Eugene Girin

Latest by Eugene Girin in Chronicles

• Reviews

  February 2016

  With Friends Like These

  The elegantly titled "Iron Wall" is a perfect example of how a necessary book on an important topic can be rendered inadequate by the author’s all-consuming bias.

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• Reviews

  September 2015

  Royalism and Reaction

  After publishing highly acclaimed biographies of Zola and Flaubert, the New York City-based Frederick Brown established himself as an expert on French cultural and intellectual life with his magnificent book For the Soul of France.

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• Blog

  April 13, 2015

  The Wisdom of Old Rabinovich

  Indiana's shameful surrender to the Gay Mafia, Big Business, the Left, and the Commentariat on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act came as no surprise. Indeed, Pat Buchanan's most recent column on the whole sorry debacle contains words that must be memorized by every traditionalist.

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• Blog

  March 19, 2015

  The Unsinkable Bibi Netanyahu

  The recent Israeli Knesset elections surprised the world by returning Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party to power. The resounding win put Netanyahu on the path to becoming the longest serving PM in Israeli history and caused some consternation and disappointment both in the White House and Brussels.

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• Blog

  March 9, 2015

  Whisk(e)y: An Appreciation

  I used to have a test for when an immigrant is truly Americanized (if such a thing is possible these days): When he starts liking football as much or more than soccer.

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• Blog

  February 27, 2015

  Fifty Shades of Dreck or Homage to a Psychopath

  The bestselling Fifty Shades trilogy by E.L. James (pen name of British authoress Erika Mitchell), which includes the books Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Free became the latest fad in the shabby genre of lowbrow female fiction.

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• Blog

  February 19, 2015

  Netanyahu and "European" Antisemitism

  The most recent Muslim terrorist outrage took place in Copenhagen this time. Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein shot up first, a free speech meeting, killing a Danish documentary filmmaker, and moved on to shoot up a synagogue where a bat mitzvah celebration was held, killing a volunteer guard from the local Jewish community before being dispatched by Danish cops.

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• Blog

  February 13, 2015

  A Valentine's Day Reflection

  A year or so ago, I discovered the work of Czech author Karel Capek who died on the eve of World War II. He was very popular in Eastern Europe and is barely known in the West.

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• Reviews

  March 2015

  Annus Horribilis

  The centennial of that enormous calamity later known as World War I saw the release of about a dozen books on the subject.

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• Blog

  February 2, 2015

  Reading The London Spectator in Kishinev

  Back in September 1994, he wrote a small column, "Black Deeds, Black Heroes" for The London Spectator about the recent O. J. Simpson arrest and the racial situation in America.

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• Blog

  January 27, 2015

  The Brooklyn Museum and the Triumph of Non-Art

  For years, I avoided going into "hip", fashionable museums like the Tate Modern, the MOMA, and the Guggenheim where all this modernist dreck was exhibited and celebrated.

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• Blog

  January 20, 2015

  What MLK Day Says About Today's America

  Today's America could be described as a country led by a plagiarist, with the help of another plagiarist, which celebrates a holiday in honor of a third plagiarist: Barrack Obama, Joe Biden, and Martin Luther King.

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• Blog

  January 12, 2015

  Muslim Terrorism in Paris

  Muslim Terrorism in Paris, Michel Houellebecq's Cowardice, and the Islamization of France: An Interview with Russian writer Elena Choudinova, author of The Notre Dame de Paris Mosque. Translated from Russian by Eugene Girin

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• Vital Signs

  February 2015

  Dealing With the Devil

  Ralph Sarchie exudes an aura of intense strength when he walks into a room. A fit, middle-aged man with heavily tattooed arms (pictures of his daughters and tough cop tattoos, like one that reads New York Untouchables) and a buzz cut, who speaks with a Queens accent straight out of Martin Scorcese’s Goodfellas, Sarchie has a rare and perilous profession.

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• Blog

  January 5, 2015

  Pope Francis: Man of the Year?

  In the midst of the cold war declared by the NYPD against our ultra-liberal mayor, the hot wars in Ukraine, Syria, and Iraq, I could not help but notice a well-written and hard-hitting piece by traditionalist Catholic attorney Christopher Ferrara for redoubtable Remnant newspaper.

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• Blog

  December 24, 2014

  Christmas and New Year's With Chronicles

  For the last couple of years, this poor little Jewish boy (to paraphrase Taki) has a tradition. Every Christmas, I like to read a novella or a story (with a glass or two or three of spiced wine) that puts me into the holiday mood.

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• Blog

  December 9, 2014

  Eric Garner Case: The Score

  Recently, the Big Burrito erupted into protests after Italian-American Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo was cleared by a grand jury of all criminal responsibility in the death of Black man Eric Garner who died after being allegedly held in a banned chokehold by Pantaleo during an attempt to restrain and arrest him.

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• Blog

  November 4, 2014

  Mi General: Defending Augusto Pinochet at CUNY

  Part of being a paleoconservative is facing down hostile remarks and insults by the usual suspects of the Left and the neocon Right.

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• Blog

  October 20, 2014

  Witnessing Anarcho-Tyranny

  Nowhere is anarcho-tyranny more evident than in this country's criminal courts. A few weeks ago, I was asked to do the arraignment of an older Central European immigrant. His crime? Burning wood in a metal barrel in his own backyard.

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• Blog

  October 6, 2014

  NYC: A Second Amendment-Free Zone, Part II

  The passive aggressive bureaucratic roadblocks such as the co-habitant permission requirement, are surely a violation of the Second Amendment, but unsurprisingly, the mayors and the courts upheld them.

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