In Britain it trebled the number of private shareholders in arndecade. What is more, it was unsnobbish, rather in the mannerrnof Dickens’ Great Expectations, where the hero has to acceptrnthat the money that made him a gentleman came from arnconvict and not from a genteel old ladv. As the Emperor Vespasianrnput it, money has no...

publican majority prevailed. To be sure, the pro-family, pro-lifernmargin has been reduced by eight to ten seats. But several ofrnthe newcomers are outspoken pro-family activists, includingrnRobert Aderholt of Alabama (who described himself as “thernprotector of traditional Alabama values”) and athlete Jim Runrn(whom the Washington Post called “arguably one of the mostrnconservative politicians to win a...

that they seemed attractive to a majority of Americans. Thatrnwould mean reinventing the rhetoric of the mainstream mediarnwithout budging an inch on the issues. Without the jaybirds ofrnHberal Repubhcanism shrieking around us, we could do it.rnRonald Reagan showed us how.rnThese, then, are formidable objections to a strategy based onrncapturing control of the Republican Party four...

As for capturing the GOP, forget it—unless vou belie e thernllolv Spirit will intervene (which is possible, of course, butrnhighly unlikely). Why would God want to save the RepublicanrnPart}’ from the oblivion it has so eagerly sought and so richK deserves?rnAgain, our best course of action is the establishment of arnthird party, and as c]uicklv...

touched on King’s troubling associations. More damninglv, arnyoung black liberal journalist, Carl Rowan, had published anrnextended diatribe against King in Reader’s Digest in Septemberrn1967, which was widely discussed until King’s assassination inrnthe following year. According to Rowan, King had become anrnembarrassment to the civil rights cause. He was a figure with anrn”exaggerated appraisal” of his...

servative magazines extol as “Mr. Cultural Conservatism,” WilliamrnBennett, is a Great Society Democrat, albeit one who hasrnjoined the Republican Party. Not surprisingly, Bennett commendsrnto his followers the ‘”conserxatism” of Martin LutherrnKing.rnBut there is a hitch in playing too boldly with the facts: someonernmay notice even if forbidden to do so. Historical recordsrnarc there which can...

Schultz has suggested, a deadly tricksterrnlike Quantrill could not fail to see the opportumtrnof a lifetime.rnThe storv of the Border Wars is a storrnthat ccr’ American should know,rnparticulariy because so few know it. Thernpart of it that is familiar (though almostrnalwas misapprehended) deals withrnJohn Brown. Brown’s massacre at PottowatomiernCreek, complete with nightstalking,rncorpse mutilations, and God’srnblessing,...

ence, but why blame Hollywood? Americansrnprefer lies. “John Wayne, plavingrna fictional town marshal, learns ofrnQuantrill’s planned raid at the last moment,rnsends the women and children tornhide in the courthouse, rallies the menfolk,rnhas barricades thrown up, and directsrnthe slaughter of bushwhackers asrnthey ride down the main street. Therntown is burned, but only one or two malernresidents...

Greek art of singing words to the accompanimentrnto some form of lyre or aulosrn(a wind, usually reed instrument).rnGreeks sang at weddings and funerals, atrnathletic games and religious festivals, atrndinners and drinking parties. They composedrnsongs to yorship their gods, tornhonor their heroes, to praise theirrnfriends, and—it goes without saying—tornconfess their loye. Erotic passion wasrnnot, however, their...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Bataviarnby Bill KauffrnanrnA Well-Preserved WomanrnMv wife is president of our count’srnlandmark society, and though my inabilityrnto tell a cornice from a frieze rendersrnme a hapless consort in matters architecturalrn—more Denis Thatcher thanrnHillary Clinton—I am nonethelessrnproud of her. For preservation seems tornme far less an aesthetic ruffle than anrnemotional and spiritual necessit’.rn”Preservation” suggests to...

was likely built during or shortly after thernreign of Justinian (Early Byzantine), thernChurch of St. John the Baptist aroundrn1000 (Middle), and St. John Aleiturgitosrnaround 1525 (Late). All of these arernwithin a few blocks of each other.rnOne of the highlights of Bulgaria isrnBackova monastery, a few miles outsidernof Plovdiv, which is in the middle of therncountry....

sure he wanted to meet an /mericanrnjournalist, because Americans always sidedrnwith the Turks. He said he had tornthink about it. I mentioned that we werernhaving our problems with Muslims, too,rnthat our attitudes were more complex.rnThe United States had suffered thernTrade Center bombing, and the ReverendrnFarrakhan was meeting with ourrnIvan Saruev, priest to the Pomaks.rnenemies in...

?T^rnRila Monastery.rn”brotherhood” means only Mushms.rnWhat does it mean in the Koran to sav,rn”O ou who believe, fight the unbelieversrnwho are near to vou,” or “Belic’crs!rnDo not take Jews and Christians forrnfriends”? “Sure the are unbelievers whornallege that God is the third of three.”rnWhat about the chaplains in Kuwaitrnwho were forbidden to show any sign of...

have no foothold in Dismaiha: the firstrnand last soccer game, in 1948, promptedrna civil war which continues to the presentrnda’ in the remote valleys of the MordorrnRange. The country is ignorant of anyrn”Doors” but those hung before the women’srnlavatories in the Grand PanjandralrnPalace. No Sinatra or Strauss, neitherrnBach nor Beatle, can be heard within itsrnborders,...

to remain in Dismailia, but his almostrncomplete indifference to the country’srnpeople and culture—not to mention hisrnloathing for all forms of administrativernpaperwork—limits his effectiveness inrnthat post. The preferred staffing optionrnwould be an Ultramulticultist Collectiverndrawn from the English, Anthropology,rnand Sociology departments, but PresidentrnBleatley’s appeal for volunteers continuesrnto be stymied by the amazingrnnumber and diversity of diversity projectsrnwhich...

an annual rate of 16 percent, reaching arncost of $45 billion in six years for Medicaidrnand SSI alone. Even with welfare reformrnthis picture may not change much,rnA historic tide of naturalizations hasrnguaranteed that noncitizen welfare dependencernwill simply continue as citizenrndependence. (Until recently, citizen usagernof SSI was declining.) Furthermorernabout 40 percent of recent growth is inrnhumanitarian...

to distinguish between private borrowingrnand public borrowing: they think the issuernis whether the annual income streamrn(tax revenues) is able to support the annualrninterest cost. But the real issue isrnwhether a $450 billion annual charge—rnwith no return—is socially and politicallyrnsustainable. Does anyone think a 20-rnyear-old earning $10 an hour, or $20,000rna year, can afford to pay...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnYear’s EndrnThe house key on its leather thong hadrnnearly worn through the corner of thernmailing envelope in which it had arrived.rnThe gate latch was a loose affair operatedrnby another thong, of a piece with thernfirst, running through a circular hole inrnone of the upright planks that made thernwooden gate. I...

their way north from Old Mexico, up thernRio Grande treneh to the settlement atrnSanta Fe; following the river backwardrntoward its origins in the Sangre dc Christornmountains at the beginning of time,rntraveling in reverse direction to the Zunirnin their muddy pueblos whose bakedrnroofs Coronado’s scouts mistook forrngold, and behind them the Anasazi,rndoomed by an accommodation to...

19 9 6 i n R e v i e wrn^QnZ,rnVSArn^”Vagandarnand Uprn/^Aw/W,â„¢rn’/r/f^rn[cw^’^rn’)/r/rrny-rnTHEORY AGAINST LIFE—lanuary 199r>-GeorgernWatson on literary thcor in England, Jeremy Black onrnthe Whig approach to history, E. Christian Kopft onrndeeonstruetioni.sni, and Irving Ltjuis Horowitz onrnThomas Sza’.z and the theory of mental ilhiess-rnPlus Samuel Francis’s reiev of Michael Lind’s ‘IhernNext Amencdn Nation.rnPRAVDA USA: PROPAGANDA ANDrnTHE...

transactionrnNew and Recent Books on Family and PolicyrnTHE SWEDISH EXPERIMENTrnIN FAMILY POLITICSrnTHE MYRDALS AND THE INTERWARrnPOPULATION CRISISrnAllan CarlsonrnThis devastating account of the work ofrnGunnar and Alva Myrdal portrays how twornyoung scholars used the power of ideas tornhelp engineer a new domestic order in Sweden.rnIt offers the general reader remarkablerninsight into the nature of Scandinavian socialrnlife,...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSE;NIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, Jr.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnMichael WashburnrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O.j. Brown, Katherine Dalton,rnSamuel Francis, George Garrett,rnPaul Gottfried, Christine Haynes,rnE. Christian Kopff, j.O. Tate,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, William Mills,rnJacob 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...

cists relate violence to alcohol and/orrndrug abuse, perhaps implying that it isrnless heritable.rnIn an article in the October 1996 issuernof Aggressive Behavior, I demonstratedrnthat testosterone is related to aggressivernbehavior in both men and women. Wernobtained testosterone samples from thernsaliva of 300 college men and womenrnand asked them to complete questionnairesrnregarding their aggression and nurturancernin different...

people will only use this as a base to carryrnon further attacks, since there is hardlyrna monument or even a street name inrnthe state that is not imbued with Southernrnhistory.rnThe conflict in South Carolina, inrnfact, comes down to a conflict betweenrnthe establishment and the people. As alwaysrnand everywhere, the RepublicanrnParty ends up carrying water for...

now form the basis of Afrocentrist curricularnin schools nationwide.rnFor example, according to the Essays,rnancient Egyptians were black, all thernachievements of the Egyptians are thereforernblack achievements, the black Egyptiansrnhad the technology to fly, andrnCleopatra was “a distinctly African woman,rndark in color. . . . If living today, shernwould probably be living in one ofrnthe Black communities...

PERSPECTIVErnOther Peoplernby Thomas Flemingrna Iask myself: Wouldn’t I be better off, if we gave up speakingrnFrench? This is a question that m children, and everyonernin Quebec should ask themselves ecr’ dav.” The questionrnwas not entirely rhetorical. Like many French-Canadianrnintellectuals, Georges favors secession but broods over the pricernhe and his people had to pay for insisting...

the weather; it is the primary mode of being (not just expressing)rnwho wc are. To grow up speaking a language is to becomerna Hving artifact of the culture produced by the speakers of thatrnlanguage. An American who lives abroad long enough to learnrna new language begins to realize that he can think and speakrnthings in,...

ting on the corpse. Each of these exotic points of icw—the artifactsrnof ancient traditions, as dehcate as sculptured crystalHnern—must be gathered up with the old fruit jars and nonreturnablernbottles of Middle America—and ground into roadbedrnmaterial for the interstate highway system.rnI n liberal societies there is littlerntoleration of dissent on fundamentalrnquestions.rnAll modern ideologies—international socialism, national socialism,rndemocratic...

fight not for the honor and interest of their country but to stabilizernthe political situation 5,000 miles away; where the childrenrnof aliens are given privileges at the expense of the childrenrnof native-born citizens; where all the little differences of traditionrn—in religion, in culture, in ethnic folkways—are abolished;rnwhere men—in the name of individual rights—may marry otherrnmen...

town, leaving an empty factory and devastated lives in theirrnwake.rnAt least on the way out the road signs posted the speed limitrnin miles, not kilometers. A little victory, by the way, which suggestsrnmyriad possibilities. The grassroots revolt against thernmetric system, that monstrous spawn of the Big-Government-rnBig Business-Big Science alliance, was beautiful and inspiring,rneven better than...

dolls and baseball gloves and toys to children of indigent parentsrnevery Christmas. Prodded by bluenoses—usually transientrnProtestant ministers—the cops had to raid her once or twice arnyear, but she was always forewarned by her friends in the policerndepartment.rnEdna’s is long gone; lechery, too, has been abstracted, madernunreal. Next door to Edna’s old place is Batavia’s first...

Anglo-American unity. When I was very young, I was taken onrnboard Winston Churchill’s flying boat, which was moored inrnBaltimore harbor. I still remember the sight of a huge flyingrnbedstead of Churchillian proportions. From such moments,rncareers are made. I also remember the British seamen whornwere invited into our house, and told us tales of events they...

numbers began to rise further, and they have been rising everrnsince. At Yale and Brown and Princeton and Williams, historyrnhas become the most popular undergraduate major, replacingrneconomics and politics. The Digest of Education Statisticsrnshows that the number of history degrees has been increasingrnthroughout the nation for more than a decade.rnPart of the cause is a...

from upper-middle (“The taxman’s taken all my dough /Andrnleft mc in this stately home . . . All I’ve got’s this sunny afternoon”)rnto lumpen (“IHe got no home, I’ve got no nione7 Butrnwho needs a job when it’s sunnv?”). There were songs of oddrnbeauty, like “Witerioo Sunset,” with its uncxpeeted declarationrnthat paradise consists of watching...

band performed a selection of songs from their 1968 albumrnThe Village Green Preservation Society and their then-forthcomingrnrock opera Preservation. Songs such as “SalvationrnRoad”:rnHear me brothers, hear me sistersrnCitizens and comrades, hear my songrnThe old life’s dead, the order’s changingrnIt’s time for all of us to move alongrnGot no time to live a life with old...

a fierceness in blood that can bind you up with a long communityrnof life.”rnThe social and political ideals of the traditional South contrastrnmarkedly with those of the North, and especially NewrnEngland. While the Southerner held fast to Biblical inerrancy,rnallegiance to place and kin, patriotism, local self-government,rnand social hierarchy, the Yankee embraced individual conscience,rnunivcrsalism, nationalism, centralism,...

that makes him unsuitable raw material for productive eitizenshiprnin the coming global Utopia. He holds fast to the creed ofrnthe Mississippian: “‘A man ought to fear God, and mind his ownrnbusiness. He should be respectful and courteous to all women;rnhe should love his friends and hate his enemies. He should eatrnwhen he is hungry, drink...

fered no preparation on the classical side,rnso he went up as a natural scientist, subjectrnmatter he had no interest in. Morernseriously, to enter Sclvwn, Muggeridge,rnwhose family was decidedly secular, hadrnto become a confirmed member of thernChurch of England, a maneuver he laterrnkept quiet about, even though his undergraduaternreligious phase was genuinernenough. Yet the main purpose,...

tribution by resurrecting attention torntheir lives and work.rnSigmund, born in the village ofrnWaubeek on the banks of the WapsipiniconrnRiver, moved at age 19 to nearbvrnCedar Rapids and cventuallv becamernan insurance executive. Yet he devotedrnhis main energies to poetry, most of itrnfocused on the flora, fauna, and folk ofrnthe VVapsipinicon valley. Following hisrnuntimely death in 1957,...

best-sellers and prize winners like jackrnMiles’ God: A Biography and Armstrong’srnA History of God. The Historyrnwas a distinctly mixed project, evincingrnas it did conspicuous learning about abstrusernbyways of Islamic philosophy andrnmysticism, above all from the Sufi traditionrnshe clearly loves. However, this sensitiverntreatment was constantly juxtaposedrnwith malicious digs at every aspectrnof Western intellectual tradition. ThernGreeks achieved...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnFirst Things LastrnIf the election of 1996 turned out to bernan even bigger snore than most citizensrnanticipated, the fall of the year was neverthelessrnenlivened by a dangerous outbreakrnof something resembling actualrncogitation on the American right. Givenrnthe mentally paralytic cast of the Dole-rnKemp campaign and much of the partyrnthat nominated it, the...

you [Neuhaus and Colson] use to describernthis country, especially your ownrnreference to Nazi Germany; by the seditiousrnmeasures you contemplate and allrnbut advocate; and by the aid and comfortrnyou for all practical purposes offer to thernbomb throwers among us.”rnRecriminations among neoconservativesrnarc always amusing, if only for thernpolemical nastiness with which they arernconducted, and the whole dispute...

pulsive, and how one might “resist” suchrnpermissive laws is never clear. Pourrnchicken blood on abortion clinics? Killrnabortionists? By embracing the subjectivistrndoctrine of disobedience of Garrisonrnand King (to whom Neuhaus himselfrnwas an aide), the First Thingsrncontributors come very close to embracingrnthe very dangerous logic of that position.rnOnce you have decided that thernstate does not conform to...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Londonrnby Derek TurnerrnPeking-on-ThamesrnCross Shaftesbury Avenue going southrntoward Leicester Square, and you leavernhomosexual London for Peking-on-rnThames. Decorative oriental-style ironrngates, like in some 18th-century pleasurerngarden, mark the various entrancesrnto the small area which is officiallyrndesignated “Chinatown.” Orientalrnshops, restaurants, hairdressers, travelrnagents, and apothecaries selling Chinesernmedicines are crammed along and spillrnover Chinatown’s permeable borders,rnlike a medieval city...

Thames. In stark contrast, in Goldsmith’srnThe Citizen of the World, LienrnChi Altangi, is portrayed as an urbanernWestern gentleman, albeit with a slightlyrnflowery turn of phrase, and Burke’srnshort story characters are at least as gentlernand sensitive as other people, likernCheng Huan, the poet who attempts tornrescue a Cockney girl from her brutalrnand drunken father in The...

The political reason for this is no mystery.rnBringing about the necessary structuralrnchanges will be painful for somerntime. It’s much like asking someone torngive up cocaine for the future rewards ofrna drug-free life; sacrificing the illusion ofrnthe free lunch of communism for thernmore realistic economic rewards tied directlyrnto individual work is not a sermonrnany politician wants...

Archaeologist Ivan Ivanov and arnThracian burial in Varna.rnrecently gone into operation and has anrninteresting beginning. Just before WorldrnWar II, Ivan Stanchov came to the UnitedrnStates, where he worked for IBM andrnthrough business became well off. Hisrnfamily had their property confiscatedrnwhen the communists took over. Afterrnthe “changes” of 1989 in Bulgaria, veryrnslowly some of the property...

Slipper Award for the recent Louisianarnlegislative session and had to choosernbetween Representative John Travisrn(Democrat, Jackson) saying, “I can’t believernthat we are going to let a majority ofrnthe people decide what is best for thisrnstate,” and Representative CynthiarnWillard-Lewis (Democrat, New Orleans)rndeclaring, “This amendment doesrnmore damage than it does harm.” Keeprnworking at it, Bulgaria.rnWillidm Mills is a...

er, following the strike, tests showed thatrntheir performance had actually deteriorated.rnSoon thereafter, the practice of socialrnpromotion and race-based hiring tookrnhold in the city’s schools. As school performancernplummeted, ever more dollopsrnof racial self-esteem were demanded. Illiteratesrngraduated from high school, andrncontinued on to the City University ofrnNew York, which in 1970 switched fromrna selective to an “open”...

additional sacrifices to reenroll the childrnin private school for the third grade,rnwhere she thrived anew.rnDuring the early 1990’s, the citvrnplanned an Afrocentric Ujamaa Instituternrestricted to black (and Hispanic, i.e.,rnhonorary black) boys, and hiring exclusivelvrnblack men. The threat of a courtrnchallenge caused the Board to allow forrnblack and Hispanic females, as well. Officiall}’,rnthe school does not...