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to win and hold the White House, theneconomic, fiscal, and regulatory policiesnof the 1980’s gave these veryngroups a fat lip, while allowing thencorporate rich, a cadre of feloniousnfinancial wizards, and a select band ofnwell-fed “conservative populists” to becomenopulent. Mr. Phillips buttressesnthis argument with the same kind ofnstatistical megatonnage that has madenhis other books so formidable,...

World War II, managerial forces werenresisted only by the remnants of thenbourgeois elite and by newly formednsocial strata that found managerial liberalismna profound source of resentmentnand frustration. Until the 1980’s, whatnwas known as “conservatism” generallynrepresented this bourgeois and postbourgeoisnpolitical and cultural resistancento the managerial apparatus ofnpower and its agenda — heavy regulationnof the economy by...

surgency.nThe formula worked as long as thenTeflon President was there, and it hasnworked for his successor since GoodnOld Dutch was strapped to his ponynand hauled back to his ranch. But it maynnot work much longer if recession andnthe economic woes Mr. Phillips discussesnpop out of the political woodwork asnthey seem to be doing.nWhat is surprising...

There’s a part of your brainnreserved for brisk, refreshing,ndiscriminating thinking.nStimulate it.nBy introducing yourself to one of the nation s most btimiilaling, thoughttiil,nand unique newt, maga7ines National Review keeps NOU in touch with the othernpoint of view which has come to be a necessity toi the trul> informed peison mnthese days of ‘homogenized news reporting NR...

takes us through years that are studdednwith the names of Leo Blech, BrunonWalter, Wilhelm Furtwangler, andnmany others, until the disintegration ofnEurope and the Nazification of Germanyndrove Melchior to America for good.nThe ascendancy of Hitler and his relationshipnto Wagner, to Bayreuth, and tonmusical politics, Emmons plays for allnits worth. The personal stories of FridanLeider, Kirsten Flagstad,...

found Sons and Lovers funny. JeffreynMeyers’ objective, dispassionate approachnto Lawrence reflects thisnchange of atmosphere, and two thingsnin particular emerge from reading hisnwell-documented, fascinating book:nhow influential Lawrence has been,nand how dated his writing now looks.nThese are not irreconcilables. Lawrence,na working-class boy from a miningnvillage out of the mainstream ofnEnglish life, was really a 19th-centurynfigure, more preacher...

Letter From Parisnby Curtis CatenTwo Triumphs ofn’Mediacracy’nSeldom in France’s recent history hasnthe difference between what is trulynurgent and important and what thenpublic is concerned with been so apparentnas during the past twelvemonth.nLast October, at a time when internationalnattention was focused on thenflood tide of East German refugees thatnwas surging through the breach in thenIron Curtain...

that the Koran does not specificallynordain the wearing of a head shawl,nsince the crucial 23 rd Sura (Verse 59)napplies to the wives and daughters ofnthe Prophet and the “wives of thenfaithful” — thus excluding unmarriednschoolgirls — and refers furthermore tonthe wearing of the full-length haik,ncovering not only the head but thenentire body down to the...

their action was likely to be givennnational publicity by the media.nIn a word, what was involved — atnNantes and Carpentras — was an actnnot only of profanation, but of provocation:nnot only against a particularncommunity or against “respectable”nsociety, but against the notion of thendivine and all that is held to be sacred.nBut this question of the...

LAWnYour Papers, Pleasenby R. Cort KirkwoodnNearly every film using Europe as anbackdrop for international intrigue,nespecially those featuring Nazisnin black leather trench coats, employs anscene in which the hero is crossingntransnational borders on a slow-movingntrain. As he nervously exhales a cloud ofnblue smoke from an unfiltered cigarette,n1 the authorities move from berth to berthnchecking identity papers....

France and Germany? Because theyndo.”nWhatever the gravity of illegal immigration,nthinking Americans mightnask some questions before they beginncooperating in a scheme that wouldnvastly improve the federal government’snability to code and trace theirndaily business. Mr. Simcox admits thatnsuddenly “asking” Americans to carryna national identification card would benpolitically intolerable, adding that morensevere forms of internal identificationncontrol would require...

view of Barr, which means it was justnabout carved in stone — at least untilnshe riled up thirty thousand people innJack Murphy Stadium.nThe lasting image from the wholenaffair — the one of America’s Blue-nCollar Queen singing the national anthemnfingers-in-ears to block the soundnof public rejection — was compellingnto me, in part because I’m the productnof...

Though they depict families at differentnends of the economic spectrum,nboth shows present a mass audiencenwith characters and situations that arenrecognizable without being realistic.n(When people want reality, they turnnthe set off.) Whatever Roseanne’s pretensionsn(or offenses), it was conceivednby its creators and is perceived by itsnconsumers as television — the entertainmentnequivalent of fast food — andntherefore has...

came from irony-deficient yuppienscum.nPersonally, I think the remark aboutn”a hipper crowd” was the most perfectlynwrongest thing Barr could have said.nBut overall, I found her press conferencengratifying. By making plain thatnshe really doesn’t know any better (ifnpeople tune in your ironic TV shownand buy tickets to your ironic comedynact, why wouldn’t they enjoy yournironic rendition of...

simple needs. He worked for decadesnas a dofFer in the local cotton millnbefore becoming a full-time musicnteacher in the 1950’s. He was one ofnthe most popular and best liked men innLaGrange. His good looks charmednthe women and good nature charmednthe men, and never did he hesitate tonshare what little he ever had withnanyone in need;...

Pro-Choice’s dirtyniittle secrets. 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. .R^b^rt 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...

‘”The finestnfirsthand picturenof Americannpioneer Hfenever writtennfor chilcbren.”n—San Francisco ChroniclenThe LITTLE HOUSE Storiesnby Laura Ingalls Wildernii ivA’tt’Sln- ^ »n•^O^irnRetail $29.95 • 9 quality paperbacks in handsome illustrated slipcasenYoursnFREE!nBeloved by children for generations, these books portray an America where family, hard work and traditionalnvalues were taken for granted. Each volume includes Garth Williams’ charming illustrations that firstnappeared...

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WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, jr., hasnretired from the Supreme Court. Innthree decades on the nation’s highestncourt Brennan did more, perhaps, thannany other American politician exceptnfor Lyndon Johnson to promote thenagenda of the liberal left: the antiwhitenracism of the “Jim Snow” system,nradical feminism, the reduction of thenauthority of the police to combatncrime, the liberation of obscenity, andnthe...

the fact that conservadve Republicansnare comfortable with the nominationnmay impel abortion activists and advocatesnof reverse racism to concentratentheir fire, in the absence of inflammablenpublic statements, on any allegedncharacter defects they can find, orninvent, in the life of this retiring NewnEngland bachelor.nWhatever the fate of the Souternnomination, time is on the side ofnRepublican opponents of leftover...

country must be partitioned, with eachnpeople — whites, Xhosas, and Zulus —nallowed a homeland. A free market isnalso needed, not only for more prosperity,nbut to lessen group tensions.nDespite their sins — which pale, ifnyou will pardon the expression, next tonthe institutionalized theft, witchcraft,nand mass murder of the typical Africanngovernment — the Boers have built anmagnificent...

message to Congress that reform isnneeded. It is for the several states tonmandate a “None of the Above” boxnon every ballot. Let’s say your choicenis, as here in Illinois in the governor’snrace, between Neil Hartigan, thenDemocrat (or presently the “Outs”nparty candidate, in terms of the governor’snmansion), and Jim Edgar, thenRepublican (or “Ins”) candidate. Thenbiggest issue...

the College Democrats, for example,nwas quoted as saying, “An anti-discriminationnpolicy deals with the problemnafter it happens; if you want tonhandle the problem, you have to go tona deeper, tougher level.”nBut the most fervent opposition tonthe university’s efforts has come fromnthe student government. The ConservativenCoalition Party, which controllednthe Michigan Student Assemblynduring the 1989-1990 school year,nactively opposed...

Principalities & Powersnby Samuel Francisn1 wo years after George Bush movedndowntown to the White House, thensuspicion is beginning to twinkle in thenbrains of his conservative followers thatnthe President is not one of them afternall. What tipped them off to this shatteringntruth was their leader’s nonchalantndecision last summer to support a taxnincrease. But for some months...

through government redistribution,nand a cultural style that twitters at thenfeet of the cheap idol of “pluralism” innorder to avoid confronting the programmaticnchallenges to American civilizationnare now the content of whatnsome are still pleased to call “conservatism.”nThe metamorphosis has occurrednunder a variety of labels —n”neoconservatism,” “cultural conservatism,”n”opportunity society Republicanism,”n”Big Government conservatism,”nthe “New Paradigm,” etc.—nbut upon scrutiny,...

Eliot’s three facts of natural life have always beenncircumscribed with such custom and ceremony as tonbecome social and cultural facts. Birth, copulation, andndeath may be virtually the same everywhere, when youncome to brass tacks, but being born, getting married, andndying are experiences that vary from culture to culture andnmore resemble forms of art than facts...

itself out of the picture by declaring itself—and its predecessors—nincompetent to approve or condemn social regulationsnthat are within the purview of state governments. Atntimes Justice Scalia seems to be alone in understanding thatnthe Court is limited in the good it can seek to accomplish. Innhis concurrent opinion on the parental consent decision,nScalia reviewed the confusing...

or to the works of a redoubtable mother-daughter team ofnLaura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane.nFree Land is the title of a Rose Wilder Lane novelndedicated to the American farmers who pulled up stakes andntook advantage of the western lands made available undernHomestead legislahon. The title is richly suggestive. Therenwas nothing “free” about land that...

of power going to the head. What all irresponsible authoritynfears is honest merit, the proud aristocrat, the uncompromisingnintellectual, the statesman who cannot be bought. Suchnmen are dangerous and must either be eliminated in purgesnor else be forced to endure the constant humiliation ofnseeing their dependents liberated and set above them.nAmong the many ironies of intellectual...

demands that will be placed on them as they movento higher levels of schooling or into the work place.nPerformance levels are changing very slowly despitenincreases in graduation requirements, relativelynstable enrollments, substantial increases in teachernsalaries, and the continued willingness of the publicnto support its schools . . . Recent educationalnreforms have been instituted in response to...

or other relatives to judge for them. But thisnremoves the question into a different category;nmaking it no longer a question whether thengovernment should interfere with individuals in thendirection of their conduct and interests, but whethernit should leave absolutely in their power the conductnand interests of somebody else.nMill, I believe, was mistaken in assuming that the...

objective have their doubts about implementation. Theyncomplain, for instance, that contemporary public highnschools are like “shopping malls,” containing a hodge-podgenof course offerings with little central coherence in their totalnprogram. And because, in practice, the public schools resistnattempts at homogenization, a student in one school districtnmight well receive an entirely different set of “commonnvalues” than his...

ing has often become de-emphasized because of the preferencenfor “cooperation” over competition. In contrast,nprivate schools have, on average, defended the traditionalnstructure of education where competition and grading arenessential features.nThe NIE also found that larger schools experience morenviolence and vandalism than smaller ones. Since, on average,nprivate schools in the U.S. have smaller enrollmentsnthan public schools, we...

ing parents’ freedom in making choices about their work itself out.” The precise reasons for this judgment werenchildren’s education, to match the decision-making power expressed by Lowe later in the same year:nparents hold in other spheres such as the feeding andn1 i-u- f iU • u-ij / -i.!,- i.L i f V -L rnclothing or...

In The Origins of English IndividuaUsm, Alan Macfarlanenrecounts the close connection in medieval Englishnhistory of the development of the nuclear family and privatenproperty. This connection provides a crucial explanation ofnthe rise of English culture and wealth, and the traditionnmade up of the nuclear family, private property, andnindividualism culminated in England’s American colonies.nUnlike the nations of...

Christian doctrine calls attention to Original Sin, which hasnclouded Man’s will. Otherwise our choices would be easy,nnot hard. It is our clouded will that has made the attainmentnof the good, the understanding of the good, and thenselecting of the appropriate good among several seemingngoods, so difficult. What is appropriate or good in onencontext can be...

T essie and Kirk Dawson were in their late 20’s when theynI moved into Grove Glen, and Fred Glover’s wife Eva sawnat once that they needed work. This was a tight community,nnot the kind two kids could walk into cold, so Eva took it asnher responsibility. She was, after all, the boss’s wife. Sheninvited herself...

The people on the hill threw the best parties. Everybodynsaid so. Fred and Eva gave supper dances in their lofty boxnwith its swa,stika of porches, with taped music drifting outnover the tops of the trees. Howard Patterson, who ran thenbank, preferred gourmet dinners for twelve; she cooked butnhe whipped into the kitchen at the last...

His eyes widened: What? What is it? What?nAlarmed, she plunged in after him, bent on retrieval.n”You’re not old!” she cried.nArchie blinked; the shadows faded. He grinned that boyngrin. “Certainly not. What’s all the fuss about?”nTheir party was a grand success. The others all came inntheir autumn best, men and women in rusty tweeds andnbrilliant colors,...

foreign movie, or downtown Algiers. He listened to Evanbabble with a bright, feral, uncomprehending grin. Somenpeople were already unsteady on their feet and the edges ofnEva’s hors d’oeuvres had begun to curi. Jessie and Kirknpicked up drinks quickly, with the sense that once again thenparty had left without them: Wait up! Then they fell into...

v^j’-:^] .MjJpNALni fi’ “W #'”^'”‘iS””#’^”‘inThere’s a part of your brainnreserved for brisk, refreshing,ndiscriminating thinl^ing.nStimulate it.nBy introducing yourself to one of the nation’s most stimulating, thoughttul,nand unique news magazines National Review keeps > ou in touch with the other”npoint of view which has come to be a necessity tor the truly mtormed person innthese days of...

Population Question, placed them atnthe center of policy debate. Concernednthat previous sociology had beennmarred by unspoken commitments tonexisting social structures, they advocatednan approach to social policy basednon the premise that “All institutionalnfactors . . . can be changed.” A centralncontention of their book was thatnSwedes were having fewer childrennbecause of inadequate urban housing.nStudies showing that...

quences of policies that were supposedlyndesigned for “pro-natalist” purposes,nCarlson raises the very pertinentnquestion of whether it is proper to saynthat the Myrdals “failed.” The answer,nit seems, is no. Carlson makes clearnthat their “pro-natalism” amounted tonlittle more than a healthy fear of economicncollapse and national extinction.nTheir concern for marriage and familynwas entirely consequentialist, as can benseen...

body the best and worst characteristicsnof the Southern slaveholders as a socialnclass. And notwithstanding the grossncategories that currently obsess socialnhistorians, certain figures emerge asnrepresentative — as worthy of studynboth as impressive individuals and asnmen whose lives illuminate the coursenof Southern civilization.nJames Johnston Pettigrew, born intonthe elite of the North Carolina lowncountry and subsequently a resident...

The Post’s weekly circulationnreached one million in 1908 andnclimbed to nearly three million in thenlate 1920’s, when the average numbernof pages in a single issue burgeoned tontwo hundred. (The Post’s readership,nas Cohn rightly adds, was probablynthree to four times larger than thennumber of sold copies. In the agenbefore radio, and particularly duringnthe Depression, it is...

defend. And it is in those instances innwhich Lorimer saw his mission specificallynas one of “saving” America fromnan enemy — particularly when the enemyntook the form of national policiesnand politics that threatened Americans’npersonal liberty — that his character andnconvictions can best be seen. The foremostnexample of this was Lorimer’snopposition to FDR and the New Deal.nLorimer...

into the American psyche,” beginningnat Valley Forge when Washington’sntroops were entertained by performancesnof Addison’s Cato and heardnlines such as “What pity is it that wencan die but once to serve our country”nthat were later attributed to Americannpatriots.nThe transmission belt has beennhumming merrily ever since. Publicnfigures, who know the extent of Americannignorance and who dare not...

Letter FromnCincinnatinby Janet Scott BarlownStranger in ParadisenWhen I moved to Cincinnati fromnChicago in 1973,1 found I could gaugenthe personality of my new city by listingnthe things I missed about the home I’dnleft. I missed the bulging Chicagonnewspapers. I missed being in a placenwhere cynicism competes with humornas the prevailing public attitude andnhumor often wins. I...

County grand jury (charges that will stillnbe unresolved when the exhibitncloses on schedule seven weeks later).n6) The local debate, still restrained,nintensifies; the national Hick Townnstories increase; the Washington Postneditorializes that what’s going on innCincinnati, while superficially “amusing,”nactually “isn’t fijnny at all.”n7) Neither the “police raid” on thenarts center nor the indictment against itnis universally applauded...

over the map. It touched on all thenobvious questions and many thatnweren’t so obvious. It included thenopinion of a local pediatric specialistnthat it is dangerous to, make childrenn”the focus of sexual attention or interest,”n(“Not for a moment,” he wrote,n”not as entertainment; not as art”),nand the opinion of others who said thatnany sexual interest in Robert...