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ideology. A national agricultural policyncannot afford to bow before any “universalistnideology.”nStephen B. Miles writes from FallsnCity, Nebraska.nHISTORYnConversation innWarsawnby George WatsonnSeveral Nazi concentration camps,nas I explained in a recent Chroniclesnarticle called “Buchenwald’s SecondnLife” (July 1989), were used bynthe Soviet occupying authorities innEast Germany for some five years afternthe war, and for their original purpose.nThat was once...

for themselves. They would return thenUkrainians, they replied, but did notnwant the Poles.nThat may have been the momentnwhen Stalin resolved to kill them. InnApril 1940, some five thousand Polishnofficers, hands bound behind theirnbacks, were shot in the back of the necknat Katyn, in a wood near Smolensk,ntheir bodies being piled deep in massngraves and buried...

lntroflucing…The NewsnMagazine of the 1990snP ollsnshow that most Americansnare fed up with the arrogantnexploitive tactics of the mediangiants. Time, CBS, and the rest ofnthe entrenched media establishment havenaccelerated their campaign to brandnAmericans as ignorant and out of step ifnthey do not accept gun control andnmassive defense cuts. They label asn”homophobes” all who disagree with thenmilitant...

Mj?n7nnnround thenworld, there isnmuch talk ofnpeace and thatnis good. Yet wenshould remember,nas PresidentnReagan said,n”Peace isn’t simplynan absence ofnwar, but a pres­nence of justice.”nTyranny, in all itsnforms, corruptsnjustice and stiflesnthe human spirit.nWe must nevernforget this truth.nOur immigrantsnwont. They knownthat Americanismnis more than lovenof country; it isnlove of principles,nprinciples whichncan change thenworld. And will.nTeach FreedomnSupport thenNational WritersnNetwork,nTeach...

EDITORnThomas FlemingnMANAGING EDITORnKatherine DaltonnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSnChilton Williamson, ]r.nASSISTANT EDITORnTheodore PappasnART DIRECTORnAnna Mycek-WodeckinCONTRIBUTING EDITORSnJohn W. Aldridge, Harold O.].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 ofnThe Rockford InstitutenEditorial and Advertising...

5 0,000 HAITIAN immigrants gatherednin the streets of New York the othernmonth, angry at an FDA hint thatnthey consider not giving blood. Withnthe appalling AIDS rate among Haitians,nand the ease with which someninfected blood can pass the screeningntests, it seemed an unobjectionablenidea. But not in Manhattan, 1990.nYou may think there’s no right tonpoison the American...

without egalimania interfering. Atnpresent, businessmen can be fined fornnot hiring and for hiring Hispanics, bynvarious federal civil rights and immigrationnenforcers.nBusinessmen should also be freenonce again to do as they did in the 19thncentury: interview and hire contractnworkers in other countries. Labornunions lobbied to outlaw this practice,nwhich insured that these immigrants —nwho came here as employees...

the efforts of public authorities to haltnthe display of traditional Nativitynscenes at Christmas. Apparently we arento be grateful that the Mapplethorpenexhibition is not blasphemous, as otherwisenthe judge might have orderednthe city to provide free shuttle buses.n— Harold O.J. BrownnSAN FRANCISCO, the AIDS capitalnof the nation, is presumably a citynthat should be open to a variety...

SMYAL that would reinforce theirnconfusion.nAt Annandale High the main argumentnwas between the paper’s editor,nMargie Brown, who represented thenmajority of staff members, and MattnMcGuire, who represented himselfnand one other student. In opposing thenad, Mr. McGuire wondered “what sortnof position do we [the school andnnewspaper] want to have in the community,”nnoting: “The idea of beingnassociated with gays...

ested in Sartre?”) and future plansninclude a similarly amiable chat withnHarold Bloom, Yale’s most influentialncritic. Andrew and his friends havenlearned the all-important number-onenlesson of journalism: that flattery takesnon a whole new dimension when it’sntypeset, and that the publicity of thenpress is really, really helpful in winningnfriends and influencing people.nI want to go on record as...

immigrants are bringing to our exhaustednsociety, many of the pilgrimsnappear to carry on a highly lucrativentraffic in prostitution, narcotics, babyselling,nand other quaint Third Worldncustoms. Today no less than 20 percentnof the population of the federal prisonnsystem consists of aliens, and RepresentativenLamar Smith of Texas, rankingnRepublican on the House JudiciarynSubcommittee on Immigration, Refugees,nand International Law, notes...

PERSPECTIVEnA Not So Wonderful Lifenby Thomas Flemingn’To us your good Samaritan was a fool to risk the security of his family to help a stranger.”n— Joey Tai in Michael Cimino’s Year of the DragonnIt has been more than a year since we put out the Marchn1989 number oi Chronicles, “A Nation of Immigrants,”nin which it...

threat. It is not xenophobic to admire the Japanese and wishnthem well, without at the same time wanting to become likenthem, and it is not bigotry to discuss the advantages of tradenand immigration policies that might serve the nationalninterest rather than the global economy or the UN declarationnof human rights.nThis general position of ours is...

films of John Ford have been discussed more than once innthese pages. All I will say about them now is that all thenmythic themes of 19th-century America can be found innsuch movies as She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Searchers,nThe Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and CheyennenAutumn, and what Ford was to the last century,...

Syracuse or Berkeley the other half for money. The onlyndifferences now are that travel is easier, and America’snAnglophilia and lenient hiring laws make a profession ofnallegiance unnecessary. iSleither Christopher Hitchens nornAlexander Cockburn seems to have any intention of becomingna citizen, although the former has been here since 1981,nthe latter since 1972, and neither plans to...

reporting on the Spanish Civil War in the 30’s for the DailynWorker. Indeed, as Alexander Cockburn remarked, Claudnwas proud of his proper Communist ethic of putting partynfirst.nBut with regard to Fairlie’s charge, his correspondingnfailure to produce any hard evidence was just so much gristnfor the mill of Claud Cockburn’s son:nFor Fairlie one should, I suppose,...

Elk, and Mr. Cockburn has written a dozen articles fornHouse & Garden, and somehow it just seems hilariouslynfunny that the son of Red Claud would pen such sentencesnas:nThose who love sweetbreads are doomed tonconstant disappointment and the ones at Maxim’snproved to be no exception to this virtually invariablenrule: a sweetbread is born to be braised,...

follow-up of families. In the 1990 census illegal aliens willnbe counted for the purpose of apportioning seats innCongress. Verb. sap. In the words of Congressman LamarnSmith (R-TX), “Unprincipled generosity lacks value.”nI came to America under the old McCarran-Walter Actnon a Liberty transport called the Marine Tiger (hammockholdnaccommodation, a £25 ride). On my quota visa I...

all school-age children in America will be from minoritynpopulations. Amnesty of illegals is now to include theirnfamilies; such may “run to a million,” according to INSnspokesman Duke Austin, spouses and children becomingneligible for welfare permits.nThe irony is that while America is opening its borders tonmulti-ethnicity, Europe is closing its (Italy even evolving anMcCarran-Walter quota system...

There’s a part of your brainnreserved for brisk, refreshing,ndiscriminating thinking.nStimulate it.nBy introducing yourself to one of the nation’s most stimulating, thoughtful,nand unique news magazines National Review keeps you in touch with the “other”npoint of view w hich has come to be a necessity for the truly informed person innthese days of “homogenized’ news reponmg NR...

example, the proportion of taxindrivers (often self-employed)nwho have foreign accents seemsnhigh from New York tonMelborne to Molmo, Sweden.nThere does not seem to exist anreliable study of immigrantnbusiness openings for the U.S.n(though it is badly needed).nSimon uses a similar method in “proving”nthat immigrants save more, worknharder, and are more innovative thannnatives:n. . .regrettably this research hasnnot...

least $6 billion per year. In presentnvalue terms, the immigrants of the laten1970’s alone are costing us “$110nbillion with a $27.5 billion correspondingnloss in tax revenue.”nBorjas overturns Simon’s entirenequation by reversing Simon’s assertionnthat immigrants are more productiventhan natives. Borjas concludes thatnaverage immigrant earnings neverncatch up with native earnings. Hencenimmigrants will also pay less in taxesnthan...

But before rehearsing the 1948 Senatencontest of Box 13 and the Duke ofnDuval, legendary moments in Texasnand American history, Robert Carontells us about Lyndon Johnson as annondescript Democratic Congressmannwho introduced no legislation andnmade only ten recorded speeches duringn11 years in the House of Representatives.nHere we read of Johnson’snimpatience with the slow process ofnadvancement under the...

all Texas governors, a summary figurenfor all the virtues once honored by hisnpeople: a man who brought improvementsnto the state while leaving an$35,000,000 surplus in the treasury; anman who was never bought or sold.nLiberal reviewers of this biographynhave objected to Caro’s focus on Stevensonneither because they know toonlitrie of Texas history or because theynknow too...

Times Book Review) have with thenTexas Cincinnatus from the falls of thenLlano is that he undermines the moralnmelodrama of their version of Southernnhistory. As does also Caro’s book.nIt is certainly instructive that Steelngoes so far as to insist that it was for thenbest that the 1948 Texas election wasnstolen. If we have had any sentimentalnfaith...

instance, we are the tenth most populousnstate (1980 census), a position wenhave not deviated far from throughoutnthis century. We are six times biggernthan New Hampshire, twice as big asnIowa or Oregon, considerably biggernthan Indiana or Wisconsin. Yet fornsome reason our presidential primary,nwhich has been competitive for decadesnnow, is never noticed like thosenstates’ by the media...

how about Eng and Chang Bunker, thenoriginal Siamese twins, who, after theynmade their pile on Barnum’s circuit,nlived the rest of their lives alternately onnadjacent plantations near AndynGriffith’s Mount Airy, the prototype forn”Maybe rry”?nOr maybe you don’t care much fornpoliticians but like business and professionalntypes. How about industrialistsnlike the Dukes, Haneses, and Reynoldses?nOr James K. Hall,...

tal’s streets as we talked. Cool as thencenter seed of a cucumber, he took upnwith me, instead, such concerns asnwhether America might be decadent;nfrom what sources any President mightnobtain support when he must makensome unpopular decision; and the seriousnessnof the environmental problems.nPresently he said, “Dr. Kirk, have wenany hope?” For emphasis, he repeatednthe question: “Have...

Letter FromnCanadanby Kenneth McDonaldnIci On Parle AnglaisnWhen Canada’s federal governmentncommitted the country to two officialnlanguages, it set the scene for the socialnrevolution that has since been foistednupon the Canadian majority.nThat was in 1969, when PierrenTrudeau’s Official Languages Act declarednEnglish and French to be thenofficial languages of Canada, possessingnand enjoying “equality of status in allnthe institutions...

been a nation based on the Englishntradition of the common law. Undernthat tradition, everyone is inherentlynfree to do anything that is not prohibitednby the law. In the French tradition,nhowever, there is no inherent freedom.nRather, the government confers certainnrights upon the people through a charter.nSuch conferred rights are, ofncourse, vulnerable to whatever meaningnthe government or its...

moval, maintaining roads and utilities;nthe programs to cut are those imposednon them by the other two levels, and innEnglish Canada the one that stands outnis the artificial provision of Frenchlanguagenservices for the relatively fewnresidents whose mother tongue may benFrench but for whom, like the residentsnof all other extractions, the workingnlanguage is English.nLast November in Ontario,...

THE ARTS OF LYINGnLying is a fine art. But there is also the art of telhng the truth. In an agenwhen Arthur Schlesinger Jr. counts as a major historian, and PhiUp Roth isna hterary giant, Chronicles is for its readers a real alternative.nThis monthly “magazine of American culture” offers essays by George Garrett,nJames Stockdale, Octavio...

COMMONWEALnNo-FaultnCitizenshipnby Philip MarcusnThe United States has bestowednupon 3.1 million persons the newndesignation of “lawful” in place ofn”illegal aliens,” which is what they werencalled when they arrived in our midst.nThe Immigration Reform and ControlnAct of 1986 attempts to right ournmutual difficulty by putting these immigrantsnin line to become permanentnresident aliens or even citizens.nThe Immigration and NaturalizationnService...

Questionsn1. What are the colors of our flag?n2. How many stars are there in ournflag?n3. What color are the stars on ournflag?n4. What do the stars on the flagnmean?n5. How many stripes are there in thenflag?n6. What color are the stripes?n7. What do the stripes on the flagnmean?n8. How many states are there in thenUnion...

82. Name one purpose of the UnitednNations.n83. Where does Congress meet?n84. Whose rights are guaranteed bynthe Constitution and the Bill of Rights?n85. What is the introduction of thenConstitution called?n86. Name one benefit of being ancitizen of the United States.n87. What is the most important rightngranted to U.S. citizens?n88. What is the United States Capitolnbuilding?n89. What...

THE ACADEMYnReligion andnCritical Theorynby Stephen L. TannernIn his 1935 essay “Religion and Literature,”nT.S. Eliot argued that modernnliterature had become progressivelynsecularized. In response he proposednthat “literary criticism should be complernentednby criticism from a definitenethical and theological standpoint.”nEliot introduced his arguments with thenfamous statement, “The ‘greatness’ ofnliterature cannot be determined solelynby literary standards; though we mustnremember that...

consequently, there are no grounds fornan ethical or theological evaluation.nEliot, in “Religion and Literature,”ntraces the gradual secularization of literaturenduring the last few centuries,nusing the novel as his example. Hendelineates three chief phases. In thenfirst, novelists took the Christian faithnfor granted and therefore didn’t featurenit in their fiction. Fielding, Dickens, andnThackeray belong to this phase. In...

opaque style. Theory of the samennature as that being combated is notnwhat is needed. That is engaging thenenemy on his own terms, and thosenterms themselves are the principal issuenin dispute. Perhaps the best appealnfrom theoretical arguments — thatnmeaning is indeterminate, that thenauthor is dead, that we are confinednto the prison of language andn”aboutness” is an...

Abraham Lincoln as a well-intentionednbut ambitious politician. Americansnprefer their villains black and theirnheroes spanking white.nA play that should have no trouble atnall traveling is Joan Ackermann-nBlount’s Zara Spook and Other Lures,nabout three women ofF to a Bass ‘n’nGal fishing tournament, in New Mexico,nand the relations of Evelyn withnher importunate boyfriend, and ofnRamona with her estranged...

lntroilucing…T1ie NewsnMagazine of the 1990snP ollsnshow that most Americansnare fed up with the arrogant,nexploitive tactics of the mediangiants. Time, CBS, and the rest ofnthe entrenched media establishment havenaccelerated their campaign to brandnAmericans as ignorant and out of step ifnthey do not accept gun control andnmassive defense cuts. TTiey label asn”homophobes” all who disagree with thenmilitant...

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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 ofnThe Rockford InstitutenEditorial and Advertising...

servative magazine, “the intellectualsnwho pinned their hopes on movementsnon the totalitarian left and those whonlooked to the totalitarian right oftenndrew from common traditions andnfrom one another in formulating theirnradical critique of liberal democraticncapitalism. Hans Freyer and GeorgnLukacs, for example, both had their intellectualnroots in neoromanticism andnneo-Hegelianism. …”nIn light of that declaration, one wondersnwhy he writes...

AMERICANS H^E always had anhealthy suspicion of governmentnsnooping. When George Washington’snadministration undertook the firstncensus in 1790, under the supervisionnof Thomas Jefferson, it only countednheads. Yet the public resisted on anmassive scale.nAt that time, Americans were widelynfamiliar with the biblical anti-censusnstory of First Samuel. King David toldnJoab: “Go through all the tribes ofnIsrael from Dan to...

for individuals and up to $10,000 fornbusinesses.nUnder the Constitution, the censusnshould count adult heads and nothingnmore. No ethnic or racial questions.nNo income questions. No toilet questions.nNo who-is-living-with-whomnquestions.nMaybe by the next census, Americansnwill be reading the Constitutionnand First Samuel again. If so, theynwon’t put up with another decennialncensus and the pestilence it brings in itsnwake.n—Jeffrey A.TuckernTHE...

with almost four times the area ofnFrance, presents really nothing but antwo-dimensional picture, without anyndepth, any culture, any search for identitynin a truly plural situation.nYet there are many other realitiesndown there to focus on, chief amongnthem the Afrikaaners’ tormentedncultural consciousness — and consequentntragic failure to lift the weight ofntheir loneliness. The burden of thentragic situation...

money and shove it, the New YorknTimes responded with a front-page,nfour column headline: “EndowmentnEmbattled Over Academic Freedom.”nBut it appears there was much lessnthere than meets the eye, becausennothing much has happened sincenthen, except IAS ended up threequartersnof a million dollars poorer, andnsomebody else got the money instead.nWhat persuaded the institute to givenup a quarter of...

tapes and seminars. As Doe Lang toldnus in The Charisma Book: What It Isnand How to Get It, charisma is actuallyn”within us all” — cabdriver, electrician,nand Chronicles reader alike.nAll we need to do is to buy this book.nThe person chiefly responsible fornassociating “charisma” with politics isnMax Weber. Weber analyzed threentypes of political authority, one ofnwhich...

actual emergency.nThe real budget problem is entitlementnspending. Neariy half of then1991 budget will consist of paymentsnto individuals. The federal budget explicitlynworks to redistribute 12 percentnof the nation’s personal income in waysnthat are philosophically dubious butnpolitically expedient. The battle of thenbudget has been fought mainly betweennpromoters of these open-endednsocial programs on the left and defendersnof the...

“Here is the land of the free. Comenand take this freedom and make of itnwhat you can.” Even the land offerednto homesteaders was not a gift ofnanything other than freedom and opportunity.nFirst, the great majority ofnimmigrants came not for homesteadsnbut for jobs in New York, Boston,nChicago, Pittsburgh, etc. Secondly, thenhomesteader received no title until henhad...