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dents to patriarchal values in our lawsrnand customs,” she notes. Is that so?rnDoes literature suggest law? What isrnthe evidence for this linkage? Similady,rnshe contends that “exposing the racial attitudesrnimplicit in Western historians’rnaccounts of the world may arouse criticismrnof American foreign policy.” Alas,rnit may, but such criticism could be illadvised.rnWas the American foray intornSomalia an expression...

“Jewish memory” can cover everythingrnfrom the city plan of Flatbush in 1950 tornthe recipe for Mrs. Bernstein’s kreplach.rnNor do I exaggerate the militantly secularrnreading. We are asked for “socio-historicalrnstudies of Jewish women,” butrnnot for papers on women in Judaic lawrnand theology. If the chairmen wanted tornadvertise that they have tin ears for religion,rnthey could not...

tions were therefore needed in the acceptedrndevices by which the majorityrnwas to be restrained.rnF’urther, Calhoun illuminated thernmoral principle behind such restrictions,rnwhich he summed up as the “concurrentrnmajority.” The “mere numerical majority”rnwas not itself an ethical or an adequatelyrndemocratic idea. What wasrnneeded was a higher consensus, a largerrnmajority reaching a decision after deliberationrnand compromise—a process thatrncould...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnStupid and ProudrnWhen the editors of the New Republicrntold writer Stephen Rodrick to get hisrncute little fanny down to Washington’srnOmni Shoreham Hotel and cover thernfirst conference of Pat Buchanan’s AmericanrnCause Foundation last May, Mr.rnRodrick must have felt something like arncharacter in Sartre’s “No Exit.” Thernprospect of idling for an entire weekendrnamong...

tration,rnDan Quayle was right about what, exactly?rnWas Dan Quayle right when herncriticized “Murphy Brown” for glamorizingrnillegitimacy, or was he right a fewrnweeks later when he tried to make nicernby sending a letter and a toy stuffed elephantrnto Murphy’s fictional bastard?rnWas Dan Quayle right when he blastedrnthe country’s cultural elite for erodingrn”family values,” or was he...

selves by subverting American beliefsrnand institutions. The only way to dislodgernthem and their power is throughrneountervailing power, which is whyrnGramsci has more to teach us than DanrnQuayle. And the only way to mobilizernthat countervailing power is to organizernthe normal people of the nation whorncome from places like Altoona and SaltrnLake City and who gobble down...

Anthologiesrnby George GarrettrnIn this fat book I findrnthe signature, my own, my namerndone in my same hand but different.rnI could not make it that way now.rnSummer of 1947 it would have to be.rnThe copyright is 1946—rnA Little Treasury of Modern Poetry:rnThe Best Poems of the 20th Century.rnA bit early then, wouldn’t you say?rnwith this bloody...

PERSPECTIVErnJesting With Pilaternby Thomas FlemingrnAmericans pretend to be shoeked whenever one of their nationalrncelebrities gets caught out in a lie. Is it really so surprisingrnthat Michael Jordan should attempt to conceal hisrngambling or that Bill Clinton should hide his cochonnerie?rnMy European friends—some of them highly moral and religiousrnmen—never tire of ridiculing us for our Parson...

selves, we cannot be free, either in the trivial sense of social andrnpolitical freedom, or in the deeper moral and spiritual sensernthat Jesus meant: “Whosoever committeth sin is the servant ofrnsin.” Every new campus speech code, every new piece of haterncrimes legislation (with the Reagan-Bush Supreme Court’srnseal of approval) is another link in the chain...

mirable insistence upon tracing consequences and upon verificationrnprocesses, but in the assumption that this method isrnsufficient in itself. James, in his gentlemanly contempt for religion,rnwas willing to allow believers to enjoy the “moral holidays”rnthat derive from religious faith, and he was surprised byrnthe angry rejection that his condescension inspired. But, by thernGo visit a school,...

ble is, Voltaire and the rest already knew what those laws were,rna secularized version of Christian humanism. The Enlightenmentrndid not need Newton or Copernicus—a rationalizedrnversion of Ptolemy, if offered as a revolutionary breakthrough,rnwould have served the same purpose.rnParallels between the sciences that study nature and thosernthat have man as their object are as perilous as...

those courses is wrong. For example, the lead article in the Octoberrn1992 issue of the American Psychologist begins by noting,rn”Many today are disappointed in the progress that psychologyrnhas made in this century.” The author, Frank Schmidt, notesrnthat the argument is whether this “slow” progress is due to arnfaulty philosophy of science or to behaviorism, the...

with the local boys with no bad afterthoughts or unintendedrnpregnancies, generalized her hndings on the basis of these fewrndozen self-reported nymphettes, and concluded that sex and allrnits trappings are merely cultural phenomena, not matters ofrnhuman nature. Roughly 60 years later Derek Freeman publishedrna book on Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making andrnUnmaking of an Anthropological...

showing that Dc Man’s work is full of mistranslations, notrnonly from German, but also from French, despite the factrnthat—or, Baudelaire might have said, because—he was Belgian.rnWhen, faced with this and similar scholarly malfeasance,rnthe dean of Yale College said that he had given up on thernhumanities and would hire only “scientists,” his faculty drovernhim into eady...

more effective—in treating hyperaetive children. His conclusionsrnwere widely reported and accepted: from 1980 to 1983rn(when he was first accused of misconduct), his published papersrnrepresented at least one-third of all scientihc articles on therntopic. From 1981 to 1985, his work had a “meaningful” impactrnin his field, as measured by citations to his work by others.rnAlthough there...

it had few parallels in contemporary American government.rnYet throughout the 1960’s and 70’s, the research system wasrnhealthy and productive, the science agencies monitored performancernthoroughly and conscientiouslv, and no one questionedrnthe overall trustworthiness of grant recipients. Politicalrncontroversy surrounded the use of human subjects and animalsrnin experiments, the safety of genetic manipulation, and the disposalrnof hazardous byproducts...

all sides.rnIn response to especially nast fights o’er Nil I investigatingrnprocedures (and dissatisfaction with the length and style of investigations),rnCongress recently changed the Nil I Office of ScientificrnIntegrity into the Office of Research Integrity (ORI), anrnindependent entity reporting to the Secretary of Health andrnI luman Services (thereby moving control of ethics investigationsrnfrom NIH to its...

Great Topics, Great Issuesrn•^trns*-^rn-‘^rnxO’ ^^^^rnKiilUii to the Core: American Colleges^SeptemberrnI ‘•’ —Thomas Fleming on literature and the curricu-rnI debate. Robert Weissberg on the life of a campusrnnservalive, and E. Christian Kopff on a true classialrncurriculum. Plus Laura Rogers’ expose of thernParents as Teachers program.rn1492: Italians and America—October 1992—rnChristie Davies on blaming Columbus, E.rniistian Kopff on...

Rose Lane, a born writer who pliedrnher trade from her youth until almostrnthe day of her death at the age of 81, wasrnnevertheless prevented from distinguishedrnliterary accomplishment by herrndesire for fame and fortune and by a restless,rnimpatient temperament that wouldrnnot permit her to define a coherent artisticrngoal for herself and persevere towardrnit. After beginning her...

and ideological order in her mother’srnmanuscripts. “This kind ofrnwriting is called ‘ghosting,’ and nornwriter of my reputation does it,”rnshe had written. . ,.rnActually, “this kind of writing” is notrncalled ghosting; and one mav well wonderrnwhat experience, if any, ProfessorrnHoltz has had as a manuscript editor.rnThe improvements he describes, inventedrnscenes aside, are in fact routine editorialrnwork...

with the “decision-making” or “moralrnreasoning” approach. This construct resultedrnin a “non-directive” method reminiscentrnof the Rogerian psychoanalyticrnschool and was aimed at “empowering”rnthe pupil to “discover” for himself whatrnis “right” in any given moral situation.rnThis represented, as Professor Kilpatrickrnnotes, the transmogrification of educationrnfrom a didactic exercise into psychology.rnTeaching became counseling,rnand learning, self-analysis.rnThe objective in the avant-garde approachrnwas...

What is required instead is to ask whyrnmoderns so often choose poorly and howrnthey might choose otherwise.rnThe purpose of this book is to callrnmoderns back (or forward?) to what wernmight call an “authentic authenticity.”rnTaylor proceeds by asking, “What arernthe conditions in human life of realizingrn[such] an ideal?” I low is it that one isrnreally true...

teries, minus the bodies in the bilhardrnroom. Instead, the result of her first attemptrnis The Children of Men, for whichrnJames chooses as her scenario nothingrnless than the end of the human race. Itrnis, however, the end of the race as only arnwriter long practiced at finding innovativernways of knocking people off couldrndepict it.rnThe year is...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From thernUniversity ofrnPennsylvaniarnby Gregory P. PavlikrnOn Buffalo and BiasrnSheldon Hacknev, president of the Universityrnof PennsyK’ania, was recently chosenrnto head the National Endowment forrnthe Humanities. Dr. Hackney has beenrndescribed bv the Chronicle of Higher Educationrnas something of a moderate withrna passion for free expression. I won’t rehashrnhis credentials as a defender of freernspeech, except to...

tant black organization that describesrnwhites as “devils” created as a curse uponrnthe world by an embittered black scientist.rnThat evening Hackney came out andrnmet with the student militants, and thernfollowing day he refused to condemnrnthe minority students for their theft ofrnthe paper. His statement reads like anrnapology. Hackney lamented that “twornimportant university values, diversity andrnopen expression,...

delivers dozens of stations and folks canrnwatch televangelists or pro wrestlers orrnsoft porn or Spanish-language gamernshows 24 hours a day, it seems to mernthat the effect of television is likely to bernto allow regional groups, or any others forrnthat matter, to become even more whatrnthey already are. Whether that’s good orrnbad, of course, depends on...

them as his own, and then go to court tornprotect his purloined property. No, hernsimply acted within a rich but little appreciatedrntradition to which the majorityrnculture must learn to be sensitive.rnMiller, it should be noted, is white,rnwhich is not an inconsequential fact. Forrnit is whites who have led the fight to palliaternKing’s plagiarisms and who...

Fake Artrnby Ingrid D. RowlandrnTlie problem of forged art, always arneomplicated one, has been madernimmeasurably more complicated in thisrncentury because of two factors. One,rnthe appreciation of tribal art in its manyrnvarieties has coincided with the gradualrndisappearance of tribal living worldwide;rnthus some of the most vexing problemsrnof authenticity in the art world today besetrnthe market in...

earlier, the art world flatly refused to believernit. In the first place, the boysrnclaimed to have produced the stonernheads with a standard hammer and arnscrewdriver, hardly appropriate sculptor’srnequipment. How, moreover, could they,rnin the late 1980’s, have the aesthetic insightrnto emulate the style of early modernismrnwith such rich sensitivity? For,rnlooming insurmountably, there was thernmatter of the...

the Roman Forum mimic the sylph’srnbody and heavy breasts of Barbie ratherrnthan the broad hips and moderate cleavagernof the original sculpture. Forgeriesrnhave frequently appealed to us becausernthey are more attractive than reality, andrnthey are exposed as false only when ourrnsense of beauty has altered enough tornmake their appearance jar. For manyrnvears, beginning in 1933, two...

its commitment “to publish an authoritativernversion of an author’s work assuresrnthe reader that only after thorough researchrnand study is a text selected forrnthis series.” What can this statementrnmean in our context?rnMany years after leaving the WhiternHouse Jefferson had occasion to writernNathaniel F. Moore (September 22,rn1819) concerning the pronunciation ofrnGreek. I forbear to quote here the...

mass murder occurred during WorldrnWar I, when there was much turmoilrnand chaos in Turkey; and because Turkeyrnhas not opened up its archives to externalrnscrutiny, to mv knowledge. We thereforerndo not have good statistics on the massacrernof Armenians in Turkey and havernnot had much debate about this genocidernin the scholarly literature. By contrast,rnyou can find a...

the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancementrnof Teaching.rnNow, some who have signed on tornOBE may be beguiled by its appealing label.rnThey may buy the argument (convincingrnif one looks no deeper) thatrnschools should be judged by their “learnerrnoutcomes” instead of by such “inputs”rnas the numbers of books in the library orrnof teachers with master’s degrees. Outcomesrnin solid...

she explained. “They fear retaliation.”rnParents need to remember that the burdenrnof proof rests not with them butrnwith educrats who want to force this radicalrnchange on education. Ms. Luksikrnadvises parent-lobbyists to ask their foes,rn”You’re trying to mandate something.rnYou should have to support it. Where isrnthe research base? What happenedrnwhen this was tried?”rnThose are particularly deadly questionsrnfor...

additional weighty commitments.rnThe KSE Promise, its title written inrnfaux kid-print (no backward “s,” mercifully),rnappeared next to the pledge. Thernfollowing is what our family had to notrnonly recite together but mean:rnThe Earth is my home.rnI promise to keep itrnhealthy and beautiful.rnI will love the land,rnthe air,rnthe water,rnand all livingrncreatures.rnI will be a defenderrnof my planet.rnUnited with...

“Whoever wants to know what scholarship and teaching arernsuffering on the American campus should read Academic Question^’rnJACQUES BARZUNrnAcademic QuestionsrnHerbert I. LondonrnEDITOR-IN-CHIEFrnNew York University, Gallatin DivisionrnThomas ShortrnEDITORrnNational Association of ScholarsrnPublished QuarterlyrnThe official journal of the NationalrnAssociation of ScholarsrnSubscription rates:rnIndividuals: $36/yr; $70/2yrs; $98/3yrsrnInstitutions: $88/yr: $152/2yrs; $192/3yrsrnDomestic first-class mail add $22/yrrnForeign surface malt add $22/yrrnForeign airmail add $40/yrrn(Rates...

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

cover of the video case. About deadrncenter, buried amongst the pointedrnspires and turrets, you’ll see somethingrnthat doesn’t look like part of a castle atrnall. That’s because what you’ll see is arnphallic symbol.rnDisney’s back, all right, but parents ofrnthe 90’s like me are getting a little morernfor our money than parents like minerngot for theirs.rn—R. Cort...

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnEASTERN EUROPE’S recent “experiment”rnwith socialism illustratesrnsome useful principles about slavery.rnSlave labor is generally recognized as lessrnproductive than free labor, and with therncollapse of the Soviet Empire it has becomernobvious that collective propertyrn(socialism) is less productive than privaternproperty (capitalism). From thesernpremises several conclusions follow: notrnonly that free labor and private propertyrnrepresent the best of all...

this abomination that will be 40 percentrnof one’s final grade.rnThe blessed Mastodon. And thosernother species no longer here. I envyrnthem. They have the grace to look uprnand out at those Rocks, Rivers, Trees—rnand, yes, up and out at the Kru, too—rnand say simply, very simply, and truthfully,rnwith hope: we did not have to hearrnthis.rn—]ohn LoftonrnH...

down on the organization. Instead, myrncall was directed to another machine,rnwhich instructed me to leave my name,rnaddress, and message—and a credit cardrnnumber to which my donation could berncharged. Insulted at this impersonal systemrnof dial-a-good-deed, I left what Irnhoped was an ironic expression of myrn”curiosity” about the foundation and arnrequest for further information.rnOver two months later,...

has nothing to do with citizenship, andrnsince welfare applicants include manyrnnoncitizens, the citizenship requirementrnfor voting won’t be easy to maintain.rnMost states require a prospective voter torntestify to citizenship, but in actual practicernthere is no easy way to confirm it.rnAfter all, citizenship is virtually irrelevantrnin everyday life. We are seldom, ifrnever, asked to prove it. We...

of Michigan, openly praised the nomineernfor trampling down yet one morernvineyard where the grapes of publicrnmorals are stored. “In a sense,” he spouted,rn”you’re crossing one of those invisiblernlines that we have in our society in termsrnof this issue that is there, raised by somernwith respect to sexual orientation. Irnthink it has no part in the...

the reasons for regarding it as relevant tornpublic office-holding are really not difficult.rnAny society must regulate and disciplinernsexual impulses and must do sornin terms of what is morally permissible asrnwell as what is socially tolerable. In thernabsence of social and moral norms governingrnsuch sexual relationships as thosernof husband and wife, parent and child,rnelder and youth,...

PERSPECTIVErnGhosts in the GraveyardrnThe Serbian Question, Againrnby Thomas FlemingrnThe bus from Budapest to Belgrade is full, and I am luckyrnto get a seat. We are a cosmopolitan lot. In addition tornthe two Americans (I am traveling with Bill Mills, or “Bratrn[brother] Bill” as he will come to be known), there are two Norwegianrnbusinessmen sitting across...

marks. “Milosevic” is a monstrosity created by the monoglotsrnat the New York Times). But, in a country where all the sidesrnhave enough guilt to go around, why is the Western press singlingrnout the Serbs for blame? “Ask my wife if she wants tornmove to Croatia, and she’ll tell you things to curl your hair. Atrnleast...

selling souvenirs, and I stop to buy Chetnik caps for my sons.rnNeither my Serbian nor the vendor’s P]nglish are up to therntransaction, but one of his friends who had lived in Australiarntells me that the vendor is from Kosovo. “Albanian?” I ask.rn”Oh no, a Serb, and though he is my friend, I am afraid he...

antiquarian devoted to the national past, butrnwhen after a two-hour drive we enter thernmonastery of Patriarsha—headquarters of thernSerbian Orthodox Church—it becomes clearrnthat in rediscovering their cultural roots, Serbsrnlike Mr. Kostitch are also rediscovering theirrnfaith. Like him they carry Kosovo “like a wrinklernon the forehead.”rnThe region of Metohia takes its name from arnGreek Orthodox word for...

Some joined the 21st S.S. Scanderbeg division; others were activernin the Balli Kombetar, whose goal was to purge the regionrnof Serbs; others simply settled private scores—the Albanians arernuniversally famous for their blood feuds.rnIn Kosovo, the 45-plus years of communist rule had twornphases; the first, down to 1966, during which Tito’s governmentrnattempted to centralize the authority...