Popular Front U.rnby J.O. TaternHow well I remember, 40 years ago, prowling in the stacksrnof a college library and reading the books, observing museumrnpieces in the halls of that library, and attending concertsrnin the auditorium next door. Glenn Gould showed up to playrnthe Goldberg Variations, Jerome Hines to sing, and WolfgangrnSchneiderhan to play Vivaldi on...

bia University for a cup of tea. I was informed by an aroused femalernthat no, I was not. The building was occupied. Lookingrnback at the situation, I realize now that I should have hammeredrnher, instead of meekly returning to my room.rnSoon the consequences of licensing passion and fanaticismrnwere made clear. The students at Columbia were...

virtue. Finally, his poetry was no more than whining. So muchrnfor poetry and for culture and history and the professionrnthereof.rnThe campus has become all too often the place where thernmaintenance of distinctions is repudiated rather than affirmed,rnwhere the hierarchies of cultural achievement are flattenedrnby those who supposedly uphold them, and where thernprofessed subject is itself...

comes to mind, in most instances the student code of conductrnbased on a standard of correct behavior surrendered to a standardrnof “correct” thinking.rnFor example, the Harvard Handbook for Students for 1996-97rnstates that all students are expected to “behave in a mature andrnresponsible manner.” But mature and responsible have less torndo with behavior today and more...

much wariness and protective dishonesty, and they were able tornsee how a tyrannical government tri”ializes most of its citizens.rnWhen people are powerless, when they dare not think forrnthemselves and have no say in anything, they are too readily reducedrnto mean material concerns—to envying the neighbor’srnfur hat and trying to wangle a better television. All order,...

the rhythms of prose or free verse can never be. Enjambmentrn—the spilling-over of one line into the next—is also an expressivernviolation of the norm, because the tidy pentameterrnnorm wants us to pause at the end of every five-foot measure;rnwhen we don’t, when we brush aside that pause and plunge intornthe next line, we do it...

erwise, Christianity itself being thernprime example: all Christians claim fidelityrnto the teachings of Christ, yet theirrndifferences, ecumenism notwithstanding,rnonly deepen with time.rnIn arguing against Murray’s optimism,rnSchindler insists that he does not advocaternthe union of church and state—anrnerror he sees as the right-wing equivalentrnof liberation theology—while he hints atrnthe alternative solution by suggestingrnthat Christians should maintain a...

hatred of the West—and of God andrnman—as it argues that the tse-tse fly isrnsuperior to humankind.)rnIt was this new dimension of anticommunismrnthat caught the imagination ofrnthe people, though the media tried to reducernit to the formula of “Who is lyingrn—Hiss or Chambers?” And it wasrnthis new dimension which overrode thernefforts of the rich and politically...

but he’s our scoundrel.” In letters to formerrnassociates at Time-Life, he arguedrnthat there were many ways to fight communism.rnMcCarthy’s way might not bernhis or theirs, but it had its uses. He refusedrnto comment publicly on McCarthyrnfor many reasons, one of which was thatrnin the long run it would hurt the anticommunistrncause.rnTanenhaus broadly implies thatrnChambers resigned...

ulate their power to achieve their ultimaternobjective. Their only oppositionrnhas been a congeries of well-meaningrnbut politically inept and wholly unrealisticrnrightist groups, politely known as “thernconservative movement.”rnMany of these groups embrace aspectsrnof rightist, conservative, and traditionalistrnphilosophies that today are politicallyrnuntenable, ranging from the immediaternabolition of Social Security and Medicarernto proposals for armed rebellionrnagainst the federal government....

Principalities & Powersrnbv Samuel FrancisrnLooking BackwardrnA man from Mars visiting the UnitedrnStates at the beginning of 1997 mightrnhave thought that the country was wobblingrnon the brink of political crisis. Hernwould have learned that the WhiternHouse was occupied by a gentleman immersedrnin so many scandals that even supermarketrntabloids could not keep trackrnof them and that this...

stitutional principles, and hence it hadrnno vested interest in preserving or respectingrnthose formalities.rnWhat it did have an interest in wasrnpreserving the structures of the advancedrneconomy, the mass state, and the functionsrnthey performed, because only sornlong as the economy and the state dependedrnon the technical skills necessaryrnto their functioning would they alsornneed the managers. The overriding...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter FromrnNueva Yorkrnby Robert BermanrnThe Elite of El BronxrnThe Hispanic elite have decided thatrnthe best way to control the lives of millionsrnof Latin immigrants and illegalrnaliens flooding into America’s cities is tornprevent them from learning English.rnThe elites can then preside over arnseparate, parallel “Hispanic Nation,” fullrnof angry, illiterate victims of “whiternracism.”rnRecent developments at the City...

percent of her students still manage tornfail her class.rnTo gauge the impact of “bilingualism,”rnconsider the following, completernessay written in a “college-level” class atrnBronx Community College by a Dominican-rnborn, New York high schoolrngraduate:rnI am going to college, to learn arnprofession for my future. My majorrnis computer Science. In this momentsrnis difficult, to someone get arngood job....

change that took place without consultation,rnand that reflected the views of politicallyrnpartisan “experts.”rnIn addition, major expansions in higherrneducation since the 1960’s have dramaticallyrnincreased the number of studentsrnand thus the graduate populationrnas well. The number of college studentsrnfrom lower-income families rose considerably;rnnine new universities were foundedrnbetween 1958-66; and the numberrnand importance of polytechnics increased.rnThe Robbins Report...

VITAL SIGNSrnEDUCATIONrnThe Forced Fundingrnof StudentrnRadicalismrnby Scott SouthworthrnIhappen to be a conservative, a Christian,rnand white. I am also in the military,rnand I disapprove of homosexuality.rnAt the University of Wisconsin, there isrnlittle tolerance for this combination ofrncharacteristics. As a student there, Irnserved as the symbol of all that’s wrongrnwith the world. My checkbook showedrnjust the opposite, however;...

voter guides from the campus environmentalists,rn”abortion rights” advocacyrnfrom the university’s Women’s Center,rnpornographic pictures and sexuallyrnexplicit literature from the residentrnpro-homosexual organizations, and evenrna videotape of a protest at which thernInternational Socialist Organizationrnhelped to disrupt a talk (at a localrnchurch) opposing homosexuality. Withrnthis mountain of previously unexposedrnevidence, we filed the suit on April 2,rn1996, in federal district...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williarnson, Jr.rnSouth by SoutheastrnEast, east-southeast, southeast: ruggedrnmountains covered by lichenous forestsrnbreaking from the red desert floor, sky islandsrnof the American Southwest. SanrnCarlos Lake ahead of the wing, and beyondrnit the dark mass of the PinalenornMountains; southwest, the distant hornrnof Baboquivari snagging the summerrnhaze. The Chiricahua Mountainsrncrowded the Arizona line and then...

“What are you going to do whenrnyou’re finished here?”rn”That’s a good question. How long dornyou plan on staying?”rn”I don’t know. As long as there’srnsomething to see.”rnRita Madrid joined us to drink redrnbeer and listen to the Mexican band.rnWhile it was playing she recalled for merna story I had heard on a visit to Mesillarnsome years...

transactionrnNew and Recent Booksrnon Family and PolicyrnTHE SWEDISHrnEXPERIMENT IN FAMILYrnPOLITICSrnTHE MYRDALS AND THE INTERWARrnPOPULATION CRISISrnAllan CarlsonrnThis devastating account of the worl(rnof Gunnar and Alva Myrdal portraysrnhow two young scholars used thernpower of ideas to help engineer a newrndomestic order in Sweden. It offers therngeneral reader remarkable insight intornthe nature of Scandinavian social life,rnand the specialist...

A Classic Work on America’s OriginsrnE PLURIBUS UIHUNrnTHE FORMATION OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC, 1 7 7 6 – 1 7 9 0rnBy Forrest McDonaldrnHaving won independence from England, the American coloniesrnfaced a new question: Would they politically become one nation orrnwould they not? E Pluribus Unum is a learned and spirited look atrnhow that momentous...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappusrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, Jr.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnMichael WashburnrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O.j. Brown, Katherine Dalton,rnSamuel Francis, George Garrett,rnPaul Gottfried, E. Christian Kopff,rnJ.O. Tate, 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 Olfices;rn934 North Main...

place the Republican Party.rnWhen an openly Christian politicalrnparty consistently elects mayors and congressmen,rnwe can then begin to talkrnabout a national third party. The Biblerntells us to become successful at littlernthings before taking on bigger things. Jesus’rnparable of the talents is the properrnstandard: “His lord said unto him, Wellrndone, good and faithful servant; thournhast been faithful...

pened: the white teacher was deemedrnthe problem. Word soon spread that thernforeign language department was racist.rnThe result? The foreign language departmentrnhas been overturned and itsrnmembers replaced by less competentrnteachers—most of us left.rnThe technique works well; play thernrace card, and you seldom lose. Withoutrnthis method, the politicization of ourrnschools might not have been so easy.rn—Marty GalernMercer...

the moral, spiritual, and demographicrnwasteland they have created in what usedrnto be Christendom; they are plotting thernfinal showdown—in the tradition of therninfamous Fourth Crusade, almost 800rnyears ago, which allowed the Ottomansrnto sweep across Asia Minor, the Balkans,rnand up the Danubian plain all the way tornVienna.rnWhat else is the meaning of notrnmerely preserving NATO—now that thernthreat...

sible prison term of nine and a half years,rnshe has been fortunate.rnIn an effort to deflect criticism forrnprosecuting Flinn for her private life, AirrnForce Chief of Staff General RonaldrnFogleman said the case was really aboutrnlying and insubordination, not “the adulteryrnthing.” Yet adultery is a crime underrnthe Uniform Code of Military Justice becausernit is a destructive...

worse, something he does need—like anrnelectrie staple gun that takes away his lastrnexcuse for not rescreening the poreh.rnUntil recently, at least, fathers did notrnneed a special day, because they ruledrnthe roost and ruled the worid—ask anyrnfeminist.rnIn recent years, fathers have been takingrnit on the chin in the media. If yourncan believe what you hear on...

PERSPECTIVErnPilgrim’s Digressrnby Thomas FlemingrnMany generations after Christian had made his way successfullyrnto the Celestial City, one of his descendantsrndecided to attempt the same journey. The young man camernfrom the Modern branch of the Christians, a recent but powerfulrnsect that had taken over all the Christian clans. Frank, forrnthat was the young man’s name, had no...

When Frank explained to Fearwell the purpose of his journeyrnand told him of his plan to start his journey from Christian’srnhometown, the preacher took him by the arm and toldrnhim how dangerous it was. Did he know, for example, howrnmany people died in highway accidents every day? Yes, he knewrnall about Christian’s journey, but that...

Frank still didn’t move and asked him why he needed bothrntheir wallets. “I can understand why you’d ask us for a handout,rnif you’re hungry or need bus fare, but I see that you’ve alreadyrngot several hundred dollars from Preacher Fearwell, and fromrnthe way you’re dressed, you can’t be too badly off.”rn”Oh, is that right? Well,...

what they do.”rn”So, you would defend the Marquis de Sade, who, when thernJacobins made him a judge, refused to condemn any aristocratsrnto death, insisting that he would kill for pleasure, yes, but neverrnfor justice.”rn”I can see,” observed Crosstitch in a voice that was rapidlyrncooling off, “that your education should have been more carefullyrnsupervised. What is...

knee to the groin and an application for Food Stamps.rnHarry, meanwhile, gave them Hell, all right. Unless Hellrngave them Harry. (There are two names for men who orderrnflunkies to kill strangers: Charles Manson and Mr. President.)rnThe New York Tribune observed of General Ulysses S.rnGrant’s “immobile, heavy, and expressionless” visage that it wasrn”the face of the...

I’ll say this for them, though: JFK, LBJ, and RMN were bornrnin these United States of America and at some point in theirrnlives, each of them met actual Americans. Reagan and Clinton,rntoo. (Bush may have seen a few Connecticut laborers throughrnthe tinted glass of his limousine’s window, but that doesn’trncount.) The brain trusts that advise...

their “culture of honor” was nothing to be ashamed of.rnI seriously doubt that Nisbett and Cohen intended theirrnstudy to contribute to the self-esteem of Southern Celts. Butrnperhaps there is more here than Yankee cracker-bashing. Notingrnthat a white Alabama boy is more likely to shoot someonernover an affaire d’honneur than is someone from Massachusettsrn(I’m reminded here...

and by instilling fear into the hostile Indian tribes in the vicinityrnof Jamestown. He browbeat and threatened Powhatan untilrnthe chief and his subordinates begged for peace with therncolonists. One example will suffice to show that Smith had notrnforgotten the lesson learned against Turbishaw and his comradesrnat the Transvlvanian redoubt of Regall. WhenrnPowhatan’s half-brother Opechancanough surrounded...

that human application was clearly on the minds of whoeverrnprepared these documents.rnShortly before giving a lecture in Zurich, Switzedand, lastrnsummer, I met the patent attorney mentioned above. Hernpassed these documents along to me, and asked whether I knewrnanything about this case. Unaware of it, I promised to inquire.rnOn the Friday before the Labor Day weekend,...

how common an event nose-biting was in ancient Babylon.rnHammurabi took justice and punishment away from individualsrnand put it in the hands of the state, via its judges. It mustrnhave seemed a good idea at the time, but at the movies, I alwaysrncheered for Dirty Harry and Charles Bronson. Given the inabilityrnof the police to cope—it’s...

been a Roman citizen, He could not have been legally crucified,rnbecause citizens were exempt from this mode of execution.rnThat is why Paul, who was a citizen and who claims hisrnrights as one in the New Testament, was beheaded. Pontius Pilaternunderstood this point before signing Christ’s death warrant.rnIncidentally, it is still not generally recognized in the...

there are no doubts, thanks to confession and/or witnesses, plusrnDNA tests, it should.rnI suppose that in the 30 years I have lived in Canada, the twornmost notorious murder trials (Paul Bernado apart) have beenrnthose of Steven Truscott and Clifford Olsen. Truscott was accusedrn(in the 1960’s) of the rape and murder of a young giri.rnHe was...

of prosperous burgher parents, and aboutrnas interesting as another famous burgherrnartist, J.S. Bach, if less respectable byrnburgher standards. Shorn of legend,rnShakespeare’s life does not make a romanticrneffect. Insofar as it has a moral, itrnis that middle-class ambition, work, andrnthrift have scored again.rnNot surprisingly, quite a lot of peoplerndislike this new, documentable story,rneven resent it, and...

standard books. Nor is the scholars’ consensusrnall that consensual. Many scholarsrnnow argue, on documentary evidence,rnthat Shakespeare’s family wasrnCatholic, that he was well-connected onrnhis mother’s side, and that his father wasrna good deal better off than has beenrnthought.rnYet the most important thing wernknow about Shakespeare will always bernthe fact that he wrote those plays and poems.rnThey...

and movies seriously, and I still am.rnWhat we call “film noir” was in effectrnmade for those veterans to watch; in fact,rnit was, often enough, about veterans returningrnto a corrupted civilian life.rnOf course, they didn’t (we didn’t) callrnit “film noir” then. They called it goodrnstuff. You recognized it for its refusal ofrnsmarm, its gritty exception to...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnImpeachable OffensesrnBack in March, Republican MajorityrnWhip Tom DcLay took lunch at thernWashington Times and started jabberingrnabout how he and his party were going tornimpeach “activist judges” who handedrndown improper rulings. I know somethingrnabout how those luncheons at thernTimes work, so I was not as impressed asrnsome people. First, the guest is...

the garage to serve that purpose.” Evenrnif we grant Judge Bork’s military expertise,rnit does not follow that because thernoriginal purpose of an explicit right is obsolete,rnthe right itself no longer exists.rnThe Court ruled in the Miller decision ofrn1939 that certain weapons, like sawedoffrnshotguns, were not covered by thernSecond Amendment because they werernnot useful in warfare...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter FromrnInner Israelrnby Jacob NeusnerrnContinental Judaism, R.I.P.rnReligions may explode in human historyrn—Christianity conquering Rome inrnscarcely 300 years, Islam the Mediterraneanrnbasin in scarcely a century. Butrnthey die only here and there, only nowrnand then, and renew themselves in timesrnand circumstances none can predict.rnGod has a good sense of humor and arnstill better understanding of ourselvesrnthan we...

be tolerated, nor in Britain, nor at leastrnfor Reform and Conservative Judaisms inrnthe United States and Canada. Here thernRabbinate enjoys sufficient respect to establishrnorder, and except for some ratherrndegraded Orthodox synagogues that lackrnall self-respect and decorum, the behaviorrncommonplace in European synagoguesrnat the hour of prayer is simply astounding.rnIt is repulsive and anti-Judaic.rnWhere do people learn...

more than half of the city’s houses arernnow rental units and that Lima oftenrntops those national rankings of affordablernhousing.rnIn typical bureaucratic fashion, agencyrnofficials never bothered to tell therncommunity about their plans. The mayor,rna liberal Democrat who was a publicrnhousing bureaucrat before being electedrnto his post, did not see any reason to raisernthis “divisive” issue, either....

front of the Bilal mosque and blink, yournwould think you were in the MiddlernEast” rejoiced the architect, who is ofrnIraqi extraction.rnAll the new mosques are necessary becausernof all the people of differing, sometimesrnmutually antipathetic, Muslim traditionsrnwho are now living in Britain.rnThere will be separate mosques built forrnBangladeshi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Pathan,rnTurkish, and Mauritian Muslims, and atrnleast...

Letter FromrnPittsburghrnby Sarah McCarthyrnThe Mood Disorder ClinicrnA poem with a vivid title has started arnbrouhaha at the Mood Disorder Clinicrnat Western Psychiatric in Pittsburgh.rn”Nigger Do Not Speed In My Town” wasrndiscovered on a desk by two black employeesrnwho reported it to the EEOC asrnevidence of a racist environment at thernMood Disorder Clinic. The offendedrnemployees said...

VITAL SIGNSrnGLOBALISMrna.rnGeorge Soros,rnMegalomaniacrnby Justin RaimondornIt is a sort of a disease when yournconsider yourself some kind of god,rnthe creator of everything,” confessedrnGeorge Soros to a British newspaper,rn”but I feel comfortable about it nowrnsince I began to live it out.” Recallingrnyouthful fantasies of omnipotence in hisrn1987 book The Alchemy of Finance, thernmultibillionaire speculator and globalrndo-gooder conceded...