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reach our people in Bosnia and Herzegovina.rnOur kids are being woundedrnand killed by Muslim and Croat shellsrnand snipers, too, but nobody abroadrncares about them. There are no limelights,rnno helicopters, no publicity forrnthem. We are stunned by the ignorancernand often arrogance of foreign politiciansrnand media about our history and suffering.rnIf they speak about Sarajevo, theyrnspeak almost...

tuberculosis, heart and kidney diseases,rngeriatric and psychiatric problems increasedrnabout 60 percent. There wasrnpractically no antishock therapy, and therndeath rate immediately after injury hadrnincreased dramatically, partly because ofrnthe lack of fuel for ambulances and thernbureaucratic approach of the U.N. protectionrnforce, which required at least sixrnhours’ clearance before flight. In thernmeantime, most patients died.rnFinally, the British MPs...

VITAL SIGNSrnRELIGIONrnReligion and thernWorkplacernby Charles R. Helmsrnand Jeffs. TurnerrnHarassed any hirelings lately? Don’trnthink so? Let’s see. Do you referrnto the office Christmas party as arn”Christmas party”? Sing carols and sayrngrace? Invite your employees to join yournfor church? Wear “precious feet” onrnyour lapels and plead with subordinatesrnnot to abort? Lead morning prayers overrnthe P.A. system? The...

tentional infliction of emotional distress.rnBut then, why punish harassment alonernwhen you can curtail Christianity at thernsame time?rnCongress, prodded by over 100,000rnwrathful letters and calls, eventually liftedrnits snout from the public trough longrnenough to turn a sleepy eye on thernEEOC. On May 26, 1994, in HousernResolution 446, some 100 members ofrnCongress expressed their “sense” thatrnthe new...

man.rnMs. Lichtenstein: Well, I must tellrnyou that the man part will be troubling.rnSurely, you must have meant “a holyrnperson.”rnRabbi Rosenberg: No, dear lady, Irnmeant man. The Lubavitcher rebbe hasrnalways been a man. It wouldn’t workrnany other way.rnMs. Lichtenstein: Why not? Havernyou tried it? This is, after all, 1994.rnRabbi Rosenberg: Well, for one thing,rnthe Lubavitcher rebbe...

books would disappear far more rapidlyrnfrom the shelves of my favorite bouquinistesrnthan those of other writers presumablyrnin fashion.rnConsiderations of Cabell are todayrnsadly limited to Wilson’s excellent essayrnin The Bit between My Teeth, the thirdrnvolume of his chronicles, and to VernonrnParrington’s thoughtful assessment inrnMain Currents in American Thought. Forrnthe rest, we have enthusiastic one-linersrnby George Bernard...

troubadour romances), skirts but doesrnnot reject the Platonic wisdom of Diotima,rnand presents the Helens and Ettarresrnand various Dames of his creation. Inrnthe end he arrives at the paradox that inrnreaching for the ideal of Woman, to possessrnis to lose. (To today’s martial andrnsordid feminists, Cabell’s delineationsrnwould be repugnant, if not unconstitutional.)rnIn The Rivet in Grandfather’srnNeck—rivet...

was optioned for one year by Sir PeterrnHall in London. But no British actorrnwould take the role. Since Hall’s optionrnlapsed, 2 has been produced inrnWilliamstown, Massachusetts, and at thernPhiladelphia Festival for New Plays, butrnit has certainly not received the productionsrnit deserves, unquestionably becausernof its treatment of a painful subject. Irnsometimes wonder if it’s the honesty...

quite different; it is an ironclad system,rnnot only with bureaucracies reminiscentrnof socialism, but also with myriad agents,rnadmen, with publicity tormenting yournday and night, with bank employees callingrnyou at all hours (preferably whenrnyou dine or nap) to sell you, in theirrnsyrupy voice, investments, higher rates,rnpiano legs or Caribbean cruises. There isrnalso the cultural dimension. The culturernof...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnAbbey Lives!rnFifteen years after I arrived in the West,rnI can no longer recall how I first becamernaware of Edward Abbey, though I dornknow that I had been the book editor ofrna national magazine for nearly four yearsrnbefore the name penetrated my consciousness.rn(The parochialism of thernNew York literati.) But I remember...

to extinction, but that of humanity andrnthe civilization it has created—especiallyrnin America. As Bishop points out,rnAbbey’s interest was not in saving thernworld (which he regarded as unsalvageable,rnsordid, and barbaric) but in savingrnAmerica, a special land inhabited by thernchosen people who had created forrnthemselves the Constitution and the Billrnof Rights. It was this interest, as much...

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“%mg America’s Foundationrnis a refuge for students; seeking an alternative to the politicallyrncorrect’ envlironinent enforced on many campuses.”rnNirnX’^-bTvrn4^^/.rn^ •W^. ^rm. KTernLibertas is the Foundatiok ^’^^lo,rnnewsletter published six time,rnreports on Foundation events, n^ ^’•.rndents who have been successful coi:rning campus programs and battling po.rncaT-eorrectness. ^rnFree. – ‘ ^rn^m V.rnrnRonald Reaganrnow more than ever conservativernstudents mustrnbe prepared...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, jr.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnChristine HaynesrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O./. Brown, Katherine Dalton,rnSamuel Francis, George Garrett,rnE. Christian Kopff, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, Jacob Neusner,rnJohn Shelton Reed, Momcilo SelicrnEDITORIAL SECRET’RYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCOMPOSITION MANAGERrnAnita FedorarnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rocklord Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn934 North Mam Street, Rockford,...

tenure or currieulum decisions. This isrnthe man praised by Craycraft for hisrn”devastating salvo against liberal intolerancern—Jonathan ChavesrnChairman, Department of East AsianrnLanguages and LiteraturesrnGeorge Washington UniversityrnWashington, D.C.rnKenneth R. CraycraftrnReplies:rnProfessor Chaves says that a “basic unacknowledged”rnpremise of deconstructionistrnthought is that everything isrnalways political. Wrong. At least, insofarrnas Stanley Fish might be loosely called arndeconstructionist (a dubious premise),rnhe...

est, the General Assembly opposedrnthem.rnAccordingly, the dissenting justicesrnsoundly refused the Chicago Bar Association’srnclaim that the Eight is Enoughrnproposal was not a suitable subject for arncitizen-initiated referendum. JusticernMoses Harrison, with Justices JamesrnHeiple and Benjamin Miller joining himrnin dissenting from the majority opinion,rnwrites, “Section 3 of article XIV reservedrnto the people of this State the right tornadvance...

like, say, Russian or Irish immigrants.rnIn issuing his executive order, MayorrnGiuliani called the policy “indefensible”rnas a constitutional matter. His opinionrnwas validated a few days later, in thernform of a state supreme court ruling inrnfavor of one of several white male-ownedrnconstruction companies that had suedrnthe city after their low bids went forrnnaught. Justice Walter B. Tolub...

ignores completely. Davis says: “See, Irndon’t believe love should be that way.rn/ don’t think love should be genderspecificrn[emphasis mine].” About whichrnKatie Couric says nothing] She simplyrnasks another unrelated question!rnWhat is her relationship now with herrnparents, the Reagans? Well, “whatever itrnis, is OK,” says Davis, sounding like thern12-step nerd-nurturer Stewart Smalleyrnwho satirizes modern psychology on SaturdayrnNight...

Wilma, played by Elizabeth Perkins, whornis too attractive and sexy for the role. Arnfight ensues when Wilma confronts Fredrnover the disappearance of their savings.rnFred, hostile at first, wilts under a littlernpressure from Wilma and reveals thatrnhe has given their savings to the Rubblesrnso they can adopt a child. Wilma forgivesrnFred because of his sacrifice forrntheir...

said a local “environmental educationrnspecialist.” This is an idea called “precvcling,”rnwhich I tliought meant dreamingrnal:)out going on a bike ride. Guessrnnot.rnIt really bugs me to have other peoplern”encourage” me. Nothing is stoppingrnthese people from never using anythingrnever again. Unfortunately, there isn’trnmuch stopping them from trying to stoprnme from using things either, which isrntheir real goal....

Myths to Kill Forrn”I’ve got a little list, I’ve got a little list,”rntwitters the Lord High Executioner in arnfamous line of Gilbert and Sullivan’srnMikado, and indeed these days whorndoesn’t have one? Abortion protesterrnPaul Hill seems to have had a little list ofrnhis own, and early in the morning onrnJuly 28 of this year he leveled...

gument, expressed to me by Christianrnactivist John Lofton, that if the model ofrnChristian activism is that of the earlyrnChurch, it ought to be clear that neitherrnJesus nor the Apostles nor any of thernChurch Fathers ever advocated violencernagainst the pagan Roman state, nor didrnany Christian ever engage in violence;rnthe point back then was not to stop...

the Confederates who took up armsrnagainst what they perceived as tyrannyrnunderstood that it is force, and not discussionrnor votes or laws, that ultimatelyrndetermines the courses in which politicalrnpower runs, and the risk they assumedrnwhen they took up arms was no largerrnthan what they would have faced hadrnthey remained peaceful.rnWhat we face today is far more...

PERSPECTIVErnWhy Monkeys Get Fat in Banana Republicsrnby Thomas FlemingrnMuch to no one’s surprise, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leonrnwas elected President of Mexico this past August. Therernwere the usual cries of foul both from the opposition partiesrnand from citizens’ groups monitoring the election: insufficientrnballots were provided to certain polling places where the oppositionrnwas strong, so it...

entire Soviet Empire. In making death or imprisonment thernpenalty for incompetence and corruption, Stalin got rid of thernGorbachc’S before they could do much damage.rnHow much of Stalin’s persecution was policy, how much instinctrnor mere malice, remains a subject of debate amongrnpathologists who continue to study Soviet history. Khrushchevrnapparently thought Stalin knew what he was doing,...

isfied with the results in Mexico, where victory goes to a candidaternhandpicked by the outgoing president and representingrnthe party that pays most of the voters and controls the media,rnthe schools, and the economy. If the PRI had two wings,rncalled Democrats and Republicans, it would be a mirror imagernof our own partitocrazia.rnFor years Americans have been...

50 percent increase from the previous election in 1990. Thatrnmoney is not coming proportionately from the American people.rnIt’s coming disproportionately from a powerful minorityrnof corporate-oriented donors. That destroys any fair system ofrnrepresentation, and it’s not acknowledged now by Congress.rnThey don’t talk about the problem of corruption. They justrntalk about the burdens that thev experience in...

have. It is based on the notion that health involves people takingrnmore responsibility personally, learning more about theirrnbodies so as not to assault their bodies, as most of us do. Secondly,rnhealth involves stopping the poisoning of the environment.rnAnd, thirdly, as for the medical profession, it should bernbased not on profit, but on service, on the...

backyards, that their jobs are to watch television and go out andrnbuy stuff. That destroys America. That destroys community.rnThat destroys the human mind. Also, sovereignty is a very importantrnidea. Ironically, Buchanan is afraid of the Worid TradernOrganization because the environmentalists might get controlrnover it. Ralph Nader and the Sierra Club and myself arernworried that the...

a rip-roaring debate on foreign aid, guaranteed foreign loans, orrnmilitary bases in Europe and Japan, to name just three examples?rnBoth parties are eommitted to these expensive rackets, yetrnsurely among the general population liberals and conservativesrncan at least agree that public money ought to stay withinrnUnited States borders.rnThe list of issues that—as they say—transcend party lines...

Statesman, P.O. Box 2635, Denver, Colorado 80201)rnThe Libertarian Party’s national platform is the most intellectuallyrnrigorous of any third party’s, but in actual practice thisrnparty becomes unpredictable. It favors eliminating taxes, endingrncentral banking, stopping foreign aid and interventionism,rnbut also opening borders completely (thereby one-upping JulianrnSimon) and repealing state-level restrictions on pornography.rnThe national party has trumpeted NAFTA...

party of Governor Walter Hickel, Nixon’s former Secretary ofrnthe Interior, wfio was elected in 1990. But factionalism hasrnsplintered the group to produce the Alaska First Party, whichrnHickel may join. The name is the most appealing and repeatablernparty name to come along in years. Indeed, why not putrnAlaska first? Or Montana, Idaho, Nevada, or Texas?rnThe Peace...

That is why groups like the United States Taxpayers Partyrnrepresent praiseworthy pioneer efforts to give authentic conservativesrnsomeone to vote for besides whomever NortheasternrnRockefeller interests choose to serve up. Another alternativernmight be the Constitution Party being formed by movie producerrnAaron Russo (1590 Lindacrest Dr., Beverly Hills, Californiarn90210), which promises libertarianism without the baggage.rnThis is probably just...

velopments in American history. Senator Robert La Folletternwas nominated for President in Cleveland by the new ProgressivernParty on July 6, 1924. According to the New York Times ofrnJuly 12, 1924, which surveyed the ballot access restrictionsrnthat La Follette faced, in no state had the petition deadlinernpassed. In 30 of the 48 states, the petition deadline...

turnout has never been worse. Only 50 percent of the ehgiblernvoters cast a ballot in the presidential election in 1988. Turnoutrnin the 1992 presidential primaries was the worst ever for presidentialrnprimaries. The November 1992 election brought a reprieve,rnup to 55 percent, but primaries and elections sincernthen have slumped to new turnout lows. Furthermore, thernsame party,...

. . . in committee. Once such a bill reaches the floor and isrnpassed by both houses of a legislature and signed by the governor,rnno one would argue that, because it should not havernreached the floor of one of the legislative chambers, it was invalid.rnA legislative committee, like an initiative petition, is arnscreening procedure, and...

public schools, that is state-run schools, were “necessary for thernpreservation of democracy.” (Did George Washington attendrnpublic schools?) And so the attacks started. Farris wanted tornban books. Farris wanted to “destroy” public schools. (Farris,rnin fact, wanted to decentralize the state school system, movingrnpower from the state bureaucracy to locally elected schoolrnboards, which are now manned by...

normally moderate “leaders” such as Senator Dole are “fallingrnin step”? Senator Dole is now presumably pondering the faternof his own valued respectability, the hint having been dropped.rnSo far, the campaign against the Christian right insurgencyrnhas appeared only to strengthen the resolve of the rebels, andrneven the party establishment has felt compelled to voice somernprotest over...

decisions and knowledge. They alsorntend to be strong advocates of laissezfairerncapitalism, even more so thanrnmembers of the better-known ChicagornSchool. Deriving the principles of economicsrnfrom self-evident axioms, thernAustrians see the free market not merelyrnas the most efficient allocator of scarcernresources, but, more importantly, as partrnof the natural order of things.rnGiven the popularity of the pragmatic-rnempiricist Chicagoites...

trust is equated with wise governance,rnand ignorance is masked by the universalrncircus into which this kind of poHtics degenerates.rnLani Guinier places herself in thisrngrand tradition, and at the same time, byrnrepublishing an article that calls certainrnaspects of this legacy into question, confusesrnus as to her purposes. On June 4,rn1993, upon the withdrawal of her namernfor...

implement various mechanisms, nullificationrnand the concurrent majorityrnamong them, to protect the rights andrnliberties of the minority section. Althoughrnhe never abandoned his attachmentrnto the Union, he maintained thatrnhis rivals had perverted it by transformingrnthe government into an instrumentrnof patronage.rnCalhoun suffered to behold the nationrnabandoned to party hacks andrnspoilsmen. Only honorable, autonomous,rnand dispassionate gentlemen whornwere not prey...