It is, instead, a gentleman’s agreementnon what is fit to print, review, andndiscuss. The agreement is not exclusivelynpolitical, since it applies even tonexclusively aesthetic questions, but ifnanything, it is even more effective.nWhile the Soviet.Union and her “allies”nhave produced a host of martyrsnand witnesses to the truth—AleksandrnSolzhenitsyn in the USSR, MihajlonMihajlov in Yugoslavia, MilannKundera in Czechoslovakia—innAmerica...

PERSPECTIVEnSHELTER FROM THE STORM by Thomas FlemingnThe trial of 12 sanctuary workers in Tucson has heatednup an issue which is being hailed in many quarters asnthe great moral issue of the 1980’s. The movement, whosenmembers provide protection to illegal immigrants fromnCentral America, is protesting the U.S. Immigration andnNaturalization Service’s refusal to recognize Salvadorannand Guatemalan emigrants...

from conscientious objectors whose church affiUation wasneither bizarre or nonexistent. It became fairly obvious thatnrehgion could not be the test. Perhaps it never should havenbeen, except in a very restricted sense. Reinhold Niebuhr,nonce a leading pacifist, was right to censure the inconsistencynof religious pacifists who enjoyed all the fruits of civilnorder but insisted on their...

coin much that requires saying. Ourndifferences are taken up by Bradford inna chapter of his earher book A BetternGuide Than Reason—he crihcizingnmy section on Lincoln in The Roots ofnAmerican Order.nMr. Bradford allots 10 pages of RememberingnWho We Are to an essay onnRichard Weaver, Agrarian. One thingnhe does not mention about Weaver isnthe interesting fact that...

and productivity. Almost 20 years ago,nas a graduate student at Yale, I heardnhim give a lecture which has nownbecome a special subtheme of Antigones,nHolderlin’s creative adaptation ofnSophocles’ play. Steiner lectured withnfew notes and quoted his sources in thenoriginal languages. Curiously, mynMarxist classmates who had gone tonhear the lecture were as satisfied withnSteiner as I was....

have only a hearsay acquaintance withnthe theoretical intricacies of structuralismnand poststructuralism. In view ofnthe increasingly abstruse and esotericnnature of literary theory, it seems incrediblenthat in May of 1930, 3,000npeople attended a Carnegie Hall debatenon humanism by Babbitt, HenrynSeidel Canby, and Carl Van Doren.nThe battle peaked in 1930, whennHumanism and America: Essays onnthe Outlook of Modern...

tion of His Writings, edited by ByronnC. Lambert in 1972; and Irving Babbitt:nRepresentative Writings, editednby George A. Panichas in 1981. RussellnKirk, who has done a great deal tonpromote interest in Babbitt and More,nof course includes them in The PortablenConservative Reader (1982).nMore has received more booklengthnattention than Babbitt. ArthurnHazard Dakin’s excellent biographynPaul Elmer More (1960) was...

I’ve yet to hear of a committee steering a lifeboat tonsafety. In our days, few dictators are elected, but theirnprohferation should speak to us of the danger we all feel, butnmany fail to acknowledge. It will not be the Bomb that doesnus in: when Herodotus met the Scythians, they were andegenerate, obese race, on their...

mostly in their attitudes towards it.nWhat is it that forces families of Americans kidnapped innBeirut to come before TV cameras and tell us all that thenlives of their loved ones are worth more than the honor, thenprobity, and, in the last instance, the safety of their ownnnation? Men have faced death since the first ones...

• Persuasion at Work •nLeading the Chargenm the Battle of IdeasnAt last, there exists a publication ready to lead the fight fornthe survival of the American wray of life.nIts name is Persuasion at Work. And it is edited by AllannCarlson—a clear-thinking, plain-talking writer who has thenunique ability to communicate with all of those who carenabout...

is going to fight our battles harder than we can do itnourselves. Nicaragua is not threatened by communism. Wenare. Maybe, for the Nicaraguans, communism represents anhope in their misery, but at least we have pulled away fi-omnsuch despair.nLike vacationers in a shark cage, much of the West isnmindlessly taping the sights and sounds of the...

instead of with each other. In my postwar, revolutionary,nHberational time, I remember the talk of dismantling thenfamily, to liberate us all further. The same words are to benheard today, on this side of the ocean, from people who seenno abridgment of freedom in the wealth of regulationninstituted at their insistence, purportedly to make the worldnsafe...

hats, and “God’s own country,” to a ritualized hatred of then”new” America: home of intolerable poverty, racial exploitation,nwarmongering, and inequality. I think that thenswitch from one superficial view to another has as its basisnthe crusading spirit of all Americans, bishops or laymen,nChristians or Jews. The nuclear bomb and the economicnissues provide at present safe crusading...

antling of the State, whose primary justification is, precisely,nexternal defense.nThe American bishops offer several alternatives: nonresistancento the attacker combined with noncooperation withnhim, now the occupier of the national territory. Thisnsounds like a child’s vagaries in the world of adults, for thenoccupier they and we have in mind has means to compeln”cooperation” in chains and gulags....

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On November 22, 1985, Eugene lonesco and RobertnNisbet were honored at an awards banquet in Chicago’snRitz-Carlton hotel as recipients of the third annual IngersollnPrizes. M. lonesco received The T.S. Eliot Award fornCreative Writing. Dr. Nisbet was presented with ThenRichard M. Weaver Award for Scholarly Letters. Inauguratednin 1983, The Ingersoll Prizes (each carrying an awardnof $15,000)...

and generous minds which most powerfully reveal to us anhigher calling than mere existence. . . . Our long hope fornthese prizes is to raise the level of public familiarity withnthose literary and scholarly works which most compellinglyncall us to lives of significance.nIn outlining the intent of the Prizes, Dr. Howard invokednthe understanding of human...

King Solomon is Gary’s final booknand the last of the four he began publishingnin the late 1970’s under thenpseudonym of Emile Ajar in one of thengreat literary hoaxes of a century whennwriters seem to have lost their sense ofnfun. The most delightful irony of thenwhole affair was the ignorance andnarrogance of the critics who pompouslynannounced...

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ARTnThe Grandeur ofnthe Gettynby Shehbaz H. SafraninIn its setting, landscaping, architecture,nand art collection, the J. PaulnGetty Museum is unique in America.nOutside and inside, the museum isndesigned to delight and stimulate visitors,nespecially those devoted to art,naesthetics, archaeology, and history.nNowhere at the Getty is there a tracenof eccentricity. Of course, the Gettynepitomizes the power of wealth, butneverything...

display as one of Getty’s acquisitionsnis a life-size marble after Skopas, thenLansdowne Herakles, commissionednby Emperor Hadrian for his villannear Tivoli, outside Rome. Equallynimpressive is the collection of 4thncentury B.C. Attic stelai (funerarynmonuments) and Greek and Romannportraits.nart experts is that the Getty is prudentnabout its acquisitions. When a greatnwork of art appears on the market, thenGetty...

three galleries are the Hall of Aphrodite,nGreek masterpieces, and mummynportraits. Attic Memorial Sculpturenand Late Classical and HellenisticnSculpture galleries are to the north.nJust as it is possible to feel inspirednby the ancient Grecian and Romanngrandeur still manifest in remote ruinsn—say, the Temple of Goncordia innAgrigento, Sicily—so too, the visitornis stirred by the Getty. Walkingnthrough the Getty...

Letter FromnMinnesotanby Allan C. CarlsonnAmerican and British negotiators ofnthe Treaty of Paris, attempting to setnthe northwestern boundary of the newnUnited States, agreed on a hne followingnRainy River “to the Lake of thenWoods, thence through said lake tonthe most northwestern part thereof.”nAnother 60 years would pass before annaccurate map, astronomical calculations,nand political compromise wouldnsecure U.S. claim...

Special OffernThe World Calendar • Le calendrler mondial • Der WeltkalendernEl Almanaque Mundial • W:^M • ^^i-^i ^.>-4:JinWe live in an increasinglyn••ic<: 3)i*«nTHE 1986 WCBILD CALENDARninterdependent world with distinctivenlocal, regional, linguisticnand religious customs. When wentravel, conduct business, or entertainnvisitors from other countries, wencan be more sensitive, productive andnrelaxed if we are aware of the culturalndifferences...

in addition to the regular license. Thenhuman consequences are mounting.nThe Rasmussens, experiencing a leannsummer and the prospect of littlenincome after September, are consideringnmoving down to mainland Minnesotanfor the winter. “We have to eat,”nthey say.nYet, in another turn of the frontierntheme, the women of the Angle arenworking to change its image. The prevailingnassumption appears to be...

pay for it. Today in the United States,nstatistics abound which show the deleteriousneffect of excessive sociahsm: innthe soaring rate of illegitimate birthsnand one-parent families, in the numbernof “third generation welfare andnproud of it” loafers, in abandonednhousing projects which became instantnslums when completed, in waste,nfraud, malfeasance, and misfeasancenat every level of the bureaucracy.nMoreover, the taxes which...

Letter From thenHeartlandnby Jane GreernYou can tell Midwesterners from othernfolks by the way they poke public funnat the Midwest. Iowa recently held ancontest to find a state license-platenslogan, and the entry generating thenmost attention was “Iowa: Gateway tonNebraska.” North Dakota has erectedna series of billboards along its highways,namong them “Stay in NorthnDakota: Minnesota’s Closed” andn”Stay...

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PERSPECTIVEnALL GONE IN SEARCH OF AMERICAnby Thomas FlemingnWhat does it mean to be an American? Major debatesnover legislation and proposed constitutional amendmentsnraise the question. Without stretching a point toonmuch, it is easy to see the American identity as thenunderlying question on the immigration issue, the EqualnRights Amendment, and perhaps even in the debate overnabortion. It...

Germans, Swedes, Irish, and Poles were eager to becomenreal Americans, “hundred percenters.” While their clergymennand leaders deplored the loss of ethnic identity, thenethnics knew better. If America was going to be theirncountry, then they were going to have to become hernpeople.nBut the assimilation of so many new citizens would be anformidable task for any country....

veins from Maine to California thenblood of purpose and enterprise andnhigh resolve.”nPearl Harbor did provide America,nfor a time, with a compelling sense ofndirection; and Life enlisted to defeatnthe Axis. Yet by 1944, Luce was againnfretting about America’s lack of purposenand the need to gird up this landnfor sustained adventure and influencenoverseas. “The American scene mustnhave...

Midwife.” Found near the end of thenvolume are the more disturbing iconsnof the New America: a happy NewnYork family, mother impeccablyndressed, in their radiation shelter; andnthe pitted test mannequins wrenchednout of shape by an atomic blast atnYucca Flat, Nevada.nMost of Life’s photographersn— among them Margaret Bourke-n81 CHRONICLES OF CULTUREnResurrecting the SixtiesnNostalgia for the 60’s may...

grants in any case. Kevin Starrn— journalist, professor of communications,nand former librarian of the Citynof San Francisco—offers a fiistory ofnCalifornia that may lend clues to understandingnwhat needs to be America’snresponse to the new immigration.nHis Inventing the Dream: CalifornianThrough the Progressive Era followsnAmericans and the California Dream,n1850-1915 (1973) as the next installmentnof an ambitious cultural historynof...

liberal, left-liberal, and leftist ideologiesnprevalent in late-20th-century academia.nEach writer illustrates the situationnof world Jewry today not onlynby what he sees but by what he makesnof what he sees.nAs the sort of liberal found on thenCouncil of Foreign Relations and thenNew Yor^ Times, Grose presents thenmost accurate and least colorful of thenthree pictures. Although titled Israel...

attempt to defend them are “modernnstate-worshippers.” If states are so bad,nwhy demand one for PalestiniannArabs? Would the PLO’s compactionnof Islam and Marxism ever yield somenform of anarcho-syndicalism thatnChomsky might favor?nThe title of his concluding chapter,n”The Road to Armageddon,” suggestsna certain pessimism about all this.nIsrael “drift[s] towards internal, social,nmoral, and political degeneration”n— that is, toward religion....

in the trip after arriving at their destination.nThe human situation is stillnwhatever it was to begin with, even innMerrymount, Connecticut (the settingnfor Noon), except it’s more sophisticated,nmore aware, more New Yorkerish.nFor someone as witty as DeVries, andnfor his fans, that may be as much asnthere is. In Noon, though, the hero isnnot quite the same...

tional, least controversial kinds ofnscholarly research.” We can very wellnimagine what kind of work, as opposednto the “conventional,” that “socialnpurpose and idealism” might engender.nYet we should not be surprised bynsuch blatant mendacity and open arrogance.nInstead, having converted theninterests of learning into just anothernlobby, we should react in astonishmentnonly when some scholarly organizationsnrefuse to “play ball”...

All Gone in Search of American(continued from page 5)nschools and colleges, and workers, managers, or owners at anplace of business. If (as the song goes) we’ve “all gone tonlook for America,” we should be looking in homes,nchurches, and town halls instead of writing propagandanabout an abstract country that has never existed and, deonvolente, never will.nWhat...

• Persuasion at Work •nLeading the Chargenm the Battle of IdeasnAt last, there exists a publication ready to lead the fight fornthe survival of the American way of life.nIts name is Persuasion at Work. And it is edited by AllannCarlson—a clear-thinking, plain-talking writer who has thenunique ability to communicate with all of those who carenabout...

VIEWSnSTILL IN SAIGON—IN MY MINDnby E. Christian Kopffn ‘he earth outside is covered with snow and I amnJ- covered with sweat. My younger brother calls me ankiller and my daddy calls me a vet.” So the Vietnam veterannappears in a popular song recorded a few years back bynCharlie Daniels (written by Dan Daley). The Vietnam...

decided to make a movie modeled on the conventionalnepics that flowed out of Hollywood during the SecondnWorld War. The Green Berets is not a typical World War IInpropaganda film, however. True, there is an enemy innSoutheast Asia who is easily assimilable to the cold,nbarbarous Jap who was a staple of the older films. There isnalso...

Special Forces veteran, but he looks like a hippie or a biker.nThe small Oregon town where he gets into trouble with thenlaw treats him first with contempt and then hunts him downnlike an animal. When he turns on his tormentors, henwreaks a horrible revenge.nThe hiry of his actions is avresome, but no more so thannthe...

his hero had escaped.nThis was the context in which Stallone did his own MM.nRambo is freed from the prison where he was sent after FirstnBlood to go into Vietnam to examine a carefully chosennempty POW camp. Our bureaucrats, who had arranged thisncharade, fouled up. The camp was not empty, and Rambonactually gets a soldier to...

American Way of Life is, through it all, presented as anpositive good—working, loving, and hunting. At the end,nthe remnants of the cast gather to sing “God Bless America.”n(Compare here the more somber and understatednending oiThe Green Berets.)nThe defense of the American Way of Life against thenenemy from the East is also the theme of Cimino’s...

source from which it derived—other than that which hadnto do with good taste and especially with a sense of decencynas the inviolate tenet of acceptable human behavior.nYvor Winters dared to carry the implications of thisnpremise a little further by claiming that James’s moralnconsciousness was “the product of generations of disciplinenin the ethical systems of the...

Are you as informed as you’d like to benabout all the great events and movementsnof your lifetime?nFor the first time: a sweeping, detaiied survey ofnfile significant events of our century —nby a conservative. And one wfio managesnto be both styiish and biuntnRsrely does a work of history receive from major publications the unbridlednenthusiasm that is...

“I’ll scratch your back if you’ll scratchnmine” takes on the character of naturalnlaw.nThe implications of such ethologicalndata for economic theory are enormous.nIn the first place, exchange cannbe plausibly viewed as an essentiallynbehavioral relationship, independent ofnobjects. Secondly, exchange can beninterpreted as a much more complexnaffair than a profit-loss transfer, sincengrooming and food transfer can be conductednin...

On “Transports ofnPower”nThe article by Momcilo Selic on MilovannDjilas {Chronicles, Septembern1985) is a piece of rare quality. Thenlanguage has the descriptive power ofnpoetry while still obeying the disciplinenof knowledge. The author cannconvey the Montenegrin atmospherento us outsiders and thus throw light onnthe enigmatic figure of Djilas. Mynchief praise, however, is that the piecenis not subject...

The FarmAid Concert only managednto raise about $10 million, but thenreverberations of the event may reachnfar beyond the bottom line, fartherneven than American farm policy.nWeeks after the event, impressions linger:nMerle Haggard, who assured thenmore than 70,000 people in the audiencenthat the concert was only thenbeginning; Emmylou Harris, whosensinging and physical presence are almostnenough to reassure...

“getting closer to something that seemsnto be gaining ground . . . and that isncultural criticism.” Some leaders innthe MLA are now proposing that onlynby “discarding the category of literature”ncan we “create greater textualndemocracy.”nSo much for Secretary Bennett’snGreat Books program. So much, too,nfor the humane vision of MatthewnArnold, George Gordon, J.C. Collins,nand the other founders...