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the country from the barbarians: “Thosernwho begin coercive ehmination of dissentrnsoon find themselves exterminatingrndissenters.” Similarly, the Court believedrnit was saving us from totalitarianismrnwhen it overturned Texas’s anti-flagburningrnstatute in Texas v. Johnson. Thisrntime, it offered a countervision: “Thernway to preserve the flag’s special role isrnnot to punish those who feel differently.rnIt is to persuade them that...

An Odd, New Way To RomernAll roads lead to Rome. There’s Augustine Avenue and the immense Aquinas Turnpike.rnMore broad highways were built by St. Benedict, St. Dominic, and St. Francis. I stumbled ontorna tiny, twisting trail.rnWhen I became a Christian, I decided to believe the Bible, literally. Then, I joined thernMainline church to which generations...

literal truth and graphic clarity, hi imagernafter image, it demonstrates the mystiquernof a man who happened to playrngolf and who—though he has not appearedrnin competition for a quarter of arncenturv—is still spoken of in hushedrntones, no longer as “The Hawk,” as hernused to be called, but as “Mr. I logan.”rnJules Alexander’s photographs of Benrnflogan in...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Bosniarnby Yoigos FiliopoulosrnInterview With the VicernPresident of thernBosnian SerbsrnThe following is an interview I conductedrnearlier this year with Dr. Nikola Koljevic,rna well-known Shakespearean scholarrnand the current Vice President of thernBosnian Serbs. Dr. Koljevic has been arnprofessor at the University of Sarajevo,rnStanford, and the University of Michigan,rnIn 1990, he was elected to thernBosnian parliament...

but they did not take into eonsiderationrnthe official Red Cross, U.N., andrnAmnesty hiternational figures.rnThe hnal stage eoneerned the ill andrnthe young, how they had been deniedrnmedieal help and had to be transportedrnby air to European and American hospitals.rnOf course, the press would not showrnany wounded Serbian children, as if theyrndid not exist.rnSo, all of this...

aspect of Western thought is the idea ofrnhuman rights, and this idea can be manipulatedrnHkc all other ideas. But justicernhas to be done in a legal way, within therncountries, perhaps with an internationalrnpresence. Otherwise, it is an externalrnpressure to the sovereignty and independencernof our countries, hi a Westernrndemocracy, we do not have the idea thatrnsomeone...

TREfl”rnAKTisrsrnAUE^llfJl. f^Pnsn fCfi 5;,p,,.,.^rnw/ft /)^rov-/7/f ‘>TPE£r /trnsome cars as mam as 5,000 people werernon the waiting list”; and that “in somern cars not one license became available tornan applicant.”rnW hen arrested, artists are chargedrnwith section 20-4S3 of the AdministrativernCode, unlicensed general xending.rnTheir art is confiscated, damaged byrnmishandling, and often forfeited regardlessrnof the outcome of the...

VITAL SIGNSrnGOVERNMENTrnThe Suppression ofrnPublic Virtuernby CongressmanrnRobert K. DornanrnOur American government wasrnfounded on the ideal of res puhlia,rnthe republic. History is filled with earnestrnattempts to create this ideal—Athens,rnSparta, Rome—all of which servedrnAmerica’s founders as the intellectualrnbackdrop for a true new world order.rnThe original conception of a classicalrnrepublic held public virtue in highestrnesteem. Rulers, magistrates, and officeholdersrnwere...

does public virtue barely exist, there arernfew incentives for it ever to flourishrnagain! In fact, it could be reasonablyrnargued that public virtue existed inrnAmerica only for brief moments, at ourrnnation’s inception and perhaps at a fewotherrntimes, and that ever since each newrnday has brought its further diminishment.rnIn our failure to maintain the republicrnenvisioned by our...

armed attack (which you obtained fromrna stooge within the group) and this permittedrnthe unleashing of the wholernpanoply of wiretaps, penetrations, andrnRICO prosecutions. As with the CIA,rnthe FBI’s current demands are a frankrnpower play to avert calls for the dismantlingrnof an agency which has outlived itsrnusefulness.rnWhat has been remarkable, evenrnbreathtaking, about the panic over thernalleged terrorist...

Action should follow, together with anyrngun magazines. Make it an excuse for arnreal housecleaning! Virtually every religiousrnbookstore in North Americarnshould begin an immediate review of itsrnvolumes on the New World Order, Waco,rnand political matters generally. Andrnas for the Clinton Chronicles video . . . !rnNot that free thought will be imperiledrnby these proposals. Think what...

I.iitlicr King main ]ihrai, a hnoritcrnhaunt’ of local derelicts. IncidciitalK , thernpanhandlers infesting the eit hae entliusiastiealKrnlatched on to the new Zeitgeist.rnOne da, walking home fiom thernlcfro station, I was accosted 1) a characterrnwho got mad when 1 wouldn’trngie him am moncN. lie followed mernfor two blocks, calling me a racist. “Wernbeen oppressed for ceiiluriesl”...

thev can assume their rightful placesrnthere. Good work habits must, of course,rnbe “elicited, not coerced.”rnThe good doctor did not, as promised,rntell us how to accomplish all this. Instead,rnhe spent his time attacking criticsrnof multiculturalism. He projected a slidernof a National Review cover published afterrnthe L.A. riots, with a photo of a man,rnpossibh Fhspanie, walking away...

previously unpublished poem, “NornLonger Very Clear,” served up by somernof the “Big Names” in contemporaryrnclassical music: Philip Glass, JohnrnCorigliano, Joan Tower, Anthony Davis,rnMorton Gould, Milton Babbitt, and halfrna dozen others. The poem—introducedrnby Ashbery at the start of the concert—rnreads as follows;rnIt is true that I can no longerrnremember very wellrnthe time when we first began...

York’s Public Radio station) and the independentrnstation WBAI. As a firstgenerationrnEnglish boy who spoke onlyrnPolish at home, BBC radios Three andrnFour helped me become acculturated tornEnglishness at its best, and helped merndevelop an understanding of Englishrncharacter, history, and literature. Listeningrnto WNYC and WBAI, first-generationrnand immigrant children in New Yorkrnare likelv to learn only loathing for...

likely to amaze British listeners used tornpoliteness rather than politics on “AuntiernBeeb” (the BBC). There is nothingrnquite like it in England, where there arernfew talk radio stations, and what few dornexist are mostly given over to tediousrncockneys maundering on about theirrnarthritis. American talk radio, however,rnhas an angry edge to it that is entertainingrnto the foreigner,...

The Hundredth Meridianrnbv Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnNavajoland: IIrnW’c had gone barcK 25 ai’cls when I liadrna fcehng of the noods dissoK ing aroundrnus, and then we were hanging our toesrnoer a hare roek ledge at whieh the worldrndropped a\a. I’Vom 20 miles out BlaekrnMesa ajDpeared to float in spaee like arnlong dark eloud bisected h a...

in behind them and the boys came backrnand began giving us directions to the ruin,rnbut their Enghsh was so bad thatrnGeorge asked them to jump in the bed ofrnthe truck. They chmbed up and hungrnon tight over the rough canted road, andrnat last the one on the left side yelledrn”Stop!” through the driver’s window.rnFrom here,...

America’s leading Christian columnist,rnand pioneering black conservativernTake their booksrnFREEarn$47 value!rnRACE AND CULTURErnby Thomas SowellrnDr. Sowell spent a decade researching this bombshell. He’srnwritten a dozen books, but none as gutsy as this. He explains:rnVVhy some cultures are better — yes, better — than others.rnEver since Sowell appeared on Meet the Press in the earlyrn1980s and left...

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EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR. BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, jr.rnEDITORIAL ASSISTANTrnMichael WashburnrnART DIREGTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O./. Brown, Katherine Dalton,rnSamuel Francis, George Garrett,rnE. Christian Kopff, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrn6(7/ Kauffman, Jacob Neusner,rnJohn Shelton Reed, Momcilo SelicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnPRODUCTION SECRETARYrnAnita CandyrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn934 North Main Street. Rockford....

man’ social orthodoxies could be severelyrncircumscribed.rnPace the New York Times and CBS, onerndoes not have to be a right-wing radicalrnto be deeph’ alarmed at the directionsrntaken by federal law enforcement agenciesrnin the last two decades, mostlsrnunder conservative Republican administrations.rnThese trends include therngrowth of national policing in the guisernof “interjurisdictional task forces”; thernpopular glamorization of informers...

anti-U.N. bill), or a step in the wrongrndirection (it’s dumb to force Congress tornobey bad civil rights laws, and the lineitemrnveto gives unconstitutional powerrnto the Executive).rnGrover Norquist tells us that the Contractrnwill have two lasting effects. Therernwill be another Contract “in 1996 andrn1998 and on into the future” and “allrncongressional elections will be nationalrnelections.” That...

of “Dixie” and other Southern anthemsrnburst forth with unrestrained exuberance.rnWe had come to honor the memorvrnof the dead. But, as with mostrnSouthern funerals, significant thingsrnoccur among the surviving kith and kin.rnWe go to bury our dead and we comernaway resurrected, our sense of place withinrnthe kindred renewed and confirmed.rnSo too at the memorial service and...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnA Boundless Field of PowerrnDoes the United States Constitution stillrnexist? There is one simple way to answerrnthis question. Read any article or sectionrnof the 200-year-old document written tornprovide the citizens of a free republicrnwith a short and simple guide to whatrntheir government can and cannot do andrnask whether the language you...

local ranchers, with the support of arncounty commissioner, nearly had a gunfightrnwith officials of the Forest Servicernand the Bureau of Land Managementrnwhen the citizens decided to ignore federa!rnregulations on land use and startedrnbuilding their own road where federalrnregs declared they couldn’t. “We werernproving our point that thev don’t havernjurisdiction,” said the county potentate,rnwho habitually carries...

PERSPECTIVErn—IwfrnKMHt ^-^i ^-IHEBrn^SBM, jyBPP^rnK.WJrn^fii^i’nJA A’•’^’^CMSrn^E^i^Kjrn| | -rnIt’s Stupid, the EconomyrnCulture and Immigrationrnby Thomas FlemingrnWhy should “a magazine of American eulture” take sornkeen an interest in the question of immigration? Thatrnquestion has been posed all too frequently by journalists whorncan only think of one answer: bigotry. Sometimes the word isrnxenophobia or nativism or even anti-Semitism (apparently...

cliaractcr, it seemed to us that elianges in the etlmie eompositionrnof a nation would also ehange its character, its values, itsrnidentit’. Although most of the immigration debate has beenrncarried on like a price war between two fishwives in the marketplace,rnwe realized er- earlv on that it really did not matter, ultimateh,rnwhether the new immigrants v’cre...

For much of this century America has been described as arnkind of experiment or a laboratory of democracy in whichrna new kind of democratic man is being molded by a new democraticrnculture. Such was the vision of the American Marx, JohnrnDewey, but its finest rhetorical expression was Herbert CroK’srnThe Promise of American Life. Croly was...

with welfare, and second by giving them the cultural equivalentrnof toilet-training. They are also, by the way, afraid of ordinaryrnMiddle Americans whom they suspect of plotting a mutiny.rnLet mc be just as candid. 1 Irave enough to worry about, takingrncare of my family, attending to my job, and working to bringrnsome sanity to my own...

America to surpass the liberties of the Old World?rnAs if this question were not broad enough to tackle, I wouldrnalso like to reflect this afternoon on an interrelated question:rnWHiat made America into a nation? And what is a “nati(3n,”rnan\va ? It seems clear to me that a country or a nation can bernheld together either...

who came from Wessex in southern England, and settled onrnlarge plantations in the tidewater South; and, in the 18th century,rnlarge numbers of Scotch-Irish, who came from the fiercernand warring border country in northern England, southernrnScotland, and northern Ireland, who settled as individualisticrnfarmers in the back country of Southern and Middle AtlanticrnAmerica.rnEach of these groups had...

fellows. He was determined, in the first place, not only to learnrnEnglish, but to abandon his Old Wodd culture and read onlyrnthis new language. He was in that way able to purge himself ofrnan)’ foreign accent. Although he arrived penniless, he workedrnhis way through a private college, paving tuition with never arnthought about seeking government...

ism could only be kept alive and creative by those who hadrnworked hard to learn those traditions and then li’e in them andrnbv them.rnI do not suppose that many will deny that science representsrna difficult and demanding discipline which requires hard workrnand a long apprenticeship. That is one reason why America’srngraduate schools are filled with...

How often a teacher hears students proclaiming that they arernnot going to be like their parents. Many teenagers do look veryrndifferent from their middle-aged folks. Like the late Sam Cookrnin the popular rock-and-roll priamel, they don’t know muchrnabout geometry or about the French they took, but they dornknow that they are free to choose. By...

the Christians who brought them to these shores.rnAs a Jew, Marvin has inherited from his Jewish predecessorsrna tradition of values and morals that differs hardly at all fromrnthe Christian values against which he spoke. Therefore thernquestion arises: Is the objection to the label “Christian,” or tornthe values themselves? It may be that the encounter withrnChristianity...

Christian, at least not since the Constitution, but they werernand to a large extent still are descriptively Christian. Christianityrnin the large sense—not Christian doctrine as such, but therncivilization that has grown up in the context of Christian teachingrnand Christian life—is so interwoven into the whole socialrnand indeed human fabric of the United States that it...

(Matthew 16:26). Forty-odd years ago, when I was in highrnschool, we were told that an article of America’s faith was therninfinite value of every human life. That was unbelievable; itrnwas totally out of proportion. Only God is infinite. Today it hasrnbeen inverted into its opposite, or even worse: not merely thernzero value, but the negative...

without children, or smokers, for example.rnClearly, under this scenario there is no such thing as freedomrnof immigration. Rather, there exists the freedom of many independentrnprivate property owners to admit or exclude othersrnfrom their own properties in accordance with their own unrestrictedrnor restricted property titles. Admission to some territoriesrnmight be easy, while to others it might...

ernment. Once again, assuming no more than self-interestrn(maximizing monetary and psychic income: money and power)rn, democratic rulers tend to maximize current income, whichrnthev can appropriate privately, at the expense of capital values,rnwhich they cannot appropriate privately. Hence, in accordancernwith democracy’s inherent egalitarianism of one-man one-vote,rnthev tend to pursue a distinctly egalitarian—nondiscriminatoryrn—policy of emigration and immigration.rnAs...

ously, and from there easily create anrnAmerican identity. Any who cannot bernbothered can wait for the next amnesty.rnAnother difference between the newrnimmigration and the old is that the oldrnwas intermittent, broken by lulls duringrnwhich recent immigrants were assimilated.rnIn contrast, the new immigration isrncontinuous. The constant inflow ofrnaliens overwhelms the assimilating powerrnof communities, while preserving thernalienness...