Crown Heights, which resulted in thernsavage murder of a young Rabbinical student?rnHow dare anyone resent the MartinrnLuther King holiday? Bob Grant did,rnand his attitudes and ideas were metrnwith a chorus of protest from the Pharisees.rnAlan Dershowitz, the liar for hire ofrnchoice for murderers and rapists, appearedrnon the television news to describernMr. Grant as an anti-Semite...

“racist, sexist, et contra spiritu Sodoma,”rnFAIR and its allies will come for thernsmaller fish, and they will never be satisfiedrnuntil there is no longer anyone left tornthink a free thought. This means you.rnMark Racho writes from New York City.rnMILITARYrnFalse Colorsrnby Katherine DaltonrnThe Case of Michael New Until last summer, Michael New wasrnan unknown 22-year-old Armyrnmedic,...

commander there.rnWith the order to change an Americanrnberet and patch for United Nationsrninsignia, the President has also cededrnsome control over American troops.rnSpokesmen for both the Army and thernDepartment of Defense carefully drew arndistinction between “administrativerncontrol,” which President Clinton retainsrnin Macedonia, and the “operationalrncontrol” exercised by U.N. CommanderrnEngstrom.rnArmy spokesman Harkey would notrnagree that the President has...

demand as a speaker, if his popularity asrna talk radio subject is any indication.rnIt remains to be seen just what legalrneffect his case will have. Until Mc-rnConnell’s letter, New had relatively littlernsupport in the Senate. Sen. Larry Craigrnof Idaho has cosponsored a resolution tornmake wearing the U.N. uniform illegal,rnbut even if this resolution is attached...

ten a defining sentence, “Le style est lernstyle”—which can be read as “the style isrnthe stylus” or vice versa. Aiken’s stylusrnhad cut through to the essence of Frenchrnsymbolism and the experiments of thernpre-World War I literary breakthroughrnwithout affecting his style, which wasrnpurely Aiken during a period when sornmany American poets were plagiarizingrneach other’s method. And...

iambic, even as that flow is encouragedrnby anapests and dactyls. He could movernfrom the discipline of meter to therngreater discipline of free form, avoidingrnalways the dangers of the unrestrainedrnadjective which lie in wait for careless orrnoverenthusiastic writers, and never allowingrnemotion to overcome sensibility.rnI took down from the bookshelf thernCollected Poems, published in 1953,rnwhich I bought...

merely used the count: for the latter’srnhigh hopes both secured the loyalty ofrnthe monarchists for the General-Presidentrnand suggested that a great man likernDe Gaulle could not have a mere ballotboxrnsuccessor.rnAnyway, the Pretender was left highrnand dry. He did, however, overcomernthe doubt that only a Bourbon and notrnan Orleans could become king. ThernCount of Paris was...

SCIENCErnTruth andrnConsequencesrnby Steven GoldbergrnDead white males did not invent thernrules of science; they discoveredrnthem. These rules enable science, andrnscience alone, to make successful prediction.rnAnd prediction is only evidence acknowledgedrnby science to demonstraternthat one is on the trail of the truth. Onernmay, of course, invoke anything onernwishes in attempting to come up with arnsuccessful scientific claim....

MORALITYrnOut of Orderrnby Terence GallagherrnWhen Aeneas lands, after sevenrnyears of wandering, shipwreckedrnon the shores of Africa, his great concernrnis to discover the nature of the countryrninto which fate has cast him, and therntemper of the people who live there. Hisrnfears are put to rest when he stands in thernrising city of Carthage and sees on...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnAlternative CaliforniarnIt felt as strange flying west—not south,rnnot east—from Salt Lake City as if thernearth had reversed its rotation and werernspinning in the opposite direetion. Basinrnand range, range and basin: the long barrierrnmountains were heavy with snow,rnbut now in early March the desert separatingrnthem lay bare, dramatizing therntopographical disjunctions. The...

and Cattle should experiment with BarzonarnCross cattle, Wally found himselfrnlaid up in the hospital when it came timernto buy. “Those are awfully funny lookingrncows,” Elwin said. “Are you sure yournwant me to do this?” “Go ahead and dornit,” Wally told him, “while I don’t have tornlook at them while making the decision.”rnBarzona Cross, or “commercial...

JohnrnS T E A D M A NrnR I C Ern„••**”•’-«rnA ‘^ rnDISEASE /rn^ONES /rnOWNrnA Disease ofrnOne’s OwnrnPSYCHOTHERAPY, ADDICTION,rnAND THE EMERGENCE OFrnCO-DEPENDENCYrnJohn Steadman Ricern”in A Disease of One’s Own, Rice offers a penetrating,rninsightful, and profound analysis of thernco-dependency movement. We not only learnrnmuch about the nature, emergence and consequencesrnof this important stream of popular ‘liberationrnpsychotherapy’...

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EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, jr.rnEDITORIAL ASSISTANTrnMichael WashburnrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnGONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O./. Brown, Katherine Dalton,rnSamuel Francis, George Garrett,rnChristine Haynes, E. Christian Kopff,rn].0. Tate, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, William Mills,rnJacob Neusner, John Shelton Reed,rnMomcilo SelicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnPRODLICTION SECRETARYrnAnita CandyrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices;rn934...

ness” reallv a timeless Platonic form?rnIf Allensworth thinks that Americansrnare defined by “language, culture, andrnvorldiew, as well as . . . all those qualities,rnincluding the way a people walk andrntalk, that set them apart from all others,”rnhe must have a pretty dim view of hisrncountrymen as mass produced by somernassembly line in Thailand. Not only...

out nations and managerial elites—arnworld where the information highway isrnnot full of pornographic hitchhikers andrncommercial shysters but is a mode of relatingrnautonomous communities withrntheir culture intact and their traditionsrnthriving. Hatred of the present and ofrnthe human degradation it has broughtrnabout need not lead to inventing arngolden past that never was and whosernfraudulence ultimately ends up...

include a list of embarrassing questionsrnwith which to attack spurious data, andrnso here it is:rn1. Who is included in the intended targetrnpopulation? Age, sex, ethnic group,rnvoting status, geography, etc.rn2. How was the sample drawn? Phonernbooks, membership lists, random numbers,rnetc.rn3. What was the connect rate? The percentagernof calls reaching a human.rn4. What was the refusal rate?...

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnH A T E CRIMES—w h a t are they? InrnNewport, Rhode Island, a mixed-racerncouple complained that threats fromrntheir white neighbors had driven themrnfrom their home. Generous contributionsrnfrom strangers helped the family tornfind a new place and to pay the rent. Localrnpolice, however, were suspicious fromrnthe first and eventually charged TisharnAnderson with plotting her...

no more sense than to argue that thernabolition of the gruesome medieval punishmentrnof hanging, drawing, and quarteringrnwould inevitably lead to the abolitionrnof punishment altogether.rnMrs. Goodman argues that it is notrnthe business of Congress to ban anyrn”medical procedure.” In addition to beingrnan example of immoral extremism,rnher contention also illustrates the techniquernof giving an abomination a nicernname...

PERSPECTIVErnMan, Man, and Again Manrnby Thomas Flemingrn”Qualis aitifex pereo’rn-NerornIcannot remember a time when I was not what would berncalled an environmentalist. I spent much of my childhoodrnon an earth unconstricted by concrete streets and unburdenedrnby the weight of buildings. I was never happier than when I wasrnout fishing with my father or picking berries with...

the fable of the Tower of Babel, the permanent warning againstrnthe presumption and follies of men who turn from landscaperngardening to high-rise construction “whose top may reach tornhea’en.” Not content with subduing the earth, with shapingrnand “dressing” it, “now nothing will be restrained from them,rnwhich thev have imagined to do.” The punishment, then andrnnow, is...

mean it.”rnMaterialism and consumism retard the development of thernhuman person. Just as we have been taught to regard nature asrnsomething “other” and objective, we have given ourselves thernsame treatment:rnThe drama of man today lies in this: with his degradationrnfrom subject to object, the objectivity of man getsrnmade equivalent to the objectivity of nature. Man is...

its fruits—and those on condition that we left as good for others.rnThe moral doctrine that recent cnironmentalists have attributedrn(no doubt correctly) to the natie peoples whom Europeanrncolonists despised and conquered was actually one thatrnthose same Europeans held. The Minister of the British Crownrnwho recently quoted Ruskin in support of the Rio summit onrnenvironmentalism might as...

by this: stop harassing the whales because it gives them seriousrnpain, and has not even the excuse of sparing others pain.rnThe oMer ethical system urged us to live as decent humanrnbeings, and might easily have made the wider demand explicit:rnto allow or to help nonhuman creatures to live as decent a lifernaccording to their kind....

(and environmental) sense is the slow and careful formulationrnof national law and international treaty, founded in the (differing)rnmoral sensibilities of peoples around the world. We dornneed some general principle, and I would propose the liberalrnprinciple itself, suitably modified to include, explicitly, more ofrnthe world’s creatures than past liberals thought to do. Wernshould act according to...

In the fifth century B.C., Herodotus reports that Arabians behevedrn”the whole world would swarm with these serpents”rn(snakes) were it not for the fact that “Divine Providence” wasrn”a wise contriver.” Belief that “Divine Providence” ensured thernharmony of nature re’crberated among naturalists during thernEnlightenment, and similar notions pervaded early Americanrnthought. In the 18th century, the Swedish scientist...

for using physics to understand living things and their environment,rnhideed, the influenee of cybernetics was so intoxicatingrnthat Httle attention was paid to the lack of evidence for thernecosystem models that employed it.rn”One of the major criticisms of mathematical-theoreticalrnapproaches to ecology,” wrote biologist Robert J. Mchitosh, “isrnthat they commonly rest on simplifying assumptions, often unstated,rnthat make...

shifts in species eomposition, climate, and other conditions. Asrnpaleogeographer Cathy Whitlock wrote, “No millennium hasrnbeen exactly like any other during the last 20,000 years.”rnTherefore, “conservation efforts that emphasize the preservationrnof communities or vegetation types will probably bernunsuccessful because future climate changes quite likely willrndismantle the community or vegetation type of concern.” Andrnone of these natural...

disastrous consequences of policies based upon it, most scientistsrntoday would agree with environmental historian DonaldrnWorster, who said in 1994 that “the ecosystem has receded inrnusefulness. . . . Nature should be regarded as a landscape ofrnpatches, big and little . . . changing continually through timernand space, responding to an unceasing barrage of perturbations.”rnThe New...

firms—the ones that cannot adapt to the national demand forrnenvironmental quality. And the least charitable interpretationrnis that they are moral cowards, afraid to take on corporationsrnbut willing to beat up on the Sierra Club.rnCVV: It seems to me that, in arguing that a traditional Westernrnculture has been substantially weakened since the mid-rn1970’s, you are largely...

CW; You say: “Only when the nation at large feels secure inrnhow local people will deal with resources can local control becomerna reality.” But you are working backward here. The 13rnstates under the Articles of Confederation created the federalrngovernment and made it responsible to them. Power in Americarnis supposed to flow from the small governmental...

iarity with urban reality and values as urban ones have with ruralrnlife. Again, much of what they—the urbanites—know ofrnthe West and of country living comes from television; most recently,rnfrom Northern Exposure which, while a clever show in itsrnway, has nothing whatever to do with Alaska, Alaskans, orrnAlaskan life. As for urban values per se, urbanites...

the environmentalist and consumerist awakening of the 1970’s,rnwhen Congress passed a series of statutes designed to protectrnand clean the natural environment, including FLPMA, thernFederal Lands Polic)- and Management Act.rnThis innocuous sounding law greatly expanded federal landrnmanagement missions and budgets and staffs. It, combinedrnwith the Supreme Court’s decision in Kleppe v. New Mexico,rnchanged the central government...

Circuit Court of Appeals, where eventually the county againrnwas upheld. The decision stands as a legal precedent for propertyrnowners to bring assaults against every critical habitat designationrnin the country. It was another victory for elected localrngovernment against the unclected bureaucracy that devoursrnfreedoms; but, still, we received no concession, no admission,rnand no admittance. If the recalcitrant...

Conservatives and EnvironmentalistsrnAllies, Not Enemiesrnby John C. Vinson, Jr.rnConservatives and environmentalists generally have asrnmuch in common as the Hatfields and McCoys. Environmentalistsrnlike to point to the career of conservative JamesrnWatt and the comment of Ronald Reagan that once you’vernseen one redwood you’ve seen them all. Most conservatives, onrnthe other hand, view environmentalists as sentimental antimodernistsrnwho...

point, as often it is their oversight and determination alone thatrnprevent vested interests from evading the clear intent of environmentalrnlaws. If the criminal element reigns supreme, lawsrnwill be of little avail, as is the case in some African countriesrnwhere poaching is rampant.rnSeveral years ago, while I was visiting Georgia’s OkefenokeernWildlife Refuge, a resident told me...

He doubted that a highly urban society could impart thernvirtues necessary to maintain a free Republic. Once again,rnJefferson had greater faith in character than constitutions.rnThe Southern agrarian prophets of I’ll Take My Stand echoedrnJefferson and predicted 50 years ago with uncanny accuracy thernsocial and psychological malaise that would result in a wholesalernflight to the city....

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OPINIONSrnDecline and Fallrnby Herbert Londonrn’The true university these days is a collection of books.”rn—^Thomas CarlylernThe Price of Excellence:rnUniversities in Conflict Duringrnthe Cold War Erarnby Jacob Neusner andrnNoam MM. NeusnerrnNew York: Continuum;rn252 pp., $24.95rnWhen Woodrow Wilson left hisrnposition as president of PrincetonrnUniversity to run for governor of NewrnJersey, a reporter asked him why hernwould voluntarily give...

Jacob Neusner does not mince words.rnCritics might confuse his unimpeachablernstandards with high dudgeon, but,rnin fact, his judgment about people andrnplaces with which I am familiar is impeccable,rnand his courage in the face ofrnpetty criticism admirable. I should noternfor the record that I was a student at Columbiarnwhen Neusner was there; I studiedrnwith his advisor Morton...

patched together from novels, folktales,rnand wishful thinking.rnMuch of the argumentation will bernfairly obvious to educated people;rnin fact, we know a great deal about whatrnthe Greeks looked like, how they developedrntheir culture, and what theirrnattitude to foreign cultures was. A generationrnor two ago, when most halfeducatedrnpeople had read the ancientrnclassics, if only in translation, no MartinrnBernal...

for them have managed to share therncosts by appealing to foreign aid. Thisrnoption no longer pertains. Hardin insistsrnthat there is no global problem of populationrnand resources; each country willrnhave to take care of itself. Thus, hernmakes a powerful case for closed bordersrnand the end of immigration from poorrncountries to richer ones: “The productionrnof human beings...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnThe Buchanan VictoryrnWhether a full-scale nuclear war betweenrnmodern superpowers would lastrnquite as long as the three-week blitzkriegrnamong this year’s candidates for the Republicanrnpresidential nomination is anrnintriguing question that neither militaryrnnor political scientists seem to havernasked, but whatever the answer, a duelrnwith nuclear weapons might well be lessrnbloodthirsty than the GOP’s recentrnshoot-out...

South and continued to dwell on his oppositionrnto free trade and abortion, issuesrnthat appealed only to special and limitedrnconstituencies. Perhaps most important,rnin South Carolina, he or his campaign orrnboth managed to flub the ConfederaternFlag issue, one that could hae broughtrnhim a clear victor) on the eve of a bankrnof Southern primaries. The story behindrnthe boondoggle...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter Fromrnthe Crimearnby William MillsrnThe Price of FollyrnOn the night train from Kiev to SimferopolrnI share a compartment with VolodymyrrnPrytula, a Crimean journaHst.rnCalled “Vova” by his friends, this slenderrnman with a Zhivagoesque mustache isrnmy sole contact in the Crimea. Hernspeaks little English, I no Ukrainian orrnRussian, but we communicate with thernhelp of Ukrainian red wine....

back at dark to Simferopol The next dayrna tearful mother calls Vova and says herrndaughter can no longer act as interpreter.rnThe mother is terrified that the criminalrngangs will knock off her daughter afterrndark, much less the American. Her fearsrnare not entirely groundless. A well-offrnbusinessman who was their friend hadrnbeen murdered within the year.rnThe fact is...

We also talked about the tension betweenrnthe Tartars and the Russians (notrnthe Ukrainians). In the early 1990’s,rnRussian officials would incite the “citizens”rnto tear down the Tartar tents orrnhalf-built houses. There are currentlyrnphysical encounters between the criminalrngangs who control the open-air marketsrnand the Tartar merchants. Therngangs try to shake them down and thernTartars will not go...

here and went on to make Christianityrnthe ofhcial religion. I noted that the interiorrnof the church was in a fine state ofrnrestoration and outside large mosaicsrnwere in various stages of completion, andrnFather Pavlov replied that the work wasrnbeing paid for by the worshipers. Most ofrnthe churches seized by the governmentrnwere being returned. In front of...

Letter From Londonrnby Derrick TurnerrnThe End of thernEast End?rnLate one night recently, after pub closingrntime, I walked through the back streetsrnof Whitechapel again, something I hadrnnot done for several years. The sight ofrnthe familiar streets and the old smellsrnand sounds reminded me of the sixrnmonths when I had lodged there, duringrnwhich time I had grown...