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order, of discipline, of greater social cohesion. In the name ofrnthe bright tomorrow of world socialism, hi the name of ourrnchildren’s fntnre.rnThe political crime of bringing up a child out of school —rnvnye kollektiva, “out of the collective,” was the standardrnSoviet locution used in my childhood —is still lacking a legalrndefinition in some countries, such...

radical solution, is not in the socioeconomic position to thinkrn$12,000 a year an unattainable dream.rnAs is clear from the personal anecdote with which I began, Irnthink nothing of engaging a strange German in a potentiallyrnexplosive discussion, and this brings me to another importantrnelement in the personality of the presumed sociopath whornis the product of home...

Magistrate MahoneyrnOr: How I Learned to Stop Worr)’ing and Started Homeschoolingrnby Scott P. RichertrnI n Mav 1995, when our first cliild was born, my wife and Irnwere living in Northern Virginia. I had inst completed thernconrse work for my doctorate, and mv wife was the exhibitionsrnregistrar at the National Bnilding Muscnm in Washington,rnD.C Bnt jnst...

lum that Mar’ Kay Clark’s Seton Home Study School was developing.rnBut to Amy and me, homeschooling was somethingrnthat we would do if necessan’, something to tide us over until werncould find a “real” school for our children.rnRockford, it turns out, is full of Catholic families who arernjust homescliooling until something better comes along,rnat least according...

ber of smaller organizations tied to a particular church or neighborhood.rnAnd while Mr. Brunner’s belief that “we are our children’srnfirst teachers” seems universally held, an increasing numberrnof Catholic and evangelical homeschoolers agree thatrnparents should irot necessarily be their children’s only teachers.rnEvery Tuesday, many homeschoolers take their children to thernHallstrom School, an evangelical homeschool cooperativernwhich had...

CHRONICLES INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENTrnWhat Are We Willing to Settle For?rnby Joyce B. HawsrnFor nearh’ half a cenhin’, hundreds of school districts acrossrnthe nation ha’c battled cxorbitantK cxpcnsie social engineeringrnschemes forced upon them h’ federal courts under thernguise of “desegregation remedial orders.” These orders, whichrnsupersede local, state, and federal laws, arc often devastating.rnCourts have stripped autiioritv’ from...

end in 2002.rnIn 1994, Patrick Wong was denied a plaee at l:op-rankedrne High School becanse Chinese-American cliiklren ninstrnOther legislation is being considered to end racialrnscore higjier on admissions tests than those of other etlmicrngronps. Brian Ho and Hilary Chen were tinned away fromrntheir neighborhood elementary schools becanse those schoolsrnhad readied their quota of Chinese-Americans. The...

“All the NewsrnUnfit to Print” ignsi of tlje tCimesirnVol. 1 No. 9 September 1999rnWe open this, the final Signs of thernTimes to be devoted entirely to Clinton’srnwar in Kosovo, with an eloquent summaryrnof the war by Canada’s answer to PatrnBuchanan, David Orchard. In an op-ed inrnthe National Post (June 23), the prominentrnTory declared the idea...

are confirmed by Captain Martrni n de l a Hoz: “Several timesrnour Colonel protested to NATOrnchiefs that they selected targetsrnwhich are NOT m i l i t a r yrnt a r g e t s . They threw him out,rnwith curses, threatening thatrnthe North Americans wouldrnlodge a complaint with thernSpanish Army, once throughrnBrussels and...

to mask the identit}’ of ends.rnBradford’s critique of Enlightenmentrnliberalism was framed in the heyday ofrnJohn Ravvls’ rationalist liberalism and ofrnl:Iarr’ Jaffa’s crude imposihon of fundamentalistrnrationalism on the AmericanrnFounding. In that intellectual climate,rnBradford’s critique seemed scandalous.rnBut in the last decade of his life, critics asrndiverse as Alasdair Maclnty’re, MichaelrnSandel, and John Gray offered their ownrndevastating criticisms...

cism of Bradford might be that, in an agernof Enlightenment ideology and corporaterncapitalism, neither the Southern traditionrnnor any other traditional societ’ isrncapable of maintaining itself If that is so,rnthen what arc we to make of Bradford’srnwitness?rn’I’his question is considered by MarkrnMalvasi, who argues that Bradford didrnnot view modernit}- as a seamless metaphysicalrnsubstance from which there...

Mr. Borwick replies by return, explainingrnhow vitally important to the successrnof the public-school system, herernand elsewhere, is the loyal cooperationrnof every one high and low,rnwith the endeavours of the VI formrnto maintain a high standard of conductrnand manners.rnStill, Leu doesn’t get the point, and herncomplains to the headmaster, M.M.rnGlazebrook, who replies t h a t...

identify them. That’s not so easy to do,rnbecause the ones who are promotedrn(make that “expensively touted”) are usuallyrn(a euphemism for “almost always”)rnnot the ones to spend hme with. As a rulernof thumb, I suggest that writers representingrnorganized polidcal constituencies orrnidentity groups may be safely neglectedrnwithout even cursory investigation,rnthough the possibilit)- of exception cannotrnbe discounted entirely....

Principalities & PowersrnAppealing to Prurient InterestsrnIn 1857, the House of Lords engaged in arnlieated debate over a bill sponsored by anrnorganization calling itself by the frank,rnbut nonetheless quaint, name of the “Societ’rnfor the Suppression of Vice.” Thernintent of the bill was to control, throughrnlegal penalties, the produchon and salernof “obscene publications,” and despiternthe high Victorian...

tion of the Burger definition applied to violencernrather than sex—although Burgerrnrepeatedly insisted that “obscenity” referredrnonly to sexual conduct.rnThe Hyde adaptation is therefore suspectrnon its face, since violence, evenrnwhen it is as brutal as Oliver Stone orrnSteven Spielberg can make it, still isn’trnsex (except when it becomes sadomasochism)rnand simply does not havernthe implications for personal, family,rncommunit)...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter FromrnNew Yorkrnby J.O. TaternThe Talk of the TownrnThere have been so many e-mails andrncell phones and taped messages andrnbeepers and postcards and mash notesrncluttering up my communications tiiat Irnjust haven’t been able to keep up with everythingrnthat has been happening becausernI have been so busy at so many gayrnbars and cigar bars and wine...

t}’, strangely unnientioned in onr foundingrndocument.rnSo tiiere it is. Hillan- Rodham Clintonrnwill run, she will be the Democraticrnnominee, and the betting is that she willrnwin. So fasten your seatbelts, because it’srngoing to be a bumpy ride. I mean,rnHillarv is going to get a bye from thernDemocrats because she inspires suchrnfeelings of guilt and vicarious identification.rnHer...

taught.rnHow a teacher—or, less misleadingly,rnsome teachers — might be able to earnrn£^5,000 a year (half again as much as therncurrent salary for one at the top of thernscale and without additional responsibilities)rnis far from straightforward. A closerrnlook at this carrot reveals it to be a shck.rnTo the general public, the educationrnministry can say, “Lo, for...

Everything that happens in Venicernhas this inherent improbabiHt’, ofrnwhich the gondola, floating, insubstantial,rnat once romantic andrnhaunting, charming and absurd, isrnthe symbol.rnCome to think of it, what I am in a positionrnto offer here is a whole list of specificrnpromises, which may at first soundrndifficult to fulfill but are perfectly realistic.rnI promise not to exploit the...

a plausible residence, and this got me tornthe third minute, but no more. I thenrntried saying that my parents live in NewrnYork, that my wife has an American passport,rnthat I am practically related to thernbride, that I promise to name my nextrnchild Washington, “D.C. for short,” andrnso on. Useless, pathetic, immature! Arnsalesman of insubstantial, shimmeringrnassociahons!...

Truck Stop; both are HIV-positive. Therndrag queen Lester (Tyrone Chlones)rncamps up catastrophe in his seduction ofrnWilbie (the misty-voiced WambertrnWeems), an earnest young narratologistrnwho ends up end-up. “Yes, Yes,” Lesterrnsings, “I’m a hell of a mess / Under thisrndress.” Igor (the gassy-voiced DamianrnHearse), a decomposition artist workingrnin cow cadavers who bears witness to therngroup’s struggles, asks,...

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VITAL SIGNSrnOf Apes and Yahoosrnby George McCartneyrnInstinctrnProduced by Spyglass Entertainmentrnand Touchstone PicturesrnDirected by ]on TurteltaubrnScreenplay by Gerald Di Pegornand Daniel QuinnrnReleased by Buena Vista PicturesrnPushing TinrnProduced by Art Linson Productions,rn3 Miles Apart Productions Ltd., et al.rnDirected by Mike NewellrnScreenplay by Darcy Freyrnand Glen CharlesrnReleased by 20th Century FoxrnFilm CorporationrnStar Wars: Episode I—ThernPhantom MenacernProduced by Fucasfilm...

instincts. Don’t think.” Feelings good,rnreason bad. Me Tarzan, you mentallyrnfrazzled nerd.rnI must confess I’m under orders fromrnmy own nine-year-old Liam to say nicernthings about George Lucas’s movie. Sornlet me doff my critic’s cap and admit thatrnthe movie is fun. No, it’s not the achievementrnthe first installment was. Yes, itsrnplot is a tortured mess, and the...

selves away time and again, whetlier it’srnTracy praying to God to help her win thernelection because she is the only one whorndeserves to, or McAllister assuring us he’srnat peace with himself as he pummelsrnvending machines or hurls a Pepsi at arnpassing car. Despite their reasonable discourse,rnthese are people firmly in the griprnof their destructively instinctual...

brazenness is courage rather than conceit?rnWho still believes that a bottomlessrnneed for approval leads to anything but arnbottomless potential for cravenness?rnWhat kind of man publicly humiliatesrnhis child?rnTo have identified with such a personrnwould unnerve anyone. But the problemrnfor the male Smarties isn’t that they identifiedrnwith a flawed President, or evenrnwith a lousy excuse for a...

and obscenities. The assistant principalrninvariably appeared at my door to quietrnthe class. How, I wondered, could I havernbeen so stupid as to have thought that Jrnwas responsible for my students’ fears?rnI pleaded with the youngsters to givernme a chance to help them. I pointed outrnthat additional unacceptable behaviorrnwould lead to their removal from familyrnand friends,...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, ]r.rnEvery Man for HimselfrnEl Paso del Norte . . . the Jornada delrnMiierto . . . Tiguex . . . Santa Fe: The triprnthat for Don Juan de Onate was a weekslongrnordeal up the Rio Grande on thernCamino Real in 1598 for me is an hourand-rn20-minute flight, including 20 minutesrnon...

terland beyond the Appalachian Mountainsrnand, later, the Mississippi River,rnthey behaved like slum kids set loose in arnMayfair confectionery shop of continentalrnproportions. As the comparison suggests,rnthe determining factor seems tornhave been class, not culture, race, or ethnicity,rnthe late-arriving Anglo-Saxon-rnCeltic immigrants having acted as irresponsiblyrnas the newer stock (or more so,rnSandoz —herself the daughter of Swissrnimmigrants—would have...

Modern Editions of Classic Works for Readers TodayrnTHE STRUGGLE FOR SOVEREIGNTYrnSeventeenth-Century English Political Tracts InrnTwo VolumesrnEdited by Joyce Lee MalcolmrnFor much of Europe the seventeenth century was, asrnit has been termed, an “Age of Absolutism” inrnwhich single rulers held tremendous power. Yet thernEnglish in the same century succeeded in limiting thernpower of their monarchs. The...

his Is The MagazinernVOTE for the 1999 Reader Awards*rnPRAeflGUlrnirnhrn’-B “Ihinking about homeschooling? ThenrnI HO.^’T-iCii’jO.’ili, is your magazine. Our publish-rn-L er and columnists include many of the peoplernwho helped the homeschool movement grngrow to its present size. With an eye to the |rnfuture, we are here to help you make the most | ‘;rnof your child’s...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, Jr.rnMANAGING EDITORrnScott P. RichertrnART DIRECTORrnH. Ward SterettrnDESIGNERrnMelanie AndersonrnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnKatherine Dalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rnj.O. Tate, Michael Washburn,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, Donald Livingston,rnWilliam Mills, William Murchison,rnAndrei Navrozov, Jacob NeusnerrnFOREIGN AFFAIRS EDITORrnSrdja TrifkovicrnLEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORrnStephen B. PresserrnRELIGION EDITORrnHarold O.J. BrownrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnThe Rockford InstituternPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCIRCULTION MANAGERrnCindy LinkrnA publication of...

one more display of a moral exhibitionismrnthat permeates American popularrnculture today, to the detriment of intellectualrnand personal integrity.rn—Amy KiemanrnDenver, COrnOn FlexibilityrnLet me get this straight. In the JunernChronicles, one W. Robert Hawkins opposedrnthe U.S. war against Serbia, dismissingrninterventionist congressmen asrnahistorical nitwits and likening the Serbsrnto Texans threatened with the loss of SanrnAntonio. Yet in the...

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnTHE MEDIA told us that “critics warnrnbombing alone won’t budge Milosevic,”rnso when bombing alone did budge him,rnthe media told us ’twas a famous victory.rn”It worked!” gushed Mara Liasson of NationalrnPublic Radio as the G-8 peace accordrnwas announced in early June.rn”Clinton is vindicated, and Gore is lookingrngood again… . Clinton was right!”rn”Bombing alone” broke the...

man Suzanne Smith, “is the Constitutionrnand the right of the people to expressrndissent.”rnOh —that wasn’t what was going onrnthere? “The people” weren’t expressingrn”dissent”? Interesting logic. ThernACLU’s point, of course, is that peoplernwho agree with ACLU positions expressrndissent, whereas those who disagree mustrnbe expressing something else. Nasty,rnNazi-like tendencies, no doubt. SiegrnheilrnThe importance of prayer in the...

forgiven if we feel like hurling our lawrnbooks at the podium, or if we feel as mistreatedrnas LaShonda.rn—Stephen B. PresserrnSLOVAKIA’S PRESIDENTIAL RACErnwas not big news in May, as the world’srnattention was focused on NATO’s destructionrnof a small Slavic country to thernsouth. The predictable first-round resultsrnpitted the controversial former leader ofrnthe fledgling democracy, Vladimir Meciar,rnagainst the...

response to 24-hour-a-day CNN broadcastsrnof people huddled in tents in Albaniarnand Macedonia. They carry withrnthem the sentiments of Mather’s MagnaliarnChristi Americana, molded by tworncenturies of American evangelicalism.rnArticles reminding us that ethnic Albaniansrnare responsible for the heroin trade inrnEurope and for teenage prostitution inrnItaly and have engaged in terrorist actsrnagainst tiie Serbian police simply cannotrntrump the...

PERSPECTIVErnRemember the Mainernby Thomas FlemingrnHenry Luce coined the phrase “The American Century” asrnan expression of the mihtant economic globalism that hasrncharacterized American policy from the days of WilhamrnMcBGnley. Luce, the pubhsher of Time and Fortune, was thernchild of missionaries in China—a product, in other words, ofrnAmerican religious and cultural globalism. It is no small ironyrnthat...

The second strain is represented by the military imperialists:rnthe two Roosevelts, neoconservative hawks like Jeane Kirkpatrick,rnand our hormonally challenged secretary of state. Onernhundred years ago, they put their trust in the Navy and graduallyrnswitched to advocating reliance on airpower: The commonrnthread is a concern with long-range power and a desire to minimizernrisks to our troops....

then from each other. A century and a half later, Tacitus, himselfrna member of the Roman imperial aristocracy, put this summationrnof Roman policy in the mouth of a British rebel: “Theyrnmake a desert, and they call it peace.” With the advantages of arnclassical education, America’s British allies dubbed the NATOrnplan for Kosovo “Operation Agricola” in...

VIEWSrn(T THE ENDrni OF THErnAMERICAN CENTURYrn”^nnff^nnrnBjjWH^MJrn- – ^ j l ^rnf^^^^iP®^ ^^|fflrn^ ^ L – •’IHLJ^MMJrnmS^^^^^lrn^M^sSSrn^^^^mrnSI p.rn• VrnThe Anti-American Centuryrnby Bill KaufiFmanrnThe anti-American Centurv began with a bad moon rising.rnOur new possessions across the sea were awash in colonialrngore. Surveying from afar the corpses of Filipino independencernfighters and our blood-spattered flag, Mark Twain suggestedrnthat we...

That New Time Religionrnby Philip JenkinsrnAmericans in the 19th century had a confident pride thatrnthey would dominate the coming age, not only because ofrnthe immense economic power of the new nation, but as a naturalrnoutcome of its moral and religious strength. As Melville hadrnwritten in White Jacket, “We Americans are the peculiar, chosenrnpeople—the Israel of...

it: Be careflil when you ask to hear the stark voice of the poorrnand oppressed; you may well not like what they have to say.rnWhile the Lambeth affair made headlines and duly delightedrnSpong’s numerous enemies, little attention was paid to therntectonic changes which it symbolized for the world’s religiousrnmakeup in the new millennium. Westerners have...

well to remember that many of these religious battles will bernfought both between and within states, perhaps with the fullrnpanoply of weapons now available to even small nations: Therntrue age of crusade and jihad might belong to the 21st century,rnnot the 12th.rnConsidering these changes, we cannot fail to be struck by thernsheer pervasive irrelevance of...

Not Ready, Aim, MisfirernAmerica’s Modern Militaryrnby Christopher CheckrnEmbarkation is the business of puzzling large weapons andrnvehicles, and the Marines that go with them, onto a shiprnthat is run by a man who insists he does not have enough spacernfor all that you need to take in order to do your job once he takesrnyou where...

Kagans, and Sen. John McCains of Washington, who are eagerrnfor America to take up the cause of “benevolent global hegemony”;rnbut at the end of “The American Century,” for Americansrnwho have grown weary of the White Man’s Burden, andrncertainly for America’s once and future adversaries, news ofrnAmerica’s shrinking —perhaps withering —standing armyrnmight be met with a...