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Abraham. How can we be anti-ourselves?”nWhatever else he is, David Dinkinsnis not quick on the uptake. Asked aboutnCarson’s press conference, Dinkins declared,nin the great befuddled understatementnof the campaign, that “He’snapparently a person who doesn’t likenwhite people.” A few hours later, however,nDinkins rallied, reading a preparednstatement denouncing Carson’snbigotry and intolerance, which he hasnfought all his life,...

Poland, whatever the reason, is a powerfulnincentive to further national sovereigntynin neighboring Lithuania.nThe effect of the Polish model onnLithuania does not depend simply onnits proximity. There is a deep historicalnand cultural connection that goes backnto the 14th-century union of the twoncountries — making the second largestnnation in Europe — and the conversionnof Lithuania to the...

can sway the presidency or the judiciary.nThe rest of us cannot. That’s whynbelievers in a limited constitutionalnrepublic must not join the attacks onnCongress as an institution, for thenalternative is what Meyer called “thenuncontrolled power of a Presidentnelected with a specious quadrennialn’mandate.'”nIf we want to recover our freedomn— so diminished in this century byndespotic Presidents, bureaucrats,...

The Geneva accords [onnAfghanistan], whosenfundamental and practicalnsignificance has been praisednthroughout the world, providedna possibility for completing thenprocess of settlement evennbefore the end of this year.nThat did not happen. Thisnunfortunate fact reminds usnagain of the political, legal andnmoral significance of the Romannmaxim; Pacta sunt servanda—nTreaties must be observed.nThe crucial phrase is the Latin one.nThat “Treaties must...

Shevardnadze’s (read Gorbachev’s)nattempted act of intimidation didn’tnwork this time. Lucky us. But we havenbeen given fair warning once more.nNegotiating treaties with the USSR isn•the riskiest enterprise in modern treatyndiplomacy because the Soviet leadershipnwill use every trick, every stratagemnto betray, breach, circumvent, ornnegate Soviet agreements, yet all theirnduplicities will be forgotten. The tow­nPrincipalities & Powersnby Samuel...

economic integument to put the fleshnof power on its ideological bones.nThe exponents of economic globalismndefend it with the argument thatnforeign investments and free trade creatennew jobs and provide sources ofncapital otherwise unavailable for economicngrowth, that the technologicalnand economic integration of the planetnwill engender peace, fraternity, andnopportunity for all human beings, andnthat democracy and human rights...

Shortly after the election of 1988 one grand old man ofnthe Republican Party told me he thought Mr. Bushncould do a creditable job so long as his administration facednno major crises. The very minor crisis of the abortive coup innPanama was the first serious test of this thesis, and it wouldnseem, at first glance, that...

nation, but does so in the language of cheap thrillers?nWebster’s performance as FBI director was applauded bynthe left as “responsible,” and if he makes the CIA equallynresponsible, it will no longer have any reason to exist.nWhy are we picking on Manuel Noriega? Because hendeals drugs. Unlike what other Latin American leaders?nFidel Castro has become a...

principle must be advanced as the first step toward extricatingnthe nation from the tangle of bad judgment and bad faithnthat has balled up both foreign and domestic policy.nThe first and foremost aspect of nationalism is the healthynrecognition that as individuals we do not belong to somenamorphous mass of “all mankind.” We live, not just innspecific...

transactionnNew and Recent Books on Family and Policynf •^nThe,. ,npoliticsnHumannISiaturenThomas Flemingn-=-‘7nFamilynQuestlDiisnTi.n.^••:nReflections on thenAmerican Social CrisisnAllan C. CajisonnTHE POLITICS OF HUMAN NATUREnThomas FlemingnThe effort to understand human nature in a politicalncontext is a daunting challenge that has beennundertaken in a variety of ways and by a myriad ofndisciplines through the ages. This volume takes up anvariety...

iinVIEWSnBefore You Bet Against the Market . . .nThey’re wiping out our industries,” said my southernnCalifornia friend, staring moodily out across thenPacific ocean beyond which They — the Japanesepresumablynlurking even as he spoke.nby Peter Brimelown-weren”They’re buying up all our land,” confirmed his wife.n”Of course, we’re so stupid, we just let them.”n”They need another earthquake over...

everywhere, they sought to get around the awkward fact thatnsocialism doesn’t work by inventing new rationales forngovernment intervention.nGenerally, socialists have replaced their efficiency argumentsnwith equity arguments. Rather than saying governmentnintervention would make the economy better, theynnow say it would be fairer—less racist, sexist, ecologicallynimpure and so on. But Canada’s socialists justified theirninterventionist itch by exploiting...

British Weltpolitik. Similarly, it may be at some point that annAmerican trade-ofF between protectionism and total economicnutility will be worth making—but only in the contextnof an overall political program, for example if the US decidesnto retreat into a hemispheric fortress. Getting the tradenbalance off the evening news, or even protecting sensitivenRepublican constituencies, is probably not...

relative decline in favor of the creditors.nThere are two basic categories of foreign investment:ndirect investment in the ownership of enterprises (FDI), andn. portfolio investment (FPI) in long-term financial instruments.nDirect investment accounts for about one out ofnevery six dollars of foreign investment in the US. ThenCommerce Department has estimated that at the end ofn1988, 15 percent...

higher interest rates and a dramatic slowdown in thendomestic economy.nTo pay off debt and interest charges, the US will have tonreturn to a trade surplus or suffer the downard spiral ofnaccelerating asset sales. The market solution is massivendollar devaluation to cut imports and boost exports. However,nthis also reduces the terms of trade, so that an...

would stay weak (it didn’t), then their profits on US assets,nsuch as dividends and rents, would also be devalued whennconverted back into German marks or Japanese yen. Thenurge to invest in this country has persisted regardless of thenexchange rate, because it reflects fundamentally improvedninvestment opportunities in the US.nIf a foreigner wants to invest in the...

Mitsubishi runs “Buy American” ads, because most of itsnconsumer electronics are built here. Mitsubishi also has an50-50 joint venture with Chrysler, which builds the PlymouthnLaser and Eagle Talon in Illinois. Ford likewise ownsn25 percent of Mazda, which builds the excellent ForddesignednProbe in Michigan. Such cars are already replacingnimports, and can be easily exported in large...

The Corporate CitizennNational vs. Transnational Economic StrategiesnTransnationalism isn’t a term that is familiar to thenAmerican people. According to Peter Drucker, anleading advocate of transnationalism, a transnational companynis one that operates in the global marketplace; that doesnits research wherever there are scientists and technicians,nand manufactures where economics dictate (in many countries,nthat is); and that has a...

business policy on this new transnational superpower structurenof business and industry.”nIndeed, Mr. Drucker goes on to insist that what reallyncounts is international money flows. The rise or fall of thendollar isn’t, he argues, a matter of a business manager’snconcern from the standpoint of the US national interest.n”The ‘real’ economy of goods and services no longerndominates...

the first secretary of the Treasury, developed tariff plans thatnwould ensure the development of the new republic’s infantnindustries. Only since World War II has that Hamiltoniannview not prevailed, and that is because in 1945 the UnitednStates was the only country in the wodd with undarriagednindustrial facilities.nToday things are different. Countries that forty years agonreceived vast...

In considering restrictions on the transnational trend,nAmericans also should consider developments in Europe. Inn1992, the European Economic Community will become anmuch stronger economic unit. It’s clear that the Europeansnare devising a power bloc with the intention of closing thenregion to economic invasion from other parts of the world.nMany American-domiciled companies are hastening to getna foothold...

Poems Written on Hotel Stationeryn1. Las Brisasnby David R. SlavittnA cliff. . . they often put these hotels on cliffs.nBirds dart across the sky making squeaky-toyncries of delight. (Or are they hungry?) Below,nwe see the sea and can descend for lunchnin the shelter of thatch. Outside, in the sun on the sand,nnatives trudge, hawk silver...

editor, Midge Decter at Basic Books,nwho observers say took a strong hand innhelping Gilder shape both VisiblenMan and Wealth and Poverty out ofnlonger, more ecstatic manuscripts, hadnleft. The Gilder flair for the extravagantnoverstatement, which had seemedna mere tic in Wealth and Poverty,nburgeoned floridly. He equated capitalismnwith the teachings of Ghrist.n'”Do unto others as you would...

all, but his own platform. As the booknmoves on to its final chapters, thensilicon chip becomes a mere metaphor,na taking-ofF point for Gilder’s discussionnof what he calls “the law ofnmicrocosm,” which, naturally, happensnto be coterminous with his particularnlibertarian view of the free enterprisensystem. As Gilder argues withnsome cogency, increasingly sophisticatednmicrochips will lead to increasinglynsophisticated personal...

sudden, and widespread. By way ofnexplanation, the French social philosophernLouis Rousel points to “thenbanalization of behavior previouslynconsidered illegitimate.” France, forninstance, has decriminalized incest exceptnin the case of minors who arenabused by someone with authority overnthem. On the other hand, Germanynand France are, in some ways, morentraditional than the United States.nFrance still has no provision for...

To a large extent, modern marriagenlaw has reflected the decline of religion’snrole in the formation and dissolutionnof marriages. In pre-ReformationnEurope the state had little tonsay about most marriages and families.nSuch matters were handled either bynthe Church or by customs, whichnthough informal were often quite strict.nThe charivari in France and then”rough music” in England, forms ofnpublic...

ducers’ struggle to stay in business innspite of the challenges of television)nrather incidentally changed the ecologynfor books, for which, automatically,nthere was a literacy test to limit theirnaudience. A decade later, and the to-donabout Lolita would hardly have beennnoticeable. Nabokov was amused by it,nonly mildly distressed, and always wonderfullynbalanced.nI remember going up to Ithaca inn1958 to...

Letter From thenLower Rightnby John Shelton ReednEditing the SouthnI have a more or less professional interestnin Southern regional magazines.nSome I’ve written for, others I’ve writtennabout, one or two I’ve cribbednfrom — one way or another a few subscriptionsnand the odd newsstand purchasenwind up as deductions on mynincome tax. Whatever else these magazinesnmay be, they’re all...

habit of referring to Richmond as “ournnation’s capital” lets you know exactlynwhere the Partisan is coming from.nPersonally, I’d enjoy the magazinenmore if its editors would stop givingntheir Scalawag Award to friends ofnmine, but the Partisan may be valuablenthe way an old musket is valuable: as anreminder of valor long ago, in simplerntimes, and maybe still...

The Republicans nominated GeorgenBush, an adopted Texan, while thenDemocrats sought to hold the Southnwith Lloyd Bentson’s nomination fornVice-President.nPrior to December of 1987 and mynretirement, my wife and I had decidednto retire in Texas. We thought we wouldnlike Waco, a city that appealed to us as anplace where we could decline, hopefullynwith some grace, toward the...

SPORTSnThe Party’s Overnby Janet Scott BarlownThe two most elemental questionsnraised by the Pete Rose gamblingnscandal were: do actions have consequences?nand do the rules mean anything?nWith Rose’s suspension fromnmajor league baseball, in keeping withnthe rules of major league baseball, camenone answer to both questions: yes.nBut the affair raised other questionsnwhose answers weren’t so clear cut,nquestions that...

and in any case, outrage is on somenlevel an admission that the deal was anquestionable idea to start with. Therenwas little talk here of “betrayal.” Instead,nthings got awfully quiet, even asnthe local media went nuts with thenstory.nThere was, however, much discussionnfrom other quarters — network talknshows, the national press — about athletesnas role models, children’s...

racism, this one was long on handwringingnand short on facts. It spokendarkly of a “defaced poster of Beethoven.”nIt wasn’t clear what had beennwritten on the poster, but the implicationnwas that it was fiercely racist andnthat we were to worry about it.nThat poster has dragged Stanfordnpermanently into the camp of the racists,nand has become another symbol...

utes of this, QC started crying, becamenhysterical, and moved toward Fred. Henshouted something to the effect thatnback in Chicago, where he was from,nhe could kill Fred for a thing like that.nHe then lunged at Fred and collapsed.nSix or seven students carried him outnof the room, according, again, to thenreport, “crying and screaming and havingna fit.”nThe...

show, then why are they holding back?nSocrates: Because we do not teachnthem about inequalities.nEuphron: Indeed we do not teachnthem that! We are bent on showingnthat equality must be our guiding principle,nand that inequality is to beneradicated at all levels. Is it not true thatnall citizens of Athens are equal?nSocrates: It certainly is. But are fivennot...

UBERALnINTELLECTUALSnHOW DO THEYnGET THAT WAY?nPaul Johnson anatomizes 20 of them —ntheir ideas, their lives, their moralsn”So full of life and energy and fascinating detail, and so rightnfor the moment, that anyone who picks it up will have a hardntime putting it down.” -NORMAN PODHORETZ, New York PostnWhy Johnson’s treatment is uniquen* The essential ideas of...

yWffKnnnround thenworld, there isnmuch talk ofnpeace and thatnis good. Yet we .nshould remember,nas PresidentnReagan said,n”Peace isnt simplynan absence ofnwar, but a pres­nence of justice.”nTyranny, in all itsnforms, corruptsnjustice and stiflesnthe human spirit.nWk 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...

EDITORnThomas FlemingnMANAGING EDITORnKatherine DaltonnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSnChilton Williamson, ]r.nASSISTANT EDITORnTheodore PappasnART DIRECTORnAnna Mycek-WodeckinCONTRIBUTING EDITORSn]ohn W. Aldridge, Harold O.J.nBrown, Samuel Francis, GeorgenGarrett, Russell Kirk, E. ChristiannKopff, Clyde WilsonnCORRESPONDING EDITORSnBryce Christensen, Odie Faulk, JanenGreer, John Shelton Reed, JosephnSchwartz, Gary VasilashnEDITORIAL SECRETARYnLeann DobbsnPUBLISHERnAllan C. CarlsonnASSOCIATE PUBLISHERnMichael WardernPUBLICATION DIRECTORnGuy C. RejffettnCOMPOSITION MANAGERnAnita FedoranCIRCULATION MANAGERnRochelle FranknA Publication ofnThe Rockford Institute:nEditorial and...

THE DISABILITIES ACT is llkelynto entertain C-SPAN viewers fornmonths to come. The bill, which in itsncurrent form is a comprornise workednout between the Bush administrationnand congressional Democrats, extendsnsweeping civil rights protection to thennation’s blind, deaf, lame, and degeneraten(AIDS is, of course, a handicap).nTimes being what they are, the onJynserious debate is over money. Thentelephone companies...

tutors for one or two deaf or blindnstudents? All we ever hear from thenvarious advocacy groups is how thenhandicapped don’t want pity, that thenonly handicap is our insensitivity, thatnthey want to be free to lead independentnlives. It turns out, however, thatntheir freedom and independence alwaysncomes down to the freedom tonput their hands in our wallets....

serting its sovereignty overseas hasnbought time for rapid, dramatic, andnreal political reform. In the election,nEnglish-speaking white voters returnednto previous voting patterns and chose annew moderate-left party, the Democrats.nAfrikaans-speaking voters pickedneither the National Party or the Conservatives.nFinally, in the only provincenwhere successful multiracial powersharingnnegotiations have occurred,nNatal, voters were comfortable withnthe moderation of black leaders. ThenConservatives were...

the MEOC pressured them to agree innprinciple to this proposed settlement:nthat between the two of them theynwould pay Sprague $1,500 inndamages; that they would attend antwo-hour “training class” conductednby a homosexual organization; thatnthey would have their housing situationn”monitored” — the word was notndefined — for two years by thenMEOC; and that they would write anletter...

Sriad^Ki/itissyn^Sot(/€rs/n6{^ Samuel ^7Hznd&’nIf conservatives carried revolvers,nthey’d probably reach for them at thensound of the word “nationalism.” Perhapsnit’s just as well they don’t carrynrevolvers, since nationalism usuallynmakes its appearance armed with considerablynbigger guns. In the Europe ofnMetternich and Castlereagh, nationalismnwas the vehicle for the revolutionaryndestruction of dynastic and aristocraticnregimes and the parent of allnsorts of modern...

vanished into the financial and industrialngrids of the 19th-century nationalists.nBut compared to what globalism hasnin store for us, nationalism looks prettyngood. If what remains of the MiddlenAmerican nucleus of American culturenis to survive, it will have to evolve annew nationalist consciousness capablenof resisting the global managerial systemnand of challenging its domesticnapologists. This means that the...

THE ARTS OF LYINGnA %,^ ‘•n<*;n’ • : ‘ : ^ ,n•: iL.-^*n9n1n»’,’*nf in4tin1 ^ •n,5: ^ rlnk^^mmk’im.mA JHK-S.nLying is a fine art. But there is also the art of telling the truth. In an agenwhen Arthur Schlesinger Jr. counts as a major historian, and Philip Roth isna literary giant, Chronicles is for its readers...

Anew battle of the books is in progress. This time, thenlines are not being drawn between modern and ancientnbut between the present and the recent past, and thenantagonists are not Homer against Milton or Aristotle vs.nBacon, but such younger poets as Dana Gioia and FrednTurner against an academic poetry establishment that hasnrejected form and narrative...

bad conscience or at least the unease of the modernistnroyalty. It also served to close ranks and draw back into thenfold a writer who might have been a major defector, DonaldnHall. After a lifetime of writing volumes of the usual stuff,nleavened now and then with poetry, Mr. Hall had reachednthe point in his career (i.e.,...

form of government. To some extent this concern for thencommonwealth continued to characterize political poetsndown to the end of the 18th century. A more ominousndevelopment was the aesthetic cliquishness and disdain fornthe broader community that developed among the Romantics.nHow many poets since have adopted the aloofness ofnByron’s Childe Harold: “I have not loved the world,...

hands of our all-volunteer army. After six decades ofnmodernism, we are left with the choice between thenwell-subsidized vandalism of the arts-and-letters establishmentnand some attempt to reclaim, and not for the first timenin the history of our barbarian nation, our cultural inheritance.nGoing back a single generation, even if it, werenpossible, would not be worth the effort.nThe...

printed page.nSince the time of Davidson’s death there has been muchncritical attention to the special characteristics of the lyricnpoem as act and cultural gesture. But none of it quitensupersedes the Tennessee poet’s reflections on the origins ofnhis calling and its ancient, indissoluble connections withnmusic and song. In his system irony, eloquence, andndramatization have their place,...