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obit.rnWant to be a lady-writer? Step one:rntake some advanced comp classes atrnWellcsley. Step two: get out the liberalrnplay book on gay rights, governmentrnfunding of everything except the military,rnand especially whiny, wacky feminism.rnStep three: make everything introspective,rnemotional, and personal.rnUse your family as props, e.g., “I wasrnthinking about gay rights for an upcomingrncolumn, and as I tucked...

Americans put the number of deaths atrn305,000. There is no estimate of howrnmany of these were women and children.rnOn the contrary, the Germans carriedrnout large schemes of evacuation, especiallyrnchildren, from the main industrialrncities.”rnDamages are claimed to amount torn$500 million. However, should the courtrnrule that every showing of the film bernpreceded by a disclaimer (statementsrnuntrue, dramatizations...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnA Banner With arnStrange DevicernAs the House of Representatives slitheredrntoward its vote on the North AmericanrnFree Trade Agreement last November,rnthe regiments of lobbyists who werernpeddling the pact set up their tents inrnwhat the New York Times described as “arnstately conference room on the first floorrnof the Capitol, barely an elevator ridernaway...

state laws remain valid under its terms:rnthe degree to which Americans mayrnmake, enforce, or repeal the laws underrnwhich they live and work. Both are essentiallyrnnationalist issues, the latter obviouslyrnso, but the former no less so. Itrnwas the unique accomplishment of thernbest known opponent of the agreement,rnRoss Perot, to muff his implicit grasp ofrnthese nationalist issues...

games for a generation or more. As longrnas the interests of the managerial elites ofrncorporate capitalism and the megastaternare placed ahead of those of the core ofrnthe American nation, this conflict betweenrnthe interests of the elite and thosernof the Middle American core will persist,rnand only the displacement of the elite inrnboth the corporate economy and...

If you’re waiting for an American edition,rnyou probably won’t like this bookrnAndrei Navrozov’s controversial autobiography, The Gingerbread Race: A Life in the ClosingrnWorld Once Called Free, has been pubUshed in Britain. The offer below enables readers ofrnChronicles to order the book direct from the publisher.rnFinally, a book that does to the establishmentrnwhat the establishment does...

PERSPECTIVErnMen Unlimitedrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnThe comic, as Flanncry O’Connor said, is the reverse sidernof the terrible. I suppose the spectacle of 50 to 100 menrnfrom 20 to 70 years of age disguised in Wild Man and Coyoternmasks as they prance in a forest glade, beat drums, eat buffalornchili, and exorcise the demon spirits of their...

cal terms the result of such a program is a freak of nature, whilernin mental ones the program itself is comparable to treating arnschizopiirenic with a powerful drug devised to subdivide hisrnalready divided personality. The aim of consciousness-raisingrnis a society in which everyone is a protected minority thoughrnnever a minority of one, which is, after...

Bl is onto something when he insists that it is necessary for arnman, at some stage in his life, to make contact with the “WildrnMan” within him if he is to discoser and cultivate the fiercenessrn(not aggressiveness) of spirit without which he can never trulyrnbe a man at all. Unfortunately, there is scarcely any opportunityrnin...

THEY PUTrnAMERICArnFIRST. The Old Right fought thernNew Deal and Roosevelt’srndrive to war. They mournedrnthe death of the old republic,rnand warned of the rise ofrnempire. This hook tells their rninspiring story — with anrnimportant lesson for today. Trade paperback, 289 pprnwith index and bibliograplnyrnFROM THE FOREWORD BY PATRICK J. BUCHANANrn”This is a story of heroes and...

er told me she never doubted him, even when she received arntelephone call warning her that her husband was out late withrna showgirl. As it turned out, some less perfect husbands hadrnused my father’s reputation for fidelity as an alibi.rnHe was not an easy father. Stern and exacting in all thernthings he cared about, he...

limitations. Thcv respect competence and appreciate bluntrnhonesty. They hae a certain quality about them that is resistantrnto huckstcrism, a quality that Hemingway called a “B.S.rndetector,” and the’ thus despise lawyers and politicians andrnanybody else who makes a living through manipulation. Theyrnare an independent lot, these men: Daddy worked for himselfrnand is not a man to...

efforts at the Olympic trials. In those days, participants had tornswear the Olympic Oath, promising never to go professional,rni.e., to take money for sport. Something of the atmosphere ofrnrowing is reflected, mutatis mutandis, in the movie Chariots ofrnFire: one wanted desperately to win, but of course not to givernthe impression of being overiy concerned. Competition...

The stylized sabre-duels still fought in German student fraternitiesrnare lawful, beeause the law does not define them asrn”duels with deadly weapons,” which are criminal. The Germanrnword is not “Duell” (which could be deadly), but “Mensur,”rnfrom the Latin mensura, or measure, hi some sense participationrnin a Mensiir measures the man, and although blood is frequentlyrnshed, the...

ideal of self-mortification. With due respect to Nietzsche’srn”liberal” interpreters, these criticisms are not directed at Christiansrnfirst and at Jews secondarily. True, Nietzsche deploredrnanti-Semitism, but he also leveled numerous attacks, particularlyrnin his correspondence, on Judaism as the source of Christianrnself-debasement. He also mocked Jewish cunning and lackrnof aristocratic virtue.rny^ s for the debatern/ – f about...

view themselves as embattled anti-Westerners condemningrntheir loss of collective identity or only a universal attention torntheir concerns. Brownfeld is right that Wisse has fewer reservationsrnabout contemporary than about classical liberalism.rnThe old liberalism brought Jews into a European middle-classrncivilization that she wishes to have them forget. The new liberalism,rnthough sometimes allied with the Palestinians, featuresrnthe kind...

OPINIONSrnFrom There to Here—^And Back Againrnby Richard Lessnerrn”All great peoples are conservative; slow to believe in novelties; patientrnof much error in actualities; deeply and forever certain of the greatnessrnthat is in law, in custom once solemnly established, and now nornlonger recognized as just and final.”rn—Thomas CarlylernReclaiming the American Right:rnThe Lost Legacy of thernConservative Movementrnhy Justin...

which barely escapes being no governmentrnat all,” continued to receive casualrnlip service, but little else: everything,rneven liberty itself, became expendable inrnthe eschatological contest with communism,rnhideed, a collectivist state withrnimperialist pretensions and an economyrnfixed permanently on a war footing werernprecisely what was needed in the apocalypticrnfight to the death with Sino-rnSovict communism.rnThe second invasion of conservativernterritory...

Despite Locke’s occasional defenses ofrnproperty as a natural right, both the socialistrnJohn Rawls and the neoconservativernNathan Tarcov are justified whenrnthey refer to him as “our philosopher.”rnAs Richard Ashcraft has shown, Lockernappealed to English Levelers and to establishedrnpropertyholders, and he canrnbe and has been read as both a majoritarianrndemocrat and an advocate of acquisitivernindividualism. In any...

REVIEWSrnThe Pit—And thernPendulumrnby Clyde WilsonrnThe Papers of Jefferson Davis,rnVolume 7: 1861rnEdited by Linda Lasswell Crist andrnMary Seaton DixrnBaton Rouge and London: LouisianarnState University Press;rn557 pp., $50.00rnOur Founding Fathers understoodrnthat they had inaugurated a republicanrnfederal union unique in its balancernand distribution of powers. Unlikerntheir descendants, who sclf-indvilgentlvrncongratulate themseKes on their democracy,rnthe Fathers also understood thatrnthe preservation...

chain-smoking, peroxide blonde secularrnsaint, Mazie sold tickets from 9:30 A.M.rnuntil 11 P.M. seven days a week and spentrnthe last three hours of her day—from 11rnP.M. to 2 A.M.—touring the Bowery, handingrnout money to the down and out, gettingrndrunks to flophouses on cold nights,rnand calling ambulances for the injured.rn(Mitchell, always a meticulous researcher,rnfound that Mazie had...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Zagrebrnby Thomas FlemingrnOut of the Rubble,rnA Christian State?rnAs the Air Croatia plane began its descentrninto Zagreb, it came to me that Irnhad no idea where I was going. ThernChesterton Society conference was tornbe held downtown at Europski Dom,rnbut the participants were being put up atrna Jesuit seminary. In a city of nearly arnmillion,...

into the little auditorium, clutching myrnglass of lozovacha (most of the Croats arernsipping champagne), expecting peasantrncostumes and twanging folk music, onlyrnto see a well-dressed pair of musiciansrnperform a fine recital of 19th-centuryrnGerman music. Brahms is, for manyrnCroats, their musical tradition. Smallrnwonder that Paul Cottfried and otherrncivilized conservatives (they do exist)rnfind it easy to take the...

the older Deweyite Novak. If a Churchrnthat weathered Pelagius, Arius, and thernBabylonian Captivity cannot survivernneoconservatism, then the spirit has fled.rnFight them on the issues, if you like, butrndo not confuse them with demons orrnangelic doctors.rnThe conference shapes up as a dialoguernbetween those who insist upon therncorporate nature of human society andrnindividualists who can look at...

begin to think I can hear wolves howHngrnacross the snowy fields. I’he English anclrnAmericans begin talking, despondently,rnof Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, butrnthe Poles rise to the occasion. It is only atrntliis moment that I realize what a strangernand wonderful people the Poles are.rnWhile the rest of us are practicing thernfine art of the whine, they...

‘”liirks” (all Serbs outside of Serbia properrneall the Muslims “Turks,” as the Muslimsrninsisted on calling themselves untilrn1918 and their defeat in the Great War).rnWith April 6, 1941, began my own family’srnextinction, with the loss of three paternalrnuncles, mv grandfather, and myrnmaternal aunt.rnSo, on April 6, 1992, someone in Vienna,rnBonn, or Berlin, gave the nod tornAlija...

to stay, and I would have had to call himrnto sleep over with us, and then he wouldrnhave seen our daughter Merima, and shernwould have fallen in lo’e with him, andrnthey would have married, and who thernhell needs a son-in-law who doesn’t evenrnown a watch?”rnBranko Sofrenitch, with the rest of us,rnroars with laughter, but not...

public universities in the country, onernvictim group entitled to preferentialrntreatment to remedy “past discrimination”rnis—the Italians. Only in New York.rnIn considering this phenomenon, itrnoccurred to me that virtually the onlyrnethnic group that has not made a claimrnfor victim status is the one that has beenrnthe most oppressed throughout historyrn—my own. In fact, the average AmericanrnIS so...

be asking an innocent generation to payrna blood debt incurred in antiquity, andrnwe may irreversibly damage the fabricrnof the American ethic of equal opportunityrnby advocating the idea that who ournare is less important than what you are.rnBut Celtic-Americans should realizernthat tribal identity is the future in America,rnas indeed it may be throughout thernworld. The Cold...

VITAL SIGNSrnReal Men’s Studiesrnby E. Christian KopffrnThe negative critique of Americanrneducation has grown from a mererntrickle back when Albert Jay Nock deliveredrnhis lectures on Theory of Educationrnin the United States at the University ofrnVirginia in 1931 into a roaring flashrnflood. When the sound and fury of thernvarious Jeremiahs of American educationrnhave ceased echoing in the...

language requirement may be satisfiedrnby four semesters of any language used tornconquer substantial portions of thernMediterranean world or the Near Eastrnbefore the year 1000 A.D.rnIt is time to stop complaining aboutrneducational decline and start designingrnour own curricula. You see how easy it is.rnYour first assignment is to draw up arnReal Men’s reading list. No, no,...

where” or “we are 10 percent of the population”rnor “we are little different thanrnthe rest of society” or even “we are 30rnpercent of all youth suicides” are all examplesrnof the emotional and politicalrninsulation they build into their movementrnto buffer them from injury to theirrncollective psyche. Every public utterancernis designed to keep all discussionsrnof their lifestyle...

ual sodomy. The gay lobby’s raison d’etrerninvolves neither skin eolor nor gender,rnnationality nor religion. It exists to promoterna particular kind of sex aet. Withoutrnit they are literally nothing in theirrnown minds, hi fact, homosexuals claimrnthey would just as soon die without it.rnThat is the pathology that the WeldrnCommission is asking the public to support.rnDozens of...

c;isionally got into my father’s armyrntrunk and examined the pistol he hadrnbrought home from World War II. As arnmedical offieer, he was not issued arnweapon but commandeered one from arnwounded German. He was glad to hacrnit during the war, and years later thernthreat of it drove a burglar from ourrnhome. He had been in a...

Reform Party indeed paralleled thernstance of Mulroney’s ruling party; successrntherefore depended on Tory displacement.rnIn this first electoral outing,rnReform captured seven percent ofrnthe vote in the western provinces ofrnCanada, but its share of the total voternwas barely over two percent; it electedrnbut a single member of Parliament.rnCentral to the discontent emanatingrnfrom western Canada, and Alberta inrnparticular,...

Theater ofrnCrueltyrnby David R. SlavittrnTrue RomancernProduced by Samuel Hadida,rnSteve Perry, and Bill UngerrnDirected by Tony ScottrnScreenplay by Quentin TarantinornReleased by Warner BrothersrnHard TargetrnProduced by James Jacks, Sean Daniel,rnChuck Pfarrer, and ‘Terence ChangrnDirected by John WoornScreenplay by Mr. PfarrerrnReleased by Universal PicturesrnBecause of my enthusiasm for thernverve of Quentin Tarantino’s ReservoirrnDogs, I would have wanted to...

violence of the action allows ‘i’arantinornand director Tony Scott to be as intelligentrnas they please without having tornworry about losing their audience. Therntypical moviegoer is not appreciablyrnsmarter than Clarence and has an attentionrnspan that can be measured inrnbreaths. For any moviemaker to succeed,rnhe must contrive a way of satisfyingrnthe humanoids while offering somethingrnelse to those...

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 this book are rooted...

CELEBRATErnREALrnAMERICANrnHEROES!rnCRATCH AIDS AWARENESS WEEK ANDrnRAINBOW HISTORY MONTH ANDrnSPEND THIS YEAR REMEMBERINGrnTHE REALLY IMPORTANT PEOPLE AND EVENTS THAT MADE US WHO WE ARE—FROM THErnJAMESTOWN LANDING TO THE MOON LANDING, FROM THE FIFIST SHOT FIRED ON FORTrnSUMTERTO BABE RUTH’S 60TH HOMER.rnDECORATED WITH 12 OF CHRONICLES’ MOST EFFECTIVE COVERS, THE CALENDAR MAKES ArnGREAT GIFT IT’S A YEAR-LONG HISTORY...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, Jr.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnChristine HaynesrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnJohn W.Aldndge, Harold O.].rnBrown, Katherine Dalton, SamuelrnFrancis, George Garrett,rnE. Christian Kopff, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnJanet Scott Barlow, Bill Kauffman,rnJohn 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...

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrn” R E A L L I F E ” C R I M E shows are thernlatest rage on American television. Feedingrnon this fury, there is now for sale anrnencyclopedia of crime, where one canrnexamine the “true stories” of derangedrnpersons like Jeffrey Dahmer. The firstrnbook in the series is titled Serial Killersrnand was...

clothed “warriors” shooting tennis ballsrnat one another. A democratic touch isrnadded to the show by the contestant interviews,rnwherein we learn that most ofrnthe contestants are just normal folk, tryingrnto get along. No one seems to havernreflected upon the irony of providingrn”gladiatorial” games, no matter how ersatz,rnin what is supposed to be a republic.rnPerhaps it is...

nalities. For example: “It goes withoutrnsaying, but again it needs to be said [forrnwhom?], that to hurt a homosexual, tornbe insensitive to a homosexual becausernof the person’s homosexuality, is despicable.”rnMoreover, “hi general not hiringrna person because he or she is gay isrnmorally indefensible”; “a homosexualrncan be as decent a human being as anyonernelse.” Though Praeger...

rally.rnDemocrats, for the zillionth timernsince Woodrow Wilson, are entanglingrnus in military involvements that MiddlernAmerica does not want. But there is nornLa Follette, no Borah, no Robert Taft tornrepresent what Sinclair Lewis called thernMind Your Own Business Party. ThernGOP leadership, which for 12 years rubber-rnstamped the Rathole Patrol’s adventuresrnin Grenada, Kuwait, Panama,rnNicaragua, and other exotic places...

inane directions.rnLooking for a confirmation of my impressions,rnI turned to the New YorkrnTimes, which I long considered the lastrnbastion of sane musical criticism. Unfortunately,rnthat dictum no longerrnstands. As if to emphasize the Times’rnchange of attitude, John O’Connor’s reviewrnof this atrocity claimed that youngrnpeople enjoy Sellars’ approach and thatrnSellars has a deep respect for Mozart’s intentions!rnUpon...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnThe New PopulismrnIn the 12 months since Bill Clintonrnstumbled into the White House, thernmost notable political events in therncountry have consisted neither of hisrnown successes and failures nor of the triumphsrnand achievements of what purportsrnto be the administration’s loyal oppositionrnin the Republican Party. Mr.rnClinton’s performance in his first yearrnwas remarkable chiefly...

ually occurs after a presidential electionrnis the speedv return of the citizens tornpolitical dormancy. Most citizens havernmore important things to worry aboutrnthan political issues, and they typicallyrnallow the country’s brotherhood of professionalrnofficeholders to monopolizerntheir fate for a few years. But the currentrnwave of populism is occurring in thernwake of the last election, and there is...

PERSPECTIVErn- ^^’^’^”^rnThe Ruined Tenementrnby Thomas Flemingrn^^ | _ j ‘ very child should be taught to respect the sanctity of hisrnJ_J neighbor’s house, garden, fields, and all that is his.”rnWhen James Fenimore Cooper insisted upon the inviolabilityrnof property, his conviction was as much the fruit of personal experiencernas it was the expression of his old-fashioned...

sugar and molasses, gave customs officials the right to searchrnvessels and warehouses on mere suspicion, and the infamousrnCider Act of 1763 permitted inspection even of private homes.rnIt may have been the Cider Act that inspired William Pitt’srncelebrated eulogy of the Englishman’s home:rnThe poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to allrnthe forces of the...

rect quantity of drugs is found—no matter if he can be implicatedrnin the crime. Commercial fishermen have lost theirrnlivelihoods when agents found a deckhand with a stash, andrnone young lady lost her car when her brother, who had borrowedrnit, was convicted on drug charges. In one recent case inrnCalifornia, government agents inventoried a millionaire’s propertyrnbefore...