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Look at the Jeffrey Sachs-style “HarvardrnCapitalism,” which many Russiansrnnowadays justifiably regard as “HarvardrnCommunism.” In a typical Russian enterprisernprivatized under the Harvardprescribedrn”voucher” system, 46 percentrnof the (grossly understated) value went tornworkers, five percent to management, 29rnpercent was sold at cash auctions, andrnthe remaining 20 percent was left in thernstate’s hands. As Anne Williamson wroternin How America...

Once again, follow the money. Whatrncountry leads the whole world in therngrowth of its gross domestic productrn(GDP)? Answer: Bosnia! Bosnia’s GDPrnincreased by 50 percent in 1996, the firstrnpost-Dayton year, according to thernEconomist. What nation came second?rnAlbania, another country which has justrnhad a close brush with civil war, andrnwhere international troops and monitorsrnare now deployed as...

which provided 75,000 Union soldiers,rnhas almost become synonymous with thernSouth, while Maryland, if anyone noticesrnher at all, has been moved north ofrnthe Mason-Dixon Line.rnAs evidenced by the election of 1860,rnMaryland’s politics prior to the occupationrnmirrored those of the South. Thernelection results belie the revisionist contentionrnthat only Maryland’s southernmostrncounties and her Eastern Shorernwere aligned with the...

“y’all”; and the billboard sign that greetsrnthe traffic crossing the Potomac into thernFree State from King George Count)-,rnVirginia, proclaims “Marvland Enjoy,” arngreeting that would be more at home inrnBrooklyn. Although our state song mightrnsoon be replaced with the “Battle Hymnrnof the Republic”—a few years ago therernwas even a move in Annapolis to replacernjousting with duckpin...

Modern Editions of Classicrnfor Readers TodayrnTHE NATURAL LAWrnA Study in Legal and Social History and PhilosophyrnBy Heinrich A. RommenrnIntroduction by Russell HittincjerrnOriginally published in German in 1936, The natural Laivis thernfirst work to clarify the differences between traditional natural lawrnas represented in the writings of Cicero, Aquinas, and Hooker and thernrevolutionary doctrines of natural rights...

A Conference on Tresikntial TjrannjrnOctober 16 & 17,1998rnPine Mountain andrnWarm Springs, GeorgiarnThe U.S. presidencyrnhosts the tax police, therngun grabbers, the landrnseizers, the race baiters, thernbusiness wreckers, and thernsecret police. It appoints thernFederal Reserve, picks thernfederal judges, and runs thernentire global welfarewarfarernstate.rnThe framers tried tornmake sure that presidentsrncould not tax, spend, orrnmake war on their own.rnBut...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnScott P. RichertrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnGONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O.J. Brown, KatherinernDalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rnJ.O. Tate, Michael Washburn,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, William Mills,rnJacob Neusner, Srdja TrifkovicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnThe Rockford InstituternPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnCindy LinkrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditoriai and Advertising Offices:rn928 Nortli Main Street, Rockford, IL...

Mr. McDonaldrnReplies:rnMr. Graham repeats the myth that Canadarnwas confederated in 1867 as two peoplesrnin a bilingual nation. Then PrimernMinister Sir John A. Macdonald called itrn”the Confederation of one people andrnone government instead of five peoplesrnand five governments.” Constitutionalrnauthority Senator Eugene Forsey saidrnthat “[Canada] was certainly not intendedrnto be two political nations. Over andrnover again the...

sources say “China was the single mostrnimportant supplier of equipment andrntechnology for weapons of mass destructionrnworldwide . . . and . . . a key supplierrnof nuclear technology to Iran.”rnCritics of sanctions do have a validrnpoint. Foreign policy should be basedrnon national interest, rather than on idealisticrntheories of human rights. But thernadministration is caught on...

kingmakers in many French regions afterrnlocal elections. Local Gaullist politiciansrnwere threatened with expulsionrnfrom their respective parties if they heldrnonto their places through FN assistance.rnMost of them obeyed orders, and as a result,rnthe Gaullist parties lost large chunksrnof territory they would otherwise havernheld comfortably—a brilliant politicalrnstrategy.rnThese contemptible challenges havernbeen accompanied and inspired by anrnunremitting, multilayered campaign...

counting the political and legal victoriesrnof the past year. Lambasting the localrnGannett paper (LGP) for its biased coveragernof those opposed to federal controlrnof Rockford’s schools, Dr. Fleming remarked,rn”If you can believe the paper,rnyou would think this crowd is a lynchrnmob.” Recalling the slogan of thernprevious rally—”Vote, Organize, andrnProtest” —Dr. Fleming urged Rockfordiansrnto continue their battle...

aration of Church and State is not arndogma.rnSantamaria’s role in the Labor Part)’rnsplit made him a household name,rnhailed or reviled, but rarely ignored.rnWlien Rome responded to his foes in thernCatholic hierarchy, he could no longerrnwork within official Church structures.rnThe Catholic Social Movement hernheaded was transformed into the independentrnNational Civic Council. Thisrnthink tank eventually included people...

PERSPECTIVErnSelling the Golden Cordrnby Thomas FlemingrnFree trade, according to the usual pundits, is an issue that dividesrnthe right. The usual pundits are, as usual, wrong.rnFree trade, which has never been more than an undocumentedrnalien on the right, is an ideal that does unite much of the left.rnIt is a point on which socialism converges with...

price —$2.00 for a gallon of milk, $30,000 for a Lexus, 15 cowsrnfor your daughter.rnWhether we cut the deal for a pound of pork chops in myrnback)’ard, go to market, to market, to buy a fat pig, or speculaternon pork belly futures at the Chicago Board of Trade, the transactionrnis, hypothetically, between two individuals. But...

The slide in real income since 1973 has been described byrnsome economists as the longest in American history. AveragernWeekly Earnings (a Department of Labor statistic that coversrn80 percent of employees, but excludes physicians and executives)rnhave been declining steadily since 1975, and the fall isrneven steeper if increased Social Security rates and higher salesrntaxes are taken...

leads them: to the destruction of every barrier between us, thernAmerican people, and a gangster world-state owned and operatedrnby George Soros, Boris Berezo’sky, and K. Rupert Murdoch.rnBut so long as Boris is free to trade with George and Rupert,rnthe free-traders are content. In the grim Looney-Toons worldrnof James Bovard, no government can restrict any intercoursernbetween...

VIEWSrnToward One Nation, IndivisiblernA Course of Actionrnby Patrick J. BuchananrnIt is time we looked at the world from a new perspective, onernof enlightened nationalism. Cliches about a “new” globalrneconomy aside, there has always been an international economyrn—ever since Columbus stumbled onto the Western Hemispherernwhile seeking new trade routes to the East, in the hire ofrna...

fact, could be used to cut taxes on income, savings, and investment.rnBismarck built the German nation by shifting taxation awayrnfrom incomes and onto foreign goods. In a December 15,rn1878, letter to the Reichstag, the chancellor spoke of a crisis inrnthe German middle class, similar to our own, and proposed tornemulate the Americans: “Reform of the...

spend six times as much on defense. We remit annually tornTokyo tens of billions of dollars in interest payments on thernhundreds of billions of dollars of Treasury debt that Tokyo nowrnholds as a result of having run up decades of trade surpluses atrnthe expense of American workers. Historians will marvel thatrnAmerica let this happen.rnEven the...

minimum wages, and health and pollution standards, as well asrnU.S. taxes; their products come back to undercut those made inrnfactories that stayed in America and obeyed the laws of thernUnited States.rnThe Japanese are also exploiting NAFTA. Matsushita, Hitachi,rnSony, and Sanyo have assembly plants in Tijuana. Toshiba’srnplant is in Ciudad Juarez. Japanese and Korean companiesrnare building...

private bank loans; foreign investments by corporations, pensionrnfunds, etc.; foreign aid (perhaps $1 trillion in the ColdrnWar) and IMF, World Bank, and international bank loans;rnU.S. overseas defense expenditures; illicit trade (drugs); illicitrnwealth transfers to evade taxes. Each of these problems can berndealt with by strong action.rnIMPORTS: A 15 percent tariff on all products that competernwith...

tinual increase in the capital invested in its plants, minesrnand farms, it is one of the foremost tasks of good governmentrnto remove all obstacles that hinder the accumulationrnand investment of new capital.rnStrategic IndependencernAt the end of World War II, the United States had a nearly autarkicrnindustrial base; we produced everything needed for ourrnnahonal defense. That...

and then declared it unconstitutional. In March of thisrnyear, she not only confirmed but extended her ruling;rnshe mandated the governor of California to send lettersrnto the managers of public services instructing them thatrnthe law was invalid. This scarcely seems necessary.rnProposition 187 has not yet been enforced anywhere, andrnthe likelihood is that it never will be.rn2)...

the process of Balkanization—one aspect of the deconstructionrnof the country, even perhaps an epiphenomenal response to arndissolution that was already occurring. The owl of Minervarntakes flight at dusk, and multiculturalism is, if anything, a laggingrnindicator of the country’s plight.rnThe theory of American nationhood responsible for this collapsernis the idea that America is an idea. On...

The New Class is a term that was invented by Yugoslav writerrn(and former apparatchik) Milovan Djilas. It described thernbureaucrahc class which ruled and prospered under communismrnby taking state and “public” property for its own privaternuse. This concept—also known later as the nomenklatura—rnwas capable of more general application, and Irving Kristol,rnSeymour Martin Lipset, and other (generally...

eight-trillion dollar economy. But the fiscal loss to Americansrnfrom immigration ranges from about 5250 per family annuallyrnin New Jersey to well over $1,200 per average Californian family.rnAnd poor Americans are more likely to be economicallyrnhurt by immigration than are the rich.rnIt is not surprising, therefore, that mass immigration is an unpopularrnpolicy. Going back well over...

culturally assimilated and whose members would be eligiblernfor any immigration preference equally with other citizens.rnBut nationalist conservatives, especially those attracted byrnMr. Buchanan’s “America First” foreign policy, will be suspiciousrnthat a combination of NATO and TAFTA would be a potentiallyrnentangling alliance. They will want to know if such arnlong-term strategic commitment is in America’s interest—especiallyrnsince the...

Cowboy CapitalismrnLessons From the Asian Meltdownrnby Alfred E. EckesrnAs the Asian financial and currency crisis spun out of control,rnthe world glimpsed the dark side of the new internationalrneconomic order. It is highly efficient—linking globalrnmarkets for goods and money—but dangerously unstable andrnasymmetrical.rnFor speculators, traders, bankers, and tycoons, there are unlimitedrnopportunities to make money in the global...

It is no different in 1998. In February, Under Secretary ofrnState Stuart Eizenstat explained our “special responsibilities”rnto the Senate Finance Committee. Referring to the “burdens”rnof American leadership, he warned that “leadership is not divisible.rnWe cannot lead on critical security issues, or in openingrnmarkets, while abdicating the lead in the sometimes messyrnwork of maintaining the international...

peaceful and prosperous world based on the twin foundationsrnof free trade in money and goods, and mandatory dispute settlementrnmechanisms. These would bind nations together,rnmaking war impossible, while achieving the blessings of economicrnspecialization and growth. Run by professional lawyersrnand economists, the New World Order would be a Utopia benefitingrnmankind and promoting peace, growth, and prosperity.rnOr so...

OPINIONSrnBuchananism: Two OpinionsrnThe Great Betrayal: How American Sovereigntyrnand Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to thernGods of the Global Economyrnby Patrick J. BuchananrnNew York: Little, Brown;rn376 pp., $22.95rnFree Trade, Free Slavesrnby William R. HawkinsrnThe United States owes its origin tornthe trade wars of early modern Europernbut its success to the Industrial Revoluhon,rnwhich filled America with productive,rnlargely...

economies linked by government-regulatedrntrade is replaced . . . by an increasinglyrnintegrated global economy beyondrnthe reach of national regulation, powerrnchanges hands.” Unfortunately, the newrnhands care nothing about America.rnProduction networks, joint ventures,rnand other business alliances no longerrnparallel geopolitical alliances as theyrnonce did. A century ago, the French governmentrncould support its national firmsrnand investors in their development...

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Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnWhose Modernity?rnWhen Pat Buchanan’s new book, ThernGreat Betrayal, appeared in April, thernhsteria that greeted it was entirely predictable.rnNot only does Mr, Buchananrnchallenge the free trade orthodoxy that isrndominant among economists and policymakersrnin both political parties, but hernalso makes clear that the economic nationalismrnhe champions is only a part ofrna much deeper...

today.”rnBut nowhere in his book does Mr.rnBuchanan support the labor union hierarchyrnthat Mr. Bartley so fears. What herndoes support are the interests of Americanrnworkers (which the unions sometimesrnmake noises about representing)rnagainst those of both foreign competitorsrnand domestic free trade ideologues andrnthe corporate elites, foreign and domestic,rnthat sponsor them. The distinctionrnbetween supporting unions and supportingrnthe interests...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Polandrnby Jacek KoronackirnOn N A T O ExpansionrnThe expansion of NATO has been hotlyrndebated by American conservatives. As arnconservative Catholic Pole living inrnPoland, I am obviously interested in thisrndebate, not least because Poland andrnAmerica are part of the same civilization.rnAny matter of importance to either nationrnhas to be seen within a wider contextrnof...

several seats. Unfortunately, all the effortrnwas of no use, faced with the public’srnrestlessness, Labour’s professionalism,rnthe aura of “sleaziness” hanging over thernparty, and Mr. Major’s own irredeemablerndullness. Hundreds of thousandsrnof life-long Conservative activistsrnreluctandy deserted the party, fed up finallyrnwith the consistent refusal of the hierarchyrnto do something about crime,rnEurope, the welfare state, immigration,rnpolitical correctness, etc., and...

priced our community life out of thernmarket of ordinary Jews; we also have imposedrnupon ourselves the dictatorship ofrnwealth. We have built costly institutionsrnof religion and culture. We have undertakenrnhuge fiscal responsibilities to worldrnJewry and especially to the state of Israel,rnand we have therefore defined ourselvesrnas financiers of world Judaism. Heavy financialrncommitments to overseas causesrnis natural...

made these Jewish vices too. But thernsame traits stand also for our distinctivelyrnAmerican (and particularly Jewish)rnvirtues, the ones that we have learned inrnthe American context. Our vices andrntheir counterpart virtues—generosity, efficiency,rnpracticality, initiative, organizationalrneffectiveness—define how we arernboth American and Jewish. We are thernJewish species of the American genus,rnJewish Americans, much more than wernare the American species...

banks of the Thames! May I book yournthe journey?rnItaHans respect intellectuals, providedrnthey can afford the wine. Their respect,rnwhich is truly continental, is the sort ofrnthing that is endlessly described inrnNabokov’s emigre stories of Paris andrnBerlin: it is essentially the homage paidrnby an innkeeper to a guest whose eccentricrnways are both valuable subjects of localrngossip and...

VITAL SIGNSrnMILITARYrnEnemies Foreignrnand Domesticrnby William J. CorlissrnAcynic once observed that in times ofrnpeace nations make war on themselves.rnNowhere is this phenomenonrnmore manifest than in the United Statesrnmihtary, where the onslaught of politicalrncorrectness has resulted in the lowestrnmorale in memory. As American ArmedrnForces recently geared up for anotherrnengagement with Iraq, a troubling consensusrnarose among officers in...

Officers like the one on Nightlinernhave a lot more to fear than fear itself Inrnthe opening section of Department ofrnDefense Instruction No. 1320.4, whichrnredefined the necessary components ofrnofficer promotion packages in the wakernof the Tailhook scandal, we encounterrnDefinition 2:rnAlleged Adverse Information. Anyrnallegation of conflict of interest,rnfailure to adhere to required standardsrnof conduct, abuse of authority,rnmisconduct...

FOREIGN POLICYrnfocusing on the value of retirement an- 1rnLest We Forgetrnthe Evil Empirernby Charles Maurice andrnSvetozar PejovichrnAs long as the Soviet Union existed,rnvoices were heard in the UnitedrnStates favoring peaceful co-existencernwith the socialist bloc, pushing for unilateralrnreduction in the country’s defensernexpenditures, and protesting the developmentrnof nuclear weapons. Some ofrnthose voices were well-meaning andrnnaive, while others...

and spoke.rnComrades, this is the greatest dayrnin the history of our nation. It isrnthe day when the working peoplernof this country have finally beenrnable to throw off the chains of oppressionrnforged by the capitalistrnclass. I am proud to tell you that asrnof today, instead of the UnitedrnStates of America, we have a countryrnthat we can...

It is important that everyone joinsrnthe parade tonight. You must allrnlaugh, smile, and show how happyrnyou are that after more than 200rnyears of capitalist exploitation inrnAmerica, you have your own country,rnyour own government. Yournare the government. Wives andrnchildren will march also. We mustrnshow to the world we are united;rnwe are all enjoying the happinessrnof the...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, ]r.rnThe Wind ListethrnSome say the world will end in fire, somernsay in ice. Speaking fi-om experience,rnrather than poetic Irenzy, I say both. Thernspring winds blowing white at home inrnWyoming blow red down here in NewrnMexico, a howling gale that seems to bernreturning to the Dustbowl the errant Oklahoma,rnKansas, and Texas...