Psychoanalysis, indeed, the entire field of psychology, which isntoday considered as a science, has come to be regarded by manynas an agent of moral disorder responsible for a multitude ofnbehavioral and social ills that plague our society. And in that, itnis also seen as an integral part of the modern liberal world view.nWe feel that...

lytic ideas.nIt seems clear that much of the scorn and contumely routinelynheaped upon psychoanalysis in contemporary conservativenpolitical thought is due to: (1) the left-oriented politicalnstatements made by psychoanalytic figures who fail to understandnthe political implications of psychoanalysis (which arenanything but collective); (2) the unfortunate tendency of manynpeople, both psychological laymen and those who should knownbetter,...

QpiMONs & Vn:vs InPhillips’s ComplaintnKevin P. Phillips, Post-ConservativenAmerica: People, Politics and Ideologynin a Time of Crisis; Random House;nNew York.nby Charles A. MosernLost-Conservative America is KevinnPhillips’s fourrh book. Essentially, itnmerely recapitulates and develops certainnideas from the book which first broughtnhim public notoriety in 1969: ThenEmerging Kepuhlican Majority. Thenmost important idea he advanced therenwas that of the...

level must be augmented, and lodgednfor the most part in the executivenbranch.nAs a crude but useful generalization,nwe may say that political battles in anynmodern system are fought over the properndegree of political control over a society,nincluding its economy. The newnright—and to a lesser extent the ReagannAdministration—believes that governmentnhas already extended its powersnmuch too far, and...

It is no doubt true that the 1980’s will bena decade of political uncertaintyncharacterized by rapid shifts in power,nsimilar to the decade following the endnof World War II. The direction finallyntaken will be determined by organizationalnskill on the political level and bynOn Thrills & CorrectitudenLeslie Fiedler: What Was Literature?:nClass Culture and Mass Society; Simonn& Schuster;...

anyone in this TV age. Actually, Fiedlernshould be hailed, not reviled, for bringingnNatty Bumppo to those tuning in tonhear about 2sa Zsa Gabor’s diamondsnand husbands. Fiedler answers detractorsnwho accuse him of “selling out” by correctlynsaying, “By the last decades of thentwentieth century . . . those critics, oncenable to think of themselves as the allpowerfulnlegislators...

isn’t a disinterested critic in this case: itnhelps lend weight to his thesis in “ComenBack to the Raft Ag’in, Huck Honey,”nwhich basically says that white peoplenfeel a homosexual longing for black people,nwhich is why The LeatherstockingnTales, Moby Dick, ^ndHucMeberry Finnnare really admired.) He doesn’t say thatnthe “accepted” classics that happen to benboring should be canceled...

the Boy Scouts in 1910. (It’s remarkablenthat Fussell doesn’t note that Baden-nPowell, with his sister Agnes, alsonfounded the Girl Guides.) A Scout—asnall who were lucky enough to be onenremember and as most who weren’tnsomehow seem to know—is, amongnother things, courteous, kind, and cheerful,nparadigms of behavior that Fussellnaims to achieve. However, there isnanother specter haunting the...

trained in the law can really understandnthem, and only the judges themselvesnmay decide what the laws really mean.nFinally, judges have that indispensablenprerogative of any priesthood, that itsndecisions have not just the force of law,nwhich can alter custom, abrogate contracts,nand radically change social arrangements,nbut that they are also takennto be the source of our civil morality.nSince...

the Progressive movement, which alsonfavored strong executive offices withinngovernment, for a strong administrator,nwhether attorney general, governor, ornpresident, could put reforms into effectnregardless of outside pressures favoringnthe rich and the powerful. This was thenera of Robert LaFoUette, Jane Addams,nMargaret Sanger, and other reformersnwho, according to Parrish, “believedthatnunder wise and enlightened stewardshipn(their own, of course), America wouldnexperience...

tional and gutted Franklin Roosevelt’snNew Deal in the name of the protectionnof property rights and the search-andseizurenclause of the Constitution. Bynwhat right did the Court do this? Frankfurter,nfollowing Oliver WendellnHolmes, argued that the American judiciarynhad no such right, that it ought notnto invalidate laws enacted by legislaturesnand signed by executive authorities unlessnthose laws were manifestly...

never had a chance to use them, he is notnmerely indulging in autobiographicalndetail but is showing how Churchill,neven at 79, seized the initiative to speaknrather than waiting for an invitation.n(Observes Nixon wryly: “The remarks Inhad so painstakingly prepared werennever delivered, but neither did theynseem to be missed.”) Consequently,nthose Nixon desaibes most satisfactorilynare those with whom...

Violently Good TastenLIBERAL CULTUREnIggy Pop is precisely the kind of rocknspecimen that many think of when mentionnis made of that breed: vile, corrupt,nsordid, and so on. Recently High Timesnmagazine, perhaps in testimony to itsnhigh-level concern with literature and thenarts, ran excerpts from Mr. Pop’snmemoirs, INeedMore. In them, Mr. Popnthe neat fit these make with the...

waiting for man’s liberty to give Him anchance to transform the world by love.”nHe traces Pasternak’s career and spiritualndevelopment from the 1920’s, when henwrote ambiguous political poems fornwhich he was both praised and condemnednby the Communist Party,nthrough his ordeal after publication ofnZhivago. He believed that much of Pasternak’snsuffering at the hands of thenSoviet government and...

contemplative nature. Often he fell, ornthrew himself, off the wall between thentwo. His interest in Latin American poetsnwas encouraged by his friendship withnNicaraguan Trappist Ernesto Cardenal, anpoet who was for a time a novice undernMerton at Gethsemani. Merton’s fascinationnwith the tortured spirituality ofnthe Latins turned into unaitical endorsementnof all sorts of ugly political currentsnthat he...

RELIEF FROMnMAGAZINE MUSHnAND ME-TOOISMnEach issue of Chronicles of Culture providesnthose who thought the days of vital, compellingnwriting were past with evidence to the contrary.nYou, dear reader, may insure the continued feelingnof cerebral well-being that comes from absorbingnthe contents of each issue simply by detaching thencard that accompanies this page and forwardingnit—filled in—along with your check.nIn...

An Achiever’s LotnNorman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen:nRichover; Simon & Schuster; NewnYork.nby Otto J. ScottnOome years ago, Norman Polmar, andistinguished naval analyst and editor ofntheU.S. section of7 Add to Favorites

whom Rickover was a hero. When Rickovernwas passed over for promotion tonRear Admiral and faced retirement, Blairndecided that Rickover was being treatednunjusdy. In order to develop this themenhe was given a Naval office and a secretarynby Rickover, who acted as editor fornan encomium that Blair produced. Anfull-scale, and ultimately successful,ncampaign was launched, hnplicit in thisncampaign...

contact. As a man, he was a hatsh criticnbut unable to accept the faintest criticismn. He seems to have forgiven any faultnor excess in himself, but could not forgivenor forget anyone who aossed him. Vociferousnagainst favoritism, he was thengreatest favorite in the history of thenUnited States Navy. Disdainful of socialnsets, he seems to have been...

throes of madness, the reader often feelsnoverwhelmed. That Mickelsson has ankeen eye and mind one has no doubt. Henobserves, he ruminates constandy and atnlength about philosophers living andndead, about his childhood, his marriage,nhis psychotic episodes—all these, alongnwith the former inhabitants of his house,nare the “ghosts” of the book’s title. Thenproblem is that nothing escapes his...

Hope WantednJulian L. Simon: The UltimatenResource; Princeton University Press;nPrinceton, NJ.nKen Auletta: The Underclass; RandomnHouse; New York.nby John Shelton ReednThe cover of Julian Simon’s bookntells the story: “Natural resources arengetting less scarce.” “Pollution in thenU.S. has been decreasing.” “Thenworld’s food supply is improving.”n”Population growth has long-termnbenefits.” The Ultimate Resource is andebunking book, new-style. The conventionalnwisdom is...

face, and it isn’t necessary to share hisnvalues to appreciate his analysis.)nBut another threat to continuityncomes from the current prevalence of theneconomic mode of thought, whichnSimon so ably exemplifies. Once somethingnis considered subject to costbenefitnanalysis, its very existence is tacitlynnegotiable, and it is simply a fact thatnwhere the market prevails continuity isnrare, and almost accidental...

On Progress & EducationnRichard Hoggart: An English Temper:nEssays on Education, Culture andnCommunications; Oxford UniversitynPress; New York.nMichael W. Apple: Education andnPower; Routledge & Kegan Paul;nBoston.nby Gordon M. Ptadln1 he self-confident voices of thenliberal culture would have us all believenin progress. Through their rhetorical excessesnand their exclusionary stance theynhave tried to create the illusion that theynalone know...

welcoming such dependency: “consumernsocieties tend to flaccidity, tonleading people into ‘letting them do it,’nto handing things over increasingly tonprofessionals.” Hoggart connects thendrift of our culture with education as henexposes the gap between our rhetoric andnour deeds by noting: “adult education isnabout the responsibility of the individualnbefore that of the collective.”nThe heart of the educational dilemmanin...

not only how schook reproduce existingnsocioeconomic arrangements, but alsonhow their impact on students andnteachers always threatens to unsettlenthese traditional arrangements. Typically,nApple assumes the followingnposture toward his subject:none fundamental latent social role ofntheschoolis’devianceamplification.’nThat is, the school naturally generatesncertain kinds of deviance. This processnof natural generation is intimatelynrelated to the complex place schoolsnhave in the economic and...

Soap Opera & Matters of PlumbingnGwyneth Cravens: Love and Work;nAlfred A. Knopf; New York.nAllen Hannay: Love and OthernNatural Disasters; Atlantic-Little,nBtown; Boston.nby Keith Bowernv^harles Lamb once said that therenwere certain places and certain timesnfor reading particular books. Althoughnone might take Izaak Walton fishing,nthe only reading one is likely to accomplishnwould be the fine print onnthe fishing...

Doubts Far Beyond ReasonnWillard Gaylin: The Killing of BonnienGarland: A Question of Justice; Simonn& Schuster; New York.nby Edward N. PetersnIn the early hours of the morning ofnJuly 7, 1977, Richard Herrin, a noaccountngraduate student, repeatedlyncrushed a hanuner into the head of hisn20-year-old girl friend, Bonnie Garland,nas she lay sleeping in her parents’ home.nThinking she was...

cle for their personal criticism of thensystem should be called to task. Evidencenof such ulterior motives abound in thenGarland case. Consider the example ofnSister Ramona, the self-disavowed archi-ntion to prove the accused’s sanity. Thus,nAmerican judiciary seeks to add the presumptionnof insanity to the presumptionnof innocence.nTo be sure, both presumed innocencen”Extracts from the interviews and the...

their partition is increasingly understoodnas a necessity in a world of business conglomerates.nTherefore there can be nonculture in work and workplace, no matternwhat Studs Terkel and Daniel Yankelovichnfind, each in his own way.nEnter Deal and Kennedy’s CorporatenCultures, which does restore culturento the world of work—but it turns out tonbe as culture-bound as Babbitt. By simplifyingncorporate...

tion of business and society. How wenthink about business governs how thencorporation views itself and how the corporatenperson understands his function.nThe first constraint Chamberlain has innmind is the profit/efficiency test commonlynknown as “the bottom line.” Butnhis argument is equally true of the socialistnapproach which oflfers no greater hopenof intellectual freedom for those withinnthe frame of...

Natural DominionnWilliam Tucker: Progress and Privilege:nAmerica in the Age ofEnvironmentalism;nAnchor Press/Doubleday;nNew York.nThoreau in the Mountains: Writings bynHenry David Thoreau; Commentary bynWilliam Howarth; Farrar, Straus &nGiroux; New York.nby Thomas FlemingnIhe most basic text on environmentalismnis in Genesis: “Be fruitful andnmultiply, and replenish the earth, andnsubdue it: and have dominion over thenfish of the sea, and over...

THE MONUMENTAL LITERATURE OF DWARFSn. . . CONTINUES.nTHE ROCKFORD PAPERS’ newnseries, “The Monumental Literature ofnDwarfs,” continues its critical lool< at contemporarynAmerican literature with essaysnon the following celebrated authors:nWILLIAM GASS. Some think him thenmost philosophical of American writersntoday, while others see his search fornphilological essences on a par with seekingnthe center of an onion. Lee Congdonnlooks...

question of relative values, “differentntastes in recreation.” But trail-bikers andnbird-watchers can not peacefully coexist.nAsking a woodsman to tolerate off-roadnvehicles is like asking the audience at anMozart concert to endure an assembly ofnWalkman radios playing soul music. Wenhave a country full of noise, of people,nand of the things made by people. It doesnnot seem like too...

vative. It is a term he reserves for abusingnenvironmentalists and other obstacles tongrowth. Ecology, for example, was originallyna very good thing until it was transmutedninto a “very conservative socialndoctrine.” To find out about the enemy.nTucker had recourse to Rossiter’s Conservatismnin America—as if it were somenrare exotic social movement in NewnGuinea. To illustrate his basic point,...

cerned with salad dressing and carburetorsnthan Just Causes. So in a matter ofnminutes Lumet and Newman show thatndoctors make mistakes and, if they’renfamous, cover them up; that the Churchnis still concocting plots with its powerfulnpurse (says Newman to a prelate as henfondles a check for $210,000 that he willnnot take from the sullied holy man,...

C'()KKi:si'()M)i:( i fnLetter from West Germany: Freedom: Question & Answer Timenin Frankfurt on the Main.nby Noel A. BlacknAbout 75 participants, representingnevery country of Western Europe and thenUnited States, attended “For YournFreedom and Ours,” a conference sponsorednby The Rockford Institute innNovember 1982 in Frankfurt on thenMain, West Germany. Those in attendancenwere of various stripes of politicalnand...

IMI: AMIKK N PKnS( I.Ml M _lnThe American TragedynTragedy, as everybody knows, meansnan inevitable catastrophe written into ancobweb of factors created by characterntraits, emotion, circumstance, or fate.nAlthough in drama, tragedy deals withnindividuals, it naturally may become annexistential pattern for communities,nsocieties, nations. Contemporarynunemployment obviously is not only anneconomic, but also a historical, sociostructural,nand moral phenomenon. Asnsuch,...

LIBERAL CULTUREnMommy DearestnA New York Times BooknReview contributor by the misleadingnname of Mr. Atlas writesnabout Mr. Irving Howe’s book AnMargin of Hope, which chroni­ncles the vicissitudes of the notedncircle of New York liberal andnleftist intellectuals from then1930’s to the present:nTo begin with, who werenthese intellectuals? Mynscorecard tallies with Mr.nHowe’s: ‘The leading criticsnwere Rahv, Phillips, [Lionel]nTrilling,...

How Clever . . .nChicago Tribune, the Second City’snsecond-rater, reports with relish on somenopinion-poll flummery under an inherentlynapproving title:nStaying single shows gain as acceptablenlifenThe source of the Tribune ‘j joy is that:nThe 18-year-olds were asked hownmuch it would bother them if theyndid not marry. . . . 23.5 percent—n29.4 percent of the sons and 17.2...

what Mr. Reagan actually did, in thenapt words of an unsympathetic politicalncommentator, was to ofifend a large, perhapsncrucial, part of his own constituency.nFrom the outset in the Oval Office,nMr. Reagan has been surrounded by politicalnstrategists, consultants, pollsters,nand professional mavens who use computers,nproduce charts, map out tacticalnmoves, and pride themselves on beingnable to research, analyze, and...

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Politics, once considered synonymous with government,nshould no longer be so confused. In modern times, politics isnthe art of maneuvering—either openly or secretly—toward anposition of power. Government, on the other hand, is the act ofnruling. To recognize that moving toward power is one activity,nand the use of power itself quite another, is to better understandnwhy the...

good taste abounded in the view of the more sensitive citizens,nbut such violations were in tune with what was commonlyn(though not always openly) accepted. Today we are confrontednwith a different, and «^«admitted, series of assumptions. Racialnand religious politics, which have always existed, have grownnincreasingly obvious. Today the accusation of racism can ruinncareers and create damages...

OlMMONs .vt VllUSnLife as Junk: A DuologuenJean Stein: Edie: An American Biography; Alfred A. Knopf; New York.nby Gary S. VasilashnWhen Henry Geldzahler and I went to visit Andy [Warhol]nat the Factory we talked for a while about the Sixties. … Inasked him about sin. Andy sat quietly staring at the table: ‘Indon’t know what sin...

Faced with the events in Germany of thatnepoch, would Stein also maintain thenabsence of “one seamless, intact truth”?nI think not. As for her insistence that thisnbook was never, never, never written tonglamorize Edie or the period she incarnated,nWWD ran a cover picture ofna model squatting in front of a mirrornapplying makeup in exactly the samenpose...

ever, is that so many simply didn’t survive.nEdie was not the only one whondidn’t make it. And the influentialntrend-setters, the celebrities, and thenculture heroes so beloved of the medianwho have managed to survive, look backnnow on the casualties not with any compassionntoward their comrades but withnan attitude tinged with contempt, as if tonimply: “Hey, man,...

mixed up. But I was mad about her.n. ; . I remember saying [to Vreeland]n’We’ve got a star! There’s no doubtnabout it, she’s terrific! A greatnmodel! We should do a whole issuenon her.’nWhen questioned, Vreeland reminiscesnabout diis charming creature withnthe lovely skin whom she considers “onenof the true personalities of the Sixties.”nShe compares the 60’s...

Geldzahler. In I960 Geldzahler workednin the Department of American Paintingsnand Sculpture at the MetropolitannMuseum of Art in New York as a curatorialnassistant, and his rise from that firstnpost has been nothing short of meteoric.nIn his essay on Geldzahler in The Scene:nReports on Post-modern Art (VikingnPress, New York, 1976) Calvin Tompkinsnwrites of his subject in I960:...

spades. First there were the fashionnmagazines, a continuing source of exposurenfor Warhol. They made Andy.nHe was—and is—their boy: in the Septembern1982 issue of Vogue, for example,nthere are three consecutive, fullcolor,ntwo-page ad spreads for Halston,nan arrangement that, in terms of size,nlocation, and printing is not inexpensive.nEach spread is for one or a group ofnHalston’s lines. Each...

characters of Valley of the Dolls are nonabusers.nVreeland, the woman who setsnthe tone for one of the leading fashionnmagazines, “a friend of the family,” sawn”springtime and freshness” in Edie andndismissed narcotics use as being on parnwith the use of cold cream. It smacks of,nif not criminal, then moral negligence.nEdie was presented not merely as anfashion...