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EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, Jr.rnMANAGING EDITORrnScott P. RichertrnART DIRECTORrnH. Ward SterettrnDESIGNERrnMelanie AndersonrnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnKatherine Dalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rnj.O. 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 InstituternPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCIRCULTION MANAGERrnCindy LinkrnA publication of...

one more display of a moral exhibitionismrnthat permeates American popularrnculture today, to the detriment of intellectualrnand personal integrity.rn—Amy KiemanrnDenver, COrnOn FlexibilityrnLet me get this straight. In the JunernChronicles, one W. Robert Hawkins opposedrnthe U.S. war against Serbia, dismissingrninterventionist congressmen asrnahistorical nitwits and likening the Serbsrnto Texans threatened with the loss of SanrnAntonio. Yet in the...

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnTHE MEDIA told us that “critics warnrnbombing alone won’t budge Milosevic,”rnso when bombing alone did budge him,rnthe media told us ’twas a famous victory.rn”It worked!” gushed Mara Liasson of NationalrnPublic Radio as the G-8 peace accordrnwas announced in early June.rn”Clinton is vindicated, and Gore is lookingrngood again… . Clinton was right!”rn”Bombing alone” broke the...

man Suzanne Smith, “is the Constitutionrnand the right of the people to expressrndissent.”rnOh —that wasn’t what was going onrnthere? “The people” weren’t expressingrn”dissent”? Interesting logic. ThernACLU’s point, of course, is that peoplernwho agree with ACLU positions expressrndissent, whereas those who disagree mustrnbe expressing something else. Nasty,rnNazi-like tendencies, no doubt. SiegrnheilrnThe importance of prayer in the...

forgiven if we feel like hurling our lawrnbooks at the podium, or if we feel as mistreatedrnas LaShonda.rn—Stephen B. PresserrnSLOVAKIA’S PRESIDENTIAL RACErnwas not big news in May, as the world’srnattention was focused on NATO’s destructionrnof a small Slavic country to thernsouth. The predictable first-round resultsrnpitted the controversial former leader ofrnthe fledgling democracy, Vladimir Meciar,rnagainst the...

response to 24-hour-a-day CNN broadcastsrnof people huddled in tents in Albaniarnand Macedonia. They carry withrnthem the sentiments of Mather’s MagnaliarnChristi Americana, molded by tworncenturies of American evangelicalism.rnArticles reminding us that ethnic Albaniansrnare responsible for the heroin trade inrnEurope and for teenage prostitution inrnItaly and have engaged in terrorist actsrnagainst tiie Serbian police simply cannotrntrump the...

PERSPECTIVErnRemember the Mainernby Thomas FlemingrnHenry Luce coined the phrase “The American Century” asrnan expression of the mihtant economic globalism that hasrncharacterized American policy from the days of WilhamrnMcBGnley. Luce, the pubhsher of Time and Fortune, was thernchild of missionaries in China—a product, in other words, ofrnAmerican religious and cultural globalism. It is no small ironyrnthat...

The second strain is represented by the military imperialists:rnthe two Roosevelts, neoconservative hawks like Jeane Kirkpatrick,rnand our hormonally challenged secretary of state. Onernhundred years ago, they put their trust in the Navy and graduallyrnswitched to advocating reliance on airpower: The commonrnthread is a concern with long-range power and a desire to minimizernrisks to our troops....

then from each other. A century and a half later, Tacitus, himselfrna member of the Roman imperial aristocracy, put this summationrnof Roman policy in the mouth of a British rebel: “Theyrnmake a desert, and they call it peace.” With the advantages of arnclassical education, America’s British allies dubbed the NATOrnplan for Kosovo “Operation Agricola” in...

VIEWSrn(T THE ENDrni OF THErnAMERICAN CENTURYrn”^nnff^nnrnBjjWH^MJrn- – ^ j l ^rnf^^^^iP®^ ^^|fflrn^ ^ L – •’IHLJ^MMJrnmS^^^^^lrn^M^sSSrn^^^^mrnSI p.rn• VrnThe Anti-American Centuryrnby Bill KaufiFmanrnThe anti-American Centurv began with a bad moon rising.rnOur new possessions across the sea were awash in colonialrngore. Surveying from afar the corpses of Filipino independencernfighters and our blood-spattered flag, Mark Twain suggestedrnthat we...

That New Time Religionrnby Philip JenkinsrnAmericans in the 19th century had a confident pride thatrnthey would dominate the coming age, not only because ofrnthe immense economic power of the new nation, but as a naturalrnoutcome of its moral and religious strength. As Melville hadrnwritten in White Jacket, “We Americans are the peculiar, chosenrnpeople—the Israel of...

it: Be careflil when you ask to hear the stark voice of the poorrnand oppressed; you may well not like what they have to say.rnWhile the Lambeth affair made headlines and duly delightedrnSpong’s numerous enemies, little attention was paid to therntectonic changes which it symbolized for the world’s religiousrnmakeup in the new millennium. Westerners have...

well to remember that many of these religious battles will bernfought both between and within states, perhaps with the fullrnpanoply of weapons now available to even small nations: Therntrue age of crusade and jihad might belong to the 21st century,rnnot the 12th.rnConsidering these changes, we cannot fail to be struck by thernsheer pervasive irrelevance of...

Not Ready, Aim, MisfirernAmerica’s Modern Militaryrnby Christopher CheckrnEmbarkation is the business of puzzling large weapons andrnvehicles, and the Marines that go with them, onto a shiprnthat is run by a man who insists he does not have enough spacernfor all that you need to take in order to do your job once he takesrnyou where...

Kagans, and Sen. John McCains of Washington, who are eagerrnfor America to take up the cause of “benevolent global hegemony”;rnbut at the end of “The American Century,” for Americansrnwho have grown weary of the White Man’s Burden, andrncertainly for America’s once and future adversaries, news ofrnAmerica’s shrinking —perhaps withering —standing armyrnmight be met with a...

standards are lowered, the number of duds will increase.rnI hate to say this so bluntly, but we are almost in a positionrnwhere we have to kiss privates’ a—es in order to maintainrna certain manning level.rnThe material readiness level is no better. Ever)’thing, fromrnjet planes to tanks, is routinely cannibalized for spare parts.rnSome defense analysts fear...

Defending the West… Against Itselfrnby Srdja TrifkovicrnIn his article “A Just and Necessan’ War,” published in thernNew York Times on May 25, President William JeffersonrnClinton summarized the case for his war against the Serbs. Hernelaborated on his “vision,” arguing that the bombing of Serbiarnwas the response to “the greatest remaining threat to that vision;rninstability in...

Thirty years later, when the order was given for the U.S. AirrnForce and its assorted European minions to attack Yugoslavia, itrnwas not issued following a declaration of war by Congress forrn”the common defense of the United States,” Nor was the orderrngiven by the President as a means of repelling a sudden attackrnon America b}- a...

CHRONICLES’ BACK ISSUES, TAPES, AND BOOKSrn* On the End of the American Century *rnIS THERE A NEW IMPERIALISM?-Audiotape-Thomas Fleming traces 100rnyears of American imperialism and wonders whether America has become the “New EvilrnEmpire,” while Cambridge professor Michael Stenton explores the consequences of “CulturalrnHegemony.” From the April 1999 Chmnicles conference, “The End of the AmericanrnCentury.”rnTape#:R9Al $12.50rnECONOMIC...

“All the NewsrnUnfit to Print” ignsi of tlje QCimesirnVol. 1 No. 8 August 1999rnRegular readers of this column are acquaintedrnwith the exact terms of the Rambouilletrn”peace” accords, which Serbia refusedrnto sign, and for which reason it gotrnbombed. The details of this Americansponsoredrnplan are still unfit to print in thern”mainstream” media in the United States,rnbut the...

e l l e d to a crucial April 14rnmeeting in Washington, D.C.rnwith Attorney General JanetrnReno and J u s t i c e Departmentrnand FBI o f f i c i a l s in which thernimpending April 19 attack onrnthe compound was reviewed.rnThe 186-page “Investigation into thernActivities of Federal Law EnforcementrnAgencies Towards the...

tional scrutiny” what it describes as arnubiquitous right-wing threat to Germanrndemocracy. Its reports dwell on the socialrnpathologies, not yet sufficiently addressedrnby the welfare state, which havernresulted in “legions of skinheads” andrntheir intellectual supporters.rnGroth and Nordbrueh recount horrorrnstories about political officials beingrnforced to resign for not sounding p.c.rnenough, and highlight the bizarre case ofrnPhil ipp Jenninger,...

severity of the destruction, whatever creativityrnit may bring in its wake. In ploddingrnsociologese accompanied by dozensrnof charts and graphs, he simply tells usrnwhat we all already know: In the lastrnthree decades and more,rnthe breakdown of social order isrnnot a matter of nostalgia, poorrnmemory, or ignorance about thernhypocrisies of earlier ages. The declinernis readily measurable in...

That the answer to these queries mightrnbe “yes” does cross the mind —as Mr.rnFukuyama, undermining his own purposes,rntends to settle it the more by hisrnembarrassing refusal to address, muchrnless lay to rest, his own doubts. I wasrnstruck by the air of scientific analysis withrnwhich he delivers the grim news, in contrastrnto the simple assertiveness that...

ture, good and evil. Of the many illuminatingrncontemporary references inrnProfessor Cannadine’s book, I would onlyrnsingle out Dr. Johnson’s view of “class”rnas equally sagacious, insofar as the authorrnof the Dictionary of the English Languagernbelieed inrn”the fixed, invariable external rulesrnof distinction of rank, which creaternno jealousy as they are allowed tornbe accidental,” by which he meantrnthey were...

Principalities & Powersrnbv Samuel FraticisrnI Was a Teenage Werewolfrn”When I think back on all the crap Irnlearned in high school.. .,” Paul Simonrnmused in a popular song some years ago.rnSimon, of course, was in high schoolrnlong before multiculturalism, Afrocentrism,rnOutcome-Based EducaHon, bilingualrneducation. Heather Has 17 Mommies,rnHolocaust Studies, and assortedrntherapeutic group gropes and mass seancesrnin “counseling” displaced...

“right-wing o’ertones” except perhaps hisrnenthusiasm for capital punishment.rnBut what finally and definitely exposedrnthe fantasies, speculations, unexaminedrnassumptions, and outright lies the newsrnmedia concocted and inflicted on us forrntwo weeks was an interview in the NewrnYork Times on April 30 with several studentsrnat the high school who had actuallyrnknown the killers. What they had tornsay should have...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter FromrnSouth Americarnby Jeffrey MeyersrnCruising the Amazonrn”Here the people could stand it no longer,rnAnd complained of the long voyage.”rn— Christopher ColumbusrnVacations follow fashion, like everythingrnelse, and now cruising is back. Full employment,rncheap oil, a flush WallrnStreet—the problem is what to spend itrnon. And think of the T/’fc7nfc. Neverrnmind that it sank. Those passengers werernso elegant,...

no time in confiding that he used his collegernsalaty to pay his taxes on the amplernroyalties of his textbook. But when hisrnwife asked him to order a bottle, he alwaysrnrefused. P^ach night he faithfully setrnup his telescopes on deck, but it was oftenrntoo cloudy to see very much. Eventuallyrnwe were rewarded with a white blurrnwhich,...

Manaus. The cruise director insisted onrnshowing Papillon night after night,rnthough he had a copy of Werner Herzog’srnmar’elous movie Fitzcarraldo, shotrnin Manaus and set in the era of my talk.rnDespite my request, no works by my authorsrnwere available in the bookshop onrnboard, and of course no reading list hadrnbeen sent to the passengers. But many ofrnthem...

rigid schedules. I missed my solitude andrnliberty to come and go as I pleased. Irnlearned how dangerous it was to surrenderrnyour freedom to a cruise operatorrnwho was indifferent to your needs. Therernwas a vast difference between my imaginativernidea of a journey to the Amazonrnand the dull, sometimes agonizing realit)-rnof this voyage. Americans being guidedrnby Greeks...

ly transmutes virtue into vice, and vicernversa.rnThe secret of its success lies in itsrnshameless, chaste ambivalence, of thernkind that would permit the most disinterestedrnof observers to use the wordrn”chaste” as a synonym for “shameless” inrnthe description, for instance, of a youngrngirl trying on her first string of pearls withrnonly a cheval glass for company. Thernvery...

residents and visitors alike, including thernannual opening of the children’s railwayrnin Cermel Valley. Children are taken byrna train, powered by a 133-year-old steamrnengine, on a three-mile trip to Alpinka, arnfavorite local resort. There is also the eatingrnof a special seed cake, which, in 1997,rnwas 628 meters long (to commemoraternthe anniversary); the election of thernqueen of...

only an ethnic group and are certainlyrnnot a religious community; they constituterna people and should form for themselvesrna nation-state, like other peoples.rnIn that formulation—the Zionist one, beginningrnwith Theodor Herzl in 1897—rnthe Jews were in exile and should gornhome to the land of Israel, where theyrnwere to found (and in 1947 did found)rnthe state of Israel,...

VITAL SIGNSrnPOLITICSrnBush’s Red Toryrnby Greg KazarnOnly Americans would take seriouslyrnthe idea that a foreign politicianrnwho presided over the demise of a oncedominantrnpolitical part should serve asrnthe model for a major U.S. presidentialrncandidate. If a German proposed thatrnthe ruling Social Democratic Partyrnshoidd follow former Soviet PremierrnMikhail Gorbachev, or an Italian suggestedrnthat the ruling Socialists shouldrntake advice...

roney boasted he could reach thernPresident anytime lie wanted,rnwhere Trudeau would have beenrnlucky to get past the Wliite Housernoperator.. . . Canada under Mulroneyrngenerally supported the UnitedrnStates on foreign policy issuesrndespite differences in approach.rnThe relationship was so chummy thatrnBush, who coined the term “New WorldrnOrder,” suggested Mulroney run forrnU.N. Secretary General when the positionrnbecame vacant...

woman to put so much sex in a book andrnyour banal ideas were the sort—”sex isrnfun and liberating too”—that the publicrnseemed to want to have articulated in arn(supposedly) serious book. She thoughtrnthe President’s intimate hours with an intern,rngross imbalance of power though itrnwas, were just wonderful.rnConservatives have jumped on thisrnpoint, but in the wider world...

illegal immigrants. They spoke of growingrnareas of their communities wherernthey were not welcome—indeed, wherernthey feared to go. Often, they complained,rnauthorihes would side with illegalsrnagainst Americans.rnI particularly remember the statementrnof a woman who said that we were facingrna new breed of illegal aliens. In the past,rnmost were agricultural workers. Now,rnshe said, many of them were just...

the illegals, and I talk to them. They arernnot a good influence. Many of them sellrndrugs. I’ve been to other American cities,rnand I can tell you this: Los Angeles is notrnan American city anymore.”rnExpressing regret again for his own illegalrnentry, he injected a final thought:rn”We’ve got to stop this illegal immigration.rnIf not, we won’t have...

Although charming, he is a monster whornattracts people and then uses them remorselesslyrnto advance his own interests.rnWhen the Brits seem to be closing in onrnhim, he has no compunchon about sellingrnout his Czechoslovakian mistress tornthe Russians in order to save himself. AsrnMartins puts it in Greene’s text, “evil wasrnlike Peter Pan—it carried with it the...

Modern Editions of Classic Works for Readers TodayrnSELECT WORKS OF EDMUND BURKErnA New Imprint of the Payne EditionrnIn Three Volumes, andrnMISCELLANEOUS WRITINGSrnCompiled and with a foreword and notes,rnby Francis CanavanrnBurke has endured as the permanent manual of politicalrnwisdom without which statesmen are as sailors on anrnuncharted sea.rn—Harold LaskirnOriginally published by Oxford University Press inrnthe 1890s,...

USTASA: CROATIAN SEPARATISM AND EUROPEAN POLITICS,rn1929-1945rnBy Srdja Trifkovicrn(London and Aiken, SC: The Lord Byron Foundation;rn323 pp.; $19.00; ISBN 1-892478-01-3)rn”^k “Y” ations cannot be invented, but even authentic nations, inrnI^LI asserting their identities, often rely on myths and down-rn. JL m ri£[htlies. Up to a point such myths are harmless and exercise arnpositive influence. But nationalist...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.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 EDITORrnSrd]a TrifkovicrnLEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORrnStephen B. PresserrnRELIGION EDITORrnHarold O./. BrownrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnThe Rockford InstituternPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnCindy LinkrnA publication of...

CHRONICLES’ BACK ISSUES, TAPES, AND BOOKSrn* On Justice, Constitiitionalism, and DemocracyrnCAN THIS UNION BE SAVED?—February 1998—Thomas Heming on fighting thernfederal beast, Donald Livingston on secession and states’ rights, William J. Quirk andrnRobert M. Wilcox on judicial tyranny and constitutional change, and John R. Stoeffler onrnjudicial taxation. Plus Joseph E. Fallon on the censored history of...

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnB O R I S Y E L T S I N has been at it again,rnsacking Russian Premier Yevgeni Primakovrnand his entire cabinet, pushingrnthe country to the edge of the pohticalrnabyss. The phlegmatic Primakov, whornresembles Jabba the Hut of Star Warsrnfame, had opened an investigation intornthe machinations of the “oligarchs,” therngangsters-cum-businessmen who haverndominated...

Impersonal education factories likernColumbine were a domestic innovationrnof the Cold War. The consolidation ofrnsmall and rural schools into centralizedrnwarehouses was given its greatest push byrnHarvard President James B. Conant,rnwho, subsidized by the Carnegie Corporation,rnproduced a series of post-war reportsrnarguing for the “elimination of thernsmall high school.” According to Conant,rndefenders of hiunan-scale educationrnwere “still living in...

apparently, by most early American readersrnas too idiosyncratic and obscure (onernnotable exception was the first Virginian,rnCaptain John Smith). But it does not appearrnthat the 42nd (all at sixes and sevens?)rnPresident of the New Romans (asrnCanadian arch-nationalist Mel Hurtigrnonce entitled them) has absorbed veryrnmuch of the Stoic emperor’s message,rnthough he claims to re-read it every year.rnPerhaps...

At this writing, the bombing campaignrnappears relentless. But perhaps Guido’srnfate may help predict what will happen tornthe President. The Reverend Jackson,rnbefore he left Serbia, was given a privaterncommunication from Mr. Milosevic, detailingrnthe terms under v-hich he wouldrnaccept foreign peacekeeping troops inrnKosovo. (These were also spelled out inrnan extensive interview which Milosevicrngave to UPI.) Even more...

PERSPECTIVErnLand Without Justicernby Thomas FlemingrnEvery month, some corner of the United States becomesrnthe scene of a brutal and bizarre murder: in Jasper, Texas,rnwhere rednecks dragged a man to death behind their truck; inrnLas Vegas, where a high-school student assaulted and killed arnlittle gid as his friend and fellow student looked on without liftingrna finger to...