendment. He plans to impose a moratorium on legal immigration.” While Sharry...
Factualism
Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film by Erik Barnouw; Oxford University Press; New York. Cinema in our society serves, for the most part, to entertain. This is not to deny the existence of training filmsāeducational tools, which are served by a sizable industryābut to take note of the fact that the cinema is almost...
From Health Care to Discrimination
As we try to improve our lives with a national health care plan we must not forget the “law of unintended consequences” to which Robert Merton alerted us in 1936. Two examples illustrate the danger. Few people foresaw that federal support for poor mothers with dependent children would contribute to the breakup of black families,...
Zia
There is a point along New Mexico Route 6, on the edge of the West Mesa of the Rio Grande, from which as you look east the whole of the river valley between Albuquerque and Socorroāa distance of about 120 milesāappears, backed by the Sandia, the Manzanos, and the Pinos mountains. Obscured by the bosque...
Up in Smoke?
The Texas Aggiesāwell, let’s just say few other student bodies resemble them in unified outlook or devotion to tradition. That may well change. The hammer of conformity, of homogenization, has been heard banging on the Aggies’ door since the bonfire debacle. The debacle was bad enough: a dozen Aggies killed in the collapse of the...
The Okie From Oildale
A boyhood pastime when I was growing up was building radios.Ā We did it in Cub Scouts and again, at a more sophisticated level, in Boy Scouts.Ā Various kits were available, but we all started with a simple crystal set.Ā It seemed almost magical that with a few components, essentially wire and a crystal, and...
The Pentagonās New Wonder Weapons for World Dominion
Mongol airships fire disintegrator rays to destroy America. (Buck Rodgers, 2429 A.D., 2-9-1929, Roland N. Anderson Collection) [This piece has been adapted and expanded from Alfred W. McCoyās new book, In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power.] Not quite a century ago, on January 7, 1929, newspaper...
Voyage to Albion
Englishness may be coming back into fashion.Ā After the union of the English and Scottish crowns and the foundation of modern Britain in 1603, the idea of Englishness was increasingly submerged in, and confused with, the idea of Britishness.Ā It now looks as if the English may be becoming self-conscious again.Ā Three centuries of outward-looking...
Class Acts
There is a kind of unity in Sam Shepard’s careerāas dramatist and actorāthat seems the result more of art than of chance. A new staging of his 1977 play Curse of the Starving Class gives us a rare opportunity to look back. Bradley Whitford, who plays the son Wesley, even looks like a younger Sam...
Embracing Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence has become an increasingly prominent presence in our lives, stirring both awe and apprehension.
Books and Lovers
Back in 1839, an Englishman by the name of Alexander Walker wrote a manual by the name of Woman, in which he quoted Hume: āAmong the inferior creatures, nature herself, being the supreme legislator, prescribes all the laws which regulate their marriages, and varies those laws according to the different circumstances of the creature.āĀ So...
Hazardous Do-Overs
Seconds (1966) Produced by Joel Productions; Directed by John Frankenheimer; Screenplay by Lewis John Carlino, adapted from a novel by David Ely; Distributed by Paramount Pictures The Art of Self-Defense Produced by Andrew Kortschak; Directed and written by Riley Stearns; Distributed by Bleecker Street After Life Produced, written, and directed by Ricky Gervais; Distributed by...
Nixon, LBJ & the First Shots in the Judges’ War
The Democrats’ drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Courtāa war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson. By June 1968, Nixon, having swept his primaries, was cruising to the nomination and...
Eine Kleiber Ist GenugāNicht
When Carlos Kleiber died in 2004, the world didnāt find it out until he had been gone for six days.Ā The elusive maestro/uncanny conductor had escaped the exploitative notice of the press for one last time.Ā There were the predictable reactions to the passing of the mystery man, but there was a difficulty in comparisons,...
After Iraq
As soon as the long-anticipated war with Iraq has been brought to a temporary close, the United States will be able to get on with the post-September 11 agenda declared by President Bush: the eradication of evil.Ā Even a minimal definition of evil would include the acts of terrorism inflicted every day by Islamic extremists...
A Forgotten Centennial: The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Last week saw one-hundredth anniversary of an event which greatly impacted the destinies of Europe and America for decades to come. It passed unnoticed by the media. On March 3, 1918, the Bolsheviks signed a peace treaty with the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk. Far from sealing the Kaiserreichās historic triumph in the East, its brutal...
Craft and the Craftsman
When Charles Causley’s Collected Poems was published in 1975, reviewers in American magazines generally praised his work but somehow managed to relegate him to the limbo of minor poets. By focusing on his mastery of the ballad, they may have given the impression of a Johnny One-Note who, in his idiosyncratic disregard for the main...
The Madness of King Joe
Six ways Joe Biden has demonstrated his affinity for authoritarianism and his corresponding contempt for the American people.
Books in Brief: September 2023
Short reviews of Tearing Us Apart, by Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis, and Dollars for Life, by Mary Ziegler.
Manifest Incompetence
The spying of CIA operative Aldrich Hazen Ames and his wife Maria del Rosario Casas Amesāwho have been accused by the FBI of working for the Soviets and later the Russiansāis significant for reasons that have escaped the Establishment press. Republican Senator Dole and Democratic Senator DeConcini and many others should think twice before denouncing...