Modern Editions of Classic Works for Readers TodayrnCONSTITUTIONALISM AND THErnSEPARATION OF POWERSrnSecond EditionrnBy M. J. C. VilernArguably no political principle lias been more centralrnthan the separation of powers to the evolutionrnof constitutional governance in Western democracies.rnIn the definitive work on the subject, M. J. C. Vilerntraces the history of the doctrine from its rise duringrnthe...

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

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnMANAGING EDITORrnScott P. RichertrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O./. Brown, KatherinernDalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rnJ.O. Tate, Michael Washburn,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, Donald Livingston,rnWilliam Murchison, William Mills,rnAndrei Navrozov, Jacob Neusner,rnSrdja TrifkovicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnThe Rockford InstituternPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnCindy LinkrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn928 North Main Street,...

question. The United States governmentrnis, today, the largest and most successfulrncriminal enterprise in all of humanrnhistory.rnIt began in exactly the same way thatrnthe Mafia began, with limited goals andrnlimited demands. The defense of the nation,rncourts of law, interstate trade, internationalrntrade and tariffs, a common currency,rnand common dealings withrnforeign powers were funded by agreeablernextortions: It was...

defense ministers gathered in Vienna tornexamine the potential evolution of thernWestern European Union (WEU) intornthe full-fledged militar)’ arm of the EuropeanrnUnion (E.U.), a possibilit- whichrnwould effectively replace NATO in Europernand exclude the United States fromrnthe Old Continent.rnThe idea is not new, especially not inrnParis and Bonn. Until recently, however,rnBritain has resisted it —most notablyrnat the...

the last Sunday of the November sweeps,rnand that it was the highest-rated episodernof the season.rnWithin a week, Oakland County prosecutorrnDavid Gorcyra announced thatrnhe would fulfill Kevorkian’s wish andrncharge him in Youk’s death, arguing thatrn”Consent is not a viable defense in takingrnthe life of another, even under the mostrncontrolled environment.” His decisionrnwas applauded by Michigan State...

life through our Lord Jesus Christ; whornshall change our vile body . . .”; earthrnflung without flourish onto a simplerncasket.rnHistory, since November 22, 1963,rnhas worked its decisive, if leisurely, wayrnwith both men’s reputations.rnThe deification of John F. Kennedyrncommenced at once and enjoyed a prosperousrnrun. Even today, elderly courhersrnlike Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., remain availablernfor a spontaneous...

members with legal sanctions. Watchrnthis space for further developments.rn• Family Values: In recent years,rnhome businesses have become an attractivernoption for mothers who wish to stayrnhome with their children. Now comesrnnews of a booming new home businessrnaimed at single mothers: managingrnpornographic websites. According to arnpress release from Entertek Online,rnwhich claims it runs “the world’s largestrnadult site,”...

PERSPECTIVErnEast Is East^ and West Is Wussrnby Thomas FlemingrnIf a civilized man, as it is sometimes said, can hold two ideasrnin his mind at the same time, post-civilized man goes onernstep farther and sees nothing wrong with maintaining contradictor-rnopinions on any subject that comes up: We say simultaneouslyrnthat the Russians are animalistic drunkards with no...

his great antagonist. Saladin was, by all accounts, a brave andrncapable soldier, a great builder, and a generous and mercifulrnruler. Richard was, if not exactly merciful, the greatest knightrnand most heroic fighter of his age and a troubadour to boot.rn(The modern attempt to portray him as a homosexual moronrnonly shows what happens when a civilization...

made for writing impartial history, but most of what we call historyrnis a conflict of wills, between leaders and nations. Whorncould write an impartial account of the Crusades? Not a faithfulrnCatholic or Muslim, and certainly not an atheist who isrn”neutral” on the religious claims of the two parties: He, in fact,rnhas the biggest ax to...

their opinions on the Bosnian civil war in terms that echoed thernofficial statements issued by the U.S. State Department. Objectivityrnand impartiality, so it seems, have come to mean that arnreporter is on the side of the angels who could never give anrneven break to the other side without spotting their snow-whiternrobes.rnAlthough Sir Thomas More said...

may not travel, even though the elder one is now anrnadult, without their Saudi father’s permission. The girls havernbeen forcibly converted to Islam and can only look forward torntheir eventual marriage, for which their consent is at best a formality.rnFawning by Loudoun Count}’ authorities extended even to arnblatant disregard of the county’s own laws. A...

strained to find evidence in the Bible that a new prophet wouldrnarise after Jesus, seeing Muhammad in obvious prophecies ofrnthe Holy Spirit (that were fulfilled on Pentecost) or of the SecondrnComing of Christ. One could find no better refutation ofrnIslam’s efforts to appropriate Christian Scripture (here,rnMatthew 24:27) than that of the 14th-century Byzanfine saint,rnGregory Palamas,...

Western” governments in many Muslim countries fashionedrnfrom the wreckage of the Ottoman Empire, the West seems tornhave convinced itself of the existence of benign Islam. Indeed,rnthe promotion of “moderate” Muslim regimes —especiallyrnthose willing to make peace with Israel, and, even better, thosernthat have a lot of petroleum—has become a linchpin of U.S.rnglobal policy. Eg}pt, Saudi...

ter strife or crusade undertaken in the spirit of a holy war,” andrnthis does not harmonize well with ecumenical fraternizing. Ifrnthere is to be a jihad involving Muslims, Christians, and Jews, itrnwill not be cooperative but confrontational, and it will not bernvery quiet or very comfortable for us other “peoples of thernBook.”rnWho is violent in...

ropean hegemony had seemed destined for a millennial reignrnat the end of the 19th century, the 20th has proved it to be asrnfrail as the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem and the other temporaryrnconquests of the Crusades.rnWhat Islam proved unable to achieve by military means,rneither against the industrialized nations of the West orrnagainst the Jewish immigrants...

If Abu Rafi’s murder was a kind of Kristallnacht, Muhammad’srnattack against the tribe of Banu-‘l-Mustahq, later in thatrnsame year, was a decisive step towards Endloesung. His followersrnslaughtered many tribesmen and looted thousands of theirrncamels and sheep; they also kidnapped 500 of their women.rnThe night after the battle, Muhammad and his brigands stagedrnan orgy of rape....

cumcised people. The last attempt in pre-modern times, goingrnthrough the Balkans, took the sultan’s janissaries more thanrnhalf-way from Constantinople to Dover. On both occasions,rnthe tide was checked, but its subsequent rolling back tookrndecades, even centuries.rnFor the millions of Christians and Jews engulfed by the deluge,rnthose were centuries of quiet desperation interrupted byrnthe regular pangs of...

“All the NewsrnUnfit to Print” g>ign0 0f tJfe (SimzBrnVol. 1 No. 2 February 1999rnPlundering the treasures of conqueredrnlands has always been a fair game, fromrnNeolithic herds and Sabine women tornworks of art: Byzantine statuary adornsrnSt. Marco’s in Venice, and Elgin’s marblesrnare in London to stay. But moving arnland itself across an intemational frontierrnis a novel...

one. . . . We could drenchrnthe c i t i e s of the Ruhr andrnmany other c i t i e s in Germanyrni n such a way t h a t most ofrnthe population would be r e ­quiringrnconstant medical attrne n t i o n . ” . . . In...

I must say that he is simply wrong onrnboth counts. Just because an ideologyrnultimately leads to disaster for the classrnthat peddles it, it does not follow that thernclass expected to gain nothing from itsrnadoption. Nazi state managers enjoyed arnhell of a ride while it lasted, and the earlyrnpolihcal and military successes of thernNational Socialist state...

forts not even remotely equivalent to thatrnenjoyed by financial and informationagernexecutives in New York or Los Angelesrn(a fact that is probably of no consequencernfor the time being, though it isrnnot impossible to imagine circumstancesrnin which it might matter).rnFrom Leavenworth, Kaplan proceedsrnto St. Louis—more precisely, to severalrndisparate St. Louises, his descriptionrnof which amounts to a template...

rootless—white members, generally, ofrnwhat was once the working or lower middlernclass. Watching these people hypnoticallyrnpouring coins into a slot machinernon a Mississippi gambling barge,rnan Army major comments ironically,rn”And we risk our lives for this.” In Tucson,rna Navajo cable TV installer talksrnabout his trailer-park customers who livernin homes with no fiirniture, no food besidesrnchips and beer,...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Australiarnby R.J. StovernAustralia’s Pat Buchanan:rnOut, But Not DownrnIf 1998 is remembered in Australian politicalrnhistory for nothing else—a probablernassumption, given the administrativerngridlock which otherwise prevailed —itrnwill go down in the annals for two events:rnPrime Minister John Howard’s upset reelectionrnon October 3; and, of longertermrnsignificance, Pauline Hanson’s failurernto retain her parliamentary seat.rnThis latter development eliminated...

tion, Dr. Hewson lumbered himself withrnthe promise of just such a tax, and wasrntrounced by incumbent Paul Keating.rnTo Kim Beazley, who has led the LaborrnParty since Mr. Keating’s landslide defeatrnin March 1996, the Howard-Costellornfixation upon conjuring up extra taxesrnwas a godsend. Not that Mr. Beazley’srnteam had a conspicuous alternative onrndisplay; but then the Vision Thing’s...

winning the next election in 2001, OnernNation retains the status it had beforernOctober 3: as the only parliamentary vehiclernleft for mobilizing Middle AustralianrnRadicals, hi this respect, the recentrnpoll changed nothing. Thoserncommentators who imagine that OnernNation without Mrs. Hanson will resemblerna headless chicken fail to comprehendrnthe simple statistic which drove thernEconomist, in its October 10-16 issue,...

would have resulted, under normal circumstances,rnin a crushing defeat of thernchallenger.rnKohl’s political legacy appears minor.rnGeorge Bush, not Kohl, is the father ofrnGerman unification, and Bush succeededrndespite the opposition of Europeanrn”friends” like France and Britain. Fortunatelyrnfor Kohl, the dying Soviet Unionrnwas not strong enough to demand, as arnprice for her approval of German unification,rnGerman termination of...

“Be as good as you like, but let’s not havernany more of this saints stuff’), referring tornthe well-documented story that Pope Urbanrnmade the family foot the bill for historicalrnresearch into the life and miraclesrnof their beatified ancestor, an idler,rndrunkard, wencher, and gambler whornbecame a Carmelite monk and laterrnbishop of Fiesole. Which is already prettyrnmiraculous, if...

said: “There is something wrongrnwith my toothbrush. It didn’t foamrnthis morning.” It was then establishedrnthat he was travelHng withoutrnhis valet who always put therntoothpaste on the brush for him. Itrnseems that he was unaware thatrnthis is what caused the foam in hisrnmouth.rnI rest my case. I do not think there’srnanybody in England—including the oldestrnretainers in...

of social injustices and frustratingrncircumstances, and the inevitabilityrnof old age, sickness, and death.rnThe most compelling chapter in Howe’srnlife, and Alexander’s most successful expositions,rnconcern Howe as literary critic.rn(Calling distinctively and emblematicallyrnJewish the perfectly universalrnhuman concerns Ozick lists, however,rnmay have puzzled Dickens, Tolstoy, andrnEliot.)rnBut Howe defined for himself a Jewishrnidentity as well. It had two components:rndevofion to...

VITAL SIGNSrnJOURNALISMrnPersecutionsrnby Philip JenkinsrnIdon’t know if I was more shocked byrnthe article itself, or by where it appeared.rnThough I have heard the argumentrnthat gay advocates vastly overstaternthe prevalence of hate crimes in order tornsupport a far-reaching political agenda,rnwho would have thought that such arncoldly skeptical demolition of their caserncould have appeared in the ultra-liberalrnNew York...

Blood Cries Out by Paul Marshall andrnLela Gilbert or in Nina Shea’s In thernLion’s Den.) Instead, Goodstein chosernto quote former sufferers now on the lecturerncircuit, with the implication thatrntheir spectacular accounts were overadornedrnin order to appeal to the gangsrnof ignorant yahoos she imagines fillingrnchurches across America. It takes a seriousrnprofessional journalist to achievernthat level of...

civilian rule until 1971, when it becamerna one-partv state. It is the largest countryrnin Africa, and racial and ethnic tensionsrnhave weakened the already poor economyrnand created poor health conditions.rnAlthough Islam is the dominant religion,rnrecent statistics indicate a growing populationrn(currently 20 percent) of Sudanesernwho claim to be Christian.rnThrough dress codes, required studyrnof the Koran, and educational...

EDUCATIONrnThe Successrnof DirectrnInstructionrnby Marian Kester CoombsrnWhat if the federal governmentrnspent a billion tax dollars overrnnearly three decades to study thoroughlyrnthe question of which teaching methodrnbest instills knowledge, sharpens cognitivernskills, and enhances self-esteem inrnyoung children? And what if such arnstudy were able to determine exactlyrnwhich method best accomplishes allrnthree? Would American parents like tornknow about it?rnThe...

GUNSrnRemember PearlrnHarborrnby David B. KopelrnUnder the auspices of the UnitedrnNations, no nation is workingrnharder to disarm American citizens thanrnis Japan. With help from Canada andrnColombia, Japan is the main enginernpushing the United Nations to promotern”small arms” controls which would obliteraternthe Second Amendment.rnThere are three problems with Japan’srneffort. First, it is a form of cultural imperialism,rnwhich...

SECOND PRINTINGrnTHE POLITICS OF BAD FAITHrnTHE RADICAL ASSAULT ON AMERICA’S FUTURErnBY DAVID H0B0WIT2rnThis elegant, insightful work ought to bernwidely read as a necessary corrective to thernmost dangerous moral disease of our times.rn—Robert BorkrnDavid Horowitz has written a passionate andrninsightful book that moves seamlessly betweenrnincisive critiques of the cultural Left and his ownrnpersonal experiences as part...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnNeoenvironmentalismrnThe environmentalist movement, asrnusual, is one theoretical jump ahead ofrnthe practical results produced by its previousrnlevel of ideological developmentresultsrnit now deplores and blames onrnthe enemy. After arson destroyed threernbuildings and damaged four ski lifts onrnVail Mountain in Colorado last October,rnEarth Liberation Front took the creditrnfor destroying more than $12 million...

beyond crony and the model for SeldomrnSeen Smith in The Monkey WrenchrnGang, was quoted as saying recently,rn”through industrial tourism than all thernmining, logging and ranching combined.”rn(Sleight, as a wilderness outfitterrnoperating in the slick-rock country ofrnsoutheastern Utah, is a part of the touristrnindustry himself, though he representsrnits simpler, gentler, pre-modern stage.)rnThe effects he has in mind...

Classic Works for Readers TodayrnTHE PURSUIT OF CERTAINTYrnDavid Hume, Jeremy Bentham,rnJohn Stuart Mill, Beatrice WebbrnBy Shirley Robin LetwinrnBy examining the thought of four seminal thinkers, Shirley RobinrnLetwin in The Pursuit of Certainly provides a brilliant recordrnof the gradual change in the English-speaking peoples’ understandingrnof “what sort of activity politics is.” As Letwin writes, “therndistinctive political...

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”^”1^ T ations cannot be invented, but even authentic nations, inrnI^Ll asserting their identities, often rely on myths and downrightrn.JL. m lies. Up to a point such myths are harmless and exercise a positiverninfltience. But nationalist myths...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnSKNIOR EDI TOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, jr.rnMANAGINC; KDITORrnScott P. RichertrnART DIRKCTORrnAmia Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O.j. Brown, KatherinernDalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rnj.O. Tate, Michael Washburn,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, Donald Livingston,rnWilliam Murchison, William Milk,rnAndrei Navrozov, Jacob Neusner,rnSrdja TrifkovicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DohhsrnPUBLISHERrnThe Rockford InstituternPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy G. ReffettrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnCindy LinkrnA pLiblication of Tlie Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn92S North Main...

some scratch ‘n’ sniff form of the Christianrnfaith?'” But accreditation in Americarnis granted without reference to thernrehgious commitment of individual institutions.rnThe North Central Associationrnof Colleges and Schools, overseeingrnmore than 900 colleges and universitiesrnin 19 states, has no statement regardingrnan institution’s commitment to religiousrnvalues. The colleges themselves in associaHonrnhave developed the general criteriarnfor all schools. Individual...

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnELECTION DAY 1998 dawned as arnNovember morning out of WilliamrnCullen Bryant, with “piercing winterrnfrost, and winds, and darkened air.” Wernwalked to the firehall polling place, passingrnthe pioneer cemetery, burial groundrnof veterans of the Revolution, all thosernEbenezers and Ethans who cleared thernland and endured Valley Forge so thatrnwe could depress a lever for Al D’Amatornor...

administration will be imposed regardlessrnof the proceedings: Holbrooke doesrnnot go to Milosevic to “negotiate” but torndevise the precise mechanism for the applicationrnoinfait accompli. Last, but byrnno means least, Mr. Milosevic stays inrnpower in his ever-shrinking domain withrnthe tacit approval of his interlocutor,rnfreer than ever to deal with his domesticrndetractors (especially the remaining independentrnmedia) as he...

Those who had Hved some portions ofrntheir lives before the advent of the ColdrnWar and those of us who grew up inrnits closing throes seemed less likely tornget worked up by John Glenn’s “triumphant”rnreturn to space, and there’s arnreason: The space program screamsrn”Cold War boondoggle.” Its one justificationrnwas that the Soviets were doing it,rnand so...

tiian a month before Fitzgerald’s renunciation).rnSome of our friends are veryrnangry with Fitzgerald, but what did theyrnexpect of politicians? Although Moseley-rnBraun was regarded as doomed from thernbeginning, the amazing thing is thatrnFitzgerald’s cowardice and ineptitudernvery nearly snatched defeat out of thernjaws of victory.rnThird, there is The League of thernSouth, an organizahon of Southern writersrnand scholars...

PERSPECTIVErn. ^ WETHE^ ^ ^ Srn^^ ^sr J^wrnTurn to the Dark Sidernby Thomas FlemingrnAs members of the House of Representatives were movingrntoward impeachment hearings that should make Bill Clintonrn—whatever the outcome—one of the most infamous politiciansrnin American history, Republicans in both houses of Congressrndecided to give the President everything he was askingrnfor—more federally funded teachers...

“consen’ative.”rnIn the course of his article, the ex-British former editor of thernNew Republic names two groups: establishment Republicansrnlike Trent Lott, Kenneth Starr, and Representative Bob Inglis,rnand the usual second generation neoconservatives—Bill Kristol,rnDaid F”rum, and Mark Helprin. Is Mr. Sullivan seriouslyrnasking us to believe that these movement leaders actually arerncommitted to a set of idenhfiably conservative...

“Many unwed mothers are living with the consequences ofrntheir own bad judgment and immoral character, but supposernthe extreme case of a decent woman who is victimized by arnman that no one could have dreamed would be an}-thing but arnmodel husband. Even in that case, a morally responsible womanrnwould refuse to socialize her problem. This is...