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by the first astronauts to land on the redrnplanet, tiiis mountain turns into a whirlwindrnof sand. It twists and turns until itrnresembles nothing so much as the wrongrnend of a Hoover that then quickly sucksrnthree of the astronauts into its vacuum,rnpulling their bodies limb from limb.rnLuke Graham (Don Cheadle in a lucklesslyrndesperate role) alone smvives...

dwell on punishing the bejesus out of hisrnenemies. Like most believing women ofrnher time—perhaps any time—her regardrnfor the doctrines of purgatory and hellrnwasn’t robust.rnNeedless to say, De Palma is no Dante.rnHe has served up yet another seience fictionrntravesty of my mother’s natural hopernin supernatural answers. His mandate forrndoing so is all too evident. As I...

reunification, and resisting the “armsrnrace” (i.e., U.S. military readiness).rnA film to commemorate the NCC’s 50rnyears claimed that the NCC’s “dialogue”rnwith the Russian Orthodox Church hadrnprecipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall.rnThe accusations of collaboration withrncommunist regimes were dismissedrnscornfully. As vindication, the film includedrna clip from a recent Charlie Roserninterview with Sixty Minutes producerrnDon Flewitt. Hewitt...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, ]r.rnThe Voice of the Turtlern”Niuno e solo I’apnll” Minii tells Rodolfornin Act Three of Ld Boheme. Mimi didn’trnsurvive until April, and if she had shernmight have felt alone without Rodolfornan’way. Still, spring, like sex, is exuberant,rnirrational —rather, it’s suprarahonal.rnAnd unignorable, like a 70-mile-an-hourrnwind, which is what spring amounts to inrnmost...

squash) that flourish iu a ten-week growingrnseason. Yard work is a rewardingrnsport that nevertheless cannot be practicedrnwith two or three feet of snow on thernground; in Wyoming, it generally has tornbe postponed unHl Memorial Day, wellrnbefore the lilacs are in bloom. And forrnthe hardy and the young at heart, therernare mud sports, the season beginningrnaround...

Modern Editions of Classic Works for Readers TodayrnSAMUEL JOHNSON: POLITICAL WRITINGSrnEdited by Donald J. GreenernVolume 10 of The Yale JohnsonrnThe eighteenth century produced a remarkablernarray of thinkers whose influence in therndevelopment of free societies and free institutionsrnis incalculable. Among these thinkers werernMandeville, Hutcheson, Smith, Hume, andrnBurke. And their time is known as the Age ofrnJohnson....

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 Greekrn”The Greek Roots of Christendom”rn1-5 August 2000rnspecial lectures:rn”The Art of War m Ancient Greece” and “America’s Ylomeric Period”rnSpecial dinner event:rn”The Natural Law From...

K I M ‘ I ‘ O RrnTImwcis I’lemingrni’;xK(;iiriF, KDiioRrnScott P. RichertrnSENIOR KDITOR. BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, jr.rnARIOIRl-XriORrnff. Ward SterettrnDKSIOM’Jlrnhdelanie AndersonrnCON’IRIBUTINO EDITORSrnKatherine Dalton, Samuel t’rancis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rn/.(). Tate, Michael Washburn,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRKSPONOING KOITORSrnBill Kauffman, Donald Livingston,rnWilliam Milk, William Murchison,rnAndrei Navrozov, Jacob NeusnerrnI.-OR|’:IC;K AM-AIRS i-iorroRrnSrdja Trifkoricrnl,l-:C;l,AM’AiRSKDI’I’ORrnStephen B. PresserrnKKLIOION KDITORrnHarold ().]. BrownrnIT1ITORIAt,SI’X:Ri:rARVrnLeann DohhsrnCIRCULAI’lON MANAOI’RrnCindy Linkrni n i B I...

related to voiir readers the stor}’ about thernSerb hospital for the insane where journalistsrnsaid that the Serb doctors hadrnabandoned their Muslim patients to diernraages of war. But that one investigatorrnwas brae enough to investigate diis storyrnhimself, finding that in fact die Serb doctorsrnhad braved the frontlines of war andrnremained to care for Hicir patients, includingrnMuslims....

RONALD TAYLOR, rd like you tornmeet Buford Furrow; Buford, this isrnRonald. You gus have so much in common.rnFor one thing, von both hit thernheadlines. Buford Furrow became arncelebrit)- of sorts in August 1999 when hernshot up a Jewish communitv center inrnLos Angeles. Buford’s a real Aran hero,rngoing up against all those imarmedrnschoolgirls, and then taking...

but lost in the media, American evangelicalsrnseparated themselves into their ownrncolleges and publishing houses. Duringrnthe late 50’s, evangelical leaders likernHarold Ockenga, Billy Graham, andrnCharles Fuller decided to broaden theirrnappeal by reaching out to liberals and RomanrnCatholics, emphasizing their pointsrnof agreement. Firebrands like Bob Jones,rnSr., rejected this “neo-evangelicalism”rnand founded their own schools, whichrnwere designed to maintain...

denomination, their local chnrch leadersrndisagreed. The liberal-dominated NorthernrnIllinois Conference of the UnitedrnMethodist Church launched an investigation.rnLed bv a bishop who opposes hisrndenomination’s official opposition to liomosexualrnpractice, the regional churchrnbody was troubled by allegations of discriminationrnagainst a same-sex couple.rnPro-homosexual clerg)- from throughoutrnnorthern Illinois were encouraged tornattend and even to vote at the camp’srnboard of trustees meeting....

matters of domestic policy, this one isrnbest left to local governments. Throughrncxpcrimcntahon, thev just might be ablernto create some policies to discourage reproductionrnby those unable adet[uatelyrnto care for their young, to remove childrenrnfrom the houses of crack dealers, orrnto enforce effectixeh’ the gun laws we alread’rnhac.rnRcmarkabb’, such experimentationrnmight actually be bearing fruit. Whilernthe sensationalizing of...

PERSPECTIVErnThe Emperor’s Tattoornby Thomas Flemingrn’A monarchy that’s tempered with republican equality.”rnWho would have thought, 100 ears ago, that b^ the end ofrnthe Auicrican Century the great burning publie issuernwould be the Confederate flag? Back in 1900, Americans wererneager to put their cjuarrels behind them. Rebs and Yanks hadrnfought side by side in Cuba, and writers...

the cinematic travest)’ with an ideological warning against thernfilm’s presentafion of historical events and racial stereot’pes, arnnew regime was taking shape, hi the anti-Sonthern/anti-Americanrnworld in which we find ourselves, the memorable performancesrnof Hattic McDaniel and Butterfly McQueen wouldrnconstitute hate speech, and Selznik, Victor Fleming, MargaretrnMitchell, and Clark Gable would ver- likely stand trial for perpetratingrna...

ting up for the rest of us, by the 196(l’s there were gentile (andrnsome Jewish) leftists who attacked Zionism and even Judaism itselfrnNoam Chomsky may be an honest intellectual, accordingrnto his lights; as a leftist, however, he makes a bad Jew.rnIn Germany, France, and Canada, any criticism of the darkrnmyth of the holocaust—valid or not—is...

powerful legs tliat the network tele’rngan e.rnvision news predictably be-rn:ach evening with Dan Rather or one of his clones standingrngrim-faced in a field somewhere announcing the latest dav’srnoutrages. Deval Patrick, the assistant attorney general for cixilrnrights, described the burnings as “an epidemic of terror.” At thisrncritical juncture, the U.S. Congress demonstrated its courageousrnleadership by unanimously...

drawn into the hvstcria. I he arson panic also meshed well withrnthe media’s last foray into creaHng national menaces, namely,rndie great miliha scare of the previous summer. During 1995,rnnewspapers and television news programs had triumphantlyrnhammered home the idea that all conscrvahve and “anh-government”rnactivists were more or less overtiv connected with ultra-rnright paramilitary groups. Onlv a...

whites —the privilege of ehowing down at a Dallas McDonald’s.rnThomas would have had to have some white boss man —rnmaybe a do-good liberal —bring him his burger outside. I’ornthink of it is to shiver.rnBut, as we know, Jim Crow fell apart in the 60’s—pushedrnfrom outside, dismanded from within. (Dallas’s business community,rnnot the federal courts, ended...

fault. TV may be the paradigmatic moucv-grubbing institutionrnof our dav. Show ‘IV producers a connection between higherrnprofits and more effective oitreach to supporters of tlicrnNAACP, and Hollywood will beat down Kweisi Mfume’s door.rnWhat Mfumc does not acknowledge is that you can work outrndeals on paper, but only the marketi^lace can ratify the terms ofrnthose deals....

Reactionary RadicalsrnRADICAL REACTIONARIESrnTale of a “Seditionisf’rnThe Story of Lawrence Dennisrnby Justin RaimondornLawrence Dennis was an outsider in a movement of outsiders,rna unique and largely solitan,’ figure whose career asrna writer —and notorious “seditionist” —embodies the tragedyrnand bra er of the Old Right, die pre-World War II “Americarnfirst” generation of consenative intellectuals and activists. Inrnniaiw important...

Lawrence Dennis, from the c/u.vfcovcro/^Operational Thinkingrnfor Snrvival.rnnnemployed . . . will heave a gratefnl sigh of relief As Americanrnbusiness picks up, American idealism will get acquaintedrnwith the moral issue of the New Armageddon and histon,’ willrnrepeat itself”rnTen years before James Burnliam’s The Managerial Revohition,rnDennis argued that capitalism was doomed and that somethingrnthat was neither socialism...

truster for the forces of appeasement” was almost certainly anrnMrican-American.rnThe revelation of Dennis’s ethnicit}’ is unlikely to rehabilitaternhim in liberal quarters—quite the eontrar)’. Liberals were deafrnthen to his argument that Anglo-American policy “assume[cl]rnthat certain races like the Germans and Japanese can be treatedrnas we treat the negroes or the British treat the darker races underrntheir...

delusions. In the lunchroom, the jurors, freeh’ mingling withrnthe defendants, were often heard to complain that the’ still hadrnno idea what the case was all about.rnDennis set the tone for the defense in his two-hour openingrnstatement, pointing out that the evidence—the defendants’ oppositionrnto the war—did not fit the charge, which was that theirrnactions were designed...

THE MEDJUGORJE DECEPTIONrnProponents of Medjugorje like to talk about its fruits,rnbut ignore the broken families, the pregnant nuns, the poorrnpeople bilked of their money, the division in the Church, thernde facto schism, the worst fighting in Europe since WorldrnWar 11, the ethnic cleansing of Muslims from Gradno, justrnfive kilometers from Medjugorje — all which followedrninexorably...

“All the NewsrnUnfit to Print” ignsi of tlje Cime^rnVol. 2 No. 5 May 2000rnThe nostalgic should derive some comfortrnfrom the knowledge that, in one respectrnat least, the 1930″s are back: Dr.rnJoseph Goebbels is alive and well, and livingrnin Atlanta. According to the Dutchrndaily Trouw (February 21), CNN employedrnmilitary specialists in “psychologicalrnoperations” (psyops) disguised asrnjournalists during...

turned deadly serious on Mondayrnnight. The teenagersrngrabbed 10 rocks, each weighingrnabout 8kg, from a localrnbuilding s i t e . They launchedrnthem from the overpass, cheeringrneach time they scored arnh i t . Two women driving separrna t e cars died instantly.rnNow the boys are under arrest, facing arnGerman trial for murder. The “killer kids”rncan...

stands in tlie way of understandingrncontemporim responses.rnSince tlic 197(l’s, the fashion has been torncondemn tlic British and American warrngoxernnients for “abandoning” and “writingrnoft^’ tlic Jews of Europe — even forrn”compUcih'” in murdering them. At therntime, a delegation of American Jewishrnleaders meeting with Franklin Rooseveltrnapparenth thought it unreasonable to askrnthe President for anything more thanrna formal...

what Diane Ravitch, writing in Commentary,rncalled “The Great School Wars/’rnfought in New York Cit’ over communityrncontrol of the public schools, and otherrn”vibrations,” picked up b- the sensitivernantennae of Jewish leaders, that Novickrnne’ertheless describes as “almost laughablyrntrivial,” “a series of anti-Semitic remarksrnmade by a few militant blacks inrnthe late sixties, as the civil rights movementrnwas collapsing...

it had learned from Soviet secret communications.rnThese materials, known b-rntheir American code name of “V’enona,”rnalso reveal much of what the Soviets andrntheir American collaborators were doingrnon a clandestine and illegal levelrnthroughout the Cold War, from thern1940’s onward.rnBut the book by British historianrnChristopher Andrew and his Russianrncoauthor Vasili Mitrokhin is based on yetrna third source, unauthorized...

transcripts, Mr. Herman leaves littlerndonbt that McCarthy was substantiallyrncorrect in most of his claims about therndamage done by either communist infiltrationrnor fellow travelers, naive or not.rn”No hard evidence exists,” he writes,rnlinking any of the China hands tornactual Soviet espionage efforts:rntheir Wliitc House liaison LauehlinrnCurrie and intellectual mentorrnOwen Lattimore are a differentrnmatter. But they were sold...

tained to such fame. Mosby was constantlyrnreferred to in the Union as well asrnthe Confederate newspapers —he was arnbogeyman to the North and a hero to thernSouth, even though he never commandedrnmore than 400 men. The reach ofrnjMosb’s renown is hard to estimate, but Irncan think of three \as to approach it.rnHe was the only...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Floridarnby ]oe PnissingrnDriving Dixie Downrnl^id I make a wrong turn? Did I go toornfar north? No, I was still in beantiful PortrnPierce, Morida. Wliat shocked me intornthinking I had accidentally wound up inrnSouth Carolina was a flag: tvvo red barsrndiagonally crossing a solid white background,rnsuspiciously resembling therndreaded Confederate Cross. There itrnwas, fixing defiantly...

Letter From Barsoomrnby Brian KirkpatrickrnLearning to Speak in OparrnWhen I was ten, I fell into the novels ofrnEdgar Rice Burrouglis. With him, I fledrnthe dinosaurs of Pellucidar in the centerrnof the earth; in the company of the anthropoidrnapes, I sought the fabled jewelsrnof Opar. I wondered at the hurtlingrnmoons of Barsoom, and gasped for oxygenrnin...

and Chaucer find ourselves in the grip ofrnthe same process. I can read the novels ofrnChinua Achebe in the original, but thernspoken English of West Africa or even Jamaicarnis at times nearly incomprehensiblernto me. Recently, I told my son, “ICQrnis a cross between AOL’s instant messagernand a chat room, but you can use any ISPrnto...

scribing tlic degradation of the cliain linkrnby link, from plankton to fisherman tornpoet. Nor am I a political scicnhst, whornconld make the point bv mapping thernerosion of the rights of the individual inrnthe present epoch of transnahonal governmentrnand multinational corporate interests.rnI am just a 20-a-day smoker whornvowed to Neptune he would not litter inrntlie lagoon,...

rather surprisingly, came out in supportrnof Section 28, as did the chief rabbi.rnEven more surprisingly, a millionairernScottish businessman has put up moneyrnand promised to hold “poll tax-style”rnstreet demonstrations. The first result ofrnthese efforts was seen on February 7,rnwhen a packed f^ouse of Lords, whichrnvoted on the legislation before the Commons,rnthrew the bill out by a...

teach. By “Torah,” I speak of a basic philosophyrn—a core theology —that guidesrnthe everyday encounter with the crises ofrnlife, both public and private, and that accordsrnwith the revelation by God tornMoses at Mount Sinai. In general, rabbisrndo not refer back to a common body ofrnlearning that marks them as rabbis—notrnprofessors, not social workers, not communityrnadministrators,...

surely validates studying many tilings, notrnjust the Talmud. If Jewish edueationrnwere devoted to the holocaust, or if itrnconsisted of constant pilgrimages to thernstate of Israel, the same result might occurrn— or perhaps even a more satisfactoryone,rnsince an appeal to emotions (holocaustism)rnor the experience of ethnic loyalt}’rn(Israclism) demands much less thanrnis rec[uired by an appeal to...

ships with other African countries hasrncome an influx of immigrants fromrnneighboring states hke Mozambique,rnLesotho, and the Democratic RepubHcrnof the Congo, which are among the poorestrnon the planet. Most of the immigrantsrnare destitute. Not surprisingly, there isrnrising xenophobia. All of South Africa’srnmajor cities, and most towns of any size,rnare now ringed by shanty towns wherernlaw enforcement...

VITAL SIGNSrnPOLITICSrnChristophobiarnby Paul GottfriedrnI n the December 1999 issue of Commentary,rnIrving Stelzcr took PeterrnBrinielow to task for wanting to restrictrninnnigration. Setting the facts aside,rnStel/.er accuses Brinielow of being a fanrnof the “old-line WASP population” thatrnhad producedrn]:)erk-laden corpocrats who so mismanagedrnAmerica’s major companiesrnas almost to bring the economrnto ruin before being saved byrniXhcliacl Milken and his...

in the U.S. fighting forces. Neocon revulsionrnfor them, as evidenced b therndefamahon of the late M.E. Bradford inrnthe early 80’s, nia’ have been attributable,rnas Bradford himself noted, to “arnsociological variable.” Neocons consideredrnSoutherners to be obstinately ruralrngentiles, with a tendency toward antisemiticrnpopulist politics. And Southernrnresistance to the civil-rights movementrn(even before, as the neocons claim, thernmovement turned...

hibition against student groups that promoternsexualih’ would still have shut outrnthe Ga/Straight Alliance. But the state’srnCivie Center Act of 1989 allows privaterngroups to meet in public buildings. Studentrngroups with adult sponsors and liabilit^•rninsurance are entitled to rent space,rneen if thev lack official endorsementrnfrom the school’s administration. ThernGaVStraight Alliance gained the neededrnadult supervision and liability moneyrnfrom...

High School is the only public schoolrngroup of its kind in Utah so far, butrnGLSEN hopes a successful conclusionrnto its lihgation later this year will allowrnother gay/straight groups to blossomrnthroughout conservative Utah.rnMark Tooley is a research associate at thernInstitute on ReUgion and Democracy inrnWashington, D.C.rnLANGUAGErnAbortion and thernMurder of Meaningrnby William MurchisonrnSay what you mean,” the...