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but skillful manipulation (as the Israeli analyst Yohanan Ramatirnhas pointed out) by Croatian and Muslim propaganda of holocaustrnthemes to mobilize American Jewish opinion, and the desirernof some Israeli policymakers to be in accord with Americanrnsupport for friendly, pro-Western Islamic states. Summing uprnthis orientation in the New York Times (January 2, 1996), in anrnop-ed with the...

be compared to the different successive stages in the livesrnof certain parasites, which go through a cycle which is apparentlyrncapricious, but which is in fact necessary to theirrncomplete development. They must, for instance, gornthrough a river mollusc, then pass into a sheep, and finallyrnlodge, not without deleterious effects, in the body of arnhuman. [In the...

perior position over their agent, Calhoun’srn”general Government,” thusrncompelling the latter to be the servant ofrnthe former. However, almost from thernbeginning of this bargain, men of bothrnfactions—Federalists and Republicans—rnrealized that in a federal system it wasrnlikely that either the states would drainrnall power from the general governmentrnor vice versa. Most of them feared thernlatter scenario much...

the North’s choice of war over disunionrndestroyed the American people’s right tornself-government and created on the ruinsrnof our ancient liberties an imperialrnstate did not escape the notice of historianrnWilliam Appleman Williams. “Simplyrnput,” he wrote, “the cause of the CivilrnWar was the refusal of Lincoln andrnother northerners to honor the revolutionaryrnright of self-determination—therntouchstone of the American...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Palernby Rajko DolecekrnThe War IndustryrnThere were two reasons for my visitrnto Belgrade last fall. His Beatitude, thernSerbian Orthodox patriarch Lord Paulrn(82 years old), invited me to his officialrnresidence to honor me for “my endeavourrnto interpret objectively the all-Serbianrntragedy.” I was decorated with thernOrder of St. Sava I, the highest decorationrnof the Serbian Orthodox...

A member of the Parliament of RepublikarnSrpska invited us to a cafe justrnopposite the government building. Hernwas from Doboj, from the purely SerbianrnOzren hills range. The Dayton dictaterngave half of it to the Muslim-Croat federation.rnThe town of Doboj, severelyrndamaged by Muslim and Croat artillery,rnwas overflowing with refugees fromrnOzren. The Bosnian Serbs do not likernthe troops...

VITAL SIGNSrnPOLITICSrnDavid Horowitzrnand thernEx-CommunistrnConfessionalrnby Justin RaimondornThe literature of recanting radicalsrnhas been with us since 1917: fromrnthe recollections of Russian Mensheviks,rnwho rued the day they joined withrnLenin, to Irving Kristol’s “Memoirs ofrna Trotskyist,” in which the neoconservativerngodfather fondly reminisces aboutrnhis youthful dalliance with dissidentrncommunism. With each successivernatrocity and betrayal—Kronstadt, thernMoscow Trials, the Hitler-Stalin Pact,rnKhrushchev’s admission of...

degenerated, along with the level of therneulture at large. Compared to Horowitz,rnGitlow—the fanatic avenger and consummaternopportunist—is a veritablerngiant. While Horowitz was always arnperipheral figure on the left, with no statusrnas an activist beyond the Berkeleyrnscene, Gitlow was one of the foundingrnleaders of the American CommunistrnParty, whose defection was front-pagernnews all across the world.rnIt was a...

sions of the Left who had brokenrnthrough to the dark underside of the radicalrncause. Like Chambers, I had encountersrnwith totalitarian forces that involvedrnbetrayal and death. Like him, Irnhad been demonized for my secondrnthoughts.. . . Like Chambers, I had becomernthe most hated ex-radical of myrngeneration.”rnHere is a narcissism so inflated that itrnexplodes in a burst...

tion earlier and on a larger scale. Afterrnthe United States did step in, GOP criticismrnwas confined to faulting the administrationrnfor not establishing an “exitrnstrategy” for American troops, and it wasrnthat line that Cohen followed when hernstated at his confirmation hearings that,rnwith him at the helm of the Defense Department,rnthe United States would notrn”make an unlimited...

either stupidity or collusion, they’vernoverlooked strong evidence, hidden inrnplain sight, that both Albright and thernadministration knew the truth. A seriesrnof White House press releases concerningrnAlbright, all of which can be foundrnon the official White House Web site,rntells the story.rnFrom the time of Albright’s appointmentrnas ambassador to the tJ.N.,rnthrough December 5, 1996, when shernwas appointed Secretary...

MEDIArnBad Newsrnby Janet Scott BarlowrnOh, the tedium. We are confronted,rnyet again, with the spectacle of thernestabhshment media suffering one ofrntheir spasms of professional angst, asrnthey ask each other, with fake drama,rnwhat their audience, in genuine anger,rnfrequently asks them: Why do you get sornmuch so wrong so often? For those whornhave witnessed previous media exhibitionsrnin which...

score points against such estimable institutionsrnas the media and the FBI. Hernwasn’t worthy, you see. “You almost wishrn[Jewell would] quit now,” Collins concluded.rn”Sign a lucrative book or movierncontract and call it even. But it’s only inrnfilms that adversity makes the ordinaryrnman noble and merciful.” In otherrnwords, Richard Jewell was not only a loser,rnhe was an...

breast-beating, self-examination, andrntortured analysis lead to exactly . . . nothing.rnThings are so unchanged, in fact,rnthat the major media are confoundedrnand befuddled, virtually struck dumbrnby the simple idea that the ends do notrnjustify the means. And as the majorrnmedia finally begin to grasp, dimly, thatrnthe public is real serious about thisrnends/means business (no, you are...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnThe WandererrnFor three weeks the wind blew hard onrnthe desert and the nights were very cold.rnThe wind dropped, the days grewrnwarmer, and the snow line retreated onrnthe mountains. The winds came againrnand the red sand stiffened between thernclumps of yellow grama grass before therngray clouds moved out, and then winterrnwas...

drove west on the same road, throughrnTres Piedras and over the San Juans,rnrolling and open to the sky, draining intorna vast basin of broken forests and widernsnowfields, cobalt and white in thernspringtime haze, the whole country runningrnwith the wet aliveness of spring.rnWater ran out from under the snowbanksrnbeside the highway, and pasturelandrnalong the Chama River...

1997 Soutfiem League Summer Institutern* * *rnJuly 6-11,1997rn(Sunday evening through Friday noon)rnCamp St. Christopher, Johns Island,rnSouth Carolina (Near Charleston)rn^irst-c(ass resort accommodations on the beach, ^om {T>ouBk occupancy),rnBoard and tuition: $3 75 per student before June 1; $425 thereafter.rnSeminars in Southern history, Sterature, poCiticaCpfubsopFiyj theology,rnand art by some of the South’srnfinest unreconstructed scholars, inchidingrnThomas Fleming, David...

CONCERNING IMMIGRATION…rnINCLUDING ESSAYS BY..rnPKIERBRIMELOWrn{Forbes Magazine)rnALLAN CARLSONrn(The Rockford Institute)rnJE/N’ BEI’HKE ELSHTAINrn(University of ChicagornDivinity School)rnRICHARD ESLRADArn(Dallas Morning News)rnTHOMAS FLEMINGrn{Chronicles Magazine)rnSAMUEL FRAN’CISrn(Nationally SyndicatedrnColumnist)rnPAUL CoTTFRiEDrn(Elizabcthtown College)rnGARRETT HARDINrn(Professor Emeritus ofrnHuman Ecology)rnHANS-HERNLNN HOPFErn(University of Nevada,rnLas Vegas)rnDONALD L. HUDDLErn(Rice University)rnE. CHRISTIAN Koi’EErn(University ofrnColorado inrnBoulder)rn• RICILARDD. LAMMrn(Former Governor ofrnColorado)rn• JOHNLUKACSrn(Professor Emeritus ofrnHistory)rn• WAYNE LiT’i ONrn(The Social ContractrnQuarteriy)rn• GRADY McWiiiNEYrn(Texas ChristianrnUniversity)rn• THEODORE PAPPASrn(Chronicles Magazine)rn•...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnMichael WashburnrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O.]. Brown, Katherine Dalton,rnSamuel Francis, George Garrett,rnPaul Gottfried, Christine Haynes,rnE. Christian Kopff, J.O. Tate,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, William Mills,rn]acob Neusner, ]ohn Shelton Reed,rnMomcilo SelicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnPRODUCTION SECRETARYrnAnita CandyrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising...

While there has always been a healthyrndose of skepticism toward such gnosticismrnby Americans of common sense,rnand by Protestants of the more Calvinisticrnvariety, those times are gone. There isrnmuch less common sense these days, andrnmost of the Calvinists have forgottenrnthat sin ever existed. So we have less restraintrnthan ever against the deformedrnsouls of what some refer...

ties that fall outside the range of typicalrnsynagogue programs.” Neusner adds:rn”The new programs will promote ‘Jewishness’rnfor Jews who want togethernessrnbut no Torah.” And they will be run byrnoutside “professionals” who have no realrninterest in religion, only in “process”rnand brainwashing. These programs, ofrncourse, could fit any denomination, anyrnbusiness—for businesses are just what sornmany churches have become.rnThe...

“cultural revolution” three decadesrnago—was pragmatic, never moral or aesthetic.rnWhereas Mao was sometimesrnabstruse, and often aspired to being profound,rnDeng’s quotations were unsuitablernfor a book, little red or otherwisern(e.g., on Marxist ideologues: “They sitrnon the lavatory and can’t even managernto sh-t”). His dislike of “shouting andrnyelling” was fully applied in 1989 to China’srnequivalent of Kent State, TiananmenrnSquare....

Commentators have suggested that hadrnPresident Clinton been accused of twornor five indictable or impeachable acts, hernwould not today be President of thernUnited States, but the 250 or so offensesrnof which he is suspected both deadenrnthe imagination and protect the President.rnMore important than their number,rnperhaps, are the banality and tawdrinessrnof his administration’s allegedrncrimes and misdemeanors; bank...

warm Casserole of Adulterers” who hadrn”trickled into the wrong beds in automaticrnresponse to sexy advertisements”rnbut are wholly without any trace of “defiant,rnrebellious, insatiable lust.”rnIt bears mention that Archbishop Levadarndid more than merely miss a chancernto set his Church apart from the world.rnHe missed a chance to defend marriagernand the family. He might, for example,rnhave dismissed...

PERSPECTIVErnUtopias Unlimitedrnby Thomas FlemingrnThe future has been all the rage for the past two centuries.rnModernism, as an ideology, might almost be defined asrnthe cult of the future, whether in science fiction or in Utopianrnpolitical creeds like Marxism. Even in its death throes modernismrnwas able to spawn “futurology,” a pseudo-science asrnrichly comic as phrenology. An obsession...

delier rose from the floor, while the furniture was fixed to thernceiling. In her recent W.S. Gilbert: A Classic Victorian and HisrnTheatre (Oxford University Press), Jane Stedman describesrnGilbert’s vision of a “double world: one part consisting of thingsrnor principles as they are, and the other consisting of ideas aboutrnor attitudes toward these things and principles;...

will have expired. On the day of his liberation he meets and affiancesrnthe daughter of Major General Stanley, and it becomesrnhis duty to lead a squad of timid policemen against the friendsrnof his youth. There is, however, a wrinkle, or rather a paradox.rnIt seems that Frederic was born in a leap year, on February 29,rnand...

company.rnThe plot of Utopia, Limited may well have been too complexrnfor an audience expecting an evening of cheerful tunes andrnlighthearted absurdity, but the libretto is one of Gilbert’s best.rnParamount, the Anglomaniac king of Utopia, is a despot inrnname, but he lives under the shadow of the public exploder,rnwho is empowered to blow up the king...

lars and to endless narratizations of the adolescent role-playingrngame “Dungeons and Dragons.” The rocketships, space aliens,rnand other paraphernalia are still on hand, but the impoverishedrnsensibility of the mass audience has banished everything else.rnConsider last summer’s Independence Day, which raked inrnbig bucks and has since acquired cult status. Despite the factrnthat the film represents the vaunted...

But it is possible to identify more proximate reasons for therngenre’s extinction. Two are obvious, one is less so.rnThe first obvious reason is the decline, if not yet the demise,rnof scientific literacy among the American populace. In a recentrnsurvey, only 15 percent of Americans could define terms likern”molecule” or “element.” Once science had been replaced...

interplanetary fiction and dreamed of sending explorers to thernMoon and Mars. It was a primary motivation.rnThis brings me to a third cause of the death of science fiction,rnperhaps not so obvious as the others. Science fiction, justrnlike the space program which it inspired and celebrated, alwaysrnhad a spiritual component. Clarke put it simply in his...

Our Phildickian Worldrnby Jesse Walkerrn••”^’^ ^^y^^ A ^ ^ j/^y^^’^ V’^^’^’A/v/U–rn^^^^^/V^S/VJ^/.’VNl^ggi.,,^rnSometime during the last decade, the Philip K. Dick cultrncame out from underground. Those of us who spent thern1980’s trying to explain our affection for this pulp writer no onernelse had heard of, this author of surreal science fictions andrnbleak realistic novels, have watched both...

insight is still valid, even if there is no God. (In at least two ofrnDick’s books, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and ArnMaze of Death, religions demonstrated beyond a shadow of arndoubt to be frauds nonetheless work miracles. And in at leastrntwo more. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and A ScannerrnDarkly, men have...

tive establishment began parroting the ridiculous claim (firstrnmade, I believe, by Bill Buckley) that throughout the Cold War,rnHollywood never made any anticommunist movies. WhilernThem! can stand on the strength of its story, the ants can bernseen as American communists, establishing cells (nests) inrnwhich new agents are trained (queens are hatched), to go forthrnand repeat the...

Man was the elusive “Raoul.”rnWhen Gorbachev resigns, Cancer Man thinks that his missionrnhas been fulfilled, but that very night, an actual alienrnspaceship crashes in Virginia. Cancer Man reveals more aboutrnthe depths of the government conspiracy when he remarks,rn”The timing couldn’t be worse. The Roswell story we concoctedrnwas gathering momentum. Had them all looking in thernwrong...

i ^rn1997 SoutHem League Summer Institutern* * *rnJuly 6-11,1997rn(Sunday evening through Friday noon)rnCamp St Christopher, Johns Island,rnSouth Carolina (Near Charleston)rnJirst-dass resort accommodations on the. beach, ^om ((DouSk occupancy),rnBoard and tuition: $375 per student Before jium 1; $42$ thereafter.rnSeminars in Soutfiemfdstory, literature, poUticdpfMbsopfiy, tfieology,rnand art By some of the South’srnfinest unreconstructed scholars, incfudir^rnThomas Fleming, David Aiken,...

hero of his youth, Edgar Allan Poe.rnIn the 1920’s, there emerged a smallrnnational market for the genre of popularrnliterature known as “supernatural horror”rnor “weird fiction,” mainly through arnnow-famous pulp magazine called WeirdrnTales. Lovecraft published frequently inrnWeird Tales and similar pulps in that period,rnand indeed the principal reasonrnthey are remembered today at all is becausernof him....

morphous insects compounded withrnreptiles and crustaceans) but possessedrnof vastly superhuman intelligence andrnpowers, they are hostile to human beingsrnand can be revived, resuscitated, or invokedrnthrough a kind of black magicrnknown to a few and practiced by nonernbut the degenerate (usually nonwhites).rnThe techniques for invoking them are tornbe found in various ancient tomes alsorninvented by Lovecraft, chiefly...

of those who have truck with them, butrnrather the discovery by the scholarlyrnbachelors who recount the tales that thernuniverse has no meaning at all, that allrnthe conventions and ideas and values onrnwhich their lives and those of mankindrnrest are but shadows in the ceaseless playrnof impersonal if not actually hostile cosmicrnforces. As Mr. Joshi summarizesrn”Lovecraft’s...

is over in his view—that would protectrnthe freedom and dignity of all Russians,rnthat would end forever the rule of corruptrnelites who have exploited the people,rnand that would nurture what talentsrnthe people themselves possess to buildrnsomething for themselves and theirrnposterity. Lebed calls his vision for Russiarnderzhavnost, literally “great powerness,”rnbut his notion of what makes arngreat power...