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now “the mostrndangerousrnconservative?”rnThe New York Times is uuorried:rn”has he gone too far?”rnIntelligence and Class Structurernin American LifernHouu to getrnthis massivern8a7-page,rn$ 3 0 volumernUp to $30 inrnstores – yoursrnFREErnWhy? Because Murray and the late RichardrnHerrnstein prove something threatening tornPolitically Correct Liberalism:rnIntelligence – not environment, povertyrnor education – is at the root of our worstrnsocial problems. And...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnEDITORIAL ASSISTANTrnMichael WashburnrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O.]. Brown, Katherine Dalton,rnSamuel Francis, George Garrett,rnE. Christian Kopff, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, Jacob Neusner,rn]ohn 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,...

doing exactly this; when asked whetherrnhe favored what is presumably thernreligious right position on creationism,rngetting the state to impose it on localrnschools, North responded that he believedrnlocal school boards should decidernphilosophical questions for themselves.rnNorth also distinguished himself fromrnthe religious right by what he didn’t do:rnnot compare Roe v. Wade to Dred Scott,rnnot sentimentalize Martin Luther...

If abandoning the defensive warrnagainst homosexual rights was a ploy tornwin votes, Mr. Bennett ought to reflectrnthat he is running the risk of offendingrnfar greater numbers by criticizingrndivorces.rnDivorce is harming more childrenrnthan homosexuality. It is also true that,rnin the race for public acceptance, divorcernhad something of a head start onrnsodomy. But homosexuality seems tornbe catching...

shared history. Though Lasch was willingrnto accept variations on this model,rngiven the present shattered condition ofrnthe real article, he rejected academic redefinitionsrnof what community is about.rnLeast of all did he view it as a collectionrnof itinerant yuppies and sexual deviantsrnlooking for an idol to replace the godrnthat failed.rnA certifiable Brahmin, he nonethelessrnappealed to those uncorrupted...

Globo-CoprnNo small irony attended the announcementrnby FBI Director Louis Freeh onrnJuly 4 of last year that his bureau was establishingrna “legal attache” office inrnMoscow, and not only because thernagency of the U.S. government historicallyrnresponsible for counterespionagernhad finally penetrated the capital cityrnof its old adversary. July 4, as antiquariansrnmay remember, is IndependencernDay, and what was being...

not-very-bright gangsters looking for arnquick buck who are more often at eachrnother’s throats than those of law-abidingrnAmericans or even congressmen andrnsenators. Yet it is convenient to presentrninternational organized crime as arn”monolithic threat” because only if it isrnsuch could an equally monolithic globalrnbureaucracy be created to handle it. It isrnjust such a transnational monolith thatrnpeople like...

PERSPECTIVErnCrime and WelfarernThe Immoral Equivalent of Star Warsrnby Thomas FlemingrnEvery few months the gentlemen of the press discover a newrnthreat to humanity that requires decisive government action.rnNot so long ago the United States Senate, alarmed by reportsrnof a comet striking the planet Jupiter, actually took up thernquestion of protecting the earth against a similar calamity.rnConservatives...

To remedy millennia of discrimination will obviously requirernsuch long-term programs as cannot benefit any childrenrnalready born. We hear, therefore, from liberals and conservativesrnalike, that a more direct crackdown on crime must be undertaken.rnDepending on their point of view—or who is payingrnthem—the experts recommend more police, more prisonsrnand stiffer sentences, “federalization” of crime control, and disarmingrnthe...

cannot get enough of what he wants from welfare, he can alwaysrnsteal or deal. By the time he kills his first victim, the timernfor reform has long since past, and the only profitable thing thatrncan be done with him is to put him out of his and our misery.rnLet us imagine the same youth 100...

a shawl reading her Bible, kept a house of ill repute. Even OliverrnTwist’s workhouse (or Fagin’s gang, for that matter) must bernpreferable to such a life.rn”Root, hog, or die.” Some of the men, as many white asrnblack, undoubtedly will, but death by gunfire or a drug overdosernis hardly preferable to death by starvation. Those whornwant...

All Things Consideredrnby Charles Edward EatonrnIf you aim at a target you may notrnHit the thing in mind but something else:rnConsider the color of that dahlia fed on apricot.rnYou have the flower but you do not have the fruit,rnThe thing you wanted, the luscious filling in the mouth.rnThe orange going down into the depths, the...

Antinomies for Vulcanrnby Charles Edward EatonrnPut a bronze nude in a room that is red,rnRed walls, red rug, carnations on a table,rnSo that it says to anyone too white of mind: Drop dead.rnNevertheless, the nude is in control—rnIf the room could move, it would turn around it like an axle:rnSomeone put the passion of his...

almost as many active serial killers in the United States in thernfirst three or four decades of the present century as there are today.rnHowever, the number fell sharply in mid-century beforernrising again from the late 1960’s on, and this increase hasrncaused contemporary perceptions of a “murder wave,” thernmodern “epidemic” of serial murder that has proved...

would never really get hurt at all in the vivid unreal laws of therndream . . . the pure primitive man of the dream world killedrnthese men.” Masters has noted how often killers see themselvesrnas a battleground between forces of good and evil, with thernhomicidal behavior being the work of an “inner me,” an “innerrndarkness,”...

sentences and the abolition of parole, for gun control and therninvoluntary confinement of the mentally disturbed. However,rnthese events also reinforce a lesson from the study of serialrnkillers, that at least a few individuals are not simply dysfunctionalrnor improperly socialized, that their crimes may resultrnfrom a profound schism with the ordinary run of humanity:rnperhaps from a...

man who would never have committed a crime had he not correctlyrnbelieved that in his territory one must kill to survive, orrnmurder by those who would not have become murderers hadrntheir lives not been formed in homes, neighborhoods, andrnschools plagued by violent crime.rnThese destructive forces are in part the result of the historicalrnAmerican attitude toward...

Crime by a relatively few blacks is destroying the blackrncommunity. The criminals in this small group are not thernbreed of times past. While it is now fashionable to ridicule thernpsychological explanations of crime that gained favor in thern1940’s, it may well be that, in times of strong social values, powerfulrnpsychological urges are required to overcome...

result in their demotion, even though these outcomes are indubitablyrnright and proper.rnI should pause to say here that, much as I regret it, such contradictionsrnappear to be an unfortunate but unavoidable featurernof the thinking-reversal exercise I propose. Yet the experimentrnmust be seen through to the end if it is to be properlyrntested.rnIII propose isrnthat—as arntemporaryrnconvenience...

gible either to receive Pell grant money to pay for creativernwriting courses or to earn a college degree. Nor would he bernpermitted leave from prison to accept any humanitarian awardsrn(except those presented directly by the legislature or governorrnof the state where he is incarcerated). Any prisoner committingrnmurder or rape during a temporary release would automaticallyrnforfeit...

personal, beleaguered, despairing centrality.”rnAt other times, he denies thernenterprise was “a deliberate aestheticrnmove,” produced instead by “the naturernof the era.” This may well be, of course.rnIn his opening chapter on “The State ofrnthe Art in Boston, 1955,” and in his second,rnmore introspective chapter calledrnsimply “The Narrator, 1955-93,” Davisonrncompellingly evokes the Cold War tensions,rntenuous material prosperity,...

“brilliaM”rnArthur R. Jensen,rnUniversity of California, Berkeleyrn”[a] storehouse of wellintegratedrninformation”rnHans J. Eysenck, University of Londonrn”major synthesis of socialrnscience and evolutionaryrntheory”rnRichard Lynn, University of Ulsterrn”bold hypothesis”rnThomas J. Bouchard,rnUniversity of Minnesotarn”brilliant synthesis”rnBarry R. Gross, City University of New Yorkrn”has the simplicity and explanatoryrnpower that indicaterntruth”rnMichael Levin, City University of New Yorkrn”organizes well-establishedrngroup differences into arnmeaningful pattern”rnRobert A. Gordon,rnThe...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter FromrnPraguernby Stephen P. HalbrookrnThe Firearm as arnSymbol of FreedomrnI am overwhelmed by the sight of thernsmall monument shaped like a gravestonern—inseribed Obetem Komunismurn(“Sacrificed to Communism”)—surroundedrnby flowers and pictures ofrnmartyrs from the 1948-1989 period inrnCzechoslovakia’s history. Looking up,rnone sees the statue of St. Wenceslas andrnthe Czech National Museum at the endrnof the wide boulevard forever...

Advertisement for gun shop.rngame.rnMy new friend draws a map of thernCzech republic showing tlie best liuntingrnareas. I show him a business card ofrnthe CZ firearms factory I am planning tornvisit. He draws a picture of a rifle cartridgernon the map to show where an ammunitionrnfactory is located. I then takernout the gun magazine I bought...

government had been required by thernFirst Republic, the heir to the Austro-rnHungarian Empire. Hunters were registeredrnwith the local police at Prague.rnFirearms prohibition was an essentialrnaspect of the repressive Nazi and Communistrnregimes from the Nazi occupationrnin 1939 through the Velvet Revolutionrnof 1989. Two world wars leftrnfirearms all over Europe. Do Czechsrnobey all the laws, or have...

joy the excellent cuisine—including therndelicious trout from the Pcinja River—rnand to meditate and pray at thernmonastery.rnBut troubles still abound for manyrnFRY citizens, particularly for the pensionersrnwho worked for many years inrnand Rumanians put their losses at four tornfive billion U.S. dollars each, the Ukrainiansrnat two to three billion, and whornknows how much Macedonians havernlost. All...

suade or even compel the leaders of thernBosnian Serbs to accept the ContactrnGroup plan and to try to improve thernmaps and the constitutional arrangementsrnthrough negotiation at a laterrndate. But is this realistic? Couldn’t (orrnwouldn’t) the hostile European-Americanrncoalition block any and all changesrnfavorable to the Serbs?rnDuring a press conference, the MontenegrinrnPrime Minister Milo Djukanovicrndiscussed the problems...

startled anew by the fact that largernchunks of London were not just nornlonger English, but were not even British.rnHuge numbers of people from entirelyrndissimilar backgrounds, countries, andrnraces, speaking different languages andrnpracticing different religions, immersedrnin cultures unlike any of those ofrnEurope, had permanently settled inrnEngland. The significance of this camernupon me at once; I suddenly realizedrnthat...

ucation goes in one ear and straight outrnthe other; a Commission for RacialrnEquality officer, visiting a Birminghamrnschool a few years ago, despairingly reportedrnthat “Twenty years of anti-racistrneducation have had no effect at all!”rnBut whatever British reaction therernmay or may not be in the future, thernaffectionately remembered Londonrnof Chaucer, Marlowe, Wordsworth,rnJohnson, Conan Doyle, Dickens, NoelrnCoward, and...

Nicaragua and Grenada are the most importantrnevents in Latin America sincern1959.” Eheu fugaces, indeed. The newrn”revolutionary” Grenadian government,rnestablished by a 1979 coup and to berneliminated by a bloody massacre in 1983,rnset up embassies in Cuba, Libya, Algeria,rnNorth Korea, Syria, and (later) Russia.rnEverything seemed to be running theirrnway. The appeal sent to the British governmentrnby neighboring...

VITAL SIGNSrnSOCIETYrnCovert Policing inrnModern Americarnby Philip JenkinsrnWhen the former communist blocrndisintegrated, the opening ofrnsecret pohce files in several Europeanrncountries demonstrated the incrediblyrnthorough hold that the clandestine staternhad possessed over ordinary citizens, hirnEast Gcrmam’, for example, State Securityrn(Stasi) files revealed the existencernof vast networks of control and surveillancernin an’ area of life that might havernproduced dissidence...

to destroy or discredit their rivals. In thernABSCAM case, it was alleged that therndecision to target politicians in this particularrnarea reflected the Carter administration’srndesire to subvert potential supportersrnof rival candidates in thernforthcoming presidential primaries.rnThis charge was apparently without substance,rnbut the opportunity for selectiverninvestigation and prosecution is perilous.rnNor need the political implicationsrninvolve such grand national divisions,rnas...

nipulates both sides.rnIf this seems Hke fantasy, it is usefulrnto recall some events closer to home,rnsuch as the spectacular case in the 1980’srnthat began with Frank Varelli, who wasrnemployed by the FBI to investigate thernpossible subversive groups opposingrnAmerican policies in Central America,rngroups such as the Salvadoran solidarityrnorganization CISPES. The ensuing investigationrnwas required for bureaucraticrnreasons to...

need is a fundamental reexamination ofrnour priorities in dealing with criminalrnand deviant behavior and a reconsiderationrnof whether the remedies proposedrnfor issues such as drugs and public corruptionrnare not worse than the disease.rnWe need to reemphasize the absoluternneed to respect privacy and personalrncommunication, except where seriousrnpublic interests are genuinely at stake.rnWe must assess the value of...

ter”: next on Donahue.rnThe reports of large quantities ofrnpeanut butter in the celebrity’s basementrnprove to be false.rnAt a press conference, a former classmaternannounces that he regularly sharedrnpeanut butter sandwiches with thernSnack Czar nominee.rnDay 7. President Clinton withdraws hisrnnomination.rnHillary Clinton denies rumors ofrnpeanut futures trading; “There’s no evidence.”rnSources say the White Housernstaff is in disarray: “It’s...

region known for its devotion to thernBible to have lower rates of divorce.rnThe truth is, Scriptural teachings dornappear to make a difference among therndevout. According to data compiled byrnthe National Opinion Research Center,rnthe prevalence of divorce among weeklyrnchurchgoers in the United States is 17rnpercent. This is less than half that forrnpeople who claim “no religion”...

The Pacific LegalrnFoundationrnby Jim ChristiernOnly a few years ago prospects forrnthe Sacramento-based Pacific LegalrnFoundation, the country’s oldestrn”conservative” public interest law firm,rnhardly seemed promising. In 1986, PLFrnpresident and CEO Ronald Zumbrunrndecided to indulge in deficit spending torncontinue unpopular land use and takingsrnlitigation. The legacy of judicial activismrnfrom the 1960’s and 70’s was alsornhardly conducive to staff...

€^rn1994 IN REVIEWrnX5^rntx^^-^^rnHLrnPROTECTED BY SMITH & WESSON; LIFE, LIBERTY,rnAND PROPERTY—January 1994—Thomas Flemingrnon the home as one’s eastlc, Roger D. McGrath onrnthe virtue of armed communities, and RichardrnMaxwell Brown on the “no duty to retreat”rndoctrine in American law. Plus SamuelrnFrancis on the new populism and a reviewrnof Walter Laqueur’s B/act Hundred: ThernRise of the Extreme Right...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnThe Great PortcullisrnIn the third week of August someonernpushes the button and brings summer tornan end in the Mountain West, thoughrnbeautiful weather and Indian summerrnlie ahead. Typically the change comesrnwith the discharge of a powerful thunderrncell, seemingly no different from anyrnother electrical storm but collapsingrninto a gray leaden overcast instead...

October the tourists are gone from thernYellowstone and have been replaced byrnflocks of waterfowl without number,rnblackening the glassy surface of YellowstonernLake. Trout feed ravenously beforernwinter, and the fishing is superb. Arndozen years ago my wife and I, hurryingrnto make Rock Creek near Philipsburg,rnMontana, for the night, called it quits atrnHebgen Lake on the Madison Riverrnaround...

Rush Limbaugh explains why he gives thisrnextraordinaiy anthology by Reagan Cabinetrnmember William Bennett his unqualifiedrnendorsement:rn”The Book of Virtues is built on an oldrnphilosophical principle nearly forgotten inrnthe public discussion (and in certain recentrnpresidential campaigns), but it is an idea Irnhave long championed: Character matters.rnWhat a concept! But beware — somernof the lessons in (his book...

Young America’s Foundationrnis a refuge for students seeking an alternative to the politicallyrncorrect’ environment enforced on many campuses.”rnLibertas is the Foundation’s generalrnnewsletter published six times yearly. Itrnreports on Foundation events, noting studentsrnwho have been successful conductingrncampus programs and battling politicalrncorrectness.rnFree.rnRonald ReaganrnWow more than ever conservativernstudents mustrnbe prepared to defendrntheir beliefs. Knowledge andrninformation are key weaponsrnin...

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

estly and openly admit this. After all,rnnone other than the Lord Jesus Christrncommands us, in Matthew 5:37: “Butrnlet your communication be, Yea, yea;rnNav, nay: for whatsoever is more thanrnthese Cometh of evil.” The last thing wernneed in our political process is more peoplernspeaking double-talk, fluent gibberish,rnabout their real goals. I mean, if yourncan’t trust a...

Most people associated with publicrncolleges and universities seem to interpretrnthe First Amendment as guaranteeingrnfreedom from, rather than freedomrnof, religion. Failing that, they concludernthat religion is something obscene, tornbe tolerated only as long as it is conductedrnbehind closed doors betweenrnconsenting adults.rnMany people seem to think that religionrnbelongs only in private colleges. Privaterncolleges are free to teach...

served.”rnA more honest version of events wasrnreported in the equally anti-Denny’srnWashington Post a year ago: “Six blackrnSecret Service agents ordered food at arnDenny’s in Annapolis that took so longrnto arrive, they say, that in effect theyrnwere denied service. . . . The six blackrnagents sat together. Their supervisor,rnalso black, sat among white agents. Allrn21 agents,...

terested individuals we can find, willrnmake sure our governor, state representatives,rnstate senators, state attorney general,rneven county sheriffs hear our message:rn”Get Washington out of here! Thern10th Amendment says they don’t belongrnhere! Ohio is to be governed byrnOhioans, as dictated by the Constitution!”rnOur goal is a minimum of 100,000rnletters. Testimony before the HousernCommittee will come soon, followed...

hard-earned money to pay for extra policernand to repair the damage left in thernwake of the “celebrants,” while makingrnplans for the next “celebration”?rnOne need not be Nostradamus to predictrnthat there will be another incidentrnof mindless vandalism by ethnic groupsrnwho are all too aware that in America werndon’t punish acts of violence, looting,rnor desecration of our...

Religious WrongrnDespite the ocean of ink that has beenrnspilled in the last several months on thern”religious right,” perhaps the most sensiblerncomment about it, or at least aboutrnits journalistic coverage and politicalrnanalysis, was penned by John F. Persinosrnin an article published in the magazinernCampaigns and Elections last September.rn”When examined with a coldlyrnnonpartisan eye,” wrote Mr. Persinos,...

right in the 1970’s owes little to the abstruserntheology, obscure liturgical controversies,rnand head-spinning politicalrntheory with which so many conservativerneggheads occupied themselves in thern1950’s and 60’s. What its emergencernhas to do with is a sociopolitical phenomenonrnthat is far broader and farrnmore significant as a world-historicalrnforce than either organized conservatismrnor the religious right itself perceives.rnThe “religious right”...