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to be included in erotie novels: “The tragic lives of these disturbedrnpeople will serve as a warning to all”—RobertrnAlzheimcrs, M.D., New York City.rnWhat the modernists really object to in a John Waynernmovie is the moral context. Old Westerns were, for the mostrnpart, moralitv plavs, in which good men did their best to defendrnthemselves, their families,...

“But those aren’t real.” But is that what you are thinking, asrnyou watch the bloodbaths in The Untouchables? This isn’trnreally happening? That’s why you spend $7.50 to see an attractivernstand-in flash her privates for a less well-endowed “actress,”rnjust to keep in mind that it is only a movie?rnThe last time I heard an intelligent comment...

Tom Kite was saying very nicernthings about our magazine untilrnwe mentioned the coupon offer.rnThen he cut it out.rnu -By Tom KiternI’ve beenrnreading Golf Worldrnsince the first day Irnpicked up a driver andrnsmacked that little ballrndown the fairway.rnUnfortunately, it wasn’trnthe same fairway I wasrnplaying on. After that, Irnrealized it probably wasrngoing to take me a fewrnmore...

olent criminals who have aheady been caught, sentenced, andrnimprisoned.rnBut the saga of the Napoleon of Crime in the homely personrnof B.W. Sanders is not an isolated incident. It is a representatirne tale that illustrates what I take to be an entirely newrnform of government, one that as far as I can tell is unique in...

child pornography rather than on its producers, in order to deterrnthe trade. This, of course, is a transparent sophism.rnIn my view, there is every reason for the federal governmentrnto ban the import of child pornography into the United States,rnto ban interstate traffic in it, and to prohibit sending it throughrnthe mails, but the target of...

to call in the National Guard, the Special Forces, or Boutros-rnBoutros and his Blue Helmets to do the job civilian authoritiesrnrefuse to do.rnIn any case, the policemen we already have seem to spend anrninordinate amount of their time enforcing the law against thernmarginal lawbreaker and avoiding enforcement against seriousrncriminals. This became a national scandal in...

napping or a bank robbery, terrorist murders abroad, hostagetaking,rnmurder for hire, murder in the course of racketeering,rnand murder while serving a life sentence. The latter is particularlyrninteresting, since about the only person a lifer could murderrnwould be either a prison guard or another prisoner. Butrnthere is no reason why a prison guard or a convict...

the United States and the emergence of centralized, technicallyrnskilled elites that specialize in the usurpation of previouslyrnautonomous social functions. Hence, just as Americans in thernmass-managerial regime are dependent on mass corporations,rnoffices, and factories for their livelihoods, just as they are dependentrnon mass political parties and illusory mass participationrnin the political process, just as they are...

of the ceaseless competition to find ever more stringent restrictionsrnto place upon the smoker, to go as far as possible inrnthe direction of outright prohibition without actually banningrneither the substance or its use. And while amazed at thernfrankness with which this generation discusses condoms andrn”safe sex,” the time-traveler would also note the presumptionrnthat virtually any...

the basis for what social scientists sometimes call “convergence”rnor “domain expansion.” The terms may sound technical,rnbut the concepts are straightforward enough. In essence,rnpressure groups take advantage of public acceptance of a knownrnand accepted problem by expanding the scope (“domain”) ofrnthe problem to include other behaviors that had not hithertornbeen viewed as dangerous or threatening, fiowevcr,...

ing the mid-19th century, there had developed a vigorousrnmovement to use the criminal law to enforce public moralityrnin matters like sexuality, literary censorship, and the consumptionrnof alcohol. Then as now, this puritanical movementrnoriginated in the United States but spread throughout thernWestern world. To reinforce resemblances to our own day. thernVictorian plague of righteousness to which...

United States for creating a hostile work environment. JusticernClarence Thomas did not offer a dissenting opinion, evenrnthough he, too, had been dragged through the mud for tenyear-rnold allegations concerning pornographic movies and arnpubic hair on his Coke can.rnCrime and violence are rife in the streets, but if there is anythingrnaskew in the workplace, an inappropriate...

Miss Manners, can easily become a federal case. Workplace behaviorrnstandards are to be enforced from the outside, with thernboss as the designated censor. As Wayne state law professorrnKingsly Brown points out, “You’ve got employers censoringrnworkers’ speech out of fear of being held liable by the government.rnIt is still censorship, even if the mechanism is a...

woman’s self-esteem and empowerment. If such is not therncase, and a hostile workplace environment becomes insurmountable,rnworkers should have access to outside counselorsrnwith whom the involved parties could be required to resolverntheir conflicts. The company could be required to pay forrncounseling or mediation, but such payments would be far lessrnthreatening to the employer and more productive...

“world peace,” or socialism, by whateverrnmeans are necessary to fulfill a nationalrndestiny made inevitable by the dialecticsrnof history. It is unimportant whetherrnthey call themselves “patriots” or “communists,”rnwhether they see Lenin orrnPeter the Great as a demi-god, for allrnnationalists of this stripe see the historyrnof the nation as a continuous progression,rnunder czars and commissars. Polishrndissident Adam...

denounced him to the watchdogs ofrnideological purity. Zhirinovsky lets thernpeople know he is one of them. He is arnman who makes visceral connectionsrnwith his audience when he tells them:rn”For decades you have been deceived,rnmade fools of and stuffed full of variousrndogmas. . . . I shall represent you . . ,rnthose of you who received,...

GOLD OFrnHISTORY’SrnGREATESTrnEMPIRErnGreat Britain “Queen Victoria”rn1893-1901 Gold SovereignrnINTRODUCTORYrnPRICErnONLY $ 1 9 9 Reg. $249rnWhen this splendid gold sovereignrnwas introduced a century ago,rnQueen Victoria reigned over thernlargest empire in world history. Thisrnwas the most famous gold coin ofrnits day — across the globe, the sunrnnever set on its gleaming .917 finerngold beauty. The portrait of thernaged Queen...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter FromrnAustraliarnby R. J. StovernAustralians All, Let Ostrichesrn”Australians all, let ostriches, / Forrnwe are young and free”— the attempt byrnan expensively educated Australianrnschoolchild to notate the first two linesrnof Australia’s national anthem (the firstrnline of which is “Australians all, let us rejoice”)rn.rnBill and Hillary not surrealistic enoughrnfor your jaded tastes? Alarmed by passingrnsigns of incipient...

cal, hatred of the effete and treasonousrnmandarins running Canberra; skepticismrnabout an unfettered market—in short,rnAustraha’s nearest equivalent to GeorgernWallace’s platform in 1968.rnIt is impossible to envisage an anti-rnLabor coalition ever again winning atrnthe federal level unless it courts Australia’srncounterpart to the Wallace vote.rnThis it dares not do in the open, sincernDr. Hewson’s deputy (Tim Fischer, thernNationals’...

tralian legislature, to point out that ourrninsistence on having the world’s highestrnper capita immigration intake is alreadycreatingrnquite enough communityrnbitterness. Aggravating this bitterness—rnby appealing to childish Anglophobicrnrancor in the quest for a republic—isrnsomething that, as Max Shulman nearlyrnsaid, we need the way we need extrarnnostrils.rnBut one would never gather as muchrnfrom the Labor Party’s academic andrnjournalistic...

to Aboriginal Australia than any liberalrncant? To these inquiries the answer ofrnthe High Court—not to mention Mr.rnKeating, the Labor Party, the churches,rnthe universities, the teacher unions, andrnthe press gallerv—is changeless; you arernliving on borrowed time and stolen property;rnthe latter is de facto, and mightrnwell soon be de jure, up for grabs; wheneverrnyou aim to offer...

nizing over how best to integraternsodomites into the Corps? These menrnthought about war and how to win it.rnThe most tragic casualty of a peacetimernmilitary is the abandonment ofrnmoral courage. It is in peace that wernneed courage most, for it is the virtuernthat prevents the political culture fromrnintruding too deeply into the militaryrnculture. Because the military...

VITAL SIGNSrnThe DivinernLeft vs. the NewrnRightrnby Tomislav SunicrnThis time around, the divine leftrnis definitely short of ideologicalrnchange. Once upon a recent time itrnwent to sleep with uncle Stalin; muchrnlater, it began to yawn with the revisionistrnTrotsky, Mao, and Tito; today, it isrnnoisily waking up to the tune of politicallyrncorrect liberalism. Even a laymanrnmust raise a...

coming. Few independent thinkers canrnshrug off the fact that the WesternrnEuropean multicultural experiment withrn16 million non-Europeans may be settingrnthe fuse for a titanic Balkan powderrnkeg. The wisdom of aged politicallyrnincorrect conservatives, such as Browning,rnBurke, and Benoist, seems to bernunexpectedly gaining ground over inveteraternhistorical optimism and its prematurernapostles of the end of history.rnHard times are returning,...

Park RangerrnColumbornbyE. Christian KopffrnThe Vince Foster AffairrnAscene from an unpublished teledramaiTfternOval Office of the WhiternHouse. Behind the desk, the President ofrnthe United States. He speaks into an intercom.rnBill Clinton: Arc there any more appointmentsrntoday?rnVoice from the intercom: There is justrnone more. The park ranger in charge ofrnthe investigation into poor Vince Foster’srnsuicide would like to...

buzzer on his desk.rnBC: Get Hillary, Janet, and George inrnhere on the double.rnVoice from the intercom: Is there arnproblem, Mr. President?rnBC: I have just been talking to a very depressedrnman. I have a horrible premonitionrnthat a valued member of thernUnited States Parks Service is on thernverge of suicide. The President sits backrnpensively in his chair.rnE....

one story, Dunleavy received a copy ofrnthe Coughlin complaint and simply filedrnit; according to another, he bucked it uprnto the Vice Chief of Naval Operations,rnAdmiral Stanley Arthur. Whateverrnthe truth, Ms. Pope went into hystericsrnwhen the Judge Advocate Generalrn(JAG) of the Navy informed her that therninvestigations would have to proceed inrnaccordance with the Uniform Code ofrnMilitary...

Navy is not immune to outside socialrnmores; as an old cliche states, an armedrnservice is a reflection of the society inrnwhich it is embedded. Finally, all sensernof justice seems to have been lost on thernpart of the DOD civilian leadership.rnThose who knew better were concernedrnwith protecting their own personalrninterests while inquisitors ran amok.rnIt is sad...

he was an essential figure on CND platformsrnand at international conferencesrndevoted to the intellectual redefinitionrnof the left in an age of fading hope. Hisrncoevals, it is true, could find him selfimportantrnand sulky, and not only at thernbreakfast table, and he was never honoredrnas Russell was, though a year beforernhis death he became a Fellow of...

nival of annihilation is still on the road,”rnhe shouted to a CND rally at Hyde Park,rnLondon in October 1981. “Time is notrnon our side.” In fact it was. The Westrnwas not beggared by the arms race, andrnthe wodd did not explode. It was thernsocialist empire that died, and with itrnthe fading hopes of those who...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnThe Violent WestrnThe matador who received top billingrnwas not, as advertised, the most famousrnbullfighter in Spain but rather (wernguessed) his son, or perhaps his nephewrnor second cousin; also, the promised dinnerrnwith this matador, to have been arrangedrnby a (self-identified) associate ofrnthe Plaza Monumental in CiudadrnJuarez, Chihuahua, the evening beforernthe fight...

for the purpose of augmenting their ownrnflocks with a few of somebody else’srnsheep or goats, yet even they were notrnkilling machines like the Apache andrnComanche (who invented practices likerndrilling holes in the tops of the heads ofrntheir enemies and cooking them slowlyrnupside-down over open fires until theirrnbrains bubbled out as an effective meansrnof dealing with...

transactionrnNew and Recent Books on Family and PolicyrnThernSwedishrnExperimentrnin FamilyrnPoliticsrnT H E 1 N T E I? W A RrnAllanrnCarlsonrnThe,. .rnpoliticsrnHumanrnNaturernThomas Flemingrn^rnEsunilyrnQu^tjpjisrnt Reflections 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...

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EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChihon Wilhamson, ]r.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnChristine HaynesrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnJohn W. Aldridge, Harold O.j.rnBrown, Katherine Dalton, SamuelrnFrancis, George Garrett,rnE. Ghristian Kopff, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrn]anet Scott Barlow, Bill Kauffman, JohnrnShelton Reed, Momcilo SelicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCOMPOSITION MANAGERrnAnita FedorarnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offiees:rn934 North...

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnTHIS ISSUE OF CHRONICLES, wernare pleased to report, has been funded inrnpart bv a special grant from the Alex C.rnWalker Educational and CharitablernTrust of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.rnD O N N A SHALALA, Secretary of thernDepartment of Health and Human Services,rnrecently said at a press conference:rn”We have the knowledge and the technologyrnto prevent the spread [of...

Washington Post that appeared a few da’srnlater. Ms. Adams’ death “is an indietmcntrnof a system” that lias “failed to address”rntlac “underlying causes” of homelessness,rnhe said. Curing “underlyingrncauses” is always good for a few million.rnIn deciding where the initial allotmentrnof money should go, Mr. Cisnerosrncalled a meeting to vyhieh localrnchurches running soup kitchens were notrninvited, histcad,...

9,90(1. The Rcid bill is a good frameworkrnfor reform, but other proposed measuresrncould strengthen it and fill in gaps needingrnattention. One is an additional remedrnfor asvlum abuse. Representative BillrnMcCollum’s (R-Florida) House Billrn135?, whieh would allow exclusion ofrnas lum applicants using false documents.rnA further measure to round out tlie Reidrn])lan is Representative James Trafieant’srn(D-Ohio) I louse...

of social institutions for alien ends, thisrnmanipulation being conducted covertlyrnin the name of the institution’s own values.”rnIn our own time, just as the managerialrnsystem was locking itself intornplace in the 1950’s, a cinematic explorationrnof the theme of “revolution withinrnthe form” appeared in Don Siegel’s Invasionrnof the Body Snatchers. For fourrndecades film critics have quibbled aboutrnthe...

Conservati’c Summit, he wanted to see anrnaudience “one-third black and one-halfrnLatino.” Mr. Kemp apparently believesrnthat the white majority of the countryrnshould have only a one-sixth representationrnin National Review’s parliament ofrnthe right.rnBut perhaps the piece de resistance ofrnthe summit was Judge Robert Bork, whornwas dragged forth from a comfortablernretirement as the Stupid Party’s martyrin-rnchief to declaim...

PERSPECTIVErnMother Goose vs. HellrnThe Real Debate on Health Carernby Thomas FlemingrnTo read the newspapers, one would think there was a liealthrncare debate going on in the United States. But the wordrn”debate” impHes two parties, and the spectrum of the currentrndiscussions is limited to the deeper shades of pink, since neitherrnthe white flag of reaction nor...

great welfare lie we keep repeating. What, after all, is welfare?rnLiterally, it is well-being, a eondition whieh each man mustrndefine for himself and which no government can proide.rn”Social insurance,” “social security,” “social justice,” and “humanrnservices” are all equally meaningless phrases used torndisguise the alarming growth of go’crnment income andrngovernment poyver. If we mean to talk...

Henry VIII and his thuggish nobility nationalized the Churchrnin England—monasteries and parishes pro’ided charity to thernneedy.rnIn Christian Europe, the scope and powers of the state—ifrnit is fair even to use such a word—were severely limited, andrncutting across all political loyalties was the Christian’s loyaltvrnto his church. The twin powers of Pope and Emperor werernpoles around...

was to trim the fat, hold the line, and wait for the next onslaughtrnof soeialism that would earry the ball ever eloser to thern100-vard line of 100 pereent government. These were thernpolicies of the Eisenhower, Nixon, and Reagan administrations,rnand the fact—staring us in the face—the fact of their utter failurernccn to slow the advance, much...

medical procedures is not playing God, e’er more 7nen andrnwomen will prefer to minimize their suffering rather thanrnmaximize the length of life. Seeking their o\ n interest, indi-rn iduals in a national health care system can advance the interestsrnof the general body politic b)- refusing the most heroicrnmedicine.rnBut the quasi-suieide made possible b a living...

(“starting life in a test-tube”). Evidcntl, Oregonians hae beenrnlooking at opportunity costs. Medical costs vary wideK fromrnarea to area, but a fair estimate would show that successful artificialrninsemination is not cheap and that in vitro fertilizationrncost.s some ten times as much as a normal conception andrnbirth.rnIt is easy to empathize with an infertile couple who...

allv followed the Hippocratic injunction “First, do not harm”rnand refused to worship abstract Science. As a result, thernclergy—an important interest group in 19th-centurv Americarn—sympathized with them. As the president of the New YorkrnState Medical Society noted in 1844, “We feel severely therninfluence of the clergy as operating against our collective interest.”rnOne prominent pastor, for example,...

ficial schools. The AMA claimed that the public did notrnknow what was good for it and that the medical establishmentrnmust hac total control.rnThe organization knew it needed more than persuasion tornsecure a monopoly, so it also called for a national bureaurnof medicine to oversee state licensing and other regulations, hirnthose limited-government days, howeer, the idea...

without first getting the patient’s address and checking on hisrnfinancial status.rnThen there was the problem of pharmacists selling drugsrnwithout a doctor’s prescription. I’his was denounced as “therapeuticrnnihilism,” and the American Pharmaceutical Association,rncontrolled by the AMA, tried to stamp out the low-cost,rnin-demand practice. In nearly every state, the AMA securedrnlaws that made it illegal for patients...

two-tier system—one for the “gray masses” and a different onernfor the bureaucrats and their intellectual servants, hi the So-rn’iet I fnion it was not uncommon to have workers and peasantsrndying in the state hospitals while the medicine and equipmentrnthat could have saved their lives sat idle in the institutions ofrnthe nomenclatura system.rnRussia is obviously in...