“And the weather’s perfect,” she saidrnhappily.rnBeyond the forest edge was a burnrncaused by a Hghtning strike, where after arnfew years the pine and juniper trees wererngrowing back among the blackenedrnsnags, the grass, and the wildflowers.rnRiding across the openness that coveredrnthe ridgeline we viewed nearly the wholernof the southernmost country of the Gila,rnas far as the...

TELOSrnA Quarterly Journal of Critical ThoughtrnDoes it still make sense to talk about Left andrnRight? What remains of the communist projectrnafter the collapse of the Soviet Empire? To whatrnan extent has collectivism become official liberalrnideology? What is the impact of feminism,rnanti-racism and multiculturalism on Americanrntraditions? Has a New Class of experts,rnbureaucrats and professionals effectively subvertedrnthe...

Modern Scholarly Editions of ClassicrnWorks for Today’s ReadersrnTHE VIRTUE OF CIVILITYrnSELECTED ESSAYS ON LIBERALISM, TRADITION,rnAND CIVIL SOCIETYrnBy Edward ShUsrnEdited by Stevfen QrosbyrnEdward Shils (1920-1995) was one of the leading intellectual defendersrnof freedom in the twentieth century. Learned in history, politics,rnliterature, economics, theology, and legal history, he taught for manyrnyears at the University of Chicago’s Committee...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, jr.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnScott P. RichertrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O.J. Brown, Katherine Dalton,rnSamuel Francis, George Garrett,rnPaul Gottfried, J.O. Tate, MichaelrnWashburn, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, William Mills,rnJacob Neusner, Momcilo SelicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICAI’ION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnPRODUCTION SECRETARYrnAnita CandyrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnCindy LinkrnA publication of The Rockford Institute,rnEditorial and Advertising Offices;rn934 North Main...

had been conquered by the Poles beforern1772, During the previous three centuries,rnthese people had experienced atrnthe hands of the Poles—supposedlyrnmembers of a “higher” Western civilizationrn—a degree of oppression that exceededrnanything with which the pre-SovietrnRussian state can be charged. Thisrnoppression continued unabated underrnPilsudski and his successors in this century,rnfatally undermining Poland’s moralrnstanding and survivability in the...

picked the wrong house. Charged withrncriminal trespass and aggravated assault,rnhe was never prosecuted.rnWhat has given Michael Sanders impunity?rnAccording to the Arizona Republicrn(whose excellent reporting is thernsource of my information), Sanders isrnbelieved to be an informant for at leastrnfive law enforcement agencies, includingrnthe FBI and the BATF. With that kindrnof support, he had a right to...

claim to have new evidence that willrnshow that Degan was killed while retreatingrn(and may even have been off ofrnWeaver’s property when he was shot),rnthe possibility of a conviction in Harris’srncase seems “fairly slim (as the extremelyrnlow bail—$10,000—attests). Far morerninteresting is the decision of BoundaryrnCounty prosecutor Denise Woodbury tornindict FBI sharpshooter Lon Horiuchirnon manslaughter charges. Horiuchi,...

ment, as well as from NOW and the chorusrnof whiners that pollute the Republic’srnairwaves. But, God willing, SMI willrnbecome a reality. When it does, it mayrnhelp to save the South from the clutchesrnof a ruling elite bent on destroying thernvirility exemplified by Jackson, Lcc, andrnForrest.rn{For further information on SMI,rnplease call Dr. Michael Guthrie at (205)rn464-0830,...

statisticians and made a permanentrneontribution to American self-understanding.”rnAs Clyde Wilson is fond ofrnsaying, “Shelby’s work will never be replaced.”rnNovelist, journalist, filmmaker, andrndiplomat Jean Raspail was born inrnChemille, France, in 1925. He was educatedrnat College Saint-]ean-de-Passeyrnand Institution Sainte-Marie-de-Monceaurnin Paris, as well as the Ecolc desrnRoches a Verneuil-sur-Avre. He is thernauthor of The Camp of the Saints...

ing the rights of all parents to bring up their children as they sawrnfit. They constructed a welfare state to divide the generationsrnfrom each other; they did their best to destroy every vestige ofrnregional and religious loyalty. They got rich building highwaysrnthat broke up the old familiar patterns of life and spattered thernchildren of the...

most obvious difference is that there is no black nation, nornLatino nation, no Indian nation. Indians and Latinos are historicallyrnmore divided among themselves than they are unitedrnagainst the Anglos. Latinos have language and religion in common,rnbut even setting apart the differences between Spanishrnand Indians, there is little to unite Cubans, Mexicans, andrnPuerto Ricans except their...

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VIEWSrnWitchfinderrnThe Strange Career of Morris Deesrnby Samuel FrancisrnWAxii!:i)rnThe trial, conviction, and death sentence of TimothyrnMcVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing of April 19,rn1995, passed quietly this year, far more quietly than most reportersrnand some political leaders wanted. The main reason forrnthe calmness of the McVeigh proceedings was probably the utterlyrnuninteresting mind, character, and personality of...

as with the entries under Ohio: “Unknown Group Name,rnGrove Gity” and “A Goncerned Gitizen, unspecified location.”rnGroups like the “Aryan Republican Army” (also “unspecifiedrnlocation”) are lumped in with the “Keystone Second AmendmentrnFoundation” (yet another “unspecified location”).rnWhether as a research guide to the far right or as a directory ofrnwhich groups not to invite to cosponsor your...

contributors on the East and West Coasts, and they gave bigrnbueks.” But Dees soon found that if you start watching thernKlan, the Klan might start watching back. In 1983, Klansmenrnfirebombed the Center’s offices in Montgomery, an attack thatrnhelped bring in even bigger bucks.rnBy 1994, Dees was reported to be hauling in a personal salarrnof $136,000...

in “every state.” Rosenthal used the SPLC propaganda to callrnfor federal legal measures against the “hate groups,” “militias,”rnand the “Patriot Movement” as a whole.rnEven the federal government pays a lot of attention to MorrisrnDees, though not perhaps in the way it should. The SpecialrnOperations School Catalog of the U.S. Air Force for 1997 lists arncourse...

with the occult edge American audiences seem so hungry for.rnAnd on the other side of the line that divides hidian countryrnfrom what anthropologists call the dominant culture, no organizedrnpropaganda-making force exists to bring those issues beforernthe larger public and, in this instance, to warn Anglo societyrnthat the end is nigh. The reason is simple: the...

any reservation. Given the absence of any other national pohticalrnorganization run by and for Native Americans, manyrnobservers believe that—at least for the moment—pan-hidianrnnationalism is a dead cause. They may be right; certainly thernstruggles now taking place among Indian nations themselvesrnsuggest that larger alliances are unlikely, as Navajos contendrnwith Hopis over land and grazing rights, as...

framed what they eventually called Orthodox Judaism, integrationistrnpolitically but separate religiously in the many aspects ofrnculture subject to the Torah’s commandments. A few remainedrnJewish without practicing Judaism (yielding the counterpartrnto religious Judaism in secular Jewishness). But a greatrnmany opted out. They are represented by Felix Mendelssohn’srnfather, Karl Marx’s father, and Disraeli’s father, among thernman) Jews...

integrationist and accommodationist Orthodoxy diat had begunrna generation eadier in the United States, and a generationrnbefore that in Germany and Britain.rnWhen we contemplate the contemporary condition ofrnJews as an ethnic group and Judaism as a religious tradition,rnwe confront a remarkable fact: the advent, for the firstrntime, of Jews who identify themselves as Jewish in ethnicity....

once and for all to abandon any claim to religiosity and deny arnprivilege, within Jewry, to Judaism. Philanthropists devote tensrnof millions of dollars to sustain the secular option. Secularistsrnwish to define themselves wholly as an ethnic group: “no rules,rnjust right,” “have it your way,” and other current slogans servernto define matters. The other side points...

in Memphis, next at Vanderbilt (wherernhe hoped to settle permanently), and finallyrnat LSU, where, with CleanthrnBrooks, he helped found the SouthernrnReview. Warren’s association with Brooksrnturned into a long-term collaborationrnthat resulted in the classic texts UnderstandingrnPoetry, Understanding Fiction,rnand Understanding American Literature.rnCleanth Brooks once referred to Warrenrnwriting textbooks as “Pegasus at thernplow.” While his contributions to classroomrninstruction...

read and wrote a lot (one Fugitive, MerrillrnMoore, wrote 50,000 sonnets in hisrnlifetime!), but talked a lot, smoked a lot,rndrank a lot, and, when not brought togetherrnfor parties or extended visits, eorrcspondcdrnby letter often and at length.rnhi letters that connected a wide circle ofrnfriends over a span of vears (sometimes arnlifetime), they discussed books, exploredrnideas,...

David Hume, and the 18di-century juristrnand depicter of Osnabruck communalrnlife Justus Moser, together with neoconservativerncelebrities Edward Banfield,rnIrving Kristol, and Peter Berger. If thisrnseems like forced association, it does testifyrnto the search by some American conservativesrnfor a convenient, but not quiternauthentic, past. A look at the real past, asrnMuller must know, would reveal the seachangernundergone bv...

Kondylis asks whether Kirk and otherrnAmerican traditionalists are not merelyrnechoing European restorationist thoughtrn”as a countcrweiglit to the most recentrndevelopments in a consumer massrndemocracy.” What renders this intendedrncounterweight useless is its detachmentrnfrom any supportive sociopoliticalrnstructure. Without such a framework,rnKondylis contends, values cannot bernturned into a public ethic. By creativelyrnblending Marx and Schmitt, and by givingrnto both...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From SanrnFranciscornby Justin RaimondornThe Black War on AsiansrnWhile the media is focused on the allegedrnthreat of a few rural whiternsupremacists holed up somewhere inrnIdaho, black racism in the inner cities isrnon the rise. “Viet family flees bombrnthreat at project,” blared the headline inrnthe San Francisco Examiner on June 16.rnAlthough political correctness forbidsrneven its victims...

started the night they moved into thernhousing project; BB gun pellets shotrnthrough windows, firecrackers hurled intornthe house, and a perpetual poundingrnon the door by thugs camped out onrntheir doorstep. For months they enduredrnrobberies, attacks on their children, andrnnightly assaults on their home, untilrnHUD, in the words of one bureaucrat, finallyrndecided that “it’s become real clearrnto...

uments on a computer rather than curernpeople?rnAttorneys paid by the government onrna case-bv-case basis to do “legal aid” workrnfor the poor and who deal with divorce,rnsmall civil claims, and criminal defensernwork, constitute a patchwork of smallrnpartnerships spread across the country,rnbut Major’s government deliberatelyrnsought to concentrate this work in thernhands of a few large firms. Lord...

VITAL SIGNSrnPOLITICSrnThe Politics ofrnHispanic Identityrnby Joseph E. FallonrnThe federal government officiallyrnrecognizes “Hispanic”—an artificialrnand arbitrary concept devoid of ethnic,rnracial, cultural, or linguistic meaningsrn—as a legitimate collective identityrnfor two reasons. Domestically, it is torncreate a “Hispanic nation” within thernUnited States, to inflate the numericalrnsize of that “nation,” and to have allrnmembers of that “nation” eligible for affirmativernaction...

Point Five: “It is strictly forbidden tornhold prisoners . . . they shall be shot immediatelyrnwithout any pretext.”rnPoint Seven: “Every North Americanrnover sixteen years of age shall be put torndeath; and only the aged men, the women,rnand the children shall be respectedrnPomt Eight: “THE APACHES of Arizona,rnas well as the INDIANS (REDrnSKINS) of the Territory,...

enumerators, and to “implement an affirmativernaction program . . . for the employmentrnof personnel of Spanish originrnor descent.” The implementation of affirmativernaction at the Census Bureaurninitiated a process that quickly madern”Americans of Spanish origin or descent”rnlegally eligible for other types ofrnaffirmative action programs.rnThe terminology adopted in PublicrnLaw 94-311 was revised and finalized inrn1977. On May...

the “Hispanic” identity is more thanrnmere political opportunism and intellectualrnfraud. It is an ideology of hate inrnquest of political domination.rn]oseph E. Fallon writes from Rye,rnNew York.rnFOREIGN AFFAIRSrnPolonophobia,rnCont.rnby Paul GottfriedrnPolonophobia,” my essay in the Januaryrnissue of Chronicles, engenderedrnmoving and informed responses forrnwhich I am most grateful. ProfessorsrnEwa Thompson and Alex Kurczaba andrnDr. Wojciech Wierzewski have allrnpraised...

not much matter if those who expressedrnit were, sa’, coal miners in West Virginiarnor wheat farmers in South Dakota. As itrnis, however, they are disproportionatelyrnrepresented in verbal and media professionsrnin the major cities. And while it isrnpossible to trace their attitudes to generalrnsocial or cultural causes—e.g., the dissimilaritiesrnbetween Eastern Europeanrnpeasant societies and Jewish urbandwellers,rnor to...

world, in which Negroes would not onlyrnbe saved but would exact vengeance uponrntheir white oppressors. In rapid succession,rnNoble Drew Ali (murdered by rivalsrnwithin his church in 1916), MarcusrnGarvey (convicted of mail fraud in 1923,rndeported in 1927), and Wallace Fardrn(“disappeared” in 1933, perhaps murderedrnby his friend and successor, thernHonorable Elijah Muhammad), arose tornminister to impoverished, confused,...

RELIGIONrnWhite Self-Hatredrnand thernChristian Spiritrnby Wayne AllensworthrnAt the first Congress on Racial Justicernand Reconciliation, held inrnWashington in May, the Reverend EarlrnW. Jackson, the black director of thernmostly white “Samaritan Project” of thernChristian Coalition, told 500 mostlyrnblack Christians that, despite manyrnblacks’ warnings that he was selling outrnto the “religious right,” “our agenda” isrn”the work of God Almighty,...

Church ArsonrnManiarnby Mark TooleyrnArecent report by the federally appointedrnNational Church ArsonrnTask Force has confirmed that there neverrnwas any evidence of an upsurge inrnracist, fiery attacks upon black churches,rndespite the media spotlight of last year.rnThe report told us little that is actuallyrnnew. Insurance statistics showing thatrn500-600 churches suffer arson every yearrnwere largely ignored, and no comprehensiverndata...

paraphrase Winston Churchill, infinite isrnthe debt owed to those who want tornspeak strongly but do not know how.rn”Literally” is a case in point. StephaniernFawcett of the National Archives saidrnthat thanks to the recently declassifiedrnmaterial on the Cuban missile crisis,rn”You are literally a fly on the wall in thernWhite House.” Ohio RepresentativernJim Traficant said by dumping...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton WUliamson, Jr.rnThe Seventh DayrnThe first thing you notice is the heat andrnthe intensity of the light, glaring on thernwhite-painted adobe walls of Mesillarnwhere Indian rugs, sun-rotted and sunfaded,rnhang behind deeply recessed windowsrnbarred with iron. Stepping outrnfrom the coolness of San Albino on thernplaza after Mass into the blinding Sundayrnnoon had a...

versing after Mass, the men uniformlyrnshaded by their wide straw hats.rnAbandoning the search for a way up tornthe Robledos, I returned to town andrndrove out on Highway 70 toward San AugustinrnPass, in the Organ Mountains.rnEast of the pass the country changes dramaticallyrnwith the wide valley stretchingrnnorth and south between the Organsrnand the Sacramento Mountains. Therngreater...

“First rate”rn— Pat Buchananrn”One of the most important Catholic publications since Vatican II.” Michael DaviesrnAt one U.S. seminary, the dean discoveredrna stray Latin Mass magazine in therncommon room. He blew up, ordered itrnthrown out, and strictly warned seminarians:rn”1 never want to see this herernagain!” At another seminary, the liturgyrnprofessor discovered a gift subscriptionrnto The Latin...

Modern Scholarly Editions of ClassicrnWorks for Today’s ReadersrnGOVERNMENT BY JUDICIARYrnTHE TRANSFORMATION OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTrnSecond EditionrnBy Raoul BergerrnForeword by Forrest McDonaldrnIt is the thesis of this monumentally argued book that the United States SupremernCourt—largely through abuses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution—hasrnembarked on “a continuing revision of the Constitution, under the guise ofrninterpretation.” Consequently,...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnScott P. RichertrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O./. Brown, Katherine Dalton,rnSamuel Francis, George Garrett,rnPaul Gottfried, ].0. Tate, MichaelrnWashburn, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, William Mills,rnJacob Neusner, Momcilo SelicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnPRODUCTION SECRETARYrnAnita CandyrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnCindy LinkrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn934 North Main...

Greenhut also states that the “Sectionrn8 program . . . has turned many stable,rnwell-kept neighborhoods into enclaves ofrnrun-down rental housing.” This programrnonl- uses existing rental units thatrnare kept up to code, and owner’s rents arernbased on the going fair-market rent.rnMoreover, the public housing that so incensesrnGreenhut is only one percent ofrnLima’s total housing stock.rnGreenhut says...

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnPOL POT, who presided over the murderrnof more than a million of his fellowrnCambodians, has been condemned tornlife imprisonment after a jungle showtrialrnbv the Khmer Rouge—or what isrnleft of it. Many of Pol Pot’s accusersrnwere, in happier days, his accomplices,rnand the trial had about as much credibilityrnas a Nuremberg Trial presided over byrnHimmler and...

lot boxes than of conformity to globalistrnprecepts; “Only a decade ago, Washington’srnBig Business liberalism was consideredrnsomething of a joke bv Europe’srnLeft and Right alike. Europe was morernsocial-democratic, more anti-immigration,rnmore ata’istic and national. It isrnstriking that the immigration question—rnthe great globalist Signifier—was alwaysrnhandled, in practice, on strangeK’ Americanrnassumptions despite the unfriendlyrnnational contexts. The power of globalistrnideology...

aries at home and abroad, and what hadrnbeen called the Terror was reinterpretedrnas a series of countermeasures taken tornprotect French “democracy.” The samerntype of defensive scenario was then extendedrnto Lenin’s revolution, which myrnclassmates and professors presented as anrnupdated form of the French Jacobinrnbirth of freedom.rnWhat Furet and others of his generationrndid (such as the Sorbonne...

to conceal his admiration for the thinrnblue line that protects defenseless foreign-rnborn criminals from our homegrownrnones: “the San Diego Police Departmentrnoperates a . . . unit that patrolsrnthe canyons every night assuring surprisedrnillegal immigrants that they arernthere to protect them.” And the protectionrndoesn’t stop at the border. Accordingrnto McDonald, “the State’s Attorney’srnOffice in Montgomery Country...

PERSPECTIVErnFrom White House to Blockhousernby Thomas FlemingrnBill Clinton is the American icon, whose face is rapidlyrneclipsing both the prohle of the heroic young Kennedy andrnthe simpering grin of Jimmy Carter—the presidential imagesrnthat until recently symbolized victory and despair for Democratsrnand something else for Republicans. It was understandablernif, in the early 60’s, Republicans could not appreciate...

makesliift union. Octavio Paz says much the same thing aboutrnSpain and Mexico: Spain will succeed because the King representsrnall the peoples of the nation, while Mexico must fail becausernno democracy can represent the tribes of Mexico.rnParadoxically, Americans might hae been better able to prescrrne their liberties under an inherited monarchy—where peoplernare expected to love the...

people . . . there is a physical difference between the white andrnblack races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races livingrntogether on terms of social and political equality.”rnEarly in his career, Lincoln had favored the deportation ofrnblacks to Africa or Latin America—a massive campaign of ethnicrncleansing—but realizing the impracticalitv of suchrnschemes,...