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ucation goes in one ear and straight outrnthe other; a Commission for RacialrnEquality officer, visiting a Birminghamrnschool a few years ago, despairingly reportedrnthat “Twenty years of anti-racistrneducation have had no effect at all!”rnBut whatever British reaction therernmay or may not be in the future, thernaffectionately remembered Londonrnof Chaucer, Marlowe, Wordsworth,rnJohnson, Conan Doyle, Dickens, NoelrnCoward, and...

Nicaragua and Grenada are the most importantrnevents in Latin America sincern1959.” Eheu fugaces, indeed. The newrn”revolutionary” Grenadian government,rnestablished by a 1979 coup and to berneliminated by a bloody massacre in 1983,rnset up embassies in Cuba, Libya, Algeria,rnNorth Korea, Syria, and (later) Russia.rnEverything seemed to be running theirrnway. The appeal sent to the British governmentrnby neighboring...

VITAL SIGNSrnSOCIETYrnCovert Policing inrnModern Americarnby Philip JenkinsrnWhen the former communist blocrndisintegrated, the opening ofrnsecret pohce files in several Europeanrncountries demonstrated the incrediblyrnthorough hold that the clandestine staternhad possessed over ordinary citizens, hirnEast Gcrmam’, for example, State Securityrn(Stasi) files revealed the existencernof vast networks of control and surveillancernin an’ area of life that might havernproduced dissidence...

to destroy or discredit their rivals. In thernABSCAM case, it was alleged that therndecision to target politicians in this particularrnarea reflected the Carter administration’srndesire to subvert potential supportersrnof rival candidates in thernforthcoming presidential primaries.rnThis charge was apparently without substance,rnbut the opportunity for selectiverninvestigation and prosecution is perilous.rnNor need the political implicationsrninvolve such grand national divisions,rnas...

nipulates both sides.rnIf this seems Hke fantasy, it is usefulrnto recall some events closer to home,rnsuch as the spectacular case in the 1980’srnthat began with Frank Varelli, who wasrnemployed by the FBI to investigate thernpossible subversive groups opposingrnAmerican policies in Central America,rngroups such as the Salvadoran solidarityrnorganization CISPES. The ensuing investigationrnwas required for bureaucraticrnreasons to...

need is a fundamental reexamination ofrnour priorities in dealing with criminalrnand deviant behavior and a reconsiderationrnof whether the remedies proposedrnfor issues such as drugs and public corruptionrnare not worse than the disease.rnWe need to reemphasize the absoluternneed to respect privacy and personalrncommunication, except where seriousrnpublic interests are genuinely at stake.rnWe must assess the value of...

ter”: next on Donahue.rnThe reports of large quantities ofrnpeanut butter in the celebrity’s basementrnprove to be false.rnAt a press conference, a former classmaternannounces that he regularly sharedrnpeanut butter sandwiches with thernSnack Czar nominee.rnDay 7. President Clinton withdraws hisrnnomination.rnHillary Clinton denies rumors ofrnpeanut futures trading; “There’s no evidence.”rnSources say the White Housernstaff is in disarray: “It’s...

region known for its devotion to thernBible to have lower rates of divorce.rnThe truth is, Scriptural teachings dornappear to make a difference among therndevout. According to data compiled byrnthe National Opinion Research Center,rnthe prevalence of divorce among weeklyrnchurchgoers in the United States is 17rnpercent. This is less than half that forrnpeople who claim “no religion”...

The Pacific LegalrnFoundationrnby Jim ChristiernOnly a few years ago prospects forrnthe Sacramento-based Pacific LegalrnFoundation, the country’s oldestrn”conservative” public interest law firm,rnhardly seemed promising. In 1986, PLFrnpresident and CEO Ronald Zumbrunrndecided to indulge in deficit spending torncontinue unpopular land use and takingsrnlitigation. The legacy of judicial activismrnfrom the 1960’s and 70’s was alsornhardly conducive to staff...

€^rn1994 IN REVIEWrnX5^rntx^^-^^rnHLrnPROTECTED BY SMITH & WESSON; LIFE, LIBERTY,rnAND PROPERTY—January 1994—Thomas Flemingrnon the home as one’s eastlc, Roger D. McGrath onrnthe virtue of armed communities, and RichardrnMaxwell Brown on the “no duty to retreat”rndoctrine in American law. Plus SamuelrnFrancis on the new populism and a reviewrnof Walter Laqueur’s B/act Hundred: ThernRise of the Extreme Right...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnThe Great PortcullisrnIn the third week of August someonernpushes the button and brings summer tornan end in the Mountain West, thoughrnbeautiful weather and Indian summerrnlie ahead. Typically the change comesrnwith the discharge of a powerful thunderrncell, seemingly no different from anyrnother electrical storm but collapsingrninto a gray leaden overcast instead...

October the tourists are gone from thernYellowstone and have been replaced byrnflocks of waterfowl without number,rnblackening the glassy surface of YellowstonernLake. Trout feed ravenously beforernwinter, and the fishing is superb. Arndozen years ago my wife and I, hurryingrnto make Rock Creek near Philipsburg,rnMontana, for the night, called it quits atrnHebgen Lake on the Madison Riverrnaround...

Rush Limbaugh explains why he gives thisrnextraordinaiy anthology by Reagan Cabinetrnmember William Bennett his unqualifiedrnendorsement:rn”The Book of Virtues is built on an oldrnphilosophical principle nearly forgotten inrnthe public discussion (and in certain recentrnpresidential campaigns), but it is an idea Irnhave long championed: Character matters.rnWhat a concept! But beware — somernof the lessons in (his book...

Young America’s Foundationrnis a refuge for students seeking an alternative to the politicallyrncorrect’ environment enforced on many campuses.”rnLibertas is the Foundation’s generalrnnewsletter published six times yearly. Itrnreports on Foundation events, noting studentsrnwho have been successful conductingrncampus programs and battling politicalrncorrectness.rnFree.rnRonald ReaganrnWow more than ever conservativernstudents mustrnbe prepared to defendrntheir beliefs. Knowledge andrninformation are key weaponsrnin...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnEDITORIAL ASSISTANTrnMichael WashburnrnART DIREGTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O./. Brown, Katherine Dalton,rnSamuel Francis, George Garrett,rnE. Christian Kopff, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, ]acob Neusner,rn]ohn Shelton Reed, Momcilo SelicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICATION DIREGTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnPRODUCTION SECRETARYrnAnita CandyrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn934 North Mam Street, Rockford,...

estly and openly admit this. After all,rnnone other than the Lord Jesus Christrncommands us, in Matthew 5:37: “Butrnlet your communication be, Yea, yea;rnNav, nay: for whatsoever is more thanrnthese Cometh of evil.” The last thing wernneed in our political process is more peoplernspeaking double-talk, fluent gibberish,rnabout their real goals. I mean, if yourncan’t trust a...

Most people associated with publicrncolleges and universities seem to interpretrnthe First Amendment as guaranteeingrnfreedom from, rather than freedomrnof, religion. Failing that, they concludernthat religion is something obscene, tornbe tolerated only as long as it is conductedrnbehind closed doors betweenrnconsenting adults.rnMany people seem to think that religionrnbelongs only in private colleges. Privaterncolleges are free to teach...

served.”rnA more honest version of events wasrnreported in the equally anti-Denny’srnWashington Post a year ago: “Six blackrnSecret Service agents ordered food at arnDenny’s in Annapolis that took so longrnto arrive, they say, that in effect theyrnwere denied service. . . . The six blackrnagents sat together. Their supervisor,rnalso black, sat among white agents. Allrn21 agents,...

terested individuals we can find, willrnmake sure our governor, state representatives,rnstate senators, state attorney general,rneven county sheriffs hear our message:rn”Get Washington out of here! Thern10th Amendment says they don’t belongrnhere! Ohio is to be governed byrnOhioans, as dictated by the Constitution!”rnOur goal is a minimum of 100,000rnletters. Testimony before the HousernCommittee will come soon, followed...

hard-earned money to pay for extra policernand to repair the damage left in thernwake of the “celebrants,” while makingrnplans for the next “celebration”?rnOne need not be Nostradamus to predictrnthat there will be another incidentrnof mindless vandalism by ethnic groupsrnwho are all too aware that in America werndon’t punish acts of violence, looting,rnor desecration of our...

Religious WrongrnDespite the ocean of ink that has beenrnspilled in the last several months on thern”religious right,” perhaps the most sensiblerncomment about it, or at least aboutrnits journalistic coverage and politicalrnanalysis, was penned by John F. Persinosrnin an article published in the magazinernCampaigns and Elections last September.rn”When examined with a coldlyrnnonpartisan eye,” wrote Mr. Persinos,...

right in the 1970’s owes little to the abstruserntheology, obscure liturgical controversies,rnand head-spinning politicalrntheory with which so many conservativerneggheads occupied themselves in thern1950’s and 60’s. What its emergencernhas to do with is a sociopolitical phenomenonrnthat is far broader and farrnmore significant as a world-historicalrnforce than either organized conservatismrnor the religious right itself perceives.rnThe “religious right”...

interests. While the religious right is effectivelyrnarmed with an ideology and arnworldview that enhances its militancy, itsrnenergy in mounting effective politicalrnand cultural opposition at the local level,rnand its alienation from the dominantrnelite and the elite’s regime in thernleviathan state, the movement’s aims remainrntoo limited. The real problem withrnthe religious right is that, in the longrnrun,...

Credit In Unumrnbv Richard MoorernTo fill the moral voidrnwhen God Almighty dies,rnsome shall believe in Freud,rnsome in the Nobel Prize.rnAll-yielding, nothing loath,rnSibyl believed in both.rnHer faith was eager, touching;rnit made my heart glow warmer.rnI liked to see her clutchingrnthat holy man, the former,rnbut I could best get at herrnby lashing at the latter.rn”A Nobel Prize...

PERSPECTIVErnThe Lesson of the Roaring Parrotrnby Thomas FlemingrnThere is an old cliche that no man is a hero to his valet.rnSome have been tempted to reply that it depends on thernman, but I think it depends, rather, on the valet. To an observantrneye, the world is peopled by ordinary men making strenuous,rneven heroic efforts to...

the businesses listed in The Shepherd’s Guide have not beenrncontent simply to list themselves, but they have gone so far asrnto sign a statement of faith, stipulating that “I have received JesusrnChrist as my personal Savior” and pledging “to hold thernhighest Biblical code of ethics in my business transactions.”rnThe local newspaper has been uncharacteristically civil...

action agreements with the NAACP or Jesse Jackson. If it is onlyrnbecause they feel threatened, let them begin to understandrnthat majorities can threaten as well as minorities. At one time,rnthat list included the many popular soft drink companies andrnmany fast-food chains. My solution is to drink iced tea and stoprnat the diner. Down in Georgia,...

Simon Saysrnby Thomas FlemingrnOratorio San GiovannirnUrbino, Good Friday 1994rnYou ask me who I am or what I was,rnthis boy cocking his leg to check a toernfor thorns, painted in plaster, obliviousrnto nature-boy who’s read too much Thoreaurnducking a stranger in the stream; the birdrnfluttering down on cue to scare the hicks;rnhysterical women swearing that they’d...

tions of some of its clergy. Not surprisingly, many Episcopaliansrnabandoned the church, usually feeling that it had abandonedrnthem.rnThe chaos of the 1970’s was understandable in the contextrnof the political upsurges of these years, particularly the churches’rnweary quest to become “relevant”; but whatever the causes,rnthis was a decade that most Episcopalians should have beenrnglad to see...

subject of enormous attention in the Episcopalian press in thernlast three years, as it serves to discredit the idea of an ordainedrn(and still predominantly male) ministry. It also supports thernview that the church exploits and oppresses women, whose positionrnmust be reformed through theological and doctrinalrnchange.rnNone of these views, however outre or apparently unacceptable,rnwill draw the...

but they, too, follow the fashion of approving “global interventionism.”rnThey did so during the three centuries of thernCrusades, although they try to forget this. To be liberated thenrnwere the True Cross, the Holy Land, and Christians living underrnMuslim rule. In the perspective of the year 1087, this wasrnjust as essential and urgent as putting Mr....

cars without one.) So commonplace has the ribbon becomernthat the very gay activists who endorsed it have begun denouncingrnit as “meaningless.” (The last straw was the homelyrnmodel who had the ribbon tattooed over and over, all the wayrndown her spine—perhaps an attempt to endear herself to designers.rnIt worked.)rnThis presents a problem for me, too, this...

emplars. Perhaps we should not be surprised that the residualrnChristianity of America has been effeminated and nutrasweetenedrnuntil it is everything Nietzsche railed againstrnand worse, in Walker Percy’s words “a fornication of spirit.” Itrnmay very well be that the “last man” has arrived, when a culturernthat used to launch Crusades kneels before the figures of dyingrnpromiscuous...

bottom line, the only language in which He can speak to us isrnpunishment and ruin. If all we care about is good sex, long life,rnand lots of money, then those are precisely the things He willrndeprive us of—in His mercy.rnBut why is God so especially outraged at those two specialrnclasses of sin—idolatry and impurity? At...

that traditional vision of man. That view of man was thernsource of ideas like individual rights, social justice, and thernsanctity of human life. It is from the mouth of Christ—notrnMalthus or Darwin—that we hear the injunction to feed thernhungry, clothe the naked, and tend the sick. Shall we reject Hisrnauthority on one occasion—sexual ethics—and invoke...

lishment feminists who see the worldrnthrough a prism of sex and gender andrnwho “seek to persuade the pubhc thatrnAmerican women are not the free creaturesrnthat we think we are”) havernusurped the women’s movement fromrnthe more classically liberal “equity feminists.”rnWhile Who Stole Feminism? repeatsrnarguments made by other writersrn(such as Philip Jenkins, writing in Chronicles),rnand while it...

tion to low self-esteem among womenrn(as among men) is to unlearn the valuesrnand knowledge our patriarehal societyrnhas instilled in us and to relearn our truernselves through the discovery of an innerrnchild. She is dead wrong. We havernalready had too much unlearning andrnrelearning, and our civilization is muchrnthe worse for it. We need real, hardcorernlearning, and...

tral character, and his brother Boyd, orrnbetween some of the older men, are vintagernAmerican Rural. An example ofrnthis occurs early in the novel in a conversationrnbetween Billy and an old manrndriving a Model A pickup. Billy has beenrnout setting traps for a female wolf, butrndoesn’t particularly want to say so to thernold man who has...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter FromrnInner Israelrnby Jacob NeusnerrnGhettoizing Jews,rnHijacking JudaismrnImagine what kind of organizationrnwould adopt the following resolutions: tornoppose state and local referenda andrnstatutes restricting the civil rights of gays;rnto support the use of fetal tissue for thernpurpose of life-saving or life-enhancing(!)rnresearch; to advocate a single-payerrnsystem as the most likely means ofrnfulfilling the principles articulated inrnpast Organization resolutions...

lutions will be adopted that speak notrnonce of God and the Torah of Sinai butrnof the ethnic language of “continuityrnand survival.” “Judaism teaches” andrn”the far left of the Democratic Party advocates”rn—select your subject, the predicaternwill be the same.rnAmerican politics, however, do notrndivide up among ethnic groups, formingrnrace-coalitions behind negotiated truths.rnOn the contrary, you do not...

Moscow over the past three years thatrnhave included Westerners (mainly, butrnnot entirely, civilians) experienced inrntroop morale and social welfare. By invitationrnas a national director of the NavyrnLeague of the United States, 1 attendedrnone of these meetings, on the “SocialrnDimensions of Military Reform,”rnthis past May. In addition to a largernAmerican contingent, delegations fromrnBritain, Canada, Denmark, Germany,rnthe...

and the relatively well-off, regardless ofrntheir party allegiance, both told me thernsame thing: “In our turbulent history, inrnour fight for freedom, we went throughrneven worse times and survived with honor;rnthe truth will finally prevail. Duringrnthe war in 1914-18, more than 25 percentrnof our nation was exterminated byrnGerman and Austro-Hungarian Kulturtrdgerrn(bearers of culture)—and wernare still here!”rnWhat...