the alliance between neoconsenative leftists and free-marketrnconservatives would have been useful if only the conservativesrnhad borne in mind that their allies were, in all matters that reall-rncount. Jacobin radicals who despise the peth’ patriotismsrnand Christian “bigotrv” on which the right has been basedrnsince the French Revolution. On the strength of their anti-Stalinism,rnthe neoconservative left was...

until Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union) led the way in metingrnout rough justice to “collabos” in areas freed of Germanrncontrol. During this “epuration” thousands lost their lives, andrnmany more suffered public humiliation, like being beaten andrnspat upon or, in the case of women thought to be fraternizingrnwith the enemy, having their heads shaved. Similar...

of political management tied to a project of cultural and nationalrnregeneration, fascism has evolved into a codeword forrngenocide associated with insensitive attitudes. The semanticrndenaturing of the terms in question was already under way byrn1950, when volumes oiThe Authoritarian PersonaUty, a study ofrnfascist attitudes and their relation to anti-Semitism, began to appearrnunder the aegis of the...

Searchlight has gloomily concluded.rnThe FN has been cautious and effective at the local level.rnFor example, the first act of Vitrolles’ new mayor, the Cambridge-rneducated Catherine Megret, was to reduce all councilors’rnsalaries, including her own, by 30 percent. More recently,rnthe council’s rechristening of Vitrolles streets (named byrnleftist councilors after sundrv’ anti-apartheid activists and revolurionaries)rnhas been welcomed...

all the gallant work of the royalist Chetniks.rnBecause a very large number of conservatives had supportedrnthe regime of Petain, who for them had personified French endurancernin adversity, it became easy for Charles Maurras andrnMaurice Barres to be bracketed with out-and-out National Socialistsrnlike Deat, Doriot, and Celine (who thought the Nazisrnwere too moderate). “The Liberation had...

current salvos of antifascism, it remains unclear to what extentrnmodern democracies would be able to retain their legal statusrnand humanitarian profile. Since 1945, thousands of books criticalrnof Hitler have been published in the West; scores of antifascistrnwar movies have been shot; libraries of children’srncomics have been built, portraying every antifascist fighter as arnhandsome guy eating...

tral economic planning. In prerevolutionar)’ France, a belief inrneconomic controls held sway under the name “mercantilism.”rnAccording to Murray Rothbard, Louis XVTs Controller-Generalrnof Finance, Baron A. Robert Jacques Turgot, was a greater exponentrnof capitalism than Adam Smith. But when Turgot advocatedrnan end to certain important subsidies, he shocked therncourt and had to go. So critical was...

haing a holiday of his own is very gratifying to Hberals. But ifrnan admirer suggested that King is the archetypical American,rnmany would regard this as bizarre.rnThe third characteristic of fascism is militant nationalism.rnThis was manifesti}- the case with Hitler and Mussolini. Americanrnliberals, on the other hand, are militant mtemationalists.rnMoreover, fascism identifies with the host culture,...

and the late Glen Wilburn and his wifernKathv (whose grandsons had been killedrnin the bombing), Evans-Pritchard showsrnthat a commune of neo-Nazis at ElohimrnCih’, Oklahoma, though implicated inrnthe bombing, was nevertheless protectedrnb- the FBI, despite the fact that the FBIrnwas informed by seeral witnesses thatrnthe commune was sheltering a manrnwhose looks and activities match those ofrnJohn...

ry King. Clinton later appeared with arnsad face to comfort the widow, reminiscentrnof the famous shot of the Presidentrnleaving Ron Brown’s funeral, laughingrnwith an aide until he spied a video camerarnaimed at him, whereupon he weptrncrocodile tears. As for the late lamentedrnSecretarv of Commerce, Ruddy has recentlyrnuncovered the fact—confirmedrnby tw’o Army pathologists—that Brown,rnwho ma’ have...

ing in the early 1960’s, Schramm exposedrnthe fallacy—and the danger—of arnthen-common tendency to trivializernHitler. Ernst Deuerlein’s Hitler: A PoliticalrnBiography (1969), which Lukacsrncalls “the best short hiider biography,” isrnalso well-written. Deuerlein pondered arnkey problem —”how Hitler had beenrnpossible”—that also preoccupied SebastianrnHaffner, who asserted the unquestionablernunit}’ of Hitler with the Germanrnpeople in the 1930’s. With the onset...

mans’ obsession with the relationship behrneen the word and the world, but onernwishes he had dwelt longer on the centralih’rnof this obsession, since it lies at thernheart of the phenomenon of Hitler, asrnwell as of German philosophy, literature,rnand politics. Thomas Mann tells a storyrnof a town devoid of people—but all thernchurch bells are ringing. Who...

this respect invites lies and the projectionrnof raw power. If truth is relative, then liesrnare to be encouraged, and if the deconstructionistrnadmits that a text has any authority,rnonly he can reveal the hiddenrnpower relationship that gives the text itsrnauthority. Of course, one might ask whorndeconstructs the deconstructionist, butrnthat is not a matter Marxists choose torndiscuss.rnFor...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnThe Truth About RepubHcansrnand HispanicsrnSaying “I told you so” is never very polite,rnbut sometimes, especially when trying tornexplain things to the Republican Part-,rnit’s advisable to say it. For the last yearrnor so, the Republicans and their petrneggheads have been telling each otherrnthat they had just better shut up aboutrnimmigration, immigration reform,...

committee, and neither Abraham norrnNewt Gingrich nor any other Republicanrnleader in Congress has shown any interestrnin further constraints on immigration.rnThe Republican and Beltwayrnconservative mantra quickly became thatrnthe parh’ should oppose illegal immigrationrnbut support the legal variet}’—a nonsensicalrnposition: if the only problemrnwith illegal immigration is its illegalit)’,rnthen why not simply repeal all lawsrnagainst it so that...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter FromrnWashingtonrnby Brett M. DeckerrnPolice or Fascists?rnEleanor Holmes Norton has proposed tornreopen Pennsylvania Avenue in front ofrnthe White House for limited automobilerntraffic. She convincingly testifies that arnbarricaded executive palace does notrnproperly reflect our standing as a shiningrn”city upon a hill.” After two long years ofrnparalyzing traffic jams due to the paranoidrnclosing of the Avenue of...

friends and coworkers were invited ontornthe field, where a caterer had set up twornbars and several buffet tables containingrnhot dogs, grilled chicken, and numerousrnside dishes. Filling his plate and grabbingrna can of pop, he walked to the batter’srnbox, which now was shaded fromrnthe late afternoon sun. It was here inrn1932 that Babe Ruth had allegedly...

VITAL SIGNSrnBUSINESSrnWall StreetrnImperialismrnby Bob DjurdjevicrnParallels between the British Empirernand the New World Order are striking.rnThe principal difference is that thernBritish crown relied on brute force tornachieve its objectives, while the NWOrnelite mostly use financial terrorism (exceptrnfor occasional raw power demonstrations,rnsuch as in the Gulf War or inrnBosnia). The Great Asian Banking Crisisrnhas accentuated both the...

ger beavers” are about to be hit again byrnour NWO-controlled government—tornhelp fund Wall Street’s Asian bailouts.rnLest we forget, the IMF is a Western govemment-rnsupTported “bank,” of which thernAmerican taxpayer is by far the largestrnguarantor. When Clinton, Gingrich,rnand other globalist polihcians tell us thatrnthe IMF soluhon is the way to solve therncurrent Asian banking crisis, they...

nese workers face unemployment orrneven starvation. We always hear aboutrnthese communist victims, but the samernfate awaits the tens of millions of workersrnin South Korea, Japan, Thailand, and Indonesia.rnThey will bear the brunt of thernGreat Asian Banking Crisis, not thernNWO bankers and politicians whorncaused it. Stories about the human impactrnof the transnationalists’ financialrnterrorism have been woefully...

of North Carolina affiliate in Charlotte; arntax accountant, who was also a reservernCaptain in the Army and a Civil War enthusiast;rna district court judge; a housewifernwith no apparent links to the militar}’,rneven through her husband or otherrnrelatives; and a large, busding woman inrnher 40’s whose aggressively gregariousrnmanner reminded me of a used car salesman.rnIt turned...

they have to do unpleasant—sometimesrnvery unpleasant—tasks.rnThese 60 subjective points were thernhardest to award, and sparked the mostrndisagreements. A sample:rnChairman: “He . . . I don’t know . . .rndidn’t strike me as . . . his look was allrnwrong.”rnHousewife: “He was sweet.”rnRealtor lady: “I just don’t know. Irnliked his tie, but he doesn’t seem to...

that Tom Cruise screaming off the deckrnof the USS America in his F-14 in ToprnGun was still fresh in the memories ofrnmany of these yoimg men. Wlio needsrn(or wants) the infantry, with all its mudrnslogging, sweating, mosquito-infestedrnstoop labor? Not these guys. In additionrnto being disappointed, I was honestly surprised.rnI thought of my time on activernduty...

from her tense, irritable husband, who isrnill-at-ease among guards he finds “scarierrnthan the prisoners,” Angela grows morernand more interested in )ean, who is mysterious,rnvigorous, alive. Fed up, Paul finallyrnkicks Jean out of the house, hopingrnthis will nip Angela’s interest in the bud.rnIt doesn’t, of course; Angela starts seeingrnJean behind her husband’s back.rnReleased from jail, the...

mingle moral and aesthetic issues: partlyrnbecause the shape of the argument isrnidentical, and partly because those whornare subjectivists in the one, in my experience,rnare always so in the other. The instancesrnabound. One of the chargesrnMao’s widow was convicted of, in the trialrnof the Gang of Four, was a charge atrnonce moral and aesthetic—she had enjoyedrnThe...

to the logical status of the question,rnwhich is to say that it matters enormously.rnSuppose, for example, a demographerrnwere to approach the Chinese problemrnon the subjectivist assumption thatrnany view of the total population of Chinarnis as good as any other; that it all dependsrnon who, where, or what you are; that it isrnall ideological. Surely the...

FOREIGN AFFAIRS dllOKHKBiWrn^MSKF PEPJBUKErnThe Other Sidernof Peacernby Russell Gordonrn”Uzivajte u ratu, uzivajte,rnO braco moja i vojnici,rnjer mir ce’ hiti gori…”rn(“Enjoy war, enjoy,rnOh my brothers and soldiers,rnbecause peace will be worse . ..”)rn—An old Serbian war songrnThere is a belief among the peoplesrnof the Balkans that war on thernpeninsula is cyclical and inevitable.rnPeace has been the...

The fourth occupation in one hundred years: ItaUan NATO troops roll across thernbridge on the Drina.rntransparent that even those who mightrnbenefit from it have voiced consternation.rn”It’s insane to indict Karadzic andrnnot Izetbegovic,” a Bosnian MusHm andrnformer Yugoslav diplomat stated. “IfrnAmericans are going to behave as imperialists,rnthey should at least be evenhanded.”rnMurder by instigation and proxy...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnEpic AmericarnUp in Oregon a woman was bathing in arnriver. The transistor radio she had set onrnthe bank played as she swam. She wasrnstill swimming when a movement fartherrnalong the bank caught her eye. Shernturned and saw Elvis disappearing intornthe woods on her side of the river. At thernsame moment...

to them is only a romance with plenty ofrnold-fashioned violence, the whole effectrnsomewhat marred by Kevin Costner’srnbare backside), while even in the morernexalted reaches of society Patsy Limerick’srnNew Western History is alreadyrndrawing yawns. Mainstream publishersrncontinue tossing off generic Westernsrnand coffee-table books, and the best ofrnthe Western university presses get onrnwith the job of adding to...

Modern Editions of Classic Worksrnfor Today’s ReadersrnAMERICANrnPoliricalWritingrnFounding Erarn1-6 : – ) « 0 5rnr_H,«l’ ^rnPON^rnAMERICAN POLITICAL WRITING DURINGrnTHE FOUNDING ERA: 1760-1805rnIn TWO VolumesrnEdited by Charles S. Hyneman and Donald S. LutzrnThese volumes provide a selection of seventy-six essays,rnpamphlets, speeches, and letters to newspapers writtenrnbetween 1760 and 1805 by American political and religiousrnleaders. Many are obscure...

THE IMMIGRATION MYSTIQUErnAmerica’s False ConsciencernBy Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnPraise from reviewers…rn”A brilliant new book on thernhistorical and cultural meaning ofrnimmigration…”rnSamuel FrancisrnNational syndicated columnistrn”The Immigration Mystique shouldrnbe on the bookshelf of everyrnperson concerned about currentrnimmigration policy.rnWilliam Watkins, Jr.rnr/7e Social Criticrn”This is perhaps the mostrnambitious of recent immigrationrnbooks…rnPeter BrimeiowrnNational ReviewrnNOW INrnPAPERBACK!rnWith a new afterword by the authorrnThis highly...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnScott P. RichertrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O.]. 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 The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn928 North Main Street, Rockford, IL...

Mr. Rockwell Replies:rnA charming and spirited letter, but Mr.rnRacho has fallen victim to a number ofrnanticapitalist bromides. The moviesrnwere not destroyed by low-brow marketrntastes, but by go’ernment intervention.rnFrom the mid-1930’s through the latern40’s, the Federal Trade Commission,rnand the Supreme Court, bludgeoned thernwonderful old free-market studio systemrnthat gave rise to the equally wonderfulrnHays Office, hi its...

its constitutional dub,’ to regulate foreignrncommerce and be prohibited fromrnamending presidential requests tornchange American law to conform withrnexecutive agreements. Just as executivernagreements were conceived to circumventrnthe Senate’s role in treaty-making,rnfast track is designed to cripple Congress’srnability to guide trade policy.rnhi place of elected representatives, arnhost of private-sector advisory committeesrnhave been created. Former Clintonrntrade official Jeffrey...

tion —both Southern and American.rnSouthern symbols are not anti-American;rnthey are the most visible and emotionallyrncharged oi American symbols. Shouldrnthey fall, what will be next?rnWe already have the answer. ThernNew Orleans School Board has changedrnthe names of 22 schools over the past fivernyears. Most recently, a public elementaryrnschool has been renamed after Dr.rnCharles Richard Drew, a...

that the corqpany conducted across therncountry. Clyde himself attended thesernseminars, and his engaging personalit}-rnand wealth of knowledge proved invaluablernto his company.rnHis family was the centerpiece ofrnClvde’s life. His wife Marian workedrnwith him in the business from the vervrnbeginning, and she eentually served asrnVice President for Administration and asrnCorporate Secretary. Bill Sluhan succeededrnhis father as President...

in the Chicano movement is a full-linerninsurgency. If it isn’t addressed andrnstopped, they’ll take the Southwesternrnstates without a shot.”rn• Two Small Steps for Rockford: Citizensrnof Rockford are beginning to see thernlight at the end of the tunnel. Althoughrnthe federal magistrate still controls thernRockford school district, his grip isrnweakening. Despite the best efforts ofrnRockford’s political and...

PERSPECTIVErnAnthems for Doomed Youthrnby Thomas FlemingrnRockford is becoming for me what the Rouen Cathedralrnwas for Monet or the village of Selbourne for GilbertrnWhite: a place intrinsically no more interesting than any otherrnbut as worthy of close attention as any human community.rnRouen Cathedral is beautiful, but Europe has hundreds, evenrnthousands, of beautiful churches. Monet, by depicting...

only be loyal to one country. They have to choose to be eitherrnAmerican or Mexican, but this is exactly the choice that thernMexican government does not want them to make, Tlie governmentrnof Mexico has lobbied furiously in the United Statesrnon behalf of NAFTA and against California’s Proposition 187rndenying welfare benefits to illegal immigrants. More recently,rnMexico...

Mexican immigrants feel just a little less loyal to the UnitedrnStates and the locals just a little more hostile to the newcomers.rnOur national masters play the same game on a larger field, importingrnmillions of immigrants to manipulate, passing affirmativernaction laws, and race-norming everything from the federalrncensus to the number of Medal of Honor recipients. If...

to check an unconstitutional act of the central government,rnwhy have no states exercised this right over the past 40 years orrnso, when violations of the reserved powers of the states, especiallyrnby the Supreme Court, have been so blatant as to defy belief?rnOne answer is that the enormous patronage concentrated inrnthe central government has corrupted the...

tention that sovereignty resides in the American people in thernaggregate. But the original wording of the Preamble was in thernstyle of the Articles: “We the people of the State of New Hamprnshire, Massachusetts,” etc. This wording passed unanimously,rnbut was changed by the committee on style on the grounds thatrnit was not known which states would...

mentaries on America’s fundamental law. It was the text onrnconstitutional law used at West Point from 1825 until 1840. Inrnit, Rawle outlines the steps necessary for the legal secession ofrnan American state. By 1861 every Southern state had takenrnthose steps.rnForeign writers who had studied the Constitution concludedrnthat a state could secede from the compact. Tocqueville...

ganic, and indivisible: “indestructible states in an indestructiblernunion,” as Texas v. White would put it. This formulation was,rnof course, nothing but a mask for power, and it ignored the factrnthat Virginia had been dismembered without its consent and inrnviolation of the Constitution to create the Republican state ofrnWest Virginia, and that Congress had dismembered the...

dents away from their neighborhood and private schoolsrnthrough distinctive curricukims of a high quahty. ThernSupreme Court beHeves that a federal judge must bernable to right any wrong he sees. Righting the wrong inrnthis case apparendy meant high schools in which everyrnclassroom will have air conditioning, an alarm system,rnand 15 microcomputers; a 2,000-square-foot planetarium;rngreenhouses and vivariums;...

Thomas Jefferson wrote to William Giles on December 26,rn1825, “it is but too evident that the three ruling branches of thatrndepartment are in combination to strip their colleagues, thernState authorities, of the power reserved to them, and to exercisernthemselves, all functions, foreign and domestic.” In otherrnwords, the separate national powers would naturally have morernto gain...

would have a more accurate gauge as to whether the people arernin fact consenting to the decisions of the national government,rnespecially those of the Court.rnWe should adopt Madison’s solution to restore some consentrnof the governed and to provide a check on the Court and thernfederal government. Congress should not have any approval orrnveto power. As...

Judicial TaxationrnThe States Respondrnby John R. StoefflerrnThe Madison Forum was founded in 1993 by MissourirnState Senator Walt Mueller and me for three reasons.rnFirst, we wanted to respond to the Supreme Court’s claim inrnMissouri v. ]enkins (1990) that the federal judiciary’ has the authorityrnto levy or increase taxes. We believe this constitutionallyrnbaseless assertion by the Court...

putting the cart before the horse. But consider the followingrnand then decide whether our solution to ending judicial taxahonrnis, under the circumstances, reasonable.rnFollowing the Court’s 1990 riding in ]enkins, Senator JohnrnDanforth of Missouri actually proposed our idea of amendingrnthe Constitution for the purposes discussed above. Congressrnheld hearings on the idea, and several members objected.rnThey indicated...