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Letter FromrnHungaryrnby Thomas MolnarrnCulture vs. ColonizationrnEastern Europe’s adversary today, nowrnthat communism is dead, is the melangernof brutal liberalism pouring in as an ideologicalrnmenace from America. Thosernwho will shape the new Eastern Europernwant very much a renewal of culturalrnlinks with the West, but they alreadyrnsense that a severe selection will have tornbe effected in the list...

grams of study, the creation of an unemployable,rnhence revolutionary, intellectualrnclass of eternal students and halfbakedrnchampions of demagogic culturalrnpolicies. Western “experts” also suggestrnthat academic life be linked to industryrnand business, a policy that, according tornthem, works well in their own countries.rnBecause he asked my advice, which he isrnnot anyway allowed to follow, I suggestedrnthat the present...

VITAL SIGNSrnCitizenship andrnImmigrationrnby Governor Pete WilsonrnEvery evening, thousands of peoplernline up just south of California’srnborder with Mexico. They wait for darknessrnto fall so they can slip across the borderrnand illegally enter our country. ThernBorder Patrol succeeds in catching asrnmany as half of these people, but thousandsrnmore still succeed at illegally enteringrnour country each and ever’...

grows every day, swelled by the thousandsrnof illegal aliens who slip across thernborder every night. We need immigrationrnreform, and we need it now.rnPete Wilson is the governor ofrnCalifornia.rnIn Praisernof Tyrannyrnby Theodore PappasrnNationalism and thernLanguage Warsrna I’m always sorry when any languagernis lost,” Samuel Johnson toldrnBoswcll during their tour of the Hebridesrnin September 1773, “because languagesrnarc...

Estonia. Yeltsin and the Russian eommunitiesrnin these now-independentrncountries are naturally unhappy with thernnew citizenship requirements andrnmandatory language exams. Besidesrntheir complaint that the Estonian andrnLatvian languages are too difficult tornlearn, thcv have appealed to the UnitedrnNations as victims of “discrimination”rnand “ethnic cleansing.” Yeltsin has evenrnsuspended troop withdrawals from thernregion; the Russian communities havernthreatened labor strikes; the...

La ConditionrnHumainernby David R. SkvittrnZoornProduced and Directed byrnFrederick WisemanrnReleased by Zipporah FilmsrnMuch Ado About NothingrnProduced by Kenneth Branagh,rnDavid Parfitt,rnand Stephen EvansrnDirection and Screenplay byrnKenneth BranaghrnReleased by The SamuelrnGoldwyn CompanyrnFrederick Wiseman’s rigorous documentaryrnstyle disdains the unctuousrnnarrator’s voice-over explanations tornthe audience of what it ought to be ablernto see with its own eyes, and this techniquernhas never...

There is another film about the humanrncondition or, more specifically, thernlimitations of mortals when they presumernto meddle in one another’s business.rnMuch Ado About Nothing is, on itsrnsurface, a comedy, but it is a stern, evenrndisagreeable piece that the verse and thernglitzy Plautine repartee of Beatrice andrnBenedick make palatable. The play isrnabout eavesdropping—the “nothing” inrnthe title...

This elaborate!}^ produced Cliffs Notesrnof Much Ado is supposed to be high art.rnWhat it reminds me of is Tom Stoppard’srnFifteen Minute Hamlet, which wasrnmeant as an irreverent joke.rnThere are other, smaller problems,rntoo. Keanu Reexe’s Don John is a cartoonrnvillain, which he does less well thanrnMandy Patinkin did hiigo Montoya inrnThe Princess Bride. Denzel Washingtonrn—as Reeve’s...

transactionrnNew and Recent Books on Family and PolicyrnThernSwedishrnExperimentrnin FamilyrnPoliticsrnAllanrnCarlsonrnThe,. .rnpoliticsrnHumanrnNaturernThomas Flemingrn ^rnEajnilyrnIt Reflections on thernAmericaji 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 power of ideas to help engineer a newrndomestic order...

DON’T LET THEM G OrnUNOPPOSED!rnOr They’ll Control The Campus Debate. The universities still don’t get the picture.rnThey think students of the nineties still want tornhear the tiresome rhetoric of the sixties. And inrnmost schools that’s all students get when itrncomes to guest lecture programs.rnBut students bold enough to take action tornbalance their education can do...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnEDITORIAL ASSISTANTrnChristine HaynesrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnJohn W. Aldridge, Harold O.J.rnBrown, Katherine Dalton, SamuelrnFrancis, George Garrett,rnE. Christian Kopff, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnJanet Scott Barlow, Bill Kauffman,rnJohn Shelton Keed, David R. SlavittrnEDI rORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICAIION DIREC’IORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCOMPOSITION MANAGERrnAnita FedorarnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising...

preferences conflict with mine. Thernpoint, however, is that despite the existencernof imprudent or unjust local andrnstate laws that restrain liberty, there arernmany legitimate, just, and prudentrnreasons why communities might wishrnto enact legislation that reflects localrncircumstances and conditions—for thernprotection of public health, morality,rnsafety, etc.—and these may well circumscribern”economic liberties.” Again,rnunlike Mr. Bolick but more like thernFramers...

class-action suits are orchestrated.rnThrough the NAACP and similar organizations,rnblacks oppressed by tenminuternwaits are alerted to the prospectrnof big money, and soon there are plaintiffsrngalore.rnBut even if Denny’s is guilty of badrnservice, why should it be a federal case?rnIn a free society, business rudeness isrnsubject only to the sanction of the market,rnthat is, loss of customer....

that “hate speech” is protected by thernFirst Amendment, the Supreme Courtrnin June upheld the constitutionahty of arnWisconsin sentence-enhancement law,rnthe principal kind of criminal statute forrndealing with crimes involving bias.rnThese laws typically allow judges or juriesrnto mete out a harsher penalty to a personrnconvicted of an offense deemed motivatedrnby prejudice. Twenty-six statesrnnow have sentence-enhancement lawsrnon the...

shall be placed naked in a glass cage inrnfront of their former place of employmentrnfor one year and be made to payrntwice what they stole.rnFour, big-time drug dealers and drugrnsmugglers shall be taken 50 miles out tornsea in an Army transport plane andrnpushed out the door. TV tapes of thisrnpunishment would be shown in thernUnited...

Explosive Book Reveals TruthrnAbout “Slick Willie” ClintonrnAnd you can get it FREE!rn(Fairfax, VA) Despite Bill Clinton’srnelection as President, and thern”extensive” media coverage of therncampaign and his early days in office,rnthere are still many questions leftrnunanswered.rnQuestions like:rn• What’s the real story behindrnClinton’s draft dodging? Andrndid powerful people pull stringsrnfor him?rn• Did the Clinton campaignrnactively try to...

PERSPECTIVErnPuppets and Their Mastersrnby Thomas FlemingrnAnaked boy runs down a crowded Italian street, chased byrnan angry old man. Grabbing the boy by the back of thernneck, the old man shouts: “Just wait till I get you back home.”rnThe crowd quickly takes sides against the old man, and whenrnthe carabinieri arrive, they take him off to...

sovereign state of Virginia, is now become an arm of the state,rncapable of exercising its privileges only so long as it does notrnrun afoul of the higher authority from which it draws its legitimacy.rnIn earlier times, a parent’s responsibilities were coextensivernwith his rights, or rather the claims of blood required bothrnparents and children to fulfill...

with the closest relatives who were willing and able to take onrnthe responsibility. In a case of separation or divorce, the assumptionrnof Anglo-American law was that the child should remainrnwith the legal head of the family, that is the father.rnIn one sense the tradition of paternal custody, especiallyrnwhen strengthened by statute and ideology, is a...

Fbrtas Court oerturned the original judgment. Writing for thernmajority, Justice Abe Fortas delivered a stinging rebuke both tornjuvenile justice procedures and to parens patriae. But insteadrnof confining himself to a defense of the parental rights involved,rnhe concluded that minors possess the same constitutionalrnguarantee of due process as adults. “Under our Constitution,rnthe condition of being a...

requiring separate cars for whites and blacks. Left to itself, thernrailroad preferred the simplicity of carrying all passengers in thernsame cars. Plessy v. Ferguson therefore ratified the prejudicesrnof Louisiana legislators, but it also legitimized the power ofrngovernment to force racial discrimination upon businessesrnthat did not want to discriminate.rnBefore the passage of civil rights laws, lax...

The Civil Rights Act of 1991 therefore forbids quotas, and itsrnsupporters point to this as proof that the act cannot lead tornquotas. Alas, things are not so simple. It is as if an electric utilityrnwere forbidden to run its wires above ground . . . but werernalso forbidden to dig holes. Something the act forbids...

plains wliy there has been virtually no outcry over the fact that firmative action preferences to all nonwhites—and not just thernlaws specifically crafted to abolish racial discrimination are presumed victims of slavery—shows the true nature of toda’srnnow used to require discrimination. It explains why preferences “civil rights” movement. Righting injustices has little to dornfor blacks—for...

practice, and it is useful to summarize the views that developedrnon this subject. Rape was said to be an offense that results fromrnthe social distribution of wealth and power in a “patriarchal” society.rnThe crime happens with enormous frequency, althoughrnofficial statistics record only a tiny handful of actual occurrences;rnand rape involves savage violence that often leads...

ders,” or some similar term. The order—a “PFA”—is providedrnby a judge to a woman or her legal representative, often fromrna loeal “women’s refuge.” All that is required is a statementrnthat domestic violence has occurred or appears likely, and thernPFA is granted without a full hearing, without providing the accusedrnman with legal representation or any chance...

again indicate the influence of the core feminist bcHef thatrnwomen do not, perhaps cannot, lie when alleging victimization.rnThis point is sufficiently certain to justify granting a literal licensernto kill.rnAnd the situation is likely to get worse. In 1992, the AmericanrnMedical Association decreed that all doctors should screenrnwomen patients for what they believe to be signs...

train careening down the tracks, arguments about the unduernreach of executive power are both vahd and sensible and mustrnbe addressed. Republican history, American and Roman, providesrna key to having it both ways—the power of true fiscal disciplinernvested in the White House coupled with no importantrndiminution of congressional authority.rnPonder the Roman system of dealing with crisis...

pleted that a future generation’s opportunities are dimmed foreverrnby the need to pay for its grandparents’ profligacy. Onlyrnthe President can be expected to hold that perspective on arncontinuing basis, even if it is onlv sporadically acted upon.rnQuite apart from the nation’s moral obligations to the future,rna Roman-style line item veto essentially allows the democraticrnprocess to...

had uncovered evidence that Then was running an extensiverndrug operation from the Dominican Republic and was trainingrnyoung Dominicans to be his agents in New York City. Occhipintirnalso learned that Freddie Then had a former federalrnprosecutor on his payroll. According to Occhipinti’s source, thernformer official was using his influence to corrupt other federalrnprosecutors and was receiving...

firefighters writhed in agony and flames on the ground.rnAt the insistence of the Dinkins administration, the U.S.rnAttorney’s Office of the Southern District conducted arn”civil rights” investigation of Occhipinti and his actions. It interviewedrnowners and employees at all 56 premises that hadrnbeen part of Project Bodega. The charge against Occhipintirnwas that although he had an INS...

prosecutor even demanded additional sentencing because Occhipintirnhad gone to the press proclaiming his innocence.rnThat request was denied by the court. By coincidence, thernprosecutor in Occhipinti’s case, Jeh Johnson, was the manrnwho had closed down Project Esquire and is alleged to be therngodson of Judge Motley.rnEleven months after the trial, Occhipinti appealed his conviction.rnArmed with a...

with several law enforcement intelligence groups.rnOn July 13, 1993, Occhipinti, myself, Curtis Sliwa, and othersrntestified before the New Jersey Senate Committee on Lawrnand Public Safety. The senators were aghast as Joe documentedrnthe extensive crimes he had uncovered while investigatingrnthe organized crime operated by aliens: narcotics smuggling,rngambling, loan sharking, smuggling and harboring ofrnillegal aliens, money laundering,...

America is a divine as well as a merelyrnhuman experiment (no matter whatrncrooks or nonentities are President andrnVice-President of the United States, Godrnis always its copilot). American idealism,rnto the extent that it is more than an aspectrnof liberalism itself, has always functionedrnas liberalism’s Useful Fool andrnTrojan Horse in the nation’s history—inrnparticular its intellectual history. It...

that is of course in the matter of afhrmatix’ernaction legislation. ProfessorrnLoury is unimpressed:rnThe growing black “underclass”rnhas become the constant reminderrnto many Americans of anrnhistorical debt owed to the blackrncommunity. I suggest that, werernit not for this continued presencernamong us of those worst off of allrnAmericans, blacks’ ability to sustainrnpublic support for affirmativernaction, minority-business setasidesrnand the...

communism and America’s and Europe’srnresponse; the prudential politics ofrnthe Nuclear Age and America’s attemptsrnto halt the spread of communism in Korearnand Vietnam. Furthermore, we seernNiebuhr’s attraction to the Social Gospelrnand socialism in the 20’s and early 30’srnand his later “discovery” of Augustinernand the consequent development ofrnwhat is called his “Christian realism.”rnThis Christian realism, Brown observes,rnregisters...

federation “is the final and most absurdrnform of the ‘social contract’ conceptionrnof government.” One could say thatrnNiebuhr was not under any illusionsrnabout the prospects of multiculturalismrnor of a New World Order. He believedrnthat common heritage is the basis ofrncommunity and that on the local, national,rnand international level, justice,rnorder, and peace are always tentative andrnfragmentary.rn”Religious dualism...

farming that grows food no one wants, arnpoetry industry has been created to serernthe interests of the producers and not thernconsumers.” That is not quite exact,rnsince the consumers mostly are the producersrn—one of Gioia’s points, in fact.rnWhich is why contemporary poetry mattersrnso httle. “American poetry now belongsrnto a subculture,” he writes, andrnnot to the “mainstream...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From NewrnYork Cityrnby Nicholas StixrnLegalized RacismrnWap! Someone just punched me, goingrndown the subway stairs from the elevated.rnBehind me, I hear girlish, teenagedrnlaughter. No aeeident here. I turn to myrnassailant, a 12- or 13-year-old blaek girlrnand tell her she’d better keep her handsrnto herself. “You better keep on walkin’, 1rndon’t talk to no white people,”...

blacks to whom I owe favors: for the hospitalityrnof a home-cooked meal, counsel,rna job, my life. Insisting that the chargesrndon’t apply to them will not impress myrnbenefactors and will not change theirrnfeelings of having been betrayed. Manyrnof them truly were victims of whiternracism. Their displeasure is a bitter pricernI’m forced to pay in a world...

Clinton said he would not run for Presidentrnin 1992. Say claimed that Clintonrnowed him about $20,000 for campaignrnservices, which probably boiled down tornMcintosh not spoiling the campaignrnparty.rnCould be: it took Clinton till Januaryrnof this year to pay back $100,000 owed tornPerry County Bank, and Perry County isrnnowhere. At least Say is in Little Rock.rnDon’t get...

VITAL SIGNSrnCOMMONWEALrn’^«»^^rn^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ • ^ – ‘ S i ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ‘ ‘ – « f e s « « – •rnThe Revolutionrnin Wacornby Egon Richard TauschrnTorching the ConstitutionrnAhundred years from now historians,rnif they are still permitted to researchrnand write, will argue about whenrnthe United States...

said he wished he could grow up so thatrnhe could have a gun. Apparently, Koreshrngave investigators who came to therncompound a complete and peaceful tourrnand willingly answered questions.rnThe affidavit also misquotes the lawrnso that it appears that materials whichrncould form explosi’es (found in any largernkitchen and all garden stores) are illegal.rnThey are not, unless the...

periodically holding silly and selfcontradictoryrnpress conferences. Thernonly fun part of the show was the spokesman’srnembarrassing theological blatherings,rnwhich were as ignorant, confused,rnobsessive, and boring as he said Koresh’srnwere, though the spokesman offeredrnthem only in the hope of divertingrnAmericans from the real issues.rnAccording to all accounts, commonlyrnreported in newspapers and never contradicted,rnthe FBI was not called in...

Jobs, Politics, andrnImmigrationrnby Virginia D. AbeinethyrnUnemployment and underemploymentrnarc trends becoming morernnoticeable as the 20th century draws to arnclose. Eighteen million new jobs wererncreated in the United States during thernexpansionary 1980’s, but, ominously,rnstructural unemployment—the seemingrnbase Icyel in our economy—was still redefinedrnupward from 4.5 percent to 5.5rnpercent of the work force. Worse, newrnjob creation fell far from...

skills-based—visas. And an estimatedrnhalf-million more enter without comingrnto the attention of the Immigration andrnNaturalization Service (INS) but intendingrnto stay.rnThe population of the United States isrngrowing by 58,000 people a week. Nearlyrnhalf of that growth is immigration;rnsome additional portion is due to childrenrnborn to immigrants, who have significantlyrnmore children per woman thanrnnative-born Americans. The immediaternimpact of...

people perish.” Jerry Brown dropped inrnand saw a jobs program in tlie waters ofrnMarsliall Field’s basement: “Don’t tellrnme we ean’t put people to work, thernpipes under Chicago are bursting.”rnThe real story, as David Johnson ofrnthe Chicago Tribune later reported, hadrnnothing to do with Republican budgetrncuts and everything to do with goofingrnoff by the Democrat’s patronage-bloatedrneit...

I probably meant to ask aroundrnabout you but forgot. You arernprobably right to think that I havernvery little spare time. What I dornhave I would rather spend withrnmy neglected friends than diningrnwith a stranger. You presumablyrnknow why you want to have arn”meal date” with me, but whatrncould be my reason?rnThere are much less awkwardrnways of...

Modern editions of classic works for today’s readers.rnNEWrnLIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITYrnBy James Fitzjames StephenrnEdited by Stuart D. WarnerrnStephen’s book still retains its power to challenge, and irritate,rnliberal and conservative alike, and it remains an indispensablerntext for anyone seriously concerned about the extent to which thernlaw should attempt to enforce morality.rn—Stefan CoUini, Cambridge UniversityrnThis classic, incisive work...

Young America’s Foundationrnis a refuge for students seeking an alternative to the politicallyrncorrect’ environment enforced on many campuses.”rnV i r f ^rn««*'”‘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.rnRonald ReaganrnWow more than ever conservativernstudents mustrnbe prepared to defendrntheir beliefs. Knowledge...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnEDITORIAL ASSISTANTrnChristine HaynesrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrn]ohn W. Aldridge, Harold O./.rnBrown, Katherine Dalton, SamuelrnFrancis, George Garrett,rnE. Christian Kopff, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnJanet Scott Barlow, Bill Kauffman,rn]ohn Shelton Reed, David R. SlavittrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy G. ReffettrnCOMPOSITION MANAGERrnAnita FedorarnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices;rn934...