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Modern Editions of Classic Works for Readers TodayrnON HISTORY AND OTHER ESSAYSrnBy Michael OakeshottrnForeword by Timothy FullerrnIn five essays, including three on historiography, one of therngreatest minds in English political thought in the twentiethrncentury explores themes central to the human experience: thernnature of history, the rule of law, and the quest for power thatrnis intrinsic...

IF YOU DONT KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING,rnANY TRAIN W i l l GET YOU THERErnWhere do you_ want America to go?rnFor which policies will you voternin November, 2000?rnBush Phillips Yourrnposition position positionrnGOP Presidential Candidate George W. Bush andrnConstitution Party Presidential Nominee Howard Phillipsrndiscuss the Year 2000 Campaign during an October 7 conversationrnCONSTITUTION PARTY PRESIDENTIAL...

EDITORrnThomas FleminsrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnMANAGING EDITORrnScott P. RichertrnARTDIRKGTORrnH. Ward SterettrnDESIGNERrnMelanie AndersonrnGONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnKatherine Dalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rnf.O. Tate, Michael Washburn,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDI TORSrnBill Kauffman, Donald IJvingston,rnWilliam Mills, William Murchison,rnAndrei Navrozov, Jacob NeusnerrnFOREK;N AFFAIRS EDITORrnSrdja TrifkovicrnLEGAL AFFAIRS FDFLORrnStephen B. PresserrnRELIGION EDITORrnHarold O./. BrownrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnThe Rockford InstituternPLiBI.IGALION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnG1RC ULALION MANAGERrnCindy LinkrnA publication...

ern individualism has to do primarilyrnwith philosophy —Hobbes, Descartes,rnPaine, Mill —but it was Protestantism’srnemphasis on personal salvation, and especiallyrnprivate interpretation of Scripture,rnthat laid the groundwork for thern”modern ethic of autonomy” identifiedrnby Livingston,rnThe dominant Protestant image of religiousrndevotion, it has been said, is arnman sitting alone studying his Bible; therndominant Catholic image (“Catholic”rndefined broadly to include...

not impossible) for the Presidential DebaternCommission to justify excludingrnBuchanan, as it did Perot in 1996.rnBuchanan won’t be running against anrnincumbent president, as Perot has bothrntimes. Even accepting federal matchingrnfunds—and the spending limitahons thatrngo with them —may turn out to be arnblessing in disguise. As both Perot andrnSteve Forbes have proved, money doesn’trnnecessarily translate into votes....

of Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer andrnDefense Minister Rudolf Scharping duringrnthe attack, Lafontaine calls it “the t)’picalrnzeal of turncoats, of former ferventrnpacifists who are now even more ferventrnadvocates of war.”rnSimilar sentiments abound among thernnew members of the alliance, particularlyrnin Hungar)’ and the Czech Republic,rnas well as along the southern flank, notablyrnin Italy. The overwhelming unpopidarityrnof NATO...

The plot—as described by the manyrnKremlin deep throats looking to distancernthemselves from the family as the end ofrnYeltsin’s term approaches—goes like this:rnDisappointed by Sergei Stepashin’s unwillingnessrnto do their dirty work, Yeltsinrnand the family needed a suitable replacement.rnPutin is an old KGB hand withrngreat experience in collecting—and effectivelyrnusing—kompromat (“compromisingrnmaterial”), and his connections inrnthe “power ministries” (Defense,...

of the statutes have been upheld, mostrnnotably in the aptly titled Hope Clinic v.rnRyan decision rendered in late October.rnWriting for a sharply divided majority ofrnthe United States Court of Appeals forrnthe Seventh Circuit, Judge Frank Easterbrookrn(one of the most intellectually giftedrnfederal judges) declared that the bansrnon partial-birth abortion in Illinois, Wisconsin,rnand Indiana met constitutionalrnmuster. They...

PERSPECTIVErnIn the Time of the Breaking of Nationsrnby Thomas FlemingrnWe will bury you,” warned Nikita Khrushchev in thern1950’s, but in the end, it is America’s NATO imperiumrnthat is burying Serbs under the rubble of Novi Sad and Belgradernand Americans under the red tape of the New World Order.rnThe march of globalization has proceeded without cffecti’ernresistance...

zens. Wliile they often, if not always, go too far in their advocacyrnof markets over families and commnnities, libertarians andrnclassical liberals are not vTong to remind us of the dangers ofrngovernments which may speak the language of national interestrnbut more often cater to their richest and most powerful clients.rn”Nationalism” has often been used as a...

so much admired by the editors of the Weekly Standard, saidrnthere could be no SO-percent Americans —no “Jewish-Americans,”rnfor example —only 100 percenters. And the example ofrnTR, who shamelessly promoted America’s conquest of thernPhilippines, also proves how easily nationalism slides into imperialism.rnChristians usually end up being a main target of nationalistrnideology, and the most powerful and...

VIEWSrn<^a/>/e J”rnr THErn^ EMERGING %rnCHRONICLES MAJORITYrn”iirniKif^rnAn Emerging Majority?rnby Harold O.]. BrownrnIt is reported that when British General Cornwallis surrenderedrnto George Washington at Yorktown, thus effectivelyrnending the War oflndependence, his regimental band played arntnne called “The World Turned Upside Down.” As we approachrnthe end of the second Christian millennium, one beginsrnto wonder if the band was...

consequences, is entirely welcome and somewiiat overdue,rnsince it now offers an opportunity for him and palcoconservativesrngenerally to purge themselves of a good deal of ideologicalrnbaggage carried over from the traditionalism of the 1950’s, fromrnwhat Murray Rothbard called the “official” conservative movementrnas it exists toda), and from the Republican Piirh’. It isrnlargely that baggage that has...

migrants can be expected to display a perfect grasp of, and commitmentrnto, them. The precise content of this absolute, universalrnliberty always varies, of course, depending upon whichrncollege sophomore or Asian immigrant is spouhng off about itrnin the Weekly Standard or National Review this week, but thenrnthe content and meaning of such abstractions always van,’ preciselyrnbecause...

“Buy it, read it, send it to a brother orrnsister in the catacombs.” —Pat Buchananrnr ! ix ‘i NsrnLeading Ccrtlielic laymenrnand priesto are fakingrnnoticesrn* “The best publication available today, bar none. You findrnyourself saying to people., ‘Diti you see the article on thatrnin The Latin Mass?’ It covers not only the Mass and what’srnbeing done...

“All the NewsrnUnfit to Print” isnsi of tl)e ^imt^rnVol. 2 No. 1 January 2000rnIn our fact-free news, concocted andrnpresented by the products of our fact-freerneducational system, the Ues have reachedrnthe point where only foreigners dare speakrntheir name. That’s certainly true of thernmost outrageous lie of the year, and perhapsrnof the decade: the “Kosovo genocide.”rnIt did...

London (November 2) that “the actualrnnumber of civihans killed to scare the restrnoff is irrelevant; the prevention of massrnmurder and ethnic cleansing, on whateverrnscale, remains a war aim of which Natorncan be proud.”rnThis is a desperate claim indeed, andrnForeign Secretary Robin Cook knows it.rnAt the time of this writing, he is still evadingrnpublic pressure to...

OPINIONSrnBuchanan at Bayrn”Imperialism is absolutely necessary to a people which desires spiritual as well asrneconomic expansion.rnA Republic, Not an Empire:rnReclaiming America’s Destinyrnby Patrick f. BuchananrnWashington, D.C.: Regnerx’;rn437 pp., $29.95rn—Benito MussolinirnFinding America’s Wayrnby Justin RaimondornAmerica has survived, the Last andrnOnly Superpower, while so manyrnothers have fallen by the wayside, theirrnbones littering the road from empire:rnRome, Spain,...

United States would virtually annex mostrnof the civilized world—and a great dealrnof that which is not quite civilized—in anrnact of hubris so reckless, so contrary to thernlessons of history and common sense,rnthat it is positively breathtaking to contemplate.rnThat Wolfowitz, the author ofrnthis mad memorandum, is now one ofrnGeorge Dubya’s top foreign-policy advisors,rnthe theoretician and behind-thescenesrnpolicymaker...

voiced the impulse to leave forrnCanada to volunteer for the Britishrnarmed forces.rnWliile the British propaganda effort inrnAmerica was massive and effective, it wasrnnot just Perfidious Albion that dragged usrninto a war that marked the beginning of arnnew barbarism. There was also,rnBuchanan points out, the all-pervasiverninfluence of the Money Power. The munitionsrnindustry, growing fat on the...

people.) Our societ)’ has yet to appraisernthe eonsequences of sueh immigration asrnwe are experiencing. How to appraisernthose conseqnenees and, one of theserndays, aet on them? Be reading, amongrnothers, Cliilton WilHamson.rna Frodo Ijives,” we used to read onrnrestroom and alley walls. Hell,rncommon sense lives: tough-minded, stiffneckedrncommon sense, the kind thatrnsays, I don’t care what they tell...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter FromrnSouth Carolinarnby Clyde WilsonrnThe State That Didn’t ForgetrnThe Confederate battle flag still flies everyrnday over the capitol building of SouthrnCarolina. Readers may remember that Irnhave several times reported in these pagesrnon the attempts to remove this lonely anti-rnimperial symbol from public view.rnOne discussion a few years ago evenrnelicited a complaint to Chronicles fromrnthen-Covernor David...

ported on the issue is tightly controlled byrnmanagement. Recently, the AP carried arnlong stor)’ with a few paragraphs of proflagrncomment by Yours Truly. The “local”rnnewspaper cut my comments out.rnNormal journalistic practice would be tornemphasize the local angle of a story. Butrnpro-flag comments from a local semi-dignitaryrnwho has never belonged to the KurnKlux Klan could not...

continuing to degrade Serbia. Onlyrnafter Montenegro, Sanjak, andrnVojvodina are gone, or given somernextraordinary autonomous statusrn. . . equal to independence, Serbia’srnimpoverished rump may be finallyrndeemed ripe for a new Gauleiter.rnBut even then this is not certain,rnbecause the leaders of the West likernto deal with Milosevic; he is so predictable.rnIndeed, in the aftermath of the U.S.-rnled...

his downfall.rnHe is insulted from the start, from hisrnfirst glimpse of that other life, my life, arnlife I have every right to characterize, onrnthe basis of income-tax returns and swornrnaffidavits from intimate friends, as the lifernof a poor struggling writer. He does notrnsay, “But how can you afford this?” becausernit isn’t me, and my success...

fast at Tiffany’s, with a dollop of CurlyrnHoward thrown in.rnI was also given an education in modernrnChinese politics, for the comic hadrnmore pressing business than simply tornmake sport of me and my decadent Westernrnways. He disappeared from the stagernfor a few minutes, during which time arnsquadron of heartachingly beautifulrnmodels showed a line of clothing thatrnmelded...

ten to our lectures on human rights, asrnPresident Jiang Zemin made clear in hisrnvisit to the United States in the fall ofrn1997. Although he is a comparativernyoungster at 70, Premier Zhu Rongji isrnunlikely to reverse the gerontocracy’s wayrnof doing things too quickly in any but therneconomic realm; the old men responsiblernfor the Tiananmen Square massacrernstill...

fault the institutions. He just keeps smallrngrudges, as if they are all he can afford.rnHe was shorted at the bus station. Thernnurses didn’t listen. Most of his time hadrnbeen on auto theft.rnDaft, innit?rnWhen he advises me not to get intorndrugs, it is the only moment in the conversationrnthat comes close to levity. Thernrelentless stream of...

VITAL SIGNSrnECONOMICSrnDebt Money andrnthe Federal Debtrnby Gus R. StelzerrnIn 1985, I was a resident of RanchornSante Fe, California, and a member ofrnthe prestigious Rancho Sante Fe Golfrnand Country Club. 1 often played golfrnwith “Jack” (not his real name), who wasrnlisted in Forbes magazine as one of thern400 richest people in America. On onernoccasion, as we...

izens from servihide to the financial elite.rnSurely these benefits far exceed any thatrnmight result from the tax cuts currendyrnproposed by Congress. But don’t holdrnyour breath: Our “representatives” don’trnreally want to reduce the national debt,rnbecause it means easy money to theirrncronies in the financial world —peoplernlike my friend Jack!rnI am a capitalist by virtue of many...

sonal links with front companies for thernChinese mihtan’ and intelhgence communities?rnAnd what is one to do withrnsuch a person in the event of a war withrnChina? To put the issue somewhat differentl)’:rnSuppose ou were running Cliinesernintelhgence and wished to plant arnnetwork of “sleepers” around the UnitedrnStates. For really effective cover, would itrnnot be smart to...

lege admissions is outlawed). Our institutesrnof higher educahon are the engineroomsrnof the multicultural enterprise.rnFour years at the average university is, asrna survey by National Review has found, arnmost effective way to turn young Americansrnagainst their country, its history, andrntraditions. Is it unreasonable to supposernthat for some proportion of these peoplern—five percent? twenty? —racial loyaltyrnwill trump...

As for congressional findings that violencernagainst women affects the economy,rnthe Fonrth Circuit refused to givernthem “absolute deference.” In the end,rnfederalism carried the day, as the right tornbe free from “gender animus” and the accompanyingrnprivate cause of action werernstruck down.rnThe Supreme Court has already grantedrncertiorari and will soon be reviewingrnBrzonkala. If upheld, as it should be,...

Of Guns and Rosesrnby George McCartneyrnThree KingsrnProduced by Village RoadshowrnProductions, Atlas Entertainment,rnand Warner Bros.rnDirected by David O. RussellrnScreenplay by John Ridley andrnDavid O. RussellrnReleased by Warner Bros.rnAmerican BeautyrnProduced by DreamWorksrnand Jinks/CohenrnDirected by Sam MendesrnScreenplay by Alan BallrnReleased by DreamWorksrnSet against the aftermath of the GulfrnWar in March 1991, David O. Russell’srnThree Kings includes a disturbingrnscene...

slie rushes to the body, her father tryingrndesperately to restrain the child lest shernbe shot also. This stretching of time is, ofrncourse, an old film device. Eisensteinrnused it powerfully in 1925 to givernPotemkin its emotional resonance. ButrnRussell has executed it so masterfully thatrnit feels utterly new and deeply moving.rnWe watch this horror through Gates’ eyesrnand...

problems.rnThe Russian press had a field day withrnBoris Yeltsin’s September 9 conversationrnwith Clinton on the Kremlin hotline.rnThe Kremlin’s walls were gushing withrnleaks: Reportedly, the main topics of conversationrnwere the interconnected BNYrnand Mabetex scandals. Yeltsin and hisrnentourage, the “family,” stand accused ofrnaccepting kickbacks for Kremlin refurbishmentrncontracts from shady KosovornAlbanian Begzhet Paccoli. According tornmedia accounts, Paccoli provided...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, ]r.rnThe Cowboy ReservationrnAt the kickofFof fall semester last year, thernUniversity of Wyoming hosted a conferencernattended by James Watt, Pete Simpsonrn(the brother of former Senator AlanrnSimpson), and Kathy Karpan (an unsuccessfulrncandidate for both governor andrnU.S. senator), among other notables andrncelebrities, to discuss the state’s supposedlyrndismal economic and social future.rnFiaving five tons...

ers and newly planted trees, fresh coats ofrnpaint—but there had been other recentrnsubtractions besides Bill; among themrnScott McPhee (whom I remember as arnWestern FalstafF decanting scotch half arnfifth at a time on the Commissar)’ Commandos’rnannual foray into the wilderness),rnChetty Buck (dead at 35 from thernhantavirus “experts” claimed couldn’trnsurvive as far north as Wyoming), andrnBill Thoman...

Modern Editions of Classic Works for Readers TodayrnSELECT WORKS OF EDMUND BURKErnA New Imprint of the Payne EditionrnIn Three Volumes, andrnMISCELLANEOUS WRITINGSrnCompiled and with a foreword and notes,rnby Francis CanavanrnBurke has endured as the permanent manual of politicalrnwisdom without which statesmen are as sailors on anrnuncharted sea.rn—Harold LaskirnOriginally published by Oxford University Press inrnthe 1890s,...

Italy and the United States Share a Common Story:rn1860’srnForged in civil wars:rnThe War Between the States andrnthe Risorgimentorn1930’srnOvercentrahzed b’ strongmen:rnFDR and MussohnirnTodayrnEach country faces seriousrnchaUenges from regional andrncultural separatists.rnA specij^l,rnsession will focusrnon the greatestrnwork of modernrnItalian literature,rnAlessandro Maiizon+srni Promessi Sposirn[The Betrothed).rnParticipants will sta al llie delightfulrnHotel Asiiigo, located on a hilltop in thernresort town of...

b:nrioRrnThomas FlemingrnSENIOR EDllOR, BOOKSrnChilton WiUiamson, ]r.rnMANAC’.INC EDITORrnScott P. RichertrnARl DIRECTORrnH. Ward SterettrnDESIGNERrnMelanie AndersonrnCONl1 Add to Favorites

niitting. That is whv, at the end of WorldrnWar II, General Eisenhower insisted onrnforcing Germans living in the vicinit- ofrnthe death camps to tour those establishments.rnNo amonnt of argument againstrnNazi racist theorizing could really substitute,rnunder the circmnstances, for thernsight and smell of those emaciatedrncorpses stacked up all over the place.rnW’liat appalls me is not that...

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnALEKSANDR LEBED, goernor ofrnthe vast Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia,rnshrugged off rumors circulating in laternSeptember that an ailing Boris Yeltsinrnwould appoint the populist “combat general”rnas premier and then resign, leavingrnLebed as acting president. The Krasnoyarskrngovernor claimed that the timernmay come when he will be “needed” torn”clean up” Yeltsin’s “mess,” and he didrnagree that ex-presidents sliould...

In the end, judges from Poland, Lithuania,rnFrance, Austria, Norway, Britain,rnand Albania held that, because convincingrnand weighty reasons had not been offeredrnfor the ban, the Ministry’s polic’rncould not pass muster under the EuropeanrnConxention on Human Rights,rnrhe one judge from Cyprus dissented.rnllpon learning of the court’s ruling,rnDuncan Lustig-Prean, one of the litigantsrnin the case who had been...

Or can it? In 1993, Bill Clinton formallyrnapologized to native Hawaiians forrnthe U.S. military’s role in forcibly oustingrnQueen Liliuokalani from power in 1893.rnBill’s blubber)’ mea culpa appears to havernawakened some old grievances andrnsparked calls for Hawaiian independence.rnOn September 20, the WashingtonrnTimes reported that “the apolog}’ encouragedrna spate of Hawaiian sovereignhmovements.”rnKeaki Keali, a native Hawaiian livingrnnear...

arc to believe, in the creation of thernDome itself.rnSuch humanistic pseudoliturgicalrntwaddle is complemented by the statuesrnoffered for reverence in this extraagantrntemple of trash. Bestriding the “Bod}’rnZone” like a castrated, eolostomisedrncolossus is a vast, faceless, raceless, androgrnnoiis humanoid, a representation ofrna humanity so politically corrected thatrnall can recognize themselves in it withoutrntaking offense. Whether the 14-foot-highrnbo’...