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mind you, but even of the Quaylc part.rnThe other VJ, the scruffy and annoyingrnSteve Isaacs, looked startled and abandonedrnthe subject of politics.rnBut it was too late. I had to knowrnhow this Republican had found herselfrnon America’s decadent and painfully liberal/rnGrcen/multiculturalist network—rnwhere, I should note, she’s done a swellrnjob and been the most energetic andrnzany of...

I felt pain seeing the spot where thernStrand Theater had been (where I hadrnhad the pleasure of seeing and hearingrnArtie Shaw, his clarinet and orchestra,rnplav a dazzling arrangement of ColernPorter’s “Begin the Beguine”). Pain seeingrnthe location of the once-Loew’s StaternTheater (where I had been transportedrninto swing heaven by Duke Ellington,rnhis piano, his orchestra, and the...

Tiger, Tigrernby John LukacsrnThe Perils of TranslationrnIn November 1875, in a gas-lit flat overrna rain-soaked street in Tours, a lawrnstudent sat together with a young Portuguesernwidow. They were riflingrnthrough her letters. She had been a minorrnactress in Bordeaux and had playedrnat the Haymarket Theatre and elsewhere.rnShe had had an English loverrnwho once gave her an...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnPresent for the DurationrnKemmerer, Wyoming: Population 3,500,rnmore or less; throw in another thousandrnor so for Frontier and Diamondville, thernthree together making Greater Kemmerer.rnFive churches, two Mormonrnstake houses. The Lincoln CountyrnCourthouse and the Lincoln CountyrnLaw Enforcement Facility (late 20thcenturyrnterm meaning Sheriff’s Office).rnFive motels, two supermarkets and anrnALCO store, five restaurants (not...

ered by only the thinnest layer of soil, ifrnby any. And above and beyond the landrnitself is the skv, where the cloud formationsrnapproximate the undedying terrainrnwith an amazing correspondence similarrnto ethereal reflection and five or six differentrnweather systems transpire together.rnWhen Jim Bridger, after a life of trappingrnand exploring in the MountainrnWest, recalled from the west-facingrnporch...

Modem Editions of Classic Works for Today’s ReadersrnDEMOCRACY AND LEADERSHIPrnBy Irving BabbittrnForeword by Russeil Kirkrn. . , one of the few truly important works ofpoUticalrnthought. —Russell KirkrnIn Democracy and Leadership, first publistied inrn1924, Babbitt applies the principles of humanism tornthe civil social order. He offers a compelling critique ofrnunchecked majoritarianism and addresses the greatrnproblem of...

9TH ANNUALrnMISESrnGniversityrnAUSTRIANrnECONOMICSrnFrom the media to the classroom, we’re told that thernfree market has failed, and that statism is the answer.rnFor another view, consider the economics of the Austrianrnschool taught at the 9th annual “Ludwig von MisesrnUniversity.” This unique program, sponsored by the MisesrnInstitute and held at ClaremontrnMcKenna College in Claremont, California,rnruns from July 16-23, 1994.rnUndergraduates...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnChristine HaynesrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnJohn W.Aldridge, Harold O.J.rnBrown, Katherine Dalton, SamuelrnFrancis, George Garrett,rnE. Christian Kopff, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrn]anet Scott Barlow, Bill Kauffman,rn]ohn Shelton Reed, Momcilo Selic,rnDavid KSlavittrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCOMPOSITION MANAGERrnAnita FedorarnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn934 North...

the number of immigrants admitted byrnthe rest of the industrial countries combined.rnIs immigration, legal and illegal, goodrnfor the American economy? The WallrnStreet Journal’s editorial pages and theirrnhired academic gun Dr. Julian Simonrnwould lead the reader to believe so. Sorntoo would the Ford Foundation-financedrnUrban Institute and its cohort of proimmigrationrnacademic writers, such asrnJeffrey Passel and Rebecca...

discourage any person from obtainingrnreproductive health services.”rnThe threat of prison, however, appliesrnonly to those who protest for moral reasons,rnand not to striking clinic workers.rnThe interesting thing about the Kennedy-rnSchumer bill is that it specificallv exemptsrnlabor pickets. No paddy wagonsrnwill be dispatched by Senator Kennedyrnto pick up the clinic receptionists whornare striking for flex time or...

out of her spiritual vacuum by pointingrnto Koreatovvn as a better anti-povertyrnprogram than anything the soeial engineersrnl-rom Yale or Harvard have delivered.rnThat’s the first step.rn—Ralph R. ReilandrnT H E CALIFORNIA TEACHERSrnAssociation (CTA) and its allies raisedrn$17 million to defeat Proposition 174,rnCalifornia’s school voucher initiative,rnwhich proposed granting parents arnvoucher worth as much as $2,600 thatrncould be...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnGlobal RetchrnNearly four years after George Bush, onrnthe eve of the Persian Gulf War, firstrnpopularized the expression “New WorldrnOrder,” is there anyone in the UnitedrnStates who does not greet that phrasernwith either a grin of sarcasm or a growl ofrnhatred? The answer, in a nutshell, is yes.rnThe expression may have become...

common multiculturalism links usrnall—call it Planet Hollywood,rnPlanet Reebok or the United Colorsrnof Benetton…. The globalrnvillage is defined, as we know, byrnan international youth culturernthat takes its cues from Americanrnpop culture. Kids in Perth andrnPrague and New Delhi are all tuningrnin to Santa Barbara on TV,rnand wriggling into 501 jeans,rnwhile singing to Madonna’s latestrnin English…. As...

But, while the transnational elite isrnbusy persuading us that we have no collectiverninterests as separate and distinctrnpeoples, it neglects to point out the commonrninterest that binds its own membersrnand the organizational structures thatrnhouse them—in multinational bureaucraciesrnlike the United Nations, the IMF,rnGATT, UNESCO, etc.; in multmationalrncorporations; and in communicationsrnand educational institutions that are nowrntransnational in reach...

On the Borders of Wordsworth Country, In a Troubled Timernby Marion MontgomeryrnNatland hills are gentle, sloping downrnFrom Helm to the trough-cutting Trent;rnMy tower is not your shadowed Grasmere cottagernHigh-circled by fells and scree, like Druid stonesrnShaggy in mists, lowering in spring light.rnGrasmere, couched down in mountains by deep water;rnRydal Fell, the slant of Grasmere Common,rnLoughrigg...

PERSPECTIVErnDon’t Tread on Usrnby Thomas FlemingrnIn the closing days of 1993 two familiar specters, recently absentrnfrom our nightmares, returned to haunt the globalrnconsciousness: the Russian bear, in the person of VladimirrnZhirinovsky, and the Yellow Peril, in the form of North Korea.rnThere were, of course, other bugbears to frighten the childrenrnof democracy—the parade of new Hitlers...

even though there were plenty of red-blooded Americans itchingrnto take a crack at the Kaiser, the army preferred compulsionrnto patriotism.rnFrom another perspective, though, the July 4th tribute wasrnsymbolically appropriate. The nephew of Lincoln’s dictatorialrnSecretary of War, Edwin Stanton was an ideal choice for announcingrnimperial America’s arrival on the European continent.rnHis chief, General Pershing, had first...

out entering upon a war, either hot or cold. In his dealings withrnthe Russians, he made Yalta a dead letter, and already in 1946rnhe was saying that the Germans ought to be put in charge ofrntheir own affairs. Because he was willing to deal with the Russiansrnwithout tipping his hand to either the President or...

Britain, on the other hand, was one of the great easualties ofrnthe Cold War. Churchill’s dream, long before the speech inrnFulton, where he declared the Cold War, had been of a unionrnof English-speaking nations. Practically, this would have meantrnputting American men and resources at the disposal of thernCommonwealth. Americans might not enjoy the implications,rnbut such...

The monolithic Bolshevik Party that emerged from thernchaos of Russia’s revolution and civil war monopolized politicsrnand defined the Soviet Union’s course. The party did not followrnpopularly approved policies, nor did it pursue popularlyrnchosen goals. And, since the party set the course, it also tookrnthe credit. The party—the party of Lenin—implementedrncollectivization at the end of the...

for a patron, a protector whose arbitrary intervention couldrnmake right the injustices that the Soviet system arbitrarily imposed.rnNow, it is not hard to imagine Russians taking that viewrnone step further and seeing in Zhirinovsky the protector whoserncapricious use of power can redress the loss of prestige that theirrnnation has suffered in the international arena since...

to develop effectively their own resources, it is easier for Russiansrnto imagine seizing those that are already developed beyondrntheir frontiers.rnThe leaders of a nation in which surgical patients suffer thernhighest rate of infection in the industrialized world, whose factoriesrncannot produce effective contraceptives, and whose citizensrnendure a perpetual scarcity of soap—not to mention thernwidely reported shortages...

say, Charles de Gaulle (who was then only a colonel), Jean dernLattre de Tassigny, or Alphonse Juin. Part of the answer wasrnprovided at the postwar Nuremberg Trials by Alfred Jodl (onernof the planners of the Rhineland operation in 1936): “Consideringrnthe position we were in, the French covering army couldrnhave blown us to pieces.”rnSo much for...

that there is no need for me to belabor the point. But it hasrnhad and will continue to have a nefarious bearing on events inrnYugoslavia in fostering the illusion that this was a problem thernUnited Nations and the United Nations alone was equipped torndeal with. It was a piece of naive foolishness to believe that...

began by gutlessly abandoning the cardinal principle on whichrnNATO was founded.rnThe point has been forcefully made by one of France’s mostrnbrilliant “young philosophers,” Bernard-Henri Levy. The reasonrnwhy NATO was for many years so successful in defendingrnWestern Europe is that it was built around the concept of deterrence.rnAny aggressive Soviet move across the Iron Curtainrnwas certain...

protectionism, many writers focus on a single tariff number—rnthe average duty on dutiable imports in 1932. This figure wasrnindeed 59.1 percent, and it was in fact one of the higher dutiablernrates in American history. It was not the highest, however.rnIn 1830 under the Tariff of Abominations, dutiable ratesrnpeaked at 61.69 percent.rnLike supermarket tabloids headlining the...

the problem of foreign retaliation was small indeed. Exports tornFrance fell 54.2 percent from 1929 to 1931, less than the 54.6rnpercent overall decline in U.S. exports. Exports to Switzeriand,rnanother country where citizens marched to protest Smoot-rnHawley, fell only 22.4 percent. In Canada, where some retaliationrnoccurred, U.S. exports fell slightly more than average—rn58.2 percent. However, exports...

“Big Four” (excluding China) as “policemen” whose powerrnwould dampen conflict between the minor states. The flaw becamernquickly evident. The World War II Allies did not stayrnunited, as the Soviet Union and then China became enemiesrnof the West. This had also happened after World War I, whenrnJapan and Italy broke with the Western Allies to form...

tervening in domestic affairs through the “facilitation of poHticalrntransitions . . . and elections.” A prescription for global tyranny.rnA large step in this direction was advocated by MartinrnWalker in the Summer 1993 issue of the World Policy Journal,rnpublished quartedy by the Wodd Policy Institute. In an essayrnentitled “Global Taxation: Paying for Peace,” Walker points outrnthat...

dence from Russia. Will the United States be asked to providerntroops to help Moscow recreate its empire under the U.N.rnflag, or will technical and financial support suffice?rnJohnson admits that China poses a problem, but he naivelyrnassumes that if given more responsibility in the world community,rnChina “will act more responsibly in consequence.”rnJohnson would also expand the...

At Wordsworth’s Gravernby Marion MontgomeryrnThis church will prosper beyond God-worship.rnHere lies the man who named our stones; by himrnOur flowers sway sweeter in a foreign eye,rnThose daffodils now reckoned Dora’s Field,rnOr dancing above Patterdale by staid UllswaterrnIn the endless caged words of staid contentions.rnIn Grasmere Churchyard a gathering of children.rnThird-form holiday, cluster like petalsrnAbout your...

the federal government from the contaminationrnof rehgious establishment.rnTo take away the former leaves the courtsrnand Congress to apply the latter in a farrnmore sweeping and aggressive manner.rnUnder Cantwell, for a state to support religionrnis for the federal government to establishrnreligion.rnTherefore, rather than as incorporatingrnthe states under the First Amendment,rnCantwell ought to be seen as repealingrnthe...

came to set a man against his father,rnand a daughter against herrnmother, and a daughter-in-lawrnagainst her mother-in-law.rnBlessed are you when men haternyou.rnIf anyone comes to Me, andrndoes not hate his own father andrnmother and wife and childrenrnand brothers and sisters, yes, evenrnhis own life, he cannot be Myrndisciple.rnNow the words of Jesus are strong andrndifficult—and...

racy. For Carter, the purpose of religionsrnis to secure and promote democratic pluralism,rnand their moral legitimacy isrnjudged accordingly. Religions are in servicernto the democratic state, and thisrnstate, in turn, is good for the right kind ofrnreligions. The wrong kind of religionsrnwill either have to tough it out in a politicalrnculture that condemns themrn(rightly. Carter thinks)...

Yonkers, New York. Fearing crime andrnlower property values, Yonkers refusedrnto erect public housing units in high-incomernareas and impose school busing.rnThis was “grassroots tyranny,” Bolickrnwrites, but fortunately the feds “blewrnthe whistle” on the city’s “recalcitrance.”rn”The brazen actions of the Yonkers cityrngovernment to perpetuate segregationrnwould have made the Southern whiternsupremacists of yesteryear proud,” hernwrites. As lead Justice...

Pond’s ice gives way to April, lovers betrayrnand reconcile, the body fights illnessrnand age. In this museum the clearestrnidea on display is the battle againstrncomplacency; one poem, honoring pioneersrnof flight such as Leonardo and thernWright Brothers, moves from buoyancyrnto cataclysm in just a few lines: “ingenuityrn/ and courage sustained them theirrnmoment’s release / from the...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Indianarnby William L. Ishy, Jr.rnBo Gritz and Middle Americarn”You want to go see Bo Gritz burn thernU.N. flag?” My libertarian neighbor Bill,rnduring the l-inal days of the last presidentialrncampaign, was making me an offerrn1 couldn’t refuse. I have always beenrnhalf-frustrated by mv failure to take advantagernof all those radical activities inrnmy college days...

not really to act on private Americans’rncharitable concern for other human beings,rnthey will bring it to a halt.rnRepublicans have long dominatedrnpresidential elections, but now that thernDemocrats have captured Washington,rnthere is bound to be some reexaminationrnof this notion. Indeed the current infightingrnseems to suggest that the scapegoatrnwill be the true conservative wing ofrnthe party, especially the...

write, the Fell Darkness is Rising: BlackrnRiders, like circuit preachers from thernPit, straddling side-saddle, preach thernNew Gospel of Unisex Deity. A Catholicrnbishop in the Northeast announces arnnew gender-inclusive liturgy, while Evangelicalrnorganizations dedicated to removingrnthe last remnants of male headshiprnin church and family gain ground.rnHuman egalitarianism has replaced thernsummum bonum of the Gloria Dei, andrnreligious colleges...

VITAL SIGNSrneOTMMONWEALrnThe Third Side inrnthe Culture Warrnby Frederick TurnerrnIwant to talk to people who have beenrnshaken out of themselves by art, whornhave heard a piece of Mozart’s MagicrnFlute reach out and grab them by thernheart, who have seen the grave look onrnFlora’s face as she steps out of Botticelli’srnPrimavera the way the gods alwaysrndo, lit...

bribed to do so by God? Is a human beingrnonly his or her waking consciousness?rnHow can we repair the leaky boat of languagernwhen we are already embarked onrnit? My chief intellectual objection torncontemporary modernists and postmodernistsrnis not that they ask the questionsrnbut that they do not have the guts to facernup to the new answers...

desert sands where Lawrence of Arabiarnhad made his name. Nearly 40,000rnwomen served in Operations DesertrnShield and Storm, and the reports emanatingrnfrom both the Pentagon and thernpress were glowing, very mueh like thernderring-do we heard about women whornslung lead at Manuel Noriega’s maneating-rndog compound during OperationrnJust Cause. In fact, no one said anythingrncritical about women in...

heard a pin drop in the room whenrnCommissioner Kate O’Beirne utteredrnthese unwelcome but true words. Afterrnall, irrespectise of their own views on thernsubject, that is how all the male commissionersrnwho favored women in combatrnhad been raised, and O’Beirne wasrntacitlv asking if they considered themscK’csrnreal men or if thev expected her tornstrap on sword and buckler...

Politically CorrectrnNursery Rhymesrnby Ken BoguzrnPolitical correctness may have startedrnin the universities, but it has begunrnto trickle down into other areas of Americanrnculture. I recently discovered a newrnseries of biographies for children that includesrnlives not only of George Washingtonrnand Abraham Lincoln but alsornof former Beatles guitarist John Lennon.rnI also came across a book that purports tornhelp...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnWar on the WestrnMavbe because the Sage Brush Rebel-rnHon coincided with the energy boom ofrnthe late 70’s and cady 80’s when Westernrnindustrialists and developers were firmlyrnin the saddle, its rhetoric rarely, if ever,rnachieved the intensity that Rockv Mountainrnpoliticians and other public spokesmenrnhave used in denouncing the Clintonrnadministration’s efforts to redesignrnthe...

partment of Energy concerning thernAmerican government’s use of unwittingrncitizens as human guinea pigs andrnsecret atomic tests in the “wastelands” ofrnNevada is: What should we expect of arngovernment that seeks to make thernslaughter of unborn children the law ofrnthe land? The second is: What does therngovernment’s willingness to expose itsrnformer territorial people in Arizona andrnUtah to...

“Whoever wants to know what scholarship and teaching arernsuffering on the American campus should read Academic Questions”rnJACQUES BARZUNrnAcademic QuestionsrnHerbert I. LondonrnEDITOR-IN-CHIEFrnNew York University, Gallatin DivisionrnT h o m a s S h o r trnEDITORrnNational Association of ScholarsrnPublished QuarterlyrnThe official journal of the NationalrnAssociation of ScholarsrnS u b s c r i p t i...

Young America’s Foundationrnis a refuge for students seeking an alternative to the politicallyrncorrect’ environment enforced on many campuses.”rnRonald Reaganrn^.^?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.rnWOW more than ever conservativernstudents mustrnbe prepared to defendrntheir beliefs. Knowledge andrninformation are key weaponsrnin...

EDllORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, jr.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnChristine I lay nesrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDIl ORSrnJohn W. Aldndge, Harold O.J.rnBrown, Katherine Dalton, SamuelrnFrancis, Ceorge Garrett,rnE. Christian Kopff, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrn]anet Scott Barlow, Bill Kauffman,rn]ohn Shelton Reed, Momcilo Selic,rnDavid R. SlavittrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCOMPOSITION MANAGERrnAnita FedorarnGIRGLILATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Ruckford...

learn “How You Can Build Your Career,rnYour Business, and Your Family’s Future.”rnIf I wanted to follow Kemp’s path tornsuccess, I would start out as a footballrnplayer, become a union-sponsored congressmanrnfrom Hamburg, New York, voternto spend more tax money than PatrnSchroeder, get appointed to a high postrnin a welfare-state bureaucracy, agitaternfor dozens of new liberal programs...