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Love is the fire that burns all deadness away.rnA ferocious burnishing that leaves only light to the eye.rnA voice from the forest, the pheasant’s cry,rnA cry from the waters’ depths, a woman’s cry,rnBut it is not a woman. It is the cry of Love himself.rnHer very veils are Revelation itself,rnHer black tresses, yes, conceal the...

Bankers went about armed, as did their employees, and robbersrnevidently had no desire to tangle with armed men.rnRobberies of individual citizens followed a clear pattern: thernvictim had spent the evening in a gambling den, saloon, orrnbrothel; he had revealed in some way that he had a goodly sumrnof money on his person; and he was...

spent time in nearly every camp (including Bodie) from Mexicornto Alaska, was asked shortly before she died if she had everrnfeared for her virtue while trekking from one strike to anotherrnand living in nearly all-male camps. She replied: “Bless yourrnsoul, no! I never have had a word said to me out of the way.rnThe ‘boys’...

investigations that were eommonplace in the past. With thernexception of a few elite units, such as SWAT and Metro, moralernhas badly deteriorated on the LAPD. A changed political climaternhas transformed the once vaunted, highlv disciplined, andrnaggressic force into a reactive body. There was an old sayingrnon the force that two cops could handle any problem...

No Duty to RetreatrnAmerican Self-Defensernby Richard Maxwell BrownrnOne of the most significant but little noted transitionsrnfrom English to American society was in the CommonrnLaw of homicide and self-defense. As far back as the 13th century,rnEnglish Common Law dealt harshly with the act of homicide.rnThe “right to kill in self-defense was slowly established,rnand is a doctrine...

other kind) was “not obliged to fly” from a menacing assailant.rnThe following year the supreme court of Indiana faced the issuernand likewise upheld the doctrine of no duty to retreat. Thernauthor of the Indiana court’s decision was a conservativernDemocrat, William Niblack, who later would be mentioned asrna possibility for the presidential nomination of his party.rnNiblack’s...

ponent. Because the episode occurred on federal property, thernhomicide fell into the realm of the federal courts rather thanrnthose of Texas. Found guilty of murder, Brown appealed hisrnconviction all the way up to the Supreme Court where OliverrnWendell Holmes spoke for the strong majority that upheld hisrnappeal.rnUltimately citing with favor the “Texas rule,” Holmes incisivelyrncondemned...

1 9 9 3 in REVIEWrn:cY^rn1 iicle Sam’s Kids: Child Abuse and the Abuse ofrni’ower—January 1993—Allan Carlson on the parenthoodrnof the state, Thomas Fleming on the tragedy ofrnmaking children common property, Philip Jenkins onrnthe “Believe the Children” ideology, and WilliamrnN. Grigg on a case of abuse in Lehi, Utah. PlusrnSamuel Francis’s response to William Buckley’srn”In...

government officials. To many patriots,rnthe time had come for constructivernchange; these “hberal conservatives,”rnsuch as Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin,rntried gradually to reform the czarist system,rnto move it toward a constitutionalrnmonarchy, and to build civic institutionsrnin this land of autocracy. The Christianityrnpreached by like-minded intellectualsrnwould be that of the GoldenrnRule, of Christian love operating as thernmoral framework...

vised confrontation glossed by the dulcetrntones of Howard Cosell. It was no contest.rnWell—who cares? I do. Everyonernshould acknowledge the beauty and excellence,rnthe arete achieved through arduousrnyears of competition. After all,rnHerbert Spencer did not say, as he is oftenrnsupposed to have said, that “to playrnbilliards well was a sign of an ill-spentrnyouth.” He merely indicated thatrnCharles...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter FromrnNew Yorkrnby Robert SpencerrnT-Shirt Vendors BewarernI’m back in Manhattan Criminal Courtrnfor another round of Ihe People of thernState of New York v. Robert Spencer, lookingrnat a misdemeanor conviction. Atrnprevious court appearances, the Peoplernhave offered me plea-bargains of finesrnand community service, but I’m toughingrnit out to clear my name. I’ve beenrncaught iu a Hitchcock nightmare,...

limited-edition product, Irish informedrnme that I was under arrest.rnThe untucked shirt should haverntipped me off. Undercover cops wearrnbaggy, untucked shirts if they’re packingrna piece, to keep it from showing. I guessrnthe gun was to cut me down if I tried tornescape: I was now a criminal, an unlicensedrnvendor. Dinkins readily understoodrnthe “rage” that leads to...

Rudy Giuliani, the Wall Street marketrnbuster. There’s no serious challenge tornthe unctuous and hypocritical socialismrnof the Democratic establishment Dinkinsrnfronted. The national picture, ofrncourse, is not much different, althoughrnat the time of my arrest I had no way ofrnknowing that I was being treated, in therncrowd outside the Garden, to a previewrnof the Clinton administration’s vauntedrnFirst...

the maxim “beauty is what beauty does.”rnAll Times Square ever really needed wasrna facial and a good make-over.rnIn August 1984, the two-volume,rn1,100-pagc Final Environmental ImpactrnStatement was issued, prompting a slewrnof lawsuits. Still, the project rolled onrnthrough the I980’s, although it startedrnpicking up a little dirt along the wav.rnThere were allegations of improper influencernthrough campaign contributions,rnsweetheart...

sign that says “EVERYBODY” on it.rnColored chairs are screwed to the sign, arnfew feet off the sidewalk. Vagrants sit inrnthe chairs and drink. It is nine o’clock inrnthe morning.rnCrossing south, Papaya World existsrnno longer on the corner of 42nd andrnSeventh. Here we find the work of thernnotorious Karen Finley, a “performancernartist” known for her shrill,...

less, a religious word—desecration—fits.rnYou don’t have to buy the nonsensicalrnBull Durham “church of baseball” conceitrnto believe that a place at which therngenerations have gathered in fellowshiprnand seasonal fraternity is made holy.rn”We have facilities that are either historicrnor dumps, depending on how yournlook at it,” says NYP President Bob Julian.rnThere’s a junkyard adjacent tornDwyer, and the...

the highway. The countryside is lush,rngreen, cool, and perpetually bathed in arnfine mountain mist. The weather isrngreat. It’s hard to believe that you are inrnthe tropics in ]une. You climb aboard anrnold school bus in Ocotal with the wordsrn”Storm Lake Community Schools” stillrnpainted on the sides. After paying yourrnsix-cordoba fare you continue down thernmountain highway...

ter. You set it in the sun and it is dry bvrnthe time you reach the island.rnYou take a room at the little hotel nearrnthe wharf. The price is 15 cordobas, orrn20 if you want a tabic fan in vour room.rnIt’s about 110 degrees, so you opt forrnthe fan. There is no running water inrnthis...

Because of the brownouts, trafficrnlights often did not work. Sometimesrnthere were poUce to direct the flow ofrntraffic, and sometimes there were not. Irnhad been making my way with a group ofrnfaculty women from St. Scholastica’srnCollege to a fast-food Chinese restaurant.rnI have traveled a lot and havernnever met a warmer, friendlier, morernwelcoming people than Filipinos. Arngood...

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give it a chance of success, and such supportrncould well prevent the need for resistancernthrough political means. Only arnblatant usurpation of power in excess ofrnauthority might try to override such resistance,rnand the coup attempt in Russiarnillustrates that massive resistance canrnsucceed even with little or no violence.rnMaybe we do need to give morernthought to where we...

as a people’s deputy in Gorbachev’s parliamentrnnever materialized, because thernfilters established by the election committeernautomatically rejected anyonernwhose loyalty to socialism and Gorbachevrncould be questioned—althoughrnit wisely included a handful of visiblerndissidents as a token opposition.rnThe real reason for playing the parliamentrngame was to create a body of supportrnfor Mr. Gorbachev outside the Politburornand Communist Party apparatus,rnwhich...

now reached its greatest possible dimension.”rnA comprehensive program of transitionrnto a market economy should includernthe privatization of industrial and agriculturalrnproperty; provisions for freerntrade in shares at newly created stock exchanges;rnthe denationalization of land;rnthe creation of labor markets throughrnthe elimination of existing restrictionsrnon the freedom of labor to contract; thernimmediate demunicipalization of housing;rndrastic cuts in military...

what is to be done. Clearly, save a suddenrncatastrophe, a traditional MarshallrnPlan-type foreign aid package is unacceptable.rnRebuilding the old Soviet systemrnwould require trillions in governmentrnaid at a time when demands forrndomestic investment cannot be ignored.rnEven a worldwide effort involving Japanrnand Germany would be insufficient andrnrisky for the respective governments. Privaternsector help ultimately may be thernsolution,...

sands of unemployed and underemployedrnex-Soviet officials could also bernsent to the United States as mentors andrnrole models to hard-pressed local policerndepartments and district attorneys. Thisrnequivalent of the Peace Corps, perhapsrncalled the Lavrenti Beria Memorial People-rnto-People Program, would providernfresh ideas in such areas as gaining confessionsrnfrom reluctant prisoners, infiltratingrnthe criminal community, keepingrncomprehensive records on potential troublemakers,rnmaking...

Bedford, Kentucky, about 40 minutesrneast of Louisville. Today his customersrnwill take home cucumbers, a small watermelon,rnzucchini, potatoes, chard,rncorn, onions, basil, spinach, tomatoes,rnand either peppers or an eggplant.rnNancy Toole has been one of Steve’srnsubscribers for three of the four yearsrnhe’s run his food guild. She indicatesrnthat someone looking for organicallyrngrown produce in Louisville would bernhard put...

get,” he says, which leads him to behevernothers can be convinced to change. Thernbest argument he has is his own success.rnKatherine Dalton writes from Louisville,rnKentucky.rnSacred Encountersrnby Rachel Heise andrnDaniel James SundahlrnR.H. Ives Gammell andrnFrancis ThompsonrnTime,” R.H. Ives Gammell wroternin ‘I’he Twilight of Painting, “is arnruthless appraiser of art and, by andrnlarge, a very just one.”...

R. H. Ives Gammellrnson’s poem. “Eventuallv I decided thatrnit would involve only a slight change inrnterminology to consider ‘The Hound ofrnHeaven’ as a history of the experiencerncommonly called emotional breakdownrnrather than as the story of a specificallyrnreligious conversion.” He was unwillingrnto traduce what he believed was Thompson’srnintention, but this interpretationrn”brought within range a quantitv of...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton WilUamson, Ji.rnOut Where the West BeganrnFlying home from the East, I usuallyrnhonor crossing the Mississippi as the occasionrnfor my first double dry martini,rnwhich means that passing the HundredthrnMeridian, equidistant betweenrnthe towns of Kearney and North Platte,rnNebraska, is generally the cause for celebratingrnwith the second. For at least arncentury and a half,...

cially dosed, life in the Roekv Mountainrnstates persisted as essentiallv a frontierrnculture without the rest of the eountrvrnbeing aware of this until a couple ofrndecades ago, when the emergent environmentalistrnmovement took notice ofrnthe fact and decided the time had arrivedrnto close out what remained of thernfrontier for good and all. Since the earlyrn70’s, environmentalists looking...

T R A N A C T I O NrnSignificant New BooksrnTHE ECOLOGICAL V I S I O NrnReflections on the American ConditionrnPeter F. DruckerrnThese writings are linked by a common concernrnwith the interaction of the individual andrnsociety. Drucker defines social ecology, as anrninquiry into the man-made environment andrnan effort to maintain equilibrium betweenrnchange and...

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as well.rnAmerican Jewry comprises not only arnreligious, cultural, ethnic, and social entity;rnit is very much a component in thernpolitics of the American power-system.rnIn their use of power Jews are like othersrnof their class, which is to sav, distinctrnsubdivisions within the American socialrnsystem. Just as Israel is like other states,rnso American Jewry is like other Americanrnethnic...

of reproducti e organs out of Ping-Pongrnballs, paper cups, straw, yarn, and cellophanernbags. Given Elders’ endorsementrnbv the Sex Information EducationrnCouncil of the United States (SIECUS),rnone might further divine her educationalrn”health” plan by citing the council’srn”messages” for five- to eight-year-olds:rn”Boys and men have a penis, scrotum,rnand testicles. Girls and women have arn’ulva, clitoris, vagina, uterus, and...

Dan Rather Praised It…rnJesse Jackson Cried over It…rnThe New York Times Lauded It…rnIt Was Nominated for an Oscar…rnBut, It Was a Lie.rnAnd The New York Guardian was the first to expose the lie of the “Liberators.”rnThe Media: Re-Writing Our HistoryrnWhen the taxpayer-funded PBS produced the documentaryrn”Liberators” which purported to show that black combat unitsrnhad liberated...

PERSPECTIVErnMiddle American Gothicrnby Thomas FlemingrnThe bad weather of 1993 eliminated my usual fishing tripsrnto northern Wisconsin, but the other day in Madison,rnwhere I go to use the library and relive the 60’s, I saw a sign forrnan instant oil change and lube: “Faster than an Illinois tourist.”rnMost people in Wisconsin are happy for the dollars...

on his behalf, and local restaurants put out jars for contributionsrnto his legal defense fund.rnAs I said, there are men all over America who are willing tornprotect their lives and property. Some of them are crazy, likernDavid Koresh; others are eccentrics, like Randy Weaver; butrnmost of them are simply plain people who refuse to be...

of capital punishment, since the effect of this decree was to deprivernanvone but the king of the right to vengeance. Bv Bracton’srntime, one could not—outside the Welsh marches—killrneven an outlav’, if he made no resistance to capture, and thernright to kill had been so thoroughly nationalized that statutesrnhad to be passed gi’ing householders the right...

But what if the case is, as Milo believed, that of a fight inrnwhich one man will, if he escapes, return to kill the other? Supposernan enemy has sworn to kill you, and from his past recordrnvou know he means business. The natural response is to eliminaternthe threat before it materializes, and this con’ictionrngrows if...

pulled off in the last half century. I do not claim that Gramsci’srnideas were consciously followed by those who seized culturalrnpower in the United States—indeed, the beginnings ofrnthe cultural revolution of the left long predated Gramsci’s influencern—but it is true that the process by which that revolutionrnoccurred resembled the strategic and tactical ideas that Gramscirnlater...

a rival government, better organized, better staffed, betterrnobeyed. . . . At a given revolutionary crisis they step naturallyrnand easiK’ into the place of the defeated go’ernment.”rnWhile Gramsci and Hitler sought to develop their culturalrnstrategy for totalitarian ends, communist in the case of Gramscirnand national socialist in the case of Hitler, the same strategyrncan be...

flourish in the future, they need to undertake three things.rnFirst, they need to enlarge their numbers and avoid remainingrnin the poHtical and cultural ghetto that so-called “movementrnconservatism” represents. This means that they cannotrnlook to large conservative foundations or even to very manyrnother conservatives for help, since the effect—if not the purposern—of those organizations is to...

Hoosac”) to Hemingway (“I hate tyranny and, I suppose,rngovernment…. No larger unit than the village can exist withoutrnthings being impossible”).rnWhen in 1898 a confused William McKinley ignored thernsound Ohio advice of his front-porch advisors Mark Hanna andrnWilliam Rufus “Good” Day and plunged us into war withrnSpain, a wide variety of men of letters opposed our...

has since spent five decades knocking him, wrote, “You couldrnnot spend more than fi’e minutes with Bill without know ingrnnot only that he was Armenian, but that he was THE Armenian.rnYou learned in a half hour the entire historv of the Armenianrnpeople and even a few words of their language.” Sarovanrnwas a patriot in the...

against the thickening of the empire,” in Robert Hass’srnphrase—had prescience, which we often confuse with pessimism.rnAs early as 1943 he predicted:rn’Iwo bloody summers from now (I suppose) wc shallrnhavernto take up the corrupting burden and curse of victory.rnWe shall have to hold half the earth; we shall be sickrnwith self-disgust,rnAnd hated by friend and foe,...

ica, disappearing in the smoke and clangor of wartime. B.F.’srnDaughter (1946), which the author called “a novel of manners”rndrawn from his wartime service in Washington, contains arnscoffing portrait of a New Deal speechwriter, Tom Brett, demoticrnon the surface but walking evidence that “all liberalsrnwere turning into self-righteous, complacent social snobs.”rnTom marries the daughter of a...

sioned these dwelling places. The survival of the structuralrnshell of a house is not enough to bring ali’c a vanished time.rnFortunately, it sometimes happens that the interior furnishingsrnof a house remain as they were when the dwelling was a framernfor family life, hi one sueh house in Atehison, the furnishingsrninclude a great variety of personal...

grain elevator owners in the East. The farmers of the Plainsrnstates found themseKes in steadilv worsening trouble, and thernGrand Old Partv, which had commanded almost universalrnlovaltv for a long time after the Civil War, was viewed as beingrnin the grip of the Eastern interests and unwilling to help thernpeople and areas that produced so much...

We think “agribusiness” instead of family farm. PresidentrnHavel made the sage comment that we should seek “new andrnbetter ways of managing society, the economy and the world,”rnand these new and better ways, if they represent a personal approach,rnare likely to be close to the old, traditional wavs thatrnwere widely rejected in recent decades, hi other...