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rootless—white members, generally, ofrnwhat was once the working or lower middlernclass. Watching these people hypnoticallyrnpouring coins into a slot machinernon a Mississippi gambling barge,rnan Army major comments ironically,rn”And we risk our lives for this.” In Tucson,rna Navajo cable TV installer talksrnabout his trailer-park customers who livernin homes with no fiirniture, no food besidesrnchips and beer,...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Australiarnby R.J. StovernAustralia’s Pat Buchanan:rnOut, But Not DownrnIf 1998 is remembered in Australian politicalrnhistory for nothing else—a probablernassumption, given the administrativerngridlock which otherwise prevailed —itrnwill go down in the annals for two events:rnPrime Minister John Howard’s upset reelectionrnon October 3; and, of longertermrnsignificance, Pauline Hanson’s failurernto retain her parliamentary seat.rnThis latter development eliminated...

tion, Dr. Hewson lumbered himself withrnthe promise of just such a tax, and wasrntrounced by incumbent Paul Keating.rnTo Kim Beazley, who has led the LaborrnParty since Mr. Keating’s landslide defeatrnin March 1996, the Howard-Costellornfixation upon conjuring up extra taxesrnwas a godsend. Not that Mr. Beazley’srnteam had a conspicuous alternative onrndisplay; but then the Vision Thing’s...

winning the next election in 2001, OnernNation retains the status it had beforernOctober 3: as the only parliamentary vehiclernleft for mobilizing Middle AustralianrnRadicals, hi this respect, the recentrnpoll changed nothing. Thoserncommentators who imagine that OnernNation without Mrs. Hanson will resemblerna headless chicken fail to comprehendrnthe simple statistic which drove thernEconomist, in its October 10-16 issue,...

would have resulted, under normal circumstances,rnin a crushing defeat of thernchallenger.rnKohl’s political legacy appears minor.rnGeorge Bush, not Kohl, is the father ofrnGerman unification, and Bush succeededrndespite the opposition of Europeanrn”friends” like France and Britain. Fortunatelyrnfor Kohl, the dying Soviet Unionrnwas not strong enough to demand, as arnprice for her approval of German unification,rnGerman termination of...

“Be as good as you like, but let’s not havernany more of this saints stuff’), referring tornthe well-documented story that Pope Urbanrnmade the family foot the bill for historicalrnresearch into the life and miraclesrnof their beatified ancestor, an idler,rndrunkard, wencher, and gambler whornbecame a Carmelite monk and laterrnbishop of Fiesole. Which is already prettyrnmiraculous, if...

said: “There is something wrongrnwith my toothbrush. It didn’t foamrnthis morning.” It was then establishedrnthat he was travelHng withoutrnhis valet who always put therntoothpaste on the brush for him. Itrnseems that he was unaware thatrnthis is what caused the foam in hisrnmouth.rnI rest my case. I do not think there’srnanybody in England—including the oldestrnretainers in...

of social injustices and frustratingrncircumstances, and the inevitabilityrnof old age, sickness, and death.rnThe most compelling chapter in Howe’srnlife, and Alexander’s most successful expositions,rnconcern Howe as literary critic.rn(Calling distinctively and emblematicallyrnJewish the perfectly universalrnhuman concerns Ozick lists, however,rnmay have puzzled Dickens, Tolstoy, andrnEliot.)rnBut Howe defined for himself a Jewishrnidentity as well. It had two components:rndevofion to...

VITAL SIGNSrnJOURNALISMrnPersecutionsrnby Philip JenkinsrnIdon’t know if I was more shocked byrnthe article itself, or by where it appeared.rnThough I have heard the argumentrnthat gay advocates vastly overstaternthe prevalence of hate crimes in order tornsupport a far-reaching political agenda,rnwho would have thought that such arncoldly skeptical demolition of their caserncould have appeared in the ultra-liberalrnNew York...

Blood Cries Out by Paul Marshall andrnLela Gilbert or in Nina Shea’s In thernLion’s Den.) Instead, Goodstein chosernto quote former sufferers now on the lecturerncircuit, with the implication thatrntheir spectacular accounts were overadornedrnin order to appeal to the gangsrnof ignorant yahoos she imagines fillingrnchurches across America. It takes a seriousrnprofessional journalist to achievernthat level of...

civilian rule until 1971, when it becamerna one-partv state. It is the largest countryrnin Africa, and racial and ethnic tensionsrnhave weakened the already poor economyrnand created poor health conditions.rnAlthough Islam is the dominant religion,rnrecent statistics indicate a growing populationrn(currently 20 percent) of Sudanesernwho claim to be Christian.rnThrough dress codes, required studyrnof the Koran, and educational...

EDUCATIONrnThe Successrnof DirectrnInstructionrnby Marian Kester CoombsrnWhat if the federal governmentrnspent a billion tax dollars overrnnearly three decades to study thoroughlyrnthe question of which teaching methodrnbest instills knowledge, sharpens cognitivernskills, and enhances self-esteem inrnyoung children? And what if such arnstudy were able to determine exactlyrnwhich method best accomplishes allrnthree? Would American parents like tornknow about it?rnThe...

GUNSrnRemember PearlrnHarborrnby David B. KopelrnUnder the auspices of the UnitedrnNations, no nation is workingrnharder to disarm American citizens thanrnis Japan. With help from Canada andrnColombia, Japan is the main enginernpushing the United Nations to promotern”small arms” controls which would obliteraternthe Second Amendment.rnThere are three problems with Japan’srneffort. First, it is a form of cultural imperialism,rnwhich...

SECOND PRINTINGrnTHE POLITICS OF BAD FAITHrnTHE RADICAL ASSAULT ON AMERICA’S FUTURErnBY DAVID H0B0WIT2rnThis elegant, insightful work ought to bernwidely read as a necessary corrective to thernmost dangerous moral disease of our times.rn—Robert BorkrnDavid Horowitz has written a passionate andrninsightful book that moves seamlessly betweenrnincisive critiques of the cultural Left and his ownrnpersonal experiences as part...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnNeoenvironmentalismrnThe environmentalist movement, asrnusual, is one theoretical jump ahead ofrnthe practical results produced by its previousrnlevel of ideological developmentresultsrnit now deplores and blames onrnthe enemy. After arson destroyed threernbuildings and damaged four ski lifts onrnVail Mountain in Colorado last October,rnEarth Liberation Front took the creditrnfor destroying more than $12 million...

beyond crony and the model for SeldomrnSeen Smith in The Monkey WrenchrnGang, was quoted as saying recently,rn”through industrial tourism than all thernmining, logging and ranching combined.”rn(Sleight, as a wilderness outfitterrnoperating in the slick-rock country ofrnsoutheastern Utah, is a part of the touristrnindustry himself, though he representsrnits simpler, gentler, pre-modern stage.)rnThe effects he has in mind...

Classic Works for Readers TodayrnTHE PURSUIT OF CERTAINTYrnDavid Hume, Jeremy Bentham,rnJohn Stuart Mill, Beatrice WebbrnBy Shirley Robin LetwinrnBy examining the thought of four seminal thinkers, Shirley RobinrnLetwin in The Pursuit of Certainly provides a brilliant recordrnof the gradual change in the English-speaking peoples’ understandingrnof “what sort of activity politics is.” As Letwin writes, “therndistinctive political...

UsTASA: CROATIAN SEPARATISM AND EUROPEAN POLITICS,rn1929-1945rnBy Srdja Trifkovicrn(London and Aiken, SC: The Lord Byron Foundation;rn323 pp.; $19.00; ISBN 1-892478-01-3)rn”^”1^ T ations cannot be invented, but even authentic nations, inrnI^Ll asserting their identities, often rely on myths and downrightrn.JL. m lies. Up to a point such myths are harmless and exercise a positiverninfltience. But nationalist myths...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnSKNIOR EDI TOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, jr.rnMANAGINC; KDITORrnScott P. RichertrnART DIRKCTORrnAmia Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O.j. Brown, KatherinernDalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rnj.O. Tate, Michael Washburn,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, Donald Livingston,rnWilliam Murchison, William Milk,rnAndrei Navrozov, Jacob Neusner,rnSrdja TrifkovicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DohhsrnPUBLISHERrnThe Rockford InstituternPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy G. ReffettrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnCindy LinkrnA pLiblication of Tlie Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn92S North Main...

some scratch ‘n’ sniff form of the Christianrnfaith?'” But accreditation in Americarnis granted without reference to thernrehgious commitment of individual institutions.rnThe North Central Associationrnof Colleges and Schools, overseeingrnmore than 900 colleges and universitiesrnin 19 states, has no statement regardingrnan institution’s commitment to religiousrnvalues. The colleges themselves in associaHonrnhave developed the general criteriarnfor all schools. Individual...

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnELECTION DAY 1998 dawned as arnNovember morning out of WilliamrnCullen Bryant, with “piercing winterrnfrost, and winds, and darkened air.” Wernwalked to the firehall polling place, passingrnthe pioneer cemetery, burial groundrnof veterans of the Revolution, all thosernEbenezers and Ethans who cleared thernland and endured Valley Forge so thatrnwe could depress a lever for Al D’Amatornor...

administration will be imposed regardlessrnof the proceedings: Holbrooke doesrnnot go to Milosevic to “negotiate” but torndevise the precise mechanism for the applicationrnoinfait accompli. Last, but byrnno means least, Mr. Milosevic stays inrnpower in his ever-shrinking domain withrnthe tacit approval of his interlocutor,rnfreer than ever to deal with his domesticrndetractors (especially the remaining independentrnmedia) as he...

Those who had Hved some portions ofrntheir lives before the advent of the ColdrnWar and those of us who grew up inrnits closing throes seemed less likely tornget worked up by John Glenn’s “triumphant”rnreturn to space, and there’s arnreason: The space program screamsrn”Cold War boondoggle.” Its one justificationrnwas that the Soviets were doing it,rnand so...

tiian a month before Fitzgerald’s renunciation).rnSome of our friends are veryrnangry with Fitzgerald, but what did theyrnexpect of politicians? Although Moseley-rnBraun was regarded as doomed from thernbeginning, the amazing thing is thatrnFitzgerald’s cowardice and ineptitudernvery nearly snatched defeat out of thernjaws of victory.rnThird, there is The League of thernSouth, an organizahon of Southern writersrnand scholars...

PERSPECTIVErn. ^ WETHE^ ^ ^ Srn^^ ^sr J^wrnTurn to the Dark Sidernby Thomas FlemingrnAs members of the House of Representatives were movingrntoward impeachment hearings that should make Bill Clintonrn—whatever the outcome—one of the most infamous politiciansrnin American history, Republicans in both houses of Congressrndecided to give the President everything he was askingrnfor—more federally funded teachers...

“consen’ative.”rnIn the course of his article, the ex-British former editor of thernNew Republic names two groups: establishment Republicansrnlike Trent Lott, Kenneth Starr, and Representative Bob Inglis,rnand the usual second generation neoconservatives—Bill Kristol,rnDaid F”rum, and Mark Helprin. Is Mr. Sullivan seriouslyrnasking us to believe that these movement leaders actually arerncommitted to a set of idenhfiably conservative...

“Many unwed mothers are living with the consequences ofrntheir own bad judgment and immoral character, but supposernthe extreme case of a decent woman who is victimized by arnman that no one could have dreamed would be an}-thing but arnmodel husband. Even in that case, a morally responsible womanrnwould refuse to socialize her problem. This is...

sion and radio stations, liberated from the shackles of nationalrnregulation and the international economy, became focal pointsrnfor a cultural renaissance. Top 40 stations in Milwaukee andrnAustin and Toledo devoted half their time to local bands, andrnin Minneapolis, Albuciuerque, and Tupelo, TV soap operasrnand comedies with local settings were the training ground forrnthe dramatic explosion that...

VIEWSrnConservative or Rightist?rnA Personal Confessionrnby Erik von Kuehnelt-LeddihnrnPeople who know me realize that in the United States Irnmove largely in conservative circles. I write for conservativernpublishers and periodicals and lecture largely to conservativernaudiences. I feel at home with them and usually share theirrnviews. The vast majority of my friends in America considerrnthemselves to be conservatives,...

er, O.P., rightly calls the New Testament a message of absoluternhuman inequality-.rnAll truly great liberal thinkers have openly or secretly rejectedrndemocracy. On the other hand, the masses in liberalrndemocracies usually cannot distinguish between liberh’ andrnequalih’. Illiberal acts can be very democratic, in the sense ofrnbeing approved bv majorities, and freedoms can be resented (orrnprohibited) by...

ing breeches and book covers. Not een the heirs of the FrenchrnReokition, who met in 1939 flying their red banners in thernheart of Poland, engaged in similar atrocihes: They committedrnmurders in much greater quantit}-, but never achieved the diabolicalrnqualit}’ of their 18th-centur’ ancestors.rnThe extermination of Christianih was a major goal of thernrevolutions of 17S9 and...

realized; others might be “organized,” but only with inhumanrnefforts and sacrifices, which render them unreasonable; othersrnagain are desirable and feasible. Today, we certainly have to reflectrnon an order to be established after the demise of the democraticrnexperiment whose hypocritical traits are evident, especiallyrnto the psychologically oriented philosopher of history.rn(There is no “American Experiment,” but only...

Kaiser Bill to the Gulf War. Those conflicts provide, as AllanrnBloom suggests, “educational experience,” and that experiencerninvolves teaching our people and those whose brains we knockrnout about “human rights,” especially about “democratic equality.”rni’hese educational experiences usually entail fightingrnethnic groups that neoconservatives dislike—Germans, Slavs,rnArabs, and reactionary Southerners—and on the side of thosernthey like — upper-class Englishmen,...

American presidents from Jefferson through Lincoln andrnWilson to FDR thought that the racial preconditions of Americanrncihzenship were not mere personal idiosyncrasies or signsrnof generational bias. Tliey believed that a democratic societyrncould not function without an (at least residually) homogeneousrnpopulation. Such a concern, however embarrassing tornneoconservahves and other liberals, is quintessentially democratic.rnIn a regime dependent on...

identifies the Hispanic demographic nucleus inside the UnitedrnStates. Mexicans, by far the largest part of the Hispanic immigrantrnpopulation, are racially indistinguishable from many otherrnCentral Americans and even many Caribbean immigrants,rnbut they do not always have much in common with other Hispanics,rnand in the grand new nation that sparkles in the eyes ofrnMr. Obledo and his...

little or nothing even if they had the power. As long as the dominantrnor majority national group (namely, European-Americans)rnremains unable to articulate its own national identity andrnconsciousness and unwilling to assert its exclusive right to its nationalrnterritory and explicitly reject the legitimacy of other nationsrnto form within its territory, then tlie subnations will encounterrnno significant...

“All the NewsrnUnfit to Print” ignsJ of tjje tCimes;rnVol. 1 No. 1 January 1999rnPoor Augusto Pinochet! Try to imaginernFidel Castro flying to England on privaternbusiness and getting arrested for allegedrncrimes against humanity. Withinrnhours, every talking head on this planetrnwould be up in arms, demanding Britishrnblood and Castro’s freedom.rnIt hardly needs stating that Fidelrnwould be better...

and David Geffen—screened a roughcutrnfor an interesting focus group. Therninvitees included the Council on AmericanrnIslamic Relations, the Mushm Council,rnthe Muslim Public Affairs Council,rnthe American-Arab Anti-DiscriminationrnCommittee, the Islamic Information Service,rnand diplomats from a number ofrnMuslim countries. The film is an adaptationrnof the Ufe of Moses “based” on thernBook of Exodus. Following the preview,rnstudio executives soUcited comments...

]ames Dickey and William Mills at Dickey’s Columbia, South Carolina home, 1984.rnone still has the burden of meaning, ofrninterpretation, to contend with. Any Jewrnor Roman walking on the road from Calvar)’rncould have given a passerby the detailsrnof the recent gory execution of threerncriminals, but what was the meaning ofrnthe event?rnChristopher Dickey repeats the wellknownrnwords of...

Bronwen Dickey, the poet’s daughter,rnColumbia, South CaroUna, 1984.rnwhen he was only 18 years old and hadrnno visible means of support. His father,rnwith the girl’s parents, provided for thernyoung couple for five years. Dickey evenrnbought his son a Jaguar XKE. None ofrnthis seemed enough, however. “I wantedrnto believe him when he said he admiredrnme for whatever...

of private enteqjrise and economic interdependence,rnas proponents of the UnitedrnStates’ present “engagement” policyrnargue will be the course in China. Indeed,rnPatten sees the Chinese businessrninterest as a principal obstacle to nationalrnreform. The governor’s campaign inrnHong Kong to create institutions ofrndemocracy and civil liberties to combatrnChinese despotism earned him a reputationrnfor being “bad for business,” whilernboth Western...