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On both sides of the Atlantic, we face the same big social questions,rnrendered more acute each day by the extension of the notionrnof “rights.” The more wealth our societies produce, thernmore intense becomes the debate over how it should be distributed.rnIn this realm, America has the same sort of problemsrnas France and Western Europeans in...

1958, France. Although this is an idea that can be found inrnSieyes’ writings at the beginning of the Thermidorian period, itrnis alien to the French revolutionary tradition, which is characterizedrnby what is called “parliamentary absolutism.” It hasrnnonetheless become a common element of 20th-century constitutionalismrnon both sides of the Atlantic and finds an unprecedentedrntheater in Europe...

A Mighty Long FallrnAn Interview With Eugene McCarthyrnby Bill KauffmanrnSenator Eugene McCarthy is America’s senior statesmanrnwithout a party. An Irish-German Minnesota Catholicrnwho left the seminary for academe, McCarthy was elected tornthe House of Representatives in 1948 and the Senate in 1958.rnHe was the link between the Old Progressives of the UpperrnMidwest and the postwar liberals;...

do much in Minnesota politics: I’m kind of disappointed herndidn’t come back and campaign against Humphrey, althoughrnwe didn’t have a primary so there was no real showdown.rnWhat happened to the party is that it accepted the GreatrnSociety, which was really quite foreign to the tradition of thernNon-Partisan League and the Farmer-Laborites. They werernnot a welfare-directed...

not have any. So what we’re going to do is start taking it awayrnfrom you until it gets down to where you recognize it. Whenrnyou can count your money, Paul, raise your hand and we’ll stoprntaking it away.”rnQ: You spoke in 1968 of the “militarization of American life.”rnHow have we been changed bv our 50-year...

dered whether Kennedy was going to send an ambassador tornthe Vatican. I said it wouldn’t be high on my list of things hernshould do; I’d rather have an ambassador to General Motors,rnFirst Boston, Morgan Guaranty, AT&T, the Pentagon . . .rnthey’ve got more influence on American life than the Vaticanrndoes.rnQ: You have bemoaned the “personalization”...

through which the people could amend the document. But, inrnoperation, the Constitution has been very hard to change.rnWashington’s “door” has been a narrow passage because thernfailure to obtain two-thirds of the members of each house ofrnCongress to approve the proposed amendment has, so far, endedrnthe amendment process. Congress has proven a jealousrnguard at the door...

its, and, if three-fourths of the states agreed to the language, thernamendment would become a part of the Constitution. Thernpeople, acting through their states, would be able, through anrnorderly and manageable process, to reclaim powers previouslyrngranted to, or assumed by, the federal government.rnConstitutional reform under this proposal would remain arndeliberative process. The only change is...

powers, the states, by amendment, could call it back. Ofrncourse, the government exceeding its powers would not consentrnto limit itself.rnThe Hamiltonians, on the other hand, believed thatrnCongress should control the amendment process. AlexanderrnHamilton insisted on congressional approval of proposedrnamendments or the calling of a new Convention because of hisrnbasic bias in favor of a strong...

present Israeli government is even more extravagant than wasrnhis criticism of the former Likud regime. The charge of racismrnleveled at Buchanan seems likewise problematic. Not only havernblack liberals like Juan Williams rushed to his defense, but it isrnalso hard to find insulting comments by Buchanan about blacksrn(save for deviations from p.c). The charge that some...

waged on behalf of Christian or biblical values that the liberalrnleft scorns and seeks to remove from public life. We are alsornwarned to protect ourselves against a New Wodd Order, whichrnthreatens an identity that is treated as more or less apodictic.rnThe reality is far messier. The identity being assumed is farrnfrom obvious to most voters...

Mail”; in Oregon, tlie recent Senate campaign broke records forrnspecial elections, by spreading the voting over a month andrnallowing votes to be mailed in. Or campus registration. YouthrnVote ’96 was holding seminars last winter on how to get outrnyoung voters, and among the topics discussed was how to getrnuniversities to allow voter registration with class...

lifestyle; rather, it must be given politicalrnrecognition as an authentic moralrnstance. Tendencies, behavior, and orientationsrnpreviously classified as deviantrnnow demand civic and political approbation.rnThis kind of “identity absolutismrnlends itself to expressivist politics, therncelebration of feeling or private authenticityrnas an alternative to public debaternand political judgment.”rnThe “politics of difference” could berndescribed as multiculturalism run amok.rnIt is at...

The E. F. SchumacherrnSocietyrnDecentralistrnConferencernJune 28-30,1996rnWilliams CollegernWilUamstown, MassachusettsrnWe believe that it isrntime for many interestedrnindividuals and groups withrnwidely varying perspectives torncome together and discuss thernimplications and possibilitiesrnof decentralization —and atrnthe same time talk through therndetails of creating morernhuman-scale institutions.rnSince 1980 the E. F. SchumacherrnSociety has woricedrninternationally to promote thernideas of the rich decentralistrntradition—^Human-Scale,rnRespect for the Land,...

lin ukases whenever it suited them?rnDoesn’t he, a scholar, know that overnightrnthe veteran communist leaderrnEarl Browder in 1945 became an enemyrnof the Party at Stalin’s orders and wasrnpurged? It was only an accident ofrngeography that worse didn’t happen tornBrowder and other purged AmericanrnCommunists.rnProfessor Powers takes care to distinguishrnamong different categories of anticommunists.rnHe is critical of...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter FromrnEnglandrnby Christie DaviesrnI.D. Cards for Menrn”I don’t want to have to carry a handbagrnall the time” was the way an aggressivernBritish opponent of the compulsory carryingrnof identity cards (as proposed byrnseveral members of the British government)rnyelled it to me recently. In fairnessrn1 should add that this defenderrnof supposed civil liberties was svelte andrnfemale. She...

VITAL SIGNSrnPOLITICSrnSex, Drugs, andrna Republican Partyrnby Marc MoranornAn all-night homosexual “circuit”rnparty called Cherry Jubilee’s “MainrnEvent” took place in Washington, D.C.,rnon April 13, 1996. The dance party featuredrnpublic nudity, illicit sexual activity,rnand illegal drug use. Among the sponsorsrnof the gay festivities were a GOPrncongressman and a host of corporations.rnA federal building, the Andrew W. MellonrnAuditorium, played...

GOVERNMENTrnWho Are thernFreemen?rnby Jeffrey A. TuckerrnTrapped in their Montana farm, tryingrnto fend off the feds, the worstrncrime the “Freemen” are accused of is attemptingrn”to compete with the FederalrnReserve,” according to the New YorkrnTimes. Imagine. These people thoughtrnthat private parties could, on their ownrninitiative, issue checks, print notes, andrnextend credit without monetary backing.rnThey should have known...

auction, and that his paper money notesrnare fraudulent but that T-bills and thernnew $100 note are not.rnMr. Clark’s is a tragic story. This familyrnwas tricked by the fed’s manipulationrnof interest rates (which was heralded in arnliberal media campaign), sucked into thernfarm welfare racket, and then had itsrnfarm confiscated by the very people whornclaimed to be...

Crown Heights, which resulted in thernsavage murder of a young Rabbinical student?rnHow dare anyone resent the MartinrnLuther King holiday? Bob Grant did,rnand his attitudes and ideas were metrnwith a chorus of protest from the Pharisees.rnAlan Dershowitz, the liar for hire ofrnchoice for murderers and rapists, appearedrnon the television news to describernMr. Grant as an anti-Semite...

“racist, sexist, et contra spiritu Sodoma,”rnFAIR and its allies will come for thernsmaller fish, and they will never be satisfiedrnuntil there is no longer anyone left tornthink a free thought. This means you.rnMark Racho writes from New York City.rnMILITARYrnFalse Colorsrnby Katherine DaltonrnThe Case of Michael New Until last summer, Michael New wasrnan unknown 22-year-old Armyrnmedic,...

commander there.rnWith the order to change an Americanrnberet and patch for United Nationsrninsignia, the President has also cededrnsome control over American troops.rnSpokesmen for both the Army and thernDepartment of Defense carefully drew arndistinction between “administrativerncontrol,” which President Clinton retainsrnin Macedonia, and the “operationalrncontrol” exercised by U.N. CommanderrnEngstrom.rnArmy spokesman Harkey would notrnagree that the President has...

demand as a speaker, if his popularity asrna talk radio subject is any indication.rnIt remains to be seen just what legalrneffect his case will have. Until Mc-rnConnell’s letter, New had relatively littlernsupport in the Senate. Sen. Larry Craigrnof Idaho has cosponsored a resolution tornmake wearing the U.N. uniform illegal,rnbut even if this resolution is attached...

ten a defining sentence, “Le style est lernstyle”—which can be read as “the style isrnthe stylus” or vice versa. Aiken’s stylusrnhad cut through to the essence of Frenchrnsymbolism and the experiments of thernpre-World War I literary breakthroughrnwithout affecting his style, which wasrnpurely Aiken during a period when sornmany American poets were plagiarizingrneach other’s method. And...

iambic, even as that flow is encouragedrnby anapests and dactyls. He could movernfrom the discipline of meter to therngreater discipline of free form, avoidingrnalways the dangers of the unrestrainedrnadjective which lie in wait for careless orrnoverenthusiastic writers, and never allowingrnemotion to overcome sensibility.rnI took down from the bookshelf thernCollected Poems, published in 1953,rnwhich I bought...

merely used the count: for the latter’srnhigh hopes both secured the loyalty ofrnthe monarchists for the General-Presidentrnand suggested that a great man likernDe Gaulle could not have a mere ballotboxrnsuccessor.rnAnyway, the Pretender was left highrnand dry. He did, however, overcomernthe doubt that only a Bourbon and notrnan Orleans could become king. ThernCount of Paris was...

SCIENCErnTruth andrnConsequencesrnby Steven GoldbergrnDead white males did not invent thernrules of science; they discoveredrnthem. These rules enable science, andrnscience alone, to make successful prediction.rnAnd prediction is only evidence acknowledgedrnby science to demonstraternthat one is on the trail of the truth. Onernmay, of course, invoke anything onernwishes in attempting to come up with arnsuccessful scientific claim....

MORALITYrnOut of Orderrnby Terence GallagherrnWhen Aeneas lands, after sevenrnyears of wandering, shipwreckedrnon the shores of Africa, his great concernrnis to discover the nature of the countryrninto which fate has cast him, and therntemper of the people who live there. Hisrnfears are put to rest when he stands in thernrising city of Carthage and sees on...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnAlternative CaliforniarnIt felt as strange flying west—not south,rnnot east—from Salt Lake City as if thernearth had reversed its rotation and werernspinning in the opposite direetion. Basinrnand range, range and basin: the long barrierrnmountains were heavy with snow,rnbut now in early March the desert separatingrnthem lay bare, dramatizing therntopographical disjunctions. The...

and Cattle should experiment with BarzonarnCross cattle, Wally found himselfrnlaid up in the hospital when it came timernto buy. “Those are awfully funny lookingrncows,” Elwin said. “Are you sure yournwant me to do this?” “Go ahead and dornit,” Wally told him, “while I don’t have tornlook at them while making the decision.”rnBarzona Cross, or “commercial...

JohnrnS T E A D M A NrnR I C Ern„••**”•’-«rnA ‘^ rnDISEASE /rn^ONES /rnOWNrnA Disease ofrnOne’s OwnrnPSYCHOTHERAPY, ADDICTION,rnAND THE EMERGENCE OFrnCO-DEPENDENCYrnJohn Steadman Ricern”in A Disease of One’s Own, Rice offers a penetrating,rninsightful, and profound analysis of thernco-dependency movement. We not only learnrnmuch about the nature, emergence and consequencesrnof this important stream of popular ‘liberationrnpsychotherapy’...

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ness” reallv a timeless Platonic form?rnIf Allensworth thinks that Americansrnare defined by “language, culture, andrnvorldiew, as well as . . . all those qualities,rnincluding the way a people walk andrntalk, that set them apart from all others,”rnhe must have a pretty dim view of hisrncountrymen as mass produced by somernassembly line in Thailand. Not only...

out nations and managerial elites—arnworld where the information highway isrnnot full of pornographic hitchhikers andrncommercial shysters but is a mode of relatingrnautonomous communities withrntheir culture intact and their traditionsrnthriving. Hatred of the present and ofrnthe human degradation it has broughtrnabout need not lead to inventing arngolden past that never was and whosernfraudulence ultimately ends up...

include a list of embarrassing questionsrnwith which to attack spurious data, andrnso here it is:rn1. Who is included in the intended targetrnpopulation? Age, sex, ethnic group,rnvoting status, geography, etc.rn2. How was the sample drawn? Phonernbooks, membership lists, random numbers,rnetc.rn3. What was the connect rate? The percentagernof calls reaching a human.rn4. What was the refusal rate?...

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnH A T E CRIMES—w h a t are they? InrnNewport, Rhode Island, a mixed-racerncouple complained that threats fromrntheir white neighbors had driven themrnfrom their home. Generous contributionsrnfrom strangers helped the family tornfind a new place and to pay the rent. Localrnpolice, however, were suspicious fromrnthe first and eventually charged TisharnAnderson with plotting her...

no more sense than to argue that thernabolition of the gruesome medieval punishmentrnof hanging, drawing, and quarteringrnwould inevitably lead to the abolitionrnof punishment altogether.rnMrs. Goodman argues that it is notrnthe business of Congress to ban anyrn”medical procedure.” In addition to beingrnan example of immoral extremism,rnher contention also illustrates the techniquernof giving an abomination a nicernname...

PERSPECTIVErnMan, Man, and Again Manrnby Thomas Flemingrn”Qualis aitifex pereo’rn-NerornIcannot remember a time when I was not what would berncalled an environmentalist. I spent much of my childhoodrnon an earth unconstricted by concrete streets and unburdenedrnby the weight of buildings. I was never happier than when I wasrnout fishing with my father or picking berries with...

the fable of the Tower of Babel, the permanent warning againstrnthe presumption and follies of men who turn from landscaperngardening to high-rise construction “whose top may reach tornhea’en.” Not content with subduing the earth, with shapingrnand “dressing” it, “now nothing will be restrained from them,rnwhich thev have imagined to do.” The punishment, then andrnnow, is...

mean it.”rnMaterialism and consumism retard the development of thernhuman person. Just as we have been taught to regard nature asrnsomething “other” and objective, we have given ourselves thernsame treatment:rnThe drama of man today lies in this: with his degradationrnfrom subject to object, the objectivity of man getsrnmade equivalent to the objectivity of nature. Man is...