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with Orthodoxy or with monastic hfe—monasticism associatedrnwith the struggle against depravity in a large urban communityrn—but new spiritual seeds are being sowed in the capitalrnof Nebraska, a city and a region where people are mindful ofrntheir spiritual heritage and the imperatives of human culturernfor a wholesome society.rnFrom the perspective of the early 1990’s, the Plains...

sliadows assailed them on every side.” Bromficld saw the f^actor’rnsystem and modern war as a common assault on humanrndignity. The novelist rose to the defense of immigrant workersrncondemned by the greedy industrialists to squalid, patheticrnlives. lie blasted Rotary Clubs, Chambers of Commerce,rnand faith in “progress” as corrupt and dehumanizing, hi bothrnThe Green Bay Tree and...

the Midwest, and agrarian democracy thrived: “There were norngreat ‘industrial kings’ or anv ‘high-pressure salesmen’ orrnbankers wlio were ‘omnipotent.’ There was no over production.rnThere was no lack of market. There was no unemplovment.rnThere was no starvation.” Old Jamie’s wife, Maria, managedrnthe garden and the preservation of food, for she “would havernconsidered it a disgrace to...

With ample funds from his books and occasional Hollywoodrnwork, Bromfield succeeded for a time. Several carefully chosenrnfarmers and their families joined the Malabar experiment,rncreating the community life for which he longed. Bromfield’srnclearest achievement came in renewing the soil of his farm, andrnhis experience led to the founding of Friends of the Land. Hisrnnonfiction accounts of...

templation of still grander vistas whoserneternal beauty, to paraphrase a line byrnE^ugene O’Neill, death cannot touch. Inrn1982, Governor Richard Lamm of Coloradornpublished The Angry West: A VulnerablernLand and Its Future, in which hernstated that while Westerners were by nornmeans opposed to economic growth andrndevelopirient in their region, they hadrnlearned to be skeptical of “progress” andrnto...

and snowcovered mountains in thernbackground, an idyll inspired, the writerrnexplained, by the film A River RunsrnThrough It, filmed in Montana. That’srnsomething. A rich dude in Beverly Hillsrnor Dallas sees a movie one night andrngoes out the next day to whack himselfrnoff a big chunk of God’s Greatest MoviernSet! There really is such a thing asrnhaving...

and phrases as “energy eircuits,” “dvnamos,”rn”kinetic energy,” “inertia,”rn”mechanisms,” and so forth. If Mrs. Patersonrnliad written in recent years, wernmight be subjected to more up-to-daternscientific metaphors, such as “servomechanisms,”rn”computer chips,”rn”fiberoptics,” and other techno-mvsticism.rnThough vou mav grasp lier meaningrnin a general sense, the metaphorsrnbecome annoying yhen you reahze thatrnfor Mrs. Paterson these metaphors werernreal, and she intended...

The humanitarian puts himself in thernplace of God.”rnBut, as Mrs. Paterson notes, he is alsorn”confronted bv two awkward facts: first,rnthat the competent do not need his assistance;rnand second, that the majority ofrnpeople, if unperverted, positively do notrnwant to be ‘done good’ by the humanitarian.”rnHaving considered what thern”good” of others might be, and who is torndecide...

study for scholars and general readers.rnIt is fitting that the foreword shouldrnbe written by Francis Canavan, who observesrnthat “this is a book that has longrnbeen needed to be written.” In the greatrnconflict between “realists” and “nominalists”rnof the late Middle Ages, which isrncertainly one of the most crucial issues inrnall intellectual history and which hasrnshaped modern...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Indianarnby William L. Isley, Ji.rnThe Middle American StrugglernEarlier this year my 12-year-old son andrn1 had a knock-down-drag-out fight overrnpatriotism and the evils of media influence.rnWhat incident set off these familyrnfireworks? Was it the current U.N.rnwars or the influx of foreign goods? Wasrnit Dan Rather or MTV? No, it was somethingrnmuch more important. My...

anapolis Star boasted of a current recovery.rnThe problem is that the mild upturnrnis fueled to a large extent by thernprospect of significantly cheaper housing,rnall within a relatively reasonablerncommuting distance to the north side ofrnhidianapolis. Although I am glad forrnthe financial boost to my brother-inlaw’srnhometown, it will no longer be Andersonrnthat is prospering. It will cease...

the Creed which acknowledges the hicarnation.rnAt Marquette during the petitionsrna gentleman complete withrnpounding fist pleaded that we “labor tillrnour dying day to eradicate the awfulrnracism that permeates our world.” Andrnat Old St. Mary’s the elaborate “OldrnWorid atmosphere” touted in the bulletinrnseryes as an unwilling backdrop forrnthe Sunday folk guitar Mass. All thernwhile a renegade Franciscan...

VITAL SIGNSrnMaya Angelou’srnInaugural Poemrnby John MeroneyrnPlagiarized or Inspired?rnWhen Bill Clinton picked writerrnMaya Angelou to create and readrna poem at his swearing-in ceremony, hernwas given kudos bv the media andrnacademia for the “diversity” and brilliancernof his selection. Many spoke ofrnhow a woman whose books (I Know Whyrnthe Caged Bird Sings and Swingin’ andrnSingin and Gettin Merry...

names like the Coalition for Immigrantrnand Refugee Rights and Services (and itsrnWomen’s Task Force), Equal Rights Advocates,rnand the Legal Aid Society ofrnSan Mateo County, this illegal alien gettogetherrnwas championed by such peoplernas Elissevet Stamatopoulou, Chief of thernUnited Nations Center for HumanrnRights, who was quoted as saying, “[W]ernhave to shake things up.” At age 67, Irncan...

residency) answer, orally and in English,rnnine out of 15 questions (such asrn”Which office deals with immigration;rnthe INS, the employment office, the socialrnsecurity office, or the post office?”)rnthere was an even more simplifiedrnmethod of attaining the status of permanentrnresident. According to the Januaryrn29, 1989, issue of the Los AngelesrnHerald Examiner, for those illegal aliensrnwho had not...

California Assemblyman Joe Baca is successfulrnin having his proposed legislationrnenacted, all California students 18 yearsrnor older will be registered to vote as partrnof their U.S. government and civicsrncourses.rnThis insidious plan on the part of thernMexican government and its Americanrnallies to indoctrinate Mexican expatriatesrnin undying loyalty to the countryrnfrom which they so willingly fled is unconscionablernas...

approach justifies its consummation.rnDisgust with the special-interest poHticsrnengendered by the 1974 bill promptedrnCongress to promise that a few hundredrnmillion more tax dollars will cleanse therncorruptive influence of private sectorrnmoney from elections. Of course, publicrnfinancing also places the purse strings ofrnelection financing in its own capablernhands.rnTax money will finance qualifyingrnHouse candidates with matching fundsrn(equaling the first...

litical status quo under the guise of reform.rnPresident Clinton cannot claim tornbe a reformer by acquiescing to a congressionalrndesire to rig elections. Ratherrnthan “reinvent” government, Congressrnand the administration appear set tornreinstate themseKes as our goerningrnelite.rnSteven Schwalm writes fromrnWashington, D.C.rnMetaflicksrnby David R. SlavittrnJurassic ParkrnProduced by Kathleen Kennedyrnand Gerald R. MolenrnDirected by Steven SpielbergrnScreenplay by Michael Crichton...

the system is capricious, unreliable, andrnoften wrong, and that any of us mightrndrop through the cracks, lose his credentials,rnhis identity, his ‘erv right to exist.rnIn each episode. Dr. Kimble is teasedrnout of his anonymous work as a carnivalrnroustabout or a bartender when he encountersrnsome other poor slob who wasrnalso the victim of an injustice. Kimblernfinds...

How did you go about investigating (Arthur) Schlesinger’s research?rnI took The Crisis of the Old Order and went through the CooHdge section Hne byrnHne. I delved into the historical sources to see how Schlesinger’s writing squaredrnwith the relevant historical documents. What I discovered was that Schlesinger’srntreatment was almost a complete caricature from beginning to end....

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EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, Jr.rnASSISTANT EDITORrnChristine HaynesrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnJohn W. Aldridge, Harold O.J.rnBrown, Katherine Dalton, SamuelrnFrancis, Ceorge Carrett,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 Rocklord Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn934...

in pushing conservative issues and “values”rnleftward and in condemning anyrncredible right as fascist or worse. Paleoconsrnrepresent a threat to the politicalrnclass and its media allies and will thereforernbe kept out of polite discussion atrnany price. But neoconservative money,rnwhich has not been squandered, hasrncontributed to its successes. That is allrnthat I intend to prove in n...

free assent. The “priestcraft” has degeneratedrnfrom Calvinist to transcendentalistrnand now to progressive-liberal,rnbut the principle remains the same.rnLikewise Jefferson’s educational systemrnhas been praised and condemned asrnthe progenitor of our modern publicrnschool establishment. But the debasedrnsystem we have comes from Prussiarnby way of the New England reformersrnHorace Mann and John Dewey. Its rationalernis egalitarian and regimentedrn”progress.” The...

Wu’s particular spin on this argumentrnwas that his dients were fleeing forcedrnsterilization, the supposed fate of thosernwho violate China’s strict birth controlrnmeasures. That this edict applies only tornwomen, and that all but nine of thernship’s passengers were men, does notrnphase Wu or the cadre of immigrationrnlawyers who have rallied to his cause.rnThe “right” to alight...

University and Rutgers University, as wellrnas visiting professorships at the Universityrnof Michigan Law School, the Collegernof William and Mary, Tulane University,rnCambridge University, Yale University,rnand Columbia University. Since 1990,rnhe has been Distinguished Scholar-in-rnResidence at the University Center inrnGeorgia.rnThe Ingersoll Foundation is the philanthropicrndivision of Ingersoll MillingrnMachine Company of Rockford, Illinois.rnThe Rockford Institute administers thernprizes. Past recipients...

of debating that or any other postulate,rnto hear some back-and-forth on this.rnNot only might it have illuminated ourrncontemporary understanding of what thernCivil War means but it might even havernyielded some definition of the now-vacuousrnterm “racism.” But, barring that,rnthe senators who voted for the flagrnamendment might also have exploredrnother aspects of the issue. Mrs. Moseley-rnBraun herself,...

by massive immigration from non-rnWestern societies, will, as Mr, Yardleyrnperceives, “inevitably” change the wayrnbusiness is done in this country, and notrnjust in the Senate. The change is inevitablernbecause it is inconceivable thatrnpeople who are not, and whose ancestorsrnwere not, part of the historic definingrncore of the American nation will adoptrnthe same norms, values, and beliefs...

Great Topics, Great Issuesrn^*rnAin’t Freedom Grand: The 1992 Election—Novemberrn1992—Donald Warren on the empty voting booth.rnWilliam J. Quirk on the unrepresented middle class,rnThomas Fleming on the Electoral College, James S.rnFishkin on deliberadve polling, and Samuel Francisrnon the passivity of the electorate. Plus TheodorernPappas on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s early plagia-rnAO’ # XirA^rn:0^^^rnTen Commandments—December 1992—A roundtablerndiscussion on...

PERSPECTIVErnItalian Lessonsrnby Thomas Flemingrna Una Gaffe su Ciampi aU’apertura del G-7″ ran the headlinernin Corriere della Sera. Italy’s pro-Clinton “newspaperrnof record” went on to describe how the American Presidentrngreeted Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, the Italian prime minister,rnwhen they met at the Tokyo economic summit: “Good morningrnPresident Skahlfahroh,” apparently confusing the primernminister (the president of the council)...

American business interests and to restrict immigration. Now,rnjust when the French, the Itahans, the Germans, and even thernSwedes are beginning to rouse from their internationalist slumbersrnand recognize themselves as peoples with historical identitiesrnand particular interests, Americans are, as the pop psychologistsrnlike to say, “heavy into denial.”rnOur Southern border is one long bleeding wound, leakingrnjobs and...

eptitude, which make him more prone to stumble every timernhe tries to cHmb upon the world’s stage, and all things consideredrnit is probably a good thing he won the election, since thernquicker the crisis arrives, the more likely we shall be to survivernit.rnPatrick Buchanan fears, quite rightly, that the Republicansrnare handing the NAFTA issue to...

NAFTA, but this time around they do not even have the excusernof international communism. Like the old internationalistsrnwho were willing to betray their country for the sake of an ideology,rnthese new internationalists—that is, those who are notrnsimple opportunists—are ideologues who, in the name of freerntrade and international order, are eager to throw young Americansrnout of...

The differences can also be seen on higher levels. The recentrnbook on education with the most impact in the United Statesrnwas Allan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind. Bloom wasrnknown as an effective teacher with few or no scholarly credentialsrnwho argued for reading Plato and other classics in literalrntranslations and for a return to an...

Head to Head believes that the United States can maintain itsrnformer economic hegemony. That has passed to Europe andrnJapan. If, however, we arc to regain our competitiveness, wernneed to imitate Europe and Japan in several ways. Our educationalrnsystem must achie’e worid-class status in foreign languages,rnmathematics, and science. The massive lav-offs of ourrnprivate businesses are one...

with a claim to free health care, food, and housing at the expensernof the German taxpayer. Only America maintains so insanerna system. Since the situation is well known everywherernfrom Sri Lanka to Zaire, hundreds of thousands pour intornGermany from these countries. They are by no means thernpoorest of the poor. On the contrary, only the...

We should not ignore the fact that for the past two or threernyears, parallel to the dam-breaking flood of hundreds of thousandsrnof asylum-seekers and illegal immigrants, the crime raternhas been increasing at a worrying pace. In many Germanrnstates the crime rates are increasing 80 or 100 percent annually.rnAlthough the foreign population in Germany is only...

rooted culture. Since there are so many of them now in Ger- created the crisis, meaning the political parties who are totalmany,rnthey can live among one another without changing ly isolated from the German people, who understand nothingrntheir way of life or coming into conflict with German customs, of populist needs, and who increasingly receive...

the orthodox view, centraHzation is generally a “good” and progressivernmovement, whereas disintegration and secession, evenrnif sometimes unavoidable, represent an anachronism. It is assumedrnthat larger political units—and ultimately a single worldrngovernment—imply wider markets and hence increasedrnwealth. As evidence of this, it is pointed out that economicrnprosperity has increased dramatically with increased centralization.rnHowever, rather than reflecting anv...

ed States attained hegemony over Western Europe and becamernheir to its vast colonial empires. A decisive step in the directionrnof global unification, therefore, was taken with the establishmentrnof a pax Americana. And indeed, throughout the entirernperiod the United States, Western Elurope, and most of the restrnof the world have suffered from a steady and dramatic...

program would be placed directly before the country’s parliament.rnThe proposal, in particular, called for a complete cessationrnof non-asylum immigration, expulsion of those foreignersrnconvicted of crimes, the reinforcement of border patrolsrnagainst illegal immigration, the compulsory carrying of identityrndocuments by foreigners, a 30-percent ceiling on the numberrnof foreign children in any classroom within Austrian staternschools, and tests...

“as many as one million!”rnOn January 31, Austrians expressed their views on the HaiderrnVolksbegehren: 417,000 signatures were gathered, representingrn7.4 percent of the 5.6 million electorate. The “spin” given tornthe “Austria First” referendum results was that the “radicalrnright” in that nation had been given a resounding defeat, withrnthe European inquiring: “Is Austrian racism now in retreat?”...

Failing this, the resultant legislative wrangling has et to lead tornany action; ex’cn if it were to, the FPO could claim credit for it.rnWhile Austria’s chancellor, Franz Vranitskv, continues to dismissrnI laider as a “populist,” and political scientist Anton Pelinkarnwarns of a “populist temptation,” no one appears to disputernHaider’s declaration that the FPO was tlie...

ken goal, but even Jesse Jackson talksrnabout affirmative action, not quotas, andrnequal opportunity, not equal results.rnThe distinction between “opportunity”rnand “results” is, moreover, simply a matterrnof time. Yesterday’s opportunitiesrnare today’s results, which become today’srnopportunities. For example, the equalrnopportunity to be president of the companyrnrequires equality going backwardsrnin time. Equalizing opportunities andrnresults, then, is effectively the samernthing....

ton who describes herself as a “former divorcee”rnwho has “been a single parent forrn10 years”? The Times would never describerna counter-expert (had they consultedrnone) as having been “a marriedrnparent for 10 years.” While the articlernnotes that critics of single parenthood exist,rntheir views are condemned “as steppingrnon the toes of those who are tryingrnto support women’s...

change.” Some of the material Carlsonrnbrings forward in this discussion is genuinelyrncreepy. For what one finds inrnovert mandates is an insistence thatrnAmerican society (especially families)rnmust be mobilized in toto “in order to allocaternits resources in the fullest andrnmost rational manner possible.” Morernintrusion and manipulation—all for “therngood” of those being intruded upon andrnmanipulated, of course—resulted. Carlson’srndiscussion...

said Captain Charles Blackford,rn”than Queen Elizabeth at beingrnasked to toueh for the ‘King’srnEvil.'” He took the infant tenderlyrnin his arms, “until his grayingrnbeard touched the fresh youngrnhair of the child.” To bystandersrnhe seemed to be praying. Soldiersrnstanding about removed theirrncaps, and the young womanrnbowed her head on Sorrel’s shoulder.rnThen he handed the childrnback without a...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Swedenrnby Allan CarlsonrnThe Nationalism of Jan MyrdalrnJan Myrdal, the brooding bad boy ofrnSwedish letters, agreed to meet with mernon a Sunday afternoon, at his home nearrnthe village of Mariefred. I went to askrnthis iconoclastic celebrant of China’srnCultural Revolution (Report From a ChinesernVillage), merciless public critic ofrnhis famous parents Gunnar and Alvarn(Childhood), and author...

and lakes. I asked: Did Sweden’s contemporaryrnSocial Democrats, now enjoyingrna strong revival in the opinionrnpolls as the conservatives take the fallrnfor decades of socialist mismanagement,rnunderstand this? No, he replied, thern”populist left” in Sweden had died inrnthe early 1960’s, replaced by a “so-calledrnleft” that was committed to smashingrnmorality, to destroying the family, and torncrushing traditional institutions....

the relationship between hberty andrnequahty according to Tocqueville andrnLeroux, the latter’s eontribution was “torndesignate two symmetrical chasmsrnwhereas both the right and the left hadrncounted (for the previous two centuries)rnonly one social scourge.” Leroux’s descriptionrnof individualism and socialismrnas “two loaded pistols pointed in oppositerndirections” strikes me as one of thernmost vivid (and prophetic) images ofrnthe Cold...