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VITAL SIGNSnMEDIAncrash and burn. Human beings are imperfect.nBut without some connectionnbetween rhetoric and reality, Americannconservatives will inevitably follow theirnBritish counterparts, whose leadingnspokesmen for “back to basics” initiativesnhave been discovered fathering illegiti­nThe Real RushnLimbaughnmate kids and having homosexual affairs.nSome might argue that it is possible tonbe a conservative without living oractingnlike one. hi this sense, conservatism...

cessity of having leaders who are abovenreproach.nLimbaugh, too, has played down hisnstands on critical social issues in an effortnto emphasize the “inclusive” bread-andbutterneconomic themes that some Republicansnthink are their key to electoralnsuccess. On one level, such as generatingnopposition to the Clinton health carenscheme, this was somewhat effective.nBut it also resulted in a controversial alliancenwith the...

rights.” Limbaugh, the “good Republican,”nwill probably go along. After all,nthe argument will go, “gay conservatives”nshould not be drummed out of the partyneither. This means that Wisconsin RepublicannCongressman Steve Gunderson,nonce described by RepresentativenBob Dornan as having a “revolving door”nin his closet because of his reluctance tonadmit he was a practicing homosexual,nwill be welcomed as a full-fledged...

would wear thin pretty quickly. Whennyou run a talk show, you have to say whatnyou really believe. There is no staffer tonhand you an index card with the appropriatenwords on it. In my case, there is nonstaff at all. So if I cannot muster a goodlynamount of evidence to support mynpoints, I look foolish. As...

they can, as a last resort, and withoutnthe consent of Congress, call forth thenarmed citizenry as a militia to defendnlife, liberty, and property.nMany Americans seem to have forgottennthat they were given the right to keepnand bear arms by the Second Amendmentnexpressly for the purpose of defendingnthemselves and their propertynfrom lawlessness and tyranny. Huntingnand “sport shooting”...

Let us assume, for the moment, thatnwe will not be facing the 82nd or 101stnAirborne, but rather the BATF, DEA,nFBI, and other guardians of the publicnweal. In case there are more Wacos,nshould we not be able to load our assaultnrifles with armor-piercing ammo (outlawed,nby the way, in popular and cheapn7.62/39mm steel-core “armor-piercing”nform by a Clinton...

sense that it stems directly from Dr.nDeutsch’s imagination, or at least fromnwhat he imagines to be scholarly language.nHowever, it has no apparent direction,nno discernible purpose othernthan to celebrate itself. I’ve always feltnthat such displays of creative writing,nespecially in scholarship, were sort of likenart without purpose, linguistic equivalentsnof graffiti or, perhaps, statues ofnpink flamingos on front...

Fallen WallsnI studied the weather for four days beforenmaking a break for the south, shppingnbetween the winter storms along icepackednroads wreathed with snowsnakesnacross sun-glazed plains in the directionnof the Salt Lake Valley, where much ofnthe snow had evaporated, under a stiffnnorthwesterly wind and horses and cattlenat American Fork grazed the still-greenngrass. In the Wasatch Mountains...

whose arrival in New Mexico disturbsnthem, perhaps because their Cathohcnfaith has sensitized them to the ironies ofnhistory. For the time being, however, thenPeople’s Republic of New Mexico remainsnmuch more Spanish and Indiannthan Mexican, in spite of having becomena completely developed welfare statenwhere the great majority of shoppers paynfor their groceries with Food Stamps, antax is...

transactionnNew and Recent Books on Family and PolicynThenSwedishnExperimentnin FamilynPoliticsnTHE r.l Y R D A L S ANDnTHE I N T E R W A RnPOPULATION CRISISnAllannCarlsonnThe,. .npoliticsnHumannNaturenThomas Flemingn—•/nEamilynQu^t^P-Snfr*nReflections csnthenAmerican Social CrisisnAllan C. CarlsonnTHE SWEDISH EXPERIMENT INnFAMILY POLITICSnTHE MYRDALS AND THE INTERWAR POPULATION CRISISnAllan CarlsonnThis devastating account of the worl< of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal portraysnhow...

Young America’s Foundationnis a refuge for students seeking an alternative to the politicallyncorrect’ environment enforced on many campuses.”nRonald ReagannV.’:’n-&>’nLibertaS is the Foundation’s generalnnewsletter published six times yearly. Itnreports on Foundation events, noting studentsnwho have been successful conductingncampus programs and battling politicalncorrectness.nFree.nYoung America’s Foundation Speakers Programncontains information on the various speakers offerednthrough the Foundation, including William...

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the two-partv s stem has been to shatter this, but he hasn’t explained why it is a should seek higher ideals, like freedom,rnthat partition. Part’ leadership makes good thing. Every schoolboy knows that justice, and the common good. If itrnpolitics is the art of compromise; if true. this possible bv silencing opponents ofrnthe social democratic...

already been giving intelligence and assistancernwith artillery spotting. Morerndamning evidence surfaced recently ofrnthe United States supplving Chinesemadernarms, including rocket-launchers.rnThe headline in The European wasrnblunt: “America lias ‘Joined War’ inrnBosnia.” The State Department deniesrnnearly all the charges, but in the 1960’srnthe United States also denied its role inrnVietnam.rnThings were looking bright for thernMuslims, brighter than they...

‘gate moncv’ so that no prisoners are releasedrn. .. with empty pockets.” All thisrnwouldn’t be so bad for Adington if itsrnelected officials understood that one ofrnthe government’s more important functionsrnis to protect the life and liberty ofrnthe citizens in its jurisdiction. But Arlington’srnofficials don’t care about Barryrnor the crimes his subjects commit underrntheir noses.rnAfter Meredith...

Principalities & Powersrnbv Samuel FrancisrnRacial PoliticsrnWhatever the new Republican majorityrndoes with the immense congressionalrnpower it seized in last November’s elections,rnit will probablv be unimportantrncompared to the force that started tornemerge in the same elections and whichrnthe national leadership of the RepublicanrnPartv, and even more the DemocraticrnParty, tried to ignore, denounce,rnand destroy. The emergence of the...

Bennett himself. The two neoconservativesrnhastened to California to haranguernthe masses with their insight that “thernAmerican national identity is not basedrnon ethnicity, or race, or national origin,rnor religion. The American nationalrnidentity is based on a creed, on a set ofrnprinciples and ideas.” Of course, that isrna common view of the American identity,rnone that has been repeatedly...

PERSPECTIVErnAllied Crimes Against Humanityrnby Anthony HarriganrnThe book cannot be closed on World War II until thernAmerican and British people know the full story of therncrimes their governments committed against anticommunistrnRussians, Yugoslavs, and others who desperately wanted tornavoid Soviet terror and who, nevertheless, were turned over tornStalin’s killer squads—all in violation of American and Britishrntraditions and...

that the co’cr-up has been much worse in Britain because ofrnthe absence of a Freedom of hiformation Act and the use of HIxdrnlaws to silence historians and journalists seeking to exposernthe saage treatment of women and children b British forces.rnThe cnormitv of Operation Keelhaul is staggering; it is astoundingrnthat American officials authorized it.rnThe Geneva Concntion...

Alexander’s orders to screen the thousands of White (non-rnSoviet) Russians and not to use force to compel Russians to returnrnto the Soviet Union. Tolstoy published the details ofrnthese crimes in his monumental work of scholarship, retrievingrnthe facts from obscurity and secrecy. He overcame all sorts ofrnhindrances to his research, including the removal of documentsrnfrom archives....

doesn’t understand what eervone in Russia knows to be true?”rnOffieial Soviet war diaries were made available to Count Iblstov,rndocuments which show the full extent of the collaborationrnof British V Corps negotiators with SMERSH. Most importanth’,rnTolstoy has a videotape of an interview with CaptainrnSolo’ie’, the former SMERSH officer who conducted the secretrnnegotiations with the British V...

VIEWSrnAlfred RosenbergrnThe Triumph of Tediumrnby George Watsonrnw f t f ^ ‘ l ^ ^ w^rn• ‘ i . ^ ‘ l ^ ^rn^4rnIK, ‘4m’rn*^?Srn…/•/••’•’^”.•a’V:«Jm|Me& sMwifei!”‘::^rnAfew months after the outbreak of war, in January 1940,rnNazi leaders held a merr’ meeting. Fhey had plenty to bernehecrful about. Poland had been erushed in a few weeks, andrnthe...

intellectual history, the triumph of tedium.rnRosenberg’s career, almost ine’itably, was more interestingrnthan his writings. Like Hitler, he was born outside Germany,rnhis father being a cobbler in Estonia, which in 1893, the year ofrnRosenberg’s birth, was part of the Tsarist empire. I le studiedrnengineering in Riga and architecture at the Uniersitv ofrnMoscow, where in 1917 he...

doctrine of Cleopatra’s nose (a phrase coined by Pascal), sincernit was the beauty of a queen of Egvpt that is supposed to haverntoppled Mark Antony and led to the long reign of the Caesars.rnWe are now back, in historical studies, with Cleopatra’s nose,rnif indeed it ever vent ava; and the notion has now becomernpopular among...

There mav be a furtlicr reason, however, \h- the works ofrnMarx and Engels, Hitler and Rosenberg, are seldom read, a reasonrnthat has nothing to do with their tedium. I mean thatrnthere is a suspicion that they might say something inconvenientrnto the easv assumptions of our times. One such assumption,rnin the Western world, is that the...

thc liac an idea of what motivated Imperial Germany andrnImperial Russia in 1918, as revealed by the now-forgottenrnW’lUi-Nikki correspondence between Cousin Wilhclm andrnCousin Nicholas. And thcv arc aware that the period from thernsecond decade of the 20th century through Worid War II andrnthe Cold War will in the future be seen as a historical gestalt,rnmuch...

two countries canceled their mutual war debts and, in commercialrnagreements, repeated some of Lenin’s commitments.rnOf far greater significance were the secret clauses to the treatyrnthat obtained until Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union inrn1941. Those secret clauses circumvented the Versailles Treaty’srnban on German rearmament by providing for the training ofrnGerman troops on Russian soil. They...

2) The founding of the German-Russian joint-stockrncompany Bersol near Samaria for the construction of arnchemical plant to produce poison gas.rn3) Production of artillery ammunition with the helprnof German technical assistance.rnAt the same time the work of Sondergruppe R wentrnon. Already achieved was the establishment of pilot andrntank schools with German participation. [Despite hostilernspeeches in the...

of its industrial machinery and infrastructure as he could, seizingrnentire plants and shipping them to the East, where thevrnrusted on railroad sidings.rnThe second defeat of Germany in less than three decades,rnand the emergence of an expansionist and imperialistrnSoviet Union, did not destroy the Bismarckian hopes for arnmerger of German technology and industrial capacity withrnSoviet resources,...

had it so good, being given three meals a da’, a bed, medical attention,rnand no requirement to ‘work’ for any of this and [somernof them] actually wept when the relocation centers were closed.rnThis meant these men were going from non-labor back tornstoop labor.”rn^ ^ ” • y ^ f asked to name arn^ / World...

the 442nd was onl- activated for about one year, it would berndifficult, if not impossible, to track down another group of likernsize and time served to make a valid comparison, whatever therntrue figures are.rnGeneral Clark, in his 1950 book Calculated Risk, makes nornmention of the 442nd at all, but he does briefly mention thatrnthe 100th...

Alice of MalicernThe Other Side of Rooseveltismrnby Bill Kauffmanrn^i«-l%^rnThe true nature of the New Deal was revealed in one ofrnthose brilliant ironies that flash lightning-like in a midnightrnstorm. It happened September 13, 1933, the Nativity ofrna new secular holiday: NRA Day. An interminable parade uprnNew York’s Fifth Avenue celebrated the National RecoveryrnAdministration, which was to...

Oklahoma.rnThere was little in her girlhood to indieate tliat Alice wouldrnbe am thing other than a luminous party flirt. “I ean be Presidentrnof the United States,” her exasperated father told OwenrnWister, “or I can attend to Alice. I can’t do both.” She was arnprctt’ gamine of irrepressiblv high spirits; she smoked andrndrank and danced and...

on November 19, 1919, to celebrate the Senate defeat of thernVersailles Treaty over a midnight dinner of scrambled eggs.rnThe whole gang was there: atrabilious Missouri Senator Reed,rnthe brilliant Jcffersonian toper; Oklahoma populist SenatorrnGore and his wife; the McCormicks; the Hardings; the Frelinghyscns;rnBorah (without the missus); and aristocratic senatorsrnLodge, Brandegee, and Wadsworth, among others. “Mrs.rnHarding cooked...

governments.rnAlice bolstered her men in their anti-FDR efforts; the fortifyingrneffect of her slashing Old Right wit is impossible torncalculate. She never brought Lewis over to Taft—like HiramrnJohnson, he was for Wheeler in 1940—but her charm andrnmagnetism helped cohere the farraginous antiwar movement.rnOnce more her salon, now in a four-story sandstone just offrnDu Pont Circle, was...

recognize the administrative state as arnpernicious parasite. Frum underscoresrntlic importance of conservatives’ insistencernon this hard truth, and the dangerrnof their reliance upon pubhc administratorsrnto instill “familv values” in thernAmerican citizenrv.rnhi much of this, Frum sounds suspiciouslvrnlike a paleoconservative, and hisrnborrowings from the enemies of his neoconservativernfriends and patrons are toornobvious to be dismissed. The characterrnassassination...

these continuities witliout regard for thernprice they have had to pay for tlieir candor,rnbeUevc they should be ob’ious tornanyone but a knave or a fool. Forcedrnbusing was mandated b the SupremernCourt as early as the Mecklenburg casernin 1956; Martin Luther King bv the earlyrn60’s advocated both reparations byrnwhites and racial quotas in hiring as soonrnas...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Englandrnbv Christie DaviesrnOur Shortsighted RulersrnLaser beam surgcrv has now made it possiblernto eorrect man common eve defectsrncaused b irregularities in the shapernof the lens of the eve relative to the sizernof the ccball. For those with scvcrcK’rnimpaired ecsight, this means a welcomernescape from a serious handicap. However,rnfor children who are onlv mildlvrnshortsighted, the...

ipating in athletics or other extracurricularrnactivities. To her credit, boardrnmember McFerren deemed the currentrnstandard—at least a eumulatie “D” averagernbefore the start of the academicrnquarter—insufficient to varrant a ])upirsrnparticipation. Under the terms of herrnproposal, this cumulative standard wouldrnbe raised one letter-grade, to a “C” average,rnand the student’s performance inrneach class would be monitored weeklyrnduring the quarter...

eed) students to more effective districts.rnConscc[uentl, the educrats have beenrnscrambHng to their last Hnc of defense:rndepreciate tlie results and significancernof specific testing instruments, such asrnthe SAI’ and PE, and objective, quantitatirnc grading s’stems in general. Therngeneral name for this is OBE, “Outcome-rnBased Education,” which seeks torndispense with Carnegie curriculum unitsrnaltogether and institute in their placern’ague...

VITAL SIGNSrnThe Art of AdolfrnHitlerrnby Mark WarrenrnIn reading the Charles Manson story,rnllelter Skelter, I was struek bv a briefrnpassage about Manson’s admiration forrnihtler. Manson believed he had thingsrnin eommon with Hitler, and there werernsimilarities in their lives, howeer tri ial:rnboth were vegetarians; both had an incrediblernability to influenee others; andrnboth were frustrated, rejected artists.rnHitler—a frustrated,...

sentence in his biograph- of Hitler tornmusing about this verv subjeet: aboutrnwhat the world might have been sparedrnif Hitler had been accepted by thernacadem. An examiner rejected his portfoliornbecause of a lack of head drawings.rnThe examiner did not see the portfoliornthat contained head drawings goodrnenough for cntr into an’ art academwrnhi a ragged copy of...

he in the camp of those who pander tornthe newly mihtant ethnic and victimbasedrnconstituencies. Rather, Haiderrnand his party stress a politics of culturalrncohesion and national pride that aimrnless for a purely economic Europeanrnunion than for one incorporating bothrnregional and federal systems, a possibilityrnyet to be seriously addressed by thernBrussels and Maastricht accords.rnHaider possesses leadership qualitiesrnnot...

in Europe, to communal autonomy. Itrnusually seeks to restrict immigration intornregions and nation-states in order to preservernthe cultural cohesion necessar forrnself-goernment. But the French NewrnRightist Alain de Benoist, showcased inrna recent issue of Telos, has moved awayrnfrom other European New Rightists byrncalling for the equal protection of allrnethnic communities in France. All peoples,rnBenoist explains, have...

structureless masses. Vermassung, orrn”enmassment,” is another name for thernsame process. Families, churches, neighborhoods,rnlocal communities, and traditionalrnpatterns of work with all theirrnhuman particularities are underminedrnin an effort, not always intentional, tornproduce the faceless, abstract, “free individual.”rnThe cancer appears in many forms.rnWhile Roepke spends a great deal ofrneffort tracing the nuances of the disease,rnit will suffice here...

harmon’ not as a result of a welding ofrntwo disparate parts but as a natural flowingrnof its organic nature. Roepkc’s ThirdrnWav is not fusionism, but it does fulfillrnthe needs that fusionists want to satisfy.rnBut for every benefit there is a cost.rnFor conservatives in general, the harmoniousrnintegration of private property andrnfree markets into the vision of...

LETTERSrnRememberingrnCleanth Brooksrnby William MillsrnCleanth Brooks, one of the giants ofrnliterary criticism, died last May 10.rnHe was 87 years old. He taught thousandsrnof us how to read a poem or arnstory. Some he taught over a halfcenturyrnby way of the classroom, some inrnhis numerous public lectures across thisrncountry and abroad, and many of usrnthrough his textbooks....

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnEnclosurernLate in the afternoon of tlie day beforernthe final day of elk season I parked therntruck and trailer above Blue Jay Creekrnnorth of Krall’s ranch and rode into thernmountains against a cold wind and thernlowering sun.rnhi spite of having been kicked on therncannon bone in her off rear leg fourrnweeks...

compactly as activated grains of beachrnsand, and the cold drives with the forcernof an ice ax. When the storm moves outrnit leaves behind a landscape as white andrnglaring as the Antarctic beneath anrnozone sky, with only the feathered ti|5s ofrnthe tallest sagebrush showing. Winter isrnthe sole defense a brave countrv knows.rnn winter, when the only...

”The best primer on political reality, Beyond Politicsrnwill revolutionize your thinking^ — PETE DU PONTrnBEYONDrnPOLITICSrnMarkets, Welfare andrnthe Failure of BureaucracyrnWiUiam C. MitcheUrn& Randy T. SimmonsrnForeword by Gordon TullockrnThe Independent I n s t i t u tern”An outstanding job, Beyond Politics explains the continuum ofrnpublic policy battles and why bureaucratic institutions are unable torndeliver on...