EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnMichael WashburnrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O./. Brown, Katherine Dalton,rnSamuel Francis, George Garrett,rnPaul Gottfried, Christine Haynes,rnE. Christian Kopff, /.O. Tate,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, William Mills,rnJacob Neusner, John Shelton Reed,rnMomcilo SelicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPIIBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnPRODUCTION SECRETARYrnAnita CandyrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rockford Institute,rnEditorial and Advertising...

Dr. Francis Replies:rnI remarked in my article that Dr. Hittinger’srncontribution to the First Thingsrnsymposium was the most closely reasonedrnpart of it, and his letter is equallyrnwell argued. Indeed, I have no disagreementrnwith much of it. I raised the issuernof “compulsive” as opposed to “permissive”rnlaws in the context of passive resistancernor civil disobedience, conceptsrnthat simply cannot...

elected officials represent citizens likernthose quoted in the Los Angeles Times inrnMay 1995: “Citizenship in the UnitedrnStates helps us [Hispanics] to have thernculture of one country and participatern[vote] in the other’s society. I for onernwill never stop being a Mexican.” “Myrnfather is Mexican and my mother Salvadoran..rn.. Both are U.S. citizens but Irndon’t consider myself...

Ejagle,” were staged 50 miles east ofrnTirana, in a new training center whichrnwas developed under American guidance.rnA month later, in August 1996, thernAlbanian army sent the first batch of itsrnsoldiers for training to Camp Lejeune inrnNorth Carolina, while American marinesrnexercised along Albania’s Adriatic shore.rnThe cynic would say that there wasrnnothing unusual in the government ofrnthe...

its victim. As Chapman comments, otherrnforms of abortion are also pretty gruesome,rnand if partial birth abortions arerntoo gruesome to tolerate, perhaps wernneed to take a more critical look at allrnabortions. If instead of being a rare procedurernpartial birth abortions are a commonrnprocedure, then perhaps this is lessrnof a reason for permitting them than forrnregulating the...

dorsed the President’s plan. In his ownrnState of the State Address, Engler wentrneven further than the President, proposingrnlegislation that would establish “academicrnreceivership” for school districtsrnthat did not meet certain state standards.rnThose districts would be placedrnunder state-appointed “receivers” who,rnaccording to the Detroit Free Press,rn”would have broad power to fire principalsrnand other administrators, and takernvirtually all decisions...

PERSPECTIVErnSarajevo Today, Chicago Tomorrowrnby Thomas FlemingrnThe War Crimes Tribunal going on at The Hague is the firstrntest of one of the great principles of postwar politics—thernNuremberg Doctrine, which makes individuals liable to internationalrnprosecution for actions committed during a war. hirnthe old days, military personnel and police officers were expectedrnto do as they were told, hi...

their strength and superiority gave them the right to treat otherrnnations as slaves and cattle. There were no such leaders amongrnthe Serbs, and the so-called criminals who have been put on trialrnare so insignificant that, so far from enjoying the glory of a trial,rnthey would not have been allowed even to testify at Nuremberg.rnLike the...

who authorized the code, was the mihtary officer who also gavernGeneral Sherman’s soldiers their carte blanche to burn, loot,rnmurder, and rape their way across what had been the richestrnsection of the United States. This same government and samernofficer bore responsibility for setting up the first concentrationrncamp, designed to intern possibly pro-Southern Indians in thernSouthwest; this...

Let me talk about just one of these charters: The InternationalrnConvention on the Prevention and Punishment of thernCrime of Genocide. In this convention, genocide is defined asrn”acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, arnnational, ethnic, racial or religious group as such,” and genocidalrnacts include: killing members of a group, causing them...

VIEWSrnThe Price of EmpirernGlobalism and Its Consequencesrnby Samuel FrancisrnIknow it will strike many people as odd to call the current foreignrnpolicy of the United States a form of “empire building”rnor “imperialism,” and of course none of our leaders wouldrnever call it that. They would prefer some such term as “peacekeeping”rnor “spreading democracy” or “nation-building” orrn”exporting...

places, there is no compelling reason to go there or send troopsrnthere or assume commitments there or spend money there, butrnwe are going anyway because we have the power to do it and wernwant to exercise that power.” That kind of honesty would indeedrnbe a far cry from Vergil or Kipling, but at least we...

ity and decision-making but also the inculeation of passivity intornthe population. Republican government, by contrast, involvesrncivic activism, and the early champions of republicanismrnin European history were insistent on the virtues of the vita activarnover the vita contemplativa, the contemplative life, which isrnmore consistent with monarchy. Republican citizens mustrnwork at being free all the time. They...

by an imperial ethic centered on military glory and sacrifice forrnabstractions, and, in a word, self-government is replaced withrnrule by others, by a new ruling class dependent on empire andrnthe state and giant institutions that manage it.rnBut there is yet another price of empire that must be paid,rnand that is the displacement of the native...

tied “War News.” It shows four middle-aged working men in arndiner, huddled around a Philco radio. When I see those men,rnI see my family—ordinary people who voted for Roosevelt duringrnthe Depression and who then, a few years later, spent eachrnevening wondering if their sons were dead on some Pacific island.rnAnd never did they cease to...

discredited in domestic politics—socialism is a dead ideologyrn—but it survives in the current attempt to build a “NewrnWorld Order” through international conferences, treaties,rnpaper currencies, trade agreements, and the like, along withrnsporadic military intervention of the kind the United States hasrnengaged in from Haiti to Somalia to Bosnia to Iraq.rnAt home and abroad, thisrngovernment has wildly...

nessmen, or cigarette smokers. And the more it does suehrnthings, the more it pits itself against those it rules. Eventually itrnreaches a point of essential alienation, where it can no longerrnpretend to represent the governed.rnThe American government is now the most powerful humanrnorganization that has ever existed. It has made a stupidrnhabit of exercising power...

open to debate, the fact itself is beyond dispute; the UnitedrnStates’ decision to defeat “the Serbs” has been the salient featurernof American policy in the Balkans for the past five years.rnThe corollary to such a policy was the need to weaken the Serbrnside from without—through political isolation, U.N. sanctions,rnmedia-induced vilification, and ultimately military action—rnand from...

pedigree. They were unable to grasp that what they saw as arnperfectly reasonable principle—the right of all constituentrnnations of the former Yugoslavia to self-determination, Serbsrnincluded—could be rejected by the “democratic West” in favorrnof preserving arbitrarily drawn boundaries between thernrepublics. Accordingly, at different ends of the politicalrnspectrum in Serbia there existed a consensus on one point:...

ans thought it would be a good idea to include Washington inrnthe itinerary, assuming that a possible testimony by Milosevic’srnopponents before the Senate Foreign Relations Committeernwould be welcome to the White House and the State Department.rnWhen they contacted the administration, however, theyrnwere told that the proposed visit was “undesirable,” becausern”the opposition in Serbia is composed...

who run today’s “Western democracies.” Indeed, it was withrnthe skins of the Bosnian and Krajina Serbs that he has turnedrnhimself from “the butcher of the Balkans” into “a necessaryrnpartner.”rnHaving ignored the very existence of the Serb opposition tornMilosevic for the best part of the past decade, the UnitedrnStates government was forced to make some token...

The appropriate goal of American foreign policy, therefore, isrnto preserve that hegemony as far into the future as possible.” Inrnsum, hegemony for hegemony’s sake: we are obligated to takernup the white man’s burden, to take on the Sisyphean task ofrnpreserving the existing international order, seemingly forever.rnIn fairness to the Republicans, it should be noted that...

relationship between the European and non-European worldsrnhas almost been completely reversed. The shattered self-confidencernof even the victors in World War I made the liberation ofrntheir colonies a foregone conclusion, the only real question beingrnone of timing. When the liberation came, during the ColdrnWar, the non-European world generally sided with either thernUnited States or the Soviet...

but skillful manipulation (as the Israeli analyst Yohanan Ramatirnhas pointed out) by Croatian and Muslim propaganda of holocaustrnthemes to mobilize American Jewish opinion, and the desirernof some Israeli policymakers to be in accord with Americanrnsupport for friendly, pro-Western Islamic states. Summing uprnthis orientation in the New York Times (January 2, 1996), in anrnop-ed with the...

be compared to the different successive stages in the livesrnof certain parasites, which go through a cycle which is apparentlyrncapricious, but which is in fact necessary to theirrncomplete development. They must, for instance, gornthrough a river mollusc, then pass into a sheep, and finallyrnlodge, not without deleterious effects, in the body of arnhuman. [In the...

perior position over their agent, Calhoun’srn”general Government,” thusrncompelling the latter to be the servant ofrnthe former. However, almost from thernbeginning of this bargain, men of bothrnfactions—Federalists and Republicans—rnrealized that in a federal system it wasrnlikely that either the states would drainrnall power from the general governmentrnor vice versa. Most of them feared thernlatter scenario much...

the North’s choice of war over disunionrndestroyed the American people’s right tornself-government and created on the ruinsrnof our ancient liberties an imperialrnstate did not escape the notice of historianrnWilliam Appleman Williams. “Simplyrnput,” he wrote, “the cause of the CivilrnWar was the refusal of Lincoln andrnother northerners to honor the revolutionaryrnright of self-determination—therntouchstone of the American...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Palernby Rajko DolecekrnThe War IndustryrnThere were two reasons for my visitrnto Belgrade last fall. His Beatitude, thernSerbian Orthodox patriarch Lord Paulrn(82 years old), invited me to his officialrnresidence to honor me for “my endeavourrnto interpret objectively the all-Serbianrntragedy.” I was decorated with thernOrder of St. Sava I, the highest decorationrnof the Serbian Orthodox...

A member of the Parliament of RepublikarnSrpska invited us to a cafe justrnopposite the government building. Hernwas from Doboj, from the purely SerbianrnOzren hills range. The Dayton dictaterngave half of it to the Muslim-Croat federation.rnThe town of Doboj, severelyrndamaged by Muslim and Croat artillery,rnwas overflowing with refugees fromrnOzren. The Bosnian Serbs do not likernthe troops...

VITAL SIGNSrnPOLITICSrnDavid Horowitzrnand thernEx-CommunistrnConfessionalrnby Justin RaimondornThe literature of recanting radicalsrnhas been with us since 1917: fromrnthe recollections of Russian Mensheviks,rnwho rued the day they joined withrnLenin, to Irving Kristol’s “Memoirs ofrna Trotskyist,” in which the neoconservativerngodfather fondly reminisces aboutrnhis youthful dalliance with dissidentrncommunism. With each successivernatrocity and betrayal—Kronstadt, thernMoscow Trials, the Hitler-Stalin Pact,rnKhrushchev’s admission of...

degenerated, along with the level of therneulture at large. Compared to Horowitz,rnGitlow—the fanatic avenger and consummaternopportunist—is a veritablerngiant. While Horowitz was always arnperipheral figure on the left, with no statusrnas an activist beyond the Berkeleyrnscene, Gitlow was one of the foundingrnleaders of the American CommunistrnParty, whose defection was front-pagernnews all across the world.rnIt was a...

sions of the Left who had brokenrnthrough to the dark underside of the radicalrncause. Like Chambers, I had encountersrnwith totalitarian forces that involvedrnbetrayal and death. Like him, Irnhad been demonized for my secondrnthoughts.. . . Like Chambers, I had becomernthe most hated ex-radical of myrngeneration.”rnHere is a narcissism so inflated that itrnexplodes in a burst...

tion earlier and on a larger scale. Afterrnthe United States did step in, GOP criticismrnwas confined to faulting the administrationrnfor not establishing an “exitrnstrategy” for American troops, and it wasrnthat line that Cohen followed when hernstated at his confirmation hearings that,rnwith him at the helm of the Defense Department,rnthe United States would notrn”make an unlimited...

either stupidity or collusion, they’vernoverlooked strong evidence, hidden inrnplain sight, that both Albright and thernadministration knew the truth. A seriesrnof White House press releases concerningrnAlbright, all of which can be foundrnon the official White House Web site,rntells the story.rnFrom the time of Albright’s appointmentrnas ambassador to the tJ.N.,rnthrough December 5, 1996, when shernwas appointed Secretary...

MEDIArnBad Newsrnby Janet Scott BarlowrnOh, the tedium. We are confronted,rnyet again, with the spectacle of thernestabhshment media suffering one ofrntheir spasms of professional angst, asrnthey ask each other, with fake drama,rnwhat their audience, in genuine anger,rnfrequently asks them: Why do you get sornmuch so wrong so often? For those whornhave witnessed previous media exhibitionsrnin which...

score points against such estimable institutionsrnas the media and the FBI. Hernwasn’t worthy, you see. “You almost wishrn[Jewell would] quit now,” Collins concluded.rn”Sign a lucrative book or movierncontract and call it even. But it’s only inrnfilms that adversity makes the ordinaryrnman noble and merciful.” In otherrnwords, Richard Jewell was not only a loser,rnhe was an...

breast-beating, self-examination, andrntortured analysis lead to exactly . . . nothing.rnThings are so unchanged, in fact,rnthat the major media are confoundedrnand befuddled, virtually struck dumbrnby the simple idea that the ends do notrnjustify the means. And as the majorrnmedia finally begin to grasp, dimly, thatrnthe public is real serious about thisrnends/means business (no, you are...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnThe WandererrnFor three weeks the wind blew hard onrnthe desert and the nights were very cold.rnThe wind dropped, the days grewrnwarmer, and the snow line retreated onrnthe mountains. The winds came againrnand the red sand stiffened between thernclumps of yellow grama grass before therngray clouds moved out, and then winterrnwas...

drove west on the same road, throughrnTres Piedras and over the San Juans,rnrolling and open to the sky, draining intorna vast basin of broken forests and widernsnowfields, cobalt and white in thernspringtime haze, the whole country runningrnwith the wet aliveness of spring.rnWater ran out from under the snowbanksrnbeside the highway, and pasturelandrnalong the Chama River...

1997 Soutfiem League Summer Institutern* * *rnJuly 6-11,1997rn(Sunday evening through Friday noon)rnCamp St. Christopher, Johns Island,rnSouth Carolina (Near Charleston)rn^irst-c(ass resort accommodations on the beach, ^om {T>ouBk occupancy),rnBoard and tuition: $3 75 per student before June 1; $425 thereafter.rnSeminars in Southern history, Sterature, poCiticaCpfubsopFiyj theology,rnand art by some of the South’srnfinest unreconstructed scholars, inchidingrnThomas Fleming, David...

CONCERNING IMMIGRATION…rnINCLUDING ESSAYS BY..rnPKIERBRIMELOWrn{Forbes Magazine)rnALLAN CARLSONrn(The Rockford Institute)rnJE/N’ BEI’HKE ELSHTAINrn(University of ChicagornDivinity School)rnRICHARD ESLRADArn(Dallas Morning News)rnTHOMAS FLEMINGrn{Chronicles Magazine)rnSAMUEL FRAN’CISrn(Nationally SyndicatedrnColumnist)rnPAUL CoTTFRiEDrn(Elizabcthtown College)rnGARRETT HARDINrn(Professor Emeritus ofrnHuman Ecology)rnHANS-HERNLNN HOPFErn(University of Nevada,rnLas Vegas)rnDONALD L. HUDDLErn(Rice University)rnE. CHRISTIAN Koi’EErn(University ofrnColorado inrnBoulder)rn• RICILARDD. LAMMrn(Former Governor ofrnColorado)rn• JOHNLUKACSrn(Professor Emeritus ofrnHistory)rn• WAYNE LiT’i ONrn(The Social ContractrnQuarteriy)rn• GRADY McWiiiNEYrn(Texas ChristianrnUniversity)rn• THEODORE PAPPASrn(Chronicles Magazine)rn•...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnMichael WashburnrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O.]. Brown, Katherine Dalton,rnSamuel Francis, George Garrett,rnPaul Gottfried, Christine Haynes,rnE. Christian Kopff, J.O. Tate,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, William Mills,rn]acob Neusner, ]ohn Shelton Reed,rnMomcilo SelicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnPRODUCTION SECRETARYrnAnita CandyrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising...

While there has always been a healthyrndose of skepticism toward such gnosticismrnby Americans of common sense,rnand by Protestants of the more Calvinisticrnvariety, those times are gone. There isrnmuch less common sense these days, andrnmost of the Calvinists have forgottenrnthat sin ever existed. So we have less restraintrnthan ever against the deformedrnsouls of what some refer...

ties that fall outside the range of typicalrnsynagogue programs.” Neusner adds:rn”The new programs will promote ‘Jewishness’rnfor Jews who want togethernessrnbut no Torah.” And they will be run byrnoutside “professionals” who have no realrninterest in religion, only in “process”rnand brainwashing. These programs, ofrncourse, could fit any denomination, anyrnbusiness—for businesses are just what sornmany churches have become.rnThe...

“cultural revolution” three decadesrnago—was pragmatic, never moral or aesthetic.rnWhereas Mao was sometimesrnabstruse, and often aspired to being profound,rnDeng’s quotations were unsuitablernfor a book, little red or otherwisern(e.g., on Marxist ideologues: “They sitrnon the lavatory and can’t even managernto sh-t”). His dislike of “shouting andrnyelling” was fully applied in 1989 to China’srnequivalent of Kent State, TiananmenrnSquare....

Commentators have suggested that hadrnPresident Clinton been accused of twornor five indictable or impeachable acts, hernwould not today be President of thernUnited States, but the 250 or so offensesrnof which he is suspected both deadenrnthe imagination and protect the President.rnMore important than their number,rnperhaps, are the banality and tawdrinessrnof his administration’s allegedrncrimes and misdemeanors; bank...

warm Casserole of Adulterers” who hadrn”trickled into the wrong beds in automaticrnresponse to sexy advertisements”rnbut are wholly without any trace of “defiant,rnrebellious, insatiable lust.”rnIt bears mention that Archbishop Levadarndid more than merely miss a chancernto set his Church apart from the world.rnHe missed a chance to defend marriagernand the family. He might, for example,rnhave dismissed...

PERSPECTIVErnUtopias Unlimitedrnby Thomas FlemingrnThe future has been all the rage for the past two centuries.rnModernism, as an ideology, might almost be defined asrnthe cult of the future, whether in science fiction or in Utopianrnpolitical creeds like Marxism. Even in its death throes modernismrnwas able to spawn “futurology,” a pseudo-science asrnrichly comic as phrenology. An obsession...

delier rose from the floor, while the furniture was fixed to thernceiling. In her recent W.S. Gilbert: A Classic Victorian and HisrnTheatre (Oxford University Press), Jane Stedman describesrnGilbert’s vision of a “double world: one part consisting of thingsrnor principles as they are, and the other consisting of ideas aboutrnor attitudes toward these things and principles;...

will have expired. On the day of his liberation he meets and affiancesrnthe daughter of Major General Stanley, and it becomesrnhis duty to lead a squad of timid policemen against the friendsrnof his youth. There is, however, a wrinkle, or rather a paradox.rnIt seems that Frederic was born in a leap year, on February 29,rnand...