Category: Imported

nonviolent action here in thenUnited States, to try to stopnAmerican aggression at itsnsource rather than leave thenwhole burden on those whonsuffer its impact.nAt FOR the executive secretary, AlfrednHassler, was pushed out after thennational council voted to make thenPeople’s Peace Treaty the basis for endingnthe war. That treaty was andocument drawn up in Hanoi, andncalled for...

war pursued its accustomedncourse: on the twelfth of Augustneight captured American fliersnwere executed (heads choppednoff); the fifty-first United Statesnsubmarine, Bonefish, was sunkn(all aboard drowned); thendestroyer Callaghan wentndown, the seventieth to bensunk, and the Destroyer EscortnUnderhill was lost. That’s a bitnof what happened in six days ofnthe two or three weeks positednby Galbraith. What did he...

other “invidious discrimination.” Confusingnthem is crucial to the judge’snargument. If it were true that men andnwomen were equally strong, then thenfailure of 100 percent of the womennwould occur by chance only oncenevery ten trillion sets of tests (on thenaverage) — indicating that this particu­nLetter From Parisnby Curtis CatenTwenty Years After the Invasion ofnCzechoslovakianT.S. Eliot notwithstanding,...

441 CHRONICLESntenland belong “irreversibly” to thenSoviet empire. In so doing we relegatenthose unhappy peoples to a kind ofnalien “yonderland” or limbo, rulednover by the Kremlin. We make ourselvesnthe unwitting victims of a verbalnpollution, of a linguistic fait accompli,nthereby helping to legitimize the partitionnof the continent and the continuingnexistence of the bristling, minestrewnnbarrier which presently scars...

the heads of state or the representativesnof 33 European and two North Americannstates in late July and early Augustn(once again that fateful month!) ofn1975. Overlooked in the mindfuddlingneuphoria induced by thatn”historic” conclave was the crude factnthat at the very moment of signing, thenSoviet Union was violating no less thannsix of the ten general Principles enunciatednin...

461 CHRONICLESncourse, and so have fladanders andnhillbillies, rednecks and gentry. Politicsnand religion have usually been at least asngood for an argument here as anywherenelse. But if you want a topic with realndivisive potential, something really fissionable,nlet’s talk barbecue.nIn this respect (in others, too, ofncourse) barbecue is unlike grits. Gritsnglue the South together, if you’ll excusenthe...

for you. If you enjoy it, two bucks tonP.O. Box 30, Prospect, Kentuckyn40059, will bring you a copy of RealnBarbecue ISIews with, among othernthings, the itinerary of a three-day,ntwo-night, eleven-barbecue-and-onefried-pie-jointntour of Kentucky. (Betweennthat and Joe Bob Briggs’s I^ewsnof the Weird, my mailman has startednto look at me funny.) Better yet, get thenbook. Give it to...

‘IB I CHRONICLESnLetter From thenHeartlandnby Jane GreernWaiting for the MountainsnEastern Montana: a gigantic plate ofncongealed gravy. Chicken gravy. Anshimmering, menacing, pale silveryellow,nbegrudgingly patched withnsome better-off-nameless light greennculture. We’re talking stubble here innthis drought year, not chest-high grain.nThe gravy platter stretches east and westnfor 500 miles, from just inside thenNorth Dakota border to Shelby, Montanan(dare you...

from Ireland; to this day more than 80npercent of the population is of thatnorigin. Yet I have been told that, geologically,nNewfoundland is part of thenAppalachian chain, with a piece ofnScotland stuck to it on the east. LikenAppalachia, it is a region largely bypassednby the industrial and culturalndevelopments of the 19th and earlyn20th centuries.nEven today there...

SO I CHRONICLESnSo I dropped out of school in gradensix and became a drifter till, many yearsnlater, I happened to read about the littlenisland in Newfoundland. I moved herenwith the intention of building a homenwith thick stone walls, of planting applentrees and gooseberry bushes, of havingncows oi- goats and Old English sheepdogs,nof filling my home...

when he was not on tour, when he wasnactually with Lindsay and she cookednand washed for him and slept with himnand admired him, she could eat at hisnexpense. Otherwise she had to fend fornherself and her baby.nThe Folksinger showed up in earlynspring, with heavy boots and a bulkyncoat that belied his pampered middleclassnupbringing, and a...

521 CHRONICLESnLAWnIs It Time to EndnProhibition?nby Clyde WilsonnThe lessons of history are never quitendefinitive. History repeats itself, but notnexactly, and the trick is to know wherenthe differences come in. Nevertheless,nin the case of drug abuse and its controlnwe have as good a lesson and as close annanalogy as history ever provides —nProhibition. Unfortunately, our politiciansnhave...

cultural landscape is littered with thenwreck and ruin of failed progressivism.nWhy not try for once getting thenfederal government and the liberal intellectualnclass and the pork-barrellersnout of the way and allow the healthynforces of state law and communitynopinion to work?nThe removal of the ban of law fromndrugs would at once undermine thenhuge profits and thus remove...

S41 CHRONICLESncal researchers.nOr consider these two examples. Anleading researcher at a major Midwesternnagricultural college, recruited fromnthe National Institute of Health, wherenshe learned to extract very small bits ofngenetic material, is today isolating thenset of genes in swine which collectivelynmake the animal disease-free, strong,nand large. She explained to me that shenis creating new things in the...

farmers we now have. Most of the lossnwill be due to innovations in technologynwhich keep market prices very lownand so drive out less efficient, i.e.,nconventional farmers. Theoretically,nthe introduction of almost any newnbiotechnological innovation should benable to be adapted by anyone. But thenOTA concluded that for a variety ofnreasons, it will be the large farmers whonare...

561 CHRONICLESnproject human feelings and thoughtsnonto nature. Cynthia Moss has livednwith elephants since 1972, and hasnwritten the recently published ElephantnMemories: Thirteen Years in thenLife of an Elephant Family. Mossnoffers revealing insights like, “Elephantsnare experiencing joy,” and, elsewhere,nthe elephant “mostly dreamed,nperhaps of vast swards of sweet newngrass and clear, cool hill streams.” Shenbelieves that elephants may...

ARTnPicture Thisnby Russell DesmondnJames Van Dei ZeenSince Sir Philip Sidney converted thenpoet from a usefiil reteller of the truthnto a maker of creations (“he nothingnafErmeth, and therefore never lieth”),nthe world has starved for the stuff ofnallegory. The malady, in our time, hasninfected all of the arts. One hundrednyears of modern architecture’s assaultsnon tradition have failed...

581 CHRONICLESnmore entrepreneurial and adventurousnthan Canadians, but most Canadiansnwork just as hard as the Americans. Tonsay that the US would acquire “millionsnof welfare bums” if Canada evernjoined the US is preposterous.nSimilarly, nearly all Gardner’s impressionsnabout Canadian culture arenmostly sour grousings of an intellectualnliving in a jerkwater town. Take this:n”Within the educated middle class,nonly one opinion...

41 CHRONICLESnYonkers pays for a federal judge’snvision of a free society: a Jimmy Carternappointee, Federal District CourtnJudge Leonard B. Sand, has fined thencity of Yonkers for resisting a federalndesegregation scheme. Eight years afternthe NAACP and the US JusticenDepartment filed suit against Yonkersnfor hesitating to accept a 1000-unitnlow- and middle-income housing project,nthe “mild-mannered” Judge Sandnalso levied...

work in The New Republic. The naturalnworld and the “tradition of Nature”nwere a necessary part of her work: “Itnwas only thus that I could catch a keepnthe tune.” As for “other and largernmodes/’ those she left to others. Hernambitions were modest in the samenway a modest man does not try to savenhumanity, just his nextdoor...

e I CHRONICLESnPERSPECTIVEnTRAVELERS’ TALES by Thomas FlemingnCoelum, non animum mutant qui trans mare curruntnwas Horace’s observation on the narrowing effects ofntravel: “Those who go across the sea change their weathernbut not their mind.” It is the rare tourist who gets more outnof his expeditions than a confirmation of his prejudices. Onenof the most intelligent visitors...

South Carolina. Inevitably, he was writing a book about thenSouth. After reading Cash’s The Mind of the South andnattending a few lower-middle-class cocktail parties innCharleston, he had concluded that Southerners were stupid,nignorant, credulous, and bigoted. Of course there were nonrace problems in Buffalo, no ignorance, no religion, and ofncourse he had not run into any...

81 CHRONICLESncial and has resulted in a broader debate and a higher level ofngeneralization. We have to some extent escaped from thenparochial notions of American exceptionalism and view withnsuspicion our messianic role among the nations of the earth.nThe essays by distinguished metics in this issue alone arensufficient proof of their contribution. Europeans remain,nhowever, European, and...

Her contemporary Tocqueville, on the other hand, wasnan aristocrat (his Norman ancestry and title went back to thenmiddle of the 11th century) who had a great and open-eyedninterest in democracy. In the second volume of Democracynin America (which, at the time of its publication, receivednless favorable notice than Mrs. Trollope’s book), several ofnhis chapters deal...

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121 CHRONICLESnthe South saw slavery as an unalterable fact of life, whilenthey also knew that it was immoral. This partly explains thenunique relationship certain families and their slaves had innthe South — relationships that had no parallel in the Englishnor Spanish or French colonies. Unlike in the North, thenrelationship between whites and blacks in the...

evident throughout the 1960’s, when hundreds of thousandsnof young Americans, celebrating their individualism,nconverged in such places as Woodstock; young people who,nin Belloc’s words,n. . . take their manners from the ApenTheir habits from the Bear,nIndulge the loud unseemly jape,nAnd never brush their hairn— The Bad Child’s Book of BeastsnThe title of Belloc’s book is telling,...

141 CHRONICLESntion possible, profitable and, on occasion, pleasant. It meansnpaying attention to other people, which is surely a moralngood but also the essence of good manners. We have atnpresent a president of the United States who shows manynsigns of being good-natured; but he is also inattentive. Henmay be the best-dressed president of the United States...

either suspicious of or even opposed to democracy, whichnhad been reborn in Europe through the French Revolution.nSince democracy stood for the “politicized nation,” egalitarianism,nand majority rule, for them it inevitably had a closenalEnity with totalitarianism. Hayek has quoted E. Heymannnto the effect that all totalitarian tyrannies claimed to bendemocratic. While there was a kernel of...

ideas, the American “liberals” have, within the democraticnframework and the commercialized world of the massnmedia, an almost automatic advantage over more profoundnthinkers whose ideas are difficult to popularize. Americann”liberals” keep their antagonists out of the marketplace, andnan unholy “liberal” inquisition rules today in America. Thenunbroken power of American “liberals” is most evident inneducation, book publishing,...

181 CHRONICLESnDIGGING FOR THE TRUTH IN PRAVDAnby Leon SteinmetznIconfess — I know Russian. This ability has been causingnme a lot of irritation lately. I have been bombarded withnquestions from people who don’t know the language, aboutnwhat is really going on in Moscow now. In my answers, innorder to be absolutely unbiased, I always rely on...

there are three — of a woman plasterer, a steelworker, and ancombine-operator — and the short reports from the provincesnare a bit more critical: yes, the coal miners of Pavlodarnfulfilled their work quotas, and the kolkhozniks ofnZaporozhye exported watermelons to Poland, but the lockernrooms in an elementary school were painted badly and annurse was rude...

201 CHRONICLESnSome Epigramsnby Fred ChappellnMalgre LuinJerry earns his bread writing polemicsnAgainst the footnote race of academics.nPompous, he calls them, ineffectualnOfficious pedants, and so forth. WhynDoes he so complain and vilify?n— Don’t breathe this secret to a living soul:nJerry’s a latent intellectual.nAgriculturenYou’ve planted seven wealthy husbandsnWhile the bodies were still warm.nYou own, Chloe, what I’d callnA...

ThenUnited StatesnIndustrial CouncilnEducationalnFoundationnIsnPleased To PresentnThe 1988nAmerican Values AwardnTonEditornHistoriannTeachernCitizennDr. Thomas }. FlemingnIn RecognitionnOf His DedicationnTonThe Enduring ValuesnOf Our CountrynandnCivilizationnUSICnEducationalnHonoring the champions of private enterprise, individual liberty and America’s traditional values -r-i J j.*nsince 1967/220 National Press Building/Washington, D.C. 20045/Anthony Harrigan, President. rOUnClatlOn.nnn Add to Favorites

questions are without end.)nIn the earliest postwar period, when itncould be simply declared that the warnwas a crusade to suppress wickedness,nunderstanding was not much of a problem.nAs time passed, as the worldnbecame more complicated, as the ambiguitiesnof victory and progress becamenmore apparent to the thoughtful, and asnmore was learned about the sheer complexitynof the war,...

241 CHRONICLESndeprecated it, McWhiney believes thendistinctiveness of the South is in itsnredneckery, so to speak, and he givesnthat phenomenon historical depth bynan examination of similarities and continuitiesnranging over many centuriesnof Celtic Britain and the AmericannSouth — similarities in customs, attitudes,nrecreation, social roles, ideas ofnfamily and individual honor, combativeness,nand skepticism of progress innits urbanized, puritanical form....

261 CHRONICLESntive in either theory or practice.” Undernhis presidency, for the first time innthe nation’s peacetime history, federalnwage and price controls were introduced.nHis fiscal and monetary policiesndrove the inflation rate to its thennhighest peacetime level. He proposed an$20 billion guaranteed income welfarenplan and a $30 billion national healthninsurance plan. He agreed to the expulsionnfrom the...

281 CHRONICLESnScott Fitzgerald, Edna Millay, EugenenO’Neill, probably Hemingway when wenknow it.” He went on to remark that itnwould take “a combination of psychologist,nsociologist, literary historian andncritic, as well as an expert in alcoholism,nto try to explain why.”nIn Manic Power: Robert Lowell andnHis Circle, Jeffrey Meyers combines allnof these skills to add the latest soberingnchapter to...

301 CHRONICLESnEmerson wrote about “the conservative”nin the 1840’s. Throughout then20th century there has been a recognizablenright wing in American politics thatnincluded such figures as the late Ohionsenator Robert Taft and Arizona senatornBarry Goldwater. But until the laten1950’s there never was a self-identifiedn”conservative movement.”nAmerican conservatism was invented,nnot discovered. The politics of thisnmovement were not simply borrowednfrom...

the pickle that conservatives presentlynfind themselves in: how to back ancandidate like the patrician GeorgenBush and retain this political coalitionnbetween mass and elite that has been atnthe heart of conservative political success.nGottfried and Fleming are at theirnbest handling intellectual rather thannpolitical developments in the conservativenmovement, but here, too, theynsuffer the pitfalls of redefining rathernthan interpreting...

Letter From Batavianby Bill KauffmannThe Forgotten Firen”I am on the one hand a kind of NewnYork State Republican, conservative.nOn the other hand, I am a kind of anBohemian type. I really don’t obey thenlaws. I mean to, but if I am in a hurrynand there is no parking here, I park.”n— John GardnernBatavia’s wandering native...

441 CHRONICLESnthe enemy. The Batavia Daily Newsnrecently profiled a local lass who’dnrisen to stratospheric heights — as secretarynto George Bush! Somewhere innnightmarish Northern Virginia herncondo doubtless desecrates some CivilnWar site. She wanted to say hi to all hernfriends back home, and vouchsafednthat she couldn’t understand how somenlost souls “just stay there.”nIn saner times, such a...

been hitherto a culturally undernourishednhinterland, a typically colorlessnnational tract.”nUnlike, say, Flatbush.nAt all events, secession is an excellentnidea that ought to be revived.nGothamites can keep the name “NewnYork,” which always struck me as annaristocratic hand-me-down appellationnanyway. Perhaps we’ll opt for Genesee,nor Iroquois, or some other apt oldnIndian name. We’ll even give LongnIsland and Westchester to the...

4B j CHRONICLESncourses from history, geography, economics,npolitical science, sociology, anthropology,nreligion, and philosophy,nobviously a mandatory minority culturencourse would leave them shortchanged.nBut he did endorse the interestingndemand that “all University coursesnreflect the multiracial and multiculturalncharacter of American society.” Tryingnto stake out a middle ground betweennthe “rigid dichotomy” he saw in thendebate over the Western civilizationncourse at Stanford,...

Golden Gate like God’s own lavanlamp; every prospect pleases.nBut man is vile in ways that arendownright startling to a boy whosenvices run to S&D (smoking and drinking).nOf course, even without its mostnnotorious deviants the place wouldnbe . . . strange. In Marin County,nwhere BMW’s and New Age thoughtnseem to coexist comfortably, I keptnrunning into people...

481 CHRONICLESna macabre addition to designations liken”SWM” (single white male, for thensheltered): “PW/’ for person withnAIDS. Truth in advertising of a grislynsort.nHomosexuals’ continuing fear ofnpersecution, however well-founded,nhas led them into some strange andneven deadly political behavior. Thensame fear has made them, like somenethnic minorities, bloc-voters when issuesnimplicate their peculiar interests.nThose issues don’t come up in...

Hampshire, where she spent $7,000 ofnher own hard cash to finish secondnamong the GOP fringe candidates,nwith 120 votes. (Lyndon LaRouche,nthe Libertarian on the Democraticnticket, received only 24 more votesnthan she did.) Rachner blew all hernmoney in New Hampshire becausensomeone promised her she’d be includednin a CBS 48 Hours specialnreport on the fringe candidates. Thenprogram fell...

so j CHRONICLESnents would have the right “to sue anynlocal, state, or federal government fornfunding a school which might damagentheir child’s character, morals, personality,npatriotism, or religious belief”nRachner would offer a choice of Cabinetnposts to a catholic array of conservativenRepublicans, including JeanenKirkpatrick, Oliver North, PhyllisnSchlafly, Jack Kemp, Pat Robertson,nPete DuPont, Linda Chavez, RobertnBork, and Ed Meese,...

LAWnThe Grove CitynHorror Shownby Edward D. Snow Jr.nCivil rights activists called Rev. JerrynFalwell “hysterical” for claiming that thenrecently passed Civil Rights RestorationnAct could require churches to hire an”practicing, active homosexual drug addictnwith AIDS to be a teacher or youthnpastor.” His claim was dismissed as anploy by a televangelist to squeeze morenmoney out of a frightened...

521 CHRONICLESnaction lawsuit against BYU on thenfollowing grounds:n1. BYU’s IRS tax-exempt statusnchannels funds to the university thatnwould otherwise go to the federal treasury.nThe tax-exempt status results innthe receipt of federal money, whichnbrings the university under the jurisdictionnof the civil rights laws.n2. Located in Provo, Utah, BYUncomes under the civil rights laws becausenProvo City’s roads funnel...