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Is Ann Coulter Among the Prophets?
āAnd they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast, and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him?ā āRevelation 13:4 Signs and omens have been everywhere this year.Ā Amid wars and rumors of wars, one occasionally glimpses evidence that truth is now...
Are the Democrats Bent on Suicide?
After reading an especially radical platform agreed upon by the British Labor Party, one Tory wag described it as “the longest suicide note in history.” The phrase comes to mind on reading of the resolution calling for a Green New Deal, advanced by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and endorsed by at least five of the major Democratic...
American Shakespeare
Shakespeare contains the cultural history of America.Ā From first to last, Shakespeare is the graph of evolving American values.Ā He early made the transatlantic crossing: It is thought that Cotton Mather was the first in America to acquire a First Folio.Ā Richard III was performed in New York in 1750, and in 1752 the governor...
Valor
Valkyrie Produced and distributed by United Artists Directed by Bryan Singer Screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie Slumdog Millionaire Produced by Celador Films Directed by Danny Boyle Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy from Vikas Swarupās novel Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures Ā In Valkyrie, screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie and director Bryan Singer tell the story of Col. Claus von...
The Natural Man
This issue brings together a number of discussions of man’s place in nature. Stephen R. L. Clark, Tibor Machan, and jay Mechling explore the implications of the animal rights movement. Debating the “moral status of animals” (to borrow one of Prof. Clark’s titles) is interesting not so much for what it reveals about beasts as...
A Stand-up Guy
What is Pete Roseās explanation for failing to remember, throughout his life, his motherās birthday?Ā āI just canāt seem to concentrate on things Iām not interested in.ā Ever since the news broke that Pete Rose was ready, after 14 years of lies, to admit what most people already believedāthat, yes, he did bet on baseballāthe...
Self-Indulgence Made Simple
This starry-eyed reappraisal of two unhappy decades in our nation’s history serves as a sobering reminder that “the revolt of the masses” is far from over. Its author, deaf to any appeal to duty or civility, is an unabashed apologist for “postdeprivational,” appetitive, man. Indeed, insofar as I am able to tell, there is almost...
Getting the Scoop
āAll we want are the facts, maāam.ā āSgt. Joe Friday Not long ago I was sorting through old papers for disposal.Ā I came across a clipping saved for some forgotten reason.Ā On the reverse was this headline: āNAACP Chief Says More Assistance Needed.āĀ This headline might have appeared in my hometown paper today (though I...
Al Qaida in Perspective
Ā Apparently, the threat is both serious and specific. The United States ordered 22 diplomatic missions closed and issued a worldwide travel alert for U.S. citizens. The threat comes from Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, AQAP, the most lethal branch of the terrorist organization. “After Benghazi,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., “these Al Qaida...
Unexpected Effect
Joseph Lieberman’s selection as the first Orthodox Jew to run for vice president may have the unexpected effect of making it respectable again to maintain that the United States is a Christian country. Picking Lieberman as his running mate was the single most interesting thing Al Gore has done in his campaign for the White...
Campus Utopias
As we gathered in the gazebo, sitting on the hard white benches with the paint peeling off in strips, nursing Marlborosāthe girls wielding cigarette-holders, like sceptersāwe decided then and there who and what was the main obstacle to our goal.Ā Sheryl called it the āMarshmallow Conspiracy,ā and of course we didnāt need a translation, although...
Put Out No Flags
A former literary editor of The Spectator in London and currently touted as the new novelist of manners, A.N. Wilson was the author several seasons ago of a creditable biography of Hilaire Belloc. But the novels Wise Virgin (1983), Scandal (1984), and Gentlemen in England, just published in this country, remain chiefly responsible for his...
The Logic of the Map
Soon after his election in 1844, James K. Polk sat down with the historian George Bancroft and, before offering him the Cabinet post of secretary of the Navy, sketched the four objectives of his presidency.Ā They were to lower the tariff, restore the independent treasury system, extend American sovereignty over the vast Oregon Country (claimed...
Lincoln and God
Before the first shots were fired in the U.S. Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln had begun to style himself as an instrument of the Lord.Ā But as William H. Herndon, a law partner and Lincoln biographer, wrote, ā[t]he very idea that he was in the hands of an invisible, irresistible, ...
The Nation-State Is Back
Over the past two or three decades it has been fashionable for international relations theorists, politicians, and mainstream media pundits to claim that the Westphalian nation state was moribund, obsolete, and rapidly diminishing in importance. They claimed that various transnational and regional mechanisms and institutionsāthe European Union being a prime exampleāwere irreversibly taking over its...
The Blast of the Globalists
During the presidency of Barack Obama, George W. Bush generally avoided public criticism of his successor. Bush’s reticence could be read as a recognition of how calamitous his presidency had been, marked as it was by a disastrous war in Iraq that cost thousands of American lives and tens of thousands of Iraqi lives, wasted...
A Time to Sue
After years of complaining about liability lawsuits against doctors and businessmen that award millions to plaintiffs and enrich unscrupulous lawyers, conservatives may finally have a few lawsuits they can support.Ā Across the country, victims of illegal-alien crime are filing suit against businessmen who hire them and cities that protect them.Ā In other words, leftists who...
On Race and Fairness
In āRace and Racismā (Views, November) Tom Landess states that a seismic shift occurred in race relations with Strom Thurmond leading the Dixiecrats out of the Democratic National Convention in 1948.Ā Now, in 1948, blacks were paying taxes (federal, state, and local).Ā They saw that money used by politicians to foster second-rate education, housing, and...
The Forgotten Secret War
This past December, the United States commemorated the 75th anniversary of Japanās 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.Ā Most commentators rightly played down any conspiratorial suggestion that Franklin Roosevelt had deliberately provoked that particular attack, although they agreed that the U.S. had been putting heavy diplomatic pressure on Japan in the months leading up to it.Ā ...
Back to the Stone Age III: Natural Men A
Ā I have been arguing for decades that any conservative point of view, to be usable or even defensible, has to be grounded in an understanding of human nature derived from observation of man’s nature and history. Ā In an age where a Church may dictate morality, this understanding may be less necessary, though it must...
Credit Socialism
In May 1991, Risa Kugal, a fortyish New York woman who said she was unemployed and supported by her mother, appeared at court in Brooklyn. She was there, as James Grant tells us, to have $75,000 in credit card debt wiped off the books under Chapter Seven of the federal bankruptcy code. She owed $18,000...
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...
A Black Panther Thing
Revelations of a surprise supporting cast emerge in the Fani Willis Show, also known as the Trump trial in Georgia.
Academic Sins
Frank: āThey threw me out for plagiarizing.ā Ernest: āYou were stealing songs?ā Frank: āNo, I was taking notes.ā āfrom a Frank and Ernest cartoon (Frank has been expelled from music school) Ā A graduate student asked if he could take a reading course; sitting at my feet, I thought, talking with the rabbi.Ā He was...
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...
Women and Biographers First!
“One would suffer a great deal to he happy.” āMarly Wortley Montagu To be really successful a modern writer must reach and hold a huge audience, and there seems to be essentially two ways of doing it: the journeyman (or tradesman-like) and the heroic-histrionic. Scott, Trollope, Agatha Christie, and P.G. Wodehouse represent the first way,...
Hopalong Rides the Iraqi Range
American Sniper Produced and distributed by Warner Brothers Screenplay by Jason Hall Directed by Clint Eastwood Weāre told that during his later career director John Huston frequently preferred reading a good newspaper while his actors performed a scene before the camera.Ā He believed in leaving them to their own devices, among which he trusted thespian...
Climate Science Makes a Bad Religion
Climate ideology derives its power from its resemblance to religion. But it's a poor substitute for a real faith.
Evangelical Antifederalists
The Arlington Group, a powerful association of Christian Right leaders, is, to borrow from the author of the Book of Virtues, picking a pony.Ā Some ponies, such as Arkansasā Mike Huckabee, just donāt look like they can make it to the final stretch.Ā Fred Thompson, on the other hand, could go the distance.Ā The problem...
Once Again in the News
Gay marriage is once again in the news. This time, the rumblings come not from the Sandwich Islands, but the Green Mountains of Vermont. In a riding handed down right before Christmas, the state’s governing body, the Vermont Supreme Court, instructed the legislature to extend the benefits and protections of marriage to homosexual couples. The...
Down to EarthāWith a Thud!
The history of Berlin over the past 16 yearsāmore exactly, since the dramatic fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989āoffers an almost classic example of how wild dreams conceived in a moment of euphoria can so easily collapse into a mood of grudging resignation. Overnight, the divided city, which had previously had two town...
On Paganism
As an Orthodox monk, I imagine Alain de Benoist (“Monotheism vs, Politheism,” April 1996) performing his daily orisons before an icon by Gauguin, chanting selections from Diderot’s SupplĆ©ment au voyage de Bougainville as his Psalter, and reading passages from Rousseau as the appointed lessons. He does remind us that pagans include the great philosophers of...
Ray Bradbury, R.I.P.
On June 5, we lost not only one of our finest writers but a true American storyteller and one of the last of the book people.Ā For Ray Bradbury, who passed away at the age of 91, was, like the remnant that Montag joins at the end of Fahrenheit 451, a book person, a walking...
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...
Tom Bethell (1936ā2021)
With Tom Bethellās death in February, those who refuse what Orwell called the āsmelly little orthodoxies contending for our soulsā have lost an eloquent and redoubtable champion. Over the course of Bethellās five decades as a writer (consisting of seven books and hundreds of essays), the malodorous certitudes of political correctness have piled up to...
Caravan Puts Trump Legacy on the Line
Our mainstream media remain consumed with the grisly killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and how President Donald Trump will deal with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Understandably so, for this is the most riveting murder story since O.J. Simpson and has strategic implications across the Middle East....
The Creaturely Myth
James O. Tate reviews Courage and Consequence: My LifeĀ as a Conservative in the Fight ā¢Ā by Karl Rove ā¢Ā New York: Threshold Editions ā¢Ā 608 pp., $30.00 There isāthere must beāall the difference in the world between an autobiography and a novel written in the first person. Are we clear? Hillary Rodham ...
Ophelia and Genavy
In one of those arrangements that defy explanation, Ophelia and my mother frequently ate lunch together.Ā Usuallyābut not alwaysāOphelia would make the sandwiches or salad, serve my mother, and then fix an identical plate for herself.Ā My mother would sit at a small, round table in the breakfast nook; and Ophelia would perch on a...
Lawless Roads
It is 10:00 P.M. as you step off the Greyhound bus in Laredo, Texas. By all rights you should feel exhausted after your 36-hour ride from Minneapolis. But the truth is, you feel pretty good. The air is cool but muggy on this late-August night. You are told that the Rio Grande is just a...
Crash Course
Crash Produced by Bullās Eye Entertainment Directed by Paul Haggis Screenplay by Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco Distributed by Lions Gate Films Last month, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held its 78th annual awards ceremony.Ā Dreamt up by Louis B. Mayer in 1927, the Academyās advertised mission was to confer legitimacy on...
Burying the Hatchet
What now are called “the Indian wars” ended about a century ago, and the participants in those battles are dead without exception. After 1886, when Geronimo and his band surrendered, there were no more off-reservation wild Indians. Native Americans had become an administrative, not a military problem. The reservations would become a policing system where...
Twentieth Century Fox
Every century must appear to those who live through it as the most important in history. In the case of the 20th century, an argument can be made that it represents a turning point comparable to the great transitional periods of human history and that, unlike these other periods, it affects directly and immediately most...
The Heart of the Life Debate
The present rift between the United States and Europe on the war in Iraq has overshadowed widening divergences in other realms.Ā One of these is the attitude toward crucial life issues; whereas the Bush administration is often reprimanded by antilife groups for such initiatives as the ban on partial-birth abortion, the European Union is busy...
The Israeli Prescription
“Moderation lasts.” āSeneca The American public has fallen victim in recent years to a propaganda assault, launched and coordinated by the Israeli Likud party and their American partners, whose theme is clear and simple: the long-term security of the Jewish state lies in its ability to maintain control over the West Bank and the Gaza...
Anti-Colonist Ally
India, during the Cold War, was officially nonaligned.Ā She was closer to the Soviet Union, which saw her as a natural āanti-colonialistā ally and also wanted a regional counterbalance for Chinaāand accordingly assisted India militarily and politically, especially during U.N. debates over the Kashmir conflict.Ā Later, in 1998, Indiaās continued refusal to sign the 1970...
Lady and the Vamp
“No womman of no clerk is praised.” āChaucer An old-fashioned historian can be forgiven for feeling a touch of empathy for the bewildered Egyptians upon whom Yahweh emptied the vessels of wrath some 3,500 years ago. The Hebrews’ God plagued the Egyptians for a matter of days, but the stern Minerva who reigns over academe...
Foreigners No More
They are coming: on trains, on buses, on foot, all the way from Central America, where they meet up with smugglers who take them across our nonexistent border.Ā This has been happening for decades, but thereās one big difference in the recent wave of illegal immigration: These are children, many under ten years of ageā50,000...
Putin’s Victory
Ā That a week is a long time in politics is confirmed by three significant events of the past seven days which will make life more difficult for the proponents of American āengagementā abroad. One was Bashar al-Assadās victory in Homs, accompanied by the embarrassing discovery of French military āadvisorsā with the rebel troops. Assadās...
On the Sullivan Translation of David, Part II
This is the second part of a speech on poet Alan Sullivan that Timothy Murphy has delivered to Catholic and Protestant congregations on the High Plains.Ā (The first part appeared in the October issue.)Ā Mr. Sullivan, a frequent contributor to Chronicles, died on July 9, right after finishing his last work of translating David into...