economy of the region, was utilized to securernan adequate supply of agriculturalrnlaborers. Independent frontiersmen migratedrnto western Pennsylvania seekingrnland and prosperity, and for many, to escapernthe grip of laws and Eastern values.rnMountains and self-determination separatedrnthem from the wealth, army, andrnculture of the Eastern elites and centralrngovernment.rnUnfortunately, a profound disparityrnexisted between their inflated expectationsrnof liberty and fortune...

Mitchell, the owner of a small farm, andrnPhilip “Wigle” Vigol were convicted ofrntreason. Months later. President Washingtonrnpardoned both, while aroundrnPittsburgh, Slaughter observes, “overrn2,000 of the most disaffected frontiersmenrnmigrated farther into the continent’srninterior, thereby ensuring forrnthemselves at least a temporary escapernfrom the ever-lengthening arm andrnincreasingly strong grip of the centralrngovernment.”rnHad he been living in those years,...

the most productive operations in thernUnited States, told a group of high-rankingrnKGB officers in Moscow that as importantrnas Alger Hiss was to the SovietrnUnion, another Soviet agent in thernAmerican administration—within thernWhite House, no less—was even morernimportant. That agent was Harry Hopkins,rntop advisor to and confidant of Roosevelt,rnand widely called “the assistantrnPresident” in the United States...

stairs with our packages—there was nornelevator —we found Aunt Vida, alongrnwith her youngest son and wife and smallrnchild, as well as Danica. Danica’s husband,rnAndrija, a riverboat captain, wasrnaway. It was winter, and the apartmentrnwas cold because of heating fuel shortages.rnIn all, the atmosphere was a far cryrnfrom the society that l3anica had praisedrnin her letter.rnAfter...

eminent in Serbia in the precommunistrnperiod, so the regime did not need to bernconcemed about my activities. But theyrndid keep tabs, by (among other things)rninstalHng Hstening devices in the roomrnradio and the telephone. My visits tornrelatives were mainly perfunctory; therernwas not much of interest in the thingsrnthat they had to say.rnBy the time we returned...

recordings like “Branded Man,” “SingrnMe Back Home,” and “Mama Tried.”rnThese songs convey empathy for the exconvictrnwho is “branded with a numberrnon my name,” or for the condemnedrnman led “down the hallway to hisrndoom,” without attempting to absolvernhim of his ultimate responsibility for hisrnacts: “Mama tried to raise me better, butrnher pleading I denied / That...

say that about “Muskogee, Oklahoma,rnU.SA”rnClark Stooksbury writes from PortrnTownsend, Washington.rnMANNERSrnCourtesyrnby Joyce BennettrnShe is a middle-aged grocery clerk,rnand I have seen her working at FoodrnLion on Sundays and holidays and laterninto the evening during the week. Standingrnat her register, she warmly greets herrncustomers, but she could as easily be receivingrntourists at an antebellum mansionrnon the James...

race from point A to point B. About arnyear or so ago, on the way to a conference,rnI was carpooling with another person.rnAs we proceeded, she was drivingrn70 miles per hour only inches, it seemedrnto me, from the bumper of the car inrnfirontofus. We were surrounded by otherrnleadfooted drivers also blithely tailgating.rnSeveral cars ahead of...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnMexico WayrnBack in the 70’s when the pubHcity stuntrncalled Hands Across America was inrnthe planning stage Kenny Rogers announcedrnhis intention to assume a positionrnon the western boundary of Texas inrnorder to be able to hold hands with thernstate of Arizona. I was reminded of thernstory last summer when a service...

rather that of ranchers, loggers, miners—rnall those provincial nobodies whose onernclaim to being somebody is to havernearned the right of control by actually livingrnthere, out in the sandstorms and blizzards,rnsurrounded by cattle and mountainrnlions, far, far removed from thernpreppie-yuppie-professional world ofrnbistros, art movies, think tanks, andrnpower lunches. The latest strategy devisedrnby earth muppets from the...

R E G A R D I N G I M M I G R A T I O N . . .rnINCLUDINGrnESSAYS BY. . .rnPETER BRIMELOWrn[Forbes Magazine)rnALLAN CARLSONrn(The Rockford Institute)rnJEAN BETHKE ELSHTAINrn(University of ChicagornDivinit)’ School)rnRICHARD ESTRADArn(Dallas Morning News)rnTHOMAS FLEMINGrn(Chronicles Magazine)rnSAMUEL FRANCISrn(Nationally SyndicatedrnColumnist)rnPAUL GOTTFRIEDrn(Elizabethtown College)rnGARRETT HARDINrn(Professor Emeritus ofrnHuman Ecology)rnHAN’S-HERMWN HOPPErn(University’ of Nevada,rnLas ‘cgas)rnDONALI’JL. Hninpi.rn(Rice Univcrsit...

Modern Scholarly Editions of ClassicrnWorks for Today’s ReadersrnON POWERrnTHE NATURAL HISTORY OF ITS GROWTHrnBy Elertrand de JouvenelrnForeword by D. W. BroganrnTVanslated by J. F. HuntingtonrnDocumenting tiie process by which government and controllingrnmajorities have grown increasingly powerful and tyrannical, Bertrand dernJouvenel (1903-1987) demonstrates how democracies have failed to limitrnthe powers of government. This development Jouvenel traces...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore FappasrnSENIOR 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. ReffettrnPRODUCTION SECRETARYrnAnita CandyrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnCindy LinkrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn928 North Main Street,...

of the state of Israel were good Jews motivatedrnby love of Israel (ahavath yisrael) —rnor so I was told by Talmud instructors inrnan Orthodox school I attended. And althoughrnNorman Podhoretz may not acceptrnthe theological formulation thatrnProfessor Neusner wishes to use to definernJews, the orthodox Yeshivah Universityrnawarded Podhoretz (undoubtedly forrnhis Zionist zeal) an annual award forrnoutstanding...

schools and in the Department of Education,rnand the feminist slant on validrnknowledge having effected the presentrnunsatisfactory standards of K-12 math educationrn—I see other historical threadsrnleading to the present situation. Mathematiciansrnhave always been unhappy atrnthe public lack of understanding of anyrnbut the most basic mathematics. Itrnseems to us that insight into the reasoningrnby which mathematical truths...

tional sovereignty. As I write thesernwords, a U.N. human rights official isrncompleting an investigation of America’srnuse of the death penalty. The U.N. investigator,rnwho has traveled throughoutrnthe United States collecting data, visitingrnprisons, and interviewing law enforcementrnofficials, believes that the U.S. hasrnexpanded its use of the death penalty beyondrnthe bounds set by the InternationalrnCovenant on Civil and...

go through the day unless they havernsomebody else to look down on,” thernPresident declared. He should know.rnDespite his best efforts, America’s experimentrnin forced integration is coming tornan end, but it will leave great devastationrnin its wake.rnThose who oppose forced busing oftenrnclaim that “children don’t learn anythingrnon a bus.” That’s not quite true.rnThey may not learn...

ovtn*^ GREAT TOPICS—GREAT ISSUESrnIDENTITY POLITICS—November 1997—ThomasrnFleming on race as the American religion, Samuel Francisrnon the witch-hunts of Morris Dees, Jacob Neusner onrnsecular Judaism, and Joseph Fallon on the politics of Hispanicrnidentity. Plus Justin Raimondo on the black warrnon Asians in San Francisco, and Mark Tooley on thernchurch burning hoax.rnUTOPIAvS UNLIMITED—May 1997—Thomas Remingrnon the world of...

PERSPECTIVErnReligious Rights and Wrongsrnby Thomas FlemingrnThe Vice President was in Russia in September, trying tornpersuade Boris Yeltsin to amend legislation giving thernRussian Orthodox Church a privileged position. Al Gore wasrnjust the man to explain religious toleration to the Russians. Inrnthe 1996 campaign, he revealed himself as an affirmative actionrnfundraiser, willing to solicit donations from anyone,...

religious conflict between the 30 Years’ War and the Vendeern(when tlie revolutionaiy government in France waged a war ofrnextermination against the Catholics). The English quit persecutingrnonly when the ruling class, in the course of the 18th centur)’,rnlost its faith.rnIf Puritans, Anglicans, and Baptists learned, almost by accident,rnto endure each other’s presence in the New World,...

The United States no longer prides itself on exporting ministersrnof the Gospel of Jesus Christ; instead, as Ining Kristol hasrnput it, “our missionaries live in HolK’wood” —missionaries notrnof Christ, as John Adams had hoped, but of “a dominant secularrnhedonistic ethos. It is an imperium with a minimum ofrnmoral substance.” As is true of our domestic...

Jackson, to Lincoln’s anti-constitutionalism, to Wilson’s sanctimoniousrnone-worldism, to the bush-league Bolshevism of Rooseveltrnand Johnson, and finally to the Gramscian prevaricationsrnof Bush, Clinton, and Gingrich.rnIt is specious to believe, as do many American Christiansrn(particularly evangelicals), that the prevailing corruption hasrnnot seduced and degraded “the people” as badly as our rulers,rnand that the Humpt)’-Dumpty of Christian society...

all likelihood the only one never to be faulted by the ACLU orrnPeople for the American Way on the ground of church/staternseparation is the notion that American Christians have a religiousrnobligation to insist on unqualified American support forrnthe state of Israel. This is not to suggest that the United Statesrncould not justify a cooperative relationship...

sa during Holy Communion was unconscionable. Princess Dianarnhad many detractors, yet none surfaced on television duringrnthe young woman’s funeral.rnCompare ABC’s actions with those of NBC. When the latter’srnMeet the Press invited Hitchens to comment on the Britishrnroyal family on September 7, it did not allow him to stay for thernnext segment on Mother Teresa; anchor...

schoolgirls, drinks called “Holy Water,” and a “Hell Room”rnthat sports a mirrored crucifix. The owners, two sisters from India,rnclaim their gay establishment is not anti-Catholic.rnWhen Dr. M.R.C. Greenwood was installed as the newrnchancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, thernschool embarked upon the customary binge of celebrations fitrnfor a queen. For one month,...

pie for power. The particular path he chose is a side issue.rnIt may take years to undo the ideological damage inflicted byrnthe new right-wing tendency to run down the capitalist system.rnIt is a bias that can be philosophically poisoning, since the subjectrnmatter of economics involves most ever1:hing our very li’esrndepend on. It is not just...

inent control.)rnBefore fleshing this out and considering its implications,rnconsider my original qnestion: Is it better for evil men to workrnin the private sector or to work for the government? Look at therndeeds of two bad men; Michael Eisner and David Kessler. Eisnerrnworks in the private sector, fie is the head of Disney, a companyrnonce synonymous...

actionaries had stood up to the progressives, and by sheer numberrnand force of will, actually began to win. Disney is desperately,rnif quietly, trying to regroup, because if there is one thingrnan evil businessman wants more than the thrill of destruction,rnit is profit. Tliat pursuit reins in his desires, and restricts the socialrneffects of his malevolence.rnNot...

waste and punishes those who do not. The market’s very efficiencyrnensures that if evil suppHers find wilfing customers forrntheir goods and services, they are not wasting social resources inrnthe process. The job market encourages people to hone theirrnskills and find a usefiil role in the division of labor, while punishingrnlounge lizards and freeloaders.rnGovernment has done...

America, the parson —usually a Protestant minister, but afterrnthe mid-19th centun’ often a Catholic priest—was the “person”rnill a small community: better educated than most and familiarrnwith the skills necessary to bring men and women into contactrnwith God. To have a son called to the ministry or the priesthoodrnwas a joy as well as an honor;...

ment, whose Tribune reflected Americarnas in a funhouse mirror.”rnHow could both camps be right? EitherrnMcCormick was a fearless patriot orrna danger to the Republic. Wliich is it?rnFurthermore, the charge of “endangering”rnfreedom of expression confuses thernvictim of repression with its perpetrators:rnthe Colonel’s numerous enemies —rnFDR and the hardline New Dealers inrnhis Cabinet, notably Harold Ickes —rndid...

ably difficult to reconcile the Colonel’srnrestraint toward foreign dictators with hisrnconstant harping on domestic tyranny,”rnBut there is nothing to reconcile. On thernfront page of the Tribune for Septemberrn21,1943, one of McCormick’s best politicalrncartoonists, Carey Orr, vividly illustratedrnthe Colonel’s critique of the risingrnwelfare-warfare state: “Dictators on thernHome Front” depicts a glum-lookingrnUncle Sam locked in a stockade,...

highly influenced by the Southern NewrnCritics, only to adopt freer forms andrnmore confessional content in his laterrnand better known work. A similar developmentrnoccurred in the verse of RobertrnPenn Warren, who was 11 years olderrnthan Eaton, and James Wright, who wasrn11 years younger. As Thomas Swiss notedrnin reviewing Eaton’s New and SelectedrnPoems (1987) for the Sewanee...

temporary poetry that readers often askrnGioia how old his daughter is now.) SydneyrnLea’s “The Feud” depicts a spat betweenrnneighbors, which escalates incrementallyrnfrom farce to tragedy. Finally,rnin “Frost at Midnight,” Mary Jo Salterrnhas written an impressive blank verserncharacter sketch of Robert Frost.rnTom Disch and R.S. Gwynn are probablyrnthe most conspicuous representativesrnof a third movement within the...

writing, was a tragic beauty. Loving herrnreflected favorably on Yeats’s own sensitivity,rnon his fineness of perception, andrnon his capacity for suffering and endurance.rnIn contrast, Foster’s chronologicallyrndescribed Gonne is, not to mincernwords, an unstable crackpot whom onlyrna rather peculiar man could have lovedrnso ineffectively for so long.rnIn a book in which many people believernand do strange...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnNationalism,rnTrue and FalsernRuling classes exercise power throughrncombinations of coercion and manipulationrn—what Machiavelli called force andrnfraud, or the habits of the lion and the foxrnthat he recommended to princes whornwish to stay in power. Like most princes,rnmost ruling classes tend to be better atrnone than the other, and depending onrntheir talents, interests,...

actual people of the nation; free tradernand globalism, which threaten both therneconomic interests and sovereignty ofrnthe nation; or multicLdturalism, whichrnneither the mainstream left nor rightrnnow seriously questions. Hence, itrnmakes sense that the high priests of therndominant right would seek to reinventrnnationalism and to redefine it in termsrnthat will offer no serious challenge to thernantinational forces...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter FromrnChicagornby Thomas F. RoeserrnTo ArchbishoprnFrancis GeorgernI won’t say congratulations on your appointmentrnbecause the wreckage left forrnyou to pick up is horrendous. . . and thernabuse you will take if—and, please God,rnwhen—you attempt to clean it up couldrnshorten your life. While you have crisscrossedrnthe archdiocese to introducernyourself, I have seen positive traits. As arntheologian, you...

those who suffer. To many priests today,rnthis idea is incomprehensible. ReHgionrnto them has httle to do with suffering; it isrna bland imitation of the Rotary Club.rnThey still follow the spurious postconciliarrnnotion that the Church must accommodaternpublic taste in order to gainrnmore members. Father Greeley, a pollster,rnpoints out that the Church must bernled by its membership...

have not yet been totally blighted by aggressivernfeminism, it is still regarded asrnquite normal for an enterprising youngrnman to be a dragueur and to honor thernpassage of a lovely demoiselle with arnshower of flattering compliments.rnThe attentions lavished by photographicrnpaparazzi on their chosen victimrnare obviously of quite a different order.rnThey are a radically new and offensivernspecies...

Diana’s last interview was given, significantlyrnenough, on June 13 to a womanrnjournalist, Anick Cojean, who worksrnfor Le Monde, one of the few newspapersrnin the world that has steadfastly refusedrnto publish photographs (though it doesrnemploy cartoonists) and which hasrnsought to maintain the undisputedrnsupremacy of the printed word. In thisrninterview Diana complained bitterly ofrnthe pursued and hunted...

that is, in fact, quite specific: the Yale Experience.rnIf you don’t want to find condomsrnat your dinner plate or to accord tornthe holy other the divine right to fornicaterneven when you want to sleep, gornsomewhere else. The Yale Experience isrnnot for you.rnWhat strange, pretentious language!rnMy colleagues at Bard College speak,rnquite properly, of a Bard education,...

VITAL SIGNSrnRELIGIONrnThe ChastityrnAmendmentrnby Mark TooleyrnThe appearance of an article aboutrnAmerican church Hfe on the frontrnpage of the Washington Post is a rare occurrence.rnBut the approval by the PresbyterianrnChurch (United States) of arnchurch law requiring celibacy of its nonmarriedrnclergy gained front-page attentionrnin the Post not just once but hvicernthis year.rnTreatment of the issue in both articlesrnby...

uality, the media at least have an obligationrnto understand their teachings and tornreport them accurately.rnMark Tooley is a research associate at thernInstitute on Religion and Democracy.rnFAMILYrnAbortion, Adoption,rnandrnPresident Clintonrnby Janet Scott BarlowrnLast year, in a span of less than sixrnmonths, President Clinton vetoedrnthe congressional ban on partial-birthrnabortion, thereby positioning himself,rnbased on public-opinion surveys of thernprocedure, as...

new lease on life, at the expense of Americanrntaxpayers.rnMany Americans do not realize justrnhow close the U.N. is to fulfillingrnthe goal set by its first acting SecretaryrnGeneral, communist spy Alger Hiss, ofrnbecoming a full-fledged world state.rnThanks to a federal financial bailoutrnengineered by Senator Helms, the U.N.rnis poised to expand its international campaignrnfor population control, global...

cent cut in the 50,000-strong U.N. bureaucracyrn—and it turned out the positionsrnwere aheady vacant. The Helmsrnplan also included calls for reductions inrnthe “dues” the U.S. pays to the U.N.rnTo understand how far Helms movedrnon the issue, consider what the Post declaredrnwhen the senator announced hisrnplan: “If you measure the Jesse HelmsrnU.N. reform package against what...

EDUCATIONrnHarkness RoadrnHigh Schoolrnby Isabel LymanrnHillary Clinton would love Amherst,rnMassachusetts, a town aptlyrnnicknamed “The People’s Republicrnof Amherst.” A stroll down Main Streetrnquickly reveals that Birkenstocksrnand Volvos dominate the landscape.rnAmherst’s legislative body, the TownrnMeeting, often votes on the kind of citizenrnpetitions that call on the communityrn(population 35,000) to join the AFLCIO’srn”union cities” movement or tornblock off a...

Our teachers are not “certified,” nor isrnthe school “accredited.” Our studentsrnmust create their own extracurricular activities,rnbe content with the daily basketballrngames during their recess time, typernon outdated computers, and make dornwithout science labs. The austere surroundingsrnraise the question: Is it worthwhilernto deny a student the perks of arnwell-funded, albeit eccentric, publicrnschool to transfer to our...

where it is. This involves looking at therntransihonal stages by which a traditionalrnhierarchical society became one inrnwhich nothing is thought to warrant respectrnunless the individual finds it in hisrninterest to value it. The victory of thisrnself-centered ethos, Molnar notes, hasrnnot put an end to either religious longingrnor mythic obsession. In other words, therndesacralization ascribed by...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, ]r.rnOn the Border With Crooks,rnand FriendsrnIt was time to look into getting hold ofrntwo barrera seats if we were going to attendrnthe coming corrida at the PlazarnMonumental de Toros in Juarez. FromrnLas Cruces I telephoned Jim Rauen 190rnmiles away in Belen and tapped intornwhat sounded like a conversation betweenrndrug dealers...