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probably accomplishes the test’s goal ofnsurprising them with a correct answer.nHowever, at least as many (in mynexperience) are aware that a relativelynsmall percentage of welfare recipientsnare malingerers or cheaters. In fairnessnit should be said that this may not havenbeen true when the question was originallynwritten and, if we again wish to bengenerous, we might give...

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EDITORnThomas FlemingnMANAGING EDITORnKatherine DaltonnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSnChilton “Williamson, ]r.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...

question is, what can be done about it?nI know about the deeper causes, thencultural-ethnic problems and thenbreakdown of self-discipline and familynvalues. But as a New Yorker, I’mnlooking for a quicker fix, and as anlibertarian I’m trained to look to governmentnas both the problem and thensolution. Government as the problemnis the welfare state, which creates massivendependency...

tended Sacred Heart College, still goingnstrong). Apparently two plaquesnwere put up by the United Daughtersnof the Confederacy to mark the site,nironically on Union Avenue, wherenDavis lodged with one of Montreal’snleading citizens, John Lovell. Whitenleftists and black activists have demandednthat the plaques be removed.nOnly a French plaque remains.n— Lionel AlbertnMontreal, CanadanOn Tour Papers, Please’nI don’t know...

when there’s a showing of an execution,nviewers will also see the victim ofnthe crime, say, the mutilated corpse ofna rape atrocity or some adolescentnwhose arms were hacked off, or thenscantily clad casualHes of the midnightnstrangler. Take the Willy Horton problemnand the many kindhearted peoplenlike Michael Dukakis who think criminalsnshouldn’t be put away in somensolitary confinement...

mine research, since one of the ostensivenjustifications for the Factories isnthat they allow their faculties time tondo research and publish. But only ansmall number of the highly paid,ntenured faculty at American universitiesnpublish anything. In the vast majoritynof Factories the unwritten rulenfor the highest paid faculty is “Don’tnpublish and get rich.” Since they alsonteach less and...

group’s “music” derived from the blacknculture of the ghetto. In November anneven greater African-American peaknwas scaled with the news that Dr.nMartin Luther King, Jr. pilfered significantnportions of his doctoral dissertation.nThe latter discovery might seem toncast a shadow over the thriving industrynof discrediting Euro-American historynand culture and weaving a new mythologynof racial consciousness that AlfrednRosenberg would...

Iam a Cornishman, a Celt, born in the far southwest ofnEngland. Apart from the six years of the Second WorldnWar and my time as a student at a college of education, Inhave lived the whole of my life not only in the smallnmarket-town of Launceston, where I was born, but alsonwithin the same parish.nCornwall is...

And lavender and margueritenForge with their flowers an English sky.n”Turn now towards the belling townnYour jigsaws of impossible bone,nAnd rising read your rank of snownAccurate as death upon the stone.”nAbout your easy heads my prayersnI said with syllables of clay.n”What gift,” I asked, “shall I bring nownBefore I weep and walk away?”nTake, they replied, the...

“Eden Rock,” is a look forwards.nThey are waiting for me somewhere beyondnEden Rock:nMy father, twenty-five, in the same suitnOf Genuine Irish Tweed, his terrier JacknStill two years old and trembling at his feet.nMy mother, twenty-three, in a sprigged dressnDrawn at the waist, ribbon in her straw hat.nHas spread the stifl- white cloth over the grass.nHer...

If you’re hooked on the history of flight.,.nAccept Guest Membership innThe National Air & Space MuseumnYour first benefit is the next issue ofnAIR(SSPACEnSmithsoniannMan’s greatest adventure began when OrvillenWright Ufted off the ground for 12 seconds.nSixty-six years later, Neil Armstrong landed onnthe moon. But it wasn’t until 1986 that anmagazine devoted to flight was born.nNOWnyou can...

Perhaps I can offer my second suggestion in a somewhatnlighter vein, though the suggestion itself is no less serious. Itnis that we strive eagerly to resurrect the English language,nnow virtually defunct. Many people have called attention tonthe decline of the language and have sought the root causenof the malady; my own diagnosis is simple laziness....

“science is what got us where we are.” If that were yournreaction, I should consider the point made, and rest my case.nBut let me be more specific. It was fashionable, for a time, tonask the silly question, “If we can put a man on the moon,nwhy can’t we solve our social problems?” The reason wencannot...

not have time for. The promise is seldom kept: many people reasonable, though perhaps it is merely a rationalization ofnstop reading entirely, and most of the remainder read only in my own joy. Scientists, as we know, deal in probabilitiesnspecialized fields. That must not happen.nrather than, as was once thought, in absolute laws. AnythingnIt would...

common pride born out of the “sharing” of warfare and ofn”lesser” perils that produced among men of every opinion anrepository of natural fellow-feeling. The seemingly miraculousnconfirmation of what Americans had said about themselves,ntogether, through the Continental Congress, in thenDeclaration of Independence, made possible in 1783 theirnacceptance of a formal connection in the Articles ofnConfederation. A...

ski, editor of The Documentary History of the Ratificationnof the Constitution, has written of the July 1788 Federalistnvictory in the Empire State that, despite a more thanntwo-to-one Antifederalist advantage in delegate commitments,n”it was felt that all of the ratifying states could not benwrong, and therefore the Constitution should be given anchance.” In the second volume...

I * I The pho|os haunt^ you from a gentler era,n4 I ‘ JThe Eisenhower years^ you thought were boring.nk J E!_hotos alcorny unclp finight havelshownn iW&iile, as you’d put it, he did insurance whoringnIn a small town- tavern, over beersf )nYou see a Southern*” football afternoon, InA mother sits beside, the faniily Ford.n’ ....

as Pound, but while Pound and tonsome extent Eliot were attempting tonset their own work within a context of anliterary tradition that included Vergil,nOvid, Propertius, and Dante, Elizabethanndrama and Provencal song,nMoore draws from any book or magazinenarticle she happens to have comenacross in the library. What is evennmore exasperating is her inclusion ofnfamily in-jokes and...

year as a book by Wallace Stevens, andnthose appearing the same year as one ofnEliot’s extremely kooky books.”nBly blames the domestication ofnpoets on the universities and the NationalnEndowment for the Arts, whichnhas enabled publishers to put out booksnof bad or indifferent verse without takingnrisks or suffering consequences. Innaddition to the “genial corruption” ofnsmall publishers paying...

very sensibly of the trap into whichnmodern poets have fallen. Nonetheless,nSteele remains optimistic: “Whoncould have predicted in 1560 thatnShakespeare would be born? Whoncould have anticipated, at that rathernundistinguished point in English literarynhistory, the extraordinary work thatnhe and contemporaries like Jonson andnDonne would be producing before thencentury was out?”nOne can only wish that such optimismnwere justified....

probably Whitman who tempts himninto such lugubrious mistakes as thesenlines from “Praise for Death”: “Let usnpraise death in old age. Wagging ourntails, / bowing, whimpering, let usnpraise sudden crib-death / and death innbattle.” It was the thought of Whitmannor of Christopher Smart that causednhim to write: “We praise death whennwe smoke, and when we stop...

^^'”Phe Coffee Cup” takes this lat-nJL ter theme as its subject. Calmlynit set the scene of life in a small NewnHampshire town: “The newspaper, thencoffee cup, the dog’s / impatience fornhis morning walk: / These fibers braidnthe ordinary mystery.” The lines thennrecord the death and funeral of Anthonyn”Cat” Middleton, the schoolbusndriver, and of his replacement...

no idea.nHere, where I stand upon thenartist’s pointn(That’s reason) watching thenfrigid northnAnd world’s epistle side, what’snfaith to menBut art to see a single curvingnrownOf pillars close the mentalnhemisphere;nWhat’s faith, that is, but ournperimeternOf somethingntranscendental . . .nSome of this density of hypotactic elaborationnis not altogether Hardison’s ownnbut belongs to that baroque moment ofnthe 50’s when...

ground of chaos, disorder, and destruction,nof a life raved away in alcoholism,nhallucination, and revelation. Berrymanndoes not, however, merely exploitnhis personal anguish; instead, with colloquialnintimacy, he deals with thenpredicament of persons in a world whonhave suffered not only the loss of Godnbut the loss of themselves. Berryman’sncourage compelled him to record withnclarity and frankness his own...

Letter FromnCosta Ricanby Geoffrey WagnernAmerica in Spanish?nAmerican Airlines flies you down tonSan Jose daily, all announcements innEnglish. Indeed, almost everyone in thenCosta Rican capital seems able to speaknexcellent English, prompting the ironynof local kids all studying the languagenhard, to be impeded from practicing itnshould they reach compulsorily bilingualnschools in America. As a matter ofnfact, on...

for a sample. Apart from such inevitablenglitches, however, Costa Rica’sntourism thrust is exemplary and commendable.nWhat’s the hope that in anfew years’ time Mom and Pop will bendisplacing the backpackers to Nicaragua?nGeoffrey Wagner’s latest book is ThenRed Crab, a novelized version of thenCuban takeover in Grenada.nLetter From thenHeartlandnby Jane GreernHighway RobberynOn our Disneyland day, the first...

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EDUCATIONnIn Loco Parentisnby Laura RogersnThe Brave New Familynin MissourinMany people are concerned aboutnthe problems that face our nationntoday, and the good folks at thenMissouri Department of Education arenno exception. In an attempt to reversenthe decline in enrollment and the highndropout rate, and to win back parentalnfavor for the public school system, Missourinlaunched an experimental parentingnprogram...

change agent, the “significant other,”nwill be working with the children in an”mentoring program” or perhaps as an”certified parent educator.” This newn”certified parent educator” deliversnfree medical care, free nutrition counseling,nfree mental health services, andnfree food — all things formerly providednby the parents.nAs time goes on children spendnmore time at school than at home.nServices are increased. The...

Missouri shows a videotape advertisingnthe program to new parents in thenhospital before they take their babynhome. In a 1990 St. Louis Dispatchnarticle, Mildred Winter of the Parentsnas Teachers National Center at thenUniversity of Missouri at St. Louis said,n”Some of our parent educators follownexpectant women around the supermarketnso they can ask them whethernthey know about the...

liquidated the timber resources of IslandnPark. Their justification was a pine barknbeetle infestation. The Forest Servicendeviated from a stated policy of sustainednyields and increased timber harvestnlevels to upwards of 76 millionnboard feet of timber per year—levelsnfar in excess of what the area can grownon a sustained basis. And as clear-cutnareas grew, the micro-climate of thenarea...

for restoration of the area. It would haventhe obligation to manage in a mannernthat enhances the ecological integrity ofnthe area while providing opportunitiesnfor sustainable businesses.nThink of this board as a publicninterest foundation representing bothnlocal and national interests. It wouldnbuild on more than eight hundred yearsnof common law experience with trustnrelationships involving colleges, hospitals,nand museums, extending...

stupider behavior, and it is unfair thatnwe are being so severely punished nownfor their old peccadillos. Without thencensorship then, their books wouldnhave been forgotten; without the morenrecent tizzy over the ratings (R? X? ornthe new NC-17), the film about themnwould not have been worth talkingnabout.nMartin Loader in Tune in Tomorrownwants to go to the imaginary...

kill Sunny, dragging her into the bathroomnand opening the window so shenmight freeze to death, abetting thensuicide she had already initiated andnentirely convinced that he was doingnwhat she wanted. It was what he wantedntoo, of course, more money beingnalways better than less. Von Billow’snattorney, Alan Dershowitz, believes innhis client’s innocence, and has suggestednthat, had Von...

thought the United States was probablyntrying to do something impossible.nTrying to do the impossible means,noften, evasion, for it keeps you fromnthe possible, from savoring what younhave.nShe was replying to a remark ofnmine that in some sense Europe wasnone culture and many peoples, and thenUnited States wanted to be one peoplenand many cultures, Europe inside-out.nThe general...

against the sovereign (some of them)nare remembered.nThis readiness not only of individualsnbut of public authority to say itnwas wrong is at the heart of respect fornopposition, probably the most accuratenmeasure of freedom in a country. Itnhas also made possible the independencenof the judiciary, an institutionnthat decisively separates the modernnfrom the ancient world, as Montesquieunfirst realized....

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Chapman calls that “old liberal porridge”nfrom the “great stove of governmentnexpansionism.” This is hardly anclarion call to rev up the draft boards.nSecondly, the charge that I outline anfascistic plan of national service is patentlynabsurd. A system of national servicenorganized and operated at the statenand local levels — meeting the socialnand environmental needs deemed worthynby state...

resist aggression.nAs the Gulf farce continues, we arenprovided with almost daily evidencenthat George Bush is a worthy successornto Jimmy Carter. It was under Garternthat the crusade for international humannrights came out in the open as ancampaign against national sovereignty,nand throughout the so-called crisis innthe Gulf, the key American decisionsnhave nearly all been justified on thengrounds...

nia hospitials and clinics now encouragenillegal aliens to claim residency innCalifornia so that their facilities cannclaim Medi-Cal reimbursement.nThe San Diego suburb of Encinitas,nonce a peaceful middle-class communitynknown for its beautiful beachesnand gardens, is reportedly now kneedeepnin vagrants, panhandlers, squatternvillages, and crime as a result of Mexicannand Central American immigration.nTen years ago the Central Valleyntown of...

doubt whether they are all that good,nand rightly so. The competition to gainnentry into the so-called elite universitiesnis brutal; for every one who isnchosen, ten are rejected. The selectionnprocess confers upon the chosen notnonly pride but also self-doubt. Snobberynand conceit then must cover upnthe uncertainty. The faculties at elitenschools also pay a psychological price.nThey know...

WHAT IS THE ART WORLD’Snstate in America today? The answerndepends on whom you talk to and whatnthey do. Some of the answers I’venheard are: rich, poor, over- and underfunded,nneglected, status-laden, censored,nsilly, profound, personal, public,npatriotic, obscene, sacrilegious, attacked,nelitist, sexist, postmodern, pluralistic,nand so on. And all are true.nAnything and everything is sold in thenAmerican art industry.nAs an...

Principalities & Powersnby Samuel Francisn1 here’s a bad moon on the rise, and asn1990 drew to a close, the Americannruling class began to huddle in its tentsnto meet the coming storm. When ex-nKlansman David Duke seized 44 percentnof the vote in Louisiana’s senatorialnelection last October, the howling ofnthe political cyclone could be heardneven in the...

Obviously, the attitudes recorded bynthe Times Mirror survey do not constitutena coherent ideology, but they donpoint to profound dissatisfactions thatncannot be resolved within the frameworknof left-right politics. Attitudes thatnmight be classed as “conservative”nseem to coexist with those that wouldnnormally be called “liberal,” and whatnis significant is that not much of anyonenseems to support increased opportunitiesnfor...

When I told friends that I was going to Italy to studynthe political situation there, the usual response wasnan amused puzzlement. Italian politics, I was informed, isnlike the Italian army: a grand opera performance of a comicnopera plot. I am not so sure. Since the later Middle Ages,nthe Italians have been feuding and fighhng in...

power of organized crime, continually recur, like musicalnthemes, in every conversation about politics.nMy excuse for spending three weeks in Italy was anninvitation from the Centro Internazionale di Studi Lombardin(the International Center for Lombard Studies) to read anpaper comparing American and European democracy.nCEISLO is ably directed by Professor Giuditta Podesta ofnthe University of Genoa, who has...