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interests. While the religious right is effectivelyrnarmed with an ideology and arnworldview that enhances its militancy, itsrnenergy in mounting effective politicalrnand cultural opposition at the local level,rnand its alienation from the dominantrnelite and the elite’s regime in thernleviathan state, the movement’s aims remainrntoo limited. The real problem withrnthe religious right is that, in the longrnrun,...

Credit In Unumrnbv Richard MoorernTo fill the moral voidrnwhen God Almighty dies,rnsome shall believe in Freud,rnsome in the Nobel Prize.rnAll-yielding, nothing loath,rnSibyl believed in both.rnHer faith was eager, touching;rnit made my heart glow warmer.rnI liked to see her clutchingrnthat holy man, the former,rnbut I could best get at herrnby lashing at the latter.rn”A Nobel Prize...

PERSPECTIVErnThe Lesson of the Roaring Parrotrnby Thomas FlemingrnThere is an old cliche that no man is a hero to his valet.rnSome have been tempted to reply that it depends on thernman, but I think it depends, rather, on the valet. To an observantrneye, the world is peopled by ordinary men making strenuous,rneven heroic efforts to...

the businesses listed in The Shepherd’s Guide have not beenrncontent simply to list themselves, but they have gone so far asrnto sign a statement of faith, stipulating that “I have received JesusrnChrist as my personal Savior” and pledging “to hold thernhighest Biblical code of ethics in my business transactions.”rnThe local newspaper has been uncharacteristically civil...

action agreements with the NAACP or Jesse Jackson. If it is onlyrnbecause they feel threatened, let them begin to understandrnthat majorities can threaten as well as minorities. At one time,rnthat list included the many popular soft drink companies andrnmany fast-food chains. My solution is to drink iced tea and stoprnat the diner. Down in Georgia,...

Simon Saysrnby Thomas FlemingrnOratorio San GiovannirnUrbino, Good Friday 1994rnYou ask me who I am or what I was,rnthis boy cocking his leg to check a toernfor thorns, painted in plaster, obliviousrnto nature-boy who’s read too much Thoreaurnducking a stranger in the stream; the birdrnfluttering down on cue to scare the hicks;rnhysterical women swearing that they’d...

tions of some of its clergy. Not surprisingly, many Episcopaliansrnabandoned the church, usually feeling that it had abandonedrnthem.rnThe chaos of the 1970’s was understandable in the contextrnof the political upsurges of these years, particularly the churches’rnweary quest to become “relevant”; but whatever the causes,rnthis was a decade that most Episcopalians should have beenrnglad to see...

subject of enormous attention in the Episcopalian press in thernlast three years, as it serves to discredit the idea of an ordainedrn(and still predominantly male) ministry. It also supports thernview that the church exploits and oppresses women, whose positionrnmust be reformed through theological and doctrinalrnchange.rnNone of these views, however outre or apparently unacceptable,rnwill draw the...

but they, too, follow the fashion of approving “global interventionism.”rnThey did so during the three centuries of thernCrusades, although they try to forget this. To be liberated thenrnwere the True Cross, the Holy Land, and Christians living underrnMuslim rule. In the perspective of the year 1087, this wasrnjust as essential and urgent as putting Mr....

cars without one.) So commonplace has the ribbon becomernthat the very gay activists who endorsed it have begun denouncingrnit as “meaningless.” (The last straw was the homelyrnmodel who had the ribbon tattooed over and over, all the wayrndown her spine—perhaps an attempt to endear herself to designers.rnIt worked.)rnThis presents a problem for me, too, this...

emplars. Perhaps we should not be surprised that the residualrnChristianity of America has been effeminated and nutrasweetenedrnuntil it is everything Nietzsche railed againstrnand worse, in Walker Percy’s words “a fornication of spirit.” Itrnmay very well be that the “last man” has arrived, when a culturernthat used to launch Crusades kneels before the figures of dyingrnpromiscuous...

bottom line, the only language in which He can speak to us isrnpunishment and ruin. If all we care about is good sex, long life,rnand lots of money, then those are precisely the things He willrndeprive us of—in His mercy.rnBut why is God so especially outraged at those two specialrnclasses of sin—idolatry and impurity? At...

that traditional vision of man. That view of man was thernsource of ideas like individual rights, social justice, and thernsanctity of human life. It is from the mouth of Christ—notrnMalthus or Darwin—that we hear the injunction to feed thernhungry, clothe the naked, and tend the sick. Shall we reject Hisrnauthority on one occasion—sexual ethics—and invoke...

lishment feminists who see the worldrnthrough a prism of sex and gender andrnwho “seek to persuade the pubhc thatrnAmerican women are not the free creaturesrnthat we think we are”) havernusurped the women’s movement fromrnthe more classically liberal “equity feminists.”rnWhile Who Stole Feminism? repeatsrnarguments made by other writersrn(such as Philip Jenkins, writing in Chronicles),rnand while it...

tion to low self-esteem among womenrn(as among men) is to unlearn the valuesrnand knowledge our patriarehal societyrnhas instilled in us and to relearn our truernselves through the discovery of an innerrnchild. She is dead wrong. We havernalready had too much unlearning andrnrelearning, and our civilization is muchrnthe worse for it. We need real, hardcorernlearning, and...

tral character, and his brother Boyd, orrnbetween some of the older men, are vintagernAmerican Rural. An example ofrnthis occurs early in the novel in a conversationrnbetween Billy and an old manrndriving a Model A pickup. Billy has beenrnout setting traps for a female wolf, butrndoesn’t particularly want to say so to thernold man who has...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter FromrnInner Israelrnby Jacob NeusnerrnGhettoizing Jews,rnHijacking JudaismrnImagine what kind of organizationrnwould adopt the following resolutions: tornoppose state and local referenda andrnstatutes restricting the civil rights of gays;rnto support the use of fetal tissue for thernpurpose of life-saving or life-enhancing(!)rnresearch; to advocate a single-payerrnsystem as the most likely means ofrnfulfilling the principles articulated inrnpast Organization resolutions...

lutions will be adopted that speak notrnonce of God and the Torah of Sinai butrnof the ethnic language of “continuityrnand survival.” “Judaism teaches” andrn”the far left of the Democratic Party advocates”rn—select your subject, the predicaternwill be the same.rnAmerican politics, however, do notrndivide up among ethnic groups, formingrnrace-coalitions behind negotiated truths.rnOn the contrary, you do not...

Moscow over the past three years thatrnhave included Westerners (mainly, butrnnot entirely, civilians) experienced inrntroop morale and social welfare. By invitationrnas a national director of the NavyrnLeague of the United States, 1 attendedrnone of these meetings, on the “SocialrnDimensions of Military Reform,”rnthis past May. In addition to a largernAmerican contingent, delegations fromrnBritain, Canada, Denmark, Germany,rnthe...

and the relatively well-off, regardless ofrntheir party allegiance, both told me thernsame thing: “In our turbulent history, inrnour fight for freedom, we went throughrneven worse times and survived with honor;rnthe truth will finally prevail. Duringrnthe war in 1914-18, more than 25 percentrnof our nation was exterminated byrnGerman and Austro-Hungarian Kulturtrdgerrn(bearers of culture)—and wernare still here!”rnWhat...

reach our people in Bosnia and Herzegovina.rnOur kids are being woundedrnand killed by Muslim and Croat shellsrnand snipers, too, but nobody abroadrncares about them. There are no limelights,rnno helicopters, no publicity forrnthem. We are stunned by the ignorancernand often arrogance of foreign politiciansrnand media about our history and suffering.rnIf they speak about Sarajevo, theyrnspeak almost...

tuberculosis, heart and kidney diseases,rngeriatric and psychiatric problems increasedrnabout 60 percent. There wasrnpractically no antishock therapy, and therndeath rate immediately after injury hadrnincreased dramatically, partly because ofrnthe lack of fuel for ambulances and thernbureaucratic approach of the U.N. protectionrnforce, which required at least sixrnhours’ clearance before flight. In thernmeantime, most patients died.rnFinally, the British MPs...

VITAL SIGNSrnRELIGIONrnReligion and thernWorkplacernby Charles R. Helmsrnand Jeffs. TurnerrnHarassed any hirelings lately? Don’trnthink so? Let’s see. Do you referrnto the office Christmas party as arn”Christmas party”? Sing carols and sayrngrace? Invite your employees to join yournfor church? Wear “precious feet” onrnyour lapels and plead with subordinatesrnnot to abort? Lead morning prayers overrnthe P.A. system? The...

tentional infliction of emotional distress.rnBut then, why punish harassment alonernwhen you can curtail Christianity at thernsame time?rnCongress, prodded by over 100,000rnwrathful letters and calls, eventually liftedrnits snout from the public trough longrnenough to turn a sleepy eye on thernEEOC. On May 26, 1994, in HousernResolution 446, some 100 members ofrnCongress expressed their “sense” thatrnthe new...

man.rnMs. Lichtenstein: Well, I must tellrnyou that the man part will be troubling.rnSurely, you must have meant “a holyrnperson.”rnRabbi Rosenberg: No, dear lady, Irnmeant man. The Lubavitcher rebbe hasrnalways been a man. It wouldn’t workrnany other way.rnMs. Lichtenstein: Why not? Havernyou tried it? This is, after all, 1994.rnRabbi Rosenberg: Well, for one thing,rnthe Lubavitcher rebbe...

books would disappear far more rapidlyrnfrom the shelves of my favorite bouquinistesrnthan those of other writers presumablyrnin fashion.rnConsiderations of Cabell are todayrnsadly limited to Wilson’s excellent essayrnin The Bit between My Teeth, the thirdrnvolume of his chronicles, and to VernonrnParrington’s thoughtful assessment inrnMain Currents in American Thought. Forrnthe rest, we have enthusiastic one-linersrnby George Bernard...

troubadour romances), skirts but doesrnnot reject the Platonic wisdom of Diotima,rnand presents the Helens and Ettarresrnand various Dames of his creation. Inrnthe end he arrives at the paradox that inrnreaching for the ideal of Woman, to possessrnis to lose. (To today’s martial andrnsordid feminists, Cabell’s delineationsrnwould be repugnant, if not unconstitutional.)rnIn The Rivet in Grandfather’srnNeck—rivet...

was optioned for one year by Sir PeterrnHall in London. But no British actorrnwould take the role. Since Hall’s optionrnlapsed, 2 has been produced inrnWilliamstown, Massachusetts, and at thernPhiladelphia Festival for New Plays, butrnit has certainly not received the productionsrnit deserves, unquestionably becausernof its treatment of a painful subject. Irnsometimes wonder if it’s the honesty...

quite different; it is an ironclad system,rnnot only with bureaucracies reminiscentrnof socialism, but also with myriad agents,rnadmen, with publicity tormenting yournday and night, with bank employees callingrnyou at all hours (preferably whenrnyou dine or nap) to sell you, in theirrnsyrupy voice, investments, higher rates,rnpiano legs or Caribbean cruises. There isrnalso the cultural dimension. The culturernof...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnAbbey Lives!rnFifteen years after I arrived in the West,rnI can no longer recall how I first becamernaware of Edward Abbey, though I dornknow that I had been the book editor ofrna national magazine for nearly four yearsrnbefore the name penetrated my consciousness.rn(The parochialism of thernNew York literati.) But I remember...

to extinction, but that of humanity andrnthe civilization it has created—especiallyrnin America. As Bishop points out,rnAbbey’s interest was not in saving thernworld (which he regarded as unsalvageable,rnsordid, and barbaric) but in savingrnAmerica, a special land inhabited by thernchosen people who had created forrnthemselves the Constitution and the Billrnof Rights. It was this interest, as much...

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EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, jr.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnChristine HaynesrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O./. Brown, Katherine Dalton,rnSamuel Francis, George Garrett,rnE. Christian Kopff, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, Jacob Neusner,rnJohn Shelton Reed, Momcilo SelicrnEDITORIAL SECRET’RYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCOMPOSITION MANAGERrnAnita FedorarnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rocklord Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn934 North Mam Street, Rockford,...

tenure or currieulum decisions. This isrnthe man praised by Craycraft for hisrn”devastating salvo against liberal intolerancern—Jonathan ChavesrnChairman, Department of East AsianrnLanguages and LiteraturesrnGeorge Washington UniversityrnWashington, D.C.rnKenneth R. CraycraftrnReplies:rnProfessor Chaves says that a “basic unacknowledged”rnpremise of deconstructionistrnthought is that everything isrnalways political. Wrong. At least, insofarrnas Stanley Fish might be loosely called arndeconstructionist (a dubious premise),rnhe...

est, the General Assembly opposedrnthem.rnAccordingly, the dissenting justicesrnsoundly refused the Chicago Bar Association’srnclaim that the Eight is Enoughrnproposal was not a suitable subject for arncitizen-initiated referendum. JusticernMoses Harrison, with Justices JamesrnHeiple and Benjamin Miller joining himrnin dissenting from the majority opinion,rnwrites, “Section 3 of article XIV reservedrnto the people of this State the right tornadvance...

like, say, Russian or Irish immigrants.rnIn issuing his executive order, MayorrnGiuliani called the policy “indefensible”rnas a constitutional matter. His opinionrnwas validated a few days later, in thernform of a state supreme court ruling inrnfavor of one of several white male-ownedrnconstruction companies that had suedrnthe city after their low bids went forrnnaught. Justice Walter B. Tolub...

ignores completely. Davis says: “See, Irndon’t believe love should be that way.rn/ don’t think love should be genderspecificrn[emphasis mine].” About whichrnKatie Couric says nothing] She simplyrnasks another unrelated question!rnWhat is her relationship now with herrnparents, the Reagans? Well, “whatever itrnis, is OK,” says Davis, sounding like thern12-step nerd-nurturer Stewart Smalleyrnwho satirizes modern psychology on SaturdayrnNight...

Wilma, played by Elizabeth Perkins, whornis too attractive and sexy for the role. Arnfight ensues when Wilma confronts Fredrnover the disappearance of their savings.rnFred, hostile at first, wilts under a littlernpressure from Wilma and reveals thatrnhe has given their savings to the Rubblesrnso they can adopt a child. Wilma forgivesrnFred because of his sacrifice forrntheir...

said a local “environmental educationrnspecialist.” This is an idea called “precvcling,”rnwhich I tliought meant dreamingrnal:)out going on a bike ride. Guessrnnot.rnIt really bugs me to have other peoplern”encourage” me. Nothing is stoppingrnthese people from never using anythingrnever again. Unfortunately, there isn’trnmuch stopping them from trying to stoprnme from using things either, which isrntheir real goal....

Myths to Kill Forrn”I’ve got a little list, I’ve got a little list,”rntwitters the Lord High Executioner in arnfamous line of Gilbert and Sullivan’srnMikado, and indeed these days whorndoesn’t have one? Abortion protesterrnPaul Hill seems to have had a little list ofrnhis own, and early in the morning onrnJuly 28 of this year he leveled...

gument, expressed to me by Christianrnactivist John Lofton, that if the model ofrnChristian activism is that of the earlyrnChurch, it ought to be clear that neitherrnJesus nor the Apostles nor any of thernChurch Fathers ever advocated violencernagainst the pagan Roman state, nor didrnany Christian ever engage in violence;rnthe point back then was not to stop...

the Confederates who took up armsrnagainst what they perceived as tyrannyrnunderstood that it is force, and not discussionrnor votes or laws, that ultimatelyrndetermines the courses in which politicalrnpower runs, and the risk they assumedrnwhen they took up arms was no largerrnthan what they would have faced hadrnthey remained peaceful.rnWhat we face today is far more...

PERSPECTIVErnWhy Monkeys Get Fat in Banana Republicsrnby Thomas FlemingrnMuch to no one’s surprise, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leonrnwas elected President of Mexico this past August. Therernwere the usual cries of foul both from the opposition partiesrnand from citizens’ groups monitoring the election: insufficientrnballots were provided to certain polling places where the oppositionrnwas strong, so it...

entire Soviet Empire. In making death or imprisonment thernpenalty for incompetence and corruption, Stalin got rid of thernGorbachc’S before they could do much damage.rnHow much of Stalin’s persecution was policy, how much instinctrnor mere malice, remains a subject of debate amongrnpathologists who continue to study Soviet history. Khrushchevrnapparently thought Stalin knew what he was doing,...

isfied with the results in Mexico, where victory goes to a candidaternhandpicked by the outgoing president and representingrnthe party that pays most of the voters and controls the media,rnthe schools, and the economy. If the PRI had two wings,rncalled Democrats and Republicans, it would be a mirror imagernof our own partitocrazia.rnFor years Americans have been...

50 percent increase from the previous election in 1990. Thatrnmoney is not coming proportionately from the American people.rnIt’s coming disproportionately from a powerful minorityrnof corporate-oriented donors. That destroys any fair system ofrnrepresentation, and it’s not acknowledged now by Congress.rnThey don’t talk about the problem of corruption. They justrntalk about the burdens that thev experience in...

have. It is based on the notion that health involves people takingrnmore responsibility personally, learning more about theirrnbodies so as not to assault their bodies, as most of us do. Secondly,rnhealth involves stopping the poisoning of the environment.rnAnd, thirdly, as for the medical profession, it should bernbased not on profit, but on service, on the...

backyards, that their jobs are to watch television and go out andrnbuy stuff. That destroys America. That destroys community.rnThat destroys the human mind. Also, sovereignty is a very importantrnidea. Ironically, Buchanan is afraid of the Worid TradernOrganization because the environmentalists might get controlrnover it. Ralph Nader and the Sierra Club and myself arernworried that the...

a rip-roaring debate on foreign aid, guaranteed foreign loans, orrnmilitary bases in Europe and Japan, to name just three examples?rnBoth parties are eommitted to these expensive rackets, yetrnsurely among the general population liberals and conservativesrncan at least agree that public money ought to stay withinrnUnited States borders.rnThe list of issues that—as they say—transcend party lines...