All In The Family, the 1970’s TV series in which Norman Lear sought to convince the world that Middle Americans were ignorant bigots like Archie Bunker, recently had its twentieth anniversary special on CBS. It brought back fond memories. Sure, the show was always—as Archie would have put it—your basic pinko propaganda through and through,...
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May 1, 1990April 21, 2022Cultural Revolutions
Suspended Without Pay
Andy Rooney, the 60 Minutes humorist, found himself suspended without pay by CBS in February after a homosexual magazine, The Advocate, attributed racial comments (“blacks have watered down their genes because the less intelligent ones are the ones that have the most children”) to him—comments he denies making, and for which The Advocate‘s reporter has...
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March 1, 1990April 21, 2022Cultural Revolutions
Who Is Insulted?
Senator Paul Simon (D-IL), former presidential candidate, wants to abolish Chief Illiniwek, mascot of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Chief, a student who performs a war dance at halftime during UI football and basketball games, has recently been denounced by campus malcontents, on the usual grounds (“racism,” etc.). Simon, attending the “36th Annual...
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August 1, 1988April 21, 2022Reviews
Hatching Armageddon
Among public officials, “the arms control process” is sacrosanct. The minority are willing to voice relatively narrow and legalistic complaints about specific treaties, never failing to assure us of their support for arms control per se and their eagerness to go back and get a “better” treaty. Their case, however, would be considerably enhanced were...
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May 1, 1988April 21, 2022Reviews
American Sentinel
Those of us who have helped to found conservative campus journals envy The American Spectator. Born in 1967 into modest circumstances—as upstart samizdat published out of a farmhouse by four Indiana University students—it has gone on to achieve nationwide distribution, a distinguished list of subscribers, and a 500-page anniversary collection of its work from a...
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May 1, 1988April 21, 2022Cultural Revolutions
Genderless Society Just Around the Corner
The genderless society is just around the corner. Eager to oblige, the Pentagon has ordered a series of “reforms” that will admit women to some 4,000 military positions previously reserved to men. The only restriction remaining is the congressionally mandated ban on women in direct combat, and even that barrier is increasingly porous (“we will...