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rect lineage of the American populistrntradition. Unlike Lawrence Goodwyn,rnfor example, he does not try to find perfectrnfits between agrarian radicals livingrnin late 19th-century Nebraska and Mississippirnand the academic liberals of thern1990’s. Kazin understands that, by thernstandards of Tikkun, both the populistrnrank and file and leadership of the 1890’srnwere—culturally, at least—to the rightrnof anyone he is...

knowledge as the better publicized DeadrnSea Scrolls, but which had the good fortunernto escape the political conflict andrnprima donna egos which sabotaged thatrnrival project for decades. Since the latern1970’s, the Nag Hammadi library hasrnbeen available in good and easily affordablerntranslations, which have been assiduouslyrnmined for the “rival traditions”rnthat they appear to present for the earlyrnChristian...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter FromrnMassachusettsrnby Eugene NairettrnBeacon to the NationsrnA few months ago and despite my betterrnjudgment, I spent some time watchingrnthe NFL playoffs. Seeking rchcf fromrnrather than in work, I soon was remindedrnthat the tube is a conduit of malaise andrnof pop cultural propaganda. For everyrnglimpse of the tenacious gifts of DanrnMarino, there were hours of dumb...

compromised immunity that resultsrnwhen wealth displaces moral values wasrnreflected in an influential “conservative”rnbiweekly, which offered some pop-culturalrncheerleading by an Americanrnephebe in Prague. “Glitzy stores andrnstate-of-the-art showrooms open everyrnmonth,” enthused the young capitalistrn(an editor for the Czech edition, Irnkid vou not, of Elle magazine). “Untilrnrecentlv,” he continued, “it was rare tornsee a Mercedes or BMW; now...

VITAL SIGNSrnPOLITICSrnImage IsrnEverythingrnby Janet Scott BarlowrnFor at least a year now—ever sincernthe evidence became intellectuallyrnirrefutable while yet being emotionallyrndeniable—every second sentence writtenrnor spoken about Bill Clinton by therndominant media has begun with thernword “if.” Reduced to its essence, therntwo-sentence refrain goes like this: Americansrndo not believe Bill Clinton. If BillrnClinton can become credible, Americansrnwill believe...

whose combined effect is to make Americansrnfeel as if they have suddenly awakenedrnon Mars. Here is the President ofrnthe United States, hands in pockets andrnleg cocked, staring down from thernRolling Stone cover, looking like … like arnboomer trying to look presidential whilernthinking, Hey, I’m on the cover ofrnRolling Stonel Inside is an interview inrnwhich the...

lapsed on the floor, became dysfunctional,rnand was unable to care for herrnchildren. A New Jersey lawyer has sued arncoffee shop for causing his heart palpitations.rnIt seems a waitress served himrndouble espresso when he ordered decaf.rnA McDonald’s in Albany has been suedrnfor $600,000 by a woman who allegedlyrnfell off a shifting toilet. And the juryrnthat awarded...

rhetoric from the new pohtical ehtes,rncommunist culture continues to hold arnfirm grip oxer a large number of officialsrnand ()rdinar people. Sure, the old communistrniconography, such as the hammerrnand sickle, accompanied by therneer-prcscnt red star, have been replacedrnb new nationalist symbols, but thernsubstance of the old communist culturernin da-to-day life remains shockingly thernsame.rnWhat strikes a Western...

communist culture, despite the fact thatrnmany of them identify themselves asrnardent anticommunists. Life in the newrnnoncommunist Eastern Europe, whichrnrequires risk and imposes competition, isrnhard for many natives to swallow. Widernsegments of the population continue torndisplay the same old servility towardrntheir democratically elected or chosenrnsuperiors. The old communist practicernof double deals and paranoid fear thatrneverybody is...

phies taught in schools, it is clear thatrnEastern Europe will either be saved by itsrntraditions—yes, including ethnic selfaffirmationsrn—or will go under for centuries,rnunder the burden of so-calledrnWestern values. The safely living andrnhappilv consuming West simply doesrnnot grasp the primacv of national identitvrnas a source of survival and will to live.rnThe ecr-prcsent hostile elements in thernEast...

als, Christians, agrarians, and partisans ofrnthe Western model. Emphatically, thernreturned parties are not communist, althoughrnthey retain certain familiar features:rna predilection for centralism, arnrougher tone vis-a-vis the West (whosernweakness they detect better than thernliberals), a tougher trade and customsrnpolicy, and a more forceful insistencernon reducing the debilitating foreignrndebt—contracted in the past by therncommunists!rnNone of this cancels...

as one of the most inhuman dictatorshipsrnof modern times, exceeding evenrnNazi Germany in its barbarities. Therernwas another New York Times correspondent,rnMax Frankel, who after years inrnMoscow wrote: “The ‘greatest storyrnin the world’ is also the greatest secret inrnthe world. And the lone correspondentrnis a poor match for a giant, totalitarianrngovernment. The story is only rarelv...

for both amount to much the samernthing—even the best of authors can occasionallyrncreate a weak poem or line orrnmake a mistake. I think we can all grantrnthis, but some critics have taken the expressionrnliterally, and have sought outrncases in which Homer in fact nods: i.e.,rncontradicts either himself or commonrnsense.rnSuch observers point with glee at thernfact—as...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnNavajoland: IrnIn the American Southwest nothingrnlooks to be of a piece but the landscapernand the infinity of sky overhead. Thernvast frame of the earth and the geomorphicrnscheme that shaped it lie plainlyrnrevealed through a scrim of sparse vegetationrnso that a single landmark is sufficientrnto supply, organize, and integraternin the imagination...

factory going up in Las Vegas, hadrnstopped by; finally a slim and prctt’rnwoman named Bette—the journalistrnwho had broken tlie Big Boquillas Ranchrnstory that launched the payoff scandalrnthat forced Tribal Chairman Peter McDonaldrnfrom office—showed up, andrnLena brewed a pot of fresh coffee.rnGeorge had begun to refill the pack withrnthe items we needed for the trip when...

INCLUDING ESSAYS BY.rn• PETER BRIMELOWrn(Forbes Magazine)rn• ALLAN CARLSONrn(The Rockford Institute)rn• JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAINrn(University of ChicagornDivinity School)rn• RICHARD ESTRADArn{Dallas Morning News)rn• THOMAS FLEMINGrn(Chronicles Magazine)rn• SAMUEL FRANCISrn(Nationally SyndicatedrnColumnist)rn• PAIU, COTTFRIEDrn(Elizabethtown College)rn• CARRETT HARDINrn(Professor Emeritus ofrnHuman Ecology)rn• HANS-HERMANN HoppErn(University of Nevada,rnLas Vegas)rn• DONALD L. HUDDLErn(Rice University)rn• E. CHRISTIAN KOPFFrn(University ofrnColorado inrnBoulder)rnNEW FROM CHRONICLES….rnIMMIGRATIONrn» ANDTHE *rnAMERICAN IDENTITYrnSELECTIONS FROMrnChronicles: A...

XXXXXXIrn_ ^ _ _ _ _ _ _rnNATIONAL CONSERVATIVErnSTUDSNTrnCONF£R£Marn”The conference will send you back to your campuses better informed, motivated and trained. Your work isrnvital to the future of the nation.” — Ronald ReaganrnLearn the Principles of ActivisnnrnPrivate Congressional Reception andrnBriefingrnMeet Conservative LeadersrnConservative Academic LecturesrnDinner Banquets with FamousrnConservativesrnFor further informatior) about the conference and an...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnEDITORIAL ASSISTANTrnMichael WashburnrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O.j. Brown, Katherine Dalton,rnSamuel Francis, George Garrett,rnE. Christian Kopff, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, ]acob 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,...

On ImmigrationrnThere you go again, on immigration.rnYou restrictionists have enough interestingrnarguments to make, you don’t needrnto resort to bogus complaints. John C.rnVinson did this in his February reviewrnof The Immigration Invasion, by statingrnthat “the proliferation of Korean-ownedrnliquor stores in South-Central LosrnAngeles has made many of the localsrnrestless.”rnThe Korean immigrants didn’t creaternwhatever concentration of alcoholic beveragernlicenses...

As far as enforcement goes, the searyrnstuff is in the large print. The IRS willrncollect child support the same way it collectsrntaxes: “without judicial interventionrn… summarily … by seizing the taxpayer’srnproperty.” In short, it will use thernsame Gestapo-like tactics to houndrn”deadbeat dads” that it uses to houndrnlaw-abiding taxpayers. “That’s exactlyrnwhy we are doing it,” Hyde’s...

THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE, whichrnwas founded in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, inrnJune 1994, seeks to advance the social,rncultural, economic, and political wellbeingrnand independence of the Southernrnpeople. According to SouthernrnLeague President Michael Hill, thernSouth, though it has been subsumed byrnthe American Empire, remains a distinctrnhistorical entity: “The South has its ownrnculture based on particular folkways,rnheroes, music, cuisine, dialect, religion,rnethnicity,...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnPoker on the TitanicrnIf any single act showed the essentialrnfraudulence of the ballyhooed “RepublicanrnRevolution” we were supposed to bernenjoying this year, it was the last officialrnvote of the previous Congress, less thanrna month after the 1994 elections, tornpass the General Agreement on Tariffsrnand Trade by a bipartisan majority. Ofrncourse, the GATT...

transnational corporations and those ofrnsociety.”rnThe dimensions of the new globalrnpower structure are more than economic,rnhowever, and the means by which thernemerging global elite seeks to extend andrnentrench its hegemony are only in partrneconomic. “The West,” Mr. Goldsmithrnwrites, meaning the dominant elites whornprevail in the nations of the West, “believesrnthat its destiny is to guide or...

PERSPECTIVErnLiterature Among the Ruinsrnby Thomas Flemingrn”M^ ‘ on cher, c’est notre metier, le vrai metier de chien . . .rnVousecrivezetvousecrivez.. .etpersonne,personneaurnmonde ne comprendra.” Joseph Conrad’s complaint to hisrnyoung collaborator, Ford Madox Hueffer, might have been putrnon Ford’s tombstone, when he died in 1939. You write, and yournwrite, and no one in the world understands. Although...

an traxcl, much less communication.rnFord was not uncritical of Rossetti et Co., except, perhaps forrnChristina, whom he regarded as a saint. Looking back to theirrngeneration, he blamed them for leading English poets astray.rnRossctti’s ‘The Blessed Damozel had the effect of “the numbingrnblow of a sandbag,” in convincing writers that “writing was arnmatter of digging for...

poems in English worthy to be set beside an average Horatianrnode. However, even the failures of English poetry are at a levelrnhigher than they might have been, if the only readers of versernhad been illiterate stockjobbers with degrees in economics orrnbusiness.rnFord wrote for that rarest of imaginary beings—more preciousrnthan the unicorn, more fatally mesmerizing than...

TORTURE AND EXECUTIONrnDEATH &TAXESrnn 4rn^^.•>rnjirna hard-hitting reinvestigation…” Derek E.ly, Varietyrn’…a devastating and disturbing P’^*’^^^,^^.^J^.’^J.VerL-don Fii^rnJeffrey F. Jackson’s shocking film expose tells the story of Gordon Kahl, a NorthrnDakota farmer who became America’s “most-wanted” fugitive.rnHow did a WWII hero become the target of one of the largest manhunts in FBIrnhistory? Was Kahl a gun-toting fanatic or...

st:o- and Solzlienitsn, whom thev regard as representatives of arndead and irrele’ant past. They have given up on hope, and theyrnthink the’ arc better off. One of the new Russian writers said ofrna oung man in Zurich who asked him to speak of hope: “I hadrnno idea what this man meant! For me, literature is...

cheap money. They wanted to be allowed to live their own livesrnwithout interference from government. They wanted no partrnof the foreign wars that the moneyed conservative Eastern classrnso much enjoyed and benefited from. The people knew thatrnthey were the ones who would do the dying while the friendsrnof Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, andrnthe...

became chief of the editorial staff of the Omaha World 1 lerald;rntwo ears later he stirred the hearts of Demoeratie eonvcntioneersrnin Chicago with an address that, come the revolution, willrnbe read in the Senate eery July 9:rnAh, mv friends, we sa’ not one word against those whornlive on the Atlantic coast, but the hardy pioneers...

can fight it out among themselves.”rnFittingly, the deciding vote in favor of the 1941 draftrnextension, which passed the House 203-202, was cast by thernfox-hunting lord of the Genesee Valley, Congressman JamesrnW. Wadsworth, Jr., who for bucking his party and authorizingrnthe abduction of thousands of his farmboy constituents wonrnthe obscene sobricjuct “Conscience of the House.” ThernWadsworths...

to exist until joined symbiotically to a critieal text. Yet even arnpoem as aseptic as “PCOET” bears some relation to the poetryrnof the past: with some effort, you can read it or say it aloud. Itsrnorigin in the human body has not been fully eradicated. Consequently,rnthe avant-garde has already moved on to bolder,rnmore radical experiments....

rate. In this icw, the arts represent tlie liighest. most eoniplexrnand reflexixe lecl of a eontinuallv evolving hicrarchs. Evolutionrnthus becomes, for Turner, “the eentral paradigm of allrnknowledge,” one whieh, because of its ability to create unpredictablernnoveltv, “radically and totally refutes determinism.”rnEolution—not combustion, not deterministic Newtonianrnphsics, not quantum mechanics—provides the truest andrnmost efficacious model of human...

may be necessary. We all basically have the same worldview,rnas far as linguistic differences are concerned.rnBut the news of this correction has not yet seepedrnthrough to most contemporary pundits of aesthetic theory,rnand the old cliches of the thirty-four Eskimo words forrnsnow [there is no such thing] and the lack of a past andrnfuture tense in...

texts. “I like poetr)’ that brings out in me as reader the maximumrnawareness of as mueh as the mind can comprehend,”rnexplains Russell, who firmly believes that “a hidden vein ofrnintellectuality (genuine) needs to be present even in a comparativelyrnsimple lyric.”rnGiven his intense interest in music, and natural affinity forrnthe musical, it is not surprising that...

The cause of earthquakes; and the foree that makesrnOcean heavernBreaking its barriers now, now sinking in its allottedrnbasin;rnWh- it is that Winter’s suns hasten so to dip themselvesrnBeneath the sea; and what delay detains the tardy nights.rnThv countryside and all Thy running streamsrnBe mv delight, sweet Goddesses; and let me lovernTh waters and secluded woods.rnWhat...

Progressrnby Richard MoorernSlowly our lives are becoming intolerable, and before longrnmissiles may go and explodernmost of us. Some of us blamernCommunists, radicals; some curse unions, and othersrnpollution.rnCorporate insanity, sayrnsome, and the profits in arms. . .rnMaybe; but isn’t there some one obvious, odious villainrnthat we can boo at and hiss?rnFriends, I’ve a candidate rightrnhere for...

harm can a radio do?rnWliat harm comes to the souls of our TY-mesnrerizedrnchildren?rnShall thev not shine as the lube’srnbilious glow in the night?rnYet we arc healthy, you tell us, and plump with our plentifulrndinners.rnJunior executives spendrntriple the national wage,rnsending their dear ones, poisoned by fake foods, pale,rnto the doctors.rnHospitals blossom with illsrnstrange to a primitive...

opportunity to wander in relatively unhumanizedrnenvirons, rather than the ordinaryrnprocesses of socialization, thatrnforged his temperament.rnAs the consumerist society, inereasinglvrnconcentrated in megalopolises thatrndestroy wilderness and mask the heavens,rngrows, such a childhood becomesrnmore and more out of reach. Even duringrnthe 1930’s, a child’s life spent in closerncontact with nature was not the norm.rnMost children were caught up...

Help Us FightrnOur southern Â¥rn0 Saverneritage!rn”Civil Rights” groups have launched a campaign to eliminaternALL symbols of Confederate history and heritage, including thernremoval of all Confederate monuments from public property!rnIf you’re ready to fight back, then Join A Winning Team!rnThe Heritage Preservation AssociationrnHPA is a nonprofit, national membership organization thatrnutilizes educational, legal and political resources to...