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number of cartridges carried in most bolt-action sportingnrifles. Once again, the opposition ignores reality in its drivento “prove” that semiautomatics are not suitable for sportingnpurposes and serve only the function of killing people.nIf the banners truly want to eliminate all guns capable ofnrapid-fire or the discharge of multiple projectiles in quicknsuccession, then they will ultimately...

Territory of Lies: The ExclusivenStory of Jonathan Jay Pollard,nThe American Who Spied on HisnCountry for Israel and How HenWas Betrayednby WolfBlitzernNew York: Harper & Row;n336 pp., $22.50nThe Pollard treason case is so unusualnthat I want to start mynreview of this book with a review of thenreviews. I do this because the first-handnstory by the Washington...

ber,” details no outsider could havenknown. Carver argues that the Housenand Senate Intelligence OversightnCommittees ought to ask the FBI ornother members of the counterintelligencencommunity to testify “on thenhistory of Israeli espionage against thenUnited States.” The aim of such a congressionalninvestigation, says Carver,nwould be “not to harm the American-nIsraeli alliance but to strengthen it.”nStephen Green has...

third who had not been caught. He wasnwell placed in the Defense Ministry,nand still ‘active.'” Former CIA DirectornRichard Helms was recently askedn— in connection with the Pollard affair,nsays Green—whether the USngovernment should distinguish betweennthose who sell secrets ton”friends” or to “enemies.” Helms saidnno, “for the simple reason that wendon’t know about the security of thosenother...

20’s. Although he was never able toncomplete a third, he managed to bringnto his poetry the novelist’s gift forncreating a palpable, recognizable worldnthrough scrupulous rendering of thenlook and feel of things. Often hisnpoems present themselves as scenes.nThrough his eyes we see, for instance,nthe center of Hull, where:n. . . residents from raw estates,nbrought downnThe dead...

bitterness at being odd man out is atntimes laced with humor, which hasnendeared him to readers as well:nSexual intercourse begannIn nineteen sixty-threen(Which was rather latenfor me) —nBetween the end of thenChatterley bannAnd the Beatles’ first LP.n(“Annus Mirabilus”)nFinally, of course, Larkin’s communicativensuccess with his readers comesndown to his self-effacing and yet dazzlingnskill with words. He is...

Lacquered mandarin moments,npalanquins swaying andnbalancingnAmid the vermilion pavilions,nagainst the jade balustrades.nGlint of the glittering wings ofndragon-flies in the light:nSilver filaments, golden flakesnsettling downwards.nRippling, quivering flutters,nrepulse and surrender,nThe sun broidered upon thenrain.nThe rain rustling with the sun.nHere again the too-much-of-a-muchnessncloys; and yet the poem is anvaluable experiment. I find that many ofnFletcher’s poems spring to life...

years as an aesthete and Bohemian, hencame back to Arkansas:nI saw no reason, in that springnof 1933, why Arkansas shouldnnot achieve a genuine culture ofnits own, as significant in thenpattern of American living asnthe culture of New England ornof New York had been. Mynhope, however, of thenachievement of any very vitalnand original culture for mynnative...

Home Cycle, Horace and ElizabethnRobedaux remember the birthday ofntheir dead daughter, Jenny. “I thoughtnlater I’d walk out to the cemetery andntake a flowering plant of some kind.nMaybe a poinsettia,” Elizabeth says. “Indon’t forget her. I remember Mrs.nHuston telling me at the time I would,nbut I don’t. It’s like Mama says, younthink of her differently than...

recall, now that a small army of freemarketntheorists has followed Hayek tonStockholm, what an unexpected seanchange in the world’s approach toneconomics was heralded by his receiptnof the Nobel. Or how unlikely itnseemed in 1974 that Hayek, who at 75nyears of age had produced an unusuallynvoluminous but uniformly profoundnbody of scholarly writing on a widenrange of...

festations of things are accompanied bynan intrinsic sacredness without whichnwe could not even deal with them.nThe point is attractive, although itnreduces the dimension of the sacred tona kind of cultural flavor, very popularnthese days. But it seems that neithernKolakowski nor McKnight speak actuallynof the sacred when they use thenword. Not everything that is culture ornWhile...

Letter From thenLower Rightnby John Shelton ReednAUons, Enfants de la PatrienIt was years ago that I first read thencollection of Donald Davidson’s essaysncalled Still Rebels, Still Yankees. Innone of them, “Some Day, in OldnCharleston,” the doughty Last Agrariannaddressed one of his perennialnthemes, the trashiness of modern civilizationnand the superiority of the OldnSouthern regime, by describingnCharleston’s...

of the Planet’s Tribes,” and its themenwas supposedly the Rights of Man. Innfact, it began well, with a movingntribute to the Chinese liberation movementnsmashed by the People’s Armynshortly before. Chinese acrobats hadnbeen supposed to tumble down thenChamps-Elysees, but after the eventsnof June they were replaced by a hundrednor so Chinese students, simplynwalking their bicycles. Accompanyingnthem...

somewhere, to reach a breaking point,nat which breaking point the army takesnover and the ancient battle begins oncenmore.”nNot exactly words to stir hearts innTiananmen Square, but after Goude’snjour de gloire one can almost seenDavidson’s point.nJohn Shelton Reed left Paris twonweeks before the festivities. As a rule,nhe views the world from Chapel Hill,nNorth Carolina.nLetter From thenHeartlandnby...

COMMONWEALnThe Brave NewnWorld of PublicnPolicynby Richard D. LammnJohn Stuart Mill woke up one morningnand had this overwhelming feelingnthat the “answer to the question ofnthe ages” had come to him in thenmiddle of the night. But he forgot whatnit was. He then placed a quill and papernnext to his bed, and a few morningsnlater he awoke...

tougher on how we meet those ends. Itndoesn’t make sense to put a wheelchairnlift on every bus in America when wencan meet the needs of the handicappednby a much cheaper alternative. Wencan’t afford to govern by slogan.nAmerica has spent too much innsome areas and not enough in others.nHow much money has gone to buildnnew hospitals...

characters — [are] detrimental to thenhealthy development of young readersnof both sexes.”nUnspoken, of course, is just whatn”healthy development” might mean.nPerhaps a hint may be gleaned fromnthe frontispiece of this guide. It showsnLittle Miss Muffet, with curds andnwhey on her lap, her rosy cheeks andncherubic smile rendered macabre bynthe spoon raised in her hand, set tonsmash...

Bear figurines with its special children’snmeals.nIn the interest of “educating” ournchildren, the authors oiThe BerenstainnBears: No Girls Allowed feel that it isntheir duty to sow the seeds that willnoverthrow accepted notions of the relationshipnbetween men and women.nAnd they do so using pictures andncaptions overtly denigrating men. Patriarchy,nmale dominance, and “violence”nare to be destroyed, and societynrevolutionized,...

There’s a feeling in this work — somenof which is quite affecting — that youncan go home again, and that home isnthe early 1970’s.”nThus The New York Times on then1989 Whitney Museum of AmericannArt’s biennial. Another entrant to thisnshow looked like a hank of hair hangingnfrom the wall, though it might havenbeen some escaped asbestos...

existence in movement after movement.nTake something like Minimalismnwhich, in one gallery exhibition,noffered no more on the walls but briefninstructions on what might be there. InnMinimalism no skills are needed.nSo what are the values of that verynsmall group of pundits who confernstatus on empty exhibitions, puff upnprices of painters in their own collections,nand send them overseas...

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^f?J^nnnround 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 is;nlove of principles,nprinciples whichncan change thenworld. And will.nTeach FreedomnSupport thenNational WritersnNetwork,nTeach...

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FLAGS ARE A feudal phenomenon.nNot until the French tricolor wasnthe flag a focus of nationalism. Evennduring the 19th century, flags werenused mostly in military, naval, andndiplomatic contexts, and were seldomnseen by civilians. Often there was notnone national flag but a variety forndifferent uses and occasions. Americansndid not pledge allegiance to thenflag, they swore to uphold...

respect, not of a phony pluralism.nBut flag-burning does not evennqualify for the protection offered tonblasphemy in a doubtful case. Flagburningnis not speech, but an act. It isnnot participation in free deliberationnbut a demonstration of contempt fornthe community, the last step before annact of violence. It is, in this respect,nanalogous to a sit-in or painting answastika...

tional Endowment for the Arts? If thisnwas the summer of Batman, it was alsonthe season of flag-trampling innChicago’s Field Museum, of PissnChrist and Mapplethorpe’s homosexualnphotos brought to the Americannpublic as a gift from the tax-supportednNEA. If there is a sequel to Batman,nthe Joker ought to come back as the artncritic for The New York Times....

PERSPECTIVEnA Prayer for My DaughtersnIn recent months both San Francisco and New York havenbeen the scene of triumphs for the homosexual rightsnmovement’s efforts to legitimate single-sex liaisons. . .’.nNewsweek’s Eleanor Clift, appearing on The McLaughlinnGroup, summed up the cases as evidence that in the 1980’snthe American people were redefining the family. ThenAmerican people? I wonder.nThere...

as equal pay for equal work or the legal and politicalnemancipation of women. But the underlying assumption ofnall the feminist legislation of this century — women’s suffrage;nliberalized divorce laws; equal, comparable, andnaffirmative worth; etc. — has been the essential interchangeabilitynof the sexes. We do not, after all, insist on treatingndogs and cats the same or...

projects or in displaced tribal societies on the verge ofnextinction — such as the Ik of Central Africa, described bynColin Turnbull in a famous book. Displaced from theirntraditional way of life and reduced to a condition ofnnear-starvation, Ik parents can watch impassively as theirnhungry children roam in predatory bands of scavengers andnlaugh when one of...

To enter the job market in the middle of World War IInwas a heady experience. In the year or two followingnPearl Harbor nearly ten million young men had donnednuniforms, and employers were crying for help. The onlynlarge reservoir left to be tapped was women. Rosie thenRiveter was born. For college graduates, white-collar jobsnheretofore closed to...

men at hundreds of battered typewriters arranged in greatnU’s—a U for each department — and dozens of teletypenmachines ringing and clattering day and night, erupting withnnews from all over the world. The editor sat at the outside ofnthe U, the assistant editor faced him across the desk in whatnwas called “the slot,” and the rewritemen...

confess that until we started playing this game I thoughtnBermuda and Haiti were somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.n(Until I was 25 I thought Missouri was on the Gulf Coast.nWhat can I say — I went to public school!)nMeanwhile, I have been called away at least five timesnto admire Beanie’s lovely letters and to arbitratendisputes over...

family. Usually, Mom does most of the homeschoolingnwhile Dad works at a full-time job. In those families (likenours) where the father and/or mother are self-employed, thenmain difference is that the children get to spend more timenwith their father as well as with their mother. Since thenaverage amount of time an American father spends withneach child...

rimless spectacles was quite thick.n”Excuse me,” he said, tugging at his beard, “do you, bynany chance, have a broom? I just, devil take it, flipped thenwhole box of dishes out on the floor over there.”nI got off the chair and gave him a broom and a dustpan.n”Thanks. I guess we’re neighbors,” he said, taking thenbroom...

Moscow.’ She said it just like that, and then added: ‘You’llntake me as your wife with you to Moscow.’ Can younimagine? And, you see,. that’s exacdy what happened.”nWunderkind became silent for a while and then continued,n”I stayed with her in that Bityugovo village till the end of mynvacation, and when I was about to leave,...

really ask her about you . . . She’s not home now, but comenin, I’ll show you something.” And through the first room, henled me to the second, which I hadn’t seen.nIn the corner of the room, Baba the black goat was curlednup next to a strange tall structure. Seeing me, she raised hernhead, then...

She knew she did it well, had done this well almost all hernmarried life; she would spend days at it if she had to, justnto make it right. Still, every time the members of the GardennClub came to Alicia’s house, her mouth dried and her bellyntrembled.nEmployed as she was now, for the first time in...

indifferently, so promiscuous in his praise that she wasn’tnsure he saw.n”Something is wrong with it,” she groaned.n”You shouldn’t let these things bother you.” He seemednpleased to find her worrying over flowers for once, instead ofnthe job. “What are you doing?”nHer job! She was holding the phone book at arm’s length,ntrying to make the numbers hold...

When the kids were young Alfred had spent thousandsnhelping her to complete her prizewinners — especially thenone she’d wrought with her bare hands in the garage, usingnexotic jungle flowers and a vase from Sotheby’s; she hadnreplicated it in Bermuda to win the Grand Prize. She hadnmade successes here; she had been photographed, andnwritten up. He...

cigarettes or for the curator’s wardrobe, in tones of prunenand raisin, that she had bought to convince. She put on hernnew position like a costume, affecting a scholar’s stoop. Shenwould do anything to erase the housewife and dabbler, thenwoman she had been.nLeaving the Manuscripts Library promptly at five, Tadnoften looked at her with the assurance...

these days that the nap on the carpets was still raised. Thencut crystal glimmered and every fruitwood and mahoganynsurface shone.n”Lissy, you look wonderful.”nShe could see from their eyes she did not. In a moment ofnschizophrenia she had accidentally mismatched the parts ofnher life. She had on her mannish rusty raisin-coloredncurator’s blouse with the disproportionately fussy...

Despite a medianbrownout, tliis boolcnfought its way ontontlie bestseller lists.nAnd when J;OU read what itnreveals about Teddy andnChappaquiddick, youll see why.nRay Kerrison explains it edl in his New YorknPost column:n”The biggest surprise — and scandal — of the publishingnseason is the public’s extraordinary demandnfor a book exposing Sen. Edward Kennedy’s fatalnescapade at Chappaquiddick, despite a...

populace. There is enough truth in hisnsketch of “human predators” runningnamok in the parks and streets of Americanncities that one begins to squirm. Butnjust as the attacks of his opponents onnmalls are overly simplistic and harsh,nCarlson’s portrait of the big bad city asnantinomy is too severe. In addition, henrefuses to come to grips with the...

For example: suppose one concursnwith Carlson’s analysis of the problematicneffects over time of Social Securitynon income transfer from the youngnto the old, thus loosening family bonds.n(Do not suppose that / suppose that: Inam really unsure and I haven’t donenthe reading and research that wouldngive me the right to proffer even anprovisionary opinion.) That the systemnon...

Supreme Court announced, for thenfirst time, that “Freedom of speech andnof the press … are among the fundamentalnpersonal rights and ‘liberties’nprotected by the due-process clause ofnthe Fourteenth Amendment” — andnyet, construing the right of free speechnnarrowly, it allowed the conviction tonstand. Twelve years later the Courtnreiterated the doctrine, declaring thatncertain “fundamental” rights, centralnto a regime...

the Constitution. His work was herculean,nbrilliant, and irrefutable.nRouted in the arena of serious debate,nchampions of judicial activism fellnback upon a tactic that is characteristicnof the modern left, namely a resort tonobscurantism. Specifically, they developednthe audacious and grotesque doctrinenof “non-interpretivism,” whichnpostulates that the intentions of thenframers of either the Constitution ornthe Fourteenth Amendment are unknowable,nthat although...

your sex, when I had thought Insaw in you symptoms entitlingnyou to be ranked among thosennoble spirits that do honour tonour nature. Oh, what a fallingnoff is here! . . . You have thenhusband of your choice, tonwhom you seem to benunalterably attached, a man ofnhigh intellectual endowmentsnwhatever I and some othernpersons may think of...

EnCOUMTER SERIESnRichard John Neuhaus, General EditornThe Encounter Series presents the dialogue of a diverse groupnof theologians, ethicists, philosophers, and public policy expertsnfrom across the politicaland religious spectrum, on issues involvingnthe relationship of religion and public affairs. Eachnvolume includes four major essays on the subject under considerationnas well as a lively narrative of the subsequent discussion.n”The...

militant secularists who twist facts to suitntheir narrow anti-religious politicalnagendas.”nSo writes Benjamin Hart near thenend of Faith and Freedom: The ChristiannRoots of American Liberty. Anyonenwho is aware of recent trials onnreligious liberty or church-state separationnissues must commiserate. Secularistsnhave buried our real heritage andnfabricated an idol in its place. Despitenthe difficulty and frustration, however,nHart has done...

ancient pedigree on their own politicalnagendas; but all Straussians indulge innthe same vitium principale. They seeknto project their own preferred values —nwhich are secular and rationalist —nonto long-dead thinkers. And they trynto make this enterprise plausible bynlimiting their ancients to a handful ofnGreeks and by treating those Greeks asnclever skeptics.nThus Strauss and his disciples challengenthe...