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comers were Catholic.rnBy 1787, the Spanish were actively recruiting Americans, andrnmany accepted. The contrasting cultures lived peaceablyrnenough. There was more than ample room for them. In anyrncase, the Louisiana Purchase mooted the whole matter of culturalrnrivalry.rnWith no adverse experience in Louisiana to deter them, thernSpanish found it logical to practice pluralism and diversity inrnTexas. Hard...

The long run got to Texas faster and more furiously than anyonernin the 1820’s probably expected.rnAnd today? There is some reverse symmetry. By the yearrn2030—the same time span that separates us from the Goldwater-rnJohnson presidential campaign—whites in Texas are projectedrnto become a racial minority. I repeat: a minority. Blacksrnand Hispanics added together will outnumber and,...

largess; the next was seen, paternalistically, as eapable of beingrnnothing more than wards of the state. This is not ancient history;rnit characterizes federal Indian policy from the end ofrnWodd War II to the present.rnIn this definitional back-and-forth, no one is quite sure whatrnthe Indian nations are meant to be. Are they sovereign states?rnFederal protectorates? Ethnic...

becoming elders themselves and perhaps better able to subordinaterntheir egos to the continuity of their societies and culturesrn—exactly as the warriors did in the past.” With that maturationrnhas come a more reflective militancy: a new insistencernon educational and cultural improvement, new and reasonablyrnput demands for independence and self-rule, and new recognitionrnthat, in the face of...

contemplate. Others of us are madernmore sanguine, even sanguinary, by thernthought.rnAt the time of the Wir for SouthernrnIndependence the American pohty,rnhaving reached its apex w ith the ConstitutionalrnConvention of 1787 in Philadelphia,rnwas already in decline. Americanrncivilization, however—North andrnSouth—was in man- respects in itsrnfullest flower, a product of the colonialrnpast brought to full maturity and unblightedrnas...

tion, and sacrifice that war demandsrnof tliem; also to their famihes at fiome.rnOn the other liand, it is always badrntheology—even if God is a Confederate,rnhi our day of banished religion, rclativisticrnmorals, weak principles, and lossrnof nerve, the reality of a governmentrnsupremely confident in the rightness ofrnthe society it represents, and a societyrnequally well-assured of itself,...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnRevolution in the AirrnIs it idle, or at least premature, to talkrnabout “revolution from the right”?rnWhether it is or is not, that is exactlyrnwhat leaders of the right have been talkingrnabout for some years, from PatrnBuchanan’s “Middle American Revolution”rnand his imagery of the “BuchananrnBrigades” and peasants with pitchforksrnrebelling against “King George,”...

curring is what scholars of the reolutionaryrnprocess call a “crisis of legitimac”:rnmore and more subjects of thernregime are ceasing to believe that whatrnthe regime (the government, the dominantrnculture, and the economic elite) dornand say and tell them to do and say possessesrnany legitimacy, and gradually theyrnare withdravying their allegiance, theirrneveryday activities, and their minds fromrnthe...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Australiarnby Roger D. McGrathrnAmerica Down UnderrnVietnamese gangs shake down proprietorsrnof small businesses for protectionrnmoney. Blacks have enormously highrnrates of drug addiction, alcoholism,rncrime, and out-of-wedlock births. Pakistanis,rnLebanese, and Nigerians driverncabs. Japanese buy up downtown highrisernand choice beachfront properties.rnChinese and Koreans take control of sectionsrnof the intercity. East Indians andrnArabs run small shops and gas...

The two always seem to go together.rnNonetheless, the average Aussie does notrnseem as nearly upset by the presence ofrnChinese as by the Japanese. The Chinese,rnthey say, have none of the arrogancernthat they claim is characteristicrnof the Japanese. Then, too, the Aussiesrnhave not forgotten World War II.rnThe original “people of color” in Australia,rnthe Aborigines (or “blacks”...

were Australians—the outfitter and hisrntwo hired hands and six guests. The 12rnof us drank billy tea, slept in swags underrnthe stars and sometimes under clouds inrnthe rain, wore oilskins, watched wildrnbrumbies graze on remote bluffs, visitedrna gold mine, negotiated narrow mountainrntrails, rode through dense eucalyptusrnforests, crossed and recrossed rivers,rnand shook our eyeteeth loose gallopingrnacross alpine...

major cities. Life is good. But it canrnchange. Just look at Los Angeles.rnRoger D. McGrath is a professor of historyrnat the University of Cahfornia, LosrnAngeles, and the author, among otherrnworks, of Gunfighters, Highwaymen &rnVigilantes (J 984).rnLetter FromrnAppalachiarnby Loren MitchellrnHome, Sweet HomernCoal miner. What’s that bring to mind?rnSomeone dumb and dirty? I used tornthink so, and...

cent, respectively, at this writing. Remember,rntoo, that the tally by the VirginiarnEmployment Commission doesrnnot include people who have given uprnlooking for work or “those whose benefitsrnhave been exhausted,” as the officials likernto say.rnhi other words, even the VEC spokesmenrnadmit that actual unemployment isrntwo or three times the reported rate.rnOther demographics and statistics arernjust as troubling,...

VITAL SIGNSrnPOLITICSrnEastern Europe’srnSuicide Pactrnby Tomislav SunicrnEastern Europeans are plagued byrnprovincialism: they believe that everythingrncoming from the West must intrinsicallyrnbe good. Yesterday, the intellectualrnfashion, spreading from Berkeleyrnto the University of Vincennes in France,rnconsisted of regurgitating the dogmarnof Yugoslav “self-management” andrnlearning the catechism of “socialismrnwith a human face.” Today, times havernchanged in the opposite direction; fashionablernliberal ideas...

decipher a communist hack, his uglyrnphysical morphology, and his repulsivernverbal mendacity? Communist and paleocommunisticrnmyths have always attractedrnfrustrated would-be intellectualsrnof repulsive physique and mediocre intelligence.rnAs Friedrich Nietzsche used torncall them, “Monstrum in animo, monstrumrnin fronte.” Thus communist primitivism,rnearly on, wrote its own obituary,rnwith consequences now known to everybody.rnBy contrast, modern liberal pontiffsrnare much more difficult to...

“Mr. Clinton has smacked [them] allrnaround all year.”rnFarrakhan’s skill at unifying blacksrnagainst a common enemy has been especiallyrnevident in recent months. He hasrnbrought leaders in the Chicago gangrnwars to the bargaining table and been arngodsend to former congressman MelrnReynolds, who is now on trial on chargesrnof having lied to get bank loans andrnembezzled campaign contributions.rnAlthough...

Modern Editions of Classic Worksrnfor Today’s ReadersrnJOHN RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE:rnA STUDY IN AMERICAN POLITICSrnrourth EditionrnFT-, n II u – : . . ! .rnoy iu£i»f::ii fiiirnThis new fourth edition of a classic political biography incorporatesrnthe revisions provided by Russell Kirk shortly before his death inrn1994. Included is a transcription of the first-hand account ofrnRandolph’s death...

orna First rate”rn— Pat Buchananrn’One of the most important Catholic pubHcations since Vatican II.” — Michael DaviesrnAt one U.S. seminary, the dean discoveredrna stray Lalin Mass magazine in therncommon room. He blew up, ordered itrnthrown out, and strictly warned seminarians:rn”I never want to see this herernagain!” At another seminary, the liturgyrnprofessor discovered a gift subscriptionrnto...

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Dr. Francis Replies:rnI remarked in my article that Dr. Hittinger’srncontribution to the First Thingsrnsymposium was the most closely reasonedrnpart of it, and his letter is equallyrnwell argued. Indeed, I have no disagreementrnwith much of it. I raised the issuernof “compulsive” as opposed to “permissive”rnlaws in the context of passive resistancernor civil disobedience, conceptsrnthat simply cannot...

elected officials represent citizens likernthose quoted in the Los Angeles Times inrnMay 1995: “Citizenship in the UnitedrnStates helps us [Hispanics] to have thernculture of one country and participatern[vote] in the other’s society. I for onernwill never stop being a Mexican.” “Myrnfather is Mexican and my mother Salvadoran..rn.. Both are U.S. citizens but Irndon’t consider myself...

Ejagle,” were staged 50 miles east ofrnTirana, in a new training center whichrnwas developed under American guidance.rnA month later, in August 1996, thernAlbanian army sent the first batch of itsrnsoldiers for training to Camp Lejeune inrnNorth Carolina, while American marinesrnexercised along Albania’s Adriatic shore.rnThe cynic would say that there wasrnnothing unusual in the government ofrnthe...

its victim. As Chapman comments, otherrnforms of abortion are also pretty gruesome,rnand if partial birth abortions arerntoo gruesome to tolerate, perhaps wernneed to take a more critical look at allrnabortions. If instead of being a rare procedurernpartial birth abortions are a commonrnprocedure, then perhaps this is lessrnof a reason for permitting them than forrnregulating the...

dorsed the President’s plan. In his ownrnState of the State Address, Engler wentrneven further than the President, proposingrnlegislation that would establish “academicrnreceivership” for school districtsrnthat did not meet certain state standards.rnThose districts would be placedrnunder state-appointed “receivers” who,rnaccording to the Detroit Free Press,rn”would have broad power to fire principalsrnand other administrators, and takernvirtually all decisions...

PERSPECTIVErnSarajevo Today, Chicago Tomorrowrnby Thomas FlemingrnThe War Crimes Tribunal going on at The Hague is the firstrntest of one of the great principles of postwar politics—thernNuremberg Doctrine, which makes individuals liable to internationalrnprosecution for actions committed during a war. hirnthe old days, military personnel and police officers were expectedrnto do as they were told, hi...

their strength and superiority gave them the right to treat otherrnnations as slaves and cattle. There were no such leaders amongrnthe Serbs, and the so-called criminals who have been put on trialrnare so insignificant that, so far from enjoying the glory of a trial,rnthey would not have been allowed even to testify at Nuremberg.rnLike the...

who authorized the code, was the mihtary officer who also gavernGeneral Sherman’s soldiers their carte blanche to burn, loot,rnmurder, and rape their way across what had been the richestrnsection of the United States. This same government and samernofficer bore responsibility for setting up the first concentrationrncamp, designed to intern possibly pro-Southern Indians in thernSouthwest; this...

Let me talk about just one of these charters: The InternationalrnConvention on the Prevention and Punishment of thernCrime of Genocide. In this convention, genocide is defined asrn”acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, arnnational, ethnic, racial or religious group as such,” and genocidalrnacts include: killing members of a group, causing them...

VIEWSrnThe Price of EmpirernGlobalism and Its Consequencesrnby Samuel FrancisrnIknow it will strike many people as odd to call the current foreignrnpolicy of the United States a form of “empire building”rnor “imperialism,” and of course none of our leaders wouldrnever call it that. They would prefer some such term as “peacekeeping”rnor “spreading democracy” or “nation-building” orrn”exporting...

places, there is no compelling reason to go there or send troopsrnthere or assume commitments there or spend money there, butrnwe are going anyway because we have the power to do it and wernwant to exercise that power.” That kind of honesty would indeedrnbe a far cry from Vergil or Kipling, but at least we...

ity and decision-making but also the inculeation of passivity intornthe population. Republican government, by contrast, involvesrncivic activism, and the early champions of republicanismrnin European history were insistent on the virtues of the vita activarnover the vita contemplativa, the contemplative life, which isrnmore consistent with monarchy. Republican citizens mustrnwork at being free all the time. They...

by an imperial ethic centered on military glory and sacrifice forrnabstractions, and, in a word, self-government is replaced withrnrule by others, by a new ruling class dependent on empire andrnthe state and giant institutions that manage it.rnBut there is yet another price of empire that must be paid,rnand that is the displacement of the native...

tied “War News.” It shows four middle-aged working men in arndiner, huddled around a Philco radio. When I see those men,rnI see my family—ordinary people who voted for Roosevelt duringrnthe Depression and who then, a few years later, spent eachrnevening wondering if their sons were dead on some Pacific island.rnAnd never did they cease to...

discredited in domestic politics—socialism is a dead ideologyrn—but it survives in the current attempt to build a “NewrnWorld Order” through international conferences, treaties,rnpaper currencies, trade agreements, and the like, along withrnsporadic military intervention of the kind the United States hasrnengaged in from Haiti to Somalia to Bosnia to Iraq.rnAt home and abroad, thisrngovernment has wildly...

nessmen, or cigarette smokers. And the more it does suehrnthings, the more it pits itself against those it rules. Eventually itrnreaches a point of essential alienation, where it can no longerrnpretend to represent the governed.rnThe American government is now the most powerful humanrnorganization that has ever existed. It has made a stupidrnhabit of exercising power...

open to debate, the fact itself is beyond dispute; the UnitedrnStates’ decision to defeat “the Serbs” has been the salient featurernof American policy in the Balkans for the past five years.rnThe corollary to such a policy was the need to weaken the Serbrnside from without—through political isolation, U.N. sanctions,rnmedia-induced vilification, and ultimately military action—rnand from...

pedigree. They were unable to grasp that what they saw as arnperfectly reasonable principle—the right of all constituentrnnations of the former Yugoslavia to self-determination, Serbsrnincluded—could be rejected by the “democratic West” in favorrnof preserving arbitrarily drawn boundaries between thernrepublics. Accordingly, at different ends of the politicalrnspectrum in Serbia there existed a consensus on one point:...

ans thought it would be a good idea to include Washington inrnthe itinerary, assuming that a possible testimony by Milosevic’srnopponents before the Senate Foreign Relations Committeernwould be welcome to the White House and the State Department.rnWhen they contacted the administration, however, theyrnwere told that the proposed visit was “undesirable,” becausern”the opposition in Serbia is composed...

who run today’s “Western democracies.” Indeed, it was withrnthe skins of the Bosnian and Krajina Serbs that he has turnedrnhimself from “the butcher of the Balkans” into “a necessaryrnpartner.”rnHaving ignored the very existence of the Serb opposition tornMilosevic for the best part of the past decade, the UnitedrnStates government was forced to make some token...

The appropriate goal of American foreign policy, therefore, isrnto preserve that hegemony as far into the future as possible.” Inrnsum, hegemony for hegemony’s sake: we are obligated to takernup the white man’s burden, to take on the Sisyphean task ofrnpreserving the existing international order, seemingly forever.rnIn fairness to the Republicans, it should be noted that...

relationship between the European and non-European worldsrnhas almost been completely reversed. The shattered self-confidencernof even the victors in World War I made the liberation ofrntheir colonies a foregone conclusion, the only real question beingrnone of timing. When the liberation came, during the ColdrnWar, the non-European world generally sided with either thernUnited States or the Soviet...