Before President Trump trashes the Iran nuclear deal, he might consider: If he could negotiate an identical deal with Kim Jong Un, it would astonish the world and win him the Nobel Peace Prize. For Iran has no nuclear bomb or ICBM and has never tested either. It has never enriched uranium to bomb grade....
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Holding On to a Culture
For a political party that celebrates diversity, it is certainly an odd choice.Ā The Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party of Minnesota, like the Democrats nationwide, has celebrated its role in promoting multiculturalism and massive immigration.Ā Yet the ticket the DFL has nominated to run for governor and lieutenant governor this fallāState Senate Majority Leader Roger Moe and...
Who Is Sylvia? What Is She?
Unlike the situation of only a few decades ago, the position occupied today by women poets in American literary culture is so prominent, the range of their subjects and styles so wide, that it has become virtually impossible to make any generalizations about them or their work except to note that in diversity must lie...
Fruitless Grain
The great American story for at least 100 years has been a tale like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington or Hawthorne’s “My Kinsman Major Molineux”: the rube who comes to the city and loses his innocence. Like Jack in the fairy tale, we are eager to trade in the family cow for a chance to...
The Criminal Type
Iconoclasm is the poor man’s intellectualism. Challenge a traditional way of thinking and you can vault yourself instantly into the celebrity spotlight, with lucrative publishing deals, testimonies before congressional committees, and interviews on Good Morning America. Since the 1960’s the iconoclasts have held sway in the study of criminal behavior, ignoring important studies done in...
NR Trumped
National Reviewās February 15 number, āAgainst Trump,ā carries a leading editorial condemning the Republican presidential candidate as a man who āwould trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones.āĀ A subsequent article by Ramesh Ponnuru and Richard Lowry, āToward a Conservative Populism,ā effectively suggests a...
A Wrinkle in Time
I took the diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer (Stage 4) quite well, I thought.Ā Except for occasional bouts of hysterical self-pity and thankfully rare gestures of melodrama. Oh, Iād resisted it, denied it, although I knew all along that I had it.Ā I ignored the warnings of my hapless local doctors, and when I...
The Plight of the Homeless
In one of Douglas Adamsā very silly books, Zaphod Beeblebrox, the egocentric two-headed president of the universe, is condemned to undergo the ordeal of the Total Perspective Vortex.Ā It is an excruciating form of torture that exposes the criminal to a sense of the infinite size of the universe and his own small place in...
The New Conservation Movement
To mainstream environmental activists, Ron Arnold merits special disdain. A former Sierra Club conservation committee member, Arnold now runs, with associate Alan Gottlieb, the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise in Bellevue, Washington. Together they wrote a 1993 expose of the environmental movement, Trashing the Economy: How Runaway Environmentalism is Wrecking America, which remains...
The Maastricht Mystique
Even an expert must be mystified by the legal structures of the European Union Parliament and the European Commission. The EU Parliament has roughly 620 deputies, elected every five years from 15 Western European states. Voters from ElU countries have no decision over the election of other countries’ deputies to the EU Parliament. The president...
Election Year Smoke and Mirrors Magic from the LeftĀ Ā Ā Ā
A notable decline in the antics of far-left oddballs suggests theyāve received an order from on high to cool it.
Charlie, Christian, and the Bondage of Freedom
ā[R]eligion is apt to provide another loyaltyĀ than that claimed by the State . . . ā Ā Ā Ā Ā āT.S. Eliot Two Muslims brutally murdered some French cartoonists for blaspheming their holy man.Ā Have we learned something new from this? Yes, it turns out Muslimsāthe fundamentalist types, not many, but more than youād...
The Living Constitution and the Death of Sovereignty
As this is written, the United States and its NATO allies are bombing the Serbian forces of Slobodan Milosevic. This is the first offensive action for NATO, and the first time that jellied armed forces have been unleashed against a sovereign nation with which the United States is not formally at war without an express...
Hate the Sinner, Love the Sin
Ā Four-and-a-half months into Pope Francis’s pontificate, it’s become more than a little tiresome to hear both his admirers and his detractors compare him with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. “Benedict would never have done . . . ” rolls as easily off the lips of aging Call to Action types as it does off the...
When Mules Go Ballot Trafficking
Dinesh DāSouzaās 2000 Mules offers an intriguing, if depressing, look at a massively well-organized system of vote fraud apparently executed during the much-disputed 2020 election.
Of Baseball Bats and Tax Reform
The coming fight over tax reform highlights distinct and seemingly irreconcilable views of government. We might want to reflect on them, as the major players ready the armament: brass knuckles, baseball bats, Fox News and New York Times commentaries. The two warring views: 1. Government knows more than you do. 2. On many topics, you...
Quo Vadis Fidel
That enormously talented and courageous woman, Yoani Sanchez, summarized the meaning of the forthcoming April 2011 Conference Guidelines for the Communist Partyās Sixth Congress in her biting blog called Generation Y (November 9, 2010): not a single line refers to the expansion of civil rights, including the restrictions suffered by Cubans in entering and leaving...
Harley-Davidson Remains Woke
Social media skirmishes are never going to be enough to win the war on woke.
Holding the Pass
It has been ten years since the death, at his home in the village of Mecosta, Michigan, of Russell Kirk, author of The Conservative Mind and one of the main spokesmen for organized American conservatism as it was known throughout his life.Ā While there were other architects of conservatism who were Kirkās contemporaries, almost all...
Four Questions: Freddy Gray
The revolt against globalism is itself a worldwide phenomenon. Reporting for Chronicles from the United Kingdom is Freddy Gray, who also serves as the deputy editor of The Spectator, Britainās premier political magazine. As an observer who has worked in the United States and has family connections to France as well, Freddy is attentive not...
A Life Rediscovered
ISI Books, the publishing arm of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, is doing a great service by putting out the Lives of the Founders series, emphasizing āimportant but unjustly neglected figures of the American Founding.āĀ Leaving aside for a moment the problems inherent in thinking about the last quarter of the 18th century as an āAmerican...
Is Mitt on a Suicide Mission?
“It’s a suicide mission,” said the Republican Party Chairman. Reince Priebus was commenting on a Washington Post story about Mitt Romney and William Kristol’s plot to recruit a third-party conservative candidate to sink Donald Trump. Several big-name Republican “consultants” and “strategists” are said to be on board. Understandably so, given the bucks involved. With the...
A Pair of Charmers
There are two archetypes of the charming idler.Ā One, rather like myself, is likely to be unemployed de mĆ©tier.Ā The other drifts in and out of employment, trading on social connections, borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, pandering, dealing cocaine, walking dogs, selling Impressionist pictures, joining the Foreign Legion, working on a perpetuum mobile, discovering...
Slaviansk: Civilians Under Attack
Six-year-old Polina Sladkaya became the latest lodger of the Slaviansk morgue. She was killed on June 8 by a Ukrainian mortar shell. Everyone knows that morgue workers are not distressed by the sight of dead bodies, because of a natural coping mechanism. But even the morgue workers wept when they saw this blonde-haired toddler with...
What the Editors Are Reading: December 2020
Richard Holbrooke was the mostĀ shameless self-promoter in Washington D.C., a town that specialized in self-promotion, as George Packer writes inĀ Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century. He was a social climberĀ par excellence, a sycophant who embarrassed Barack Obama with his flattery to such an extent that he was banned from the...
Lieutenant Ramseyās War
Ed Ramsey never aspired to be a hero.Ā He was only 12 years old when his father committed suicide.Ā He was a natural-born hell-raiser; bootleg whiskey and fighting were his passions.Ā His mother thought the Oklahoma Military Academy might salvage him.Ā He loved horses and all things martial.Ā The academy had both. Ramsey thrived at...
Play It Again, Plum!
āIt has been well said of Bertram Wooster that though he may sink onto rustic benches and for a while give the impression of being licked into a custard, the old spirit will come surging back sooner or later.ā āP.G. Wodehouse, The Mating Season Robert McCrum demurs from critical comparisons of P.G. Wodehouse with the...
Utopian on the Dole
An afternoon’s reading of Bolo’Bolo by “P.M.” leaves the reader wondering what the New York State Council on the Arts is doing giving public money to Columbia University to publish such books. A futuristic Utopian tract, Bolo’Bolo is as inane as it is self-indulgent. Its author, P.M., a slave to every cliche of the untutored...
Unholy Dying
“In the midst of life we are in death.” The old Prayer X Book’s admonition has never been more true or less understood than it is today. Modern man, despite his refusal to consider his own mortality, is busily politicizing all the little decisions and circumstances that attend his departure. Death penalty statutes, abortion regulations,...
One Nation Divided
Since 1892, when the original text was composed, the Pledge of Allegiance has been revised three times.Ā Viewed chronologically, the alterations appear to have aimed at a greater specificity, but also a wider and deeper self-assurance.Ā The current text, dating from 1954, capitalizes āNationā and adds āunder God,ā as if the editors (a committee, no...
What We Are Reading: October 2021
Although H. L. Mencken could discern āno plot whateverā in Sinclair Lewisā Babbitt, he still praised the novel as āa social document of a high order.ā The 1922 classic mordantly sketches a bygone America and the paladins who made it run. Even today, the title characterās surname still mocks guileless Americans who conform unthinkingly to...
Moscow Rules
Spending the first three days of spring in snowy Moscow, especially after being in balmy Yalta and Sevastopol, is not my idea of fun.Ā It is useful, however, when you write on foreign affairs and thereās a first-rate crisis under way between āPutinās Russiaā and the West.Ā The overriding impression is that Moscow no longer...
Nostalgiaās Rearview Mirror
The Motorcycle Diaries Produced by South Fork Pictures Directed by Walter Salles Screenplay based on The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara and Traveling with Che Guevara by Alberto Granado Distributed by Focus Features Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Produced by Brooklyn Films Written and directed by Kerry Conran Distributed by Paramount Pictures It...
Killing Due Process in the War on Terror
One striking feature of the U.S. Constitution is the number of procedural rights guaranteed to individuals accused of criminal behavior before they can be deprived of life, liberty, or property.Ā The overall guarantee of due process of law contained in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments constitutes the basic foundation, but there are many other protections.Ā ...
Acqua Alta
Last year, when I first came to live hereāas bearer of the Carta Venezia, the photo ID which entitles the city resident to buy water-bus tickets at 75 cents instead of the tourist’s three dollars, I have every right to say “live” rather than “visitāI made a private pact with Neptune and the spirits of...
Uncle Sam Goes Bust
Even President Barack Obama appears to realize that Washington has a spending problem.Ā His latest budget, delivered late and without enthusiasm, makes a nod toward restraining the growth of social programs, most notably āentitlements,ā headed by Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.Ā Alas, that baby step earned a rebuke from his left-wing allies, along with a...
Global Hot Spots in 2022
Todayās commentariat is prone to ignore history, or to simplify past events to make them fit their current ideological preferences. The discourse of regime-approved conservative intellectuals and their mass media cohortsāsuch as Victor Davis Hanson and the tedious George Willāremains liberally optimistic and upwardly linear. The notion that our civilization is on a downward course...
Itās Springtime for Hitler in Europe
Few would challenge the observation that the level of anti-American sentiments has been rising in Europe in recent months and has reached an historic high during the war against Iraq.Ā At the same time, the attitudes among Arabs toward the E.U. statesāwith the exception of Great Britaināand, in particular, toward France have been more favorable.Ā ...
Tears for Fears
āA good name is rather to be chosen than great riches,ā said wise King Solomon.Ā In the fall of 2018, Democrats pressed with all their might to take Brett Kavanaughās good name away, in an effort to retake control of Congress.Ā This was, to say the least, unjust, as the nominee himselfāby all reasonable accounts...
The Herd of Independent Minds
“The bookful blockhead . . . [w]ith his own tongue still edifies his ears, / And always listening to himself appears.” āAlexander Pope Behind Stephen Berg’s Singular Voices, a new anthology of contemporary native poets writing about their own work, is the voice-theory of poetry, which holds that a poet is valuable not for his...
Hey, Elon Musk, You May Have a āDeep Stateā Problem
Is āX,ā the media company formerly known as āTwitter,ā still experiencing deep state interference and silencing of conservatives? The evidence suggests that it is.
In Search of the New American Man
The evident purpose of Taming the Prince is to provide a respectable philosophical pedigree for the usurpations and abuses of power by American Presidents since FDR. (Professor Mansfield dedicates the book to his father, “constant advocate of a strong presidency from Franklin Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan.”) Where conservatives such as Corwin, Kendall, Burnham, and Samuel...
“Affirmative Action Curriculum” Returns
The “Affirmative Action curriculum” returns east: T. Edward Hollander, New Jersey’s higher education chancellor, has argued that college teachers should “rethink what they teach and . . . seek ways of bridging the gaps between their areas of expertise and the diverse student populations in New Jersey colleges and universities.” What this obscure language means...
Persecutions
I don’t know if I was more shocked by the article itself, or by where it appeared. Though I have heard the argument that gay advocates vastly overstate the prevalence of hate crimes in order to support a far-reaching political agenda, who would have thought that such a coldly skeptical demolition of their case could...
Against the Obscurantists
It was a muggy day in late July, and I had gone to the back of the church to rest on crutches and take some pressure off my sprained ankle.Ā Taking advantage of my condition to stand in the way of one of the churchās too-few fans, I noticed a woman feeding candy to her...
Reaganism and the External Threat
āThereās a bear in the woods,ā warns ad man Hal Riney, as a grizzly appears on screen.Ā āFor some people, the bear is easy to see.Ā Others donāt see it at all.Ā Some people say the bear is tame.Ā Others say it is vicious and dangerous.Ā Since no one can really be sure whoās right,...
New President, New World
“Don’t Make Any Sudden Moves” is the advice offered to the new president by Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations, which has not traditionally been known as a beer hall of populist beliefs. Haass meant the president should bring his National Security Council together to anticipate the consequences before tearing up the Iran...
The Wasted Century
The Great War and its inevitable successor have been called Europeās civil war, and there is some truth in this characterization.Ā Divided by language, religion, and culture, the nations of Europe were nonetheless united in a common civilization that developed out of the ruins of the Christianized Roman Empire.Ā Despite the strains brought on by...
Britain’s Leftists: Allies of the Islamists
The people of England, after very considerable provocation, have lately come to fear Englandās Muslims.Ā Britainās leftists have shifted in the opposite direction.Ā From an entrenched hostility to the mores of their own country and out of sheer perversity, the leftists have intensified their attacks on the Catholic Church, while making a point of defending...
Looking Beyond Headlines to Outsmart the Propagandists
The trial of officer Derek Chauvin came up in a conversation I had with a friend this weekend. āYeah, I really havenāt been able to follow it much, but I did see a few headlines,ā was the essence of my friendās comments on the issue. He then noted that the little he had seen made...