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VITAL SIGNSrnEDUCATIONrnGlobaloney in thernClassroomrnby Marian Kester CoombsrnThe longer one observes Americanrnpublic schools today, the morerncomprehensive and deep-rooted thernglobalist infection appears. The erstwhilernrevolutionary-lel^ist undergroundrnhas become the establishment, in publicrneducation and every other instituhon.rnEducators now call themselvesrn”change agents,” in Timothy Leary’s radicalrnparlance. No lie is too big (“Diversityrn= Excellence”) and no trick too low tornbe deployed in...

troleum and mining engineers, surveyors,rnphysicists, mathematicians, the clergy,rnreporters and correspondents, computerrnoperators, fishermen, hunters andrntrappers, forestry and logging, mechanics,rnmachinists, precision assemblers,rntool-and-die makers, welders, textile andrnapparel workers, shoe and leather workers,rnand rail transport occupations — inrnother words, the kinds of jobs that make arnnation self-sufficient.rnThe forced merger of Americans’ standardrnof living with that of one billionrnworldwide unemployed...

soccer, the official language is pidginrnEnglish (although the French are fightingrnthat tooth and nail, to their credit),rnthe official uniform is blue jeans (thernbetter to feel like a real, productive worker),rnand the official orientation is homosexualityrn(the better to distract yourselfrnfrom “politics” without either forming arnfamily that might contest the state for authorityrnor having uncontrolled quantitiesrnof children...

make money in administrative posts.rnAt private schools, boards of trusteesrnhold the actual reins of power and —ifrnthey exercised them sufficiently—couldrninstall presidents and administrationsrncommitted to better education. Thoughrntrustees have behaved less responsibly atrnthe institutions I know, they have done sornnot because they hunger to be like facult)’.rnRather, they have turned down legitimaternpower because of a lack...

are wary, knowing that the faculty arernlargely in the employ of old slewfoot.rnBut at Wheaton, the Billy Graham Centerrnis right across the street, the jargon isrnfull of all the right God-words, and revivalsrnthat don’t change a damn thingrnstill appear with some regularity.rnBut parents who have spent years educatingrnthemselves on educational issuesrnare not going to forget...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnThe Horror!rnAt four-thirh- in the afternoon Papa’s onrnNorth Mesa Street in El Paso was preparingrnto open for business. Although thernplace looks like a student hangout and isrnlocated near the university, the clientelernis largely well-to-do professional menrnwho can easily afford the nine, twelve,rnand twenty-dollar cigars displayed in arnwide tall case to...

low the first seating row and his head andrnhorns were far enough into the seats tornmake him almost a spectator himself.rnFlailing, he dropped down into the calkjonrnand ran clockwise until he reachedrnthe next opening into the ring, where hernmet up again with the men who hadrnvaulted over the harrera just ahead ofrnhim. When things had...

Modern Editions of Classic Worksrnfor Readers TodayrnTHE STATErnBy Anthony de JasayrnWith a Wew Prefacern”Strikingly original…. De Jasay offers the most compelling account ofrnwhat is wrong and dangerous about the state.”rn—^Alan RyanrnT he State is an idiosyncratic and brilliant analysis of modern politicalrnarrangements that views the state as acting in its own interestrncontrary to the interests...

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EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, Jr.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnScott P. RichertrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O.j. Brown, KatherinernDalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rn].0. Tate, Michael Washburn,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, William Mills,rnJacob Neusner, Srdja TrifkovicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnThe Rockford InstituternPl/BLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy G. ReffettrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnCindy LinkrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn928 North Main Street, Rockford. IL...

ly monograph. That is because entrepreneurs,rnboth academic and otherwise,rnsaw a need and met it.rnEven before the university presses beganrnto abandon the work of publishingrnprofessors in dialogue with their fields, arnsuccession to the university press beganrnto take shape. In the study of religion,rnthe American Academy of Religion andrnthe Society of Biblical Literature sponsoredrnScholars Press, founded by...

Snickers by the pallet.rnWe’re a nation, laments Fumento,rnthat now buys its big pants from a Nothingrnin Moderation catalog and can readrnin People’s “Happy As They Are” coverrnarticle that Delta Burke, Rosie O’Donnell,rnand Wynonna are showing, poundrnfor pound, that scrawny is no longer arnprerequisite for happiness and success.rn”Ultimately, our growth in girth is a socialrnproblem, just...

fenders come.rnWhen Pataki became governor, hernsought to grant early release to some ofrnthe criminal aliens clogging the state’srnjails and to turn them over to the INS forrndeportation. The state would therebyrnsave millions of dollars and have morernroom to store its native-born criminals.rnPataki’s policy led to a kind of Marielrnboatlift in reverse—the large-scale deportationrnof hardened criminals...

vatives like Alain de Benoist. Nor didrnPaz ever completely overcome his leftistrneconomic prejudices. Unlike MariornVargas Llosa, Paz never embraced thernfree market and never quite grasped thernfrindamentally unethical basis of socialism.rnPaz’s best poems, like the monumentalrn”Piedra de Sol” (1957) and the difficultrnand immensely learned “Blanco”rn(1967), will likely remain among the enduringrnmonuments of 20th-century literature.rnAt a deep...

Serbian “rejection of the independencernof the Mushm countries is as strong asrnEurope’s rejection of the creation of arnMuslim state in the middle of Europe.rn. . . Now, as we walk blindly in the darkrntunnels of peace, neither Europe nor thernUnited States has any desire to correctrnthe mistakes of the past.” What doesrnMuhammad Bin-Fai recommend?rn”Only a...

PERSPECTIVErnHow Thomas Rent the Seamless Garmentrnby Thomas Flemingrn”Nor will this Earth serve him; he sinkes the deepernwhere harmless fish monastique silence keepe,rnwho {were death dead) by roes of living sandrnmight spunge that element and make it land.”rn—John Donne, “Elegie on Mistris Bulstrode”rnI ohn Donne reminds us of a natural fact that most of usrnJ would...

fish, their lives would not, in the rationalist’s view, he coveredrnby prohihitions against murder, while computers (if one acceptsrnthe fiction of artificial intelligence) might some day possessrna higher right to life than human beings of ordinary intelligence.rnBut for Christians, reason is significant only because it enablesrnpeople to make moral choices. Birds and beasts—one isrntempted lo...

sion. St. Thomas, sorting through this question with hisrntypical thoroughness and acuteness (Summa Th. II ii, 64),rnconcluded that it is both licit and necessary to kill sinners.rnMalefactors are to be put to death for the health of the community,rnand he compares the duties of rulers and physicians: itrnis the physician’s duty to preserve life and...

vation.” Christians understand that no one can love another ifrnhe has not first loved himself. This is the wisdom of Bernard dernClairvaux, who said that nature directs us to love our own fleshrnbut teaches us also to limit our self-love to minister to a brother’srnneed. This insight on moral development stretches back tornthe ancient Stoics...

VIEWSrnFighting WordsrnAbortion and Civilityrnby Harold O.J. BrownrnAustrian sociologist Hans Millendorfer claims to have discovered,rnat least in his native Austria, a perplexing correspondence:rnhis statistics show a rise in abortions paralleled by arnrise in civility. To those of us who consider abortion a violentrnand evil act, it seems strange that such violence should be accompaniedrnby an increase...

Reagan.rnAbortion rests on normative deception and hypocrisy, and arnfalse and pusillanimous civility repeatedly fails to identif}’ it forrnwhat it is, namely, early homicide. Even stalwart defenders ofrnthe unborn, such as Dr. Koop and Illinois Republican CongressmanrnHenry Hyde, who know the truth about abortion veryrnwell, defer to the principles of civility when dealing with abortionrnadvocates. Both...

which are in fact homicides—which Justice Harry Blackmunrnhas on his conscience now exceeds the number of peoplernexterminated by Adolf Hitler by a factor of five or more. YetrnBlackmun retired with honor and not long ago was even givenrnan honorary doctorate by Harvard University, the stock ofrnthe Puritans, it seems, now having been safely and legallyrnterminated.rnThere...

Even worse is indicated—the general embraee of euthanasia,rnas forecast in the 70’s and 80’s by such as Malcohn Muggeridgernand Walker Percy. No, no, no! object the proponentsrnof suicide. Never that! Personal autonomy is all they seek: thernright, not the duty, to die.rnWe have a saying in the South: that ol’ dog won’t hunt. Thisrndog won’t...

and pistol, calmly picking off his schoolmates.rn”Pluralism,” the modern deity, has made it impolite to tout arnreligious sanction for life. Yet what other sanctions exist? Well,rnlaws, to be sure; but laws can be changed, as were the abortionrnlaus by Supreme Court fiat. Laws depend on the convictionsrnof those who choose the lawmakers. At present, those...

tiires of the communities that reared us and have a duty to Hvernso that we may contribute to them. This is an uncommonlyrnweak argument. It would follow that, should we become a burdenrnon the communit}’, suicide would become legitimate, perhapsrneven required. (Aristotle does not draw this inference.)rnFurther, whatever the communitv did for us, we never...

There are clangers in legalizing assisted suicide or eudianasia,rnmainly concerning competent and informed consent. Butrnthese dangers can be surmounted by appropriate precautions.rnOnce we discard the presumption (actually a circular definition)rnthat all persons bent on suicide ipso facto are insane, wernhave to make sure that those requesting assistance are mentalK’rncompetent. Some objectors insist that this can...

“Redefining the American Right:rnFrom Aristotle to Pat Buchanan*’rnThe Rockford Institute’s First Annual Summer Schoolrn27 July’l Augustrnat The Rockford Institute, Rockford, IllinoisrnWhat is the American conservative tradition, and how does it fit into the broader Westernrntradition? Through a series of lectures and discussion sessions, instructors and studentsrnwill examine this question. Each day will feature two lectures...

not the stor’ of the country’s Clyde Griffithsesrnbut the trajectory of the Americanrnpatrician class. By 1901 the British andrnAmerican empires were the twin superpowersrnof their day, although the locus ofrnpower had already passed to the UnitedrnStates, where it continued to move stillrnfarther west.rnThe power of the Anglo-Americanrnworld in 1901 was inseparablernfrom the worldwide prestige of...

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but thinks is imperative.rnIn Mr. Miller’s view, “The UnitedrnStates can welcome immigrants andrntransform them into Americans becausernit is a ‘proposition countrv’,'” a “universalrnnation” in Ben Wattenberg’s happyrnphrase, and the proposition by which thernAmerican nation defines itself, that allrnmen are created equal, means that thern”very sense of peoplehood derives notrnfrom a common language but from theirrnadherence...

cates itself to a proposition. The Englishrnlangnage is without question a vital partrnof American national culture.” Ofrncourse, as c[uoted above, Mr. Miller earlierrnsays that our national identity’ “derivesrnnot from a common language,” butrnif the language is a “vital part” of our culture,rnthat isn’t quite true. And if the languagernis vital, why are certain other features,rnalso...

cupations, to memories of a time whenrnhe found himself playing a part in arnstrange, ver- disturbing, private narrativernthat was turning out differently from thernone he had thought he was in. “Nor didrnI know,” he writes in “Visit,” about hisrnfirst encounters with Plath,rnI was being auditionedrnFor the male lead in your drama,rnMiming through the first easyrnmovementsrnAs...

peared in vaudeville as “Those TailoredrnItalian Girls.” Their repertoire includedrn”Kiss Me Again,” “Swanee River,” andrn”Are You from Dixie?” The transition tornthe Met was as outrageous as it sounds,rnincluding recognition not only by Carusornbut by Victor Maurel, the first lagornand the first Falstaff. The next thing shernknew Rosa, at the age of 21, had a contractrnwith...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter FromrnMontanarnby Uri DowbenkornThe Freemen TrialrnEcr heard of the Federal Protecti’ernSer’ice? Like the commercial says —rnyou will. I was taking a photo of thernfederal courthouse in Billings, Montana,rnwhen the police pulled up andrnstopped me. They asked me for my I.D.rnW’lien I looked more closely at the cop’srnbadge, I realized it wasn’t the Billings Police.rnIt wasn’t...

stand-off,” says Duke. “The U.S. Governmentrnpromised the Wards that hernwouldn’t be arrested and charged.” Sornmuch for promises.rnYou’ve probably heard of Catch 22.rnHow about Rule 35, the federal prosecutors’rnwin-at-all-cost tactics? “When a personrnagrees to plead guilty to the charges,rnyou can throw in what’s called Rule 35,”rnDuke explains later in a brief interview.rn”The judge can give the...

ing breakfast at the Yale Club in therncompany of a lively Anglo-Russian child,rnand looking around the room saw a scorernof identical broadsheets billowing likernthe sails of a flotilla of conformity over arnsea of watery coffee. “Look, they are allrnreading the same newspaper!” I exclaimed.rnThere must have been somethingrnmanic in my voice, because myrncompanion, like a...

VITAL SIGNSrnGOVERNMENTrnDesert StormrnTroopersrnby Marc MoranornSeptember 5,1996, was not your typicalrnworkday at Molycorp’s MountainrnPass Mine in California. Molycorprnemployee Steve Johnson recalls how thernintruders arrived: “They stopped at therngate, the guard, he wasn’t going to letrnthem in, and the guys threatened to pullrna gun on him, and he let them in.” SusanrnMessier, another employee, remembersrnthe “30 armed...

ployees were now forced to undergorn”desert tortoise worker education classes,”rnbetter known by the participants asrn”desert tortoise sensitivity training.” Accordingrnto Alan Stein of the BLM, thisrntraining was supposed to “heighten people’srnawareness of the tortoise” and outlinern”what they can and can’t do.” Forrninstance, employees could no longerrndrive faster than 15 miles per h o u r -rnwhile...

global taxes as “doable.”rnThe book, incidentally, includes inputrnfrom key officials from the WorldrnBank and from one of the investmentrnfunds associated with George Soros. Itrnalso reports that Stanley Fischer, chiefrneconomist of the IMF, has expressed hisrnwillingness to consider such a tax,rnadding “The IMF is in a good position torndevelop ways in which a transactions taxrncould work.”rnIndeed...

er Moonie setbacks, this may have struckrnthe neoconservative leadership as the opportunerntime to discipHne an embarrassingrnpatron.rnMy own reading of the about-face isrnmore compHcated. Contrary to a widespreadrnfiction, rank-and-file Unificationistsrnare neither stupid nor passive.rnThough their theology offends Christiansrnand their agenda should disturb anyrnEurocentric traditionalist, most UnificationistsrnI have met are civil, morally engaged,rnand intellectually more curiousrnthan professors...

tap into the vast gray economy, and tornguarantee investors’ rights as a means ofrnattracting productive investment in thernprovinces. He is for a Slavic Union ofrnUkraine, Russia, and Belarus, the protectionrnof Russian minorities in the “nearrnabroad” (meaning the former Soviet republics),rnself-government at the localrnand regional level, a prominent role forrnthe Russian Orthodox Church in publicrnlife, the...

there would be accounts of Jesusrneating lamb at Passover.rn—The multiplication miracle didrnnot include fish. The fish in thernstory are symbolic of Christians,rnthe multiplication a sign of thernburgeoning church.rn—Jesus calls for mercy and compassionrn—which are the opposite ofrntorturing, killing, and eating God’srncreatiires. In the U.S., more thanrneight billion animals are killed everyrnyear for food. The vast...

the act of eating and drinking.rnFood and drink are on the contraryrnGod’s gift, from which we are tornpartake with enjoyment and gratitude.rnWe fast, not because we despisernthe divine gift, but so as tornmake ourselves aware that it is indeedrna gift—so as to purify our eatingrnand drinking, and to makernthem, no longer a concession torngreed, but...