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thev can assume their rightful placesrnthere. Good work habits must, of course,rnbe “elicited, not coerced.”rnThe good doctor did not, as promised,rntell us how to accomplish all this. Instead,rnhe spent his time attacking criticsrnof multiculturalism. He projected a slidernof a National Review cover published afterrnthe L.A. riots, with a photo of a man,rnpossibh Fhspanie, walking away...

previously unpublished poem, “NornLonger Very Clear,” served up by somernof the “Big Names” in contemporaryrnclassical music: Philip Glass, JohnrnCorigliano, Joan Tower, Anthony Davis,rnMorton Gould, Milton Babbitt, and halfrna dozen others. The poem—introducedrnby Ashbery at the start of the concert—rnreads as follows;rnIt is true that I can no longerrnremember very wellrnthe time when we first began...

York’s Public Radio station) and the independentrnstation WBAI. As a firstgenerationrnEnglish boy who spoke onlyrnPolish at home, BBC radios Three andrnFour helped me become acculturated tornEnglishness at its best, and helped merndevelop an understanding of Englishrncharacter, history, and literature. Listeningrnto WNYC and WBAI, first-generationrnand immigrant children in New Yorkrnare likelv to learn only loathing for...

likely to amaze British listeners used tornpoliteness rather than politics on “AuntiernBeeb” (the BBC). There is nothingrnquite like it in England, where there arernfew talk radio stations, and what few dornexist are mostly given over to tediousrncockneys maundering on about theirrnarthritis. American talk radio, however,rnhas an angry edge to it that is entertainingrnto the foreigner,...

The Hundredth Meridianrnbv Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnNavajoland: IIrnW’c had gone barcK 25 ai’cls when I liadrna fcehng of the noods dissoK ing aroundrnus, and then we were hanging our toesrnoer a hare roek ledge at whieh the worldrndropped a\a. I’Vom 20 miles out BlaekrnMesa ajDpeared to float in spaee like arnlong dark eloud bisected h a...

in behind them and the boys came backrnand began giving us directions to the ruin,rnbut their Enghsh was so bad thatrnGeorge asked them to jump in the bed ofrnthe truck. They chmbed up and hungrnon tight over the rough canted road, andrnat last the one on the left side yelledrn”Stop!” through the driver’s window.rnFrom here,...

America’s leading Christian columnist,rnand pioneering black conservativernTake their booksrnFREEarn$47 value!rnRACE AND CULTURErnby Thomas SowellrnDr. Sowell spent a decade researching this bombshell. He’srnwritten a dozen books, but none as gutsy as this. He explains:rnVVhy some cultures are better — yes, better — than others.rnEver since Sowell appeared on Meet the Press in the earlyrn1980s and left...

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EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR. BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, jr.rnEDITORIAL ASSISTANTrnMichael WashburnrnART DIREGTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O./. Brown, Katherine Dalton,rnSamuel Francis, George Garrett,rnE. Christian Kopff, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrn6(7/ Kauffman, Jacob Neusner,rnJohn Shelton Reed, Momcilo SelicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnPRODUCTION SECRETARYrnAnita CandyrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn934 North Main Street. Rockford....

man’ social orthodoxies could be severelyrncircumscribed.rnPace the New York Times and CBS, onerndoes not have to be a right-wing radicalrnto be deeph’ alarmed at the directionsrntaken by federal law enforcement agenciesrnin the last two decades, mostlsrnunder conservative Republican administrations.rnThese trends include therngrowth of national policing in the guisernof “interjurisdictional task forces”; thernpopular glamorization of informers...

anti-U.N. bill), or a step in the wrongrndirection (it’s dumb to force Congress tornobey bad civil rights laws, and the lineitemrnveto gives unconstitutional powerrnto the Executive).rnGrover Norquist tells us that the Contractrnwill have two lasting effects. Therernwill be another Contract “in 1996 andrn1998 and on into the future” and “allrncongressional elections will be nationalrnelections.” That...

of “Dixie” and other Southern anthemsrnburst forth with unrestrained exuberance.rnWe had come to honor the memorvrnof the dead. But, as with mostrnSouthern funerals, significant thingsrnoccur among the surviving kith and kin.rnWe go to bury our dead and we comernaway resurrected, our sense of place withinrnthe kindred renewed and confirmed.rnSo too at the memorial service and...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnA Boundless Field of PowerrnDoes the United States Constitution stillrnexist? There is one simple way to answerrnthis question. Read any article or sectionrnof the 200-year-old document written tornprovide the citizens of a free republicrnwith a short and simple guide to whatrntheir government can and cannot do andrnask whether the language you...

local ranchers, with the support of arncounty commissioner, nearly had a gunfightrnwith officials of the Forest Servicernand the Bureau of Land Managementrnwhen the citizens decided to ignore federa!rnregulations on land use and startedrnbuilding their own road where federalrnregs declared they couldn’t. “We werernproving our point that thev don’t havernjurisdiction,” said the county potentate,rnwho habitually carries...

PERSPECTIVErn—IwfrnKMHt ^-^i ^-IHEBrn^SBM, jyBPP^rnK.WJrn^fii^i’nJA A’•’^’^CMSrn^E^i^Kjrn| | -rnIt’s Stupid, the EconomyrnCulture and Immigrationrnby Thomas FlemingrnWhy should “a magazine of American eulture” take sornkeen an interest in the question of immigration? Thatrnquestion has been posed all too frequently by journalists whorncan only think of one answer: bigotry. Sometimes the word isrnxenophobia or nativism or even anti-Semitism (apparently...

cliaractcr, it seemed to us that elianges in the etlmie eompositionrnof a nation would also ehange its character, its values, itsrnidentit’. Although most of the immigration debate has beenrncarried on like a price war between two fishwives in the marketplace,rnwe realized er- earlv on that it really did not matter, ultimateh,rnwhether the new immigrants v’cre...

For much of this century America has been described as arnkind of experiment or a laboratory of democracy in whichrna new kind of democratic man is being molded by a new democraticrnculture. Such was the vision of the American Marx, JohnrnDewey, but its finest rhetorical expression was Herbert CroK’srnThe Promise of American Life. Croly was...

with welfare, and second by giving them the cultural equivalentrnof toilet-training. They are also, by the way, afraid of ordinaryrnMiddle Americans whom they suspect of plotting a mutiny.rnLet mc be just as candid. 1 Irave enough to worry about, takingrncare of my family, attending to my job, and working to bringrnsome sanity to my own...

America to surpass the liberties of the Old World?rnAs if this question were not broad enough to tackle, I wouldrnalso like to reflect this afternoon on an interrelated question:rnWHiat made America into a nation? And what is a “nati(3n,”rnan\va ? It seems clear to me that a country or a nation can bernheld together either...

who came from Wessex in southern England, and settled onrnlarge plantations in the tidewater South; and, in the 18th century,rnlarge numbers of Scotch-Irish, who came from the fiercernand warring border country in northern England, southernrnScotland, and northern Ireland, who settled as individualisticrnfarmers in the back country of Southern and Middle AtlanticrnAmerica.rnEach of these groups had...

fellows. He was determined, in the first place, not only to learnrnEnglish, but to abandon his Old Wodd culture and read onlyrnthis new language. He was in that way able to purge himself ofrnan)’ foreign accent. Although he arrived penniless, he workedrnhis way through a private college, paving tuition with never arnthought about seeking government...

ism could only be kept alive and creative by those who hadrnworked hard to learn those traditions and then li’e in them andrnbv them.rnI do not suppose that many will deny that science representsrna difficult and demanding discipline which requires hard workrnand a long apprenticeship. That is one reason why America’srngraduate schools are filled with...

How often a teacher hears students proclaiming that they arernnot going to be like their parents. Many teenagers do look veryrndifferent from their middle-aged folks. Like the late Sam Cookrnin the popular rock-and-roll priamel, they don’t know muchrnabout geometry or about the French they took, but they dornknow that they are free to choose. By...

the Christians who brought them to these shores.rnAs a Jew, Marvin has inherited from his Jewish predecessorsrna tradition of values and morals that differs hardly at all fromrnthe Christian values against which he spoke. Therefore thernquestion arises: Is the objection to the label “Christian,” or tornthe values themselves? It may be that the encounter withrnChristianity...

Christian, at least not since the Constitution, but they werernand to a large extent still are descriptively Christian. Christianityrnin the large sense—not Christian doctrine as such, but therncivilization that has grown up in the context of Christian teachingrnand Christian life—is so interwoven into the whole socialrnand indeed human fabric of the United States that it...

(Matthew 16:26). Forty-odd years ago, when I was in highrnschool, we were told that an article of America’s faith was therninfinite value of every human life. That was unbelievable; itrnwas totally out of proportion. Only God is infinite. Today it hasrnbeen inverted into its opposite, or even worse: not merely thernzero value, but the negative...

without children, or smokers, for example.rnClearly, under this scenario there is no such thing as freedomrnof immigration. Rather, there exists the freedom of many independentrnprivate property owners to admit or exclude othersrnfrom their own properties in accordance with their own unrestrictedrnor restricted property titles. Admission to some territoriesrnmight be easy, while to others it might...

ernment. Once again, assuming no more than self-interestrn(maximizing monetary and psychic income: money and power)rn, democratic rulers tend to maximize current income, whichrnthev can appropriate privately, at the expense of capital values,rnwhich they cannot appropriate privately. Hence, in accordancernwith democracy’s inherent egalitarianism of one-man one-vote,rnthev tend to pursue a distinctly egalitarian—nondiscriminatoryrn—policy of emigration and immigration.rnAs...

ously, and from there easily create anrnAmerican identity. Any who cannot bernbothered can wait for the next amnesty.rnAnother difference between the newrnimmigration and the old is that the oldrnwas intermittent, broken by lulls duringrnwhich recent immigrants were assimilated.rnIn contrast, the new immigration isrncontinuous. The constant inflow ofrnaliens overwhelms the assimilating powerrnof communities, while preserving thernalienness...

rect lineage of the American populistrntradition. Unlike Lawrence Goodwyn,rnfor example, he does not try to find perfectrnfits between agrarian radicals livingrnin late 19th-century Nebraska and Mississippirnand the academic liberals of thern1990’s. Kazin understands that, by thernstandards of Tikkun, both the populistrnrank and file and leadership of the 1890’srnwere—culturally, at least—to the rightrnof anyone he is...

knowledge as the better publicized DeadrnSea Scrolls, but which had the good fortunernto escape the political conflict andrnprima donna egos which sabotaged thatrnrival project for decades. Since the latern1970’s, the Nag Hammadi library hasrnbeen available in good and easily affordablerntranslations, which have been assiduouslyrnmined for the “rival traditions”rnthat they appear to present for the earlyrnChristian...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter FromrnMassachusettsrnby Eugene NairettrnBeacon to the NationsrnA few months ago and despite my betterrnjudgment, I spent some time watchingrnthe NFL playoffs. Seeking rchcf fromrnrather than in work, I soon was remindedrnthat the tube is a conduit of malaise andrnof pop cultural propaganda. For everyrnglimpse of the tenacious gifts of DanrnMarino, there were hours of dumb...

compromised immunity that resultsrnwhen wealth displaces moral values wasrnreflected in an influential “conservative”rnbiweekly, which offered some pop-culturalrncheerleading by an Americanrnephebe in Prague. “Glitzy stores andrnstate-of-the-art showrooms open everyrnmonth,” enthused the young capitalistrn(an editor for the Czech edition, Irnkid vou not, of Elle magazine). “Untilrnrecentlv,” he continued, “it was rare tornsee a Mercedes or BMW; now...

VITAL SIGNSrnPOLITICSrnImage IsrnEverythingrnby Janet Scott BarlowrnFor at least a year now—ever sincernthe evidence became intellectuallyrnirrefutable while yet being emotionallyrndeniable—every second sentence writtenrnor spoken about Bill Clinton by therndominant media has begun with thernword “if.” Reduced to its essence, therntwo-sentence refrain goes like this: Americansrndo not believe Bill Clinton. If BillrnClinton can become credible, Americansrnwill believe...

whose combined effect is to make Americansrnfeel as if they have suddenly awakenedrnon Mars. Here is the President ofrnthe United States, hands in pockets andrnleg cocked, staring down from thernRolling Stone cover, looking like … like arnboomer trying to look presidential whilernthinking, Hey, I’m on the cover ofrnRolling Stonel Inside is an interview inrnwhich the...

lapsed on the floor, became dysfunctional,rnand was unable to care for herrnchildren. A New Jersey lawyer has sued arncoffee shop for causing his heart palpitations.rnIt seems a waitress served himrndouble espresso when he ordered decaf.rnA McDonald’s in Albany has been suedrnfor $600,000 by a woman who allegedlyrnfell off a shifting toilet. And the juryrnthat awarded...

rhetoric from the new pohtical ehtes,rncommunist culture continues to hold arnfirm grip oxer a large number of officialsrnand ()rdinar people. Sure, the old communistrniconography, such as the hammerrnand sickle, accompanied by therneer-prcscnt red star, have been replacedrnb new nationalist symbols, but thernsubstance of the old communist culturernin da-to-day life remains shockingly thernsame.rnWhat strikes a Western...

communist culture, despite the fact thatrnmany of them identify themselves asrnardent anticommunists. Life in the newrnnoncommunist Eastern Europe, whichrnrequires risk and imposes competition, isrnhard for many natives to swallow. Widernsegments of the population continue torndisplay the same old servility towardrntheir democratically elected or chosenrnsuperiors. The old communist practicernof double deals and paranoid fear thatrneverybody is...

phies taught in schools, it is clear thatrnEastern Europe will either be saved by itsrntraditions—yes, including ethnic selfaffirmationsrn—or will go under for centuries,rnunder the burden of so-calledrnWestern values. The safely living andrnhappilv consuming West simply doesrnnot grasp the primacv of national identitvrnas a source of survival and will to live.rnThe ecr-prcsent hostile elements in thernEast...

als, Christians, agrarians, and partisans ofrnthe Western model. Emphatically, thernreturned parties are not communist, althoughrnthey retain certain familiar features:rna predilection for centralism, arnrougher tone vis-a-vis the West (whosernweakness they detect better than thernliberals), a tougher trade and customsrnpolicy, and a more forceful insistencernon reducing the debilitating foreignrndebt—contracted in the past by therncommunists!rnNone of this cancels...

as one of the most inhuman dictatorshipsrnof modern times, exceeding evenrnNazi Germany in its barbarities. Therernwas another New York Times correspondent,rnMax Frankel, who after years inrnMoscow wrote: “The ‘greatest storyrnin the world’ is also the greatest secret inrnthe world. And the lone correspondentrnis a poor match for a giant, totalitarianrngovernment. The story is only rarelv...

for both amount to much the samernthing—even the best of authors can occasionallyrncreate a weak poem or line orrnmake a mistake. I think we can all grantrnthis, but some critics have taken the expressionrnliterally, and have sought outrncases in which Homer in fact nods: i.e.,rncontradicts either himself or commonrnsense.rnSuch observers point with glee at thernfact—as...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnNavajoland: IrnIn the American Southwest nothingrnlooks to be of a piece but the landscapernand the infinity of sky overhead. Thernvast frame of the earth and the geomorphicrnscheme that shaped it lie plainlyrnrevealed through a scrim of sparse vegetationrnso that a single landmark is sufficientrnto supply, organize, and integraternin the imagination...

factory going up in Las Vegas, hadrnstopped by; finally a slim and prctt’rnwoman named Bette—the journalistrnwho had broken tlie Big Boquillas Ranchrnstory that launched the payoff scandalrnthat forced Tribal Chairman Peter McDonaldrnfrom office—showed up, andrnLena brewed a pot of fresh coffee.rnGeorge had begun to refill the pack withrnthe items we needed for the trip when...

INCLUDING ESSAYS BY.rn• PETER BRIMELOWrn(Forbes Magazine)rn• ALLAN CARLSONrn(The Rockford Institute)rn• JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAINrn(University of ChicagornDivinity School)rn• RICHARD ESTRADArn{Dallas Morning News)rn• THOMAS FLEMINGrn(Chronicles Magazine)rn• SAMUEL FRANCISrn(Nationally SyndicatedrnColumnist)rn• PAIU, COTTFRIEDrn(Elizabethtown College)rn• CARRETT HARDINrn(Professor Emeritus ofrnHuman Ecology)rn• HANS-HERMANN HoppErn(University of Nevada,rnLas Vegas)rn• DONALD L. HUDDLErn(Rice University)rn• E. CHRISTIAN KOPFFrn(University ofrnColorado inrnBoulder)rnNEW FROM CHRONICLES….rnIMMIGRATIONrn» ANDTHE *rnAMERICAN IDENTITYrnSELECTIONS FROMrnChronicles: A...

XXXXXXIrn_ ^ _ _ _ _ _ _rnNATIONAL CONSERVATIVErnSTUDSNTrnCONF£R£Marn”The conference will send you back to your campuses better informed, motivated and trained. Your work isrnvital to the future of the nation.” — Ronald ReaganrnLearn the Principles of ActivisnnrnPrivate Congressional Reception andrnBriefingrnMeet Conservative LeadersrnConservative Academic LecturesrnDinner Banquets with FamousrnConservativesrnFor further informatior) about the conference and an...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnEDITORIAL ASSISTANTrnMichael WashburnrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O.j. Brown, Katherine Dalton,rnSamuel Francis, George Garrett,rnE. Christian Kopff, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, ]acob Neusner,rnJohn Shelton Reed, Momcilo SelicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnPRODUCTION SECRETARYrnAnita CandyrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn934 North Main Street, Rockford,...

On ImmigrationrnThere you go again, on immigration.rnYou restrictionists have enough interestingrnarguments to make, you don’t needrnto resort to bogus complaints. John C.rnVinson did this in his February reviewrnof The Immigration Invasion, by statingrnthat “the proliferation of Korean-ownedrnliquor stores in South-Central LosrnAngeles has made many of the localsrnrestless.”rnThe Korean immigrants didn’t creaternwhatever concentration of alcoholic beveragernlicenses...

As far as enforcement goes, the searyrnstuff is in the large print. The IRS willrncollect child support the same way it collectsrntaxes: “without judicial interventionrn… summarily … by seizing the taxpayer’srnproperty.” In short, it will use thernsame Gestapo-like tactics to houndrn”deadbeat dads” that it uses to houndrnlaw-abiding taxpayers. “That’s exactlyrnwhy we are doing it,” Hyde’s...

THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE, whichrnwas founded in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, inrnJune 1994, seeks to advance the social,rncultural, economic, and political wellbeingrnand independence of the Southernrnpeople. According to SouthernrnLeague President Michael Hill, thernSouth, though it has been subsumed byrnthe American Empire, remains a distinctrnhistorical entity: “The South has its ownrnculture based on particular folkways,rnheroes, music, cuisine, dialect, religion,rnethnicity,...