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pertime in the cafe adjacent to the Texacornstation in Cokeville, terrifying therncowboys and oil field roughnecks out ofrna year’s growth and their half-eaten suppersrnbefore she was escorted away by thernlocal constabulary. (“I hear you had arntopless young lady in the Texaco,” a residentrnlater remarked to the police chief,rnwho replied in a disgusted tone, “Itrnwasn’t any...

transactionrnNew and Recent Books on Family and PolicyrnThernSwedishrnExperimentrnin FamilyrnPoliticsrnAllanrnCarlsonrnThernpoliticsrnHumanrnNaturernThomas FlemingrnV V ; ^rnReflections on thernAmerican Social CrisisrnAllan C. CELTlsonrnTHE SWEDISH EXPERIMENT INrnFAMILY POLITICSrnTHE MYRDALS AND THE INTERWAR POPULATION CRISISrnAllan CarlsonrnThis devastating account of the work of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal portraysrnhow two young scholars used the power of ideas to help engineer a newrndomestic order...

Why does this differ fromrnevery other handlx)olcrnon our government?rnOarence Carson pulls no punches as he explains why:rn’ ‘It would be a considerable fraud to do a book on American governmentrnwhich talked as if the Constitution were still being substantially observed,rnthat pretended that when Presidents took the oath of office they intendedrnto observe the bounds set...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, Jr.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnChristine HaynesrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O./. Brown, KatherinernDalton, Samuel Francis, GeorgernGarrett, E. Christian Kopff,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, Jacob Neusner,rnJohn Shelton Reed, Momcilo SelicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCOMPOSITION MANAGERrnAnita FedorarnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn934 North Main Street, Rockforf, IL...

through seven revised editions sincern1953, gave to the then-nascent postwarrnright a lustrous pedigree. Here Kirkrntraces the conservative mood and principles,rnwhich he saw threatened but stillrnoperative in postwar America, back torntheir provincial English and early Americanrnsources. He demonstrates a certainrncontinuity running from John Adams,rnEdmund Burke, High Federalists, Southernrnregionalists, and other early 19thcenturyrnAnglo-American critics of bothrnequality and...

bank’s record in lending to “low-income”rnborrowers, a regulatory code word forrnblacks, would come under careful scrutiny.rnIf Fleet did not pass the quota test,rnthe Fed would reject its application.rnMarks noted that Fleet wasn’t lendingrndirectly in Boston’s minority-dominatedrnRoxbury, Dorchester, and South Endrnareas. Instead, it backed other mortgagerncompanies that lent at higher rates. Discrimination!rnhe cried. Why shouldrnsome have...

derstanding of the human condition.rnArguing that it is not any particular societyrnthat is derisory but rather man himself,rnlonesco gave the lie to the liberal fallacyrnthat humans can be saved throughrnsocial or political means. Unlike Tynan,rnwho hoped that we may “some day . . .rnfree ourselves from the rusty hegemonyrnof Angst,” lonesco realized that Heavenrnis not...

Using independent reviewers, thernteam had the more ambiguous 256rncases checked out. The team also examinedrnpolice files from two major citiesrnfor data from nonmilitary sources. Bothrnstudies validated the 27 percent falsernallegation rate. In fact, the rate for therntwo sample cities was even higher. Furtherrncorroboration occurred in a 1991/92rnsurvey of seven Washington, D.C., arearnjurisdictions. Using F.B.I, standards,rninvestigators...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnSecessionist FantasiesrnThroughout the first half of the presentrnyear, “secession” became the new watchwordrnfor a growing number of people onrnthe American right. Economist WalterrnWilliams has written at least two newspaperrncolumns openly advocating secession.rnJeffrey Tucker of the Ludwig vonrnMises Institute describes secession asrn”the cutting-edge issue that defines today’srnanti-statism,” and Tom Bethell inrnthe American...

the first to invoke secessionist pretensesrnon the eve of the unpopular War ofrn1812, and Abolitionists, always a sourrncrew, later proposed secession because byrntheir own admission they were just toornmorally pure to remain part of a Republicrnthat also harbored such knaves asrnslaveowners. As with the Southern secessionistsrnof the 1850’s and 1860, thesernearlier apostles of separation were...

cede, if secession were to take place withoutrnviolent resistance, the only hope forrnit would be to persuade the existing politicalrnregime to grant a right to it. Arnright to secession can pertain only tornstates—not to regions, races, religions, orrnideological reflexes, which are often thernproposed seceding “units.” Moreover,rnit is all but inconceivable that the existingrnnational regime would...

PERSPECTIVErnEquality or PrivilegernGored on the Horns of the American Dilemmarnby Thomas Flemingrn^^ L | ‘ verything in American politics always comes down tornJ /the race question,” says one of our collaborators. Schoolrnchoice plans, for example, are either condemned for enablingrnthe white middle classes to liberate their children from the hellrnof public schools or praised for...

bulent people quiet.rnIf I were a black political leader in the United States, the lastrnthing I should do is call for American involvement in Haiti; indeed,rnat all costs, I should do everything I could to make peoplernforget there ever was a Haiti. But their protests, demonstrations,rnand hunger strikes all serve to remind us that thernblack...

Aliberal society of the type that existed from the 1870’srnthrough the 1920’s and lingered on, in some ways, to thern1950’s is based on a few simple premises; legal equality for citizens,rnthe protection of private property, the right of people tornmind their own business. There have always been people—rnblack and white—who argued that the solution to...

but “negatively” it was solidly united: all opposed the New Dealrnand were committed to its total repeal and abolition—lock,rnstock, and barrel. The fact that its unity was “negative” did notrnmake it any less strong or cohesive: for there was total agreementrnon rolling back this collectivist excrescence and on restoringrnthe Old Republic, the true America.rnThe Old...

no bums or aggressive beggars on the street; if anyone wantedrnto see a bum, they could go to a short street downtown calledrnthe Bowery, where bums or “winos” hung out. And even theyrnwere not strictly “homeless,” as they lived in very cheap Boweryrnhotels. The streets teemed with fascinating charactersrnhawking their nostrums and ideologies. Soapboxes in...

criminals.rnMy reputation as the school rightist actually came in handy.rnIn my junior year in high school, I was the supporter, in one ofrnthose meaningless school elections, of my friend Lloyd Marcusrnfor school president or speaker or whatever the post was called.rnWe thought we would be up-to-date politicos, so we happilyrnhad handbills printed up: “Lloyd Marcus:...

bal interventionism, in the post-World War II era.rnOld Right Republicans, the soul of the party, alwaysrnmanaged to lose the presidential nomination, perpetuallyrnstolen from them by the Eastern Establishrnent-Big Banker-rnRockefeller wing of the party, who used their media clout, asrnwell as hardball banker threats to call in the delegates’ loans, torndefeat majority sentiment in the party....

eration of economically obsolete Americans.rnBut remarkably, the tragedy we face is still worse.rnUnlike many of our ancestors, who came out of slaveryrnand entered this century with strong backs, discipline, arnthirst for literacy, deep religious faith, and hope in thernface of monumental adversity, we have produced “arngeneration [that does] not know the ways of thernLord”—a “new...

dants. Africans arrived with Europeans at the beginning of ourrnhistory. Everything was done to separate them from their reHgions,rnlanguages, and general culture. Worse, unlike Europeanrnimmigrants, they were repeatedly driven backwards and preventedrnfrom consolidating political and economic gains. Yes,rnthey were offered the Christian religion, the English language,rnand the Anglo-Saxon political tradition, but they were simultaneouslyrnbarred from...

black history is a good example. On March 9 seven membersrnof the Golden Thirteen returned to Great Lakes Naval TrainingrnGenter just outside of Ghicago to celebrate the 50th anniversaryrnof their commissions. The reader will rememberrnthat, when World War II began, the U.S. Navy was like allrnbranches of the military—segregated. Black Americans werernrelegated to jobs such...

alism, has been prescribed as the answer to this lack oi pridernand self-esteem among young blacks. The theory is that oncernyoung blacks learn that they come from great, ancient civilizations,rntheir self-esteem and behavior will improve. This isrnmerely the latest in a series of gimmicks to get young blacks tornfeel better about themselves. Many Afrocentrists even...

Young Fulbright was no heretic, though as a young senatorrnhe caught hell from Harry Truman when he mused aloud thatrnbecause the GOP had captured both houses of Congress in thern1946 election, the President might want to appoint a distinguishedrnRepublican as Secretary of State and then resign.rn(There was no Vice President at the time.) Truman was...

Thurmond, Fulbright never recanted.rnHis obduracy consisted of equal parts expedience and principle.rnThere was an element of cowardice in Fulbright’s position;rnto have come out for the various civil rights measuresrnwould have been “political suicide,” he said. And “I did notrnfeel like giving up my career in politics because of it.” This isrna frank admission—of gutlessness. On...

had caught on that “what the Fulbright people really representrnis a new and embittered crypto pacifism-isolationism.” This isrnoverheated, but Fulbright did come tantalizingly close to advocatingrnsomething like the paleo-isolationism he had foughtrntwo decades earlier. He was now saying that becoming a “globalrninterventionist power” after World War II was “a mistakenrnideal.” He was weary of the...

“neoconservatives.” In both his defensernof literary (non)theory and his critique ofrnliberal moral and political epistemology,rnFish presents arguments that arc notrnjust friendly toward conservativernthought, but are themselves expressionsrnof the best of conservative reasoning.rnFish is perhaps best known as one ofrnthe founders of so-called “ReaderrnResponse Theory,” usually caricaturedrnas something like “texts have no inherentlyrnobjective meaning and thereforernmean...

fore at war with all attempts to live truthfulrnlives in some context other than liberalism.rnSpeech is necessarily a good only inrnthe context of a particular, exclusionaryrncommunity of value. “Free speech” isrnthe expression of such an exclusionaryrncommunity, one that denies the validityrnof hard contextual truth-claims. Indeed,rn”free speech” itself is a contextual truthclaimrn(which denies that it is...

government was a monarchy or a republicrnor how extensive (or restricted) thernconstitutional franchise, popular supportrnhad long been necessary to mobilize thernvast resources available in the modernrnera. That the Anglo-American democraciesrnhave been on the winning side inrnall of this century’s world wars, thanks tornstrong leadership and energetic populations,rndemonstrates the enormous potentialrnof popular government.rnRutgers history professor William...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Italyrnby Thomas FlemingrnThe Italian RevolutionrnThe more I learn of Italy, the less I know.rnSeveral years ago I thought I understoodrnthe essentials of the Italian politicalrnseene, that I was a Tocqueville in reverse.rnBut ignoranee was Tocqueville’s greatrnadvantage, too, and it is always easier tornmake out the forest when you are willingrnto ignore the trees.rnIf...

mob will string him up, but when Caesarrnconquers the world, it requires Cato’srnvirtues to oppose the gods. Man is bornrnservile, and liberty of any sort requiresrnconstant vigilance. Leave him alone forrna few minutes and you will find him fashioningrna golden calf to worship, and if hernlacks gold, as we Americans do, then hernwill be content...

petti told me one night in Genova: norncoalition can work if it includes AntoniornMartino and Gianfranco Miglio, each ofrnthem as strong-willed as he is convincedrnthat he holds a monopoly on truth. Besides,rnZampetti explains, Italy’s problemsrngo deeper than mere corruption ofrnthe excesses of bureaucracy. It is a culturernof consumismo, nourished by an ItalianrnNew Deal that was,...

Letter FromrnBaltimorernby Ron SmithrnCrime and Racial PoliticsrnA recent series of articles in the BaltimorernSun painted a gloomy (yet persuasive)rnpicture of “the decline of the BaltimorernCity Police Force.” But then, why shouldrnpolice forces be expected to maintainrnhigh standards when all institutions arernfalling in what’s left of America? ThernSun stories basically explained how affirmativernaction lowers hiring standards,rnhow...

VITAL SIGNSrn1’OMM6I<^WEAKrn. . ^ – ” ^ ^ ^ ^ a t – ^ ^rn;ijiLjf^rn• ” M ^ ^ ^ : ^rnTo Hicksville andrnHebronrnby Robert JohnrnMass MurderersrnFrom BrooklynrnOn December 7,1993, Colin Fergusonrnloaded his 9-millimcter pistol,rnput 160 rounds of additional ammunitionrnin his pockets, and took a trainrncrowded with homebound commutersrnto Hicksville, Long Island. There he deliberatelyrncommenced...

our children and young people tornvisit Holocaust museums? Whyrndo they need to hear lecturesrnabout skinheads and neo-Nazisrnand growing anti-Semitism? Whyrnshould they see every film aboutrnthe Holocaust, always portrayingrnJews as victims running for theirrnlives?rnSpeaking of Israeli psychological resistancernto moving forward in peace talksrnwith the Palestinians, CommunicationsrnMinister Shulamit Aloni told a radio interviewerrnon March 24, “We have...

Sammy Davis, Jr., Dorothy Dandridge,rnDiahann Carrol, Lorraine Hansberry, orrnEartha Kitt, who were all married tornwhites. The paper warned: “A chief trickrnof Communists is dangling their whiternwomen in our direction. Do us a favorrnand keep your women in your beds andrnstay out of ours, and our neighborhoodsrnand homes.”rnClearly, the NOI opposed integrationrnin the early 1960’s. Thus...

nationalism and fascism. Why? It isrnpossible that some teachers in those departmentsrnare ignorant of that history. Itrnis likely that others know but are afraid tornexpose that history to the public. Theyrndo not dare to criticize Malcolm or Elijahrnor Marcus. If they are black, they dornnot want to be labeled “Toms”; if theyrnare white, they recognize...

Muhammad displayed his kinder, gentlerrnside to reporters of the city’s blackrnnewspaper: “When he issued his diatribesrnagainst Jews, Dr. Khallid said hernwas hurt and angry because Jewishrnprotestors were attempting to stop Blackrnstudents from entering the auditorium,rnand even more inciteful, were chantingrn’Kill Farrakhan.'” Khallid added: “Theyrnshould consider themselves lucky theyrnjust got words from me. They’re luckyrnwe didn’t...

and practice is growing among usrnwith respect to migration and thernstatus of ethnically diverse immigrants.rnIt is high time we thoughtrnabout it carefully.rnMcNeil’s obvious argument is thatrnvery little careful thought has been givenrnto the racial and ethnic question in thernWest, but most particularly to the factrnthat all the races and ethnic groups ofrnthe world are well...

right Kach party, founded by the laternRabbi Meir Kahane and espousing thernremoval of all non-Jews from Israel, hasrnbeen outlawed. In Germany, likewise,rncertain far-right parties have been outlawed.rnIn addition, certain insignia,rnlike the swastika, and gestures of the NationalrnSocialist (Nazi) party are illegal.rnMein Kampf cannot be bought, sold, orrnowned. Holocaust-denial is also illegal.rnIn France, a person can...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnGive Me Wilderness,rnOr Give Me . . .rnBetter than anyone before or since, FrederickrnJackson Turner explained the pecuharlyrnAmerican fascination withrnwilderness that continues to perplex and,rnoccasionally, to annoy European observers.rnIn his instantly famous paperrndelivered before the American HistoricalrnAssociation’s annual meeting 101 yearsrnago. Professor Turner declared, “Americanrnsocial development has been continuallyrnbeginning over...

book last spring called Open Spaces, CityrnPlaces, a collection of essays developedrnfrom papers delivered at a literary conferencernin Tucson. Judy Nolte Temple,rnthe volume’s editor, refers in her introductionrnto the paradox that Southwesternrn”writers love open spaces, caressingrnthem with words, yet seek the intellectualrnand cultural stimulus of the city.rnOnly in today’s Southwest do so manyrnwrite that which...

transactionrnNew and Recent Books on Family and PolicyrnThernSwedishrnExperimentrnin FamilyrnPoliticsrnAllanrnCarlsonrnThernpoliticsrnHumanrnNaturernThomas Flemingrn ^rnReflectiQns on thernAmerican Social CrisisrnAllan C. CarlsonrnTHE SWEDISH EXPERIMENT INrnFAMILY POLITICSrnTHE MYRDALS AND THE INTERWAR POPULATION CRISISrnAllan CarlsonrnThis devastating account of the work of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal portraysrnhow two young scholars used the power of ideas to help engineer a newrndomestic order in Sweden....

CANrnTHISrnMAN’SrnIDEASrnSAVErnAMERICA?rnLudwig von Misesrn1881-1973rnProfessor Ludwig von Mises may in fact be godfather to a restoredrnAmerica. In sixty years of teaching, and in such books as Human Action,rnSocialism, and The Theory of Money and Credit, this great economistrndemonstrated that private property, free markets, sound money, andrntraditional social institutions are essential to Western civilization. Now,rnthrough the Ludwig von...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, jr.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnChristine HaynesrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrn]ohn W. Aldridge, Harold O.].rnBrown, Katherine Dalton, SamuelrnFrancis, George Garrett,rnE. Christian Kopff, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrn]anet Scott Barlow, Bill Kauffman, JohnrnShelton Reed, Momcilo SelicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuyC.KeffettrnCOMPOSITION MANAGERrnAnita FedorarnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rockford Instifiite,rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn934 North Main Street,...

among Afrikaners of liberal Anglophilernideas. Maybe the reverend himself wasrnunaware of the fact that his own ethnicgrouprnwas ready to make the greatestrnconcessions.rnIndeed, a few days later the issue wasrnbrought home to me. On a visit to Senatorrnde Klerk’s house (the father ofrnWillem and Frederick), I met in the senator’srnperson the old-time, quasi-Roman,rnBoer farmer-gentleman: not a...

health care reform. And I think hernwould also have approved of Dr. Elders’rnobsession with condoms. Latex is arnsolution to lust as much as Band-Aidsrnare to Kaposi’s sarcoma, or as “war” wasrnto “poverty.” Variously perverted constituenciesrnof the Clintons wouldn’t havernit any other way.rnMeanwhile, a voire sante. Got a light?rn—/.O. TaternCIGARETTE SMOKING is bad forrnyour health. But...

My case in point involves ClaremontrnGraduate School, where, last spring, therntheologians gave a doctoral degree for arndissertation devoted to—of all things—rnsome ideas of mine. Only after the dissertationrnwas accepted and the doctoralrndegree granted did the young scholarrnsend his work to me for my comments.rnWhat I found was that he had completelyrnmisrepresented my ideas, whichrnhe claimed...

and gratitude.rn-]ohn A. HowardrnPRO-FAMILY LOBBYISTS on CapitolrnHill had a strong wind in their sailsrnlast March: the phrase “H.R. 6” had becomerna verb, meaning “to unleash arntsunami of angry phone calls, letters, andrnfaxes from concerned citizens.” H.R. 6rnwas a bill to reauthorize (at increasedrnfunding levels) the Elementary and SecondaryrnEducation Act (ESEA) of 1965,rna program through which...

much as it sees diabetes.” Here’s a wonder:rninfectious diabetes! With no sensernof irony, the same issue of Plus Voice featuresrnan interview with Chnton AIDSrnczarina Kristine Gebbie, who has promotedrnhysteria all over America via therngovernment’s condom ad campaign,rnwhich is directed toward everyonernexcept those actually at risk for therndisease.rnFinally, the article says that the magazinernreflects “the appreciative...

PERSPECTIVErnwM’-.rn””%^tr^ i ‘ XAU^^’^^,rnIn Praise of Sex and Violencernby Thomas FlemingrnAll the best authorities agree: there is too much sex andrnviolence in America. Social critics say that pop culture isrnreinforcing a cult of violence, which they trace back to the savagerndays of the American frontier; preachers launch jeremiadsrnat the explicit eroticism of MTV, and Planned...