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much of the money we get fromnWashington we spend on things wendon’t need in order to get funds fornthings we do need. Top it off with thenrealization that every dime we get backnover and above what we pay in isnborrowed money (deficit money).nEven some of the original one dollarnwe pay in taxes probably comes back...

Vermont hasn’t the wherewithal tongovern itself as a nation. During ourndebates last year Justice Dooley madenonly one argument that rankled me.nHe claimed Vermonters were incapablenof governing themselves. You thinknWashington is bad, went the argument,nyou ought to see Montpelier.nThe judge said that to become anRepublic again Vermont would have tonamend its constitution and, worse, givenup elements...

FILMnReturnsnby David R. SlavittnThe Godfather Part IIInProduced by Francis Ford CoppolanWritten by Mario Puzo andnMr. CoppolanDirected by Mr. CoppolanReleased by Paramount PicturesnAwakeningsnProduced by Walter F. Parkes andnLawrence LaskernWritten by Steven ZailliannDirected by Penny MarshallnReleased by Columbia PicturesnAhcenProduced by Robert GreenhutnWritten and directed bynWoody AllennReleased by Orion PicturesnThe return of Francis Ford Coppolanto the Godfather epic...

I had my own moments of impatiencenwith the picture, but I am lessnviolent than I used to be and evennmellower. In a way, it was entertainingnto see Coppola’s own daughter, Sofia,nplaying the part of Michael’s daughter,nMary, who is in love with her cousinnVincent. She is awkward enough tonhave attracted a lot of comment, whichnsuggests that...

Finally: a readable popularnhistory of America— and onenyou can trustn”Probably the best available survey history of thenUnited States^^-THE Y^EMANnClarence B. Carson, continues The Freeman, “has formed a richly wovenntapestry of events and the ideas that spawned them…. For Carson, history isnnot merely a collection of facts and dates, an account of explorations, settlements,nwestward expansion, wars....

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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. ReffettnCOMPOSITION MANAGERnAnita FedoranCIRCULATION MANAGERnRochelle FranknA publication of The Rockford Institute.nEditorial and...

National Review. Kasun, a disciple ofnJulian Simon, parrots the “What, MenWorry?” line championed by Simonnand Ben Wattenberg.nI wish that I could recommend annintelligent, comprehensive treatmentnof environmental and population issuesnwritten by a conservative. But Incan’t, since one has yet to appear. Fornmany readers of this journal, the mostnreadily accessible discussions of a hostnof related concerns can...

THE RESPECTABLE RIGHTnturned savagely against Michael Levinnlast spring for holding unacceptablenviews on the reasons for differing levelsnof measurable intelligence among thenraces. Thus Peter Collier, in organizingna Second Thoughts conference fornthose who had rallied to “democracy”nfrom the 60’s New Left, disinvited,nafter having invited, the controversialnProfessor Levin. Shortly thereafternLevin was driven from the executivenboard of the National...

Babbitt applied to the Wilsonian worldnview of seventy years ago, that today’snconservatives uphold in education andnforeign policy. Because of this imperialistnimpulse they can no longer takenthe side of liberty or scholarship in thencritical confrontation now taking placenover academic freedom. The Italiannsocial thinker Marcello Veneziani, in annewly published work, Processo alVnoccidente: la societd globale e i...

capital stock will remain largely socialized.nWhen the Soviets say privatization,nthey mean that “one enterprisenwill own another,” so most of the stocknwill be owned by other enterprises innthe same industry, and not by thenpublic. This creates state-protected privatencartels that will protect each other,nboth economically and politically. Partynleaders still talk of the “right to anjob,” the “right...

feds’ preferred substitute for “withingroup”nscoring. First, the politicizednNational Academy of Sciences panelnthat in 1989 tried to invest GATEnrace-norming with a mantle of scientificnrespectability conceded that the performance-fairnsystem might be easier tondefend from reverse-discriminationncharges. That could be in no smallnpart, as Gottfredson remarks acerbically,nbecause of a “technical impenetrability”nthat “protects the pseudosciencenfrom easy unmasking.” Thensecond, and most...

been reduced to a unit on logic, wliichnwas a late addition. In my opinion, itnwasn’t part of the design they originallynproposed. But when I pointed out theynhad no composition in the course at all,nthey suddenly added logic.” It is clearnfrom the syllabus that student writingnhas been de-emphasized. No assignmentnis more than 700 words long, andnthere...

Principalities & Powersnby Samuel FrancisnUespite last summer’s brassy pronouncementsnthat the owl had sung hernwatchsong on the towers of CapitolnHill, the oligarchs of Congress bit thenreins in their teeth and lashed theirnmounts full into the maelstrom of constituentsndisgusted with pay-raises, privileges,nperversion, and pretension. Somen96 percent of the incumbents managednto ride out of the electoral cyclone ofn1990...

right instruments by which isolation cannbe overcome and planetary cosmopolitanismnmade to triumph forever. Somen— not just paleoconservative dinosaursn— have begun to notice that the contemporarynright seems to have turnedninto an ideological Xerox of liberalism.nSome others concluded that therenwas no point in resisting anyway. WhittakernChambers came to believe that,nand he ended his life in intense andnprivate...

October. Poe in Baltimore. PoenAt the end, going North, awaynFrom Virginia, keeping promisesnDespite the black beak of despair,nLaid over, waiting for the train,nBut just now, drunk, out of the coop.nLeaning in Lombard StreetnAgainst the window of a store.nMaking his pitched and stammered waynToward Cooth & Sergeant’s Tavern —n(Sergeant Major Poe, First Artillery,nHonorably discharged so many...

PERSPECTIVEnAnarchy and Family in the Southern TraditionnFor this issue of Chronicles we have assembled the thingnin and of itself, examples of Southern literature as it isnhere and now, a couple of appropriate poems and a work ofnfiction by one of the South’s finest writers, together withnsome good talk about contemporary letters in the South. Inwould...

Southern writer and who is member-in-good-standing of thenFellowship of Southern Writers), to younger and newernvoices like those of Percival Everett and Randal Kenan.nAll of the above is hopelessly inadequate, but at leastnserves to give a sense of a thriving and, yes, traditionalnenterprise. Which is a point so taken for granted that ournyounger writers in this...

distance until the person being visited has time to prepare.nYou don’t go right up and ring the doorbell, as it were.nSouthern courtesy involves much the same honoring ofnprivacy and individuality.nVladimir Nabokov said of his fictions that it wasn’t thenparts that mattered, it was their combination. The samenthing is true of the qualities I’m speaking of...

dredge out of the past not only the physical lineaments ofnthe person whom that bone once held perpendicular but thenpersonality traits too, down to the last little tic and stammer.nIn their own house Harry and Lydie could engage withnthree flesh-and-blood examples of history come to life. Ofncourse, it really wasn’t flesh, only a sort of...

to smell of sweat and stale underwear and whiskey.nFor he had also understated the power of his thirst. Onnthe first night and always afterward he never strayed far fromnthe jug and when not actually pouring from it would castnamorous glances in its direction. He drank George Dickelnneat or sometimes with sugar water and praised the...

scraggly bristle, his eyes discolored and dispirited, and hisnspeech disjoined, exhausted, and crumbling. It was clear thatnremembering had taken too much out of him, that he hadntired himself almost past endurance. He had cut down onnhis tobacco intake, as if the exercise of a chaw drew off toonmuch strength, and had increased his frequency of...

“But we agreed. Don’t you remember? We agreed tonsend him packing.”n”Wait till you meet him. Then send him packing. If youncan do it, it will be all right with me.”nAnd having met the young man, Harry no more thannLydie could order him away. Harper was so innocentnand willing and openfaced that Harry could only feelnsympathy...

A skeptical expression must have crossed her face,nthough, because Billy looked at her imploringly and said innthe most earnest tone: “Oh, it’s true, I assure you it is. Youncan ask Julie or Annie or my mother. They’ll tell you it’sngospel truth.” Lydie realized then that she must keep hernemotions out of her face, that Billy...

think about what to tell the medics when they came.nPerhaps they wouldn’t accept Private Harper; perhaps theynwouldn’t regard him as a real human being. To whom couldnhe turn for assistance in that case? He knew better than toncall Archives and History; the last time he had called thosennumbers a recorded voice informed him that they...

Wordmore’s gaze and say, We’ve had enough of you goddamnsims to last us a lifetime.nSsssimssss.n”Gladly I go where I am wanted and unwanted,”nWordmore said. “The wodd is my home, in it I am free tonloaf and meditate, every particle is as interesting to me asnevery other particle, the faces of men and women gladdennme as...

said.nThe gray man nodded placidly, even a little smugly. “It isna gift that I have, allotted me graciously at my birth, as it wasngiven to you and you, freely offered to all.” He sipped hisnwater.n”To me?” Harry asked. “I don’t think I’ve got any healingnpowers. Business is my line; I own a little video rental...

“No, now. She means — well, gay,” Harry said. “Are younhomosexual?”n”To me sex, the Divine Nimbus, every creature exhalesnand I partake willingly, my soul gladly joining, my bodynlocked in embrace with All, my — “n”All?” Henry and Lydie spoke in unison.nWordmore nodded. “All, yes. All, sportively I tendernmy — “n”Does this include the bullfrog and...

Time and the Tide in the Southern Short StorynPerhaps since the War Between the States itself, andncertainly since the literary Southern Renascence becamenconscious of itself in the 30’s and 40’s, educatednSoutherners, and Southern writers especially, have takenntheir sense of history as a point of pride. Now, as the end ofnthe century approaches, one may be...

his to keep, but belonging to tlie people of thesentowns he passed through, coming out of theirnrooted pasts and their mock rambles, coming out ofntheir time. He himself had no time. He was free;nhelpless.nThis may be Miss Welty’s clearest image of a future that shenforesaw a long time ago, and that we have now inherited.nOnce...

1. Won’t You Be Mine, Columbine?nMore than once I’ve dreamed of draping the skinsnof animals over my head and body.nI mean trying to get wholly within there.nAs though I could tradenfor a walk on the wild sidenor maybe even be the thingnwhose life was taken.nOne woman laughed and liked itnwhen I put a pelt over...

way through time to reach the present.nWhy this quality is now so rare among younger andnnewer Southern storywriters is a mystery whosensolution may be suggested by the probability that thenSouthern writer’s education now takes place not in splendidlynromantic isolation but in some writers’ workshop somewhere.nCreative Writing instruction has been too carelesslyndemonized of late; good workshops...

more complex, multilayered and disturbing “Kettle ofnHawks.” This same admirable and dangerous stubbornnessncan be found in any story from Mary Hood’s two collections.nAnd Venus Is Blue and How Far She Went; indeed,nthere’s something almost atavistic in her stories, heardnsometimes as a spooky echo of the voice of FlannerynO’Connor.nThere are ironies, too, that lie close to...

basis of ethnic background.” Groupnidentity has been drained of any largernmeaning, reduced to a label. Almostnthe only remaining ethnically homogeneousnorganizations are churches.nThe result of all this is that “ethnicity,nonce transmitted by a communalnweb enmeshing families, neighborhoods,nand informal networks, is nowndependent on the identities of individuals.nEthnic identity has becomen”Americanized,” no longer a given butna free assertion...

new world order. My only reservationnwith allowing our current chief executivento exercise sovereign powers is ournpresent difficulty in sorting out twonentirely different political aims: thenprotection of American lives and vitalnnational resources, and the reconstructionnof the world. The confusion of thenfirst with the second is the result of annhistorical process that needs to be examined.nMoynihan touches...

older biographies. Nor, as a whole,ndoes this work even begin to approachnthe art of biography. But it must bensaid that Lingeman is much morendetailed than other biographers, especiallynwhen dealing with Dreiser’s romanticninvolvements, his relations withnhis publishers, and his political ruminations.nAs to his romantic escapades, thenfacts are quite simple: Dreiser wasnsex-obsessed and a compulsive philanderer.nAs one...

the simplicity of their life together wasnunclassifiable.nTheir subsequent trip along the IntracoastalnWaterway in Louisiana isnchronicled in Shantyboat on the Bayous,nan unpublished manuscript Hubbardnleft on his death in 1986 that thenUniversity Press of Kentucky has justnpublished. It takes up where Shantyboatnleft off in New Odeans and tellsnmore stories of traveling, and likenShantyboat is made up of...

Letter From thenLower Rightnby John Shelton ReednLocally Owned and OperatednHow about three news items from antypical week in a Southern universityntown (Chapel Hill, May 1990), just tonget the old motor warmed up after lastnmonth’s absence?nA new law against urinating onnthe sidewalks resulted in andozen arrests, nearly all of themnbeer-drinking students toonpressed to wait or too...

ny’s contributions to the commonwealnare putting “safe sex” leaflets in albumsnby Warner Bros, artists Madonna,nLou Reed, and the B-52’s, andnallowing Madonna to appear at “Don’tnBungle the Jungle,” a rain forest benefitnconcert.nNow, I’ve got more than incidentalninterest in what Time Warner is up to,nbecause five or six years ago Time, Inc.nbought Southern Progress Corporation,npublishers oi Southern...

dicker wasn’t in trouble yet, DeWaldntold him, but he would be if he plantedna cereal crop on the land, which wouldnbe a violation of the “Swampbuster”nact. According to DeWald, the localnconservationist also talked to Widicker,nreiterating that grass seed on the convertednwetland would be okay, but thatneven a nurse crop, or cover crop, in thengrass seed...

right,nI remember, a year or two ago,nreading an article by Charles Krauthammer,nin which he pointed out thatna one-cent tax on imported petroleumncould produce one billion dollars ofnrevenue for the U.S. Treasury, and thatna one-dollar tax could bring in 100nmillion dollars per annum — enough,nhe claimed, to wipe out the federalngovernment’s annual deficit in three ornfour...

and, for those carrying suitcases, thentiresome wait at the luggage conveyorbelt.nHe can do it, furthermore, in anynkind of weather and at roughly half thencost of air travel.nConstructing new railway lines capablenof carrying trains traveling up ton185 miles per hour is, of course, annexpensive business. (Slightly less thanntwo million dollars per mile was thencost of building...

LETTERSnBuzzards andnDodosnGeorge Core (Editor of thenSewanee Review) Talks WithnGeorge Garrett About thenQuarterhesnShortly following his appearance onna panel about book reviewing at thenannual Miami Book Fair, this interviewnwith George Core took place in an15th-story hotel room high abovendowntown Miami, its boarded-up storefrontsnand decay, its winos and druggiesnmercifully out of sight. A quiet, lightfillednroom with a view...

tion on the one hand and, on thenother, promotion. But it seems to menthat these are matters that everybodynhas to be constantly learning about. Indon’t pretend to be an expert. Forninstance, when the copyright lawnchanged in 1978, we went to thenLibrary of Congress, and I talked to anlawyer there who actually called menup. I found...

about the fact that the Kenyan cannotnpossibly take a six- or seven-thousandndollar NEA grant if it means she willnhave to censor her authors. It seems tonme that censorship is not the real issuenand that it’s simply a matter of terminology.nIt will be interesting to seenwhat happens, but I don’t think anybodyncan edit a magazine long...

their ages is only a few months, notnenough to account for an entire undergraduatencareer, they began talking toneach other about their writing; they’venbeen doing that ever since, but specifically,none poem or story or novel at antime. Recently they were prodded into anconversation, carried out through thenmail and on the phone, about contemporarynSouthern poetry. They had...

cultural idiom that parented me, too.nTaylor: Do you mean moon pies andn7-Elevens? Faulkner and O’Connor?nBlues and bluegrass?nCherry; Those things are there,nthough for me they are there on thenperiphery, not at the center, simplynbecause they were not direct influencesnon my childhood. But no, I meannthe larger themes we were talkingnabout.nTaylor: Surely, though. Southernersnaren’t sitting around in...

recipient of the Fellowship ofnSouthern Writers Poetry Award.nHenry Taylor’s most recent book isnThe Flying Change, which won thenPulitzer Prize for poetry in 1986. Henis a professor of English at AmericannUniversity.nTHE ACADEMYnSociology andnCommon Sensenby Steven GoldbergnThe “Common-Sense SociologynTest” made its first appearance innthe mid-1960’s. The test is now anfamiliar fixture in introductory sociologyncourses and textbooks, but...

likely to occur when conditions havenbeen bad but are rapidly improving.nWhen conditions are bad and stay bad,npeople take their misfortune for granted,nbut when conditions suddenly improvenpeople develop higher aspirationsnand become easily frustrated.nComment: This is an excellentnquestion. It is precisely the sort ofnquestion that the test promises but failsnto deliver throughout: it attacks a beliefnthat really...

does not accurately reflect the federalnsituation, is interesting, but, at best,nonly mildly surprising. It is the statenand local bureaucracies with whichnpeople have the most daily experience,nexperience that leads them to correctlynbelieve that bureaucracy in general hasnincreased significantly.nQ. Exposure to pornography makesnpeople more likely to commit sexncrimes?nA. Studies of sex offenders show thatnthey are less likely...