Caldwell have any influence in the RepublicanrnPart)’, however, this idea of thern”Southern captivity” of the GOP is nowrnconventional wisdom, and it portends anrnabandonment of the venerable “Southernrnstrateg}’.” One thing is certain: It isrnunlikely that the Republican presidentialrncandidate in 2000 will be wavingrnaround the Tenth Amendment duringrndebates. If the recent record of the GOPrnestablishment is anv...

But Joan Campbell of the NCC defendedrnthe publicity. “We shouldn’t secondguessrn[the President],” she said. “Hernneeds help. He knows that.”rnOne hopes that Clinton’s religiousrncounselors will provide that help. But allowingrntheir support for Clinton’s politicalrnpolicies to cloud their view of hisrncharacter will not aid him. PerhapsrnClinton’s spiritual triumvirate should listenrnto Wisconsin Public Radio for an occasionalrndose of...

handgun figure had more than doubled,rnto 325 per 100,000 persons. If Zimringrnwere right about the strong relationshiprnbetween the general handgun supplyrnand the murder rate, then the latterrnshould have increased significantly. Instead,rnit was essentially unchanged.rnYet Zimring insists that, without severernhandgun controls (whose diflicultyrnin implementation he acknowledges),rnAmerica is doomed to a homicide raternfar higher than other nations....

CHRONICLES’ BACK ISSUES, TAPES, AND BOOKSrnOn States’ Rights, Federalism, and SecessionrnCAN THIS UNION BE SAVED?—February 199i^—Thomas Heming on fighting thernfederal beast, Donald Livingston on secession and slates’ rights, William J. Quirk andrnRobert M. Wilcox on judicial tyranny and constitutional change, and John R. Stocfflcr onrnjudicial taxation. Plus Joseph E. Fallon on the censored history of...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, ]r.rnCitizen EdrnIt may or may not make sense for the livingrnto think in arbitrary terms of decades,rncenturies, and millennia; what is certainrnis, the dead don’t. Edward Abbey hadrnbeen deceased just two months short ofrnten years and I was defunct about fourrnmonths, entombed that long in the overpopulated,rnelectronicized, ideologizedrnmegasprawl of modern...

fifth of Jim Beam within an inch of itsrnlife, wrapped ourselves in our sleepingrnbags, and fell asleep in the truck beds underrnthe winter constellation of Orion.rnIn the morning we both felt betterrnthan either of us deserved, and after arnGeorge Hayduke breakfast—bacon andrnfried sliced potatoes added to ranch-stylernbeans with a fiery salsa; French bread;rnespresso—drove back to...

Modern Editions of Classic Works for Readers TodayrnTHE LOGIC O F LIBERTYrnBy Michael PolanyirnForeword by Stuart WarnerrnAchemist and member of a family renowned for its learningrnin several disciplines, Michael Polanyi experienced firsthandrnthe horrors of totalitarian government and worldwidernwar. Consequently there is a singular weight to Polanyi’s challengernto advocates of centrally planned scientific inquiry or therncentrally...

Are we coming to…rnThe End of the American Century?rnThe European Community has already estabhshed monetary union,rnand talks are underway to set up a European Defense Force.rnMeanwhile, NATO is rattling sabers in the Balkans, and our Russian “allies”rnare increasingly impatient with the “one remaining superpower.”rnBack here in the States, we are rapidly drifting awav from ourrnEuropean-American...

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They chew out a member of thernsquad, Cpl. Upham, for saluting Capt.rnMiller. The corporal, recruited fromrnheadquarters company because of hisrnlanguage skills, has no combat experiencernand does not understand that salutingrnan officer in the field is a good way tornget that officer killed. Spielberg got thatrnright, but at the same time he has Millerrnwearing a helmet...

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnT H E IMPEACHMENT proceedingsrnwere the subject: of an extraordinary suggestionrnmade by Pat Caddell, a formerrnpollster for the Democratic Party, at thern”Dark Ages” retreat for members of thern”conservative movement” over NewrnYears’ weekend. Caddell told the gatheringrnthat the problem with the RepublicanrnParty was that they couldn’t seem tornpick the right issues. Republicans werernfoolishly hammering the...

dits every step of the way. Life is simple:rnClinton was railroaded on trumped-uprncharges at the hands of a Republican Partyrnleadership ready for “payback hme” forrnthe attempted impeachment of PresidentrnNixon.rnWhile party leaders on both sides ofrnthe aisle admonished House members tornvote their conscience, the public properlyrndoubted the sincerity of this display ofrnpolitical civility and duty to...

least a drop of truth in his glass when hernwarns against the terrible consequencesrnof removing any sitting president from office.rnThe President of the United Statesrnhas become a kind of symbol: He is therncommander in chief, leader of the freernworld, an expert—like Stalin —on anyrnsubject his aides choose to prep him on,rnand before too long we...

in which tliey are brought into the world,rnmust be revered aecordingly. God’s creationrnof an immortal soul is profanedrnwhen child-bearing becomes a laboratory’rnexperiment, a media event, or an entryrnin the Guinness Book.rn— Christopher CheckrnT H E CULTURE WAR rages on atrnBarnard College, where two sharp-eyedrnharpies, Sandra Chefitz and Shannon T.rnHerbert, have humbled the last vestigesrnof traditionalism...

PERSPECTIVErnDiary of a Peripheral Malernby Thomas FlemingrnMidatlanticrnIt has been a long day for this straight European male. O’HarernAirport is a decompression chamber between Middle Americarnand the rest of the world: rude United clerks who act as if theyrnown the airline; the gauntlet of guards at the X-ray machines,rnnone of whom is able to speak English;...

we were to worry about the Russians, when all the time we werernbuilding “communism in one nation” here in America. NAFTArnstripped away even the fiction of a sovereign United States,rnand now that Mexican-Americans enjoy dual citizenship, wernmay as well have a dual (or triple) government. Perhaps wernshould brush up our French and move to Quebec,...

it appears, but with us it becomes ridiculous, because we are arnmeeting-place of peoples—Greeks, Normans, Arabs.” D’Alemarnforgets to mention that Greeks, Normans, and Arabs (asrnwell as Carthaginians, Goths, Lombards, Frenchmen,rnSpaniards, and Austrians) came as conquerors. He also overlooksrnthe obvious fact diat most of Italy’s conquerors were ethnicrncousins, and that most invaders shared a common religionrnand...

Every competent history student or teacher knows the allegationsrnconcerning Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Yet one Clintoniternwas given time on National Public Radio to announcernthat, until Ellis’s piece, “white historians” had engaged in a vastrnconspiracy to obliterate any suspicion of the affair. If such a plotrnexisted, it was spectacularly unsuccessful, as the original accusationrnwas widely published...

While Brodie reads “passion” into Sally’s decision to comernback to Virginia with Jefferson, since she would have been freernhad she stayed in Paris, the fact is that all of Jefferson’s slavesrnmade the same decision to return.rnI will not waste much more space on Brodie’s silliness. VirginiusrnDabney has meticulously rebutted every one of her contentions.rnI especially...

tative descendant’s ancestor than was someone unrelated to thernJefferson family. (That ratio is not quite Clinton’s 7.87 trillionrntimes more likely.) However, at least eight other male descendantsrnof Thomas Jefferson’s grandfather (and Field Jefferson’srnfather), Thomas Jefferson II, including President Jefferson’srnyounger brother Randolph and Randolph’s six sons, lived nearbyrnand stayed at Monticello regularly, so each of them...

Celluloid NationrnHollywood Does Historyrnby Roger D. McGrathrn^^B’ MArn^^^^^^E’^ .^^-^^^^1rn^mKm- Hrn^^^^^HI^’ ^^IrnM^^^^^H” ^^H^lrnHI^^^^B J^^^w “* ^^9rn^^^^^K^n^^v braMUrni -^ ^s?–.rnH| Takern^ ^ ^rnirnI^Krn1^ /rnK ^ j j ^ ^rnprnirn1rnf-rnSrn^^ irn” ^rn: ‘ ^ »rnK&. J^rncene _rn^HK’^rn• , . ^rnuHrn-rn^slrnrSBrnH?”’rnKrnAt 0825 on 20 November 1943, the first of six waves ofrnMarines left the line of departure and headed...

virtually all students as a first language in the 1940’s and 50’s, isrnnow a second language for the majority of students in the elementaryrnschools. Although difficult to document, there is evidencernto suggest that nearly half of the elementary-school studentsrnare the children of illegal immigrants. I do not think thisrnis what the Marines fought for.rnBuddhist shrines,...

“people of color” who managed to kill a million Filipinos,rnmany through the most diabolical tortures imaginable. EdrnRamsey is an American hero and a hero to the Filipinos.rnThe movie project has been on hold now for more than arnyear, but there may eventually be a happy ending to all this.rnSince the success of Saving Private Ryan,...

even as a little boy, he was tough as nails. The last time hisrnmother could remember Jesse crying was when he was threernyears old and his father left home for the goldfields of California.rnIn the series, Jesse also has to be taught the use of firearms.rnHe is portrayed as very nervous around guns, and in...

Europe’s Kulturstadt for 1999rnby Curtis Gatern’^<~’v’W'”‘-”’^^’=i^”-‘””’^rnlj«««'”»^li’|ai..lll’l” |« ” • l i Mrr”ifi’irnf’l?^’?^^’^ •rn-r^j;. 1:1rnfr^w^T^rnHMin.?*tf^w» iiiinwHi.yim*ii*ii ii’W^rnK -^1:^-^4′ irn: t – – ^ I >rn• * l Ml ^ » • • l * 1 l | I •*• 1rnFour years ago, when I made a trip to Naumburg to attend arnphilological symposium devoted to Nietzsche,...

led by Bach, Heinrich Heine, Richard Wagner, GerhartrnHauptmann, Richard Strauss, Herder, Wieland, Feuerbach,rnAlexander von Humboldt, the two Cranach painters (fatherrnand son), Walter Gropius (who founded his celebratedrnBauhaus architectural school in Weimar during the 1920’s),rnand, of course, the greatest of the town’s “adopted sons,”rnGoethe and Schiller. That Weimar’s municipal authoritiesrnshould have made no effort to alter...

sons, Carl August and Constantin. She made the offer so financiallyrnenticing that, in 1772, Wieland moved from the theologicallyrnstuffy atmosphere of Erfurt to the more relaxed atmospherernof Weimar. The poet celebrated his liberation fromrnacademic chores by writing the libretto for the first Singspielrnopera to have been composed for German voices—A/ceste (arnweak forerrmner of Mozart’s Entfiihrung...

The prospect of being able to influence his young mentor,rnDuke Carl August, not only in matters of architectural reconstructionrnbut also in the layout of an English-style park, extendingrnsouthward toward the Belvedere hunting lodge along thernbanks of the discreet, half-hidden Ilm, was too tempting to resist.rnThe guidebooks assure us that Goethe’s influence in thernchoice of trees...

Schiller’s life in Weimar. One of its most interesting exhibits isrna framed copy of the patent of nobility that Emperor Francis IIrngranted in November 1802 (four years before Napoleon abolishedrnthe Holy Roman Empire) to Johann Christoph vonrnSchiller—the erstwhile commoner from Ludwigsburg whosernfirst play, Die Rduber {The Robbers), had created an uproar 20rnyears before by exalting...

“AU the NewsrnUnfit to Print” igns^ of tl)e ®imesJrnVol. 1 No. 3 March 1999rnOn day two of “Desert Fox” last December,rnSecretary of State Madeleine Albrightrndeclared that she was “gratified” byrnthe “solid” support that the U.S. actionrnagainst Iraq had received from statesmenrnaround the globe, including those in thernArab world. Her counterpart at thernBritish Foreign Office, Robin...

the suffering of the I r a q i s ,rnidiich Clinton absiardly boastsrnare h i s goals. . . . In anotherrntime, under a differentrnpresident, we might have supportedrnsuch an e f f o r t . But atrnt h i s time, under t h i s p r e s i ­dent,rnt...

sevelt suddenly declared that the contractsrnto carry the mail issued by the previousrnadministration were null and void:rnThe Army would deliver the mail. Sixrnpilots died within a week of Roosevelt’srnedict, and eight planes were lost at a costrnof over $300,000. Airmail service wasrnhalted, yet the President would not relent:rnHe was determined to destroy therncommercial airlines, and...

The three most important groupsrnwho have been pressing this countryrntoward war are the British, thernJewish, and the Roosevelt Administration.rnBehind these groups, butrnof lesser importance, are a numberrnof capitalists, anglophiles, and intellectuals,rnwho believe that theirrnfiiture, and the future of mankind,rndepend upon the domination ofrnthe British Empire. Add to thesernthe Communistic groups whornwere opposed to intervention untilrna...

Thus everybody in Brunei is rich. Thernnative inhabitants of Nigeria are allrnblack. Every man in Israel can handlernan automatic weapon. Surely their objectivernsameness in these important respectsrnneed not result in cardboard flatness,rnpredictable development, or socialrnstereotyping. Well, everybody in NewrnYork is a hypocrite, and Wolfe was artistrnenough to say this in The Bonfire of thernVanities through...

foonery and delusion. Like Swift andrnWaugh, he takes ferocious delight in displayingrnpeople at their ugliest, their mostrnswinish, their most feckless.rnAmis likes to take us inside his narrativesrnand show us how he works his tricks.rnIt’s the postmodern thing, but with nonernof the solemn self-importance Americanrnpractitioners flaunt. Amis sacrificesrnverisimilitude for a legitimate purpose:rnDoing so enables him to...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Englandrnby Michael StentonrnThoroughly Modem MonarchyrnThe pace of cultural redefinition inrnBritain is steady and strong. Since thernday in 1991 when Prime Minister JohnrnMajor refused to veto the Maastrichtrntreaty, a new picture has emerged. Tornput it crudely, the Tories and the monarchyrnare looking unprecedentedly vulnerable.rnThe only good argument for theirrncontinued survival is that they have...

of the kingdoms—and the new pattern ofrnconstitutional law—”human rights” in arnEuropean legal context—will supply therngroundwork for this change, but the newrnfunctions of the monarchy are still at therndesign stage. The chance that “thernCrown” will intend this new design tornenhance feelings of democratic confidencernand national sovereignty is notrnvery good. The elite want Europe andrnthe euro, and...

very rich and rich, young and not sornyoung, but mostly American—who haverncome here “to study art” (if they went torna private school) or “to leam about art” (ifrnthey are pretty girls, as a few of them are).rnNone of these people, as far as I havernbeen able to determine, is aware that thernelusive reality of which...

avelli of the straight razor. That wouldrnshow education!rnAndrei Navrozov is Chronicles’rnEuropean correspondent.rnLetter From Lagadornby John N. FraryrnRevolution in the AirrnThanks to a November election upset,rnKafka, South Dakota—home of LagadornUniversity—is poised to become the vanguardrncollege town of 21st-centuryrnAmerica. Joe Steele, a Lagado UniversityrnEnglish Department adjunct runningrnas a candidate of the Farmer-Activist-rnWorker-Grad Student Alliance (a coalitionrnof the...

days, and renaming all the months exceptrnOctober.rnOn November 8, the municipal codernwas revised to strengthen penaltiesrnagainst hate-misdemeanors. Henceforth,rnordinary spitting on the sidewalkrnwill still be penalized with a $25 fine,rnwhereas hate-spitting is to carry a penaltyrnof six months in the municipal workhouse.rnFailure to curb one’s dog willrncontinue to incur a $15 dollar fine fromrnJanuary 2 to...

VITAL SIGNSrnPOETRYrnA.D. Hope: Poet ofrnthe Antipodesrnby Alan SullivanrnThe other day, as I was reading an articlernabout Keats, I thought suddenlyrnof A.D. Hope. I started imagining arnhme when young writers would lose interestrnin the romance of a vivid Englishrnyouth extinguished by early death. Instead,rnthey would learn to admire the lessrngifted but longer-lived Australian who ultimatelyrnwrote great...

which was still very much in force duringrnthe 50’s. Here the language is Audenesque,rncomposed in a breezy balladrnstanza like that of “Miss Gee,” but therntheme is pure Hope at his most hopeless:rnAdventure opened wide its grislyrnjaws;rnHenry looked in and knew thernHero’s doom.rnThe huge white girl drank on withoutrna pausernAnd, just at closing hme, she askedrnhim...

New Cratylus, Hope describes his acquisitionsrnin aggressive, almost imperialisticrnterms, doubtlessly knowing he wouldrnscandalize his critics: “I explored andrnplundered other languages, mostly byrnmy own efforts, with a few helpingrnlessons from professional teachers.”rnHope excuses his greed by explaining, “ifrnwe go straight to the poetry in learningrnanother language, we get to the purernessence.” Armed with his looted knowledge,rnhe...

ding of a young British Empire. “ThernBamboo Flute” is the imaginary correspondencernof two painters, John Zoffanyrnand Tilly Kettle, who emigrated to Indiarnsome 50 years later, when the Britishrnwere just consolidahng their control ofrnthe subcontinent and the romance of thernRaj was seducing them.rnIn this poem, Hope depicts a meetingrnof cultures still new and strange to eachrnother...

joint passed from hand to hand, as BobrnDylan croaked the words that definedrna generation: “Everybody must getrnstoned.”rnThis was a time which the youth inrncommunist countries experienced quiterndifferently. Prison camps were still alive,rndeportations were the order of the dayrnfrom the Baltics to the Balkans, and therncommunist secret police—the YugoslavrnUDBA, the Romanian Securitate, thernEast German Stasi, and...

ing frightened by postmodernity, or savoringrnone’s provincial “rootedness,” orrnwearing thick horn-rimmed glasses, orrnattending Sunday school lessons. Somerngreat conservatives were agnostics, or pagans,rnor modernists, or revolutionaryrnthinkers. By contrast, today’s conservativesrnhave failed to address the socialrnquestion of workers in the West, andrntherefore, their turf has been stolen byrnthe former 68ers, who are more versed inrnpromising a glorious...

arithmetic, logic, grammar) exist ultimatelyrnfor the sake of metaphysics andrntheology—which is why we teach thernformer to children and reserve the latterrnfor the intellectually mature—so too everythingrnof the child exists for the sake ofrnthe whole man into which he may somedayrndevelop. Describing the place of thernchild in classical Greek education, H.I.rnMarrou writes:rnIn the first place the...

above all to appetite and to thernchild, since children in fact live atrnthe beck and call of appehte, and itrnis in them that the desire for whatrnis pleasant is strongest. .. and asrnthe child should live according tornthe direction of his tutor, so the appetitivernelement should live accordingrnto reason.rnSuch a view would be almost unintelligiblernto...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnWildness in WaitingrnDick Mcllhenny awoke with a cold footrnin the blackness that could be an hour afterrnhe fell asleep or ten minutes beforernthe alarm clock went off. He attended tornthe foot inside the sleeping bag andrnchecked the luminous dial on the clockrnbeside his pillow. The clock said 30 minutesrnpast one....

happenings, Willford eventually quit hisrnhomestead and moved away horn thernarea of the San Juan River where it crossesrnfrom Colorado into New Mexico.rnThe Indians in the vicinity have storiesrngoing back six or seven centuries about arnmysterious being inhabiting the mountains,rnand the English translation for thernname of one Native American village lyingrnsouth of New Mexico’s northern borderrnis...