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the octagon into livable rooms.rnYankees with bright ideas had been prominent in the earlyrnsettlement of Superior, but Scandinavia had overwhelmedrnNew England. Glenway Wescott lamented the changernwrought by immigrants in Southern Wisconsin, but Superiorrnwas defined by the foreigners—the French, after all, had beenrnthere first, and the border that ran through the Great Lakes wasrnhighly porous to...

])• anyone speaks Finnish any more, and their old neighborhoodrn—the north end of Tower Avenue down to the docks—isrndead. Where there had been shops and office buildings, restaurantsrnand dives, there were now only empty spaces and parkingrnlots for nobody to park in. One of the few buildings left standingrnin the desert of free parking is...

VIEWSrnThe Other LindberghrnCrusader Against Plutocracyrnby Justin RaimondornWhile the most famous member of the Lindbergh clan isrnundoubtedly the aviator and World War Il-era isolationistrnCharles A. Lindbergh, Jr., the qualities for which he wonrnrenown—his courage, his Scandinavian severit)’, his willingnessrnto stand against the tide of popular opinion, his dislike ofrncities and the elites they spawned, and (most...

following surgen’ for a tumor. From this point on, his personalrnlife was a cause of great unhappiness. hi 1900, he met EvangelinernLodge Land, a temperamental young woman, moody andrnunpredictable. She was beautiful and a little mad, not at all arnsuitable mate for the serious intellectual C.A., an austere manrnnot given to emotional displays. After several...

ing to lure us into the European imbroglio. He pointed out thatrn”the Wall Street end of the Fed eral Reser’e System” was the financialrnpillar of the Allies: The resources of the U.S. Treasuryrnand depositors’ funds were marshaled in the service of thernBritish and French empires. As Murray N. Rothbard put it inrnWall Street, Banks, and...

ation of some 200,000 farmers who were imbued with a radicalrndistrust of the reigning ehtes and desperate to maintain theirrnwav of hfe against the rising tide of war and state-privileged industrialism.rnLindbergh chose the NPL as his vehicle of protest.rnhi a letter to Eva, C.A. brushed aside her concerns about hisrnnew relationship with the I.,eague and...

Downsizing DetroitrnMotown’s Lamentrnby Greg KazarnDetroiters have a deeply ironic way of looking at theirrnbeloved city. The irony is evident in a once-popular Tshirtrnthat showed a muscular tough gripping a ferocious dogrnaround the neck while holding a loaded gun to the animal’srnhead. “Say Nice Things About Detroit,” the T-shirt read. ThernT-shirt is a commentary on Detroit’s...

Arsenal of Democracy . . . Motown . . . Murder City . . .rnToo many of the bad ones have stuck.rn”Mv personal candidate?” Waldmeir writes. “For years I’vernprondlv worn a T-shirt that says all I have to say: ‘Detroit: Nornplace for wimps.'”rnDetroit is no place for wimps. F’or most of the 20th centur)’,rnits repntation...

someday incorporating lower-wage nations such as India andrnChina with their several billion inhabitants.rnWhat is to become of the Motor Cit)’, tlie once-great Arsenalrnof Democracy, the industrial titan that defeated the Nazis inrnWorld War II?rnWhat occurred in Detroit during World War II was remarkable,rnalthough it has been largely forgotten today by the youngerrngeneration. In December 1940,...

Reactionary RadicalsrnRADICAL REACTIONARIESrnThe Militia of LovernA Visit With Novelist Carolyn Chuternby Bill KaufifrnanrnCarolyn Chute’s return address includes the postscript,rn”No Fax/No Phone/No Paved Road.” The self-taughtrnnovelist of Maine’s backwoods can add “No More Good Reviews,”rnfor with her latest book. Snow Man, she has committedrnan unpardonable act of literary patriotism: She depicts a militiamanrnas a human being.rnWe...

Carolyn was raised in Cape Elizabeth, on the coast, beforern”the professional people came in and it got bnilt up.” She usesrn”professional people” as a pejorative, for the invaders inc’itabl’rncorrupt “what I like about small towns: You had a relationship.”rn”Even the person in town you don’t get along with, you hate,rnyou always wave to him,” interjects...

And yet, in the end, she writes of Love, of the would-be murdererrnwhose hand is stilled by “that suffusion of empathy whichrnsome call God, some call weakness.” She closes Snow Manrnwith Geronimo’s chilling plaint: “I think I am a good mair, butrn. . . all over the world they say I am a bad man.”rn”That...

To the mobile professional, the gun has become the symbolrnof the immobile redneck. It must be confiscated; he must bernemasculated. ‘Yuppies moving into our town post their land,rnholler for more police and want everyone to mow their grassrnand spruce up to their tastes and you guessed i t . . . no more gunfire,”rnwrites Carolyn.rnHer...

people who can’t do an)’thing who would have been farmers.rnThey’d be surviving. They can’t anymore: They’re living inrnslums, in trailer parks.rn”T/yey send a yellow bus to our doors and we gladly shove ourrnchildren aboard. For many years, day in and day out, the GreatrnSociety whispers into each sweet perfect little childly ear . . .rnThe...

“All the NewsrnUnfit to Print” ignsi of tfje QCtmesJrnVol. 1 No. 11 November 1999rnWhat was the most important story unfitrnto print in 1998? No, it wasn’t Kosovo:rnChronicles may have been among the firstrnto expose the Clinton administration’srnmany lies, crimes, and misdemeanors inrnthe Balkans, but that particular cat is nowrnout of the bag.rnThere is a story...

been making progress on that front, too.rnThe preparatory commission for the establishmentrnof the International CriminalrnCourt has been busy at work this past summerrnat the United Nations. According tornan Associated Press report (August 14),rnthe United States is not opposed to thernidea in principle. America’s ambassadorrnfor war crimes issues, David Scheffer, “isrntrying to find a legal solution...

market.”rnThe “force” exerted by capitalism is ofrna rather peculiar sort: It leaves people freernto depart from the arrangements that Mr.rnGray prefers them to have. They wouldrnnot enter the global market unless theyrnwish to do so. This, for him, constitutesrnthe spread of compulsory Enlightenmentrnrationality. Mr. Gray would have donernwell to study economic theory more, ifrnneed be...

I have not shown that the more optimisticrnassumption should be adopted,rnnor have I responded to Keynesianrnclaims that, in some circumstances, biddingrndown wage rates will not relieve unemployment.rnBut the merits of the capitalistrncase are not here the primar)’ point.rnRather, my contention is a more limitedrnone. The issue between the free marketrnand its foes involves economic theory:...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnJohn-John Is My Co-Pilotrn.^side from the non-resignation and nonruinrnof President Clinton and the noncampaignrnfor the RepubHcan presidentialrnnominadon, the biggest non-event ofrn1999 was undoubtedly the non-survivalrnlast sunmier of John F. Kennedy, Jr.,rnwho, true to the traditions of his family,rnmanaged to seize international headlinesrnwhen his own recklessness and incompetencernled to disaster—this time not...

nedy and Reagan is largely superficial,rndue in part to the fact that most politicalrnfigures since Kennedy, v-hate’er theirrnprofessed beliefs and parties, have beenrninfluenced by his political stle and strategyrnand in part to the fact that most politiciansrnwho got elected president duringrnthe Cold War generally won by campaigningrnon much the same platform —rnthat they would cut...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter Fromrnthe Northwoodsrnby JoAn MelchildrnJust East of the Indian’s NosernEleen years ago, I moved to NortliwestrnWisconsin, a region called the WisconsinrnIndianhead because it is shaped like thernprofile of an hidian chief I live jnst eastrnof the nose.rnAfter a career of publishing magazinesrnand editing newspapers in the TwinrnCities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, I decidedrnto take...

dog out for a walk near Spooner when hernheard the dog running up behind liim atrntop speed. The dog ran right past him.rnWlien the man turned around, he foundrnhimself face to face with a black bear uprnon its hind legs. The man pushed thernbear; the bear took a swipe and scratchedrnhim; but they both ended...

back, and the Americans stepped away inrnconfusion. Europe, the modern world,rnpsychiatry: all gone. Three days inrnMadrid, and I was finally in Spain.rnHands in the air, their hands much ofrnthe dance, the women swirled and spunrnslowK’. Some danced with each other,rnsome by themselves, others pulled thern12-year-old girls onto the floor to teachrnthem. Paco, a military psychiatrist...

what happened when the music began.rn”Yes!” She was thrilled.rnWe talked for some time. She thoughtrnwe Americans had never been a tribe; Irntold her I thought that once we had.rnWliether or not I was right, she made thernwisest remark of the night. She was jokingrnwhen she answered me, but spokernwith utter sincerity. Up on her toes,...

that has increased the percentagernof nonvvhite students to 21 percentrnthis year from 8 percent in 1986.rnLast year, 1,711 students speakingrn24 non-English languages were enrolled.rnCurrently, the metropolitan area ofrnBrown County (Creen Bay, De Pere, thernsuburbs) has a population of approximatelyrn200,000. The cit>- of Green Bayrnhas roughlv 97,000 residents —a figurernthat has remained more or less constantrnfor...

Anyway, Father Jacobs is described byrnthe press here as “the strange priest tied tornthe fugitive financier Martin Frankel.” ArnJewish convert to Cathohcism and nowrnun prete da jet-set with a parish in Rome’srnTrastevere, Jacobs appears to have beenrnin trouble before, with the archdiocese ofrnNew York, for opening a swanky restaurantrnof his own called The Palantine.rnTom Corbally,...

VITAL SIGNSrnLITERATURErnWisconsinrnApocalypsernby William MillsrnSince 1 was going to fish in the Northwoodsrnof Wisconsin, I decided hkernan bookish person to read some booksrnabout the place. I expect I own all ofrnGordon Weaver’s ten or twelve books,rnand I went digging throngh them againrnto sec which ones \ ere set in Wisconsin.rnBesides growing up in Wisconsin,rnWea’er lived a...

to thrive. Tower, the main street, is hnedrnwith bars, most of them full. Bars are thernsetting for much of the work of both writers.rnIn Bukoski’s very dark story, “ThernTomb of the Wrestlers,” a 19-year-oldrncharacter. Bob Harris, imagines a postcardrnfor Superior.rnWeeds that grow over rusted tracksrn. . . no diesels slowing for the crossingsrn. . ....

on time becomes an obsession for onerncharacter in “The World at War.”rnLi ing with my parents in Superior,rnWisconsin, I begin to collect timepieces.rnIn my room are a Sessionsrnwall clock, a Westclox Baby Benrnwith hvo alarms, a Sunbeam with arnlighted dial to shine the way—rnthese and a few other watches andrnclocks, all of them wound and...

l)ook. Example: Children are asked torn”draw ” a line segment onsereen and labelrnit “AB.’ Because tlie’ do this elcctronicalK,rnit is considered superior to a manualrnexercise. In what way? Quite apartrnfrom the extra time involved in lining uprnand marching down to the computer lab,rnlogging on, opening the program, etc.,rnthere is far less teacher supervision ofrnwhat is...

into cyberspace, and too mncli of thatrnfraction is fragmented, diluted, or vitiatedrnb}’ highly qiieshonable persons for entire-rn1 inscrutable or unscrupulous reasons.rnThe published books and magazinesrnavailable at libraries or bookstores representrna much broader range of views andrnare far more reliable sources since thernprocess of their production lias been juried,rnrefereed, peer-reviewed, and vettedrnto an extent impossible witli...

quettes and eager beaux flirt and huff,rntease and screech. Pope has Belinda losernher treasured curl, the paradoxical emblemrnof her desirabilit}” and her irginit’,rnwhile leaning over the silver coffee pot torninhale its fumes, hi the film, Brosnanrnflirts with Rnsso in an elegant restaurant,rnbegging her permission to ask “a ver’ personalrnquestion.” “Would you,” he insinuates,rn”like another hit...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, ]r.rnWaiting Nights, Beastly DaysrnThe high Colorado Rockies are like arnhpe of beautiful woman, eye-catchingrnw ithout being especially interesting.rnSpectacularh’ well-endowed, they are alsornobious, unsubtle, lacking in indixidualitrnand complexity, bland in their stunningrnperfection, with a hint of vulgarih’.rnOr perhaps it’s the sort of people who arerndrawn in glittering swarms to these toweringrnfourteeners,...

from the blue Saltillo cups, and cleanedrnup afterward, packing in the stove againrnand stow ing the pans, pots, and plates tornclear the deck in case of emergency.rnThen Dick plugged the microphone intornthe tape recorder and pointed it towardrnthe forest. Finally, we settled under ourrnunzipped sleeping bags with the BionicrnEar and the night vision close at...

Modern Editions of Classic Works for Readers TodayrnTHE COLLECTED WORKS OF JAMES M. BUCHANANrn”Mv interest in understanding how tlte economic interaction process woriis has always beenrninstrumental to the more inclusive purpose of understanding how we can learn to live one withrnone another without engaging in Hobbesian war and without subjecting ourselves to the dictatesrnof the...

THE STORY OF KOSOVOrnAS IT HAS NEVER BEEN TOLD BYrnTHE WESTERN MEDIA AND POLITICIANSrn^”ROlARI’Mi:^V:rn’I’hc objective oftlie book is to providf a concise,rnreadable sunmian’ of tlie Kosovo crisis.rnIlic aulliors have briefly, but autlioritativcly,rncovered the complex historical background to thernKoso() problem, as well as the mvriad of politicalrnand diplomatic games prior to the bombiug caui-rn])aign. Legal, strategic...

Kl.inORrnThomas FlemingrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton WiUiamson, ]r.rnMANAC:iNC EDI’IORrnScott P. RichertrnAR’I OIREC’IORrnH. Ward SterettrnDESIGNERrnMehmie AndersonrnCONTRIBDUN0 EDITORSrnKatherine Dalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rnJ.O. late, Michael Washburn,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, Donald Livingston,rnWilliam Mills, William Murchison,rnAndrei Navrozov, Jacob NeusnerrnFOREK:;N AFFAIRS EDITORrnSrdja TrifkovicrnEECAL AFFAIRS EDII ORrnStephen B. PresserrnRELIGION EDITORrnHarold O.J. BrownrnEDITORIAL SF:CRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnThe Rockford InstituternPLIBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCIRCULiTION MANAGERrnCindy LinkrnA ]>iihlication...

problematic; for his character depends inrnlarge part upon fortunate family and socialrncircnmstances for which he canrnclaim no credit.” Evidently Rawls doesrnnot believe any of us comes to deservernver’ much in life since, by his lights, ourrncharacter, the source of our meritoriousrnor virtuous (as well as vicious) conduct, isrnlargely not of our own making. It is...

Church of the Creator, an anti-Christian,rnanti-Jewish, anti-non-white reHgion.rnHale was a law-school graduate who hadrnbeen denied the right to practice law inrnIllinois because of his racist beliefs.rnSmith’s promotional zeal won him the titlernof “1998 Creator of the Year.”rnAfter being forced to quit the Champaign-rnUrbana campus of the Universityrnof Illinois because of charges that he hadrnbeaten his...

August, though, “all Monica all the time”rnjunkies got their best fix in months. First,rnLinda Tripp, who is either one of thernmost evil betrayers of all time or one ofrnthe most courageous and dedicated publicrnservants in American history (dependingrnon whether you are a fan of Bill Clintonrnor of Lucianne Goldberg), wasrnindicted by a Maryland grand jury...

decent prosecutor could get any grandrnjury to indict a ham sandwich), but thernfact that prosecutors would choose to gornforward with this weak case requiresrnsome sort of explanation. Parhsan politicsrnwould do, of course, but while thernprosecution is being conducted by arnDemocratic state official, Stephen Montanarelli,rnthe proceeding appears to havernbeen approved by Howard CountyrnState’s Attorney Marna McLendon,...

and morally just citizens who couldrnrefuse to let abortuary employees shop inrntheir stores, dine in their restaurants, buyrnhomes, and license their “clinics” (orrnlive, for that matter, if local governmentsrnand laws were established to be Chris-rnHan).rnBy majority, America is pro-choice.rnThis fact should drive every Christianrnwho recognizes the evil of murderingrnchildren to fight for local rights —or...

PERSPECTIVErnNone More Terrible Than Manrnby Thomas FlemingrnThe past half-millennium that beganrnwith the fall of Constantinople andrnthe subsequent discovery of the NewrnWorld has gone by so many titles that itsrnname might be legion: It has been thernage of “progress” and “discovery,” a periodrnof “enlightenment,” the era ofrn”democracy.” However, all these gloriousrnnicknames that stud the pages of...

ring to the individual as “the head of so-and-so.” hi the first Hnernof Sophocles’ Antigone, the heroine calls upon her sister Ismene,rnsaying literally, “Oh common self-sister head of Ismene,”rnwhich Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones (in his recent Loeb edition) Englishesrnas “My own sister Ismene, linked to myself” Althoughrnthe word “head” is used to indicate the person of...

stood except in relation to the divine —and woe unto tiie mortalrnruler like Creon, who contemned the power of Hades, orrnPentheus (in Euripides’ Bacchae), who tried to suppress thernrites of Dionysus.rnThe classic moment, best caught in the Parthenon sculptures,rnis the generation when the divine, the transcendent, andrnthe ideal are still glimpsed, as in an X-ray...