thorities in order to integrate political and economic development.rnAlso, it is clear from the context that this happy processrnof forming new multistate leviathans was not merely to be confinedrnto Europe, Canada, or Africa, but that this emerging “federalistrnworld” would include the United States, which (accordingrnto Clinton’s worldview) had just led the way in preventingrn”genocide” in...

litical asylum for someone whose gender rights are violated (forrninstance, when women are facing the prospect of genital mutilation).rnCurrently, both religious and feminist activists are tryingrnto extend the same definition to an)’ woman, anywhere,rnwho is involved in proshtution, on the principle that all prostitutesrnare pursuing their careers under duress and are thus arnspecies of sex...

“All the NewsrnUnfit to Print” ignsJ of tJie CtmesJrnVol. 2 No. 7 July 2000rnWhile we yield to no one when it comesrnto disdain for Fidel Castro and contemptrnfor Bill Clinton, we also believe in the mlernof law and in the right of parents to takerncare of their children. From the notionrnthat parents’ rights depend on...

distribution of equipment to Kavaja’s Albanianrnsquatters at the mine, Diana Johnstonernpredicted it all in an amply documentedrnarticle (“Taking over the Trepcarnmines: plans and propaganda”). She examinedrna November 1999 InternationalrnCrisis Group (ICG) paper on the Trepcarnmining complex and a February 23, 2000,rnarticle in the Toronto Star by ICG consultantrnSusan Blaustein. Both called on UNMIK,rnheaded by Bernard...

(1970), as self-destruction and disintegrationrnfollowed hard on the heels of success.rnIt was a good book, well written andrnwell reported. He told a moving storyrnfrom his point of view. His portrait ofrnyou, warts and all, anticipates and mufflesrnat least some of the aftershocks thatrnwill inevitably follow Hart’s more objectivernand thorough biography. Chris’srnbook may help people to...

pathetic self-destruction in minuterndetail, which gradually becomes sornrevolting as to make reading arnpainful act.rnWell, maybe . .. and maybe not.rnI do think, though, that you would bernpleased by what Hart has accomplished.rnHe has interviewed large numbers ofrnpeople who knew you from childhood tornthe end. He has followed the intricaternpaper trails, pursued every conceivablernlead. The biggest...

might derail readers wlio actually carernabout such iuesscuhals. Wise ones, however,rnwou’t let it get in their way because,rnwhether the book is autobiographical orrnnot, its great fun lies in Cherry’s fond, unflincliingrne’e and perfect verbal pitch.rnThis is Chcrr’s sixth full-length bookrnof fiction, but the first for me, althoughrnI’ve long admired her poems. She’srnsmart, daring, rueful, funnv....

^te^^oAn fniiJic/o//j/i G/u6 Comes to ChicagornHow well do you know your Constitution?rnlake this quiz:rnThe l4th Amendment • Good Idea • Bad IdearnThe 17th Amendment • Good Idea • Bad IdearnThe 18th Amendment • Good Idea • Bad IdearnThe 19th Amendment • Good Idea • Bad IdearnOctober 6-7, 2000rnChronicles: A Magazine of American Culture Presents:rnThe n...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnThe Revolution Two-SteprnThe new century, not to speak of the newrnpseudomillennium, had not even begunrnlast December when one of the scintillatingrndebates typical of the intellectual lifernof our epoch suddenly erupted over thernissue of who was the most important personrnof the old century. Time decided thatrnit was undoubtedly Albert Einstein, neoconservativernguru Charles...

pealed or, more likely, “modified,” andrnevetyone — including those who were thernfirst to scorn and condemn the originalrnmeasures —then calmly accepts thernmore moderate step back that permanentlyrninstitutionalizes and locks in thernrevolution.rnThe experimental, university phase ofrnthe revolution lasted for about five or sixrnyears—the end of the 1980’s and the firstrnpart of the 1990’s —before the speechrncodes...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Venicernby Andrei NavrozovrnThe Last Doge’s EnglishrnI now want to add another likeness to ni-rnGogolian gallen-‘ of Venice’s living souls.rnIf this continuing series should start torntake on the blurry aspect of a spinningrncarousel, becoming a kind of soap operarnof flcehng impressions, all I can say in myrndefense is that the development is an intendedrnone,...

erii histon’.rnYet who, even in the ideal world that isrnVenice, a plate that in a most benignrnsense is something like a eentun’ behindrnthe times, can possibly understand whv arnfabiilonsly wealthy bachelor spends hisrndavs photocopying documents and poringrnover book catalogues, when it was hisrnown old man who had started the VenicernFilm Festival and he could be...

the Buchanan Brigades, but it will not bernthe same party with them in charge.rnThe Buchananites segregated themselvesrnin the back of the room, foreshadowingrnthe sundering of the state party.rnRight from the start, the voting rule wasrnchallenged. “Point of order!” cried onernman, a tall mustachioed chap wearing arnReform baseball cap. He was challengingrnthe legality of the meeting...

forwarded the fruit of its not-too-streniiousrnlabor to the ten-member KBE for thernrubber stamp. But the KBE (or “layrnboard,” as the “experts” contemptuouslyrndubbed it) held certain reservationsrnabout the wisdom of conforming Kansasrnto a nationalized educational standard ofrnthe “Goals 2000” variety. Furthermore,rnsome members objected to the presentationrnof the theory of evolution as one ofrnfive “fundamental” concepts uniting...

with mass-mailed threats to all 304rnKansas school districts reminding themrnwhat happens to foolish little educatorsrnwho mention God. The net result,rnwhich could go on for years, is a Mexicanrnstandoff. While these nationallv financedrnoutfits can’t do much about thernreturn of discretionan’ authorit}- to the localrnboards, they are making it loud andrnclear that they will do whatever it...

ball! (formerly Jesselton), destroyed byrnthe Japanese and rebuilt after the war, therndense jungle presses through the hillsrnand comes right down to the sea. Therndistant volcanic mountain, which givesrnthe town its name, can be seen from thernport. The fish and vegetable markets, facingrnthe offshore islands, were cxceptionall-rnlarge and clean. Unlicensed peddlersrnwere gently moved on by the...

shiping the god who protected fishermen,rnand smoke from incense sticks waftedrnmessages to heaven. After nightfall,rnthe skyscrapers along Hong Kong harborrnwere brilliantly illuminated by the annualrnfireworks display controlled by computers.rnCommunist China “guaranteed” thatrnthe government and economy of HongrnKong would remain the same after theyrntook control of the colony. But most ofrnthe Hong Kong money was safely...

The American InterestrnGore’s Foreign Policy:rnMore of the Same, Only WorsernWe have always known that a Gore presidencyrnwould continue the flawed foreignrnpolicy of the Clinton administration;rnbut now we know that—unlikely asrnit may sound—things may be even worsernif the Vice President wins in November.rnOn the last day of April, Al Gore gave hisrnfirst major foreign policy speech...

VITAL SIGNSrnRELIGIONrnA Christian Critiquernof AmericanrnForeign Policyrnby Jean-Marc BerthoudrnMy last (and only other) visit to thernUnited States was early in 1986. Irnwas visiting the Capitol at the invitationrnof a friend who, at the time, was workingrnfor a Republican member of the Senate.rnIt was on the day of President Reagan’srnState of the Union Address, hi the silencernand...

or l)t’en compared to Stalin, Mao, or PolrnPot, een though the ieiousness of theserntotalitarian leaders tar outstripped, at leastrnin numbers, the atrocities perpetrated b’rnthe Nazis.rnOne of the reasons for this strange partialitrnis the international character ofrnconnnunism. Both the defunct Cominternrnand the Gramscian New WorldrnOrder are explicith- “internationalist”rnmoxements aimed at the disintegrationrnof independent nations. Nazism, on...

immoral, and viciously self-serving characterrnof much of American foreign policyrntoday. This attitude gives the policies ofrnthis great, but disfigured, nation their anti-rnChristian character.rnAn important difference between today’srnWestern atrocities and those of therncommunists and the Nazis is to be foundrnin the hypocrisy in which Allied brutalityrnclothes itself Arnaud-Aaron Upinsky, inrnhis masterly study of the nature of...

experience opposed to doctrine; freedom,rnto law; emotion, to the commandmentsrnof God; subjective criticism, to thernobjective authority of the Bible; arrogantrninnovations, to humble submission to thernWord of God. Men refuse their God-givenrnresponsibilihes, and women are illegitimatelyrnexalted to positions of authorit}’.rnFinally, we see the arrogant substitutionrnof illusions, dreams, prophesies,rnand visions to the written, inspired, andrninfallible Word of...

nuthorih- to bind and to release. It hasrnbeen promised, by tlie One wlio holds inrnHis hand all povver in Hcaen and onrnearth, that the ver- gates of Hell wouldrnnot prevail against the divine audiorih ofrnthe Church. It is also said that the powerrnwhich dwells in individual Christians —rnthe cr’ power of our Lord Jesus Christisrngreater...

about what could be called judicial tTann’,rnthat the federal courts have usurpedrnthe role of the people and lawmakers inrndeciding major issues. How do you feelrnabout that?rnB: I am the bold consen’ative candidaternfor compassionate conservatism! I willrnappoint great Republican SupremernCourt justices like Earl Warren, HarrvrnBrennan, Clarence Blackmun and RuthrnBader O’Connor. And I will niake surernwe hae...

grandeur. I believe myself to be JoernGould.” His summing up of our commonrnaffliction is succinct and devastating-rnMitchell wrote “Joe Gould’s Secret” inrn1964, seven years after Gould died. Hernwould never publish anything again. Herncontinued to report to his office at thernNew Yorker for 32 years until his death inrn1996, nearly the same length of timernGould had...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnThe Phantom Horsern”What does ‘AQHA 1990 gelding, bredrnActual Spark’ mean?”rn”It means someone has a neutered tenyear-rnold American quarterhorse, sired byrnActual Spark, for sale. Why?”rnRhonda looked up from the CasperrnStar-Tribune she held spread in her lap.rn”I want to buy a horse.”rn”What sense does that make? You’rernmoving back to California in less...

line on Highway 26 coming up fromrnScottsbluff, I spent mv first night inrnWyoming 23 ears ago, traeling with m-rnpardner Ted Kovaleff of New York Cih.rnTogetlier we burned a couple of thickrnsteaks on a portable grill set up behindrnthe motel and ate them with beefsteakrntomatoes and Beefeater gin, while thernMay-green bluffs along the North PlatternRier turned...

Modern Editions of Classic Works for Readers TodayrnTHE WEBSTER-HAYNE DEBATErnON THE NATURE OF THE UNIONrnIntroduction by Herman BelzrnThe debates between Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and RobertrnHayne of South Carolina gave fateful utterance to the differingrnunderstandings of the nature of the American Union that had comernto predominate in the North and the South, respectively, by 1830.rnTo...

THE ROCKFORD INSTITUTE’SrnTHIRD ANNUAL SUMMER SCHOOLrnA classical republic: the American Founders’ dream . . . The armed citizen: fromrnMarathon to the militia . . . The pagan prophets: why Christians should study Creek . . .rn”The Greek Roots of Christendom”rn1-5 August 2000rnspecial lectures:rn”The Art of War in Ancient Greece” and “America’s Homeric Period”rnSpecial dinner event:rn”The...

K D I I O RrnThomas FlemingrnF.XECUTIVF. EDITORrnScott P. RichertrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, jr.rnART DIRECTORrnH. Ward SterettrnDESIGNERrnMelanie AndersonrnCON’IKIHUriNO EDITORSrnKatlierine Dalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rn/.O. Tate, Michael Washburn,rnClyde WilsonrnCORKESPONDINC”, EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, Donald Livingston,rnWilliam Mills, William Murchison,rnAndrei Navrozov, Jacob NeusnerrnEOREIGN AFFAIRS EDI TORrnSrdja irifiovicrnI.EOAI. AFFAIRS EDITORrnStephen B. PresserrnRETIOION EDITORrnHarold ().]. BrownrnEDITORIAL SE,CRETARYrnLeann DohbsrnCIRC^ULATION M A N...

The Rockford Institute’s SummerrnSchool provides an opportunity for informalrnprofessional development, intellectualrnchallenge, lively conversation, andrnthe cultivation of relationships with likemindedrnpeople.rnThank you so much for all of the effortrnyou put into it, and for your warm hospitalit)’.rn—Lisa MorganrnRedford, MlrnOn Praise and Blamern].(). Tate’s jovial critique of Hollywoodrngender-benders (“Unisex Multiplex,”rnViews, February) provides a great overviewrnof the problems with...

outside the lecture hall. If the Universih’rnreaches this eouclusion, it is entitled tornimpose a mandatory fee to sustain anrnopen dialogue to these ends.”rnJustice Kennedy’s opinion did implyrnthat a university could still run afoul ofrnthe First Amendment if it did not exercisern”viewpoint neutrality” when fundingrnstudent polidcal action groups. His messagernto the plaintiff students was apparentlyrnto request...

try, a country vvhicli borders both thernMushiii world (where birthrates arernmuch higher) and a China of over a bilhonrnpeople, wliich is just beginning tornflex its economic, pohtical, and mihtar’rnmuscles. Demographically speaking,rnRussia is a country in decline, and it appearsrnunlikely, if not impossible, that anyrnleader can hope to man Russian industryrn(or the Russian army) and realize...

cry —may commence. As long as thernmisshapen drunk was lord of the Kremlin,rnthat was not in the cards.rn— Srdja TrifkovicrnT H E EPISCOPAL CHURCH used tornoffer salvation—on the inevitable silverfiligreedrnplatter from Tiffany’s, served uprnwith a spot of sherry and proffered withrnimmaculate taste and manners.rnA rougher-hewn brand of salvation —rnfor the church itself, or failing that,...

^le^^/i/i ffia/fc/o^j/f G/(/6 Comes to ChicagornHow well do you know your Constitution?rnTake this quiz:rnThe 14th Amendment • Good Idea • Bad IdearnThe 17th Amendment • Good Idea • Bad IdearnThe 18th Amendment • Good Idea • Bad IdearnThe 19th Amendment • Good Idea • Bad IdearnOctober G-7, 2000rnchronicles: A Magazine of American Culture Presents:rnThe 11th...

PERSPECTIVErnWhy Don’t We Mind Our Own Business?rnby Thomas FlemingrnV / o u can fool some of the people all of the time,” saidrnJ . W.C. Fields quoting Lineoln, “and those odds are goodrnenough for me.” Fields also said that, in a presidenHal eleehon,rnhe never voted for anyone, only against, and this time aroundrncontrarians eould have,...

share his wealth: “So far from being entitled to well earned applause,rnfor having employed some scanty pittance in the servicernof philanthropy, he is in the eye of justice a delinquent, if hernwithhold any portion from that service.” Godwin was addressingrnhis argument only to the people of England, but if there arernsound moral reasons for redistributing...

Somalis on the evening news. The whole affair, from first tornlast, was a political melodrama, and no one should have beenrnsurprised by the cameras and klieg lights covering the Marinernlanding.rnWere the Somalis suffering because the West had neglectedrnto send them aid? On the contrary, it is far more likely that ourrnaid made the trouble in...

vestment financed by U.S. AID and other donors between 1960rnand 1980 has disappeared without a trace.” The result? ThernUnited Nahons reported in 1996 that 70 countries were poorerrnthan they were in 1980; 43 were worse off than they were inrn1960.rnAlmost all policy workers today acknowledge that good domesHcrnpolicies (outward-oriented, market-friendly) are the fundamentalrndeterminants of growth....

junkies.” He and a number of other aid workers separately “arrivedrnat the conclusion that the relief program was probablyrnkilling as many people as it was saving.”rnAdvocates of aid simply argue that they will do better nextrnhmc. Now that the Cold War is over, they contend, there is le.ssrnpressure on Washington to offer assistance as de...

tar Fund have failed.rnA principal reason that some areas remain mired in povert’ isrnthat populations are far larger than they were when internationalrnaid began. (Populations are still growing, although the rate ofrngrowth has deelined.) Plots of land per farm family are significantlyrnsmaller than 50 years ago, so rural populations are oftenrnimpoverished even in cormtries such...

was nearly stable from 400 B.C. to about A.D. 1500, but populationrnbegan growing, reaching a rate of 0.6 percent a year, withrnthe end of the Mogul invasions, the restoration of peace, andrnthe stimulus of new trade opportunities. Southern hidia enjoyedrnparticular prosperity under the Vijayanagar kings. Thernstrongest of these, Krishna Deva Raya (1509-1530), is describedrn”as an...

Gaines Elites PlayrnRussia and the IMFrnby Sergey Berdyaevrny^^^^/irna L orcl knows where that went,” Boris Yeltsin eroaked tornone of his Kremhn aides sometime last September.rnaccording to Kremlin sonrces. was replying to a qiier- Yeltsin,rnfrom the International Monetan,- Fund on the expenditure ofrnncarh’ two billion dollars worth of an IMF “tranche” targeted tornstac off impending Rnssian...

grcssnien) last fall v’licn the banking scandal story broke.rnJ louse Banking Committee Chairman Jim Leach (R-IA) held arnseries of hearings last spring on the scandal, citing claims inrnRussian and European media that $200 million worth of IMFrnfunds had wound up in the BNY. The hearings were inconclusive,rnas the IMF pilfering charge was drowned out by...

CHRONICLES’ BACK ISSUES, TAPES, AND BOOKSrnThe 1999 Summer SchoolrnTHE BRITISH ORIGINS OF THE MODERN STATE—Audiotape—Samuel Francisrnargues that the modem state is not dependent on any previous concept of nation orrncountry. Tracing the evolution of the modem state from the time of the Glorious Revolution,rnhe demonstrates that an unprecedented concentration of power and capital continuesrnto occur...

“All the NewsrnUnfit to Print” igns^ of tJje tlimesirnVol. 2 No. 6 June 2000rnA decade after the ostensible end of thernCold War, we are witnessing the emergencernof anti-Americanism in placesrnwhere it had never existed before—notably,rnamong the peoples of Eastern Europernand the Balkans. Secretary of StaternMadeleine Albright and Bill Clinton’srnmisnamed “national security team” havernsucceeded where Stalin,...

NATO has never been weaker thanrnin the aftermath of Kosovo.rnThe a l l i a n c e ‘ s main s t r a t e g i crnfunction has been the maintenancernof a community of interestrnbetween Europe and America.rnBut the Kosovo campaignrnhas done more damage to thatrnthan i t ever did to the...

and earlier there was Bogart as SamrnSpade with Peter Lorre and SidneyrnGreenstreet and Mary Astor and EHsharnCook, Jr., in the third fdmed version ofrnThe Maltese Falcon (1941), not to mentionrnBrian Donlevy and Veronica Lakernand Alan Ladd getting the bejesusrnknocked out of him by William Bendixrnin the second version of The Glass Keyrn(1942), not additionally to...

Nazi attack on Soviet Russia. In otherrnwords, Hammett, who gave lis the SamrnSpade who wouldn’t “pla’ the sap” forrnBrigid O’Shaugnessx, himself pUned thernsap for Comrade Stalin and even, for arntime, for fierr fiitler, best-selling authorrnoiMein Kampf. Perhaps Hammctt’s servicernin his late 40’s during Wodd War IIrnwas, deep down, both an admission ofrnguilt and a gesture...

donis and of the Hasmoneans at the endrnof the Second Commonwealth all werernmarried to gentile wives.rnGeneralizations about prohibitionsrnagainst intermarriage derived from thernrestrictions imposed on the Kohanimrn(the Jewish priestly class) can be dangerous.rnAs explained in Leviticus and by thernpriestly historian Josephus, the priesthoodrnrepresented a “pure race” by virtuernof having kept itself from certain forms ofrnintermarriage. Among...