The New Class is a term that was invented by Yugoslav writerrn(and former apparatchik) Milovan Djilas. It described thernbureaucrahc class which ruled and prospered under communismrnby taking state and “public” property for its own privaternuse. This concept—also known later as the nomenklatura—rnwas capable of more general application, and Irving Kristol,rnSeymour Martin Lipset, and other (generally...

eight-trillion dollar economy. But the fiscal loss to Americansrnfrom immigration ranges from about 5250 per family annuallyrnin New Jersey to well over $1,200 per average Californian family.rnAnd poor Americans are more likely to be economicallyrnhurt by immigration than are the rich.rnIt is not surprising, therefore, that mass immigration is an unpopularrnpolicy. Going back well over...

culturally assimilated and whose members would be eligiblernfor any immigration preference equally with other citizens.rnBut nationalist conservatives, especially those attracted byrnMr. Buchanan’s “America First” foreign policy, will be suspiciousrnthat a combination of NATO and TAFTA would be a potentiallyrnentangling alliance. They will want to know if such arnlong-term strategic commitment is in America’s interest—especiallyrnsince the...

Cowboy CapitalismrnLessons From the Asian Meltdownrnby Alfred E. EckesrnAs the Asian financial and currency crisis spun out of control,rnthe world glimpsed the dark side of the new internationalrneconomic order. It is highly efficient—linking globalrnmarkets for goods and money—but dangerously unstable andrnasymmetrical.rnFor speculators, traders, bankers, and tycoons, there are unlimitedrnopportunities to make money in the global...

It is no different in 1998. In February, Under Secretary ofrnState Stuart Eizenstat explained our “special responsibilities”rnto the Senate Finance Committee. Referring to the “burdens”rnof American leadership, he warned that “leadership is not divisible.rnWe cannot lead on critical security issues, or in openingrnmarkets, while abdicating the lead in the sometimes messyrnwork of maintaining the international...

peaceful and prosperous world based on the twin foundationsrnof free trade in money and goods, and mandatory dispute settlementrnmechanisms. These would bind nations together,rnmaking war impossible, while achieving the blessings of economicrnspecialization and growth. Run by professional lawyersrnand economists, the New World Order would be a Utopia benefitingrnmankind and promoting peace, growth, and prosperity.rnOr so...

OPINIONSrnBuchananism: Two OpinionsrnThe Great Betrayal: How American Sovereigntyrnand Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to thernGods of the Global Economyrnby Patrick J. BuchananrnNew York: Little, Brown;rn376 pp., $22.95rnFree Trade, Free Slavesrnby William R. HawkinsrnThe United States owes its origin tornthe trade wars of early modern Europernbut its success to the Industrial Revoluhon,rnwhich filled America with productive,rnlargely...

economies linked by government-regulatedrntrade is replaced . . . by an increasinglyrnintegrated global economy beyondrnthe reach of national regulation, powerrnchanges hands.” Unfortunately, the newrnhands care nothing about America.rnProduction networks, joint ventures,rnand other business alliances no longerrnparallel geopolitical alliances as theyrnonce did. A century ago, the French governmentrncould support its national firmsrnand investors in their development...

Sidney Blumenthal, BenitornMussolini, Matt Drudge, DavidrnBrock, Bill Clinton, JohnniernCochran, Monica Lewinsky, PatrnRobertson, Anita Hill, MichaelrnLind, Bill Gates, Huey Newton,rnNewt Gingrich, Philip Roth . . .rn$11.95 160 pp.rnREAD ABOUT THEM IN DAVID HOROWITZ’S NEWrnCOLLECTION FROM THE CULTURAL WAR ZONE.rnTo order call (800) 752-6562 ext. 209 or go to www.frontpagemag.comrnA magazine of the netrnFRONTPAGErnEdited by Peter Collier...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnWhose Modernity?rnWhen Pat Buchanan’s new book, ThernGreat Betrayal, appeared in April, thernhsteria that greeted it was entirely predictable.rnNot only does Mr, Buchananrnchallenge the free trade orthodoxy that isrndominant among economists and policymakersrnin both political parties, but hernalso makes clear that the economic nationalismrnhe champions is only a part ofrna much deeper...

today.”rnBut nowhere in his book does Mr.rnBuchanan support the labor union hierarchyrnthat Mr. Bartley so fears. What herndoes support are the interests of Americanrnworkers (which the unions sometimesrnmake noises about representing)rnagainst those of both foreign competitorsrnand domestic free trade ideologues andrnthe corporate elites, foreign and domestic,rnthat sponsor them. The distinctionrnbetween supporting unions and supportingrnthe interests...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Polandrnby Jacek KoronackirnOn N A T O ExpansionrnThe expansion of NATO has been hotlyrndebated by American conservatives. As arnconservative Catholic Pole living inrnPoland, I am obviously interested in thisrndebate, not least because Poland andrnAmerica are part of the same civilization.rnAny matter of importance to either nationrnhas to be seen within a wider contextrnof...

several seats. Unfortunately, all the effortrnwas of no use, faced with the public’srnrestlessness, Labour’s professionalism,rnthe aura of “sleaziness” hanging over thernparty, and Mr. Major’s own irredeemablerndullness. Hundreds of thousandsrnof life-long Conservative activistsrnreluctandy deserted the party, fed up finallyrnwith the consistent refusal of the hierarchyrnto do something about crime,rnEurope, the welfare state, immigration,rnpolitical correctness, etc., and...

priced our community life out of thernmarket of ordinary Jews; we also have imposedrnupon ourselves the dictatorship ofrnwealth. We have built costly institutionsrnof religion and culture. We have undertakenrnhuge fiscal responsibilities to worldrnJewry and especially to the state of Israel,rnand we have therefore defined ourselvesrnas financiers of world Judaism. Heavy financialrncommitments to overseas causesrnis natural...

made these Jewish vices too. But thernsame traits stand also for our distinctivelyrnAmerican (and particularly Jewish)rnvirtues, the ones that we have learned inrnthe American context. Our vices andrntheir counterpart virtues—generosity, efficiency,rnpracticality, initiative, organizationalrneffectiveness—define how we arernboth American and Jewish. We are thernJewish species of the American genus,rnJewish Americans, much more than wernare the American species...

banks of the Thames! May I book yournthe journey?rnItaHans respect intellectuals, providedrnthey can afford the wine. Their respect,rnwhich is truly continental, is the sort ofrnthing that is endlessly described inrnNabokov’s emigre stories of Paris andrnBerlin: it is essentially the homage paidrnby an innkeeper to a guest whose eccentricrnways are both valuable subjects of localrngossip and...

VITAL SIGNSrnMILITARYrnEnemies Foreignrnand Domesticrnby William J. CorlissrnAcynic once observed that in times ofrnpeace nations make war on themselves.rnNowhere is this phenomenonrnmore manifest than in the United Statesrnmihtary, where the onslaught of politicalrncorrectness has resulted in the lowestrnmorale in memory. As American ArmedrnForces recently geared up for anotherrnengagement with Iraq, a troubling consensusrnarose among officers in...

Officers like the one on Nightlinernhave a lot more to fear than fear itself Inrnthe opening section of Department ofrnDefense Instruction No. 1320.4, whichrnredefined the necessary components ofrnofficer promotion packages in the wakernof the Tailhook scandal, we encounterrnDefinition 2:rnAlleged Adverse Information. Anyrnallegation of conflict of interest,rnfailure to adhere to required standardsrnof conduct, abuse of authority,rnmisconduct...

FOREIGN POLICYrnfocusing on the value of retirement an- 1rnLest We Forgetrnthe Evil Empirernby Charles Maurice andrnSvetozar PejovichrnAs long as the Soviet Union existed,rnvoices were heard in the UnitedrnStates favoring peaceful co-existencernwith the socialist bloc, pushing for unilateralrnreduction in the country’s defensernexpenditures, and protesting the developmentrnof nuclear weapons. Some ofrnthose voices were well-meaning andrnnaive, while others...

and spoke.rnComrades, this is the greatest dayrnin the history of our nation. It isrnthe day when the working peoplernof this country have finally beenrnable to throw off the chains of oppressionrnforged by the capitalistrnclass. I am proud to tell you that asrnof today, instead of the UnitedrnStates of America, we have a countryrnthat we can...

It is important that everyone joinsrnthe parade tonight. You must allrnlaugh, smile, and show how happyrnyou are that after more than 200rnyears of capitalist exploitation inrnAmerica, you have your own country,rnyour own government. Yournare the government. Wives andrnchildren will march also. We mustrnshow to the world we are united;rnwe are all enjoying the happinessrnof the...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, ]r.rnThe Wind ListethrnSome say the world will end in fire, somernsay in ice. Speaking fi-om experience,rnrather than poetic Irenzy, I say both. Thernspring winds blowing white at home inrnWyoming blow red down here in NewrnMexico, a howling gale that seems to bernreturning to the Dustbowl the errant Oklahoma,rnKansas, and Texas...

wallet and looked into it: three ones, arnten, a couple of twenties. Of course hernhad no change. I drew out the singlesrnand showed him them.rn”Cuatro dolares, senor. Uno masl”rnIn among some bank receipts I spottedrna five dollar bill. I drew it out and gave itrnto the man.rn”Seis dolares, sefiorl”rn”No-o-o-o-o.”rnHe took the money from me and...

jhw ?7Ite^>/fih fflnni/a^lbA G^/j Comes to DallasrnAmerica—llie real America—is menaced at home and abroad b) now oriijlrnforces that threaten to destroy the last vestiges of what used to be calledrn”the American way of life.” But some Americans are fighting back—rnto restore the national identity, return government to the people, and reviverneducational, cultural, and military institutions....

A Classic Work on America’s Foundingrn•sSiSS*:-^rn.W,rn4 ^rn^ J t .rn• I.-: ‘ 1 .rn• • 1, ^ I •; ::;i^rn^ ^ 7 1rnTHE LAMP or EXPERIENCErnWHIG HISTORY AND THE INTELLECTUALrnORIGINS OF THE AMERICANrnREVOLUTIONrnBy Trevor Col bournrn”. . . a joy to read.”rn—Lucius F. EllsworthrnIn a landmark work, a leading scholar of therneighteenth century examines the...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, Jr.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnScott P. RichertrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O.]. Brown, KatherinernDalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rnJ.O. Tate, Michael Washburn,rnGlyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, William Mills,rnJacob Neusner, Srdja TrifkovicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobhsrnPUBLISHERrnThe Rockford InstituternPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnCindy LinkrnA publicahon of The Rockford Institute,rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn928 North Main Street, Rockford, IL...

ously called a “Marxist specimen” and arn”second Goebbels”) entertained me withrnsimilar ideas of world unification. (Callrnit “globalization” if you wish.) And howrnabout New Age, or the Reverend Moon’srnmass wedding across the planet?rnSrdja Trifkovic mentioned in thernMarch issue that communism was not arnsnowy import from the Russian steppes,rnbut a pure European product, containingrnverities and falsehoods, intellectualrnerrors,...

what Billy Bob Thornton is really up to isrnfound in Dr. Wilson’s piece; the eventsrnupon which Sling Blade is based tookrnplace in Northern California. The reasonrnthe movie is set and filmed in Bentonrn(Saline County) Arkansas is notrnbecause audiences can’t believe in non-rnSouthern accented retarded murderers,rnbut because Hollywood is ever vigilant inrnits zealous quest to demonize...

more concern for the welfare of its peoplernthan he has for the happiness of thernwomen he invites into his office.rn—Thomas Flemingrn”REMEMBER JONESBORO ” isrnthe latest rallying cry of the “If it can happenrnhere, it can happen anywhere”rncrowd. In one sense, of course, they’rernobviously correct: no town is immune tornthe evil influences that convince an 11-rnyear-old...

mother of all case-management tests.rnStaffed and planned by a “who’s who” ofrnsocial work, “it is the largest test of therncurrently popular model of case management.”rn^^nd it came at the highest price:rn”the total cost of CCDP averagedrn$15,768 per family per year… or aboutrn$47,000 for each family in the evaluation,rngiven an average length of participationrnof more than...

against fast-track approval of future traderntreaties, Gephardt has switched colorsrnagain: in a speech to the Council on ForeignrnRelations in March, Gephardt arguedrnthat he was “misunderstood andrnmisrepresented” as an isolationist and arnprotectionist. According to the New YorkrnTimes, he assured the G F R that he is arn”progressive internationalist,” and thatrnhe supports the Clinton administration’srnrequest for $18...

sense of justice and integrity has been misinterpreted as proofrnthat she is a QuisHng who would betray her country to the UnitedrnStates.rnKosovo is, for the moment, an even more serious question.rnWe saw last year what Albanians can do to each other if they arernallowed to go on a rampage (to say nothing of the crime...

and construct a multi-ethnic Bosnia, now insist upon a visa forrnforeign travelers entering the Republika Srpska from Yugoslavia.rnLike most of the Republika Srpska (RS), Banja Lukarnis swollen with refugees, and the cit has 70 percent unemployment.rnStreets at mid-day are thronged by able-bodied men ofrnall ages, who ought to be at work.rnRonald Hatchett, President Plavsic, 1...

which he compares Robert E. Lee with Prince Lazar (therndoomed hero of Kosovo) and the tragic leader of Chetnik resistancernin World War II, Draza Mihajlovic.rnMontenegro is a strange paradox, an all or nothing landrnwhere atheist communists fought with religious zeal against thernchurch, and yet today the Orthodox metropolitan archbishoprnmay be the most widely respected man...

VIEWSrnThe New American CenturyrnSearching for Foes in the Post-Cold War Erarnby Doug BandowrnDespite the President’s and Congress’s promises, the budgetrnis unlikely to be balanced in the year 2002. The bulkrnof the promised spending cuts come after the year 2000, and ftiturernCongresses and Presidents are unlikely to be any morernwilling than present ones to make tough...

lion. Groups like the Heritage Foundation are only slightly lessrnextreme; the latter proposes a hike of $20 to $25 billion a year.rnHouse Speaker Newt Gingrich has proposed no specific number,rnbut recently urged the Budget Committee to increase thernmilitary’s budget significantly. According to Gingrich, “Wernhave lived off the Reagan buildup about as long as we can....

you name it. There are many different forces of instabilit)’ inrnthe southern region.” Naturally, he believes Washington mustrnintervene, explaining that “I can think of no foreign theaterrnmore critical for the L’nited States. We ha’e to stav engaged,rnwith a robu.st force and the polihcal will to use it.” hideed, hernadvocates “engagement across the line,” since that...

all sorts of faraway, irrelevant conflicts.rnThe case for maintaining 100,000 soldiers in East Asia isrnequally dubious. South Korea has 24 times the GDP and twicernthe population of North Korea. The former is a dominant tradingrnnation, produces a wealth of hi-tech products, and hasrnstolen awa}’ almost all of its adversaries’ allies. The latter is impoverished,rnisolated, and...

Moreover, non-intervention ofiFers the surest method to containrnsuch conflicts. Alhances proved to be transmission belts of warrnin World War I, drawing ever more peripheral powers into arnconflict that proved disastrous for every one of them, hi contrast,rnthe same nahons erected firebreaks to war when fightingrnbroke out in Yugoslavia in 1991. Thus, the conflict burnedrnlonger than...

in the domestic sphere, we see in Bill Clinton’s gleeful projeetionrnof a non-European ethnic majority’ in the next century,rnAmerica as a scene out oi Blade Ri/nner—dominates our relationsrnabroad as well. Our anh-nahonal, pseudo-intellectualrnelites are not content just with destroying the American nation;rnthey want to eliminate everybody else’s national identity too.rnThe budding totalitarianism inherent in the...

are hyphenated are not as unambiguously “American” as tliosernwho have no other ethnic identity.rnhi general, nations are built in part through the suppressionrnor absorption of competing national, regional, tribal, or religiousrnidentities. The relatively late unifications of Germanyrnand Italy illustrate the extent to which the result is sometimesrnlittle more than a set of conventions. For example,...

language has long since become more a question of politicsrnthan of linguistics. In the Soviet Union, the idea of “Ukrainian”rn(and, even more absurdly, “Byelorussian”) language andrnnationality was first encouraged because it was useful to Leninrnand company to break up the Russian nation; and then, at thernappropriate time, the parts were beaten into conformity withrnthe artificial...

tensifies, and threatens to boil over into a general Mideast conflagration,rnit is fair to ask; Who is reallv endangering “the securit)-‘rnof all the rest of us”?rnThe idea that the Iraqis “have the capacity’ to hit Tel Avi'”rnwith chemical, biological, or even nuclear weapons, irresponsiblvrntouted by U.N. disarmament overlord Richard Butler in arnspeech to a gathering...

dam as “worse than Hitler,” as George Bush put it, has obscuredrnAmerica’s tilt toward Iran, now formalized by Iranianrnovertures and a warm, albeit cautious, American response.rnWhile American complicity in Iran’s shipments of arms tornBosnian Muslims is well known, the arms-length embrace ofrnthe Iranian mullahs by the Clinton administration makes thisrnalliance semi-oflFicial.rnIf Bill Kristol were to...

had raised the stakes of the intra-ohgarchy clan feuds. True, assassinationrnof lower-level “businessmen” or nosy journalists hasrnbecome common enough —the spate of contract killings ofrnMoscow “businessmen” in the last few years testifies to the ruthlessnessrnof the Russian “sharks of capital” —but none wantsrnopen warfare. More worrisome was the murder last fall of St.rnPetersburg privatization chief...

identified as the family’s confidant and advisor (Berezovsky isrnwidely believed to be building a nice nest egg for the Yeltsins,rnprobably by investing recycled state funds in foreign banks andrnbusiness enterprises via Yeltsin’s son-in-law, who heads the airlinernAeroflot), but also, tellingly, as an inorodets, an alien, arnmuch stronger word than inostranets, foreigner. In thernMoskovsky Komsomolets satire,...

and Yavlinsky, long hampered by a policy-wonk image, appearsrnto be gaining some ground as well. Moscow is rife with rumorsrnof a Lebed-Yavlinsky alliance, and Nemtsov’s long associationrnwith Yavlinsky appears to make him a possible coalition partner,rnthough the trio’s personal ambitions make the formation ofrnsuch an alliance problematic. A populist alliance, of course,rnwould be the oligarchy’s...

fill their desires. This might be primarily the case for domesticrnaffairs, but it also concerns foreign policy. Here we have to bearrnin mind that by 1910 practically all of Europe had constitufionalrnmonarchies and only a few republics, but in any case, thernparliaments held the purse strings. History might have followedrna totally different course if the...

great mentor, Ludwig von Mises, thatrneconomics is but a branch of praxeologyrn(the study of human action), which alsornincludes psychology, history, ethics,rnpolitical economy, and all the socialrn(or “soft”) sciences. Whatever editorrnthought such a project could be shoehornedrninto a few hundred pages had nornunderstanding of Austrian economics—rnor of Rothbard. However frustrating itrnmight have been for Rothbard, this...

of ethics, insisting instead on divine revelationrnas the only path to truth. “If reasonrncannot be used to frame an ethic,” writesrnRothbard, “this means that Luther andrnCalvin had to, in essence, throw out naturalrnlaw, and in doing so, they jettisonedrnthe basic criteria developed over the centuriesrnby which to criticize the despoticrnactions of the state.” Anyone else...