nedy and Reagan is largely superficial,rndue in part to the fact that most politicalrnfigures since Kennedy, v-hate’er theirrnprofessed beliefs and parties, have beenrninfluenced by his political stle and strategyrnand in part to the fact that most politiciansrnwho got elected president duringrnthe Cold War generally won by campaigningrnon much the same platform —rnthat they would cut...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter Fromrnthe Northwoodsrnby JoAn MelchildrnJust East of the Indian’s NosernEleen years ago, I moved to NortliwestrnWisconsin, a region called the WisconsinrnIndianhead because it is shaped like thernprofile of an hidian chief I live jnst eastrnof the nose.rnAfter a career of publishing magazinesrnand editing newspapers in the TwinrnCities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, I decidedrnto take...

dog out for a walk near Spooner when hernheard the dog running up behind liim atrntop speed. The dog ran right past him.rnWlien the man turned around, he foundrnhimself face to face with a black bear uprnon its hind legs. The man pushed thernbear; the bear took a swipe and scratchedrnhim; but they both ended...

back, and the Americans stepped away inrnconfusion. Europe, the modern world,rnpsychiatry: all gone. Three days inrnMadrid, and I was finally in Spain.rnHands in the air, their hands much ofrnthe dance, the women swirled and spunrnslowK’. Some danced with each other,rnsome by themselves, others pulled thern12-year-old girls onto the floor to teachrnthem. Paco, a military psychiatrist...

what happened when the music began.rn”Yes!” She was thrilled.rnWe talked for some time. She thoughtrnwe Americans had never been a tribe; Irntold her I thought that once we had.rnWliether or not I was right, she made thernwisest remark of the night. She was jokingrnwhen she answered me, but spokernwith utter sincerity. Up on her toes,...

that has increased the percentagernof nonvvhite students to 21 percentrnthis year from 8 percent in 1986.rnLast year, 1,711 students speakingrn24 non-English languages were enrolled.rnCurrently, the metropolitan area ofrnBrown County (Creen Bay, De Pere, thernsuburbs) has a population of approximatelyrn200,000. The cit>- of Green Bayrnhas roughlv 97,000 residents —a figurernthat has remained more or less constantrnfor...

Anyway, Father Jacobs is described byrnthe press here as “the strange priest tied tornthe fugitive financier Martin Frankel.” ArnJewish convert to Cathohcism and nowrnun prete da jet-set with a parish in Rome’srnTrastevere, Jacobs appears to have beenrnin trouble before, with the archdiocese ofrnNew York, for opening a swanky restaurantrnof his own called The Palantine.rnTom Corbally,...

VITAL SIGNSrnLITERATURErnWisconsinrnApocalypsernby William MillsrnSince 1 was going to fish in the Northwoodsrnof Wisconsin, I decided hkernan bookish person to read some booksrnabout the place. I expect I own all ofrnGordon Weaver’s ten or twelve books,rnand I went digging throngh them againrnto sec which ones \ ere set in Wisconsin.rnBesides growing up in Wisconsin,rnWea’er lived a...

to thrive. Tower, the main street, is hnedrnwith bars, most of them full. Bars are thernsetting for much of the work of both writers.rnIn Bukoski’s very dark story, “ThernTomb of the Wrestlers,” a 19-year-oldrncharacter. Bob Harris, imagines a postcardrnfor Superior.rnWeeds that grow over rusted tracksrn. . . no diesels slowing for the crossingsrn. . ....

on time becomes an obsession for onerncharacter in “The World at War.”rnLi ing with my parents in Superior,rnWisconsin, I begin to collect timepieces.rnIn my room are a Sessionsrnwall clock, a Westclox Baby Benrnwith hvo alarms, a Sunbeam with arnlighted dial to shine the way—rnthese and a few other watches andrnclocks, all of them wound and...

l)ook. Example: Children are asked torn”draw ” a line segment onsereen and labelrnit “AB.’ Because tlie’ do this elcctronicalK,rnit is considered superior to a manualrnexercise. In what way? Quite apartrnfrom the extra time involved in lining uprnand marching down to the computer lab,rnlogging on, opening the program, etc.,rnthere is far less teacher supervision ofrnwhat is...

into cyberspace, and too mncli of thatrnfraction is fragmented, diluted, or vitiatedrnb}’ highly qiieshonable persons for entire-rn1 inscrutable or unscrupulous reasons.rnThe published books and magazinesrnavailable at libraries or bookstores representrna much broader range of views andrnare far more reliable sources since thernprocess of their production lias been juried,rnrefereed, peer-reviewed, and vettedrnto an extent impossible witli...

quettes and eager beaux flirt and huff,rntease and screech. Pope has Belinda losernher treasured curl, the paradoxical emblemrnof her desirabilit}” and her irginit’,rnwhile leaning over the silver coffee pot torninhale its fumes, hi the film, Brosnanrnflirts with Rnsso in an elegant restaurant,rnbegging her permission to ask “a ver’ personalrnquestion.” “Would you,” he insinuates,rn”like another hit...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, ]r.rnWaiting Nights, Beastly DaysrnThe high Colorado Rockies are like arnhpe of beautiful woman, eye-catchingrnw ithout being especially interesting.rnSpectacularh’ well-endowed, they are alsornobious, unsubtle, lacking in indixidualitrnand complexity, bland in their stunningrnperfection, with a hint of vulgarih’.rnOr perhaps it’s the sort of people who arerndrawn in glittering swarms to these toweringrnfourteeners,...

from the blue Saltillo cups, and cleanedrnup afterward, packing in the stove againrnand stow ing the pans, pots, and plates tornclear the deck in case of emergency.rnThen Dick plugged the microphone intornthe tape recorder and pointed it towardrnthe forest. Finally, we settled under ourrnunzipped sleeping bags with the BionicrnEar and the night vision close at...

Modern Editions of Classic Works for Readers TodayrnTHE COLLECTED WORKS OF JAMES M. BUCHANANrn”Mv interest in understanding how tlte economic interaction process woriis has always beenrninstrumental to the more inclusive purpose of understanding how we can learn to live one withrnone another without engaging in Hobbesian war and without subjecting ourselves to the dictatesrnof the...

THE STORY OF KOSOVOrnAS IT HAS NEVER BEEN TOLD BYrnTHE WESTERN MEDIA AND POLITICIANSrn^”ROlARI’Mi:^V:rn’I’hc objective oftlie book is to providf a concise,rnreadable sunmian’ of tlie Kosovo crisis.rnIlic aulliors have briefly, but autlioritativcly,rncovered the complex historical background to thernKoso() problem, as well as the mvriad of politicalrnand diplomatic games prior to the bombiug caui-rn])aign. Legal, strategic...

Kl.inORrnThomas FlemingrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton WiUiamson, ]r.rnMANAC:iNC EDI’IORrnScott P. RichertrnAR’I OIREC’IORrnH. Ward SterettrnDESIGNERrnMehmie AndersonrnCONTRIBDUN0 EDITORSrnKatherine Dalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rnJ.O. late, Michael Washburn,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, Donald Livingston,rnWilliam Mills, William Murchison,rnAndrei Navrozov, Jacob NeusnerrnFOREK:;N AFFAIRS EDITORrnSrdja TrifkovicrnEECAL AFFAIRS EDII ORrnStephen B. PresserrnRELIGION EDITORrnHarold O.J. BrownrnEDITORIAL SF:CRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnThe Rockford InstituternPLIBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCIRCULiTION MANAGERrnCindy LinkrnA ]>iihlication...

problematic; for his character depends inrnlarge part upon fortunate family and socialrncircnmstances for which he canrnclaim no credit.” Evidently Rawls doesrnnot believe any of us comes to deservernver’ much in life since, by his lights, ourrncharacter, the source of our meritoriousrnor virtuous (as well as vicious) conduct, isrnlargely not of our own making. It is...

Church of the Creator, an anti-Christian,rnanti-Jewish, anti-non-white reHgion.rnHale was a law-school graduate who hadrnbeen denied the right to practice law inrnIllinois because of his racist beliefs.rnSmith’s promotional zeal won him the titlernof “1998 Creator of the Year.”rnAfter being forced to quit the Champaign-rnUrbana campus of the Universityrnof Illinois because of charges that he hadrnbeaten his...

August, though, “all Monica all the time”rnjunkies got their best fix in months. First,rnLinda Tripp, who is either one of thernmost evil betrayers of all time or one ofrnthe most courageous and dedicated publicrnservants in American history (dependingrnon whether you are a fan of Bill Clintonrnor of Lucianne Goldberg), wasrnindicted by a Maryland grand jury...

decent prosecutor could get any grandrnjury to indict a ham sandwich), but thernfact that prosecutors would choose to gornforward with this weak case requiresrnsome sort of explanation. Parhsan politicsrnwould do, of course, but while thernprosecution is being conducted by arnDemocratic state official, Stephen Montanarelli,rnthe proceeding appears to havernbeen approved by Howard CountyrnState’s Attorney Marna McLendon,...

and morally just citizens who couldrnrefuse to let abortuary employees shop inrntheir stores, dine in their restaurants, buyrnhomes, and license their “clinics” (orrnlive, for that matter, if local governmentsrnand laws were established to be Chris-rnHan).rnBy majority, America is pro-choice.rnThis fact should drive every Christianrnwho recognizes the evil of murderingrnchildren to fight for local rights —or...

PERSPECTIVErnNone More Terrible Than Manrnby Thomas FlemingrnThe past half-millennium that beganrnwith the fall of Constantinople andrnthe subsequent discovery of the NewrnWorld has gone by so many titles that itsrnname might be legion: It has been thernage of “progress” and “discovery,” a periodrnof “enlightenment,” the era ofrn”democracy.” However, all these gloriousrnnicknames that stud the pages of...

ring to the individual as “the head of so-and-so.” hi the first Hnernof Sophocles’ Antigone, the heroine calls upon her sister Ismene,rnsaying literally, “Oh common self-sister head of Ismene,”rnwhich Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones (in his recent Loeb edition) Englishesrnas “My own sister Ismene, linked to myself” Althoughrnthe word “head” is used to indicate the person of...

stood except in relation to the divine —and woe unto tiie mortalrnruler like Creon, who contemned the power of Hades, orrnPentheus (in Euripides’ Bacchae), who tried to suppress thernrites of Dionysus.rnThe classic moment, best caught in the Parthenon sculptures,rnis the generation when the divine, the transcendent, andrnthe ideal are still glimpsed, as in an X-ray...

night spots all but drowned out the thunder of the organ of Trinit}-rnChurch and the voices of the traditional past.”rnThe city prospered, became meretricious. Rouged andrnslinky, she had a fat purse for several years: Sampson madernGeneva a Goliath. But Uncle Sam tired of this particularrnwhore, and in 1956 he moved on. Geneva never quite recovered,rnthough...

Every Neighbor a LitigantrnThe Individual Versus the Communityrnby Stephen B. PresserrnGoethe taught us that true happiness comes from being engagedrnwith others in productive projects, and we havernknown since Plato and Aristotle that man is a social animal, butrnwe would be hard put to reach these conclusions if our onlyrnguide were the current state of American...

by the federal government, rendered property insecure andrntransferred the wealth of one class of society involuntarily to another,rnwhile creating a vast national bureaucracy which seeks tornsustain itself by maintaining the mechanism of wealth transferrnand a high level of taxation. The 17th Amendment, by mandatingrnthe direct election of senators, removed an essentialrncheck on democracy and led...

which can require considerable expense and can seem anythingrnbut “reasonable” to an employer sued by a disgruntled orrnrejected employee.rnWhen the ADA was passed, it was conceded that it mightrngive causes of action to more than 40 million Americans; as thisrngoes to press, the Supreme Court is trying to decide whether thernwearing oi eyeglasses might constitute...

government had to be endowed with indivisible, infallible, andrnirresistible sovereignty. Only if government had this powerrnwould it be able to crush those independent social authoritiesrnthat pose a threat to the individual’s autonomy. The individualrnwould have to obey, without question, the law of the sovereignrn(whether a monarch or democracy), but both the individualrnand the sovereign knew...

joyment of autonomy—and only at the expense of tradition,rnprovinciality, localism, and prejudice. He failed to notice thatrnthis process of destruction and consolidation concentrated unprecedentedrnpower in the state —power that could be put to usesrnquite other than that of being an umpire in the game of conflictingrnautonomies. The rich tapestry of independent socialrnand political authorities had...

CHRONICLES’ BACK ISSUES, TAPES, AND BOOKSrnOn Individualism, Community, and FreedomrnPRIVATE JUSTICE—January 1998—Thomas Fleming on the rctarn of revenge,rnMichael Hill on justice in the Celtic world, Barry Baldwin on Albanian blood-feuds, JeremyrnBlack on government’s monopoly on violence, and David Kopel on why owning arngun makes everyone safer. Plus Stephen Halbrook on Switzerland’s armed neutrality andrnFrank Schicr...

“All the NewsrnUnfit to Print” igns; of tlje tKimesirnVol.1 No. 10 October 1999rnTwenty years after being exiled fromrnthe Soviet Union, Alexander Zinovyev—rnone of the most prominent living Europeanrnauthors—has decided to leave hisrnadopted homeland, France, and to returnrnto Russia. His reasons are summarized inrnthe title of a long interview in Le FigarornMagazine: “The West has become...

operation. “The objective ofrnIPI is to synchronize the informationalrnobjectives, themesrnand messages that will be projectedrnoverseas . . . to preventrnand mitigate crises and torninfluence foreign audiences inrnways favorable to the achievementrnof U.S. foreign policy objrne c t i v e s , ” the charter says.rnU.S. o f f i c i a l s...

OPINIONSrnChicken SouprnStarring: The Marx Bros.rnby J.O.Tatern’How can tyrants safely govern home I Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?”rn—William ShakespearernGideon’s Spies: The Secret History ofrnthe Mossadrnby Gordon ThomasrnNew York: St. Martin’s Press;rn354 pp., $25.95rnThere is something compelling inrnreading about spies and somethingrncompelling as well about spying, or wernwould not have so many spies to readrnabout, fictional...

his wife, Sara, who, claiming to followrnthe example of Hillary Rodham Clinton’srninterest in the CIA, particularly interestedrnherself in details of PresidentrnClinton’s sexual activities. This offliandrnnon-point is made early to foreshadowrnthe revelation that the Mossad interceptedrnphone-sex calls between the Presidentrnof the United States and Miss Lewinskyrn— as Clinton himself indicated tornLewinsky, referring to a “foreign embassy,”rnas...

or endlessly rerun situation tragicomedyrnof our time. After all, why should thernprime minister of Israel not despise thernUnited States? Americans do it all therntime. But Americans do not hate Israel.rnQuite the contrary. Indeed, somernAmericans love Israel to the point of idolatry.rnThomas has shown that the Mossadrnhas long known how to take advantage ofrnthat great affection....

tion of the otherwise inexplicable. Accordingrnto Watson, because no onernnowadays actually reads what the socialistsrnwrote, by a collective act of amnesiarnwe have forgotten what they actuallyrnstood for. Returning to the founders,rnWatson has traced the origins ot socialismrnto an intensely reactionary fear of therndestabilizing effects of industrial capitalismrnand its attendant liberalism:rnLike conservatism, socialismrnsought to justify the...

more comfortable things to believernthan this.rnWatson’s own hope seems to be that, withrnthe demise of socialist theory, we will allrnrediscover the humane, skeptical liberalismrnwhich he has found in writers likernTocqneville and Mill.rnOther, probably gloomier conclusionsrnmight be reached. The bad philosophy,rngoofy pseudoscience, and sheer neurosisrnthat powered the worst socialist regimesrnof our Hme became a habit of...

What a Swell Party This IsrnThe final presidential election of the millenniumrnis still more than a year away,rnbut by last summer rumblings of discontentrnwith the plastic dashboard figurinesrnv’ho are the leading candidates of the h’0rnmajor plastic dashboard political partiesrnwere already audible. The rumblingsrnfirst attracted national notice when PatrnBuchanan, in the course of his third campaignrnfor...

ing the damage to the Constitution inflictedrnby a generation of Supreme Courtrnjustices (the most dangerous of whom —rnEarl Warren, WilHarn Brennan, HarryrnBlackmun, Sandra Day O’Connor, AnthonyrnKennedy, et al. —were all appointedrnby Republican presidents). On thernmajor issues of the era—globalist foreignrnpolicy and recklessly aggressive militaryrnadventurism, free trade, the erosion of nationalrnsovereignty, and the Third-rnWorldization of America—the...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter FromrnMichiganrnby Greg KazarnDownriver BluesrnI’he paint is peeling on the exterior wallrnof the United Steelworkers Hall inrnSouthgate, Michigan, a symbolic reminderrnof the dangerous times fiiced byrnAmerica’s 700,000 steelworkers. Workforcerndownsizing; the emergence of mini-rnmills to complement the old integrated,rnhot- and cold-roll production process;rnand price deflation and mnltilateral tradernagreements like NAITA have combinedrnto make the steelworkers’ world...

portant, if overlooked, aspects of the globalrneconomy. FPE rests on the idea thatrnsupply and demand eventually equalizernproduction factors such as capital and laborrnbetween nations by combining themrninto one market. Wage rates for steelworkersrnin capital-intensive nations likernthe United States are bid down by thernmarket, while rates for those in labor-intensivernnations in emerging economiesrnare bid up over...

tion, though of course the noble ApuHanrnrace may not be blamed for the fact thatrnthe scheduled connection from Romernhad departed long before the flight fromrnLondon was in the air. All I can mention,rnhopefully, is that this morning I breakfastedrnon perfectly ripe damson plumsrnoverhanging the stone table on the patio,rnand that the coffee was good. In...

ally, unobtrusively, yet irreversibly andrnfirmly. No more restaurants serving foreignrnfood, no more playing with cardsharps,rnno more American Express billsrncomputed in euros, no more Germanrnlasagna, Belgian shopping, and Russianrndemocracy, no more conversations aboutrnnothing. No more leaving Venice.rnA big red and yellow butterfly has justrnalighted on my Toshiba portable computer.rnIt must be an omen, a sign that...

been made: maybe pro-Davis, maybernpro-Jordan. Whatever the result, therncommunity would have known that representativerndemocracy had, in some importantrnsense, had its innings.rnWe all know that sort of thing was neverrnin the cards. Honesty regarding race,rnand especially race in history, no longer isrnpossible. Those who attempt to display itrnget flayed. Why, the chief of New Jersey’srnhighway patrol...

not learn about all the things the “peoplernwithout a land” have done for the “landrnwithout a people”? Or about how democraticrn(technically true, inside the confinesrnof pre-1967 Israel) and religiouslyrntolerant (unless you want to risk fines andrnjail time by proselytizing on behalf ofrnChristianity) the new nation is? Indeed,rnwhy endure all the expense and jetlagrnv’hen you could...

if they had been forsaken by the rest ofrnChristendom, especially AmericanrnChristians. For several decades, AmericanrnChristian attitudes toward Israel havernbeen dominated by the dispensahonalistrnschool of fundamentalist theology, whichrncontinued in the tradition of Britain’srnturn-of-the-century Christian Reconstructionists.rnUsing a Gnostic interpreta-rnHon of Bible passages, they conclude thatrnthe final battle of Armageddon will be arnnuclear exchange between America andrnthe land...

VITAL SIGNSrnOedipal Angstrnby George McCartneyrnAmerican PiernProduced by Universal PicturesrnDirected by Paul WeitzrnScreenplay by Adam HerzrnReleased by Universal PicturesrnSummer of SamrnProduced by 40 Acres & a MulernFilmworks and Touchstone PicturesrnDirected by Spike LeernScreenplay by Victor Colicchio andrnMichael hnperiolirnReleased by Buena Vista PicturesrnEyes Wide ShutrnProduced by Warner Bros., Hobby Films,rnand Pole StarrnDirected by Stanley KubrickrnScreenplay by Frederic...