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sa during Holy Communion was unconscionable. Princess Dianarnhad many detractors, yet none surfaced on television duringrnthe young woman’s funeral.rnCompare ABC’s actions with those of NBC. When the latter’srnMeet the Press invited Hitchens to comment on the Britishrnroyal family on September 7, it did not allow him to stay for thernnext segment on Mother Teresa; anchor...

schoolgirls, drinks called “Holy Water,” and a “Hell Room”rnthat sports a mirrored crucifix. The owners, two sisters from India,rnclaim their gay establishment is not anti-Catholic.rnWhen Dr. M.R.C. Greenwood was installed as the newrnchancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, thernschool embarked upon the customary binge of celebrations fitrnfor a queen. For one month,...

pie for power. The particular path he chose is a side issue.rnIt may take years to undo the ideological damage inflicted byrnthe new right-wing tendency to run down the capitalist system.rnIt is a bias that can be philosophically poisoning, since the subjectrnmatter of economics involves most ever1:hing our very li’esrndepend on. It is not just...

inent control.)rnBefore fleshing this out and considering its implications,rnconsider my original qnestion: Is it better for evil men to workrnin the private sector or to work for the government? Look at therndeeds of two bad men; Michael Eisner and David Kessler. Eisnerrnworks in the private sector, fie is the head of Disney, a companyrnonce synonymous...

actionaries had stood up to the progressives, and by sheer numberrnand force of will, actually began to win. Disney is desperately,rnif quietly, trying to regroup, because if there is one thingrnan evil businessman wants more than the thrill of destruction,rnit is profit. Tliat pursuit reins in his desires, and restricts the socialrneffects of his malevolence.rnNot...

waste and punishes those who do not. The market’s very efficiencyrnensures that if evil suppHers find wilfing customers forrntheir goods and services, they are not wasting social resources inrnthe process. The job market encourages people to hone theirrnskills and find a usefiil role in the division of labor, while punishingrnlounge lizards and freeloaders.rnGovernment has done...

America, the parson —usually a Protestant minister, but afterrnthe mid-19th centun’ often a Catholic priest—was the “person”rnill a small community: better educated than most and familiarrnwith the skills necessary to bring men and women into contactrnwith God. To have a son called to the ministry or the priesthoodrnwas a joy as well as an honor;...

ment, whose Tribune reflected Americarnas in a funhouse mirror.”rnHow could both camps be right? EitherrnMcCormick was a fearless patriot orrna danger to the Republic. Wliich is it?rnFurthermore, the charge of “endangering”rnfreedom of expression confuses thernvictim of repression with its perpetrators:rnthe Colonel’s numerous enemies —rnFDR and the hardline New Dealers inrnhis Cabinet, notably Harold Ickes —rndid...

ably difficult to reconcile the Colonel’srnrestraint toward foreign dictators with hisrnconstant harping on domestic tyranny,”rnBut there is nothing to reconcile. On thernfront page of the Tribune for Septemberrn21,1943, one of McCormick’s best politicalrncartoonists, Carey Orr, vividly illustratedrnthe Colonel’s critique of the risingrnwelfare-warfare state: “Dictators on thernHome Front” depicts a glum-lookingrnUncle Sam locked in a stockade,...

highly influenced by the Southern NewrnCritics, only to adopt freer forms andrnmore confessional content in his laterrnand better known work. A similar developmentrnoccurred in the verse of RobertrnPenn Warren, who was 11 years olderrnthan Eaton, and James Wright, who wasrn11 years younger. As Thomas Swiss notedrnin reviewing Eaton’s New and SelectedrnPoems (1987) for the Sewanee...

temporary poetry that readers often askrnGioia how old his daughter is now.) SydneyrnLea’s “The Feud” depicts a spat betweenrnneighbors, which escalates incrementallyrnfrom farce to tragedy. Finally,rnin “Frost at Midnight,” Mary Jo Salterrnhas written an impressive blank verserncharacter sketch of Robert Frost.rnTom Disch and R.S. Gwynn are probablyrnthe most conspicuous representativesrnof a third movement within the...

writing, was a tragic beauty. Loving herrnreflected favorably on Yeats’s own sensitivity,rnon his fineness of perception, andrnon his capacity for suffering and endurance.rnIn contrast, Foster’s chronologicallyrndescribed Gonne is, not to mincernwords, an unstable crackpot whom onlyrna rather peculiar man could have lovedrnso ineffectively for so long.rnIn a book in which many people believernand do strange...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnNationalism,rnTrue and FalsernRuling classes exercise power throughrncombinations of coercion and manipulationrn—what Machiavelli called force andrnfraud, or the habits of the lion and the foxrnthat he recommended to princes whornwish to stay in power. Like most princes,rnmost ruling classes tend to be better atrnone than the other, and depending onrntheir talents, interests,...

actual people of the nation; free tradernand globalism, which threaten both therneconomic interests and sovereignty ofrnthe nation; or multicLdturalism, whichrnneither the mainstream left nor rightrnnow seriously questions. Hence, itrnmakes sense that the high priests of therndominant right would seek to reinventrnnationalism and to redefine it in termsrnthat will offer no serious challenge to thernantinational forces...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter FromrnChicagornby Thomas F. RoeserrnTo ArchbishoprnFrancis GeorgernI won’t say congratulations on your appointmentrnbecause the wreckage left forrnyou to pick up is horrendous. . . and thernabuse you will take if—and, please God,rnwhen—you attempt to clean it up couldrnshorten your life. While you have crisscrossedrnthe archdiocese to introducernyourself, I have seen positive traits. As arntheologian, you...

those who suffer. To many priests today,rnthis idea is incomprehensible. ReHgionrnto them has httle to do with suffering; it isrna bland imitation of the Rotary Club.rnThey still follow the spurious postconciliarrnnotion that the Church must accommodaternpublic taste in order to gainrnmore members. Father Greeley, a pollster,rnpoints out that the Church must bernled by its membership...

have not yet been totally blighted by aggressivernfeminism, it is still regarded asrnquite normal for an enterprising youngrnman to be a dragueur and to honor thernpassage of a lovely demoiselle with arnshower of flattering compliments.rnThe attentions lavished by photographicrnpaparazzi on their chosen victimrnare obviously of quite a different order.rnThey are a radically new and offensivernspecies...

Diana’s last interview was given, significantlyrnenough, on June 13 to a womanrnjournalist, Anick Cojean, who worksrnfor Le Monde, one of the few newspapersrnin the world that has steadfastly refusedrnto publish photographs (though it doesrnemploy cartoonists) and which hasrnsought to maintain the undisputedrnsupremacy of the printed word. In thisrninterview Diana complained bitterly ofrnthe pursued and hunted...

that is, in fact, quite specific: the Yale Experience.rnIf you don’t want to find condomsrnat your dinner plate or to accord tornthe holy other the divine right to fornicaterneven when you want to sleep, gornsomewhere else. The Yale Experience isrnnot for you.rnWhat strange, pretentious language!rnMy colleagues at Bard College speak,rnquite properly, of a Bard education,...

VITAL SIGNSrnRELIGIONrnThe ChastityrnAmendmentrnby Mark TooleyrnThe appearance of an article aboutrnAmerican church Hfe on the frontrnpage of the Washington Post is a rare occurrence.rnBut the approval by the PresbyterianrnChurch (United States) of arnchurch law requiring celibacy of its nonmarriedrnclergy gained front-page attentionrnin the Post not just once but hvicernthis year.rnTreatment of the issue in both articlesrnby...

uality, the media at least have an obligationrnto understand their teachings and tornreport them accurately.rnMark Tooley is a research associate at thernInstitute on Religion and Democracy.rnFAMILYrnAbortion, Adoption,rnandrnPresident Clintonrnby Janet Scott BarlowrnLast year, in a span of less than sixrnmonths, President Clinton vetoedrnthe congressional ban on partial-birthrnabortion, thereby positioning himself,rnbased on public-opinion surveys of thernprocedure, as...

new lease on life, at the expense of Americanrntaxpayers.rnMany Americans do not realize justrnhow close the U.N. is to fulfillingrnthe goal set by its first acting SecretaryrnGeneral, communist spy Alger Hiss, ofrnbecoming a full-fledged world state.rnThanks to a federal financial bailoutrnengineered by Senator Helms, the U.N.rnis poised to expand its international campaignrnfor population control, global...

cent cut in the 50,000-strong U.N. bureaucracyrn—and it turned out the positionsrnwere aheady vacant. The Helmsrnplan also included calls for reductions inrnthe “dues” the U.S. pays to the U.N.rnTo understand how far Helms movedrnon the issue, consider what the Post declaredrnwhen the senator announced hisrnplan: “If you measure the Jesse HelmsrnU.N. reform package against what...

EDUCATIONrnHarkness RoadrnHigh Schoolrnby Isabel LymanrnHillary Clinton would love Amherst,rnMassachusetts, a town aptlyrnnicknamed “The People’s Republicrnof Amherst.” A stroll down Main Streetrnquickly reveals that Birkenstocksrnand Volvos dominate the landscape.rnAmherst’s legislative body, the TownrnMeeting, often votes on the kind of citizenrnpetitions that call on the communityrn(population 35,000) to join the AFLCIO’srn”union cities” movement or tornblock off a...

Our teachers are not “certified,” nor isrnthe school “accredited.” Our studentsrnmust create their own extracurricular activities,rnbe content with the daily basketballrngames during their recess time, typernon outdated computers, and make dornwithout science labs. The austere surroundingsrnraise the question: Is it worthwhilernto deny a student the perks of arnwell-funded, albeit eccentric, publicrnschool to transfer to our...

where it is. This involves looking at therntransihonal stages by which a traditionalrnhierarchical society became one inrnwhich nothing is thought to warrant respectrnunless the individual finds it in hisrninterest to value it. The victory of thisrnself-centered ethos, Molnar notes, hasrnnot put an end to either religious longingrnor mythic obsession. In other words, therndesacralization ascribed by...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, ]r.rnOn the Border With Crooks,rnand FriendsrnIt was time to look into getting hold ofrntwo barrera seats if we were going to attendrnthe coming corrida at the PlazarnMonumental de Toros in Juarez. FromrnLas Cruces I telephoned Jim Rauen 190rnmiles away in Belen and tapped intornwhat sounded like a conversation betweenrndrug dealers...

“And the weather’s perfect,” she saidrnhappily.rnBeyond the forest edge was a burnrncaused by a Hghtning strike, where after arnfew years the pine and juniper trees wererngrowing back among the blackenedrnsnags, the grass, and the wildflowers.rnRiding across the openness that coveredrnthe ridgeline we viewed nearly the wholernof the southernmost country of the Gila,rnas far as the...

TELOSrnA Quarterly Journal of Critical ThoughtrnDoes it still make sense to talk about Left andrnRight? What remains of the communist projectrnafter the collapse of the Soviet Empire? To whatrnan extent has collectivism become official liberalrnideology? What is the impact of feminism,rnanti-racism and multiculturalism on Americanrntraditions? Has a New Class of experts,rnbureaucrats and professionals effectively subvertedrnthe...

Modern Scholarly Editions of ClassicrnWorks for Today’s ReadersrnTHE VIRTUE OF CIVILITYrnSELECTED ESSAYS ON LIBERALISM, TRADITION,rnAND CIVIL SOCIETYrnBy Edward ShUsrnEdited by Stevfen QrosbyrnEdward Shils (1920-1995) was one of the leading intellectual defendersrnof freedom in the twentieth century. Learned in history, politics,rnliterature, economics, theology, and legal history, he taught for manyrnyears at the University of Chicago’s Committee...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, jr.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnScott P. RichertrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O.J. Brown, Katherine Dalton,rnSamuel Francis, George Garrett,rnPaul Gottfried, J.O. Tate, MichaelrnWashburn, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, William Mills,rnJacob Neusner, Momcilo SelicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICAI’ION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnPRODUCTION SECRETARYrnAnita CandyrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnCindy LinkrnA publication of The Rockford Institute,rnEditorial and Advertising Offices;rn934 North Main...

had been conquered by the Poles beforern1772, During the previous three centuries,rnthese people had experienced atrnthe hands of the Poles—supposedlyrnmembers of a “higher” Western civilizationrn—a degree of oppression that exceededrnanything with which the pre-SovietrnRussian state can be charged. Thisrnoppression continued unabated underrnPilsudski and his successors in this century,rnfatally undermining Poland’s moralrnstanding and survivability in the...

picked the wrong house. Charged withrncriminal trespass and aggravated assault,rnhe was never prosecuted.rnWhat has given Michael Sanders impunity?rnAccording to the Arizona Republicrn(whose excellent reporting is thernsource of my information), Sanders isrnbelieved to be an informant for at leastrnfive law enforcement agencies, includingrnthe FBI and the BATF. With that kindrnof support, he had a right to...

claim to have new evidence that willrnshow that Degan was killed while retreatingrn(and may even have been off ofrnWeaver’s property when he was shot),rnthe possibility of a conviction in Harris’srncase seems “fairly slim (as the extremelyrnlow bail—$10,000—attests). Far morerninteresting is the decision of BoundaryrnCounty prosecutor Denise Woodbury tornindict FBI sharpshooter Lon Horiuchirnon manslaughter charges. Horiuchi,...

ment, as well as from NOW and the chorusrnof whiners that pollute the Republic’srnairwaves. But, God willing, SMI willrnbecome a reality. When it does, it mayrnhelp to save the South from the clutchesrnof a ruling elite bent on destroying thernvirility exemplified by Jackson, Lcc, andrnForrest.rn{For further information on SMI,rnplease call Dr. Michael Guthrie at (205)rn464-0830,...

statisticians and made a permanentrneontribution to American self-understanding.”rnAs Clyde Wilson is fond ofrnsaying, “Shelby’s work will never be replaced.”rnNovelist, journalist, filmmaker, andrndiplomat Jean Raspail was born inrnChemille, France, in 1925. He was educatedrnat College Saint-]ean-de-Passeyrnand Institution Sainte-Marie-de-Monceaurnin Paris, as well as the Ecolc desrnRoches a Verneuil-sur-Avre. He is thernauthor of The Camp of the Saints...

ing the rights of all parents to bring up their children as they sawrnfit. They constructed a welfare state to divide the generationsrnfrom each other; they did their best to destroy every vestige ofrnregional and religious loyalty. They got rich building highwaysrnthat broke up the old familiar patterns of life and spattered thernchildren of the...

most obvious difference is that there is no black nation, nornLatino nation, no Indian nation. Indians and Latinos are historicallyrnmore divided among themselves than they are unitedrnagainst the Anglos. Latinos have language and religion in common,rnbut even setting apart the differences between Spanishrnand Indians, there is little to unite Cubans, Mexicans, andrnPuerto Ricans except their...

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VIEWSrnWitchfinderrnThe Strange Career of Morris Deesrnby Samuel FrancisrnWAxii!:i)rnThe trial, conviction, and death sentence of TimothyrnMcVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing of April 19,rn1995, passed quietly this year, far more quietly than most reportersrnand some political leaders wanted. The main reason forrnthe calmness of the McVeigh proceedings was probably the utterlyrnuninteresting mind, character, and personality of...

as with the entries under Ohio: “Unknown Group Name,rnGrove Gity” and “A Goncerned Gitizen, unspecified location.”rnGroups like the “Aryan Republican Army” (also “unspecifiedrnlocation”) are lumped in with the “Keystone Second AmendmentrnFoundation” (yet another “unspecified location”).rnWhether as a research guide to the far right or as a directory ofrnwhich groups not to invite to cosponsor your...

contributors on the East and West Coasts, and they gave bigrnbueks.” But Dees soon found that if you start watching thernKlan, the Klan might start watching back. In 1983, Klansmenrnfirebombed the Center’s offices in Montgomery, an attack thatrnhelped bring in even bigger bucks.rnBy 1994, Dees was reported to be hauling in a personal salarrnof $136,000...