Category: Imported

a single liody.” His is one of the first modern calls for what hasrnbecome a centerpiece in liberal thought: some form of woridrngovernment that would eliminate the independence of nationstatesrnand enforce global harmony.rnhi addition to world government, there are two other constantrnelements in all reform plans: military disarmament andrnfree trade (meaning economic disarmament). Both of...

Alliances are part of the old system of power politics rejectedrnb transnationalists. In Bosnia, for example, when NATO niilitar-rncapabilities were needed, it was imperative to give the U.N.rna eto over their use. The Bosnian experience indicates that therndiplomatic cover provided by the UN. comes at a high price. Itrnconfirmed the old adage that “councils of...

an War and the average deployment oer the course of the VietnamrnWar. It has thus become tlie standard for a “regional conflict.”rnBy the end of 1995, the United States \’ill only have tenrnArmy divisions, five Marine brigades, 11 aircraft carriers, and 13rntactical wings on active dutv. This is barely enough to fight onernregional conflict, let...

tagc of terror… filled his head: the walking dead of Ausehwitz,rnBelsen,” ete., ete. Never mind that this right-wing rally thatrnBond witnessed had yet to seize power, had shown no sign ofrnorganizing a eoup, had built no camps and exterminated nornone—never mind, in other words, that this gathering had thusrnfar eommitted no crime. For Ciardner’s and...

Congress may pass tliat overturn the activity currently bannedrnin your state. It was exactly this end-around the democraticrnprocess that child labor law activists and civil rights workers reliedrnon to fight against state laws they opposed eariier this century,rnand it is U.N. treaties and the acronymic “trade” pacts onrnwhich open-border activists rely today for the supposed...

best and the brightest might have our mihtary do to justify thernbillions of dollars it continues to receie in the post-Cold Warrnera, some of which are: security at Olympic and Super Bowlrngames, fire fighting and flood control, security at state and federalrnprisons, animal control and clean-up, road repair, landscaping,rnand substitute teaching. That’s right, “Be All...

killed in a war,” “the right not to be exposed to exeessively andrnunnecessarily heavy, degrading, dirty and boring work.” Whatrnconstitutes a “right” is very simple: “a claim is an internationalrnhuman right if the United Nation’s General Assembly savsrnit is.”rnThe modus operandi of “children’s rights” advocates is notrnmuch different. As Hillary Clinton conceded in 1979, the...

leukemia. In his judgment, the treatment was making herrnmore miserable than the disease itself.rnThough the Amish may be among the few toda’ who understandrnthat there is more to life tlian being healthy, their odd beliefs,rnand those of other heretics and pagans, are easy targets forrnour own scorn. Orthodox Christians ma^ learn to sympathizernwith them when...

gage in any unlawful sexual activity; the exploitative use of childrenrnin prostitution or other unlawful sexual practices; and thernexploitative use of children in pornographic performances andrnmaterials,” it is probably because their employer has been lessrnthan dedicated to these same provisions. Only recently was thernNorth American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) silencedrnat the U.N. when the...

TORTURE AND EXECUTIONrnDEATH &TAXESrnIrn^wB^^I^^^L^^irn•Wrn”…Gordon Kahl was the kindrnof American who made thisrncomitry, and his death—and thernubjj media coverage that vilifiedrn.If^’ him—are a national disgrace.rnBuy the film and show it to yourrnneighbors.”rn—Thomas Meming’rn..^Jackson sticks i. to the IRS and the Feds in “Death & Taxesrn” . . . J a c k s o n STltK:>...

ment, he bought American goods at everyrnopportunity.rnHis idealistic successors, Thomas Jeffersonrnand James Madison, promotedrnfree trade in their early years in officernand experimented with trade sanctionsrnagainst Great Britain to remove its mercantilistrndiscriminations. Their rewardrnwas the War of 1812. The experiencernturned Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, andrntheir contemporaries into economic nationalsrnand led to what is known as thern”American System.”...

culture, Treasury, Commerce, and otherrndepartments to coordinate the countrv’srntrade strategy and negotiations—thernCommittee on Trade Agreementsrn(CTA). For more than two decades, thernnames of these members were a tightlyrnheld secret. Eckes, who has seen the list,rnreveals that most of them, like many appointeesrnof the New Deal, were freetraderneconomic theorists recruited fromrnacademe. During the Roosevelt administration,rnthey were turned...

responsible conservatives and progressivernsocialists, as when he went to Canadarnand in a moment of enthusiasm, orrnvisionary transport, cried out, “Vivernle Quebec libre!” “Hurray for freernQuebec!” They said he was senile, butrnhe turned out to be right.rnAnd he will be right in the future.rn(The title of Debray’s book in French isrnA demain De Gaulle.) “It is...

garics of the global market and to thernworld’s hungry mouths and emptyrnhands, which are willing to work so hardrnfor so erv little, hi such a world, it mayrnturn out that what de Gaulle had to say sea-port and intends to remain so.” Tornabout a little port in Normandy was not that, I can think of...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Englandrnby Jeremy BlackrnContinental DriftrnBoth recent and longer-term historyrnthrow hght on British distinctivenessrnwithin the European Community. It isrnapparent that enthusiasm for the EC, letrnalone a federal Europe, is limited inrnBritain, and that much of the history ofrnpolitical convergence over the last 40rnyears is to be sought in the calculationsrnof particular politicians and politicalrngroups, rather...

to displace the nation-state from its positionrnin popular loyalties faces. A sense ofrnplace and continuity is crucial to the harmonyrnof individuals and societies. It isrnchallenged by the continued process ofrnchange, a process that entails the alteration,rninvention, and reinvention of traditions.rnExcept in periods when there isrna stress on the value of a break with thernpast, change...

ident Eduardo Frei for having pardonedrnthe drug smuggler involved in the largestrndrug seizure in Chilean history (a halfrnton of cocaine from Bolivia, on its way tornthe United States). The smuggler’s familyrnis active in the party of the president,rnthe Christian Democrats. The pardonrnwas especially emharrassing since it occurredrnjust as the government was kickingrnoff its drug abuse...

now can speak if they wish. I keep myrnstubborn analogy to myself, but for mernthere remains some subterranean part ofrnthe Chilean soul in this, an opening up,rnan emergence from the time of troubles.rnArc Chile’s troubles over? Of coursernnot; nobody’s troubles are ever going tornlie over. But 22 years after Allende andrnthe Marxists departed and six...

VITAL SIGNSrnFOREIGN AffAIRSrnSinging the U.N.rnBluesrnby Gary L. Bauer andrnRobert L. MaginnisrnThe operational philosophy and militaryrnrole of the United Nations havernradically changed. In the U.N.’s first fivernyears it launched only two peacekeepingrnmissions, but since the fall of the SovietrnUnion the U.N. has mounted 19 operationsrninvolving more than 70,000 bluehelmetedrnsoldiers. Last year these operationsrncost $3.6 billion. The...

ucd U.N. involvement, and MadeleinernK. Albright, America’s Permanent Representativernto the United Nations, toldrnCongress, “The Clinton Administrationrnbelieves very deeply in the potential ofrnthe U.N. system.”rnThe Clinton administration praisesrnthe U.N.’s radical transformation, butrnmany Americans don’t share the optimism.rnPresidential hopeful Senator BobrnDole said, “It is high time we rein in U.N.rnpeacekeeping, which is out of control.”rnSenator Jesse Helms...

When Americans express their doubtsrnand reservations about engaging militaryrnforces in a highly questionable venture,rnthey are routinely reproached at homernand abroad for jeopardizing their country’srncredibility as a world leader andrnshirking global responsibilities. However,rnif we do not need the allies as much asrnthey manifestly need us, why shouldrnAmericans hobble their economic nationalrninterests for the sake of allies’rnstrategic...

postponing rather than altogether avoidingrndeath; nor should we be angry atrngovernments or diplomats for merelyrnpostponing war. The parallel mav be extended:rnoccasionally small wars are prophvlacticrnand avert bigger ones, just asrnsurgery may postpone hfe-threateningrndevelopments. World War II might havernbeen avoided had the Allies intervenedrnwhen Hitler reoccupied the Rhineland.rnSome argue that the Persian Gulf Warrnprevented a bigger...

10 percent of the vote in France, and thernmore fiercely the fever burned, the soonerrnthe temperature returned to the levelsrnfavored by representatives of internationalrncooperation and world trade. The NationalrnFront has now seen nearlv 25 yearsrnof steady growth. This year’s presidentialrnvote (in two stages) followed in short orderrnby the municipal elections (also inrntwo stages) confirmed its...

Solon in the sixth century B.C. passed arnlaw that those who abstained from majorrnconflicts confronting the Athenian peoplernwere disenfranchised. If wc hope tornavoid the ethnic wars that are America’srnlikely future, we need to act. We are notrnlikely to be given the 25 years it took LernPen to achieve his current position.rnE. Christian Kopffis a professor...

suffered heavy losses in the last election,rndescribed two male posteriors in a prohomosexualrnmovie as “those unforgettablernspeaking orifices, paralleled only byrnthose Reform party members of Parliamentrnwho sit in front of me.” Reform hasrnbeen fighting the cultural war on otherrnfronts. The party’s first parliamentary filibusterrnwas against a government appropriationrnfor native Indians. When a Sikhrnsued the Royal Canadian...

The Hundredth Meridianrnbv Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnWyoming PeakrnIt is 145 road miles from Belen to Gallup,rnNew Mexico, a railroad town immediatelyrneast of the Arizona border on oldrnHighway 66 and adjaeent to the Ramahrnand Big Navajo Indian Reservationsrnwhere m grandmother Williamsonrntaught school eady in the century, returningrnto Ohio after a semester or twornwhen an amorous Na’ajo could...

watched the fleecy clouds above andrnTruman Julian’s sheep below moving inrnopposite directions across the rollingrnsagebrush hills.rnTwelve hours before the Thomans’rnlease expired at midnight, June 30, MaryrnThoman and I, accompanied by herrnniece Karen Thoman of Rivcrton, loadedrnthree saddle horses into a stock trailerrnand drove south along the meanderingrnGreen River to look for 43 yearlings thatrnneeded to...

God works through Saints. The Devil, Crats!rnCrats! is an adventure novel in which all the from which most Whites and Browns are devillainsrnare crats: Democra?^, bureaucra?^, scended. And, the eternal battle between CainrnBaalocra^5. Cra/s/helps over-educated Chris- and Abel. And, how the children of Shem, Ham,rntians and Jews recover from too much schooling and Japeth can...

Dick Armey’s Freedom RevolutionrnThe most far-reaching proposal everrnfrom a sitting congressional leaderrnAfter the Contract with America,rnwhat next? Rest on our laurels?rnHardly. Rep. Dick Armey, key architect of thernContract, now calls for a new American revolution,rna radical return to the limited government of thernFounding Fathers.rn• In The Freedom Revolution, Armey shows howrnfree people can take power...

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If Clinton had not been so brazenly manipulativernin the first place, he would notrnhave had to do it again. The President’srnattempt to destrov military distinctionsrnearlv in his administration backfired, andrnill became a draft-evader. But now therntime had come to reassemble Clinton’srnrambcw coalition. And because of hisrnlack of credibility, Clinton will always bernsuspected of connivance in...

cssary, but it is a diversity of ideas that isrnneeded. A university may have biases,rnbut it is not in the business ol” employingrnbias in order to adopt a soteriology. Ifrnstudents and faculties enlist in universityrnlife to be indoctrinated without dissent,rnthen thev become mere foot soldiers inrnan ideological war.rnWhile I possess an ideology, I wouldrnresist to...

cal leaders who would even discussrnsubjeetiug soldiers to degradation andrndisease hae alreadv declared moralrnbankruptcy.rn—R. Cort KirkwoodrnH U M A N F E T U S E S “can make yourrnskin snroother, vour bodv stronger, andrnare good for the kidneys,” sa’s a doctorrnat a hospital in Shenzcn, China. In anrneffort to exploit this diseover, London’srnDaily ‘I’elegmph...

Principalities & Powersrnbv Samuel FrancisrnNatural Born KulchurrnIn the tumid political underbrush of thernsummer, there were a number of interestingrnand even important new sprouts,rnas Pat Buchanan slowly pushed asidernPhil Gramm as the favored candidaternof the Republican right and almost all ofrnthe rest of the blossoming aspirantsrnto the throne of Reagan and Bushrnwithered in the indifferent heat...

the foggiest notion of wliat a popularrnculture should be. They have no suchrnnotion because the “visions” by whichrnthev have entranced themselves have nornroom for culture, and since no one else inrnthe I’nited States knows what a culture isrnor ought to be either, we are left with thernmorbid concoctions of Hollywood andrnthe crippled musical droppings of...

PERSPECTIVErnCaliban in the Classroomrnby Thomas FlemingrnWhat do black Americans think of whites? Wliat do theyrnwant from them? I’he questions are almost as bafflingrnas “What do women want?”—the question we raised a fewrnmonths ago. After years of living with the men and women wernused to call colored people, working with them and callingrnsome of them friends,...

I lis cross upon Calvary. It was the Negro troops underrnTeckK Roosevelt who won the battle of San Juan Hill. . . .rnIt was the genius of the Negro which had invented thernsteam engine, the cotton gin, the air brake, and numerousrnother things—but conniving white men had seen thernNegro’s inventions and run off and put...

and as a black Moses who will deliver his people from nationalrnbondage. His anti-Semitic outbursts, for example, warmrnthe hearts of black nationalists who demonize Jews as thernquintessential white oppressor, and his apologies and explanationsrn—ignored b}- his followers—reassure liberals that he eitherrnknows his place or is only jiving. “Why doesn’t he repudiaternLouis Farrakhan?” ask his critics....

It is unclear how the West could simultaneously havernignored Asia and studied it in minute detail with an eve torndominating it, but to our current generation of “educators” itrndoes not matter: in the pseudoreligious, psvchotherapeuticrnatmosphere of contemporary educational theory, both of thesernclaims are legitimate and useful because thev expose our guilt,rnwhich can only be exjjiated...

Siiuinnn Philoaophm, wliich v:is then rendered from the I .iitinrninto I^jnglish l^v a certain J. Fraser in 1691 as llie Morals ofConfudus,rna Chinese Philosopher. This l:>ook gave the West the firstrntranslations of ‘I’he Confucian Analects—our primary source forrnthe ideas of Cliina’s premier philosopher—’lire Great learning,rnand ‘{‘he Doctrhie of the Mean (Ezra Pound would try his...

Salutary interpreter of Reason alone,rnilluminating minds without dazzling the world,rnhe spoke only as Sage and never as Prophet:rnand yet he was believed, even in his own land!rnIf anything, it is clear that Voltaire wished to use the East asrna club with which to beat the West! It is unmistakaljle in thisrnpoem that Confucius has been...

Plato and Aristotle.rnNot that radical Afroccntrists are persuaded by these arguments,rnor any other arguments, just because they arc based onrnwarranted evidence. Perhaps 30 years ago arguments from e’idenccrnmight have carried some conviction. But these days thevrnarc less effective. People no longer judge an argument on thernbasis of facts, but on the basis of cultural motives....

designed for a particular political purpose. It is not at all surprisingrnthat this notion of a “Stolen Legacy” seems to havernheen developed in the 1920’s and 30’s, at the same time thatrnnew histories of Germany and Italy were being written inrnEurope, and no one should need to be reminded of the harmrnthat was done by...

Who made tlie decision, within the departments of RehgiousrnStudies, to include Judaism? hi many cases the field wasrnthe creation of Protestant clergy, who moved from the collegernchaplaincy to chairmanships of academic departments, or whorndid not even moc out of the chaplaincy when they took on thernw ork of organizing departments. In other cases, philosophers ofrnreligion...

difference between Judaic religion and Jewish ethnicity is whollyrnobscured). Courses on tlie Holocaust attracted manv morernstudents than courses on Judaism. Ethnic history, seen as notrnonly continuous but consequential for personal identificationrnand conviction, enjoyed far more interest than those in the classicalrnwritings of Judaism. For the natural constituency of bothrntypes of courses, Jewish students themselves, brought...

“What difference docs it make where ou came from? You arernan American. Wc are all equal.” True multiculturalism, or “diversity”rnas it is referred to in Academe, would at least recognizernall ethnic groups, not just the four politically correct groups.rnUniversity multiculturalists teach that these four groups arcrnoppressed by the all-powcrfu], the politically dominant majorityrn—as if minorities...

the initiative in labeling any whites holding blacks to standardsrnas “racists.”rnThe cultural split among blacks is between those who seerngutter language as “liberating” and those who privately call itrn”slave talk.” However, public debate is limited by the commandment,rn”Thou shalt not criticize a brother or sister in frontrnof them.” And the black nationalists who so delight...

tion of remedial classes at the institutions in question. Thernhardv souls among professors, administrators, or students whorndared stand up to the thugs were derided as “racists” or “sellouts”rnand often physically assaulted.rnThough the militants achieved onlv a portion of their demands,rnthey did get intellectually fraudulent, “autonomous”rnBlack Studies ]3rograms as political payoffs. The original plansrnfor courses on...

nuanced account of Freud is nothing ifrnnot critical, vet she sees the modern erarnas Freudian both explicitly and bv implication.rnShe also sees the more “open”rn’isions of William James and GertrudernStein as alternatives that were widelyrnaccessible to the modern mind. Butrnthese presences do not, to mv own mind,rnseem to have connected as decisively asrnshe claims with...

he lived in the same apartment buildingrnas Frank Costello and accepted mobrnprotection. Damon Runyon picked uprnhis gangster lingo from the originalrnsources—^Al Capone and Arnold Rothsteinrnbeing two of them. His stories, forrnall their colorful language, affirm thernvalues of the mobsters. The mob hadrnnothing to fear in New York from writersrn—quite the opposite, in fact.rnTwo particularly notable...