This Phoenix, Arizona, couple with arnsmall child bring home about $30,000rnper year. Yet they could not afford to buvrnChristmas presents this year.rnNow, not putting more cash into somernmerchant’s pockets is no great loss. Butrnkeeping a young family constantly on arntreadmill without a respite is an Americanrntragedy of the 1990’s. Especiallyrnwhen, as if adding insult to...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnWhat Do EnvironmentalistsrnWant?rnIn a world filled with perplexity, inscrutability,rnand conundrum, two majorrnmysteries at least are not unfathomable.rnWliat do women want? The answer hasrnhad human beings stumped from therntime of the origin of species, yet the answerrnis perfectly plain: they don’t know.rnThe question of what environmentalistsrnwant is of more recent vintage,...

to the President’s policy of favoring therntourism and recreation industries at thernexpense of mining, timber, and agriculture.rnIn January, the administration announcedrnan 18-month moratorium onrnroadbuilding into 30 million acres of federallyrnowned land, while a bipartisan billrnrecently introduced in the House of Representativesrnwould end all timber salesrnand logging operations in the nationalrnforests. Michael Dombeck, the ForestrnService chief,...

A Classic Work on America’s FoundingrnFRIENDS OF THE CONSTITUTIONrnWRITINGS OF THE “OTHER” FEDERALISTS, 1 7 8 7 – 1 7 8 8rnEdited by Colleen A. Sheehan and Gary L. McDowellrnThough The Federalist Papers are rightly renowned irs arnprimary exposition of the principles and purposes of llicrnproposed United States Constitution, there wen- man> writersrnother than John...

Buy it, read it, send it to a brother orrnsister in the catacombs.” – – Pat BuchananrnLeading Catholic laymenrnand priests are takingrnnotice of a new magazine:rn* “The best publication available today, bar none. You findrnyourself saying to people,’did vou see the article on that inrnThe Latin Mass?’ It covers not onlv the Mass and what’srnbeing...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, Jr.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnScott P. RichertrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O.J. Brown, KatherinernDalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rnJ.O. Tate, Michael Washburn,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBUI Kauffman, William Mills,rnJacob Neusner, Momcilo SelicrnEDITORIAL SECREIARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnThe Rockford InstituternPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnCindy LinkrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn928 Norlh Main Street, Rockford, IE...

Dr. Hill Replies:rnMr. Walsh’s contention that “There is nornCeltic world left” is true in the sense thatrnthe scourge of modernit’ has left its markrnon all traditional cultures throughout thernWestern world. Certainly Ireland, Scotland,rnand Wales are no exceptions to thisrndishirbing trend. However, the point ofrnmv article was not to argue for the existencernof a pristine Celtic...

classified jobholder, planner, and coordinatorrnin various corners of the federalrngovernment—including the WhiternHouse, where she worked in the WestrnWing’s counsel office, the so-calledrnScandal Room. Evidence of conspiracvrnis more plausibly sought in Mrs. Clinton’srnrole, and that of her legal team, inrnbuying Webster Hubbell’s silence, hidingrnhis Rose Law Firm papers, persuadingrnIra Magaziner to misrepresent therncomposition of the health...

velcome massive immigration as a boonrnto the local economy.rnOn January 14, Congress ended a pilotrnprogram established under a provisionrnknown as 245(1), which gave “undocumented”rnaliens the right to stay inrnthe country legally while their applicadonsrnfor citizenship were under review,rnthough it also imposed a $1,000 fine.rnOver the opposition of RepresentativernDana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Congressrnhad repeatedly extended the program,rnbowing...

“murder” when quoting the Sixth Commandment.rnThis material difference hasrnbeen lost not only on Hollywood —inrnsuch anti-death penalty films as ThernChamber—hut on Pop Christians asrnwell.rnPick-ax murderers forfeit their right tornlive when they obliterate the lives of theirrnvictims. While this woman may havernfound Christ’s love and humbly submittedrnher soul to His will, as things standrnnow, there is...

ementary schools — Haskell School —rnhas been placed on the Illinois state academicrnwatch list. That was all that somernRockford educrats needed to revivernone of their pet programs—year-roundrnschooling. The principal of Haskell hadrntried to impose year-round schooling onrna predominantly white, middle-classrnschool in Rockford’s pre-busing days andrnfailed, due to overwhelming oppositionrnby parents. So she took her entire...

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bad name. Timoleon (a contemporary of Aristoxenus, who wasrnhimself a South Itahan Greek) tried to restore the greatness ofrnSyracuse and the other Greek cities of Sicily by defending themrnfrom the child-murdering Carthaginians, suppressing thernt)Tants, and replacing the multiethnic mob with authenticrnGreek settlers, but the task was too much even for Timoleon,rnand Sicily gradually dehellenized.rnThe problem...

as well as to the French settlers who came straight to New Orleans,rnbut the French story is lost in the welter of diversity. NewrnOrleans, it seems, is just like Brooklyn or Berkeley, a multiculturalrnparadise.rnAs I looked at the section devoted to the Civil War, I beganrnto wonder if anyone from Louisiana could possibly be involved.rnBeast...

hollowness of the artificial Americanism that first suppressedrnthe authentic European cultures that had held on in this AmericanrnHesperia—French and German, Southern and Midwesternrn—and now is attempting to turn the United States into a PacificrnRim economy with a black and Mexican underclass, arnnightmare Erehwon, in which we are free to take drugs, molestrnchildren, and kill ourselves...

quickly in the United States, that it is somehmes built upon therntrampling of the past, but the young man that I was in 1949 rememberedrndeep in his heart that all of these Western lands—rnfrom New Orleans to the source of the Missouri and the RockyrnMountains, where some of the Indian nations of Montana stillrnbear French...

Could we, in reality, have done otherwise? Could I, as a novelist,rnhave done otherwise? I drew no conclusions from this story.rnIt was not my role. I had the idea for this book one day at myrnhome in the south of France, one early morning when I wasrncontemplating the sea. I said to myself and what...

450 Quebec residents were arrested and imprisoned withoutrncharge. The next day the kidnapped Quebec pohtician wasrnmurdered by a “cell” of the FLQ. The murderers were laterrngiven passage to Cuba. Of the 450 Quebecers originally imprisoned,rnfewer than 20 were convicted, and most of thosernpleaded guilty to reduced charges.rnn n h e regional minority’s preoccu-rn1 pation with...

ception of the Canadian public, the statist tradition of the regionalrnminority anchored in Quebec had been imposed on thernwhole of Canada—and Quebec refused to sign it, because it invadedrnthe province’s exclusive powers.rnThroughout this sad tale the emphasis has been on changingrnCanada to accommodate malcontents in Quebec.rnCanadians’ politeness and generosity incline them to swallowrnthe myths of...

Mary Hitchens notes in our family history, History and Recollections:rn]acob Richert, 1814-1901, that “the German servicesrncontinued and confirmation services were also held in Germanrnuntil 1917, when they were discontinued due to the sentimentrnreflected by World War I.” While conforming to an Anglo-rnAmerican political culture —indeed, while regarding themselvesrnas “good Americans”—my family also clung to their...

be Hispanic or black, and as many as 75 percent can be white.rnBut according to the web site, “Instruction at the kindergartenrnlevel will be mostly in Spanish (90% of the time). As a studentrnprogresses through the grade levels, the amount of instructionalrntime in Spanish and English will equal 50/50.” The purposernof the two-way language immersion...

Three Poems by Wendell BerryrnPolitical CorrectionrnWith respect to our sins, we hoped for a whilernThat our friends at least would be noncommittal.rnNow we insist on a public frialrnRigged for acquittal.rnBurley Coulter’s Song For Kate Helen BranchrnA National ReligionrnChristianity without sacrifice,rnResurrection without crucifixion:rnBelieve! —and leave poor charity to the poor.rnHeaven unending, exclusive, and nice,rnIs open for...

not recognize the legitimacy of neutralit)’,rnis fundamentally incompatible with arnforeign policy dedicated to peaceful interactionrnwith all nations.rnRothbard demonstrates that today’s interventionistrnmoralism is a perversion ofrna natural law tradition that once operatedrnin the interest of peace. In contrast tornthe “isolationist” insult flung at modernrncritics of American wars, the early classicalrnliberal Richard Cobden, who advocatedrnfree trade, peace,...

two years in a TB sanatorium at SaranacrnLake, New York, where he had httle torndo but read and think. Putting aside hisrnmedical books, Percy turned to philosophyrnand literature; according to ShelbyrnFoote (who visited him there), “Walkerrnwas holding on to those books for dearrnlife.” While his greatest influence fromrnthis time was Kierkegaard, Percy alsornread Heidegger, Marcel,...

pedestrian writing bespeaks a superficialrnunderstanding. How, for example, doesrnthe notion that “his casual dress reflectedrnhis inner spirit and put people at ease”rnsquare with the fact that Percy was intenselyrnshy, and what is a “casual” innerrnspirit anyway? Finally, the biographer’srnuse of the too familiar “Walker” throughout,rnthough a minor flaw, is an indicativernone.rnThe best that can be...

Modern Editions of Classic Worksrnfor Today’s Readersrn• AMLlil^-”^^ ,1rn|Pc,licic.ilV(^riti”g..rnI i^/ii’H’s”- IrnFounding Tsrarn1760-180^rn’ i j O N M l ‘ ^ – ^rnAMERICAN POLITICAL WRITING DURINGrnTHE FOUNDING ERA: 1760-1805 J?KrnIn TVo Volumes ‘•}rnEdited by Charles S. Hyneman and Donald S. Lutz ‘ :.rnThese volumes provide a selection of seventy-six essays, -‘:rnpamphlets, speeches, and letters to newspapers...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnThe Other Face ofrnMulticulturahsmrn”The values of the weak prevail,” wroternFriedrich Nietzsche, “because the strongrnhave taken them over as devices of leadership.”rnThis brief and rather crvqatic remarkrncontains virtually all we need tornknow about why contemporary movementsrnlike multiculturahsm, feminism,rnhomosexualism, and anh-white racismrnare such powerful trends in modernrnAmerican and other Western sociehes.rnIt is easy...

lied on informal mechanisms of exclusionrnand repression to control deviationsrnfrom its norms and to enforce its ownrnidentity, and those informal mechanismsrnare located primarily in what we think ofrnas the “culture.” What the multiculturalistsrncall “xenophobia” (the restrictionrnof membership in American society tornpeople who are culturally identifiable asrnAmericans), “discrimination” (the exclusionrnof certain groups from certain kindsrnof participation...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Venicernby Curtis CaternIllusion and Reality,rnThen and NowrnYears ago—so long ago indeed that I hesitaternto record the date—a wise lady ofrnHungarian origin said to me in Vienna:rn”Oh, to be able to see Venice again forrnthe first time!” It was one of those casualrnremarks which, behind the smiling maskrnof a truism, reveals a hidden, monitoryrndepth.rnContrary...

shot disk the sculpted fretwork ofrndomes and terraces was magnificentlyrnsilhouetted. Slowly, as itrnrose through its shredded bank ofrncloud, the disk shrank and silvered,rnuntil the cornices of the DucalrnPalace and the cupolas of SanrnMarco shone like pieces ofrnalabaster.rnRecently, when a friend generously offeredrnmy wife and myself a second trip tornVenice, I knew in advance that it...

Wishing to see if the pensione still existed,rnI set out one morning from the PiazzarnSan Marco, where, as usual, fatuouslyrnsmiling tourists were havingrnthemselves photographed with hopefulrnpigeons perched on their arms, shoulders,rnand even heads —it does not takernmuch, in this peanut-producing age, tornmake of one an ersatz Francis of Assisi —rnand headed for the Riva degli...

to ripen and mature. Instant tourism,rnthey lightheartedly assume, is a massrnrecipe for instant happiness, or at anyrnrate contentment. But one may wellrnwonder if what it really manufactures isrnnot ersatz entertainment, the illusion ofrnhappiness, and, when all is said andrndone, one more blase form of individualrnor collective boredom.rnLet no one think that I am here indulgingrnin...

modify certain aspects of liberalism tornform the anti-fascist version, or in otherrnwords, to turn a free democracy intornwhat J.L. Talmon has called “totalitarianrndemocracy.” The essential feature ofrnsuch a system is the prohibition of anyrn”opposition to democracy.” To do this,rn”democracy” must be transformed into arnpolitical religion, which indeed has happenedrnthroughout the Western world.rnThe final chapter in...

has not been branded “extremist” andrn”radical” by the political and media elite.rnThe most famous such party is the Republikanerrnof the state of Baden-Wiirttemberg,rnwhere it constitutes the majorrnopposition to a coalition governmentrnof Christian and Social Democrats. Arngovernment agent has even created arnneo-Nazi group to infiltrate the party torninstigate “neo-Nazi” activities, acts ofrn”extremism” which the governmentrncould later...

VITAL SIGNSrnREGIONALISMrnThe Cajuns ofrnLouisianarnby Roger L. BusbicernIn the 1980’s, “Cajun” suddenly becamern”cool.” From rotund Chef PaulrnPrudhomme and high-rolling LouisianarnGovernor Edwin Edwards to the musicrnof Beausoleil and “blackened” redfish,rnanyone and anything associated with thernremnants of French culture along thernGulf Coast was “in.” The nation eagerlyrnembraced the battle-cry of the Gajun:rn”Let the good times roll!” In the...

am not at all sentimental by temperament,rnyet I cannot avoid the tears whenrnmy husband reads to our children in Englishrnthe last verses of Longfellow’s poem,rnthe part where the lovers are finally,rnafter years and years, united.rnThe blindness of the English in Canada,rnwho complain of the cost of governingrnthe country in French and Englishrnwithout ever noticing the...

tive states, the National Center forrnHealth Statistics still did not compile anyrncorresponding national statistics.rnDuring those 11 years, Hispanic immigrationrncontinued unabated. Betweenrn1981 and 1992, of the more thanrnten million immigrants who were admittedrnto the United States, over four and arnhalf million came from Latin America.rnThese included both legal immigrantsrnand illegal aliens granted amnesty underrnthe 1986 Immigration...

pie have earned a lot of money contractingrnto develop this thing, and thenrnthrough that same money source theyrnrun it through the government. Andrnwhen you have that kind of resource behindrnyou” —$5.6 billion —”you can buyrnyour way into a lot of places.”rnKatherine Dalton writes from HenryrnCounty, Kentucky. This article is basedrnon a J 997 interview with...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, ]r.rnChristmas in JulyrnThe crickets which stopped singing atrnThanksgiving have come inside at last,rnalong with the spiders and an occasionalrnskink. The leaves dropped from thernpecan trees around the beginning of December,rnand crevs are at work in the orchardsrnbeside the Rio Grande gatheringrnthe nuts. The bermuda grass is brown inrnthe backyard, and...

the trail gave out at last we left the rig inrnthe wash and continued horseback intornthe hills.rnBrown and tentlike, grouped in arnvaguely circular formation, the DofiarnAna Mountains arose from the desertrnlike an Indian camp. The ground wasrnstony underfoot, and I let the barefootrnhorse find his own way, so long as it wasrnuphill, over the steep...

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” ‘ ” ?rn’- -4: ‘%-•:rnEurope at BayrnOvercoming the Schism: European Divisionsrnand U.S. PolicyrnA Joint Conference of The Rockford las^tatdChronicles andrnthe Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan StudiesrnMAY 8-10,1998rnTHE RAMADA CONGRESS HOTELrn520 SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUErnCHICAGO, IL 60605rnLyun European unity be restored, or must the Cold Warrn-_. division of Europe persist?rnAlow do Orthodox and Western Christian interests...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnScott P. RichertrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O.J. Brown, KatherinernDalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rn].0. Tate, Michael Washburn,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, William Mills,rnJacob Neusner, Momcilo SelicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnThe Rockford InstituternPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnCindy LinkrnA publication of I’he Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn928 North Main Street, Rockford, 11....

modern notion restricted to the welfarewarfarernstate.rnRaimondo also is mistaken when hernassumes that it is only the American governmentrnbut never “the American people”rnwhich fancies foreign entanglements.rnMost wars that the United Statesrnhas entered enjoyed a high degree ofrnpopular support by the time overt hostilitiesrnbegan. By 1941, most Americansrnwere outraged by the aggressions of NazirnGermany and Imperial Japan,...

Most public events are really stagedrn”happenings” (remember the 60’s?) inrnwhich an athlete gets to say he’s sorry (orrnnot sorry) for socking his coach or stabbingrnhis wife. Bill Clinton is a master ofrnthis art. Running for the presidency, Billrnand his wife went on television to confessrnto having had “problems” in their marriage.rnMore recently, the first couple,rnwho...

of the latest war, Bosnia can only functionrnas an evenly treated and finely balancedrnarrangement among its constituentrnpeoples: Serbs, Croats, andrnMuslims. The European Union is stablernbecause its member-nations have chosen,rnover a period of years, to eliminaterncustoms barriers, passport controls, andrntariffs, and to allow completely freernmovement of goods, services, and capital.rnThis may happen in the former Yugoslavia,rntoo,...

countenance of Mr. McConnell. (Hernwas said to have “thin hps” and “somewhatrndisheveled hair,” among other featuresrnthat Puerto Ricans seem to findrnunattractive.)rnAfter the meeting, Mr. Singermanrnproved to be (in Mr. McConnell’s term)rn”rancorous,” and some weeks later, Mr.rnMcConnell was fired. Mr. McConnellrnremarks that his dismissal over the PuertornRico editorial was “due to deeper shiftsrnwithin American society,” shifts...

NRA member to become a candidate forrnthe 76-member Board of Directors; herncan either gather 250 signatures on a petihonrnfrom eHgible NRA members, or herncan be recommended by the board’srnnominating committee. On the surfacernthis would seem to be a level playingrnfield, but for over a decade the board hasrncfiFectively been self-selected by publishingrnthe “report of the...

PERSPECTIVErnRestless Nativesrnby Thomas FlemingrnEveryne over the age of thirty has seen the movie Casablancarnseveral times. It is a classic love story, in which beautifulrnwomen turn out to count for less than politics and killingrnGermans takes precedence over both love and marriage. In actuality,rnCasablanca has very little to do with love: the love affair,rntold almost entirely...

the lesser evil (as if that were possible), while at the same timernthey were lumping together French reactionaries, SpanishrnFalangistas, Italian fascists, German nationalists, and Nazirnbutchers into one sum: 666, the mark of the beast known asrnfascism.rnHistorians and political theorists have published hundredsrnof volumes on fascism in a vain attempt to find coherencernin all the nationalist...