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if two white thugs had slashed the facenof a black model.) The question ofnrace, however, was brought to the forenby Maddox himself: he constructed anpreposterous scenario involving a supposednconspiracy between Maria andnthe police, and portrayed the victim asna racist who had fingered his twonclients only because they were black.nSo what do we see in the...

curate, press coverage. Lester is servingna prison term of ten to thirty years.nAlton Maddox also figured in thenHoward Beach case, as a lawyer for thenblack man who was beaten, CedricnSandiford, and Maddox’s refusal toncooperate with prosecutors greatlyncomplicated efforts to get at the truthnand resolve some still nagging questionsnabout what really happened. Innthe movie, Maddox and...

cally identified). But the plot revolvesnaround a highly fictionalized attemptnby two FBI men, winningly played bynGene Hackman and Willem Dafoe, tonfind the bodies and bring the killers tonjustice. There’s a disclaimer at the tailnend of the closing credits: “This filmnwas inspired by actual events whichntook place in the South during then1960’s. The characters, however, arenfictitious...

The Weight ofnBricksnby Janet Scott BarlownAre we all going crazy? A fewnmonths ago, I read a newspaperncolumn containing information sonshocking yet unsurprising, so awful yetnpredictable, that I was overcome bynemotional vertigo. Then, seemingly outnof nowhere, I thought of John andnLawrence, two children I knew longnago, and disorientation was replaced byngeneralized depression. The lesson ofnJohn and...

death. That was their right, of course,nbut they had taught unbelief to Lawrencennot as an alternative kind ofnbelief but as a cause, a battle againstnpervasive human stupidity. Lawrencenwas taught everything as a battlenagainst pervasive human stupidity, andnthus, his little belt squeezing his tinynmiddle, he was sent out to negotiatenthe terrifying and glorious territory ofnearly childhood...

transactionnNew and Recent Books on Family and PolicynThenSwedishnExperimentnin FamilynPoliticsnTHE MVRDALS ANDnTHE INTERWARnPOPULATION CRISISnAllannCarlsonnThenpoliticsnHumannNaturenThomas Flemin<nFamilynQijestipjisnift mwln^i.’nReflections on thenAmerican Social CrisisnAllan C. CarlsonnTHE SWEDISH EXPERIMENT INnFAMILY POLITICSnTHE MYRDALS AND THE INTERWAR POPULATION CRISISnAllan CarlsonnThis devastating account of the wori< of Gunnar and Alva Myrdai portraysnhow two young scholars used the power of ideas to help engineer a...

The original McGiiffey^snReaders were different.nThey were ChristiannNow they’re available againncfter 150 pears. You can get thenfiill set here and SAVE $80nRev. William McGuffey published his legendary Readers in the 1830s.nLater editions, from 1857 on, were revised without his approval, and expurgatednmost references to religion. They were still excellent texts, butnno longer Christian texts.nNow a Christian...

EDITORnThomas FlemingnMANAGING EDITORnKatherine DaltonnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSnChilton Williamson, Jr.nASSISTANT EDITORnTheodore PappasnART DIRECTORnAnna Mycek-WodeckinCONTRIBUTING EDITORSn]ohn W. Aldridge, Harold O.].nBrown, Samuel Francis, GeorgenGarrett, Russell Kirk, E. ChristiannKopff, Clyde WilsonnCORRESPONDING EDITORSnJanet Scott Barlow, Odie Faulk,nJane Greer, John Shelton ReednEDITORIAL SECRETARYnLeann DobhsnPUBLISHERnAllan C. CarlsonnASSOCIATE PUBLISHERnMichael WardernPUBLICATION DIRECTORnGuy C. ReffettnCOMPOSITION MANAGERnAnita FedoranCIRCULATION MANAGERnRochelle FranknA publication of The Rockford Institute.nEditorial and Advertising...

ideological uses to which “publicspirited”neducators have put the Westernncivilization curriculum. Already atnthe beginning of the century IrvingnBabbitt was railing against the vulgarizersnof humanistic studies, and he had innmind the advocates of the very curricularnreforms that Sykes applauds. Westernncivilization courses, as typified byntheir insertion at Columbia in the contextnof a crusade for democracy, havenalways been both...

rect judgment. But it is a revolutionnnobody really wants, not anybody innthe country, at any rate. The ANC,nafter any number of membershipndrives, probably has no more than onenhundred and fifty thousand members,nin contrast to the Inkatha FreedomnParty’s one million members, amongnthem at least fifty thousand whites.nMoreover, ANC strategy has notnchanged, only the tactics. In fact,...

The choice De Klerk and his governmentnface is between men whonhave respected the Afrikaners enoughnnever to hold a knife to their throats,nand those who do hold a knife. Butnchoosing between them does not meannexcluding the ANC from negotiations,nas Buthelezi himself emphasized whennhe insisted on keeping the ANC “innthe peace process.”n—Leo RaditsanTHE HOPI INDIAN Reservationnof northeastern...

computer and mailing privileges, butnthey also include more substantial benefitsnsuch as hosting events and speakersnfunded with university funds.nIn a letter sent to every member ofnthe Georgetown community, Dean ofnStudent Affairs Jack DeGoia defendednthe decision, claiming that it balancednboth a commitment to free speech andnthe “moral tradition of the RomannCatholic Church.” He was one of thenfew,...

member of the public could bendependent upon any other andnstill be reckoned a member ofnthe public; communal in thatnevery man gave himself totallynto the good of the public as anwhole. If public virtue declined,nthe republic declined, and if itndeclined too far, the republicndied.nAmericans were divided on thenquestion of exactly how public virtuencould be preserved and...

in Big Government, Big Business, andnBig Culture — have increased the spannof organizational control far beyond thencompact scale on vi’hich republican independencenis possible and much farthernthan even the dynastic states of thenancien regime could comprehend. ThenAmerican middle class today is dependentnon corporations, unions, universities,nand the national state itself fornits income, and it is income —...

The poor, if they are self-possessed, may sharenThese views, provided the self they possessnIs reasonably becoming. Read HemingwaynTo see how it’s done. He was the paid companionnPar excellence. In his democracy of skiersnAnd good shots, where a simple guide may benManlier than many millionaires, aretenIs the password. Wit is not called for here,nAnd those who...

• <•nWhile the genre of science fiction is hardly a centurynold, the roots of science fiction go deep into ournhistory. Men have always told stories, and in telling themnthey have inevitably recast the world of their perceptionsninto something easier to grasp, more beautiful or morenterrible than it really is. At bottom, we are all creative...

technological advancement — even Gernsback describednmoving walkways — as of the moral and political dimensionsnof life lived according to the rules and plans drawn up by thenscientistic state. In fact, a great deal of science fiction hasnbeen written in a libertarian, anti-imperialist vein. RobertnHeinlein was a moral and political libertine who attracted anfollowing among Randians...

the poet or the artist to imitate the divine ideas themselvesnand to convey some sense of that reality that underliesneveryday experiences. In a crude sense, the artist “imitates,”nthat is to say represents, the divine act of creation, and hisngreatest temptation is to confuse his own role with that ofnthe Creator. When the writer plays God...

The Flesh’s Weddingnby Tom DiscbnIt is with the flesh, as with most other marriages,nThat a time comes, a middle age, when the bond loosens.nNot a divorce, necessarily—fondness may persist—nBut there is not that knot of simple unionnThat appetite ties in our honeymoon years.nWe begin to get fat in a different way than we got fatnIn...

r-^n’->’!.< ,V(f Sf> ) »ni; -J’^iL.nAdventure fiction is vigorously alive. Although virtuallynignored by critics outside specialist newsletters, thengenre has long been a dominant force both in bookstoresnand in Hollywood. Such adventure films as Die Hard, Jaws,nand the Indiana Jones epics draw millions of viewers. TomnClancy’s technological thrillers and Robert Ludlum’s volumesnof struggle and terror reach...

and once again delay intensifies the problem. When eventuallynthe pirates are rooted out, the personal cost is agonizing.nThe novels of Robert Ludlum also address the excision ofnevil, although it is evil less apparent than in Benchley’s work.nThe Ludlum novels turn on the painful, slow exposure ofnconcealed conspiracy. This is a world of contemporarynproblems and the...

The current Domestic Warrior series by Ryder Stacy is setnone hundred years in the tuture with the United Statesnhaving been occupied by the Red Army and the KGB,nwhile a tiny resistance movement fights underground.nLess given to pessimistic futures, and mildly morencredible, are recent novels of small-squad military action.nThese are also unremittingly, brutally violent. The combatnis...

sketched in powerfully simple lines. If not psychologicallyncomplex, they are sympathetic and often admirable.nThrough the shadow world of clandestine operations, theynmove confidently—Vietnam veterans, assassins, combatnprofessionals. Above all, they are patriots, although they donnot often speak of that. They are moral figures in annimmoral world whose solid sense of obligation to theirncountry sustains them as they...

rebellion of his allies. Somehow, he commands the amazingnobedience of women. (I cannot think of a single categorynWestern in which a strong, sympathetic woman resists thenadvice of the protagonist and follows her own counsel to thenend of the story. In traditional Westerns only the “bad” ornantagonist women are willful.) Still another tradition governingnthe classic Western...

mythic Western films, as good as many of them are.nThe result of all this crankiness in me has been a numbernof novels that are about as far removed from the typicalnWestern as possible. In one, Winter Grass, the hero is anHarvard-schooled Boston Brahmin. In another, Sam Hook,nthere’s a venal sheriff too fat to ride a...

something of a con artist. The Ballantine cover for that onenfeatures an Indian warrior on a rearing horse, waving a signalnblanket. I get the feeling that my novels were smuggled intonthe line, and smuggled into readers’ hands with a misleadingntraditional cover. These may be fine covers. They probablynsell more books than a cover that truly...

one of its biggest massacres — the GreatnPurges.nThese were hardly completed whennStalin concluded the long-desired alliancenwith Hitler, an alliance that in thenend backfired, disastrously. Stalin hadnmiscalculated twice. First, in commonnwith most of the world, he had assumed,nin 1939-1940, that the Britishnand the French would hold back thenGermans, and that the war in the Westnwould be...

munists, in or outside of the SovietnUnion. Walter Laqueur’s more conventionalnassumption, that Lenin’s rule andnthe attitudes it fostered were likely tonlead to something like Stalinism, is onnthis point more convincing.nIt is notable that Robert Tucker declaresnthat his interpretation was notnbasically affected by the revelations ofnglasnost; they have, he says, merelynreinforced his views. Those revelationsnare the...

the sainted Third World and domesticnunderclasses do suffer from the warfare-welfarenstate, the vast bulk of thenbill, economic and cultural, is footednby the American middle class. Capitalism,nto Lasch, has the “ungodly ambitionnto acquire godlike pov/ers overnnature.” Although he does not citenhim in this context, Lasch agrees withnDiderot: “I am convinced that thenindustry of man has gone...

Literature, Fiedler argues, begins innAmerica with Melville and Hawthornenand extends through Eliot, Pound,nFaulkner, and Tate. Literally and figuratively,nit has always traveled abroad tonstudy, while “pop literature,” despisingnEurope and European values, hasngone to school at home; and it is in thisnhatred, Fiedler believes, that AmericannJews and goyish American writers ofnthe “popular” school meet, as on nativenground....

The Good SoldiernbyJ.O. TatenFord Madox Fordnby Alan JuddnCambridge: Harvard University Press;n476 pp., $27.50nOne of the many vices I cultivate isna weakness for biographies. Annintelligent female once told me firmlynthat she didn’t read biographies. Shenthought them depressing: the subjectsngot old and died. I tried to indicate thatnshe was missing a lot, but she wasnadamant. I think...

required us to “stay in arms agreementsnthat the Soviets were violating,”nhe explained.nwhen he says that this is “reasonndisthroned,” Beichman does not exaggerate.nThere was, of course, an obviousnstep that the Reagan administrationncould have taken. It could havenbroken off negotiations already underwaynfor the next treaty (for there wasnalways a next one). If Reagan had donenthis, going on...

Letter FromnEuropenby Thomas MolnarnHistory LessonsnAs I write I have in front of me annumber of statements, articles, and conferencenprojects—and more are comingnto my attention almost daily—nindicating what amounts to an invasionnof Eastern and Central Europe bynWestern zealots, do-gooders, investors,ngurus, and sharks. They emanate fromnAmerican and West European offices,nbanks, institutes, universities, and othernheadquarters of alleged aid...

civilizations of this area of the worldnknow these things intimately; theynhave practiced them for a thousandnyears, partly having learned them innthe course of occupations by foreignnpowers and foreign ideologies. Theyndo not need Western advice on how tonlive and how to be human, sociable,ngentle, severe — or, for that matter,nangelic or beastly. They are like everybodynelse,...

saieth not, but since all of the Yalencolleges are named for dead whitenmen, presumably heterosexual — well,nI fear the worst.nDamn it, it’s time for the loyalnremnant at Calhoun College to thinknabout secession. Take the college’snemoluments, take its hunting printsnand Charleston Mercury clipping, takenthe old man’s walking stick, and headnsouth. Maybe it wasn’t a good idea...

All that is noble and young andnrebellious and brave. Tenacity innthe darkest hour. Respect forntruth, integrity, character, andnduty. That is the flag of the warnfor Southern independence.nWho’s to say she’s wrong about that?nNot Jane Tompkins of the Duke Englishndepartment, who says that “reader-response”ncritics like herself “denynthe existence of objective texts andnindeed the possibility of objectivity...

True Confessions ofna Failed Hacknby Stephen ProvizernIt’s the Last Draft You Wantnto Write, Stupid,nNot the FirstnIbegan my relationship with Harveynvisualizing Rolls-Royces and starlets.nI ended up as so many writers have —nstaggering, script in hand, out of thisnerstwhile mogul’s office straight into thennearest bar; a cut-rate version of RaynMilland in The Lost Weekend. Attendnto this cautionary...

tending screenings in the Fox Buildingnin what passes for a film district innBoston. Imagine the cachet of beingnable to see Woody’s latest before it wasnreleased.nThe first draft took three weeks, antime during which my friends began tonnotice a de-maturation process thatnwould continue until the very end. Inhad immersed myself in my task to thenpoint where...

down a week later, it was not unexpected:n”Steve, I think we were closer to itnon the second draft. But Steve,” — thisnis the unkindest cut of all — “you gavenit your best shot.” My best shot? No,nthat would have been a .38 slug innHarvey’s omniscient puppik.nWhile a Bronson-like ending wouldnhave been the most satisfying for...

that intellectual achievement is suspiciousnper se. Dr. Frankenstein no longernneeds a monster, having becomenhimself the sufficient vehicle of thenpublic’s resentments, loathings, andnfears.nThe bizarre ending of The Silencenof the Lambs, which seems to havenbeen the compromise result of a greatnmany conferences, is one in which,nafter a suitably balletic chase and fightnsequence, Jodie Foster blows away onenserial...

by and proud of life in Sicily. Sicilians of scrapbooks, and sure enough, therenbehave badly, and it isn’t because they was a faded telegram from 20’s glam­ndon’t know any better; what is tragic is our girl Gilda Gray.nthat they do. They do know better. We Visits with Henry are like that: enor­nall do, which makes...

made a slew of silent movies, mostnfamously the German G.W. Pabst’snPandora’s Box (1929), in which shenplayed Lulu, the guileless hedonist,nirresistible to men (among others) until,nlucklessly, she picks up Jack thenRipper. (Talk about Mr. Goodbar!)nLouise was an erratic, arrogant, dissipatednbeauty. She refused to sleepnwith the moguls (though she conferrednher favors on almost everyone else) andnridiculed Hollywood...

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EDITORnThomas FlemingnMANAGING EDITORnKatherine DaltonnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSnChilton Williamson, Jr.nASSISTANT EDITORnTheodore PappasnART DIRECTORnAnna Mycek-WodeckinCONTRIBUTING EDITORSnJohn W. Aldridge, Harold O.J.nBrown, Samuel Francis, GeorgenGarrett, Russell Kirk, E. ChristiannKopff, Clyde WilsonnCORRESPONDING EDITORSnJanet Scott Barlow, Odie Faulk,nJane Greer, John Shelton Reed,nGary VasilashnEDITORIAL SECRETARYnLeann DobbsnPUBLISHERnAllan C. CarlsonnASSOCIATE PUBLISHERnMichael WardernPUBLICATION DIRECTORnGuy C. RejfettnCOMPOSITION MANAGERnAnita FedoranCIRCULATION MANAGERnRochelle FranknA publication of The Rockford Institute.nEditorial and...

are able to recall than what does notncome readily to mind (the “availability”nheuristic), and they are far moreninfluenced by the features of thingsnthat resemble one another than thosenthat don’t (the “representativeness”nheuristic). Thus, students think thatninterracial violence is far more commonnthan it is because it is oftennreported in the media, it is vivid, and itnreadily sticks...

correctly. After all, the average studentngets only about three-quarters of thenquestions right on the last day of class. Innever implied that we don’t teach themnanything, only that what we teachnthem has to do with the explanation ofnthat which is observed, not with thenincorrectness of their correct observations.nOn The Institutenfor Advanced Study’nJacob Neusner’s fierce attack upon...

and, in my year, I found many first-ratenminds whose company I treasured andnwho remain valued fi’iends.nI am puzzled by the claim thatnBritain has nothing comparable to IAS,nsince I have been appointed VisitingnFellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University,nto pursue research there inn1992. But that does not detract firomnmy admiration for Professor Garlandnand my pleasure in addressing...

the day of the Kennedy assassination.nFor the first few hours, Cronkite (“thenmost trusted man in America”) was onnthe air reporting that the President hadnbeen shot by right-wing extremists innDallas. The media have no basis fornjudging the merits or proportions of annissue except a liberal Pavlovian response.nOne of the givens of theirnworld is that a criminal...

warns, is that the Lega keep its handsnclean and not attempt to join in anynruling coalition.nTime will tell. In the meantime, thentalk goes on, all over Europe, of Europeannunity, but the reality is the growthnof regionalism and petty nationalisms,nand a rising tide of what some peoplenlike to call nativism but I prefer to callnself-respect. Are...