Because America entered both world wars of the 20th century last, while all the other great powers bled one another, and because we outlasted the Soviet Empire in the Cold War, America emerged, in the term of President George H.W. Bush, as “the last superpower.” We had it all. We were the “indispensable nation.” We...
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We Canāt Vote Ourselves Out of This: Organizing a Middle American Resistance
The American right needs a Middle American resistance united in its focus on internal secession and self-government, one that does not rely on national politics or bet on political saviors.
Letter From a Monastery: Engulfed in Solitude
āThere is a new loneliness in the modern world . . . the solitude of speed.ā āStephen Vizinczey Br. Anthony Weber is a Trappist monk at the Abbey of the Genesee in Piffard, New York, near Geneseo, where I serve as the Catholic Campus Minister at a SUNY liberal-arts college.Ā He was the monk dispatched...
Time to Plan Mask-Burning Parties
As COVID restrictions begin to fall there seems to be a new problem emerging, namely, Americansā inability to ditch the masks. Masks, it seems, have become a type of āsecurity blanketā for many, reporter Karin Brulliard claims in a recentĀ Washington PostĀ article. She explains how David DĆaz, a vaccinated 29-year-old, struggles to go for a run...
Simon Pure and Impure
The other day I came across the pianist Simon Barere on YouTube, and I was glad to see him thereāthe recognition he has received is certainly deserved, though it is hard to know what would be the appropriate reward to a performer who never got his due.Ā And just when he seemed to be getting...
Partial Attraction
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese’s career seems dedicated to the principle that radicals can be reasonable. The encouraging title of her latest book suggests that they may even be realistic. Although the author challenges the grounds on which most feminists argue their rights, she is admittedly and regrettably a feminist herself, and her book is primarily a contribution...
Is a Trump-Putin Detente Dead?
Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals. He saw the surging power of American nationalism at home, and of ethnonationalism in Europe. And he embraced Brexit. While our bipartisan establishment worships diversity, Trump saw Middle America recoiling from the demographic change brought...
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...
The State as Rabble-Rouser
Michael Mann has long been the most interesting exponent of what might be called British post-Marxist sociology.Ā In his essays in the Archives europĆ©ennes de sociologie, his Sources of Social Power (two volumes), and other writings, Mann has applied a four-power model (ideological, political, military, and economic) to historical studies, seeking thereby to overcome Marxist...
Soviet Nuclear War Policies
Americans are perennially tempted to believe that Soviet armament is a reaction to American armament, and therefore reversible by American disarmament. For years we allowed that hope to guide our military policy: beginning in the late 1960’s, the United States exercised unilateral restraint in nuclear construction for more than a decade. American-produced IGBM warheads were...
A Crazy Dance of Technicalities
Dressed in a dark business suit, wearing a tie and a brand-new trenchcoat, Troy Canty was led manacled in front of New York State Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Crane. His head clean-shaven, Canty looked sullenly at TV cameras, out in force to register the latest twist in the Bernhard H. Goetz case. On December...
The Taiwanese Election: Implications for U.S. Security
The outcome of Taiwan’s presidential election in March is potentially the most significant single event affecting American security since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Most analysts have failed to address the fundamental dilemma that Taiwan now presents for the defense strategy of the United States. The issue is fairly simple: Are our overseas commitments...
Have a Good Day
After the initial horror of the Oklahoma City bombing, official reactions were certain to be heavy-handed, and a great many reasonable people were likely to be swept along with the draconian countermeasures proposed. We should not be surprised about the sweeping nature of the so-called “counterterrorist” laws suggested this spring, which included the inevitable package...
The Better Way
A review of Winterās Bone: A Novel, by Daniel Woodrell. The Missouri Ozarks are the western outpost of Appalachia. The hills are not as high as their elder brothers to the east, but they plunge down into narrow, labyrinthine valleys, where streams of cool, green water run. The surrounding soil is mostly shallow and full...
Plus Ƨa Change . . .
In the December 27, 2002, issue of the English edition of Forward, self-described Orthodox Jew David Klinghoffer attacks Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn for his recent book Two Hundred Years Together.Ā In this historical work, Solzhenitsyn deals with Jews and Russians living side by side from 1775, when Russia came to occupy the heavily Jewish regions of Eastern...
The Pitfalls of Ambiguity
The conventional history of President George W. Bushās foreign policy has traced the ascendancy of the neoconservative ideologues in his administration to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and the ensuing āWar on Terror,ā the invasion of Iraq, and regime-change schemes in the Middle East.Ā The common assumption among analysts is that,...
Turmoil in Egypt
Ā Last Thursdayās decision by the Supreme Constitutional Court in Cairo that Egyptās parliament was elected unconstitutionally and should be disbanded is a direct challenge to the Islamists who dominate the legislature. The scene is set for a new political crisis in the Arab worldās most populous nation. It is obvious that the Supreme Council...
White Like Me
Few men in America are as reviled by the liberal establishment as Jared Taylor, editor of American Renaissance.Ā According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), he is āa courtly presenter of ideas that most would consider crudely white supremacist.āĀ Keep in mind that the SPLC is an organization that cites Thomas Fleming, editor of...
Devaluing American Citizenship
The best speech I ever heard on immigration was delivered by the late Terry Anderson at the Reform Party Convention in Long Beach in 2000. Anderson, a black native of Los Angeles, described how his livelihood as an auto mechanic and small-business owner, as well as the livings of blacks in the building trades and...
Institutes of Ignorance
I am not sure who is more ignorant of John Calvin: Robert H. Nelson, who wrote The New Holy Wars, or Tobias Lanz, who reviewed it (āCalvinism Without God,ā August).Ā Since I havenāt read Mr. Nelsonās book, I will address Mr. Lanzās review. I was more than a little taken aback to read that āCalvin...
The Electric Vehicle Scam Grows
Americans with a sincere concern for the environment and with the concept of self-government should learn to restore an old car and drive it.
The Conservative Counterrevolution
The termĀ counterrevolution was always used by Lenin and his associates in a pejorative sense. In the Marxist view, since “progress” is irreversible, any gains made by the left are to be considered permanent, while any gains made by the right are to be considered temporary setbacks. The contemporary treatment of revolution and counterrevolu tion in...
Vol. 1 No. 12 December 1999
During the Indonesian crisis in September, the American media faithfully toed the U.S. government line. “East Timor is not Kosovo!” declared Albright, Berger, and Cohen; “Amen!” responded the Fourth Estate. But commentary on America’s hypocritical diplomacy was abundant abroad. In the Toronto Sun (September 14), Lorrie Goldstein wrote: If East Timor was [sic] Kosovo, we...
Clarifying Constitutional Law
The U.S. Supreme Court, many had hoped, would use this term to clarify constitutional law and move jurisprudence somewhat closer to the original understanding of the Constitution. The Court has yet to issue important opinions regarding school vouchers, partial-birth abortion, the Violence Against Women Act, and prayer at high school football games, but the latest...
Proceed With the Neverendum
It would be fun to write a Westminster column that wasnāt about Brexit.Ā Iām afraid I canāt.Ā Brexit is Britain, to a large extent, these days, at least as far as the news is concerned.Ā It has made the political and media classes go mad.Ā Normal people, those who donāt spend their lives reading the...
The Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan
Hoping to bolster its geopolitical position, a great power sends troops to Afghanistan and installs a puppet leader.Ā That leader has little authority with the influential tribal chieftains and insufficient means to buy their complicity.Ā Resistance soon grows into a full-blown insurgency, which leads to harsh reprisals by the occupying forces.Ā The vicious circle becomes...
Lilliput vs. Leviathan
There are lots of freckles, red hair, and Celtic names in Catron County, New Mexico. Though almost everyone in the county has some Indian or Mexican blood, this is home to the families and culture which David Hackett Fischer describes in Albion’s Seed as Scotch-Irish, double distilled, first by the Highland clearances and then by...
Misprints and Misprision
“The sin against the spirit of a work always begins with a sin against the letter.” āIgor StravinskyĀ “When I hear the word ‘theory,’ I loosen the safety latch on my revolver,” remarked one disgruntled language teacher recently. He had an excuse, after all. He had just listened to an hour-long exposition of a Lacanian...
The Antietam of the Culture War
Ā It took Joe Biden’s public embrace of same-sex marriage to smoke him out. But after Joe told David Gregory ofĀ Meet the PressĀ he was “absolutely comfortable” with homosexuals marrying, Barack Obama could not maintain his credibility with the cultural elite if he stuck with the biblical view that God ordained marriage as solely between a...
Young Destransitioners Lead the Charge Against Corrupt Medical and Educational Establishment
Detrans explores the horrific abuse of vulnerable and confused young people perpetrated by our medical and educational establishment in the name of compassion.
A True Brexit, After All
Itās been almost seven months since Britons voted to leave the European Union. By now it seems likely that a genuine, hard Brexitāas opposed to some āassociate-EU-membershipā fudgeāwill actually happen. PM Theresa May has a strategy, it seems. It is not to the liking of the British liberal elite, but it is in line with...
The Unvanquished Family
This is the story of a real Texas family.Ā Locations and names have been changed to protect the familyās anonymity. Notes from a casual conversation between office coworkers: He: āWhat are you gonna do this weekend?ā She: āHost a family reunion.ā He: āHow many will be there.ā She: ā466.ā He (surprised at size and exactness...
Manlio on Conflict Resolution
āThe problem with having a car is that one gets into accidents. However trifling, these may have unexpected consequences. āOne bright winter day my bumper grazed a pedestrian, who promptly fell to the ground. I got out to make sure he was all right, which he said he was, but all the same I offered...
Everyone Deserves Justice
Senator Bob Packwood, a left-wing Republican, enjoyed the support of Republican bigwigs, including Senator Robert Dole, until he crossed the path of left-wing Democrat Barbara Boxer, who finally brought him to book for molesting women. Ironically, Packwood was a darling of the feminists. On abortion, he was Mr. Reliable. He supported federal funding for Planned...
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan, like many of those in the lively arts, frequently urges us to admire his present work rather than to dwell on his past triumphs, although he has been known to make an exception to the rule when it comes time to release his latest greatest-hits package.Ā Unlike some rock-music critics, Iām happy to...
IranāMore War for Oil?
Itās always the oil. While President Trump was hobnobbing with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the G-20 summit in Japan, brushing off a recent U.N. report about the princeās role in the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was in Asia and the Middle East, pleading with...
The Wand of Youth: A Story
When Francis Majewski escorts my sister to our back porch, he bows to her like a Polish nobleman, then hobbles home on walking crutches with hard leather cuffs that circle his forearms.Ā Lesczyk Iwanowski, Gerald Bluebird, and I, Antek, stare at him, scratch our heads, call him āthe Noble Pole.āĀ Heās older than us. If...
On NATO and Europe
The British Conservative Party’s defense policy remains frozen in a time warp as we head toward a general election in the United Kingdom this spring. The party is opposed to the European Reaction Force on the grounds that it undermines NATO and the alliance with America. For a party that has been in opposition, it...
DOMA’s Fifth Column
In February, President Obama directed the Department of Justice to stop defending Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).Ā Immediately, many conservatives decried the announcement.Ā Curt Levy of the Committee for Justice described Obamaās decision as āoutrageousā and a āpower grab that . . . would allow him to undermine any duly enacted...
Men Unlimited
The comic, as Flannery O’Connor said, is the reverse side of the terrible. I suppose the spectacle of 50 to 100 men from 20 to 70 years of age disguised in Wild Man and Coyote masks as they prance in a forest glade, beat drums, eat buffalo chili, and exorcise the demon spirits of their...
Star, Dusted
Sometimes I wonder why I spend the lonely night dreaming of a song, but mostly I donāt.Ā Mostly I donāt, because the nightingale doesnāt tell his fairy tale unless he hopped a ride on the Cunard or the White Star Line.Ā No, the real problem is what does happen every day or night, and Jon...
Consistent Sponsers
Terrorism, in our time, has found one of its most consistent sponsors in Pakistan.Ā This fact is so simple it could be taught in fourth-grade geography; only the names are difficult. In December 1999, in Kashmir, India, an Indian Airlines aircraft was hijacked by several Pakistan-based groupsāHarkat-ul-Mujahedin (HUM), Lashkar-e-Toib, and Hizbul Mujahideenādemanding the release of...
Crimea and Kosovo: Commonalities and Differences
Crimea and Kosovo have much in common: an autonomous status, military bases of other countries on their territories, and a longing for independence among the majority of the population. Crimeaās ethnic composition and Western policy towards Ukraine could create a Kosovo-like scenario. The Voice of Russia talked to Serge Trifkovic, writer on international affairs and...
American Parenthood
Overwhelmed by the shame of having a juvenile delinquent for a daughter, HĆ©ctor could almost forget that he himself was a convicted criminal and the subject of an investigation by the Immigration and Borders division of the Department of Homeland Security. The entire business had been a fatherās worst nightmare, as well as a major...
The Attempt to Hoodwink the U.S. Into a Cold War With Russia
For years conservative movement figures haveĀ engaged in āvalue talk,āĀ a rhetorical means of winning acceptance for pet causes that often have little to do with conservatism or traditional morality. Such value talk has often been usedĀ as a way of prodding Washington into foreign entanglements.Ā Leon Aronās recent article forĀ The Dispatch, āWelcome to the new Cold Warā...
In This Number
Midmorning on April 22, my phone rang and the caller ID indicated it was Aaron Wolf. I greeted him with our usual salutation, āBrother, how are you?ā But instead of Aaronās warm drawl, I heard his wife Lorrieās grieving voice. She didnāt need to say another word; I somehow knew Aaron was gone. He had...
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...
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...
Sheep in Sheep’s Clothing
Jeff Snyder’s title essay, originally published in 1993 in the Public Interest, provoked Newsweek columnist George F. Will to rush into print with well-timed second thoughts about his own earlier suggestion that the Second Amendment be repealed. The essay soon became a regulation piece in the well-stocked armories of hundreds of pro-gun websites. Crime is...
On ‘Globalization’
In his Cultural Revolutions piece in the March issue, William Hawkins claims that the assertion the Smoot-Hawley Tariff caused the Great Depression has “no grounding in fact or logic.” He attributes this assertion solely to a campaign speech made by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mr. Hawkins is mistaken. In his book The Way the World Works,...