It has been over a year since Chronicles published my piece āHappy Holidays?Ā Bah! Humbug!ā (Vital Signs, December 2001) and Vdare.com used it to announce its 2001 War Against Christmas Competition.Ā I am still receiving mail on the essay, and I thought I would give Chronicles readers an idea of how the War Against Christmas...
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Unreal Bodies, Unholy Blood
The vampire, possibly the most enduring mythic figure of the modern age, emerged out of the shadows of the Enlightenment.Ā To be sure, folkloric accounts of lamiae, strigae, and incubi predate the Christian era and continued to haunt the European imagination throughout the Middle Ages, when vampirism was generally associated with witchcraft.Ā But early in...
What Happened to Ron DeSantis?
When a politician stakes his campaign on a demonstration of how thorough, consistent and philosophically pure he is, he might impress conservative journalists and policy wonks, but they don't pick the nominee.
The Greening of America
This handsome book, with its dust-jacket reproduction of Hughson Hawleyās Laying the Tracks at Broadway and 14th Street (ca. 1891), is unique in American anthology-making.Ā While it has long been acknowledged that Irish American fiction and drama constitute what Charles Fanning called, in The Irish Voice in America, āa distinctive and complex literary heritage,ā Irish...
The Enduring Face of the Fake Right
It is hard to understand the continued presence of Jonah Goldberg as a conservative icon. Goldberg has the right to criticize Trump, yet he has turned himself into a nonstop Trump-hating machine, who manages to condemn anyone who still defends the president as a lunatic or criminal. Nietzsche once said mischievously that a good war...
The Future of Christendom
The future of Christendom, according to the Population Reference Bureau’s 2001 annual report, is likely to be pretty bleak. The report’s chief conclusion is that population growth in the West has ground to a halt, while the Third World is reproducing like gangbusters. Tire numbers: “Of the 83 million people added to the global population...
The American Proscenium
At the Crossroads Not long ago, Mr. Theodore White, connoisseur of presidential elections, crafted a well reasoned, though intellectually prefabricated, article for the New York Times Magazine. His was a solid analysis of this country’s shifting political geology: some major social forces are in the process of crystallizing into defined political powers, moved by ideas...
Judge Moore & God’s Law
When elected chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in 2000, Judge Roy Moore installed in his courthouse a monument with the Ten Commandments that Moses brought down from Mount Sinai carved into it. Told by a federal court his monument violated the separation of church and state, Moore refused to remove it and was...
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...
A Prayer for the Defeat of Lawfare
There are currently four lawfare battles against Donald Trump. Not just the former president, but the rule of law itself is on trial in these proceedings.
The Dean Delusion
What is wrong with Howard Dean?Ā Not much, if you listen to many Republicans and some conservatives.Ā Republicans are salivating over the prospect of a Dean nomination because it seems to be the best way to ensure that President Bush stays where he is.Ā Some conservatives, however, are saying that they may vote for the...
Long Live the Queen’s Speech
The Queenās Speech is the past at its most glamorous. Netflix could not equal the Queenās journey in the coach of State from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster escorted by the superb Household Cavalry,Ā the Blues & Royals, and the Life Guards leading to the procession of the Sovereignās entrance. At her arrival she...
Welcoming Terrorists, Locking Down Citizens
Terrorist bombings that killed 3 and wounded and maimed over 260 at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15 prompted the militarized ālockdownā of an American city for days, as police in full combat gear took part in a massive manhunt that may have given us a glimpse of our future. As...
Comment
Hillman writes of “the governance of the gods.” It is morenreasonable to assume that both men are attracted to the Buddhistnconcept, according to which there is no self, only a flux ofnsensations cut up into discrete and illusionary consciousnesses.nThis view was shared by philosophers from Heraclitus to Nietzsche,nand it has had decisive influence on devotees...
Patriarch Alesky, R.I.P
Aleksy II, Patriarch of Moscow and head of the Russian Orthodox Church, died of heart failure on December 5, 2008, at the age of 79. Born in Estonia in 1929 into a pious family of Russian ƩmigrƩs of German extraction, Aleksei Mikhailovich Ridiger was ordained a priest in 1950, completed his theological studies in St....
Girding for Confrontation
The Pentagonās Provocative Encirclement of China On May 30th, Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced a momentous shift in American global strategic policy. From now on, he decreed, the U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM), which oversees all U.S. military forces in Asia, will be called the Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM). The name change, Mattis explained, reflects āthe...
Our Elitists Forge a Useful Faith
The cynical elites of Ancient Rome, said Edward Gibbon, found the religions of the empire equally false and equally useful.Ā The leftist/corporate elites of our time also agree that religion is false, so much so that they can barely contain their contempt for it.Ā As Barack Obama opined, itās just something that Middle American losers...
The Best Government Money Can Buy
All of our history is now āindoctrination by historical example.āĀ The academicians who write the officially approved, politically correct distortions of it have failed history, and us.Ā They are of two types: the courtiers, smiling sycophants such as āpresidential historianā Michael Beschloss and the insufferable Doris Kearns Goodwin; and their envious colleagues, politically correct pedants,...
Nursing the Nationās Population Replacement
America has a real nursing shortage but itās not due to a shortage of immigrant healthcare workers or any of the other reasons routinely given by the oracles of respectable opinion.
Florida Challenges the Feds on Election Monitoring, Huey Long Style
The future of the Republican Party will require more than merely asking people to vote in person on election day and hoping for the best.
Ici On Parle Anglais
When Canada’s federal government committed the country to two official languages, it set the scene for the social revolution that has since been foisted upon the Canadian majority. That was in 1969, when Pierre Trudeau’s Official Languages Act declared English and French to be the official languages of Canada, possessing and enjoying “equality of status...
Killing Due Process in the War on Terror
From the October 2013 issue of Chronicles. 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...
Where Will You Be When the Lights Go Out?
I recently experienced the most dreadful feeling of helplessness and fear imaginable in what undergraduate essayists call “our modern world of high technology.” I suffered massive computer breakdown. The failure of a single computer is bad enough, especially at a point in the semester when book orders and course syllabi are due and students are...
Old Babbitts Die Hard
“Believe me, it’s the fellow with four to ten thousand a year, say, and an automobile and a nice little family in a bungalow on the edge of town, that makes the wheels of progress go round.” āGeorge F. Babbitt The most prominent buildings of a civilization speak eloquently of what it esteems. The great...
A Living Past
It is a small town in Bavaria, and it is at least 32 degrees C.Ā The camera weighs heavy in my hands, and I can feel speckles of sweat accumulating beneath my black rucksack, as it soaks up the sun like a square and sinister sponge.Ā All around us are people similarly suffering, but good-tempered...
Criticizing Federal Intrusiveness
āHate crimesā legislation and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation were the topics of the June 12 edition of C-SPANās Washington Journal, which featured a debate between Kenneth Connor of the Family Research Council and Elizabeth Birch of the Human Rights Campaign, āAmericaās largest gay and lesbian organization.ā Connor criticized the federal intrusiveness that...
The Israel Lobby’s Mideast Mess
Uncle Sam has to put his foot down and read the riot act to the Israeli Lobby. America should force through a peace deal, reminding Israel that it is for its own well-being and for the benefit of all concerned.Ā
Fighting the Dragon With Solzhenitsyn
Do great men make history?Ā Or does history make great men?Ā One thingās for sure: History sometimes smothers great men, as Thomas Gray suggests in his famous elegy written in a country churchyard, and as the rows of endless graves from Arlington to the Somme demonstrate with brutal candor. āSome mute inglorious Milton here may...
A Modern Prophet
Last week, Catholic World Report ran an article by regular Chronicles contributor Jerry Salyer on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The piece is well worth reading. Solzhenitsynās name will forever be linked to his rigorous denunciation of the evils of Communism. After Solzhenitsyn, no morally responsible person could ignore the tens of millions murdered by Communists, or pretend...
Where the Demons Dwell: The Antichrist Right
Those blissfully ignorant of right-wing soap opera will have never noticed the Antichrist Right, a loose coalition of writers who regard the Church as the worst thing that ever happened to Western civilization. If I understand correctly, the Antichrist Right would describe Christianity much as Christianity defines evil: a ...
Educating for Faith and Community
Few realize that the largest Protestant school system in the United States is operated by the Lutheran ChurchāMissouri Synod.Ā With 1,018 elementary schools and 102 high schools sharing a combined enrollment of 149,201 students, it is an impressive educational endeavor.Ā Beyond the United States, Lutheran schools in Canada, South America, Africa, Australia, and even such...
Books in Brief
The Art of Statistics, by David Spiegelhalter (Basic Books; 448 pp., $32.00). Eminent statistician David Spiegelhalter has written a primer on his expertise intended for the general reader. Itās one of those āfor the rest of us booksā which promises to take a complex technical subject and simplify it, sort of like Analytic Geometry for...
Ressentiment: He Hates, Therefore He Is
A few days ago, rioters in BostonĀ defaced the Robert Shaw Memorial, a masterpiece in high relief wrought by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, whom I consider to be, alongside Frederic Remington, the most distinctly American of our sculptors. I am supposing that the attack on the memorial was no mere act of vandalism, no instance of ārioting mainly...
Surging Toward a Time Horizon
Having listened to recent statements made by President George W. Bush and his presumptive heir, John McCain, I am impressed that these two carriers of the neocon torch expect the opponents of their disastrous military misadventure in Mesopotamia, including presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, to crawl on all fours before the War Partyās leaders,...
Who Lost America’s Longest War?
In April, President Joe Biden told the nation he would have all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack ever on the continental United States. Given the turn of events of the past week, that 20th anniversary may be celebrated by a triumphant Taliban, now on...
Afghanistan, One Year After the U.S. Withdrawal
The bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan did not damage the global power of the U.S., but it altered the geopolitical landscape in that region, and it left a trail of humanitarian destruction in its wake.
Prime-Time Whitman?
The title alludes to Whitman’s Democratic Vistas, and David Marc, a professor of American Civilization at Brown University, begins, ends, and sprinkles the middle of this study with quotations from Whitman. The preface announces “a Whitmanian faith in the ability of the individual consciousness to mingle with a collective cultural conscious ness.” And part of...
The Apologists
For 50 minutes, Obama sat mute, as a Marxist thug from Nicaragua delivered his diatribe, charging America with a century of terrorist aggression in Central America. After Daniel Ortega finished spitting in our face, accusing us of inhumanity toward Fidel Castroās Cuba, Obama was asked his thoughts. āI thought it was 50 minutes long. Thatās...
The Habsburgs and the Balkans: A Rich, Uneven Tapestry
Ā Much ill-informed and superficial nonsense has been published in recent weeks on the Habsburgs in generalĀ and on their role in the Balkans in particular. This is a pity because that role is genuinely interesting, often filled with drama and heroism, and in its final stages marked by hubris, folly, and tragedy. Well worth a...
Judicial Taxation: The States Respond
The Madison Forum was founded in 1993 by Missouri State Senator Walt Mueller and me for three reasons. First, we wanted to respond to the Supreme Court’s claim in Missouri v. Jenkins (1990) that the federal judiciary’ has the authority to levy or increase taxes. We believe this constitutionally baseless assertion by the Court poses...
Two Ways of Changing Our Minds About History
For more than 60 years, Iāve been interested in both the historical past and in how historical interpretations are created. Iāve also written a great deal on both subjects, but particularly on how public and scholarly opinions about past events and personalities change, and why they change. I believe there are two routes through which...
Merkelās Flawed Legacy
Angela Merkel announced on October 29 that she would make a two-stage exit from the political scene. She is first giving up her chairmanship of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which will select a new leader at its party congress on December 7-8. She is to step down as chancellor next, but not before the...
When the Blind Study Art
Desmond Dupre (for many years the lutanist of the Deller Consort) used to say that the lute was to the 17th century what the harpsichord was to the 18th century, the spinet to the 19th, and the gramophone to our own age. Americans listen to music (or the synthetic equivalent) all day long, but few...
A Fedora World
If you are tired of being exposed to lousy movies full of sex, violence, ear-blasting noise, and floods of gratuitous special effects, 40-something actors who dress (and act) like teenagers, and predictable story lines, turn to William Parkās definitive book What Is Film Noir? for a reminder of what artful and truly adult entertainment films...
Strange Customs
I had sworn I would not buy any carpets, and, in the end, I did keep that promise, but then one scorching hot day my friends finally came to pry me loose of the snug little corner of the hotel bar.Ā Before I knew it, I was in the market, buying a preternaturally heavy wrought-iron...
A Labor of Hate
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.” āTheodore Roosevelt Hailed by the New York Times for showing that Colonel Robert McCormick, the legendary publisher of the Chicago Tribune, was “anti- just about...
Now a Russian Spring?
The Kremlin has reacted to continuing protests over election fraud and what the protestors see as the illegitimacy of the regime by toughening the law on mass meetings and is beginning to wield the newly adopted law against protestors and the protest leaders.Ā The protests have been centered in Moscow and do not by themselves...
White Like Me
I have never seen Ireland, but, anchored decades ago aboard R.M.S. Saxonia in a foggy night redolent with the odor of burning peat off Cobh while the tender came and went between the ship and the dockside several miles portside, I have scented her.Ā Queen Mary 2 does not call at Cobh, and so on...
The Art of Spanking
So, thanks again for the love in the cradle and all of the changes that kept me dry. And thanks again for the love at our table and tannin' my bottom when I told you a lie . . . Itās a tear-jerker of a song, and the only thing that rescues Ricky Skaggsā āThanks Againā ...
The Perfect Republic
Augustin Cochin (1876-1916), a French historian little known today, sought to provide a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of the French Revolution with an eye to discovering the reasons for the terror and butchery that arose in its course.Ā The nature and depth of his motivations and concerns can be gleaned from his judgment that...