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responsibility to promote equality andnjustice.” Anyone directing remarks atn”another’s race, sex, religion, nationalnorigin, age, or sex preference” is in forntrouble.nSimilar regulations are in force atnthe University of Michigan in AnnnArbor and at Emory, and others arenunder review at Stanford. As one of thenheads of Stanford’s student government,nCanetta Ivy, put it, “We don’tnput as many restrictions...

siderations would have to place a distantnsecond and third. The worst immigrationnpolicy proposed in severalnyears comes from the Bush administration,nwhich has asked Congress tonallow up to 150,000 additional immigrantsnover the next five years under annew classification of “foreign policyninterest.” While other political refugeesnwould be included, Soviet citizensnwould be the primary beneficiaries ofnthe program. What ever...

These days everyone is having second thoughts — aboutnVietnam and the 60’s, about American history, aboutnwhat it means to be a liberal and what it means to be anconservative. Rather than be left out of the rewrite, I toonhave been having second thoughts about what I did and didnnot do some 20 years ago. I...

hurlers, big-talking nothing-doing rioters who shut downnuniversities and disrupted the Democratic Convention innChicago, 1968. I thought then and I continue to think ofnthem as spoiled children who, if they could not have thisncountry on their own terms, would do anything they couldnto destroy it.nThey were, by and large, repulsive people: Tom Hayden,na man willing to...

citizens, i.e., religious skeptics, sexual equalitarians, andnglobal democrats. Americans who continue to love theirncountry, respect its traditions, and study its history — whatnare they, after all, but bigots, nativists, xenophobes, andnracists? That, at any rate, is what the cultural leftists wouldnlike us to believe. A rather different approach to our historynis provided by a black...

transactionnNew and Recent Books on Family and Policyn^nThe,. .npoliticsnHurnannNaturenThomas Flemingn-^-^•’jnEauiilynQuestjonsnReflections on thenAmerican Social CrisisnAllan C. CajisoiinTHE 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 of...

or blind indifference. Still another is respect only inndemeanor; it is not too far from philistinism, which is thenappearance of seriousness without thought, without genuinenappreciation.nFrivolity has in the 20th century become a plague ofnWestern societies; and not least of contemporary Americannsociety. Of course, many of the greatest achievements of ournWestern societies and of the United...

Integral genuine liberalism is distrustful of the omnicompetencenand omniscience of governments. More fundamentalneven than that is the recognition that a good society isnone made up of numerous independent institutions, pursuingndiverse objectives, or not pursuing any objective at all,nbut being their own justification for existence. I think herenabove all of the family, churches, universities, clubs, andnvoluntary...

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naked skeletons walking as if on stilts, told the Britishndelegation that they had heard of camps further east wherenconditions were still worse, and paid tribute to the precisionnof RAF bombing, which (they said) had killed about 200nNazis, 400 prisoners, and 150 Nazi women residing nearby.nThe huts themselves, which once numbered over 50,nhave now been razed,...

period was a thirty-year-old Beriin Communist called KurtnFaulhaber, who told them that no Jewish prisoner wouldnhave been allowed to hold a post as privileged as his. AsnHitler remarked during the war to Albert Speer, Communistsnwere to be trusted, in the Nazi system, and allowednresponsibilities.nTo learn of Buchenwald’s second life I had to travel west,nsince the...

The Zealot Enters His Second Childhoodnby Tom MurraynHe had carried this barrier across his years,nAn iron curtain over life’s frontiers.nAnd always beyond the wallnWas the multiplying past,nThe last dead self and the self before the last.nThe innumerable all,nHis cumulative kin.nThe sometime guests he had housed within the skin.nAnd invisibly, whenever he uttered.nBands had blared and...

counterparts function in economiesngoverned by politics rather than markets.”nThis is the primary failing ofndevelopment “specialists” in NorthnAmerica and Europe, who assume thatna democratic or rightist authoritariannregime in the developing world automaticallynequates to a modern marketneconomy.nSome of the most pro-US regimes,nmost notably that of the former Somozangovernment of Nicaragua, have alsonbeen highly statist. Nicaragua comes tonmind...

adjustment programs and those ofnother institutions had largely failed.nThe reason, according to the InternationalnMonetary Fund’s publication Financesnand Development, was thatnrecipient governments “were not adequatelynpersuaded.”nThis is nothing more than a multilateralndevelopment banker’s way ofnsaying that the big lenders and donorsnlacked the political will to demandnreforms in exchange for cash and credits.nAfter all, structural adjustmentn22/CHR(3NICLESnfunds are designed...

Hon of Lebanon, and is now pushingnfor another on the West Bank.nRichard H. Shultz Jr., of the FletchernSchool of Law and Diplomacy, examinesnSoviet strategy based on four casenstudies: Vietnam, the PLO, Angola,nand Nicaragua. From these he identifiesnpatterns in Moscow’s use of politicaln(propaganda, front groups, internationalnorganizations) and military (training,nadvisors, arms shipments, and surrogatentroops) measures.nPropaganda seeks to...

the first casualty, followed by Vietnamnand the rest. A new theory of “limitednwar” was contrived, but unlike thenolder concept where the differencenbetween limited and global war wasngeographical, the new theory placednlimits on weapons and tactics withinnthe theater of war. Victory was abandonednas being an “unlimited” objectnin favor of “coercive diplomacy” aimednat a negotiated, compromise settlement.nHowever,...

shamanism and totemistic disguises.nNikolai Tolstoy’s Merlin, like Geoffreynof Monmouth’s, is an inventionnbased upon a few hints, and it suffersnfrom the lack of resistance that suchnamorphous material offers to the imagination.nAt its best it is a good read, fullnof curious, startling, misleading, sometimesntitillating matter. Its style is bestndescribed as high pastiche, with echoesnof Ossian, of Waverley,...

upscale synagogues, the fund-raisingncommunity federations, and the inevitablencountry clubs. These people are thenoften self-appointed elite of the Jewishncommunity. It goes without saying thatncountry club ‘membership is open onlynto the most financially well-off andnsocially “acceptable” members.nLikewise, the federations are controllednnot only by the big givers, whichnis not unexpected, but by those subscribingnto the conventional wisdom ofnthe...

MONKEY BUSINESSnLiberalism as a formidable political philosophynwas dead before the First WorldnWar. The negative critique (and in thenworld of affairs, the destruction) of socialnstatus, established religion, and traditionalnprivileges (for poor as well as for rich)nhad succeeded beyond the wildestndreams of the philosophes, but no onenwas satisfied, not the working classesnwho listened ever more eagerly to...

Letter From thenLower Rightnby John Shelton ReednBilly, The Fabulous Moolah,nand MenWhen I first heard that V.S. Naipaulnwas writing a book about the South, itnmade me nervous. What would thenauthor of Among the Believers malce ofnJim and Tammy? Could we look fornLouisiana: A Wounded Civilization?nWell, I’ve been reading A Turn innthe South, just out last winter...

While we were waiting for then”shoot” (as we show business folk callnit), Fetzer and I slipped across the streetnto grab a sandwich, accompanied by ancountry-music singer named PinkynWyoming, who was also there for anshot at glory. Pinky is a large woman,nwith a long blond wig, a pink cowboynhat, and white boots. Fetzer had purchasednhis entire...

ence Required!” (Garrison Keillorncalls ministers who have gone intonselling “spooks,” and claims theirnmouths are self-winding.)nOne terrifying card offered to listnrecent new residents to any neighborhoodnin the country. Think about it.nInterested in travel? Sign up fournmembers of your congregation to go tonChina ($2,095 each) and you go free.nOr this may interest you: “You arenpersonally and cordially...

whole issue. The students went back tontheir dilapidated dormitories in the beliefnthey had routed the foe.nMr. Atwater’s embroglio at Howardnought to suggest to him and othernRepublican strategists that the blacknmiddle class is not about to desert thenparty and the programs that created it,nand that it is deeply aware that the partynis Democratic and the programs...

Letter From Parisnby Curtis Caten. Just How Monarchical isnMonsieur Mitterrand?nEver since Machiavelli, and probablynlong before that, successful statesmennhave known that a plentiful stock ofnmendacity, as well as guile, are essentialnfor anyone wishing to get ahead innpolitics. But what many of them maynhave forgotten during their arduousnclimb to the summit is that the oftennbitter accusations they...

pened to be a Friday, four frustratednFrench generals who were bent onnkeeping Algeria French staged a militarynputsch in Algiers. Immediatelynmetropolitan France was swampednwith wild rumors, according to whichnles paras (the paratroopers) were aboutnto drop out of the sky over Paris, or hadneven landed to prepare a bridgeheadnnear Marseille. On Saturday morningna panicky Prime Minister Michel...

Built By, Driven By,nPaid For BynAn AmericannBut that’s in keeping with Ann Arbor’snrise in the era of the Rust Belt.nThe city was never betrothed to thenstate’s auto industry. It has long refusednsuitors, and now it has health andnwealth to show for its independence.nLots of imaginative people and smallnenergetic companies, most of whichnyou’ve never heard of,...

and 1980’s boomtown. Ann Arbornoffers both in a big way. But it isngrowing up. It’s due for a new pair ofnshoes and pants soon — and howzaboutna suit and tie this time around?nWilliam Rice is a graduate studentnin English at the University ofnMichigan.nLetter From Myselfnby Juliana Geran PilonnA Plea for ChoicenIt is heartening to learn...

LITERATUREnThe Danish Swiftnby Jesse BiernWhy, after half a century, PeternFreuchen’s Arctic Adventurenhas to be rescued from virtual oblivionnis one of the true puzzles of literarynanniversaries. Not quite a best-seller innits day, it nonetheless went into fivenprintings and then fell, almost precipitously,ninto its curious obscurity. Retrospectivenitself as it looked back • tonFreuchen’s Greenland and Baffin Baynexperiences...

Freuchen emphasizes in his book, centeringnit for us as the core of thenradically simple and emotive systems ofnthe natives. He himself ceases to strugglenagainst the pristine functionalism ofntheir ways, which he accepts at last asnnatural and healthy.nHe goes so far as to eventually marryna native woman, Navarana. Therenseems to be real love between them,nand in...

home in Denmark, to mynmother, and to my good friendnMagdalene who had not writtennto me. I decided that I wouldnhave to write her.n— after which, by a last violent effort,nhe pulls himself back all the way in.nEventually, by renewed strategy andneffort, he escapes, but not without thenconsequence of a frozen and then gangrenousnfoot. Inside his...

THEATERnFive Plays in Searchnof a Characternby Katherine DaltonnIn recent years Actors Theatre ofnLouisville’s artistic director Jon Jorynhas come under fire for the relativenweakness of his new play festival. Henshould be happy that this year’s seasonnwas stronger. Like any other genre,nplaywriting is a craft, and if nothing elsenwas evident, it was clear from the eightnplays ATL...

William McNulty as Count Wintergrin and William Garden asnBlackford Oakes in William F. Buckley Jr.’s playnStained Glass.n’>&fl|[^ InAnne Pitoniak as Mabel in HarrynCrews’ Blood Issue.n48/CHRONICLESnare the trials of various white supremacists,nthe murder of Denver talk shownhost Alan Berg, speeches of men likenRev. Richard Butler of the .Aryan Nations,nand the seduction and indoctrinationnof various members of...

while perhaps not quite far backnenough to be history, but in Buckley’snworking out of the dangers of detente,nhis play has currency as a standingnwarning to advocates of game strategyntheory in Washington.nLast but not least comes Brad.nKorbesmeyer’s Incident at San Bajo,nchosen from among 1,700 other submissionsnto win ATL’s one-act playncontest. His very nice play is the...

view of a contradiction that infuses allnof descriptivism, and it can be statednwithout reference to a definition ofn”dictionary.” The general contradictionnis that descriptivism is founded onnan axiom that accepts “A” (popularnusage) and rejects “B” (any other authoritynor criterion for correctness)neven when acceptance of “A” commitsndescriptivism to an acceptance of “B,”nwhich is rejected by the axiom...

THE ARTS OF LYINGnLying is a fine airt. But there is also the art of telling the truth. In an agenwhen Arthur Schlesinger ]r. counts as a major historian, and Philip 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...

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Reagan repeatedly cited FDR’sncampaign rhetoric as the genesis of hisnviews. The large and persistent tradendeficits caught his administration bynsurprise. Rather than confront thenproblem, the White House chose tondeny it, grasping at straws like thenSmoot-Hawley myth to use againstncritics. We will pay dearly for this error.nWith the dollar already gutted, we arenheaded for a “hard landing.”...

LAURO CM^ZOS, secretary of education,nis living down to our expectations.nAs we noted in our January issue,nthe warning signs were abundant asnearly as his confirmation hearings,nwhere he pledged to repudiate thenworks of his predecessor, William Bennett,nand basked in the encomiums ofnSenator Kennedy. If there were anyndoubts then that Cavazos would provena pliant tool of the education...

ELSEWHERE IN MINNESOTA,na 21-year-old retarded man is about tonbe treated for his compulsive selfinjuriousnbehavior to the tune ofn$292,000 —or more —annually. MichaelnUntinen has a tendency to strikenhimself, to try to gouge out his ownneyes, and to induce himself to vomit,nand is presently being treated withn”faradic shock,” from a hand-heldnelectrode. The proposed new $800-adaynmethods would exchange...

hasn’t been written about Washington.nBy “similar,” I mean a book thatnattempts to capture the dynamics ofnWashington life. There are dozens ofn”Washington novels” published eachnyear, but most of these only deal withnthe political world. This is a singlemindednessnparticular to our era; authorsnin comparable periods of historyndid not restrict themselves to politics.nIn other periods everything but politicsnwas...

22 OF THE BEST MINDS . . .nNOW IT’S EASY TO READ THEIR BESTnMany eminent thinkers are now listening tonbooks as a means of significantly increasingntheir reading time.nColumnist George Will has stated, “Ingo through a book a week using timenotherwise wasted in taxis, shaving ornwalking.” (NY Times)n1007 GOD AND MAN AT VALE-Wm, E Buckley, Jr.n5...

One man, one vote. ‘It seems such an obvious, such ansimple principle. What can possibly hinder its implementationnin South Africa, where blacks are barred from thenexercise of citizenship rights, or Israel, where West BanknPalestinian children take to the streets demanding selfgovernmentnand civil rights, or New York City, where thenBoard of Estimates (responsible for zoning, awarding...

grounds of misconduct and to form a government fornthemselves.nBurke tells his French correspondent that in their revolutionnthey had had the chance of reforming a somewhatndilapidated constitution. All the necessary elements werenpresent: “In your old states you possessed that variety ofnparts corresponding with the various descriptions of whichnyour community was happily disposed; you had all thatncombination...

establishing the sort of unitary democracy envisioned bynRobespierre. What actually happened was quite different.nThe 13 separate dominions of the British crown, in defensenof their charters and local self-government, as corporatenbodies undertook to separate themselves from the authoritynof the Crown and Parliament.nWhat took place, in other words, was a war of secessionnrather than a revolution in...

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The twin centenaries of the English and French revolutionsnare now upon us—1689 and 1789 — and theynseem fated to coincide with a moment when the wordn”revolution” has lost all its prestige and even much of itsnpoint.nIn 1987, for example, Paris was shaken by a booknexpressively called The Cost of the French Revolution bynRene Sedillot. Its...

and one step at a time. Burke’s analysis is the morenremarkable when it is remembered that, at the first appearancenof the Reflections, France was still a constitutionalnmonarchy and intent, as some Englishmen believed, onnfollowing the English example after a century of delay.nWhen twenty-year-old William Wordsworth walked acrossnFrance in the summer of 1790 with another Cambridgenundergraduate,...

stability by 1689, only 15 years after Clarendon’s death; andnwith its grim recital of what civil war can do, the book helpednto decide the French king not to call out his own supportersnto liberate him. The English had got it wrong withnCromwell, in fact, and right with William of Orange: that isna view that would...

disreputable incident from his Cambridge undergraduatendays (1790-4) which we now owe to Gillman’s Life (1838):nthat as a militant undergraduate at Jesus College, and in thennefarious company of a future Lord Chancellor of England,nhe had laid “a train of gunpowder” on the lawns of St.nJohn’s and Trinity which, being set on fire, burned the grassnto proclaim...