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great ornithologists of the century. Or look at the morenfamous J. Henri Fabre, the son of small farmers in Provence,nwho recognized in the imperfect observations of the waspnCerceris by Leon Dufour an opportunity for entomologicalnstudy that he was to pursue his whole life, despite a largenfamily, little money and little free time; his assistant professorshipnat...

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Arguing persuasively that the earth, thus the environment, isnneither fragile in any way nor even greatly threatened, henwas entirely convincing that we would solve many besettingnenvironinental problems much sooner than anyone, most ofnall so-called environmentalists, can imagine. Remembernhow they all said, in their received wisdom, it would take ancentury or more to “save” Lake Erie?nAnd...

KICK IT AS IT LAYSnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.nIwas drinking a whiskey atnthe Frontier Saloon innFrontier, Wyoming, a couplenof nights ago when my hostnmentioned a report he hadnwatched on CNN regardingnthe desperate plight of NewnYork City and the depthsnto which it has plummeted.nThirty — even twenty —nyears ago, ambitious Americans,nwhether born and brednin Dallas, Texas, or...

WHERE THE CATTLEnARE FAT . . .nby Jane GreernThe good news fornLinton, North Dakota,nis not that things have improvednbut that someone withnclout has finally noticed howngood things have always been.nMost of Linton’s residentsnwere born there, 65 milesnsoutheast of Bismarck. Lots ofnpeople have left over thenyears, and no one ever movesnto Linton except by marriagen— that...

THROWING THE RASCALS OUTnby Odie B. FaulknN’note September 18,n1990, as a historic date.nOn that fateful Tuesday, peoplenin the Sooner State stuckntheir heads out their windowsnand, in that great line fromnNetwork, shouted at politicians,n”We’re mad as Hell,nand we ‘re not going to take itnanymore.”nThe object of this angernwas politicians entrenched innoffice and seemingly impossiblento dislodge through...

few things. Speaking Christianly, of course one can say thatnfrom the perspective of faith, the same reason will exist fornbeing happy at Christmas 1990 that has existed ever sincenthat unique Nativity in Bethlehem just about two thousandnyears ago. But knowing reasons for being happy in principlendoes not always guarantee being happy in practice. However,nleaving aside...

barbecue I feared the worst — something like the catfishnrecipe I saw in Esquire not long ago that called for mincednshallots, dry Sauterne, heavy cream, and poached seedlessngrapes, with pastry crescents in place of hushpuppies. ButnJake & Earl’s is run by a Southside Virginia boy, ChrisnSchlesinger, who reportedly tends a pretty good, traditionalnpit. My spy...

singham’s payroll and perhaps refusednhis orders, with the result that hisnservice and life were terminated.nThe plot of Entered From the Sunnturns upon Marlowe’s death. Thenleading characters of the novel —nJoseph Hunnyman, a minor player innthe theater and a petty confidencenman, and Captain William Barfoot, annadventurer and soldier—are hired bynrival shadowy organizations to investigatenMarlowe’s death and...

Which was no mean feat in itself andnone that would, considering the obscenenpart played by college athleticnprograms, serve as a star in the crownnof any university president. In all fairnessnthough, I should point out thatnHutchins had this advantage over mostnuniversity presidents, many of whomndoubtless agreed with his belief thatnfootball had “the same relation toneducation that...

reeducate the Germans, andnadopt a policy of nonfraternization.nWe hate slavery andnpropose forced labor. We wantnEurope rebuilt, but will have nonheavy industry in Germany. Wenwant order in Europe, but not ifnwe have to sacrifice to preventnstarvation. We are againstndictatorship, but the dictatorshipnof the proletariat is annexception. And the new dayndawns by the light of thenburning homes...

undocumented references to afErmativenaction — Category 3 —laws on behalfnof its Sephardic minority. Exceptnthat the Sephardics may well be in anmajority, which would rudely shiftnthese actions into Category 2.)nSowell also persistently refuses tonface the difficult questions. Thus, inndiscussing Category 2, “Majority Preferencesnin Minority Economies,” henconfronts situations where the numericalnmajority acts through governmentnto hobble economically dominant...

lation in these countries? Would henbrusquely dismiss any Latvian attemptsnto preserve their identity and culturenby, say, restricting the voting power ofnimmigrant Russians? And if not, whynwould he accord Latvians or Moldaviansnany more privileged a status thannthe Assamese?nThis is not to deny that Sowell theneconomist brings strengths to his analysis.nHis insistence that ethnic discriminationntakes place far,more...

their time have become a pop culturencliche? Is it because Orbison’s persona,ndespite the rock trappings, was uncharismatic?nOr is it because Ellis Amburn,nwho previously collaborated on booksnwith Shelley Winters and PriscillanPresley, lacks the capacity to be surprisednby his subject?nOne rule of thumb in these cases is:nwhen in doubt, blame the writer.nThere is no sense in Dark...

previous works of 19th-century Russiannhistory, as well as upon newnarchival sources, to develop importantnmeans of analysis that help make intelligiblenthe ultimate failure of the effortnto reform the autocracy of CzaristnRussia. There is little doubt that thesensame means are most helpful in understandingnthe challenges facing the variousnnationalities contained by the SovietnEmpire.nCzarist Russia suffered a humiliatingndefeat in...

The Churchesnand thenBettermentnHumannExistencenr”;”S.”V^”7″:nWhy are so many churchesntoday stepping to a worldlyndrumbeat, telling membersnhow to pursue a “good” lifenhere and now? In this hardhittingnbook Kenneth Hamiltonnmaintains that churches everywherenare making the mistakenof commending the gospel primarilynon the grounds of thenpersonal and social gbod it cannbring about on this earth. Henargues that abstract Utopianntheories and Gnostic.idealsnhave infiltrated...

Letter FromnSwitzerlandnby Geoffrey WagnernSnow and ChocolatesnI shall not easily forget my first visit tonSwitzerland. The end of the war left mynbattalion encamped north of Perugia.nLeave was suddenly generous, and ridesnin military transport easy to find, at leastnfor a young ensign in the Brigade ofnGuards. Hoping to flush a retired unclenin the Bernese Oberiand I somehow...

first visit to these parts after the war.nThen I stayed at the Beau Rivage innnearby Ouchy (Lausanne now), wherenI met a strange gaggle of collabosnrunning for their lives, including thenlikes of Coco Chanel and Etienne denBeaumont. In those days the refugeenrich were in abundance on this littlenRiviera — I had the dying CountessnPotocki pointed out...

If push comes to shove, will Quebecntake a walk? Plainly some separatistsnhave been looking for an excuse, and itnmay be that Canada is finally as untenablenan idea as, say, the Soviet Union.nNot long ago Time magazine wasnsaying confidently that prosperity hadnundermined Quebec nationalism, butnau contraire, mes amis, it may merelynhave given the secessionists the resourcesnthey...

POLITICSnThe LastnJeffersoniannby Bill KauffmannLet Vermont State Senator JohnnMcClaughry describe himselfn(with what he calls “a notorious Ozarknaccent”): ” am a 1700’s Virginia republican,nan 1800 Tertium Quid, ann1830’s Loco Foco, an 1850’s Republican,nan 1890’s Western progressive, an1930’s agrarian distributist, and today anplain old decentralist agrarian Reaganaut.”nIt makes perfect sense. Alas, nonone gets it.nJohn McClaughry was born in...

would represent constituencies ofnabout two hundred people. Shiresnwould not be mere units of administration;nthey would actually make policy.nA liberal Burlington shire, for example,nmight spend prodigally for welfare,nwhile rural shires opted for Coolidgeannparsimony.nWith “geography as cocoon andnhistory as memory,” Vermont is annideal site for the rebirth of grass-rootsndemocracy. Its population is scatterednamongst 246 small towns steeped...

HISTORYnThe Life of an ^OldnRepublican’nby Clyde WihonnNathaniel MaconnNathaniel Macon (Dec. 17, 1758-nJune 29, 1837), “Old Republican”nstatesman, the foremost publicnman of North Carolina in the earlyn19th century, was the sixth child ofnGideon and Priscilla (Jones) Maconnand was born at his father’s plantationnon Shocco Creek in what later becamenWarren County. The Macons werenFrench Huguenots in origin, thenJoneses...

Chase impeachment, for instance) ornprevent him from being chivalric towardnopponents in personal relations.nDespite his firmness, Macon was oftennpragmatic in matters of political tacticsnand knew when to compromise andnyield to his party on smaller issues. Hisnjudgment was always well-balanced, hisndealings moderate. His speeches werenbusinesslike and to the point, his firstncongressional speech reportedly beingnone sentence. With one...

em planters and Northern republicansnagainst antislavery agitation and economicnexploitation. Opposing iiullificationnand considering secession thenproper remedy, he also chastised Jacksonnfor his responding proclamation,nwhich he found to be as contrary “tonwhat was the Constitution” as nullification.nIn 1835 Macon was unanimouslynelected presiding officer of thenstate constitutional’convention, althoughnin the end he opposed thenrevisions that were adopted, especiallynthe change from...

Pro-Choice’s dirtyniittie secrots. Exposed.n”Hats off to New Dimensions. As America enters then1990s, it is encouraging to know that there is anstraight-shooting, no-nonsense news source forngrassroots America.” Watch out Time andnNewsweek. _^^^^ K. Doman, U.S. CongressmannEver since Roe v. Wade, the nation’snnews media have virtually blacked outnthe real story of abortion in America.nOnly one side of...

Quite simply: tlie finestnoite-‘voluiiie Cliristiaii refereiieenin tlte Bnglislt’Spealfiiiig ^vorldn^s^j’n’Indispensable^^.. “has no peer”… “^singkmastnus^l r^erence book for Christianity” — a few cftivenaccolades for tins magisterial worknNothing of Christian interest is absent from these pages. The sweep is awesome:nThe history of the Church * doctrines •*• denominations * short biographies of somen4,500 eminent Christians: modek of accuracy...

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ideas of someone else (and who’s to saynthat in the chain of command they didnnot ultimately come from him; shenwould not seem to have been in anposition to know) and put words tonthem.nIf the latter, then she seems to share andistressing attribute of conservatives thatnthis new conservative has observed: annNONCOMPLIANCE WITH then1990 census was massive:...

ness. I was convicted, given a 60-day jailnsentence (suspended), and fined $100.nOne beneficent result of my little campaignnwas to stir the Congress to removenthe jail sentence from the censusnstatute; the $ 100 fine still applies to thenuncooperative but is almost never assessed.nOn April 24, 1969, I had the honornof testifying before the late Senator SamnErvin’s...

but its own network of outlets fornpetroleum products in Europe. Kuwaitnhas the Middle East’s largest nitrogenousnorganic fertilizer industry. It hasnoverseas ventures in both oil and fertilizern(including ownership of oil reservesnin the United States). It has anstock exchange and a general reserve ofngovernment-owned financial assetsnthat have in some years yielded incomenrivaling that produced by its oil...

systems (Argentina, India, Iran, Iraq,nNorth Korea, and Syria) would requirena substantial military effort to subdue.nBut in the current domestic politicalnenvironment, the United States willnnot take the steps necessary to create ornmaintain a military capability of sufficientnglobal reach to protect its interests.nIt thus risks becoming a largernversion of Kuwait, a nation of greatnwealth but with major...

permit themselves to voice the oldnvalues of biblical religion. No tolerancenwas shown to Harvard undergraduatenSumner Anderson, ’92, president ofnthe Republican Club, whose remarks,nprinted in the Harvard Crimson,ncaused outrage. Anderson’s assertionnthat homosexuality is a disease that isnrepulsive and “just totally abnormal,”nallegedly generated general outrage onncampus. His expressions, “repulsive”nand “abnormal” are not stronger thannthe Hebrew word to’ebah,...

ed to do was gobble up a small feudalnenclave that could not possibly havenexisted without superpower protectionnand to raise the price of oil so he couldnpay off the $70-billion debt he piled upnduring his nine-year war with Iran.nOf course, his drastic and bloodthirstynmeans of satisfying that ambitionndid raise serious implications fornthe national security and economicnwell-being...

national elite. “We,” the Presidentncontinued, referring to the other leadersnof Western Europe, the MiddlenEast, Asia, North and South America,nNATO, and presumably the Red Crossnand the Knights Templars, “we agreenthat this is not an American problem orna European problem or a Middle Eastnproblem. It is the world’s problem.” Atnwhich point the citizens of every independentncountry in...

PERSPECTIVEnFurther Reflections on ViolencenSaddam Hussein’s little expedition into Kuwait has begunnto take on the colors of a counter-crusade againstnEuropean and American influence in the Middle East. As Inwrite, in the second week of August, it is too early to predictnthe outcome of any of President Bush’s diplomatic andnmilitary initiatives. In general, he deserves praise for...

alliance against the United States.nAs Sam Francis points out, the Iraqi dictator has committednan unforgivable sin by acting as a nationalist in anninternationalist age. Now that the Cold War is over andnhistory has come to a screeching halt, the United States andnits once-again noble ally the Soviet Union will join hands toninsure the peace and...

And while it has usually been my task to defend communitynagainst the inroads made by society, it is task perhaps evennmore vital to defend society against the smothering affectionnof world communalism.nWhen men band together for a purpose, that purposendefines a competitive struggle for results both within thengroup and between groups. In a hunting party, it...

in the name of universal peace and freedom, we are free tonsuppress an Arab bully who represents no material threat tonour security or vital interests, it is because we are willing tonsurrender huge portions of our national autonomy to thenUnited Nations.nDo I exaggerate? Here is the language of the President’sndeclaration of war — make no...

less conscious and public identity, which reflects theirnhistory and values. This is the implicit basis for their internalncohesion and their mobilized interaction with other nations.nThe experiences attendant upon interaction, friendly ornunfriendly, with other peoples will play back and become anformative influence upon the sense of identity itself)nOne of the central features of American nationalism isnthat...

assertion.nIt was in the crucible of the Civil War that the firstnAmerican nationalism in the strict sense was formed. ThenCivil War has faded in memory and significance to generationsnof Americans who have seen two World Wars, anworldwide empire, and vast social changes. Yet the CivilnWar — in terms of the mobilization and casualties, and innterms...

the triumph of nationalist Progressivism was a change in thennature of American leadership. The old gentry, which hadnevolved leaders from the locality, had been supplanted by annational, even international, class of politicians, publicists,nexperts, intellectuals, and professionals who acted in manynrespects together, had, broadly speaking, common goals,nand who considered themselves to be the natural masters ofnthe...

optimism, and progress, began to regard American successnnot as an end but as a means. The successful mobilizationnagainst the totalitarianism of the right, which they believed,nperhaps mistakenly, to be a demon from the past rather thanna portent of the future, proved to them the need andnpossibility for worldwide democracy on the Americannmodel — democracy conceived...

and ongoing experiment in testing the limits of nationalncohesion. Vast segments of American society have been andnare being Hispanicized and Asianized. No one knows whatnthe long-range consequences of this will be. To some extentnit works against not only traditional Western culture andnreligion, but also against liberal tendencies, such as separationnof church and state and feminism....

of American carriers like my Midway in the press, boastingnthat he could dispose of such “pleasure boats” any time henchose.nSimilarly, in daily press releases, Mao’s China wasnspewing out rage at the Seventh Fleet’s blocking action innthe Taiwan Straits, and vowing to mount amphibiousnassaults to reclaim their “rightful possessions” offshore. Tonthe man on the street, it...

Richard Nixon later brought into being.nThe irony of all this, insofar as my story goes, is not sonmuch the injustice of it all, as the self-inflicted wound ournleaders put on us by staking out at the outset greatnprecautions against arousing the Chinese tiger to act as it didnin Korea — to enter the fray and...

at Annapolis in 1943, ultimately to rise to become chairmannof the Joint Chiefs of Staff in time to face perestroika when itnwas new — told me that one of the best things about thentotal newness of it all was that there was no man in the worldnto whom George Shultz could turn for advice. He...

standards of prisoner conduct, pretty much ran the clandestinencommunication system that made a prison societynpossible, planned and executed escapes, started riots onnsignal, and generally charged the bull head-on withoutncompunction. When the diehard underground choked upnthe system, had everybody refusing to do the same thingsnand thus shutting down the propaganda factory (nobody butn”willings” to be put...

1989 alone, nine bills in the Senatenand eleven in the House proposednsome sort of national service. PresidentnBush’s $25 million Youth Engaged innService (YES), the least ambitious plannof national service, would create anPoints of Light Foundation to grant taxnfunds to promising private organizationsnand public service programs. Thenmost ambitious plan, the bill that hasndrawn the most attention...

June 1813 it was suggested that thenLandwehr be integrated into the generalnarmy, and the suggestion was fladynrejected. The integrity of thenLandwehr, and the idea on which itnwas based — that a community is bestndefended by its own citizens — were tonbe preserved.nThis idea played no small role in thenmilitary superiority of the GermannArmed Forces (the...

All eighteen-year-old males, or allnmales upon graduation from highnschool, could be required to give onenyear of service. They would first benrequired to participate in a threemonthnperiod of military training, in anboot-camp type of environment. (Itnappears that any compulsory system ofnnational service that did not mandatensome sort of military service would benin violation of the Thirteenth...