At its heart, the Equal Protection Clause of the 14thrnAmendment demands that states act reasonably when theyrnwant to treat one group of their citizens differently from another.rnThus, though it is fine for the state to allow only nonfelonsrnto purchase guns, the Equal Protection Clause would not allowrna state to prevent the sale of firearms to...

Understanding Poetry was dictated not byrna belief in the irrelevance of an author’srnlife but simply by considerations ofrnspace. He seems genuinely amazed thatrnhis younger colleague at Yale, HaroldrnBloom, could have based a whole criticalrnmethod on an Oedipal “anxiety of influence.”rnThe typical poet. Brooks notes,rn”is not so much concerned to slay his literaryrnfather as to commit...

thinkable a few decades ago. If shoutingrna racial epithet denoted a “hate crime,”rnhow many million such crimes occurredrnin 1930, compared to the few hundredrnprecisely recorded by today’s bureaucrats?rnThe clearest evidence of such arnracial sea-change came last year, with thernabsurd outcome of the O.J. Simpsonrncase. While local authorities were gearingrnup for a black uprising in the...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnRepublicans and RealrnFederalismrnWith all the febrile ebullience of a rerunrnof a 1950’s sitcom, the Republican Partyrnwill descend upon San Diego determinedrnto efface any evidence that PatrnBuchanan ever existed and committedrnto staging the miraculous spectacle of arnpolitical convention without any politics.rnYet most Republicans, whether or notrnthey are present at the convention, willrnfind...

so it essentially ratifies, or acknowledgesrnthe legitimacy of, the many usurpationsrnof states’ rights that the Court has imposed.rnSince the 1920’s, and especially sincernthe Warren era, the Court has relied uponrnthe fiction that the 14th Amendmentrn”incorporates” the restrictions on thernfederal government contained in the Billrnof Rights and allows the Court to strikerndown anv and all state...

CORRESPONDENCErnForeignrnCorrespondencesrnby William MillsrnA Jug of Wine,rnA New Zealand TroutrnWith Missouri frozen solid for twornFebruary weeks in a row, naturally one’srnthoughts turn to the Southern Hemisphere.rnThere were some hot spots inrnour beloved country even this winter—-rnMiz Hillary was testifying before a federalrngrand jury, the Rose Law Firm wasrnsmoking, and Mr. Starr was building arnfew fires of...

recommended Bay of Islands region severalrnhours north of Auckland, I headedrnsouth along the main Highway 1,rnthrough Hamilton and on to the largestrnlake in New Zealand and the center ofrnNorth Island, Lake Taupo. On the way Irnobserved what was to be confirmedrneverywhere I went in the country, thatrnKiwis are consummate stock raisersrnand farmers. Like their ancestors...

gets its name from the big time air currentsrnfunneled through the strait, but ofrncourse Parliament is there, too. At thernlanding approach, we hit the deepest airrnpocket I’ve ever experienced.rn1 had hoped to rent a car here, but thernBlenheim Wine Festival was going onrnand there was not a car to be had. I tookrnthe bus to...

about for a place to emigrate, get a copyrnof NZ’s Self-Assessment Guide for residency.rnAcceptance for residency is basedrnon a points system which considers educationrn(12 years of schooling equals twornpoints, for example, postgraduate degree,rn15), work experience, age, and otherrnsettlement factors. One must have atrnleast 21 points under what is termed thernGeneral Category. There is also a...

violent attacks into misdemeanors or norncrimes at all. At the other extreme, onrnJanuary 29, Newsday’s Leonard Levittrncharged that the city had failed to discloserna recent double-rape, a shootingrnhomicide, and the fatal shooting of arncar thief by a cop. Such nondisclosuresrnmesh with my own experience of arnshooting that officially never occurredrnon the A train last December...

Sentencing Project in 1995, 32 percentrnof black men ages 20-29 were eitherrnin jail, or on probation or parole—rnnot counting those convicts who hadrnfinished their sentences. In areas suchrnas Brooklyn’s East New York, Bedford-rnStuyvesant, and Brownsville, andrnQueens’ Far Rockaway, the number topsrn50 percent. However, white QueensrnCollege sociologist Andrew Hacker urgesrnblack men to perpetrate more violentrncrimes against...

VITAL SIGNSrnMEDIArnThe Media War inrnthe Balkansrnby Russell GordonrnMembers of the international pressrncorps, particularly photojournalists,rnoften define themselves as “objectivernobservers,” not participants or instrumentsrnin a conflict, just witnesses.rnBut as the events in the Balkans havernshown, this has not always been the case.rnFor five years the West has beenrnbombarded with images of brutality inrnthe Balkans, most of it...

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The constant Serb shelling and snipingrnof Sarajevo was brutal, and inhuman.rnSo was the Muslim government’srnshelling and sniping of Serb suburbs, arnprovocation which was often overlooked.rnOn the other side of any frontline arearnaround Sarajevo, countless Serb civiliansrnhave had family members killed byrnsnipers or mortars. Along the famousrnKasindolska Street, the vast majority ofrnSerbs I spoke with had...

RELIGIONrnLiberals RediscoverrnReligion—^Againrnby Alan Pell CrawfordrnThose earnest “neoliberals” at thernWashington Monthly have againrngotten religion, which, every few years,rnseems to be their wont. The putativernconvert this time is Amy Waldman, whornwrites that the left (her term) has needlesslyrnneglected to “draw on a religiousrntradition” when trying to persuade othersrnto support its political program. Thernrest of Ms. Waldman’s argument,...

Christianity and not Christianity for thernsake of them. Christianity will indeedrnaccomplish many useful things in thisrnworld, but if it is accepted in order to accomplishrnthose useful things, it is notrnChristianity.”rnMs. Waldman, of course, does notrneven ask us to “accept” Christianity orrnany other faith—only to appear to acceptrnreligion to advance her dubious neoliberalrnnostrums. She calls on...

to remain in North America, there wasrnstill an element of separatism in theirrnthinking. Booker T. Washington, thernundisputed leader of the black communityrnat the time, declared that the racesrncould be “as separate as the hngers” in arnsystem that accorded blacks equal treatmentrnin their legal relations in the privaterneconomy.rnOther blacks and white progressivesrntried to supplant separatist tendency...

era. By ignoring the needs of both whitesrnand blacks to preserve their uniquerncultures, policymakers threaten bothrngroups. Blacks, however, will stand uprnand defend their institutions, whilernwhites sit passively by.rnOne hundred years after the muchmalignedrnPlessy decision, black nationalismrnis as strong as ever. Whites, on thernother hand, do little more than mumblernplatitudes about a nation dedicated to arnproposition...

would be demoted to “feelings aboutrnvalues” which are neither true or falsernbut relative to time, place, and culture.rnThe conclusion of all this is that justice isrnthe advantage of the stronger.rnThe formulation of this is found inrnthe objections to justice of Glaucon andrnAdeimantus in Book II of Plato’s Republic.rnBriefly stated, their argument is thatrnjustice is merely...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnSpring, Like a LionrnThe cloud was no bigger than a puff ofrnwhite smoke above the western horizonrnat a point equidistant between thernHenry Mountains and the Book Cliffs, Itrnwas a nice cloud, a point of interest in anrnotherwise banal skv, soft blue palingrnaround the edges. I tamped down therncookfire I had...

he jumped him in the playground andrnFred, by a stroke of luck, managed to getrnthe advantage. He knocked the boyrnagainst a wall and began to kick him inrnthe groin and around the face. By therntime they pulled Fred off the kid was arncandidate for the hospital, and the principalrnsummoned Fred to his office. Thernprincipal was...

Why ArernCatholicsrnAfraidrnTo Be Catholic?rnThe Vatican thunders against abortion, tyrants,rnillicit sex, consumerism, dissenting theologians,rndisobedient priests and nuns, and more. Butrnwalk into your average parish. Where’s the beef?rnWe get crumbs — and platitudes. We don’t hearrnmuch, if anything, about the Church’s teachingsrnon abortion, euthanasia, homosexuality, pre-maritalrnsex, pornography, the indissolubility of marriagern— “too controversial.” Birth control andrnHell are...

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EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, Jr.rnEDITORIAL ASSISTANTrnMichael WashburnrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O./. Brown, Katherine Dalton,rnSamuel Francis, George Garrett,rnChristine Haynes, E. Christian Kopff,rnj.O. Tate, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, William Mills,rn]acob Neusner, John Shelton Reed,rnMomcilo SelicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnPRODUCTION SECRETARYrnAnita CandyrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn934...

And of course, in their determinationrnto prove me a “white supremacist,” bothrnChavez and Forster neglect to cite my explicitrndisavowal of white supremacy inrnthe American Renaissance article, a disavowalrnthat I quoted in my letter to thernjournal of December 20. That too is arnpart of the “rest of the story” Chavezrnwould prefer the reader not hear. Thern”reconquest”...

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnHOLLAND has a dirty little secret. Inrnthe North Sea resort of Scheveningen,rnthere is a prison where you can be indefinitelyrnincarcerated without trial, orrnwhere you can be delivered on the ordersrnof an ad hoc “court” that sometimes issuesrnwarrants only after politically motivatedrnarrests have been made. The courtrnis ten miles away, in The Hague, and itrngoes...

justify the release of a real, full-bloodedrnwar criminal.rnL’affaire Djukic is more than just a reminderrnof the travesty of justice going onrnin The Hague. A dangerous precedentrnin positive international law has beenrncreated, too, and a thorough revision ofrnthe U.N. Charter has been effected. ThernHague may yet prove to be a step towardrnthe globalist dream of a...

PERSPECTIVErnVirtual Democracyrnby Thomas FlemingrnDittoheads were depressed at the end of April, when RushrnLimbaugh announced his “trial separation from the RepublicanrnParty.” As in so many divorce cases, the charge was infidelity:rnthe GOP had caved in on the minimum wage. Evenrnthough a good moral case might be made for the concept of arnliving wage, there is a...

claims against the purse of their fellow subjects. Since a full lifernincludes the possibility of achieving one’s ambitions withoutrnthe hindrances that are presented by entrenched social classes,rnthen the right to lead a full life cannot be exercised without arnminimum level of subsistence, medical attention, and education.rnReal liberty, in other words, requires socialism.rnIf negative liberties, like...

Nonetheless, what is most striking about Athens is not whatrnthe commonwealth could do (or even how it did it), but whatrnit could not do, especially if she is compared with democraticrnregimes since the French Revolution—governments that redistributedrnwealth, subverted religion, and interfered in privaternand domestic life.rnThis generalization requires some justification. Accordingrnto Thucydides’ Pericles, it was an...

On both sides of the Atlantic, we face the same big social questions,rnrendered more acute each day by the extension of the notionrnof “rights.” The more wealth our societies produce, thernmore intense becomes the debate over how it should be distributed.rnIn this realm, America has the same sort of problemsrnas France and Western Europeans in...

1958, France. Although this is an idea that can be found inrnSieyes’ writings at the beginning of the Thermidorian period, itrnis alien to the French revolutionary tradition, which is characterizedrnby what is called “parliamentary absolutism.” It hasrnnonetheless become a common element of 20th-century constitutionalismrnon both sides of the Atlantic and finds an unprecedentedrntheater in Europe...

A Mighty Long FallrnAn Interview With Eugene McCarthyrnby Bill KauffmanrnSenator Eugene McCarthy is America’s senior statesmanrnwithout a party. An Irish-German Minnesota Catholicrnwho left the seminary for academe, McCarthy was elected tornthe House of Representatives in 1948 and the Senate in 1958.rnHe was the link between the Old Progressives of the UpperrnMidwest and the postwar liberals;...

do much in Minnesota politics: I’m kind of disappointed herndidn’t come back and campaign against Humphrey, althoughrnwe didn’t have a primary so there was no real showdown.rnWhat happened to the party is that it accepted the GreatrnSociety, which was really quite foreign to the tradition of thernNon-Partisan League and the Farmer-Laborites. They werernnot a welfare-directed...

not have any. So what we’re going to do is start taking it awayrnfrom you until it gets down to where you recognize it. Whenrnyou can count your money, Paul, raise your hand and we’ll stoprntaking it away.”rnQ: You spoke in 1968 of the “militarization of American life.”rnHow have we been changed bv our 50-year...

dered whether Kennedy was going to send an ambassador tornthe Vatican. I said it wouldn’t be high on my list of things hernshould do; I’d rather have an ambassador to General Motors,rnFirst Boston, Morgan Guaranty, AT&T, the Pentagon . . .rnthey’ve got more influence on American life than the Vaticanrndoes.rnQ: You have bemoaned the “personalization”...

through which the people could amend the document. But, inrnoperation, the Constitution has been very hard to change.rnWashington’s “door” has been a narrow passage because thernfailure to obtain two-thirds of the members of each house ofrnCongress to approve the proposed amendment has, so far, endedrnthe amendment process. Congress has proven a jealousrnguard at the door...

its, and, if three-fourths of the states agreed to the language, thernamendment would become a part of the Constitution. Thernpeople, acting through their states, would be able, through anrnorderly and manageable process, to reclaim powers previouslyrngranted to, or assumed by, the federal government.rnConstitutional reform under this proposal would remain arndeliberative process. The only change is...

powers, the states, by amendment, could call it back. Ofrncourse, the government exceeding its powers would not consentrnto limit itself.rnThe Hamiltonians, on the other hand, believed thatrnCongress should control the amendment process. AlexanderrnHamilton insisted on congressional approval of proposedrnamendments or the calling of a new Convention because of hisrnbasic bias in favor of a strong...

present Israeli government is even more extravagant than wasrnhis criticism of the former Likud regime. The charge of racismrnleveled at Buchanan seems likewise problematic. Not only havernblack liberals like Juan Williams rushed to his defense, but it isrnalso hard to find insulting comments by Buchanan about blacksrn(save for deviations from p.c). The charge that some...

waged on behalf of Christian or biblical values that the liberalrnleft scorns and seeks to remove from public life. We are alsornwarned to protect ourselves against a New Wodd Order, whichrnthreatens an identity that is treated as more or less apodictic.rnThe reality is far messier. The identity being assumed is farrnfrom obvious to most voters...

Mail”; in Oregon, tlie recent Senate campaign broke records forrnspecial elections, by spreading the voting over a month andrnallowing votes to be mailed in. Or campus registration. YouthrnVote ’96 was holding seminars last winter on how to get outrnyoung voters, and among the topics discussed was how to getrnuniversities to allow voter registration with class...

lifestyle; rather, it must be given politicalrnrecognition as an authentic moralrnstance. Tendencies, behavior, and orientationsrnpreviously classified as deviantrnnow demand civic and political approbation.rnThis kind of “identity absolutismrnlends itself to expressivist politics, therncelebration of feeling or private authenticityrnas an alternative to public debaternand political judgment.”rnThe “politics of difference” could berndescribed as multiculturalism run amok.rnIt is at...

The E. F. SchumacherrnSocietyrnDecentralistrnConferencernJune 28-30,1996rnWilliams CollegernWilUamstown, MassachusettsrnWe believe that it isrntime for many interestedrnindividuals and groups withrnwidely varying perspectives torncome together and discuss thernimplications and possibilitiesrnof decentralization —and atrnthe same time talk through therndetails of creating morernhuman-scale institutions.rnSince 1980 the E. F. SchumacherrnSociety has woricedrninternationally to promote thernideas of the rich decentralistrntradition—^Human-Scale,rnRespect for the Land,...

lin ukases whenever it suited them?rnDoesn’t he, a scholar, know that overnightrnthe veteran communist leaderrnEarl Browder in 1945 became an enemyrnof the Party at Stalin’s orders and wasrnpurged? It was only an accident ofrngeography that worse didn’t happen tornBrowder and other purged AmericanrnCommunists.rnProfessor Powers takes care to distinguishrnamong different categories of anticommunists.rnHe is critical of...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter FromrnEnglandrnby Christie DaviesrnI.D. Cards for Menrn”I don’t want to have to carry a handbagrnall the time” was the way an aggressivernBritish opponent of the compulsory carryingrnof identity cards (as proposed byrnseveral members of the British government)rnyelled it to me recently. In fairnessrn1 should add that this defenderrnof supposed civil liberties was svelte andrnfemale. She...

VITAL SIGNSrnPOLITICSrnSex, Drugs, andrna Republican Partyrnby Marc MoranornAn all-night homosexual “circuit”rnparty called Cherry Jubilee’s “MainrnEvent” took place in Washington, D.C.,rnon April 13, 1996. The dance party featuredrnpublic nudity, illicit sexual activity,rnand illegal drug use. Among the sponsorsrnof the gay festivities were a GOPrncongressman and a host of corporations.rnA federal building, the Andrew W. MellonrnAuditorium, played...

GOVERNMENTrnWho Are thernFreemen?rnby Jeffrey A. TuckerrnTrapped in their Montana farm, tryingrnto fend off the feds, the worstrncrime the “Freemen” are accused of is attemptingrn”to compete with the FederalrnReserve,” according to the New YorkrnTimes. Imagine. These people thoughtrnthat private parties could, on their ownrninitiative, issue checks, print notes, andrnextend credit without monetary backing.rnThey should have known...

auction, and that his paper money notesrnare fraudulent but that T-bills and thernnew $100 note are not.rnMr. Clark’s is a tragic story. This familyrnwas tricked by the fed’s manipulationrnof interest rates (which was heralded in arnliberal media campaign), sucked into thernfarm welfare racket, and then had itsrnfarm confiscated by the very people whornclaimed to be...