bloated scale and power of the federalrngovernment, and both candidates agreedrnwith the Clinton-Gore policies on NAFTA,rnthe World Trade Organization, tradernpolicy generally, immigration, a globalistrnforeign policy, and civil rights and affirmativernaction. There was, as I recall,rnsome muffled verbal swordplay overrnabortion and budgetary matters, but atrnno point in the debates did either Republicanrncandidate reveal any fundamentalrndisagreement with...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Londonrnby Derek TurnerrnThe Strange Death of HerrnMajesty’s OppositionrnThe Conservative Party still has not recoveredrnfrom the disastrous general electionrnof May 1997, when many Britonsrnswitched their allegiances to Labour andrnan even larger number of Conservativesrnstayed at home, unwilling to vote for eitherrnthe Tweedledum that was John Majorrnor the Tweedledee of Tony Blair.rnTwo years after the...

that has only been (partially) broken withrnby Mrs. Thatcher—capitulation to thernenemy.rnAt a time of radical upheaval, this isrnnot good enough. Britain is breaking up,rnand nobody is protesting. Her Majesty’srnLoyal Opposition must oppose, or theyrnare being neither loyal nor an opposition.rnNot only must they oppose, butrnthey must oppose uncompromisingly.rnThe patriotic opposition must regain itsrnconfidence and speak...

of his fighter plane to the team of an Armenianrnand a Jew, while Cosimo, whornpiously “emblazoned even the monks’rnprivies” with his heraldic balls, did notrnhesitate to embrace the “whoremongerrnand scrounger” Fra Filippo Lippi. Therernis the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with thernbastard condottiere Francesco Sforza,rnwhom Cosimo had shrewdly fosteredrnlong before his takeover of Milan wasrnconsummated in the marriage...

partment of Near Eastern Studies. ThernYale Department of Religious Studies includesrnin its Jewish studies anything Jewish,rnregardless of its bearing on the studyrnof the religion. So when universities dornorganize the subject, either they leave itrnout of the study of religion altogetherrnor they define it, within the study of religion,rnin a way utterly incongruent withrnthe way they...

astrian writers —again, the ethnic is in,rnthe rehgious is out.rnSo the proposed Cambridge Histor’ ofrnJudaism uses the word “Judaism” to referrnto an ethnic group: its material culture,rnits politics, institutions, demography, itsrn”life” (whatever that means). A CambridgernHistory of Christianity that dealtrnwith Roman imperial politics and foreignrnpolicy, pagan anti-Christianity andrnpersecution of Christianity, but not withrnNicaea and Chalcedon,...

WHA T DIVERSITY?rnThis past semester Accuracy in Academia’s John M. Olin Conference Series traveled to Columbia University and asked if conservativernideas were still welcome in higher education. The answer they received from Columbia President George Rupp was an emphaticrn”NO!” Rupp dispatched a team of security guards to keep students interested in conservatism from meeting on...

VITAL SIGNSrnECONOMICSrnGlobalization andrnthe Decline of thernFamilyrnby William R HawkinsrnBy many important indicators, thernAmerican economy is soaring. Unemploymentrnhas hit a 30-year low, andrnproductivity is on the rise. These two factors,rncombined with low inflation, havernfinally started to push up real wages forrnmost workers. Yet below the surface,rnconditions are not so encouraging on therneconomic front and even less...

on business. And Wall Street is right.rnThe core of the domestic social problemrnis linked to the international restructuringrnof the economy, though obviouslyrnthis is not its only cause. Economic theoryrntells us that full employment can bernreached at any level of income, and willrnmove toward this equilibrium in the absencernof external shocks if the labor marketrnis flexible...

lization that can be admired in all of itsrnfacets.rnWilliam R. Hawkins, a fonner economicsrnprofessor, is Senior Research Analyst forrnU.S. Representative Duncan Hunter (RCA).rnPOLITICSrnRestoring Familiesrnby RestrictingrnGovernmentrnby David HartmanrnWhen we view the monumentalrnseats of government, the palacesrnand temples of ancient and medieval civilizations,rnwe are awed by their architecturalrngrandeur, the art and culture tornwhich they testify, and the...

increase of 38 percent in real output perrnman-hour from 1970 to 1993, the realrnmedian income of married familiesrnfailed to rise at all—despite the increasedrnparticipation rate of wives in the workforcern(from 40 to 59 percent). All of thernsurplus of the efforts of married familiesrnwas confiscated by government for distributionrnto its clients.rnGovernment conHnues its relentlessrngrowth, extending its...

consensual homosexuality, abortion,rnand sterilization, euthanasia and suicide.”rnStill, he voted to veto it.rnIn 1963, in Ferguson v. Skrupka, thernpendulum seemed to swing decisivelyrnaway from Harlan’s position. Writing forrna majority which included all justices exceptrnHarlan, Justice Black again affirmedrnthat “due process” does not justify courtsrnin substituting “their social and economicrnbeliefs for the judgment of legislativernbodies, who are...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnThe View From Out HerernTliere is a stor^’ about the man who surprisedrnanother man in bed with his wife.rn”What did you do about it?” his friendrndemanded. “Hell,” replied the fellow inrndisgust, “the sonofabitch lied his wav outrnof it!”rnMy inclination, on this 1 Sth day ofrnFebruary 1999, is to take the...

can people so intermingled geographicallyrn—many of them more or lessrnforcibly so, by order of the federal governmentrn—possibly disentangle themselvesrnfrom one another and withdraw;rnassuming, of course, that they wished torndo so? So far no one has discovered suchrna means, but where the will is, there’s arnway. And if physical separation shouldrnever come to pass, the result...

Classic Works for Readers TodayrnVIEW OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATESrnWith Selected WritingsrnBy St. George TuckerrnForeword by Clyde N. WilsonrnAs professor of law at the College of William and Mar}’, St. GeorgernTucker in 1803 published View of the Constitution—the firstrnextended, systematic commentary on the United States Constitutionrnafter its ratification and later its amendment by...

“A l u i i effm to repairrnour umerstanding ofrnChristian truth.”rn—Josiph Sobran,rnNationally syndicatedrncolumnist;rnEditor, SOBRAN’Srn”This is a very significantrnbook, one thatrnis sociologically andrnhistorically wellrnresearched, theologicallyrnwell thought out,rnand forthrightly andrnclearly written. It deservesrna fearless andrnserious discussion.”rn— Thomas Weinandy,rnO.F.M., Cap., ThernWarden of Grey friars,rnOxford; Tutor andrnLecturer in Historyrnand Doctrine, thernUniversity of Oxford.rnS P E N C ErnPUBLISHING CO.rnWhy...

KDirORrn’ihomas FlemingrnSFAIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnMANAGING h;ni’i’ORrnScott P. RichertrnART DIREC;TORrnU. WardSterettrnCON’I’RIBiniNG KDITORSrnHarold O./. Brown, KatkerinernDalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rn].(). Tate, Michael Washhiirn,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, Donald Fivingston,rnWilliam Mills, William Murchison,rnAndrei Navrozov, Jacob Neusner,rnSrdja TrifkovicrnLEt;AI, AFFAIRS EDITORrnStephen B. Presserrni;DrrORIAI. SECRETARYrnFeann DohhsrnPUBLISHERrnThe Rockford histituternPDBIJGAnON DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCIRC II EAT ION MANAGERrnCindy FinkrnApublicalion o f l l...

Nazis conquered Western Europe.”rnWhen I read that Mahl’s book “penetratesrnthe propagandistic pieties promulgatedrnbv the court historians and exposesrnthe . . . utter immoraht)’ of ruHng cHtes,”rnI thought, “This guy was trained in therndisinformation office of the old SovietrnKGB.” In my opinion it is not court historiansrn(whatever they are) but Raimondorn(and Mahl, too?) who deserves indictmentrnfor...

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnPRESIDENT CLINTON lied underrnoath as well as on television: About that,rnfew have disagreed. So wh- wasn’t lyingrnunder oath simply regarded as perjury?rnBecause weighty conservatives, famousrnfeminists, and legal scholars, among others,rnhave tended to excuse the President,rnclaiming that he was just lying to concealrnan affair. Said Arthur M. Schlesinger,rnJr., “A gentleman always lies about sex.”rnThis is...

a symbol of order, something sorely lackingrnin the new Russia. For still others,rneven many CPRF voters, a continued respectrnfor Soviet-era symbols does not extendrnto “Iron Feliks.” The Lenin mummy,rnyes. The traditional Victory Dayrnparade, complete with the Red Bannerrnof Victory, yes. But “Iron Feliks”—well,rnhe was a Pole anyway. CPRF diehardsrnhave moved on.rnThe Russian squabble tells us...

gy sectors in a common front to opposerncnltnral protectionism anywhere. Thisrn”American” juggernaut—the product ofrncorporate mergers and the convergencernof the information media — sees thernCanadian bill as a litmus test, since successfulrnCanadian resistance can be arnmodel for other countries. Canadian argumentsrnhave been echoed in Europernand Asia, where the ver)- notion of standingrnup to “American” cultural hegemonyrntouches...

was set. Then I got a call from the panickedrnphysician: Bishop Favalora is comingrnto address the Jewish community;rnwliat should I do? I realized that the doctorrnhad committed the Jewish communitv’rnto a major public event, with no support,rnno backing, not even a location. Irnadvised him to go to the Jewish Communit}’rnCenter for a location, to the...

PERSPECTIVErnThe Great American Purgernby Thomas Flemingrn^ tates’ rights? You can’t be serious! What do you wantrnk j to do—restore Jim Crow or bring back slavery?”rnAny serious discussion of the American repubHc alwaysrncomes aground on this rock, and it does not matter which kindrnof liberal is expressing the obligatory shock and dismay,rnwhether a David Corn leftist...

while jesuitically insisting that he had not performed this orrnthat specific act of treason or terrorism, he accepted fuh responsibiht}’rnfor the fictional crimes attributed to his non-existentrnconspiracy. Americans accused of racism display thisrnsame Patt}’ Hearst syndrome, acting like the kidnap victimsrnwho end up collaborating with their persecutors. They darernnot oppose the revolutionary mentality of the...

and William O. Douglas that would indicate their moral superiority’rnover, say, Verne Presley or the roughneck running thern”Zipper” at the county fair? Many of the good and wise menrnwho have destroyed the federal principle—John and Robertrnand Edward Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Martin LutherrnKing—were entirely despicable in their private lives. If we darernnot trust a politician to...

even greater jurist than Jolin Marshall, declared (almost certainlyrnincorrectly) that the 1787 Constitntion did not embracernan’ social theor)—neither that ai laissez-faire nor of the organicrnstate. Holmes’ admirers, most prominently at the lawrnschools of Harvard, Yale, and Columbia, soon pnt together a legalrnphilosophy, if one can call it that, known as “Legal Realism.”rnThe Legal Realists developed...

would appoint judges who would interpret, rather than rewrite,rnthe Constitution, hi recent years, as Republican-appointedrnjudges have settled into a semi-permanent majority on thernCourt, there have been some signs of a return to a Constitutionrnwith content. Federalism flourished in the 1995 ruling in thernLopez case that the federal government had no business, evenrnusing its commerce power,...

aftermath. The nations that fought this war all ieved themselvesrnas liberal and progressive constitutional monarchies orrnrepublics. For a centur)’, these would-be liberal regimes hadrnbeen concentrating power to the center. By 1914, this concentrationrnhad reached a critical mass and exploded into a war thatrnshattered the social fabric of Europe. Nazism and communismrndid not arise from a...

mentalities necessary to maintain a bloated and monstronsrngrowth. With a population of 50,000, Athens produced such arndepth of culture that we still take some of our bearings from it.rnFlorence, the center of the Italian Renaissance (itself the workrnof small city-states) had only around 40,000. Monster citiesrnsuch as New York (eight million) or Sao Paulo (19...

chita Parish (Monroe).rnAmendment 11 enjoyed widespread support among thernstate’s elected officials, including conservative RepublicanrnGovernor Mike Foster. (When Foster ran for governor inrn1995, he set himself apart from the crowded field of candidatesrnby strongly supporting Second Amendment gun-ownershiprnrights and a concealed-carn- law, which he signed into law afterrnbecoming governor.) All of the state’s 39 senators but...

to be sent out of state without first checking to see if they arernneeded by citizens of the Pehcan State. The legislature alsornpassed a resolution directing state Attorney General Richardrnleyoub to challenge the legality and constitutionality of the federalrnregulation. The resolution stated that organs donated inrnLouisiana “are to be considered a state resource and used...

“All the NewsrnUnfit to Print” igns! of tlje ®imes!rnVol. 1 No. 4 April 1999rnBack in 1994, a major news itemrnproved unfit for publication in any “mainstream”rnmedia outlets in the UnitedrnStates. It concerned the possibility—rnwhich turned into a virtual certainty—thatrnthe Bosnian Muslim government stagedrnthe infamous “marketplace massacre” inrnSarajevo, killing 66 of its own people.rnThe U.S. government...

control of the village. They claimed that,rnon the previous day, police separatedrnwomen from men, taking the men to thernditch and killing them on the spot;rnThe AP TV j o u r n a l i s t s ‘ t e s ­timonies,rnas well the materrni a l they have filmed, givernan e n t...

right’s claim to be the only source of patrioticrnsentiment. “If only the politicalrnliberals had known. If only those in thernuniversities had known,” he wails.rnKnown what? That the Soviets wererntrying to subvert the United States, alongrnwith the rest of the West? That the CommunistrnParty USA was a tool of thernU.S.S.R.? That those who were “duped”rninto taking...

faced a similar danger before. TliernJapanese strategists who planned thernPearl Harbor attack were aware that theirrneconomy had only one-tenth the war potentialrnof the American one. Nevertheless,rnby concentrating their resources onrnthe military, they had attained regionalrnsuperiority and sought to convert that advantagerninto geopolitical gains by a preemptivernstrike against an unpreparedrnAmerica.rnThe Reagan strategy’, based on Sovietrnweakness rather...

presence an offense to their “national”rndignity. Is there any doubt that, amongrnnon-minority Americans, there would berna nationalist reaction, not only over therntreatment of dispossessed “Americans” inrnthe minority-ruled statelets but againstrnthe dismemberment itself?rnThis, roughly, is the position that Russiarnand the Russians now find themselvesrnin, with the dismantling of the SovietrnUnion. To be sure, as Wayne Aliensworthrninsightfully...

want many children of their own, thernquestion of whether “the Germans arerndying out” (the subtitle of a Giinter Grassrnnovel) will remain pertinent.rnFrench intellectuals and politiciansrnhave been grappling with a sense of demographicrndecline for much longer:rnSince the Revolution, France’s populationrnhas grown more slowly than that ofrnits neighbors (though it is now higherrnthan Germany’s) and her relative...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnGleichschaltungrnWhen a new religion displaces an oldrnone, the gods of the old faith become therndemons of the new. So it is with therndemigods and heroes as well, and as newrncultures, races, and nations begin to blossomrnwhere once the fruits of Europeanrnand American civilization flourished, itrnis not surprising to see the myths...

the senator had never been involved withrnthe CCC at all, merely succeeded inrnmaking a fool of himself when the Postrnpublished a picture of him speaking imderrnthe Council’s banner at a 1992 nationalrnconvention. Had both men simplyrnsaid, yes, they had spoken to therngroup; no, they did not necessarily agreernwith everything it stood for; but they sawrnnothing...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Texasrnby Bill MurchisonrnDon’t Mess With thernTexas ConstitutionrnThe constitution of the state of Texas, myrnfriends, is not what you carry to thernbeach for hght summer reading. Light?rnNot at 90,000 words and 377 amendments.rnAs Dr. Johnson said of ParadisernLost, “No man ever wished it longer.”rnYet longer it gets, election year by electionrnyear, as the sovereign...

more thinks coming.rnTexas has produced its share of dynamicrnand/or effective governors—JimrnHogg, Allan Shivers, John Connally,rnAnn Richards—but they don’t get thatrnway by the exercise of raw power. ArnTexas governor enjoys minimal power—rnnot even the ability to appoint a cabinet.rnHe may propose, suggest, recommend,rnwheedle, propagandize, but no one hasrnto listen. All he can do, basically, to advancernhis...

Kirk lectured on “Education in an EgalitarianrnSociety,” mentioning that therernwere still a few good universities for graduaternstudy in the humanities. I rememberrnhis brief account of InternationalrnCollege, a “university without walls”rnwhich offered an alternative to the typicalrnAmerican graduate-school programrnby reviving the old tutorial method,rnputting the student in direct contact withrnthe scholar. When I wrote to Dr....

be in the country) made up for anythingrnthat was lacking in the town: picturesquernswamps, meandering creeks and rivers,rnhundreds of httle lakes; stands of newrnpine with meadows wandering in andrnout of them; sugar maple, oak, tamarack,rnand white birch trees; deer, beaver, porcupine,rnherons, Canadian geese. It wasrna sportsman’s paradise, a nature-lover’srnheaven.rnYet to me, Mecosta was a bit...

ing: SERITARBORES QUAE ALTER!rnSECULO PROSINT (“He plants treesrnto benefit future generations”). Dr. Kirkrnwas a tireless planter of trees, vines, andrnshrubs. The testimony of his work surroundsrnthe Piety Hill properties, formingrnboundaries and lining walks, providingrnwind breaks and privacy, beauty and fragrance.rnAnd Russell and Annette cultivatedrnother sorts of trees. They providedrnthe good soil for the growth of...

and “Freezing.” Later that evening, inrnthe library, just as the Western, resiHentrnrest of me was beginning to thaw out inrnfront of the fire with a dry grappa, a perfectlyrnpassable Tuscan cigar, and a volumernof Winston Churchill’s war-timernmemoirs, my Eastern, decadent side resumedrnits suit. With perfect timing, itrndrew my attention to the description ofrnSir Winston’s stay...

VITAL SIGNSrnThe Necrosis ofrnLimited Governmentrnby Douglass H. BartleyrnThe words “general welfare” havernhad the greatest significance inrnmodern American life of any in the Constitution.rnOriginally regarded by its 18thcenturyrnFederalist creators as a restraintrnon federal power, the brake of generalrnwelfare has been transformed, retooledrnby the U.S. Supreme Court into a hugernturbine, a supercharger that drives today’srnimmense federal power...

bra in which discretion is at large.rnThe discretion, however, is notrnconfided to the courts. The discretionrnbelongs to Congress, unlessrnthe choice is clearly wrong, a displayrnof arbitrary power, not an exercisernof judgment.rnThe constitutional text shows bothrnButler and Helvering to be wrong. First,rnthe clause grants no spending power.rnThe power is a taxing power: “to lay andrncollect Taxes...

specify punishment for counterfeitingrnand piracy? Can anyone seriously maintainrnthat punishment of those crimesrndoes not benefit the general welfare?rnMadison was clearly right in representingrnthe “common defense and generalrnwelfare” clause as being descriptive,rnnot expansive, of the powers of Congress.rnMadison’s 1792 summation said justrnthat: The clause is “a sort of caption, orrngeneral description of the specified powersrn. ....

publican presidential candidate BobrnDole was debating President Clinton.rnPerhaps “debating” is the wrong word.rnIn the awkward and disjointed style ofrndiscourse that now seems typical of GOPrnpresidential candidates, Dole was spoutingrnthe talking points his handlers hadrngiven him: “I think the basic difference isrn. . . I trust the people. The presidentrntrusts the government.”rnWoodenly, Dole cited the details...

coastal cities. That Reagan paidrnonly lip service to pro-life activistsrnduring their annual Washingtonrnmarches still rankles the party’srnsouthern wing.rnCaldwell is so eager to blame the Southrnthat he ignores even the most obviousrnfacts. First, the Reagan years saw a continuedrnincrease in economic prosperit’rnin the South, a trend that went back atrnleast to the 1950’s, while those “prosperousrncoastal...