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sevelt suddenly declared that the contractsrnto carry the mail issued by the previousrnadministration were null and void:rnThe Army would deliver the mail. Sixrnpilots died within a week of Roosevelt’srnedict, and eight planes were lost at a costrnof over $300,000. Airmail service wasrnhalted, yet the President would not relent:rnHe was determined to destroy therncommercial airlines, and...

The three most important groupsrnwho have been pressing this countryrntoward war are the British, thernJewish, and the Roosevelt Administration.rnBehind these groups, butrnof lesser importance, are a numberrnof capitalists, anglophiles, and intellectuals,rnwho believe that theirrnfiiture, and the future of mankind,rndepend upon the domination ofrnthe British Empire. Add to thesernthe Communistic groups whornwere opposed to intervention untilrna...

Thus everybody in Brunei is rich. Thernnative inhabitants of Nigeria are allrnblack. Every man in Israel can handlernan automatic weapon. Surely their objectivernsameness in these important respectsrnneed not result in cardboard flatness,rnpredictable development, or socialrnstereotyping. Well, everybody in NewrnYork is a hypocrite, and Wolfe was artistrnenough to say this in The Bonfire of thernVanities through...

foonery and delusion. Like Swift andrnWaugh, he takes ferocious delight in displayingrnpeople at their ugliest, their mostrnswinish, their most feckless.rnAmis likes to take us inside his narrativesrnand show us how he works his tricks.rnIt’s the postmodern thing, but with nonernof the solemn self-importance Americanrnpractitioners flaunt. Amis sacrificesrnverisimilitude for a legitimate purpose:rnDoing so enables him to...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Englandrnby Michael StentonrnThoroughly Modem MonarchyrnThe pace of cultural redefinition inrnBritain is steady and strong. Since thernday in 1991 when Prime Minister JohnrnMajor refused to veto the Maastrichtrntreaty, a new picture has emerged. Tornput it crudely, the Tories and the monarchyrnare looking unprecedentedly vulnerable.rnThe only good argument for theirrncontinued survival is that they have...

of the kingdoms—and the new pattern ofrnconstitutional law—”human rights” in arnEuropean legal context—will supply therngroundwork for this change, but the newrnfunctions of the monarchy are still at therndesign stage. The chance that “thernCrown” will intend this new design tornenhance feelings of democratic confidencernand national sovereignty is notrnvery good. The elite want Europe andrnthe euro, and...

very rich and rich, young and not sornyoung, but mostly American—who haverncome here “to study art” (if they went torna private school) or “to leam about art” (ifrnthey are pretty girls, as a few of them are).rnNone of these people, as far as I havernbeen able to determine, is aware that thernelusive reality of which...

avelli of the straight razor. That wouldrnshow education!rnAndrei Navrozov is Chronicles’rnEuropean correspondent.rnLetter From Lagadornby John N. FraryrnRevolution in the AirrnThanks to a November election upset,rnKafka, South Dakota—home of LagadornUniversity—is poised to become the vanguardrncollege town of 21st-centuryrnAmerica. Joe Steele, a Lagado UniversityrnEnglish Department adjunct runningrnas a candidate of the Farmer-Activist-rnWorker-Grad Student Alliance (a coalitionrnof the...

days, and renaming all the months exceptrnOctober.rnOn November 8, the municipal codernwas revised to strengthen penaltiesrnagainst hate-misdemeanors. Henceforth,rnordinary spitting on the sidewalkrnwill still be penalized with a $25 fine,rnwhereas hate-spitting is to carry a penaltyrnof six months in the municipal workhouse.rnFailure to curb one’s dog willrncontinue to incur a $15 dollar fine fromrnJanuary 2 to...

VITAL SIGNSrnPOETRYrnA.D. Hope: Poet ofrnthe Antipodesrnby Alan SullivanrnThe other day, as I was reading an articlernabout Keats, I thought suddenlyrnof A.D. Hope. I started imagining arnhme when young writers would lose interestrnin the romance of a vivid Englishrnyouth extinguished by early death. Instead,rnthey would learn to admire the lessrngifted but longer-lived Australian who ultimatelyrnwrote great...

which was still very much in force duringrnthe 50’s. Here the language is Audenesque,rncomposed in a breezy balladrnstanza like that of “Miss Gee,” but therntheme is pure Hope at his most hopeless:rnAdventure opened wide its grislyrnjaws;rnHenry looked in and knew thernHero’s doom.rnThe huge white girl drank on withoutrna pausernAnd, just at closing hme, she askedrnhim...

New Cratylus, Hope describes his acquisitionsrnin aggressive, almost imperialisticrnterms, doubtlessly knowing he wouldrnscandalize his critics: “I explored andrnplundered other languages, mostly byrnmy own efforts, with a few helpingrnlessons from professional teachers.”rnHope excuses his greed by explaining, “ifrnwe go straight to the poetry in learningrnanother language, we get to the purernessence.” Armed with his looted knowledge,rnhe...

ding of a young British Empire. “ThernBamboo Flute” is the imaginary correspondencernof two painters, John Zoffanyrnand Tilly Kettle, who emigrated to Indiarnsome 50 years later, when the Britishrnwere just consolidahng their control ofrnthe subcontinent and the romance of thernRaj was seducing them.rnIn this poem, Hope depicts a meetingrnof cultures still new and strange to eachrnother...

joint passed from hand to hand, as BobrnDylan croaked the words that definedrna generation: “Everybody must getrnstoned.”rnThis was a time which the youth inrncommunist countries experienced quiterndifferently. Prison camps were still alive,rndeportations were the order of the dayrnfrom the Baltics to the Balkans, and therncommunist secret police—the YugoslavrnUDBA, the Romanian Securitate, thernEast German Stasi, and...

ing frightened by postmodernity, or savoringrnone’s provincial “rootedness,” orrnwearing thick horn-rimmed glasses, orrnattending Sunday school lessons. Somerngreat conservatives were agnostics, or pagans,rnor modernists, or revolutionaryrnthinkers. By contrast, today’s conservativesrnhave failed to address the socialrnquestion of workers in the West, andrntherefore, their turf has been stolen byrnthe former 68ers, who are more versed inrnpromising a glorious...

arithmetic, logic, grammar) exist ultimatelyrnfor the sake of metaphysics andrntheology—which is why we teach thernformer to children and reserve the latterrnfor the intellectually mature—so too everythingrnof the child exists for the sake ofrnthe whole man into which he may somedayrndevelop. Describing the place of thernchild in classical Greek education, H.I.rnMarrou writes:rnIn the first place the...

above all to appetite and to thernchild, since children in fact live atrnthe beck and call of appehte, and itrnis in them that the desire for whatrnis pleasant is strongest. .. and asrnthe child should live according tornthe direction of his tutor, so the appetitivernelement should live accordingrnto reason.rnSuch a view would be almost unintelligiblernto...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnWildness in WaitingrnDick Mcllhenny awoke with a cold footrnin the blackness that could be an hour afterrnhe fell asleep or ten minutes beforernthe alarm clock went off. He attended tornthe foot inside the sleeping bag andrnchecked the luminous dial on the clockrnbeside his pillow. The clock said 30 minutesrnpast one....

happenings, Willford eventually quit hisrnhomestead and moved away horn thernarea of the San Juan River where it crossesrnfrom Colorado into New Mexico.rnThe Indians in the vicinity have storiesrngoing back six or seven centuries about arnmysterious being inhabiting the mountains,rnand the English translation for thernname of one Native American village lyingrnsouth of New Mexico’s northern borderrnis...

Modern Editions of Classic Works for Readers TodayrnCONSTITUTIONALISM AND THErnSEPARATION OF POWERSrnSecond EditionrnBy M. J. C. VilernArguably no political principle lias been more centralrnthan the separation of powers to the evolutionrnof constitutional governance in Western democracies.rnIn the definitive work on the subject, M. J. C. Vilerntraces the history of the doctrine from its rise duringrnthe...

Are we coming to…rnThe End of the American Century?rnThe European Community has aheady established monetary union,rnand talks are underway to set up a European Defense Force.rnMeanwhile, NATO is rattling sabres in the Balkans, and our Russian “allies”rnare increasingly impatient with the “one remaining superpower.”rnBack here in the States, we are rapidly drifting away from ourrnEuropean-American...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnMANAGING EDITORrnScott P. RichertrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O./. Brown, KatherinernDalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rnJ.O. Tate, Michael Washburn,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, Donald Livingston,rnWilliam Murchison, William Mills,rnAndrei Navrozov, Jacob Neusner,rnSrdja TrifkovicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnThe Rockford InstituternPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnCindy LinkrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn928 North Main Street,...

question. The United States governmentrnis, today, the largest and most successfulrncriminal enterprise in all of humanrnhistory.rnIt began in exactly the same way thatrnthe Mafia began, with limited goals andrnlimited demands. The defense of the nation,rncourts of law, interstate trade, internationalrntrade and tariffs, a common currency,rnand common dealings withrnforeign powers were funded by agreeablernextortions: It was...

defense ministers gathered in Vienna tornexamine the potential evolution of thernWestern European Union (WEU) intornthe full-fledged militar)’ arm of the EuropeanrnUnion (E.U.), a possibilit- whichrnwould effectively replace NATO in Europernand exclude the United States fromrnthe Old Continent.rnThe idea is not new, especially not inrnParis and Bonn. Until recently, however,rnBritain has resisted it —most notablyrnat the...

the last Sunday of the November sweeps,rnand that it was the highest-rated episodernof the season.rnWithin a week, Oakland County prosecutorrnDavid Gorcyra announced thatrnhe would fulfill Kevorkian’s wish andrncharge him in Youk’s death, arguing thatrn”Consent is not a viable defense in takingrnthe life of another, even under the mostrncontrolled environment.” His decisionrnwas applauded by Michigan State...

life through our Lord Jesus Christ; whornshall change our vile body . . .”; earthrnflung without flourish onto a simplerncasket.rnHistory, since November 22, 1963,rnhas worked its decisive, if leisurely, wayrnwith both men’s reputations.rnThe deification of John F. Kennedyrncommenced at once and enjoyed a prosperousrnrun. Even today, elderly courhersrnlike Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., remain availablernfor a spontaneous...

members with legal sanctions. Watchrnthis space for further developments.rn• Family Values: In recent years,rnhome businesses have become an attractivernoption for mothers who wish to stayrnhome with their children. Now comesrnnews of a booming new home businessrnaimed at single mothers: managingrnpornographic websites. According to arnpress release from Entertek Online,rnwhich claims it runs “the world’s largestrnadult site,”...

PERSPECTIVErnEast Is East^ and West Is Wussrnby Thomas FlemingrnIf a civilized man, as it is sometimes said, can hold two ideasrnin his mind at the same time, post-civilized man goes onernstep farther and sees nothing wrong with maintaining contradictor-rnopinions on any subject that comes up: We say simultaneouslyrnthat the Russians are animalistic drunkards with no...

his great antagonist. Saladin was, by all accounts, a brave andrncapable soldier, a great builder, and a generous and mercifulrnruler. Richard was, if not exactly merciful, the greatest knightrnand most heroic fighter of his age and a troubadour to boot.rn(The modern attempt to portray him as a homosexual moronrnonly shows what happens when a civilization...

made for writing impartial history, but most of what we call historyrnis a conflict of wills, between leaders and nations. Whorncould write an impartial account of the Crusades? Not a faithfulrnCatholic or Muslim, and certainly not an atheist who isrn”neutral” on the religious claims of the two parties: He, in fact,rnhas the biggest ax to...

their opinions on the Bosnian civil war in terms that echoed thernofficial statements issued by the U.S. State Department. Objectivityrnand impartiality, so it seems, have come to mean that arnreporter is on the side of the angels who could never give anrneven break to the other side without spotting their snow-whiternrobes.rnAlthough Sir Thomas More said...

may not travel, even though the elder one is now anrnadult, without their Saudi father’s permission. The girls havernbeen forcibly converted to Islam and can only look forward torntheir eventual marriage, for which their consent is at best a formality.rnFawning by Loudoun Count}’ authorities extended even to arnblatant disregard of the county’s own laws. A...

strained to find evidence in the Bible that a new prophet wouldrnarise after Jesus, seeing Muhammad in obvious prophecies ofrnthe Holy Spirit (that were fulfilled on Pentecost) or of the SecondrnComing of Christ. One could find no better refutation ofrnIslam’s efforts to appropriate Christian Scripture (here,rnMatthew 24:27) than that of the 14th-century Byzanfine saint,rnGregory Palamas,...

Western” governments in many Muslim countries fashionedrnfrom the wreckage of the Ottoman Empire, the West seems tornhave convinced itself of the existence of benign Islam. Indeed,rnthe promotion of “moderate” Muslim regimes —especiallyrnthose willing to make peace with Israel, and, even better, thosernthat have a lot of petroleum—has become a linchpin of U.S.rnglobal policy. Eg}pt, Saudi...

ter strife or crusade undertaken in the spirit of a holy war,” andrnthis does not harmonize well with ecumenical fraternizing. Ifrnthere is to be a jihad involving Muslims, Christians, and Jews, itrnwill not be cooperative but confrontational, and it will not bernvery quiet or very comfortable for us other “peoples of thernBook.”rnWho is violent in...

ropean hegemony had seemed destined for a millennial reignrnat the end of the 19th century, the 20th has proved it to be asrnfrail as the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem and the other temporaryrnconquests of the Crusades.rnWhat Islam proved unable to achieve by military means,rneither against the industrialized nations of the West orrnagainst the Jewish immigrants...

If Abu Rafi’s murder was a kind of Kristallnacht, Muhammad’srnattack against the tribe of Banu-‘l-Mustahq, later in thatrnsame year, was a decisive step towards Endloesung. His followersrnslaughtered many tribesmen and looted thousands of theirrncamels and sheep; they also kidnapped 500 of their women.rnThe night after the battle, Muhammad and his brigands stagedrnan orgy of rape....

cumcised people. The last attempt in pre-modern times, goingrnthrough the Balkans, took the sultan’s janissaries more thanrnhalf-way from Constantinople to Dover. On both occasions,rnthe tide was checked, but its subsequent rolling back tookrndecades, even centuries.rnFor the millions of Christians and Jews engulfed by the deluge,rnthose were centuries of quiet desperation interrupted byrnthe regular pangs of...

“All the NewsrnUnfit to Print” g>ign0 0f tJfe (SimzBrnVol. 1 No. 2 February 1999rnPlundering the treasures of conqueredrnlands has always been a fair game, fromrnNeolithic herds and Sabine women tornworks of art: Byzantine statuary adornsrnSt. Marco’s in Venice, and Elgin’s marblesrnare in London to stay. But moving arnland itself across an intemational frontierrnis a novel...

one. . . . We could drenchrnthe c i t i e s of the Ruhr andrnmany other c i t i e s in Germanyrni n such a way t h a t most ofrnthe population would be r e ­quiringrnconstant medical attrne n t i o n . ” . . . In...

I must say that he is simply wrong onrnboth counts. Just because an ideologyrnultimately leads to disaster for the classrnthat peddles it, it does not follow that thernclass expected to gain nothing from itsrnadoption. Nazi state managers enjoyed arnhell of a ride while it lasted, and the earlyrnpolihcal and military successes of thernNational Socialist state...

forts not even remotely equivalent to thatrnenjoyed by financial and informationagernexecutives in New York or Los Angelesrn(a fact that is probably of no consequencernfor the time being, though it isrnnot impossible to imagine circumstancesrnin which it might matter).rnFrom Leavenworth, Kaplan proceedsrnto St. Louis—more precisely, to severalrndisparate St. Louises, his descriptionrnof which amounts to a template...