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Walters. In this age of celebrity journalismrnpracticed by newspeople who wantrnto hinction as hookers while being perceivedrnas virgins, it is understandable thatrnWalters enjoys a status even greater thanrnDiane Sawyer’s while at the same timernconducting interviews that are cheesierrnthan Sawyer’s. It was Barbara Walters,rnyou’ll recall, who asked the questions thatrnrevealed the delusional emotional workingsrnof Monica Lewinsky.rnFinding...

peatedly likened student radicals to Europeanrn”fascists.” My colleague found thisrnremarkable, given the fact that Hofstadterrnhad spent decades agonizing over thern”paranoid style” of the American nativistrnright. For Hofstadter and others of likernmind, however, the campus radicalsrnwere not progressive reformers but hatersrnof “liberal democracy.” Some of them,rnin deference to black nationalists, took arnpro-Arab, anti-Israel stand; and this...

open to restructuring than GermanicrnProtestant ones. The human landscapernwas too cluttered, especially by a well-organizedrnChurch and tightly-knit families,rnto favor a central state or a revolutionaryrnideology demanding absolute power. Atomizedrnsocieties that stress individualrngratification are more promising terrainrnfor such an enterprise. For these reasons,rnLatin fascism turned out to be a highlyrnornate but rudimentary instrument ofrnmanagerial control. Listening...

crwise might have been an all-too-faniiliarrnnarrative arc. The formidable inwardnessrnof his acting makes ns feel his character’srnheartbreak and brooding angerrnever)- step of the way.rnWhen Maximns, badly wonnded, escapesrnhis vvordd-be execntioners, he fallsrninto the hands of Proximo, a former gladiator.rnThis impresario of the arena buysrnand trains slaves to butcher or bernbutchered for the enjoyment of the...

son after the show.rnUnlike Gladiator, Gregory Hoblit’srnFrequency transcends mortal limitationsrn—at least temporarily, which is onlyrnfitting for its time-travel premise.rnAt the sentimental heart of this film isrna fairly typical, if seldom discussed, wishfulfillmentrnfantasy: the desire to reachrnback in time and prevent the catastrophesrnthat have already befallen us. Whornwouldn’t want to encourage a long-deadrnparent to quit smoking...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, ]r.rnThe CentaurrnI used to make fun of them, those barelegged,rnball-capped figures grunting underrnthe weight of 90-poiind loads givingrnthem the appearance of Neil Armstrongrnon the moon or a man bearing his ownrncoffin on his back: tall, headless silhouettesrnlurching from around a bend in therntrail to dispel the illusion of primordialrnwilderness and...

Jap truck and stood, feet apart and handsrnin the pockets of their hiking shorts, tornobserve the situation from behind darkrnsunshades.rn”Why don’t I see what a Ughter vehiclerncan do?” Tim offered.rnNot even Toyota can walk on water.rnThis one made a fair try at doing so beforernretreating hurriedly to a reassuringrnmud base a few feet from the...

CHRONICLES’ BACK ISSUES, TAPES, AND BOOKSrnChronicles Overstock Sale—Take 20% Off ALL ORDERS!rnTHE FUNDAMENTAL TfflNGS OF LIFE: PAIN, KNOWLEDGE, DUTY, ANDrnSEX—^July 1993—Patrick Reilly on the purpose of pain, George Watson on combatingrnmoral skepticism, and Thomas Molnar on the ideology of technology. Plus John Loftonrnon sex and the military, Jacob Neusner on “the historical Jesus,” and Momcilo...

THE ROCKFORD INSTITUTE’SrnTHIRD ANNUAL SUMMER SCHOOLrnA classical republic: the American Founders’ dream . . . The armed citizen: fromrnMarathon to the militia . . . The pagan prophets: why Christians should study Greek . . .rn”The Greek Roots of Christendom”rn1-5 August 2000rnspecial lectures:rn”The Art of War in Ancient Greece” and “America’s Homeric Period”rnSpecial dinner event:rn”The...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnEXECUTIVE EDITORrnScott P. RichertrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, Jr.rnART DIRECTORrnH. Ward SterettrnDESIGNERrnMelanie AndersonrnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnKatherine Dalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rnPhilip Jenkins, J.O. Tate, MichaelrnWashburn, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, Donald Livingston,rnWilliam Mills, William Murchison,rnAndrei Navrozov, Jacob NeusnerrnFOREIGN AFFAIRS EDITORrnSrdja TrifiovicrnLEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORrnStephen B. PresserrnRELIGION EDITORrnHarold O.J. BrownrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnCindy LinkrnPUBLISHERrnThe Rockford InstituternA publication oLI’he Rockford...

arrested. According to the independentrnHuman Rights and National ReconcihationrnCommission in Havana, ahnost 600rnpeople have been temporarily detainedrnsince November, and the commissionrnhas documented 350 political prisoners.rnThey call it the worst crackdown in arndecade.rnDr. Oscar Elias Bisect, a medical doctor,rnv’as fired from his job after protestingrnlate-term abortions at a government hospitalrnwhere he worked and continued tornenrage the...

United States personnel.rnThe father has remained and has siredrnanother Httle bov. If EHan is returned tornhis father, it will be to lie under the controlrnof a stepmother and in compehtionrnwith her son, which is traditionalK’ arnheinous situation.rnI cannot agree with your conclusion,rnand I am vcr’ displeased with the authoritativerntone of your article.rnI will not renew...

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnCONTEMPORARY JOURNALISMrnsuffers from many problems; to help usrnunderstand them, a quick imaginativernexereise might be useful. Not too longrnago, the South Carolina legislature hadrnto decide on the emotive issue of whetherrnto remove the Confederate battle flagrnfrom atop the state Capitol. The issuesrninoled were complex, and too familiarrnto be reccled here, but for present purposes,rnlet us...

Z I M B A B W E is in turmoil, and by early-rnMay, the existence of elaborate plans forrna British-led emergency evacuation ofrnthousands of British and other EuropeanrnUnion nationals was confirmed by thernForeign Office in London. Zimbabwe’srnMarxist president, Robert Mugabe, reiteratedrnhis pledge to redistribute whiteownedrnfarms to landless blacks, usingrn”emergency legislation” empowering therngovernment to “confiscate”...

there is no doubt that Zimbabwe’s economyrnwill finally collapse if Mugabe confiscatesrnthe property of the remainingrn3,000 white farmers.rnWlien the consequences of Mugabe’srnaction become obvious, watch out for thernmulhbillion dollar Western plan to bailrnout the Zimbabwean economy. U.S. taxpayers,rnamong others, will have to proprnMugabe up after the remaining whiternfarmers have been killed, robbed, andrnkicked out. Of...

PERSPECTIVErnA Revolution to Save the Worldrnby Thomas FlemingrniD eyond Left and Right” was the tide of the Antiwar.comrn- U conference which brought together Pat Buchanan andrnAlexander Cockburn, Justin Raimondo and Lenora Fulani (tornsay nothing of two Chronicles editors) in the same room (if notrnall at the same time) for a broad critique of the aggressive...

vas lend it to them.rnOn a deeper level, however, the West’s failure to conihat itsrnenemies ean be traced to the verv socioeconomic system it seeksrnto protect. In tlieory, the Cold Warriors were protecting thernpeoples of Britain, France, and the Ihiitcd States against thernexpansion of an evil empire, but nations can only be sncccssfulh’rndefended by people...

rialists or patriotic isolationists.rnTrue democracy, in the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, meansrnthat the government leaves people alone —not simply as individuals,rnbut as families and members of communities. A trulvrndemocratic state may not attempt to engineer an artificial unityrnof diverse regions and peoples, as the Italian fascists did; or suppressrnreligion and shift populations, as Stalin did;...

VIEWSrnA Republic^ Not an EmpirernA Peace Party Is Bornrnby Patrick J. BuchananrnForeign policy, the elites of both Beltway parties tell us, isrnnot an issue in this election year. By that, they mean it isrnoff the table, a matter already decided upon and settled by thosernwho know what is best for America. So they, and their...

I speak as a proud Cold Warrior who supported ever- greatrnanticommunist initiative from the days of JFK to Reagan. AndrnI support a U.S. defense that is seeond to none and a foreign policyrnwhereby America responds resolutely to any attack on Americanrncitizens, honor, or vital interests.rnBut what purpose is served by our shortening the lives of...

how much we know about what is best for other peoples andrncultures. In the words of the great scholar Russell Kirk: “Therernexists no single best form of government for the happiness of allrnmankind. The most suitable form of government depends onrnthe historic experience, the customs, the beliefs, the state of culturern. . . and all...

Robert Kagan for their effort to dress up a barbaric doctrine inrnlanguage that sounds ahnost hke it might have been written byrna civihzed human being, hi the Summer 1996 issue oi ForeignrnAffairs, Kristol and Kagan outline what they call a “neo-Rcaganite”rnforeign policy. Conservatives, it seems, have beenrn”adrift” in the realm of foreign policy since the...

such as James Burnham (a former leader of the Fourth luternational)rnand a whole coven of ex-commies of one sort or another,rnwho were hell-bent on destroying their cx-comradcs in thernKremlin,rnIf we look at the parallel histories of the War Part}’ and the Party’rnof Peace, wc can see a whole series of such realignments,rnstarting with World War...

thorities in order to integrate political and economic development.rnAlso, it is clear from the context that this happy processrnof forming new multistate leviathans was not merely to be confinedrnto Europe, Canada, or Africa, but that this emerging “federalistrnworld” would include the United States, which (accordingrnto Clinton’s worldview) had just led the way in preventingrn”genocide” in...

litical asylum for someone whose gender rights are violated (forrninstance, when women are facing the prospect of genital mutilation).rnCurrently, both religious and feminist activists are tryingrnto extend the same definition to an)’ woman, anywhere,rnwho is involved in proshtution, on the principle that all prostitutesrnare pursuing their careers under duress and are thus arnspecies of sex...

“All the NewsrnUnfit to Print” ignsJ of tJie CtmesJrnVol. 2 No. 7 July 2000rnWhile we yield to no one when it comesrnto disdain for Fidel Castro and contemptrnfor Bill Clinton, we also believe in the mlernof law and in the right of parents to takerncare of their children. From the notionrnthat parents’ rights depend on...

distribution of equipment to Kavaja’s Albanianrnsquatters at the mine, Diana Johnstonernpredicted it all in an amply documentedrnarticle (“Taking over the Trepcarnmines: plans and propaganda”). She examinedrna November 1999 InternationalrnCrisis Group (ICG) paper on the Trepcarnmining complex and a February 23, 2000,rnarticle in the Toronto Star by ICG consultantrnSusan Blaustein. Both called on UNMIK,rnheaded by Bernard...

(1970), as self-destruction and disintegrationrnfollowed hard on the heels of success.rnIt was a good book, well written andrnwell reported. He told a moving storyrnfrom his point of view. His portrait ofrnyou, warts and all, anticipates and mufflesrnat least some of the aftershocks thatrnwill inevitably follow Hart’s more objectivernand thorough biography. Chris’srnbook may help people to...

pathetic self-destruction in minuterndetail, which gradually becomes sornrevolting as to make reading arnpainful act.rnWell, maybe . .. and maybe not.rnI do think, though, that you would bernpleased by what Hart has accomplished.rnHe has interviewed large numbers ofrnpeople who knew you from childhood tornthe end. He has followed the intricaternpaper trails, pursued every conceivablernlead. The biggest...

might derail readers wlio actually carernabout such iuesscuhals. Wise ones, however,rnwou’t let it get in their way because,rnwhether the book is autobiographical orrnnot, its great fun lies in Cherry’s fond, unflincliingrne’e and perfect verbal pitch.rnThis is Chcrr’s sixth full-length bookrnof fiction, but the first for me, althoughrnI’ve long admired her poems. She’srnsmart, daring, rueful, funnv....

^te^^oAn fniiJic/o//j/i G/u6 Comes to ChicagornHow well do you know your Constitution?rnlake this quiz:rnThe l4th Amendment • Good Idea • Bad IdearnThe 17th Amendment • Good Idea • Bad IdearnThe 18th Amendment • Good Idea • Bad IdearnThe 19th Amendment • Good Idea • Bad IdearnOctober 6-7, 2000rnChronicles: A Magazine of American Culture Presents:rnThe n...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnThe Revolution Two-SteprnThe new century, not to speak of the newrnpseudomillennium, had not even begunrnlast December when one of the scintillatingrndebates typical of the intellectual lifernof our epoch suddenly erupted over thernissue of who was the most important personrnof the old century. Time decided thatrnit was undoubtedly Albert Einstein, neoconservativernguru Charles...

pealed or, more likely, “modified,” andrnevetyone — including those who were thernfirst to scorn and condemn the originalrnmeasures —then calmly accepts thernmore moderate step back that permanentlyrninstitutionalizes and locks in thernrevolution.rnThe experimental, university phase ofrnthe revolution lasted for about five or sixrnyears—the end of the 1980’s and the firstrnpart of the 1990’s —before the speechrncodes...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Venicernby Andrei NavrozovrnThe Last Doge’s EnglishrnI now want to add another likeness to ni-rnGogolian gallen-‘ of Venice’s living souls.rnIf this continuing series should start torntake on the blurry aspect of a spinningrncarousel, becoming a kind of soap operarnof flcehng impressions, all I can say in myrndefense is that the development is an intendedrnone,...

erii histon’.rnYet who, even in the ideal world that isrnVenice, a plate that in a most benignrnsense is something like a eentun’ behindrnthe times, can possibly understand whv arnfabiilonsly wealthy bachelor spends hisrndavs photocopying documents and poringrnover book catalogues, when it was hisrnown old man who had started the VenicernFilm Festival and he could be...

the Buchanan Brigades, but it will not bernthe same party with them in charge.rnThe Buchananites segregated themselvesrnin the back of the room, foreshadowingrnthe sundering of the state party.rnRight from the start, the voting rule wasrnchallenged. “Point of order!” cried onernman, a tall mustachioed chap wearing arnReform baseball cap. He was challengingrnthe legality of the meeting...

forwarded the fruit of its not-too-streniiousrnlabor to the ten-member KBE for thernrubber stamp. But the KBE (or “layrnboard,” as the “experts” contemptuouslyrndubbed it) held certain reservationsrnabout the wisdom of conforming Kansasrnto a nationalized educational standard ofrnthe “Goals 2000” variety. Furthermore,rnsome members objected to the presentationrnof the theory of evolution as one ofrnfive “fundamental” concepts uniting...

with mass-mailed threats to all 304rnKansas school districts reminding themrnwhat happens to foolish little educatorsrnwho mention God. The net result,rnwhich could go on for years, is a Mexicanrnstandoff. While these nationallv financedrnoutfits can’t do much about thernreturn of discretionan’ authorit}- to the localrnboards, they are making it loud andrnclear that they will do whatever it...

ball! (formerly Jesselton), destroyed byrnthe Japanese and rebuilt after the war, therndense jungle presses through the hillsrnand comes right down to the sea. Therndistant volcanic mountain, which givesrnthe town its name, can be seen from thernport. The fish and vegetable markets, facingrnthe offshore islands, were cxceptionall-rnlarge and clean. Unlicensed peddlersrnwere gently moved on by the...

shiping the god who protected fishermen,rnand smoke from incense sticks waftedrnmessages to heaven. After nightfall,rnthe skyscrapers along Hong Kong harborrnwere brilliantly illuminated by the annualrnfireworks display controlled by computers.rnCommunist China “guaranteed” thatrnthe government and economy of HongrnKong would remain the same after theyrntook control of the colony. But most ofrnthe Hong Kong money was safely...

The American InterestrnGore’s Foreign Policy:rnMore of the Same, Only WorsernWe have always known that a Gore presidencyrnwould continue the flawed foreignrnpolicy of the Clinton administration;rnbut now we know that—unlikely asrnit may sound—things may be even worsernif the Vice President wins in November.rnOn the last day of April, Al Gore gave hisrnfirst major foreign policy speech...

VITAL SIGNSrnRELIGIONrnA Christian Critiquernof AmericanrnForeign Policyrnby Jean-Marc BerthoudrnMy last (and only other) visit to thernUnited States was early in 1986. Irnwas visiting the Capitol at the invitationrnof a friend who, at the time, was workingrnfor a Republican member of the Senate.rnIt was on the day of President Reagan’srnState of the Union Address, hi the silencernand...

or l)t’en compared to Stalin, Mao, or PolrnPot, een though the ieiousness of theserntotalitarian leaders tar outstripped, at leastrnin numbers, the atrocities perpetrated b’rnthe Nazis.rnOne of the reasons for this strange partialitrnis the international character ofrnconnnunism. Both the defunct Cominternrnand the Gramscian New WorldrnOrder are explicith- “internationalist”rnmoxements aimed at the disintegrationrnof independent nations. Nazism, on...

immoral, and viciously self-serving characterrnof much of American foreign policyrntoday. This attitude gives the policies ofrnthis great, but disfigured, nation their anti-rnChristian character.rnAn important difference between today’srnWestern atrocities and those of therncommunists and the Nazis is to be foundrnin the hypocrisy in which Allied brutalityrnclothes itself Arnaud-Aaron Upinsky, inrnhis masterly study of the nature of...