Wolfs Fang, Fox’s Tailrnby Wayne Allensworthrn”War is war. Guns are not just for decoration.”rn—V.I. LeninrnRed Victory:rnA History of the Russian Civil Warrnhy W. Bruce LincolnrnNew York: Da Capo Press;rn602 pp., $18.95rnBy March 1920, Russia’s \/liites-anrnodd and disparate conglomerationrnof monarchists, anti-Bolshevik socialists,rnjaded liberals, reactionary clerics, frightenedrnnobles, disinherited landowners,rnand loyalist army officers and soldiershadrnturned what looked like...

kisioned with Bolshevik dictatorship. Herndid all these things and even brieflyrnmounted a renewed assault on SovietrnRussia, trying to convince his Westernrncontacts that he was worthy of supportrnand hoping to convert the sea of Russianrnpeasants to White republicanism with anrnattractive array of slogans. He did allrnthese things, and failed. Within a year ofrndie eacuation to the...

from his estranged wife’s death in a carrnwreck vcars before.rnComplicating all this are the Mc-rnCaskill sisters, Mariah and I.exa. Mariah,rnthe elder, is a snccessfnl globe-trottingrnphotojournalist. She is middle-aged, divorced,rnbut still retains a wild, red-hairedrnbcanty that can “cloud men’s minds.”rnMariah talks the reluctant Mitch intornpermitting her to photograph the willingrnLvle’s last days for a newspaper photo...

books, followed by a gradual rise in thernpercentage of the population which hasrnacquired permits. The larger the percentagernof the population with permits,rnthe greater the drop in crime. (That percentagerntypically ranges from one to fivernpercent.) Intereshngly, Lott also found arnsmall but stahshcally significant increasernin nonconfrontational property crimesrnsuch as larceny. Apparently, while concealedrnhandgun laws do not reduce...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Yorkrnhy R.C. Sproul, Jr.rnThe League Against the SouthrnYork, Alabama, is a sad little Southernrntown. Though it is small, it lacks the hpicalrnchami of the South. Not much happensrnthere, but what does happen happensrnin the typically Southern way. Thernwheels of justice grind not with somethingrnas tacky as money, but with thernmore genteel means of...

Wliy do the nations conspire andrnthe peoples plot in vain? The kingsrnof the earth take their stand and thernrulers gather together against thernLord and against His AnointedrnOne. “Let us break their chains,”rnthey say, “and throw off their fetters.”rnThe One enthroned in heavenrnlaughs; the Lord scoffs at them.rnThen He rebukes them in theirrnanger and terrifies them...

vcr’ much about politics.rnThe failure of the Canadian media tornpublicize the absent maple leaf was nornsurprise. From false assurances that thernseparatists lack political support tornspecious arguments that Quebec has nornlegal grounds to separate from Canadarneven if a referendum were approved, thernmedia and political elite of Canada arernmodels of denial.rnThe legalit)’ of secession was supposedrnto have...

a jeep. After two weeks, tired and ratherrndepressed, I could have used a bit of securityrnand peace. Maybe the packagerntourists are right.rnArriving in Kingston, I was struck byrnthe contrast between the image conjuredrnup by the famous figures who had Hvedrnon the island and the unnerving squalorrnand dense traffic of a Third World cit}’.rnIn the 1940’s...

the iine en steps. Port Antonio also liasrnthe Blue Lagoon, setting for the film ofrnthat name, in which Brooke Shields andrnher adolescent companion, on a desertrnisle far from the restraints of socieh, discorner tlie innocent ios of sex.rnThe lobb’ of the Trident Castle nearrnPort Antonio exhibited a with’ and fantasticrnpainhng in the nai’c shle enhtled...

at our luxury-priced but quite funky liotelrnin Treasure Beach with a cockroachrnhunt, competing intensely for the largestrnbag. I’hough the place had advertised arnbeach, the sand had disappeared in thernlast hurricane and left jagged rocks thatrnmade it difficult to enter the water, hispiredrnby the well-intentioned but naivernconcept of Conununity I’onrisni, thernmanagement encomaged the local inhabitantsrnto wander...

like a loose dumbbell, and then I sinipl}’rneouldn’t keep it in an’ longer and out itrntumbled: “The invisible hand, x)virnmean.” Those v’ho sympathize with mrnpredicament will appreciate my reasoning.rnThe patrons are mosth’ businessmen,rnright? And business makes yourndiink ot Adam Smith, and Adam Smithrnmakes ou think of the invisible hand,rnand the idea of biting a hand...

VITAL SIGNSrnRELIGIONrnInterpretingrnCompassionrnby Janet Scott BarlowrnBecause the New York limes is a continualrnsource of annoyance andrnamazement to me, I was predictablyrnstunned and incensed to read last Mayrnthat this most self-important of publicationsrnwas presenting as news the followingrninformation: “[T|here is no evidencernof an anti-poor mentalit)-, at least as measuredrnby reported [financial | giving,rnamong political and theological conservatives.”rnTo...

ment stress on science and factnalih hasrndistorted Christianitv’. Borg critiques thernEnlightenment as a postmodernist mystic,rnwhile Wright does so as a Christianrnclassicist.rnTheir arguments have been publishedrnin USA Today and aired on NationalrnPublic Radio, and their debate over Jesusrnis hyped as Something New. Actually, itrnis about 2,000 years old. Wright, althoughrntrying to speak the language ofrnthe academy...

proposed regulator)’ measures that he feltrnunderuiined the First Amendment andrnpaved tlie way to censorship. I anticipatedrnhis position; however, 1 didn’t anticipaternKoch’s reply. The former mayor pointedrnout that the slipper)’-slope argument thatrnthe TV honcho was making was exactlyrnthe same as that made by those who sawrnall attempts at gun control as underminingrnthe Second Amendment and pavingrnthe...

Will, who should know better, andrnMichael Gartner, who call for the repealrnof the Second Amendment, the Bill ofrnRights guarantees rights that thernFounders assumed to be natural; consequently,rna government that didn’t grantrnthem can’t repeal them.rnIncidentally, a government that monopolizesrnweaponry can, among manyrnother things, tell pundits to take their preciousrnFirst Amendment and the rights itrnguarantees and stuff...

“You mean influenza, don’t you?”rn”No, aflluenza, flic disease of afiluentrnAmerica. Always more. Glut. The shortsightedrnview that things will get betterrnand better, bigger and bigger. Buy now,rnpa later. Forget what we’ve alvaysrnknown: Things that go up alwas comerndown. Those who forget history are condemnedrnto repeat it, with all the bumpsrnand bruises.”rn”Do I have to wait for...

of personal respoiisibilih’ for unacceptablernacts is encouraged, while guilt,rnshame, or embarrassment arc consideredrndetrimental to a child’s psychologicalrnand social development. Additionalh,rnteachers are discouraged from ever sa-rning “no” or usingan negahxe commentsrnwhen communicating with children.rnDuring class discussions, any answer isrncorrect.rnChildren, especiall)- adolescents, arerneager to learn. It is their natural tendenc.rnChildren need and, indeed, craxernstructure and rules. Proof...

Intimations ofrnMortalityrnby George McCartneyrnStir of EchoesrnProduced by Gavin Folone, JudyrnHofflund, and Michelle WeiskrrnDirected by David KoepprnScreenplay by David Koepp, baaed onrnthe novel by Richard MathesonrnReleased by An Artisan EntertainmentrnThe Sixth SensernProduced by Spyglass Kntertainmentrnand Hollywood PicturesrnDirected by M. Night ShyamalanrnScreenplay by M. Night ShyamalanrnReleased bv Buena Vista PicturesrnThe ghost skin’ has an honorable tradition.rnWriters as...

tive’s literal mystery while resonatingrnpowerfully with the film’s larger, if somewhatrnundernourished, ambitions.rnDirected and written by M. NightrnShyamalan, The Sixth Sense has beenrnmarketed as a horror story. But likernEchoes:, it uses its hocus-pocus to mesmerizernus in order to suggest more thanrnwe would expect from a thriller. Oncernunder its spell, we discover a story as oldrnas the...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, ]r.rnBliss MeadowsrnMost of the 50 states having been designedrnas pohtical nnits rather than therngeographical ones John Wesley Powellrnainh’ nrged Congress to consider in therncase of the Western territories, there’s nornparticular reason why sontheasternrnWyoming should be much more thanrnthe place where Nebraska, Colorado,rnand the Cowboy State fit together. Andrnin fact, it...

tly ascending meadow, plunges steeplyrndownhill by switchbacks through thickrnforests cut by deep ravines. Pulling thernpacks from the gelding I noticed him staringrnacross the park to the treeline, wherernan elegant bowed form, something like arnHomeric harp in appearance, appearedrnto rest in the grass beside a young tree.rnThe form turned itself slowly, becomingrna massive set of paddles:...

Modern Editions of Classic Works for Readers TodayrnNewly PublishedrnVolume 1 of The Collected Works of James M. BuchananrnTHE LOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTYrnBy James M. BuchananrnIntroduction by Geoffrey Brennan, Hartmut Kliemt, and Robert D. ToUisonrnThe thirty-one papers presented in this volume offer scholars and generalrnreaders alike a comprehensive introduction to the work of one of...

Italy and the United States Share a Common Story:rn1860’srnForged in civil wars:rnThe War Between the States andrnthe Risorgimentorn1930’srnOvercentraHzed by strongmen:rnFDR and MussohnirnTodayrnEach country faces seriousrnchallenges from regional andrncultural separatists.rnParticipants will stay at the delightfulrnHotel Asnigo, located on a hilltop in thernresort town of Cernobbio (playground ofrnFiat execs; ten minutes from downtownrnComoj, where they will enjoy...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, Jr.rnMANAGING EDITORrnScott P. RichertrnART DIRECTORrnH. Ward SterettrnDESIGNERrnMelanie AndersonrnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnKatherine Dalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rn].0. Tate, Michael Washburn,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, Donald Livingston,rnWilliam Mills, William Murchison,rnAndrei Navrozov, Jacob NeusnerrnFOREIGN AFFAIRS EDITORrnSrdja TrifkovicrnLEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORrnStephen B. PresserrnRELIGION EDITORrnHarold O.J. BrownrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnThe Rockford InstituternPUBLIGA riON DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnCindy lAnkrnA publication...

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnT H E F B I / B A T F RAID on the DavidrnKoresh home (not compound) has beenrnthe subject of controversy since the firstrnda’ the BATF zealots tried to storm thernhouse. All along, the FBI and the JusticernDepartment have fabricated stories andrninformation with an effrontery thatrnwould astonish even the Clintons: Koreshrnwas stockpiling...

job that Kimba Wood and Zoe Baird hadrnfailed to land, dne to extracnrricular embarrassments?rnWhatever virtue Renornhad in 1993, she lost fest. After all, thafsrndie big boss’s specialty’—moral deflowering-rn— William MurchisonrnTHE TEACHING OF EVOLUTIONrnis back in the news, in a case that the mediarn—with their usual sensationalism —rnarc comparing to the Scopes trial of 75rnyears ago....

ationism that thcv fear, but democracy.rn— Stephen B. PresserrnFLINT, MICHIGAN, is the birthplacernof botli General Motors and the UnitedrnAuto Workers union (UAW), whichrnmakes the recent demise of Buick Cit’,rnits last automobile assembly plant, morerndian a little ironic. In June, GM closedrnBuick Cih’, idling 2,200 hourly workersrnat a plant that once employed 28,000rnbuilding Buick I.cSabres and...

comeback, the struggling oligarch mayrnneed a new base of operations, perhaps inrnthe Caucasus. At any rate, the word is outrnin Moscow that it was BAB as much asrnBin Ladin who inspired the Dagestanrnfighting: If the fighting got out of control,rnYeltsin could declare a state of emergencyrnand call off the next elections. At thernvery least, BAB...

iitors is apparently crowded witl: Albanianrnnames — has called upon his terrorist/rnlieroin-trafficking buddies to go easy.rn”The news is filled,” Dole confessed inrnUSA Today, “with ominous reports ofrnpower grabs, town-hall occupations,rnnuirderous reprisals, black marketeering,rnextorhon, violent intimidation of Albaniansrnand Serbs alike, and property confiscafionsrnby self-appointed Albanian ‘commissars’rnreputedlv acting with thernknowledge or approxal of Hakim Thacirnand others among...

PERSPECTIVErnReturn of the Alienrnby Thomas Flemingrn”The whole world, without a native homernIs nothing but a prison of larger room.”rn—Abraham CowleyrnThe fonner offices of the Tmmies Socieh’.rnHis father used to sav that the country was good; it was onl}’rnthe people that made it intolerable. Now his father’s sonrnwas headed up to that north countr)-, where he...

nearer to the lake, into coarse brown sand, good only for growingrnmeadow flowers and trees blasted by the force of the northrnwinds that blew from Canada.rnAt the end of July, the winds came only from the south, andrnthe people of the North Woods were dying in the 95-degreernheat. In Iron River, they stopped at the...

the octagon into livable rooms.rnYankees with bright ideas had been prominent in the earlyrnsettlement of Superior, but Scandinavia had overwhelmedrnNew England. Glenway Wescott lamented the changernwrought by immigrants in Southern Wisconsin, but Superiorrnwas defined by the foreigners—the French, after all, had beenrnthere first, and the border that ran through the Great Lakes wasrnhighly porous to...

])• anyone speaks Finnish any more, and their old neighborhoodrn—the north end of Tower Avenue down to the docks—isrndead. Where there had been shops and office buildings, restaurantsrnand dives, there were now only empty spaces and parkingrnlots for nobody to park in. One of the few buildings left standingrnin the desert of free parking is...

VIEWSrnThe Other LindberghrnCrusader Against Plutocracyrnby Justin RaimondornWhile the most famous member of the Lindbergh clan isrnundoubtedly the aviator and World War Il-era isolationistrnCharles A. Lindbergh, Jr., the qualities for which he wonrnrenown—his courage, his Scandinavian severit)’, his willingnessrnto stand against the tide of popular opinion, his dislike ofrncities and the elites they spawned, and (most...

following surgen’ for a tumor. From this point on, his personalrnlife was a cause of great unhappiness. hi 1900, he met EvangelinernLodge Land, a temperamental young woman, moody andrnunpredictable. She was beautiful and a little mad, not at all arnsuitable mate for the serious intellectual C.A., an austere manrnnot given to emotional displays. After several...

ing to lure us into the European imbroglio. He pointed out thatrn”the Wall Street end of the Fed eral Reser’e System” was the financialrnpillar of the Allies: The resources of the U.S. Treasuryrnand depositors’ funds were marshaled in the service of thernBritish and French empires. As Murray N. Rothbard put it inrnWall Street, Banks, and...

ation of some 200,000 farmers who were imbued with a radicalrndistrust of the reigning ehtes and desperate to maintain theirrnwav of hfe against the rising tide of war and state-privileged industrialism.rnLindbergh chose the NPL as his vehicle of protest.rnhi a letter to Eva, C.A. brushed aside her concerns about hisrnnew relationship with the I.,eague and...

Downsizing DetroitrnMotown’s Lamentrnby Greg KazarnDetroiters have a deeply ironic way of looking at theirrnbeloved city. The irony is evident in a once-popular Tshirtrnthat showed a muscular tough gripping a ferocious dogrnaround the neck while holding a loaded gun to the animal’srnhead. “Say Nice Things About Detroit,” the T-shirt read. ThernT-shirt is a commentary on Detroit’s...

Arsenal of Democracy . . . Motown . . . Murder City . . .rnToo many of the bad ones have stuck.rn”Mv personal candidate?” Waldmeir writes. “For years I’vernprondlv worn a T-shirt that says all I have to say: ‘Detroit: Nornplace for wimps.'”rnDetroit is no place for wimps. F’or most of the 20th centur)’,rnits repntation...

someday incorporating lower-wage nations such as India andrnChina with their several billion inhabitants.rnWhat is to become of the Motor Cit)’, tlie once-great Arsenalrnof Democracy, the industrial titan that defeated the Nazis inrnWorld War II?rnWhat occurred in Detroit during World War II was remarkable,rnalthough it has been largely forgotten today by the youngerrngeneration. In December 1940,...

Reactionary RadicalsrnRADICAL REACTIONARIESrnThe Militia of LovernA Visit With Novelist Carolyn Chuternby Bill KaufifrnanrnCarolyn Chute’s return address includes the postscript,rn”No Fax/No Phone/No Paved Road.” The self-taughtrnnovelist of Maine’s backwoods can add “No More Good Reviews,”rnfor with her latest book. Snow Man, she has committedrnan unpardonable act of literary patriotism: She depicts a militiamanrnas a human being.rnWe...

Carolyn was raised in Cape Elizabeth, on the coast, beforern”the professional people came in and it got bnilt up.” She usesrn”professional people” as a pejorative, for the invaders inc’itabl’rncorrupt “what I like about small towns: You had a relationship.”rn”Even the person in town you don’t get along with, you hate,rnyou always wave to him,” interjects...

And yet, in the end, she writes of Love, of the would-be murdererrnwhose hand is stilled by “that suffusion of empathy whichrnsome call God, some call weakness.” She closes Snow Manrnwith Geronimo’s chilling plaint: “I think I am a good mair, butrn. . . all over the world they say I am a bad man.”rn”That...

To the mobile professional, the gun has become the symbolrnof the immobile redneck. It must be confiscated; he must bernemasculated. ‘Yuppies moving into our town post their land,rnholler for more police and want everyone to mow their grassrnand spruce up to their tastes and you guessed i t . . . no more gunfire,”rnwrites Carolyn.rnHer...

people who can’t do an)’thing who would have been farmers.rnThey’d be surviving. They can’t anymore: They’re living inrnslums, in trailer parks.rn”T/yey send a yellow bus to our doors and we gladly shove ourrnchildren aboard. For many years, day in and day out, the GreatrnSociety whispers into each sweet perfect little childly ear . . .rnThe...

“All the NewsrnUnfit to Print” ignsi of tfje QCtmesJrnVol. 1 No. 11 November 1999rnWhat was the most important story unfitrnto print in 1998? No, it wasn’t Kosovo:rnChronicles may have been among the firstrnto expose the Clinton administration’srnmany lies, crimes, and misdemeanors inrnthe Balkans, but that particular cat is nowrnout of the bag.rnThere is a story...

been making progress on that front, too.rnThe preparatory commission for the establishmentrnof the International CriminalrnCourt has been busy at work this past summerrnat the United Nations. According tornan Associated Press report (August 14),rnthe United States is not opposed to thernidea in principle. America’s ambassadorrnfor war crimes issues, David Scheffer, “isrntrying to find a legal solution...

market.”rnThe “force” exerted by capitalism is ofrna rather peculiar sort: It leaves people freernto depart from the arrangements that Mr.rnGray prefers them to have. They wouldrnnot enter the global market unless theyrnwish to do so. This, for him, constitutesrnthe spread of compulsory Enlightenmentrnrationality. Mr. Gray would have donernwell to study economic theory more, ifrnneed be...

I have not shown that the more optimisticrnassumption should be adopted,rnnor have I responded to Keynesianrnclaims that, in some circumstances, biddingrndown wage rates will not relieve unemployment.rnBut the merits of the capitalistrncase are not here the primar)’ point.rnRather, my contention is a more limitedrnone. The issue between the free marketrnand its foes involves economic theory:...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnJohn-John Is My Co-Pilotrn.^side from the non-resignation and nonruinrnof President Clinton and the noncampaignrnfor the RepubHcan presidentialrnnominadon, the biggest non-event ofrn1999 was undoubtedly the non-survivalrnlast sunmier of John F. Kennedy, Jr.,rnwho, true to the traditions of his family,rnmanaged to seize international headlinesrnwhen his own recklessness and incompetencernled to disaster—this time not...