They dream strange academic dreams in far Northern Norway, where the Aurora Borealis can blaze until the Midnight Sun rises over a seat of learning equidistant from Rome and the North Pole. When the sun does rise over the University of Tromso, the air up there will start to warm more avidly than in normal climes. In the land of long … [Read More]

  Cape Town in December isn’t South Africa or even Africa. It resonates deeply with sophistication, void of boring locals. The restaurants are world class, accompanied by some of the finest wine lists in the Southern Hemisphere, and the beach bars and bistros spill out onto pavements with loudspeakers blasting music from Grace Jones to Julio Iglesias. The sun is … [Read More]

The role of Cassandra is classically a thankless one. Point to danger signs too early, and you’re dismissed as a nut. Wait until it’s obvious, and you’re too late. You can’t win, so you might as well tell the truth: It’s distinctly ominous how many government agencies, courts, and legislatures across the West are forcing Christians to act against their conscience—and … [Read More]

Of course there’s no Israel Lobby, no need to fear it, and the very idea that the Lobby exercises a decisive influence on the American media is bigoted nonsense—or, er, maybe not .... Or else why or why is there next to absolutely no coverage of the upcoming trial of AIPAC honcho Steve Rosen, and his sidekick Keith Weissman, AIPAC’s former … [Read More]

My post last week opposing “unselfishness” as a modern, secular liberal perversion of Christian ethics provoked quite a bit of comment, on this site and others. One poster, Kari Konkola (see the comments thread here) helpfully supplied a Puritan account of the meaning of the virtue of humility, derived he said from Protestant adaptations of the Imitation of Christ, by Thomas … [Read More]

Much like the dreaded North American Union, “Eurabia” was one of those things the respectable media insisted again and again was but the figment of the racist, xenophobic imagination. As it turns out, Lou Dobbs is basically right about NAU, and the European patriots who’ve resisted the EU over the past years have been proved right not only regarding the union’s … [Read More]

My earlier comments on the question of “Ethnonationalism” can be found here. Muller argues in one of his concluding paragraphs: ”Partition may thus be the most humane lasting solution to such intense communal conflicts. It inevitably creates new flows of refugees, but at least it deals with the problem at issue. The challenge for the international community in such cases is … [Read More]

The recent death of Bill Buckley brought forth the usual lies from the liberal-neocon establishment; and having devoted part of my latest book and a slew of irate commentaries to exposing these gross untruths, I see no reason to dwell on them here. Suffice it to say that in the 1950s the late Mr. Buckley, contrary to the current fiction, … [Read More]

This past fall, I held an informal poll of the students at the first-rate liberal arts college where I’m privileged to teach, asking them to choose between two presidential candidates: John Calvin or Niccolo Machiavelli. Their responses were uniformly interesting, as I’d expected. I posed the question just so sharply as a way of preparing them for the kind of political … [Read More]

Gstaad is a very chic place and, alas, getting chicer by the minute as the nouveaux riche Russians and oily kleptocratic Arabs are closing in. Thinking about the way our alpine village used to be, I’m reminded of the time I spent here with Bill Buckley and what he represented when he came on the American political scene—a fresh voice full … [Read More]