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experience opposed to doctrine; freedom,rnto law; emotion, to the commandmentsrnof God; subjective criticism, to thernobjective authority of the Bible; arrogantrninnovations, to humble submission to thernWord of God. Men refuse their God-givenrnresponsibilihes, and women are illegitimatelyrnexalted to positions of authorit}’.rnFinally, we see the arrogant substitutionrnof illusions, dreams, prophesies,rnand visions to the written, inspired, andrninfallible Word of...

nuthorih- to bind and to release. It hasrnbeen promised, by tlie One wlio holds inrnHis hand all povver in Hcaen and onrnearth, that the ver- gates of Hell wouldrnnot prevail against the divine audiorih ofrnthe Church. It is also said that the powerrnwhich dwells in individual Christians —rnthe cr’ power of our Lord Jesus Christisrngreater...

about what could be called judicial tTann’,rnthat the federal courts have usurpedrnthe role of the people and lawmakers inrndeciding major issues. How do you feelrnabout that?rnB: I am the bold consen’ative candidaternfor compassionate conservatism! I willrnappoint great Republican SupremernCourt justices like Earl Warren, HarrvrnBrennan, Clarence Blackmun and RuthrnBader O’Connor. And I will niake surernwe hae...

grandeur. I believe myself to be JoernGould.” His summing up of our commonrnaffliction is succinct and devastating-rnMitchell wrote “Joe Gould’s Secret” inrn1964, seven years after Gould died. Hernwould never publish anything again. Herncontinued to report to his office at thernNew Yorker for 32 years until his death inrn1996, nearly the same length of timernGould had...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnThe Phantom Horsern”What does ‘AQHA 1990 gelding, bredrnActual Spark’ mean?”rn”It means someone has a neutered tenyear-rnold American quarterhorse, sired byrnActual Spark, for sale. Why?”rnRhonda looked up from the CasperrnStar-Tribune she held spread in her lap.rn”I want to buy a horse.”rn”What sense does that make? You’rernmoving back to California in less...

line on Highway 26 coming up fromrnScottsbluff, I spent mv first night inrnWyoming 23 ears ago, traeling with m-rnpardner Ted Kovaleff of New York Cih.rnTogetlier we burned a couple of thickrnsteaks on a portable grill set up behindrnthe motel and ate them with beefsteakrntomatoes and Beefeater gin, while thernMay-green bluffs along the North PlatternRier turned...

Modern Editions of Classic Works for Readers TodayrnTHE WEBSTER-HAYNE DEBATErnON THE NATURE OF THE UNIONrnIntroduction by Herman BelzrnThe debates between Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and RobertrnHayne of South Carolina gave fateful utterance to the differingrnunderstandings of the nature of the American Union that had comernto predominate in the North and the South, respectively, by 1830.rnTo...

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 Creek . . .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...

K D I I O RrnThomas FlemingrnF.XECUTIVF. EDITORrnScott P. RichertrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, jr.rnART DIRECTORrnH. Ward SterettrnDESIGNERrnMelanie AndersonrnCON’IKIHUriNO EDITORSrnKatlierine Dalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rn/.O. Tate, Michael Washburn,rnClyde WilsonrnCORKESPONDINC”, EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, Donald Livingston,rnWilliam Mills, William Murchison,rnAndrei Navrozov, Jacob NeusnerrnEOREIGN AFFAIRS EDI TORrnSrdja irifiovicrnI.EOAI. AFFAIRS EDITORrnStephen B. PresserrnRETIOION EDITORrnHarold ().]. BrownrnEDITORIAL SE,CRETARYrnLeann DohbsrnCIRC^ULATION M A N...

The Rockford Institute’s SummerrnSchool provides an opportunity for informalrnprofessional development, intellectualrnchallenge, lively conversation, andrnthe cultivation of relationships with likemindedrnpeople.rnThank you so much for all of the effortrnyou put into it, and for your warm hospitalit)’.rn—Lisa MorganrnRedford, MlrnOn Praise and Blamern].(). Tate’s jovial critique of Hollywoodrngender-benders (“Unisex Multiplex,”rnViews, February) provides a great overviewrnof the problems with...

outside the lecture hall. If the Universih’rnreaches this eouclusion, it is entitled tornimpose a mandatory fee to sustain anrnopen dialogue to these ends.”rnJustice Kennedy’s opinion did implyrnthat a university could still run afoul ofrnthe First Amendment if it did not exercisern”viewpoint neutrality” when fundingrnstudent polidcal action groups. His messagernto the plaintiff students was apparentlyrnto request...

try, a country vvhicli borders both thernMushiii world (where birthrates arernmuch higher) and a China of over a bilhonrnpeople, wliich is just beginning tornflex its economic, pohtical, and mihtar’rnmuscles. Demographically speaking,rnRussia is a country in decline, and it appearsrnunlikely, if not impossible, that anyrnleader can hope to man Russian industryrn(or the Russian army) and realize...

cry —may commence. As long as thernmisshapen drunk was lord of the Kremlin,rnthat was not in the cards.rn— Srdja TrifkovicrnT H E EPISCOPAL CHURCH used tornoffer salvation—on the inevitable silverfiligreedrnplatter from Tiffany’s, served uprnwith a spot of sherry and proffered withrnimmaculate taste and manners.rnA rougher-hewn brand of salvation —rnfor the church itself, or failing that,...

^le^^/i/i ffia/fc/o^j/f G/(/6 Comes to ChicagornHow well do you know your Constitution?rnTake this quiz:rnThe 14th Amendment • Good Idea • Bad IdearnThe 17th Amendment • Good Idea • Bad IdearnThe 18th Amendment • Good Idea • Bad IdearnThe 19th Amendment • Good Idea • Bad IdearnOctober G-7, 2000rnchronicles: A Magazine of American Culture Presents:rnThe 11th...

PERSPECTIVErnWhy Don’t We Mind Our Own Business?rnby Thomas FlemingrnV / o u can fool some of the people all of the time,” saidrnJ . W.C. Fields quoting Lineoln, “and those odds are goodrnenough for me.” Fields also said that, in a presidenHal eleehon,rnhe never voted for anyone, only against, and this time aroundrncontrarians eould have,...

share his wealth: “So far from being entitled to well earned applause,rnfor having employed some scanty pittance in the servicernof philanthropy, he is in the eye of justice a delinquent, if hernwithhold any portion from that service.” Godwin was addressingrnhis argument only to the people of England, but if there arernsound moral reasons for redistributing...

Somalis on the evening news. The whole affair, from first tornlast, was a political melodrama, and no one should have beenrnsurprised by the cameras and klieg lights covering the Marinernlanding.rnWere the Somalis suffering because the West had neglectedrnto send them aid? On the contrary, it is far more likely that ourrnaid made the trouble in...

vestment financed by U.S. AID and other donors between 1960rnand 1980 has disappeared without a trace.” The result? ThernUnited Nahons reported in 1996 that 70 countries were poorerrnthan they were in 1980; 43 were worse off than they were inrn1960.rnAlmost all policy workers today acknowledge that good domesHcrnpolicies (outward-oriented, market-friendly) are the fundamentalrndeterminants of growth....

junkies.” He and a number of other aid workers separately “arrivedrnat the conclusion that the relief program was probablyrnkilling as many people as it was saving.”rnAdvocates of aid simply argue that they will do better nextrnhmc. Now that the Cold War is over, they contend, there is le.ssrnpressure on Washington to offer assistance as de...

tar Fund have failed.rnA principal reason that some areas remain mired in povert’ isrnthat populations are far larger than they were when internationalrnaid began. (Populations are still growing, although the rate ofrngrowth has deelined.) Plots of land per farm family are significantlyrnsmaller than 50 years ago, so rural populations are oftenrnimpoverished even in cormtries such...

was nearly stable from 400 B.C. to about A.D. 1500, but populationrnbegan growing, reaching a rate of 0.6 percent a year, withrnthe end of the Mogul invasions, the restoration of peace, andrnthe stimulus of new trade opportunities. Southern hidia enjoyedrnparticular prosperity under the Vijayanagar kings. Thernstrongest of these, Krishna Deva Raya (1509-1530), is describedrn”as an...

Gaines Elites PlayrnRussia and the IMFrnby Sergey Berdyaevrny^^^^/irna L orcl knows where that went,” Boris Yeltsin eroaked tornone of his Kremhn aides sometime last September.rnaccording to Kremlin sonrces. was replying to a qiier- Yeltsin,rnfrom the International Monetan,- Fund on the expenditure ofrnncarh’ two billion dollars worth of an IMF “tranche” targeted tornstac off impending Rnssian...

grcssnien) last fall v’licn the banking scandal story broke.rnJ louse Banking Committee Chairman Jim Leach (R-IA) held arnseries of hearings last spring on the scandal, citing claims inrnRussian and European media that $200 million worth of IMFrnfunds had wound up in the BNY. The hearings were inconclusive,rnas the IMF pilfering charge was drowned out by...

CHRONICLES’ BACK ISSUES, TAPES, AND BOOKSrnThe 1999 Summer SchoolrnTHE BRITISH ORIGINS OF THE MODERN STATE—Audiotape—Samuel Francisrnargues that the modem state is not dependent on any previous concept of nation orrncountry. Tracing the evolution of the modem state from the time of the Glorious Revolution,rnhe demonstrates that an unprecedented concentration of power and capital continuesrnto occur...

“All the NewsrnUnfit to Print” igns^ of tJje tlimesirnVol. 2 No. 6 June 2000rnA decade after the ostensible end of thernCold War, we are witnessing the emergencernof anti-Americanism in placesrnwhere it had never existed before—notably,rnamong the peoples of Eastern Europernand the Balkans. Secretary of StaternMadeleine Albright and Bill Clinton’srnmisnamed “national security team” havernsucceeded where Stalin,...

NATO has never been weaker thanrnin the aftermath of Kosovo.rnThe a l l i a n c e ‘ s main s t r a t e g i crnfunction has been the maintenancernof a community of interestrnbetween Europe and America.rnBut the Kosovo campaignrnhas done more damage to thatrnthan i t ever did to the...

and earlier there was Bogart as SamrnSpade with Peter Lorre and SidneyrnGreenstreet and Mary Astor and EHsharnCook, Jr., in the third fdmed version ofrnThe Maltese Falcon (1941), not to mentionrnBrian Donlevy and Veronica Lakernand Alan Ladd getting the bejesusrnknocked out of him by William Bendixrnin the second version of The Glass Keyrn(1942), not additionally to...

Nazi attack on Soviet Russia. In otherrnwords, Hammett, who gave lis the SamrnSpade who wouldn’t “pla’ the sap” forrnBrigid O’Shaugnessx, himself pUned thernsap for Comrade Stalin and even, for arntime, for fierr fiitler, best-selling authorrnoiMein Kampf. Perhaps Hammctt’s servicernin his late 40’s during Wodd War IIrnwas, deep down, both an admission ofrnguilt and a gesture...

donis and of the Hasmoneans at the endrnof the Second Commonwealth all werernmarried to gentile wives.rnGeneralizations about prohibitionsrnagainst intermarriage derived from thernrestrictions imposed on the Kohanimrn(the Jewish priestly class) can be dangerous.rnAs explained in Leviticus and by thernpriestly historian Josephus, the priesthoodrnrepresented a “pure race” by virtuernof having kept itself from certain forms ofrnintermarriage. Among...

ing Jewish-American tendencies highlightedrnin MacDonald’s third volume.rnFirst, assaults by American Jewish leadersrnagainst a Judeo-Chrishan core culture dornnot advance any rational Jewish interest.rnIt is hard to see how Jews benefit fromrnawarding preferential treatment to blacksrnand fiispanics, insisting that the TenrnCommandments be removed from publicrnschools, or denigrating the heritage ofrnAmerica’s white majority; they wouldrnseem to have a...

nienth’ limited Greene’s involvementrnwith them.rnHazzard writes that “the anxiety ofrnmen, women, and children living closernto the bone and die abss is a climate ofrnthe earh’ fiction, which freqnently takesrnplace in wet, cold, sunless settings.” Andrnshe shrewdly notes that many ridicnlonsrncharacters in his novels are called “Henr’,”rn”a byword for naivete and impotence”rnas well as Greene’s real...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnA New Majority?rn”This way to the egress,” P.T. Barnumrnused to direct the stooges stupid euoughrnto buy tickets to his travehng shows ofrnbunco and blather. The “egress,” ofrncourse, was the exit to the street, wherernthe stooges should have stayed. Wouldrnthat we had a P.T. Barnum today whorncould direct us to an egress...

er remarks to the Post, Mr. Kristol repeatedrnthe same sentiment—”The ortliodoxrnconservatie movement has collapsed,”rnhe told Mr. Edsall, and “if there is to be arnconsenati’e fntnre, which I for one hopernthere is, it’s not going to be shaped by thernold conservative movement.” Let usrnleave aside for the nonce the subject ofrnwhat kind of “conservative future” Mr.rnKristol...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Parisrnby Curtis GaternExhibitionism as a Way of LifernIn mid-January, those Parisians (like myself)rnwho are still interested in literaryrnmatters were aroused from the smugrncomplacency in which we had been wallowingrnfor several weeks, as dazed survivorsrnof the millennial earthquake andrnthe pyrotechnic cancan put on by arnshameless Eiffel Tower, by an unexpectedrnthunderclap. The thunderclap was ignitedrnby...

news that Pivot was ending his long seriesrnof Friday evening talk shows caused consternationrnin most publishing offices inrnParis. In a doomsday article published inrnLe Monde, its leading literary critic,rnBertrand Poirot-Delpech, described Pivot’srnannounced departure as a nationalrncalamity, since, almost single-handedly,rnhe had with his Friday evening talk showsrnkept alive an interest in buying and readingrnbooks which, without...

tion and the reconstruction of onernof the strongest philosophies of therntwentieth century. And then finally,rna haphazard and yet necessary, arnclandestine and yet avowed meetingrnwith . . . Judaism. This was notrnof course a conversion. But Sartre,rnhaving recovered his philosophicalrnappetite, devours with voracity andrnas usual makes another’s philosophyrnhis own. He kneads it. Herntransforms it. He has...

bourgeois family by being plunged for anrnhorn or two into an ice-cold bath ofrnpiiilosopliical erudition.rnNietzsche, with little doubt the mostrnspontaneous of great modern philosophers,rnspent much of his life trying torncombat the volcanic impetuosity of hisrnintellectual “eruptions.” And the conclusionrnhe reached, beautifully expressed inrnthe preface he wrote for Morgenrotern(“Morning Glow” or “Daybreak,” dependingrnon whose translation one...

ing through. There is also speculationrnabout a desire to avoid the draft—highlyrnunlikely, since late 1861 predates therndraft by a couple of years.rnDocumentation of Town Line historyrnis very limited —five men reportedlyrnmade their way south to fight for thernConfederacy, and ten eventually foughtrnfor the Union, ft also seems that many ofrnthe secessionists fled to Canada duringrnthe...

concerns tlie management of her vast estaternshe rehes on the lawyer who used tornl)e a close friend of her mother’s, AwocatornI —, and it was to his office in S. Crocernthat I had been asked to come at tenrno’clock that morning. The lease hadrnlong been agreed, drawn up, faxed backrnand forth between the contracting parties,rnand...

The American Interestrnby Srdja TrifkovicrnThe Taiwanese Election:rnImplications for U.S. SecurityrnThe outcome of Taiwan’s presidentialrnelection in March is potentially the mostrnsignificant single event affecting Americanrnsecurity since the fall of the BerlinrnWall. Most analysts have failed to addressrnthe hindamental dilemma that Taiwanrnnow presents for the defense strategyrnof the United States. The issue is fairlyrnsimple: Are our overseas...

VITAL SIGNSrnFOREIGN AFFAIRSrnA Spy in thernHouse of NATOrnby Justin RaimondornThe recent news tliat there was a spvrnat NATO who revealed top-secretrnplans —inckiding detailed descriptionsrnof targets — during the Kosovo war hasrnthrown the Pentagon and the Westernrnpowers into confusion and dismay. Accordingrnto the London Guardian (Marchrn10), a classified U.S. militarv intelligencernreport reveals that the Serbs may...

Some would argue that the spy in thernhouse of NATO is a hero, while othersrnwould liken him to Benedict Arnold.rnRather than take a side in that dispute, I’drnprefer to examine why a high-rankingrnAmerican officer has been put in the positionrnwhere he must choose between hisrncountry and his conscience.rnClearly, in his own mind, the Americanrnspy is...

stop tlierc. Wliy slioukl a college be ablernto “tax” paying students to subsidize nonpayingrnstudents? Like cost-shifting inrnlicaitli care, we need to stop including socialrngoals in the price of our products.rnRemember, this industry is nonprofit.rnIt has never felt the sting of real competitionrnand has grown bloated, inefficient,rnbureaucratic, and oblivious. It is amazinglyrnout of touch with current...

rooms previously allotted to conferencegoers.rnNevertheless, OAH members continuedrnto demand withdrawal:rnBy e-mail and fax, they have arguedrnthat to meet in the Adam’s Mark isrnto compromise with racists, hi orderrnto take a bold stand against injustice,rnthey have said that the organizationrnmust cancel the contractrneven though it would suffer seriousrnfinancial consequences.rnAfter some fevered days of debate and agonizing,rnthe...

boycotts and demonstrations arc bestrnseen as a kind of passionate historicalrnreenaetment, rather hke those weekendrnwarriors who are constantly dressing uprnto refight the Civil War.rnOnce yon do go looking for a target forrnactivism, it is only too easy to find one: Itrnis all but impossible to name a corporationrnor institution, a city or region, whichrncannot be...