ing Jewish-American tendencies highlightedrnin MacDonald’s third volume.rnFirst, assaults by American Jewish leadersrnagainst a Judeo-Chrishan core culture dornnot advance any rational Jewish interest.rnIt is hard to see how Jews benefit fromrnawarding preferential treatment to blacksrnand fiispanics, insisting that the TenrnCommandments be removed from publicrnschools, or denigrating the heritage ofrnAmerica’s white majority; they wouldrnseem to have a...

nienth’ limited Greene’s involvementrnwith them.rnHazzard writes that “the anxiety ofrnmen, women, and children living closernto the bone and die abss is a climate ofrnthe earh’ fiction, which freqnently takesrnplace in wet, cold, sunless settings.” Andrnshe shrewdly notes that many ridicnlonsrncharacters in his novels are called “Henr’,”rn”a byword for naivete and impotence”rnas well as Greene’s real...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnA New Majority?rn”This way to the egress,” P.T. Barnumrnused to direct the stooges stupid euoughrnto buy tickets to his travehng shows ofrnbunco and blather. The “egress,” ofrncourse, was the exit to the street, wherernthe stooges should have stayed. Wouldrnthat we had a P.T. Barnum today whorncould direct us to an egress...

er remarks to the Post, Mr. Kristol repeatedrnthe same sentiment—”The ortliodoxrnconservatie movement has collapsed,”rnhe told Mr. Edsall, and “if there is to be arnconsenati’e fntnre, which I for one hopernthere is, it’s not going to be shaped by thernold conservative movement.” Let usrnleave aside for the nonce the subject ofrnwhat kind of “conservative future” Mr.rnKristol...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Parisrnby Curtis GaternExhibitionism as a Way of LifernIn mid-January, those Parisians (like myself)rnwho are still interested in literaryrnmatters were aroused from the smugrncomplacency in which we had been wallowingrnfor several weeks, as dazed survivorsrnof the millennial earthquake andrnthe pyrotechnic cancan put on by arnshameless Eiffel Tower, by an unexpectedrnthunderclap. The thunderclap was ignitedrnby...

news that Pivot was ending his long seriesrnof Friday evening talk shows caused consternationrnin most publishing offices inrnParis. In a doomsday article published inrnLe Monde, its leading literary critic,rnBertrand Poirot-Delpech, described Pivot’srnannounced departure as a nationalrncalamity, since, almost single-handedly,rnhe had with his Friday evening talk showsrnkept alive an interest in buying and readingrnbooks which, without...

tion and the reconstruction of onernof the strongest philosophies of therntwentieth century. And then finally,rna haphazard and yet necessary, arnclandestine and yet avowed meetingrnwith . . . Judaism. This was notrnof course a conversion. But Sartre,rnhaving recovered his philosophicalrnappetite, devours with voracity andrnas usual makes another’s philosophyrnhis own. He kneads it. Herntransforms it. He has...

bourgeois family by being plunged for anrnhorn or two into an ice-cold bath ofrnpiiilosopliical erudition.rnNietzsche, with little doubt the mostrnspontaneous of great modern philosophers,rnspent much of his life trying torncombat the volcanic impetuosity of hisrnintellectual “eruptions.” And the conclusionrnhe reached, beautifully expressed inrnthe preface he wrote for Morgenrotern(“Morning Glow” or “Daybreak,” dependingrnon whose translation one...

ing through. There is also speculationrnabout a desire to avoid the draft—highlyrnunlikely, since late 1861 predates therndraft by a couple of years.rnDocumentation of Town Line historyrnis very limited —five men reportedlyrnmade their way south to fight for thernConfederacy, and ten eventually foughtrnfor the Union, ft also seems that many ofrnthe secessionists fled to Canada duringrnthe...

concerns tlie management of her vast estaternshe rehes on the lawyer who used tornl)e a close friend of her mother’s, AwocatornI —, and it was to his office in S. Crocernthat I had been asked to come at tenrno’clock that morning. The lease hadrnlong been agreed, drawn up, faxed backrnand forth between the contracting parties,rnand...

The American Interestrnby Srdja TrifkovicrnThe Taiwanese Election:rnImplications for U.S. SecurityrnThe outcome of Taiwan’s presidentialrnelection in March is potentially the mostrnsignificant single event affecting Americanrnsecurity since the fall of the BerlinrnWall. Most analysts have failed to addressrnthe hindamental dilemma that Taiwanrnnow presents for the defense strategyrnof the United States. The issue is fairlyrnsimple: Are our overseas...

VITAL SIGNSrnFOREIGN AFFAIRSrnA Spy in thernHouse of NATOrnby Justin RaimondornThe recent news tliat there was a spvrnat NATO who revealed top-secretrnplans —inckiding detailed descriptionsrnof targets — during the Kosovo war hasrnthrown the Pentagon and the Westernrnpowers into confusion and dismay. Accordingrnto the London Guardian (Marchrn10), a classified U.S. militarv intelligencernreport reveals that the Serbs may...

Some would argue that the spy in thernhouse of NATO is a hero, while othersrnwould liken him to Benedict Arnold.rnRather than take a side in that dispute, I’drnprefer to examine why a high-rankingrnAmerican officer has been put in the positionrnwhere he must choose between hisrncountry and his conscience.rnClearly, in his own mind, the Americanrnspy is...

stop tlierc. Wliy slioukl a college be ablernto “tax” paying students to subsidize nonpayingrnstudents? Like cost-shifting inrnlicaitli care, we need to stop including socialrngoals in the price of our products.rnRemember, this industry is nonprofit.rnIt has never felt the sting of real competitionrnand has grown bloated, inefficient,rnbureaucratic, and oblivious. It is amazinglyrnout of touch with current...

rooms previously allotted to conferencegoers.rnNevertheless, OAH members continuedrnto demand withdrawal:rnBy e-mail and fax, they have arguedrnthat to meet in the Adam’s Mark isrnto compromise with racists, hi orderrnto take a bold stand against injustice,rnthey have said that the organizationrnmust cancel the contractrneven though it would suffer seriousrnfinancial consequences.rnAfter some fevered days of debate and agonizing,rnthe...

boycotts and demonstrations arc bestrnseen as a kind of passionate historicalrnreenaetment, rather hke those weekendrnwarriors who are constantly dressing uprnto refight the Civil War.rnOnce yon do go looking for a target forrnactivism, it is only too easy to find one: Itrnis all but impossible to name a corporationrnor institution, a city or region, whichrncannot be...

by the first astronauts to land on the redrnplanet, tiiis mountain turns into a whirlwindrnof sand. It twists and turns until itrnresembles nothing so much as the wrongrnend of a Hoover that then quickly sucksrnthree of the astronauts into its vacuum,rnpulling their bodies limb from limb.rnLuke Graham (Don Cheadle in a lucklesslyrndesperate role) alone smvives...

dwell on punishing the bejesus out of hisrnenemies. Like most believing women ofrnher time—perhaps any time—her regardrnfor the doctrines of purgatory and hellrnwasn’t robust.rnNeedless to say, De Palma is no Dante.rnHe has served up yet another seience fictionrntravesty of my mother’s natural hopernin supernatural answers. His mandate forrndoing so is all too evident. As I...

reunification, and resisting the “armsrnrace” (i.e., U.S. military readiness).rnA film to commemorate the NCC’s 50rnyears claimed that the NCC’s “dialogue”rnwith the Russian Orthodox Church hadrnprecipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall.rnThe accusations of collaboration withrncommunist regimes were dismissedrnscornfully. As vindication, the film includedrna clip from a recent Charlie Roserninterview with Sixty Minutes producerrnDon Flewitt. Hewitt...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, ]r.rnThe Voice of the Turtlern”Niuno e solo I’apnll” Minii tells Rodolfornin Act Three of Ld Boheme. Mimi didn’trnsurvive until April, and if she had shernmight have felt alone without Rodolfornan’way. Still, spring, like sex, is exuberant,rnirrational —rather, it’s suprarahonal.rnAnd unignorable, like a 70-mile-an-hourrnwind, which is what spring amounts to inrnmost...

squash) that flourish iu a ten-week growingrnseason. Yard work is a rewardingrnsport that nevertheless cannot be practicedrnwith two or three feet of snow on thernground; in Wyoming, it generally has tornbe postponed unHl Memorial Day, wellrnbefore the lilacs are in bloom. And forrnthe hardy and the young at heart, therernare mud sports, the season beginningrnaround...

Modern Editions of Classic Works for Readers TodayrnSAMUEL JOHNSON: POLITICAL WRITINGSrnEdited by Donald J. GreenernVolume 10 of The Yale JohnsonrnThe eighteenth century produced a remarkablernarray of thinkers whose influence in therndevelopment of free societies and free institutionsrnis incalculable. Among these thinkers werernMandeville, Hutcheson, Smith, Hume, andrnBurke. And their time is known as the Age ofrnJohnson....

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 Greekrn”The Greek Roots of Christendom”rn1-5 August 2000rnspecial lectures:rn”The Art of War m Ancient Greece” and “America’s Ylomeric Period”rnSpecial dinner event:rn”The Natural Law From...

K I M ‘ I ‘ O RrnTImwcis I’lemingrni’;xK(;iiriF, KDiioRrnScott P. RichertrnSENIOR KDITOR. BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, jr.rnARIOIRl-XriORrnff. Ward SterettrnDKSIOM’Jlrnhdelanie AndersonrnCON’IRIBUTINO EDITORSrnKatherine Dalton, Samuel t’rancis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rn/.(). Tate, Michael Washburn,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRKSPONOING KOITORSrnBill Kauffman, Donald Livingston,rnWilliam Milk, William Murchison,rnAndrei Navrozov, Jacob NeusnerrnI.-OR|’:IC;K AM-AIRS i-iorroRrnSrdja Trifkoricrnl,l-:C;l,AM’AiRSKDI’I’ORrnStephen B. PresserrnKKLIOION KDITORrnHarold ().]. BrownrnIT1ITORIAt,SI’X:Ri:rARVrnLeann DohhsrnCIRCULAI’lON MANAOI’RrnCindy Linkrni n i B I...

related to voiir readers the stor}’ about thernSerb hospital for the insane where journalistsrnsaid that the Serb doctors hadrnabandoned their Muslim patients to diernraages of war. But that one investigatorrnwas brae enough to investigate diis storyrnhimself, finding that in fact die Serb doctorsrnhad braved the frontlines of war andrnremained to care for Hicir patients, includingrnMuslims....

RONALD TAYLOR, rd like you tornmeet Buford Furrow; Buford, this isrnRonald. You gus have so much in common.rnFor one thing, von both hit thernheadlines. Buford Furrow became arncelebrit)- of sorts in August 1999 when hernshot up a Jewish communitv center inrnLos Angeles. Buford’s a real Aran hero,rngoing up against all those imarmedrnschoolgirls, and then taking...

but lost in the media, American evangelicalsrnseparated themselves into their ownrncolleges and publishing houses. Duringrnthe late 50’s, evangelical leaders likernHarold Ockenga, Billy Graham, andrnCharles Fuller decided to broaden theirrnappeal by reaching out to liberals and RomanrnCatholics, emphasizing their pointsrnof agreement. Firebrands like Bob Jones,rnSr., rejected this “neo-evangelicalism”rnand founded their own schools, whichrnwere designed to maintain...

denomination, their local chnrch leadersrndisagreed. The liberal-dominated NorthernrnIllinois Conference of the UnitedrnMethodist Church launched an investigation.rnLed bv a bishop who opposes hisrndenomination’s official opposition to liomosexualrnpractice, the regional churchrnbody was troubled by allegations of discriminationrnagainst a same-sex couple.rnPro-homosexual clerg)- from throughoutrnnorthern Illinois were encouraged tornattend and even to vote at the camp’srnboard of trustees meeting....

matters of domestic policy, this one isrnbest left to local governments. Throughrncxpcrimcntahon, thev just might be ablernto create some policies to discourage reproductionrnby those unable adet[uatelyrnto care for their young, to remove childrenrnfrom the houses of crack dealers, orrnto enforce effectixeh’ the gun laws we alread’rnhac.rnRcmarkabb’, such experimentationrnmight actually be bearing fruit. Whilernthe sensationalizing of...

PERSPECTIVErnThe Emperor’s Tattoornby Thomas Flemingrn’A monarchy that’s tempered with republican equality.”rnWho would have thought, 100 ears ago, that b^ the end ofrnthe Auicrican Century the great burning publie issuernwould be the Confederate flag? Back in 1900, Americans wererneager to put their cjuarrels behind them. Rebs and Yanks hadrnfought side by side in Cuba, and writers...

the cinematic travest)’ with an ideological warning against thernfilm’s presentafion of historical events and racial stereot’pes, arnnew regime was taking shape, hi the anti-Sonthern/anti-Americanrnworld in which we find ourselves, the memorable performancesrnof Hattic McDaniel and Butterfly McQueen wouldrnconstitute hate speech, and Selznik, Victor Fleming, MargaretrnMitchell, and Clark Gable would ver- likely stand trial for perpetratingrna...

ting up for the rest of us, by the 196(l’s there were gentile (andrnsome Jewish) leftists who attacked Zionism and even Judaism itselfrnNoam Chomsky may be an honest intellectual, accordingrnto his lights; as a leftist, however, he makes a bad Jew.rnIn Germany, France, and Canada, any criticism of the darkrnmyth of the holocaust—valid or not—is...

powerful legs tliat the network tele’rngan e.rnvision news predictably be-rn:ach evening with Dan Rather or one of his clones standingrngrim-faced in a field somewhere announcing the latest dav’srnoutrages. Deval Patrick, the assistant attorney general for cixilrnrights, described the burnings as “an epidemic of terror.” At thisrncritical juncture, the U.S. Congress demonstrated its courageousrnleadership by unanimously...

drawn into the hvstcria. I he arson panic also meshed well withrnthe media’s last foray into creaHng national menaces, namely,rndie great miliha scare of the previous summer. During 1995,rnnewspapers and television news programs had triumphantlyrnhammered home the idea that all conscrvahve and “anh-government”rnactivists were more or less overtiv connected with ultra-rnright paramilitary groups. Onlv a...

whites —the privilege of ehowing down at a Dallas McDonald’s.rnThomas would have had to have some white boss man —rnmaybe a do-good liberal —bring him his burger outside. I’ornthink of it is to shiver.rnBut, as we know, Jim Crow fell apart in the 60’s—pushedrnfrom outside, dismanded from within. (Dallas’s business community,rnnot the federal courts, ended...

fault. TV may be the paradigmatic moucv-grubbing institutionrnof our dav. Show ‘IV producers a connection between higherrnprofits and more effective oitreach to supporters of tlicrnNAACP, and Hollywood will beat down Kweisi Mfume’s door.rnWhat Mfumc does not acknowledge is that you can work outrndeals on paper, but only the marketi^lace can ratify the terms ofrnthose deals....

Reactionary RadicalsrnRADICAL REACTIONARIESrnTale of a “Seditionisf’rnThe Story of Lawrence Dennisrnby Justin RaimondornLawrence Dennis was an outsider in a movement of outsiders,rna unique and largely solitan,’ figure whose career asrna writer —and notorious “seditionist” —embodies the tragedyrnand bra er of the Old Right, die pre-World War II “Americarnfirst” generation of consenative intellectuals and activists. Inrnniaiw important...

Lawrence Dennis, from the c/u.vfcovcro/^Operational Thinkingrnfor Snrvival.rnnnemployed . . . will heave a gratefnl sigh of relief As Americanrnbusiness picks up, American idealism will get acquaintedrnwith the moral issue of the New Armageddon and histon,’ willrnrepeat itself”rnTen years before James Burnliam’s The Managerial Revohition,rnDennis argued that capitalism was doomed and that somethingrnthat was neither socialism...

truster for the forces of appeasement” was almost certainly anrnMrican-American.rnThe revelation of Dennis’s ethnicit}’ is unlikely to rehabilitaternhim in liberal quarters—quite the eontrar)’. Liberals were deafrnthen to his argument that Anglo-American policy “assume[cl]rnthat certain races like the Germans and Japanese can be treatedrnas we treat the negroes or the British treat the darker races underrntheir...

delusions. In the lunchroom, the jurors, freeh’ mingling withrnthe defendants, were often heard to complain that the’ still hadrnno idea what the case was all about.rnDennis set the tone for the defense in his two-hour openingrnstatement, pointing out that the evidence—the defendants’ oppositionrnto the war—did not fit the charge, which was that theirrnactions were designed...

THE MEDJUGORJE DECEPTIONrnProponents of Medjugorje like to talk about its fruits,rnbut ignore the broken families, the pregnant nuns, the poorrnpeople bilked of their money, the division in the Church, thernde facto schism, the worst fighting in Europe since WorldrnWar 11, the ethnic cleansing of Muslims from Gradno, justrnfive kilometers from Medjugorje — all which followedrninexorably...

“All the NewsrnUnfit to Print” ignsi of tlje Cime^rnVol. 2 No. 5 May 2000rnThe nostalgic should derive some comfortrnfrom the knowledge that, in one respectrnat least, the 1930″s are back: Dr.rnJoseph Goebbels is alive and well, and livingrnin Atlanta. According to the Dutchrndaily Trouw (February 21), CNN employedrnmilitary specialists in “psychologicalrnoperations” (psyops) disguised asrnjournalists during...

turned deadly serious on Mondayrnnight. The teenagersrngrabbed 10 rocks, each weighingrnabout 8kg, from a localrnbuilding s i t e . They launchedrnthem from the overpass, cheeringrneach time they scored arnh i t . Two women driving separrna t e cars died instantly.rnNow the boys are under arrest, facing arnGerman trial for murder. The “killer kids”rncan...

stands in tlie way of understandingrncontemporim responses.rnSince tlic 197(l’s, the fashion has been torncondemn tlic British and American warrngoxernnients for “abandoning” and “writingrnoft^’ tlic Jews of Europe — even forrn”compUcih'” in murdering them. At therntime, a delegation of American Jewishrnleaders meeting with Franklin Rooseveltrnapparenth thought it unreasonable to askrnthe President for anything more thanrna formal...

what Diane Ravitch, writing in Commentary,rncalled “The Great School Wars/’rnfought in New York Cit’ over communityrncontrol of the public schools, and otherrn”vibrations,” picked up b- the sensitivernantennae of Jewish leaders, that Novickrnne’ertheless describes as “almost laughablyrntrivial,” “a series of anti-Semitic remarksrnmade by a few militant blacks inrnthe late sixties, as the civil rights movementrnwas collapsing...

it had learned from Soviet secret communications.rnThese materials, known b-rntheir American code name of “V’enona,”rnalso reveal much of what the Soviets andrntheir American collaborators were doingrnon a clandestine and illegal levelrnthroughout the Cold War, from thern1940’s onward.rnBut the book by British historianrnChristopher Andrew and his Russianrncoauthor Vasili Mitrokhin is based on yetrna third source, unauthorized...

transcripts, Mr. Herman leaves littlerndonbt that McCarthy was substantiallyrncorrect in most of his claims about therndamage done by either communist infiltrationrnor fellow travelers, naive or not.rn”No hard evidence exists,” he writes,rnlinking any of the China hands tornactual Soviet espionage efforts:rntheir Wliitc House liaison LauehlinrnCurrie and intellectual mentorrnOwen Lattimore are a differentrnmatter. But they were sold...

tained to such fame. Mosby was constantlyrnreferred to in the Union as well asrnthe Confederate newspapers —he was arnbogeyman to the North and a hero to thernSouth, even though he never commandedrnmore than 400 men. The reach ofrnjMosb’s renown is hard to estimate, but Irncan think of three \as to approach it.rnHe was the only...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Floridarnby ]oe PnissingrnDriving Dixie Downrnl^id I make a wrong turn? Did I go toornfar north? No, I was still in beantiful PortrnPierce, Morida. Wliat shocked me intornthinking I had accidentally wound up inrnSouth Carolina was a flag: tvvo red barsrndiagonally crossing a solid white background,rnsuspiciously resembling therndreaded Confederate Cross. There itrnwas, fixing defiantly...

Letter From Barsoomrnby Brian KirkpatrickrnLearning to Speak in OparrnWhen I was ten, I fell into the novels ofrnEdgar Rice Burrouglis. With him, I fledrnthe dinosaurs of Pellucidar in the centerrnof the earth; in the company of the anthropoidrnapes, I sought the fabled jewelsrnof Opar. I wondered at the hurtlingrnmoons of Barsoom, and gasped for oxygenrnin...