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wallet and looked into it: three ones, arnten, a couple of twenties. Of course hernhad no change. I drew out the singlesrnand showed him them.rn”Cuatro dolares, senor. Uno masl”rnIn among some bank receipts I spottedrna five dollar bill. I drew it out and gave itrnto the man.rn”Seis dolares, sefiorl”rn”No-o-o-o-o.”rnHe took the money from me and...

jhw ?7Ite^>/fih fflnni/a^lbA G^/j Comes to DallasrnAmerica—llie real America—is menaced at home and abroad b) now oriijlrnforces that threaten to destroy the last vestiges of what used to be calledrn”the American way of life.” But some Americans are fighting back—rnto restore the national identity, return government to the people, and reviverneducational, cultural, and military institutions....

A Classic Work on America’s Foundingrn•sSiSS*:-^rn.W,rn4 ^rn^ J t .rn• I.-: ‘ 1 .rn• • 1, ^ I •; ::;i^rn^ ^ 7 1rnTHE LAMP or EXPERIENCErnWHIG HISTORY AND THE INTELLECTUALrnORIGINS OF THE AMERICANrnREVOLUTIONrnBy Trevor Col bournrn”. . . a joy to read.”rn—Lucius F. EllsworthrnIn a landmark work, a leading scholar of therneighteenth century examines the...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, Jr.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnScott P. RichertrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O.]. Brown, KatherinernDalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rnJ.O. Tate, Michael Washburn,rnGlyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, William Mills,rnJacob Neusner, Srdja TrifkovicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobhsrnPUBLISHERrnThe Rockford InstituternPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnCindy LinkrnA publicahon of The Rockford Institute,rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn928 North Main Street, Rockford, IL...

ously called a “Marxist specimen” and arn”second Goebbels”) entertained me withrnsimilar ideas of world unification. (Callrnit “globalization” if you wish.) And howrnabout New Age, or the Reverend Moon’srnmass wedding across the planet?rnSrdja Trifkovic mentioned in thernMarch issue that communism was not arnsnowy import from the Russian steppes,rnbut a pure European product, containingrnverities and falsehoods, intellectualrnerrors,...

what Billy Bob Thornton is really up to isrnfound in Dr. Wilson’s piece; the eventsrnupon which Sling Blade is based tookrnplace in Northern California. The reasonrnthe movie is set and filmed in Bentonrn(Saline County) Arkansas is notrnbecause audiences can’t believe in non-rnSouthern accented retarded murderers,rnbut because Hollywood is ever vigilant inrnits zealous quest to demonize...

more concern for the welfare of its peoplernthan he has for the happiness of thernwomen he invites into his office.rn—Thomas Flemingrn”REMEMBER JONESBORO ” isrnthe latest rallying cry of the “If it can happenrnhere, it can happen anywhere”rncrowd. In one sense, of course, they’rernobviously correct: no town is immune tornthe evil influences that convince an 11-rnyear-old...

mother of all case-management tests.rnStaffed and planned by a “who’s who” ofrnsocial work, “it is the largest test of therncurrently popular model of case management.”rn^^nd it came at the highest price:rn”the total cost of CCDP averagedrn$15,768 per family per year… or aboutrn$47,000 for each family in the evaluation,rngiven an average length of participationrnof more than...

against fast-track approval of future traderntreaties, Gephardt has switched colorsrnagain: in a speech to the Council on ForeignrnRelations in March, Gephardt arguedrnthat he was “misunderstood andrnmisrepresented” as an isolationist and arnprotectionist. According to the New YorkrnTimes, he assured the G F R that he is arn”progressive internationalist,” and thatrnhe supports the Clinton administration’srnrequest for $18...

sense of justice and integrity has been misinterpreted as proofrnthat she is a QuisHng who would betray her country to the UnitedrnStates.rnKosovo is, for the moment, an even more serious question.rnWe saw last year what Albanians can do to each other if they arernallowed to go on a rampage (to say nothing of the crime...

and construct a multi-ethnic Bosnia, now insist upon a visa forrnforeign travelers entering the Republika Srpska from Yugoslavia.rnLike most of the Republika Srpska (RS), Banja Lukarnis swollen with refugees, and the cit has 70 percent unemployment.rnStreets at mid-day are thronged by able-bodied men ofrnall ages, who ought to be at work.rnRonald Hatchett, President Plavsic, 1...

which he compares Robert E. Lee with Prince Lazar (therndoomed hero of Kosovo) and the tragic leader of Chetnik resistancernin World War II, Draza Mihajlovic.rnMontenegro is a strange paradox, an all or nothing landrnwhere atheist communists fought with religious zeal against thernchurch, and yet today the Orthodox metropolitan archbishoprnmay be the most widely respected man...

VIEWSrnThe New American CenturyrnSearching for Foes in the Post-Cold War Erarnby Doug BandowrnDespite the President’s and Congress’s promises, the budgetrnis unlikely to be balanced in the year 2002. The bulkrnof the promised spending cuts come after the year 2000, and ftiturernCongresses and Presidents are unlikely to be any morernwilling than present ones to make tough...

lion. Groups like the Heritage Foundation are only slightly lessrnextreme; the latter proposes a hike of $20 to $25 billion a year.rnHouse Speaker Newt Gingrich has proposed no specific number,rnbut recently urged the Budget Committee to increase thernmilitary’s budget significantly. According to Gingrich, “Wernhave lived off the Reagan buildup about as long as we can....

you name it. There are many different forces of instabilit)’ inrnthe southern region.” Naturally, he believes Washington mustrnintervene, explaining that “I can think of no foreign theaterrnmore critical for the L’nited States. We ha’e to stav engaged,rnwith a robu.st force and the polihcal will to use it.” hideed, hernadvocates “engagement across the line,” since that...

all sorts of faraway, irrelevant conflicts.rnThe case for maintaining 100,000 soldiers in East Asia isrnequally dubious. South Korea has 24 times the GDP and twicernthe population of North Korea. The former is a dominant tradingrnnation, produces a wealth of hi-tech products, and hasrnstolen awa}’ almost all of its adversaries’ allies. The latter is impoverished,rnisolated, and...

Moreover, non-intervention ofiFers the surest method to containrnsuch conflicts. Alhances proved to be transmission belts of warrnin World War I, drawing ever more peripheral powers into arnconflict that proved disastrous for every one of them, hi contrast,rnthe same nahons erected firebreaks to war when fightingrnbroke out in Yugoslavia in 1991. Thus, the conflict burnedrnlonger than...

in the domestic sphere, we see in Bill Clinton’s gleeful projeetionrnof a non-European ethnic majority’ in the next century,rnAmerica as a scene out oi Blade Ri/nner—dominates our relationsrnabroad as well. Our anh-nahonal, pseudo-intellectualrnelites are not content just with destroying the American nation;rnthey want to eliminate everybody else’s national identity too.rnThe budding totalitarianism inherent in the...

are hyphenated are not as unambiguously “American” as tliosernwho have no other ethnic identity.rnhi general, nations are built in part through the suppressionrnor absorption of competing national, regional, tribal, or religiousrnidentities. The relatively late unifications of Germanyrnand Italy illustrate the extent to which the result is sometimesrnlittle more than a set of conventions. For example,...

language has long since become more a question of politicsrnthan of linguistics. In the Soviet Union, the idea of “Ukrainian”rn(and, even more absurdly, “Byelorussian”) language andrnnationality was first encouraged because it was useful to Leninrnand company to break up the Russian nation; and then, at thernappropriate time, the parts were beaten into conformity withrnthe artificial...

tensifies, and threatens to boil over into a general Mideast conflagration,rnit is fair to ask; Who is reallv endangering “the securit)-‘rnof all the rest of us”?rnThe idea that the Iraqis “have the capacity’ to hit Tel Avi'”rnwith chemical, biological, or even nuclear weapons, irresponsiblvrntouted by U.N. disarmament overlord Richard Butler in arnspeech to a gathering...

dam as “worse than Hitler,” as George Bush put it, has obscuredrnAmerica’s tilt toward Iran, now formalized by Iranianrnovertures and a warm, albeit cautious, American response.rnWhile American complicity in Iran’s shipments of arms tornBosnian Muslims is well known, the arms-length embrace ofrnthe Iranian mullahs by the Clinton administration makes thisrnalliance semi-oflFicial.rnIf Bill Kristol were to...

had raised the stakes of the intra-ohgarchy clan feuds. True, assassinationrnof lower-level “businessmen” or nosy journalists hasrnbecome common enough —the spate of contract killings ofrnMoscow “businessmen” in the last few years testifies to the ruthlessnessrnof the Russian “sharks of capital” —but none wantsrnopen warfare. More worrisome was the murder last fall of St.rnPetersburg privatization chief...

identified as the family’s confidant and advisor (Berezovsky isrnwidely believed to be building a nice nest egg for the Yeltsins,rnprobably by investing recycled state funds in foreign banks andrnbusiness enterprises via Yeltsin’s son-in-law, who heads the airlinernAeroflot), but also, tellingly, as an inorodets, an alien, arnmuch stronger word than inostranets, foreigner. In thernMoskovsky Komsomolets satire,...

and Yavlinsky, long hampered by a policy-wonk image, appearsrnto be gaining some ground as well. Moscow is rife with rumorsrnof a Lebed-Yavlinsky alliance, and Nemtsov’s long associationrnwith Yavlinsky appears to make him a possible coalition partner,rnthough the trio’s personal ambitions make the formation ofrnsuch an alliance problematic. A populist alliance, of course,rnwould be the oligarchy’s...

fill their desires. This might be primarily the case for domesticrnaffairs, but it also concerns foreign policy. Here we have to bearrnin mind that by 1910 practically all of Europe had constitufionalrnmonarchies and only a few republics, but in any case, thernparliaments held the purse strings. History might have followedrna totally different course if the...

great mentor, Ludwig von Mises, thatrneconomics is but a branch of praxeologyrn(the study of human action), which alsornincludes psychology, history, ethics,rnpolitical economy, and all the socialrn(or “soft”) sciences. Whatever editorrnthought such a project could be shoehornedrninto a few hundred pages had nornunderstanding of Austrian economics—rnor of Rothbard. However frustrating itrnmight have been for Rothbard, this...

of ethics, insisting instead on divine revelationrnas the only path to truth. “If reasonrncannot be used to frame an ethic,” writesrnRothbard, “this means that Luther andrnCalvin had to, in essence, throw out naturalrnlaw, and in doing so, they jettisonedrnthe basic criteria developed over the centuriesrnby which to criticize the despoticrnactions of the state.” Anyone else...

tial number of conservatives, concludedrnthat standards should be developed to setrnhistorical education on track again.rnSurely, there existed a core of objectivernfacts related to histor’ (or any other subjectrnfor that matter) that an educatedrnAmerican could be expected to know.rnThis was admittedly an old-fashioned approachrnto education, pushing most complexrnarguments of interpretation back tornad’anced undergraduate or graduate-levelrncourses and...

women. In realitw fact is more complicatedrnthan myth. The frontier was a regionrnin which adventurous and optimisticrnempire builders worked tornrecreate the civilizahon of the East b assertingrnand establishing conventional socialrnvalues and customs. It was also arndraw not just for simple outlaws but forrnsocial ones as well—unconstrained soulsrnw ith what today would be described asrncountercultural inclinations...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnProphesying WarrnBack in 1994, the Atlantic Monthly publishedrna notable article by Robert Kaplanrnentitled “The Coming Anarchy.” Thernarticle dealt with what Kaplan took to bernglobal indications of impending chaos asrnresources dwindle, infrastructures decay,rnweapons are peddled, gangs and armedrnbands replace states, and ethnic, racial,rnand tribal loyalties prevail over less ferociousrnidentities. The article was...

be self-financed in the comingrntime of chaos, they will grow likernwildfire. Militias, cults like thernNation of Islam, and other armedrnorganizations will also rapidly growrninto full-blown armies.rnMr. Chittum also has some fascinatingrnscenarios of how the conflict will playrnout in various areas of the country, parficularlyrnthe South, where the ethnic andrnracial composition will be so mixed thatrncertain...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Romernby Andrei NavrozovrnWhere All BelongrnIn my letter last month I tried to describernthe noble seriousness of Italian life,rnunique in that it has given the modernrnworld a middle class with a human face.rnEven on a simple physical level such asrnthat of the naked eye or of the camerarnlens, one can observe this seriousnessrnlike a...

I know, the holocaust, sexual harassment,rnand intergalactic strife, may substituternthis with their own national cinematicrncliches, in glorious color orrnracially insensitive black-and-white. Thernpoint is, Saul became Paul.rnThe following day being Sunday, wernwent for a stroll along the Corso. ThernRomans, in couples or more complexrnfamily groups, promenaded, pausing tornexamine shop windows, and withoutrnthinking what this meant, we...

VITAL SIGNSrnFOREIGN AFFAIRSrnWhat Robert TaftrnCould Teach UsrnTodayrnby Jeffrey Thomas KuhnerrnSince the end of the Cold War Americanrnforeign pohcy has been incoherent.rnThe CHnton administration hasrnsent U.S. troops under U.N. authority tornSomaHa, Bosnia, and Haiti; tried to brokerrnpeace talks in Northern Ireland andrnthe Middle East; bombed Iraq; orderedrnAmerican warships to the Taiwan Straits;rnand antagonized China and Russia...

understood that it was in America’s longtermrninterest to have a multipolar worldrnand to avoid unnecessary military conflicts.rnFor Tali, trade policy and national securityrnwere closely intertwined: a nationrnmust have complete control over itsrneconomy as well as its national security.rnHe opposed having America’s economyrnor military intermeshed with those ofrnother countries. On trade issues, Taftrnwas a staunch protectionist...

berg wants to make this incident bear thernwhole weight of the American slaveryrnthat lasted two and a half centuries andrnthe Great Unpleasantness that ended it.rnThousands oi Amistad study kits havernbeen sent out to schools with this goal.rnThe trouble is, as an account of Americanrnhistory, Amistad will not bear thernweight. The Amistad had no influencernon the...

This is mentioned in the film but notrndweh on: the Northern judges ruledrnagainst the freedom of the Amistad captives.rnThe Supreme Court, with a majorityrnof slaveholding Southerners, renderedrnthe proper decision: the Africansrnhad been illegally seized and were freed.rnThen, according to American law, theyrnhad to be sent back to Africa. In addition,rna law professor tells me that...

eing, imagine the effect it would havern1 millions less warped. The resultingrniritual rejuvenation would bankruptrne sex-and-violence business overnight.”rnOther people will remember thern1958 film A Night to Rememher (basedrnon Walter Lord’s historical report andrnanalysis) in which the ship is the wholernstory, and nothing is lost by the absencernof a subplot. These were movies of anotherrnage, if...