Floating Fridges on SteroidsFurther west from Antibes and Cannes, St. Tropez has held out the longest against the invading hordes of Arabs and Russkies. The rest of the Riviera is now a sweaty, dangerous hellhole, its polluted waters matched only by the polluted kleptocrats who inhabit the place. St Tropez proper is clean and charming, its tiny cobbled streets unchanged, its bistros and places where the locals play Boule exactly the same as fifty years ago. The horrors come from the sea, in the form of large refrigerators on stereoids which these modern megayachts resemble. With the exception of the Israeli boycott of Gaza this year, the most appalling sight of this long hot summer are the rich in St Tropez. |
Hitler’s Deadliest Enemy: Pius XIII spent much of winter 2006 butting heads with a cantankerous nun. Thankfully, it... |
The VDare MonologuesSo there we were, at the storied Elaine’s restaurant, Taki, R. Emmet Tyrell, Lewis... |
Foreign Policy
No More Blank Checks for WarAfter the assassination of the archduke in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, Austria got from... |
Politics
Insulting His HolinessThe French ambassador to London who caused a furor about eight years ago when he... |
Strategy
Pushing Putin into the ColdA year after taking power, in June 1934, Adolf Hitler made his first visit abroad—to... |
Mr. bin Laden, Meet Mr. Kennan—A New Containment PolicyThe unilateral declaration of independence by the Kosovo Albanian government on... |
Understanding NixonRobert D. Novak may have thought of him as a fraud, as did Jackie Onassis, who was an... |
Political Economy
The “Bretton Woods II” Delusion“Laissez-faire is finished, the all-powerful market that is always right, that’s... |
History
Pat, John, and the OthersHaving looked at the review of Pat’s latest book by John Lukacs and the critical... |
“Islamophobia” and “Anti-Fascist” FraudsA recent exchange held on WDAY’s Hot Talk with Scott Hennan between Serb journalist and author of Sword of the Prophet, Srdja Trifkovic and best-selling neocon celebrity Dinesh D’Souza underscores the silliness of what today passes for high-toned political discussion. In a widely discussed book, The Enemy Within (Doubleday, January 2007), D’Souza, a John M. Olin Scholar at American Enterprise Institute,” contends that orthodox Islam and “American conservatism” (whatever that may mean at the present moment) are eminently compatible. Traditional Muslims, we are told, object not to Christianity or to traditional Western values but to American pop culture. But Trifkovic, a multilingual critic who seems to know some Arabic and a great deal of Near Eastern history, revealed in less than a minute of questioning that D’Souza had no idea of what was in the Koran. He also reproduced the radio conversation (which I actually listened to) for the May issue of Chronicles. Any fair judge would have to conclude with Trifkovic that “D’Souza has not studied the Koran, and that he may never have even held one in his hand.” |
Economy
Geithner Lays an EggThere is nearly universal agreement that the opening salvo of the Obama... |
Goodbye, Whites and ChristmasNext time any of you feel nostalgic for the old continent, keep the following in mind.... |
Sake and the Latin MassIn the 1970s, as Pope Paul VI faced wholesale rebellion by progressives in the Church, he wielded his papal authority instead to persecute the small numbers of Catholics who resisted the most expansive readings of Vatican II. As a flag of resistance, these traditionalists also rejected the new, truncated liturgy which Paul VI had imposed, suppressing almost entirely the rites which the Church had used for well over 1,000 years. In 1970, with initial Vatican approval, French Archbishop Marcel Lefèbvre founded the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) to meet the needs of Catholics bewildered by postconciliar changes—most of which went far beyond what was authorized by the documents of the council. Indeed, so did the liturgy imposed by Paul VI, which bore little resemblance to the reforms called for in Sacrosanctum Concilium—a point recognized in several books by the present Pope Benedict XVI. |
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