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deeply ashamed. I asked if anyone had tried to persuade themrnto be more forthcoming—after all, such evidence might helprnto prevent air strikes. “We Serbs do not exploit our women.”rnIt is always the same answer, whether the question has to dornwith raped women or victims of massacres. Local villagersrnwould not allow anyone to photograph the remains...

to fight to the last man, resisting alien oppression.rnWe stay up till four o’clock, talking with the colonel and eatingrnhis Spam. He awakens us at six-thirty to take us on a tourrnof his positions. It is rough land, karst with a stubble of grassrnsprouting between the outcroppings of limestone, ground fitrnonly for pasturing sheep, although...

Upon the walls of Cafe Lasta are photographs of wives andrnehildren and aged parents, and the largest picture is of a fighterrnthey had known. These are their pin-ups. In my admittedlyrnbrief time in Nevesinje and at the front, I never saw a singlernpiece of pornography of even the mildest description. Thesernare family men, and I...

men, however, were being sent back to their families.rnI ask the soldiers why these peoples cannot live together inrnpeace. “Maybe the Serbs and Croats could do it some day, butrnwith the Muslims, never.” Since many Serbs believe that it isrnthe Catholic Church that has inspired the Croats with hatred,rnI ask them if their priests have...

Larkinesquernby Tom DischrnHaving so long been in the habitrnOf not being Me,rnI rather fancyrnThe prospect of returning as a rabbit—rnA baby rabbit sold at EasterrnFor the infant joyrnOf a baby boy.rnThen allowed to starve and festerrnIn a shoebox grave, to be rebornrnAgain, and soon.rnAs the crescent moon,rnAloof above a world of porn.rnFreed of the need...

Croats.rnAll the rest seems to be distant history now. In 1990, on therneve of Yugoslavia’s breakup, the majority of Catholic Slovenesrnand Croats favored the transformation of centralized SerbdominatedrnYugoslavia into a confederal state. Serbian communistrnleader Slobodan Milosevic flatly refused the idea of arnconfederal Yugoslavia for fear that Serbia would lose its historicrnYugoslav mandate, which it had...

into three parts, Voivodina in the north, Kosovo in the south,rnand Serbia proper in the middle. Greater Serbia was a mythrnthat Tito was well able to keep under his control. In turn, however,rnTito rewarded the Serbs with leverage in the two most importantrnnerves of the Yugoslav government: high diplomacyrnand the Yugoslav army.rnThe targets of Serb...

regime, and the lessons to be learned from the Western experience.rnIndeed, Russia’s neowhites embrace private propertyrnand the market, and, while some remain monarchist, they are,rnin the main, constitutional monarchists. Hence, nationalpatriotsrnreject the patrimonial state, a state in which, accordingrnto historian Richard Pipes, “authority over peoplern(sovereignty) and objects (proprietorship) is combined.” Theyrnpropose instead to build a...

foreign aid as beneath the dignity of an independent nationrnand as counterproductive to the building of entrepreneurshiprnin Russia.rnPerplexing and divisive questions remain for a movementrnstill seeking to define itself, questions which have promptedrnsplits and which are wrapped up in the larger question of definingrnRussian national identity. Such terms as “nationalism” andrn”patriotism,” as used in the...

neighbors, the conviction that when push comes to shove theyrnwill not dare take the chance of mutual destruction. And thatrnis enough for him. Those who might think that this is just anrnelementary form of pillage fail to realize that Zhirinovsky, likernHitler, is creating a new political universe in which naked forcernand the willingness to risk...

not within 72 hours, 72 days, nor 72 weeks.”rnVZ: “History will tell.”rnZhirinovsky’s game plan is very simple. His army of mentalrncripples is already huge, and its ranks multiply every day of Russia’srnunbearably hopeless existence. Jobless, homeless demobilizedrnsoldiers, refugees from the republics who have suddenlyrnfound themselves foreigners in their own countries—this continuousrndisplacement brings millions of potential...

Red Pantiesrnby Akosh ChernushrnVanessa was the first American woman in my life. “Yournforced a superpower to her knees,” congratulated myrnfriend Peter, when I told him what had happened the previousrnnight. Things went considerably quicker in Paris in 1958; Irnhad no reason to beat around the bush posing questions aboutrnbisexual lovers, blood transfusions, or junky boyfriends....

converted to aerobics or married media moguls.rnI tried to argue with them, stay civilized, but it was difficultrnto persuade a convinced fellow traveler. A communist? Impossible.rnOnly once did I get in a real rage. That was Christmas,rn1957:1 was invited to celebrate the day with a leftist butrnotherwise quite nice couple. The young wife was an...

er with toothpicks that had miniature paper flags. The pastramirnwas as good and as unusual as promised, but too rich forrna I lungarian stomach now accustomed to French food. “Good,rnbut too heavy,” 1 told the old man when he came to refill ourrncoffee cups. “I never said it’s light,” he answered. “It’s heavyrnand probably killed...

those lacking all these strengths.”)rnOf greater moral concern to ProfessorrnKennedy than the relative standing ofrnnations belonging to the First World isrnthe relationship between them and thern”developing” components of the ThirdrnWorld, whose future he (rightly) arguesrnlooks dismal indeed when one considersrnthe appalling demographic and environmentalrnproblems confronting LatinrnAmerica, Africa, the Near East, the Indianrnsubcontinent, China, and SoutheastrnAsia....

and so it has preferred to emphasize insteadrnIsrael’s importance to the UnitedrnStates as a reliable ally blocking incursionsrnby the Soviet Union in the MiddlernEast. With the collapse of the U.S.S.R.,rnthe end of the Cold War, and the Alliedrnvictory (to which the Israelis did not contribute)rnin the Gulf War, the rationalernfor America’s paying enormous, unquestioned,rnand regular...

his strictures certainly do not justify ourrngiving way to Nietzschean despair.rnBy the end of his book, Gottfriedrnseems to mean by “neoconservatives”rnall optimists who call themselvesrnconservative: if so, count me in. Earlierrnon, however, he suggests a better definition:rnneoconservatives are conservativesrnwho “remain qualified defenders of thernwelfare state” and who support a “visionrnof a global democratic order.” I...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Moscowrnby Robert C. WhittenrnChange and Its ConsequencesrnLast October I journeyed to Moscow byrninvitation for a conference on conversionrnfrom military to civilian production.rnUpon arrival, my colleague, ProfessorrnConstantine Danopoulos of the politicalrnscience department at San Jose StaternUniversity, and I were informed that thernmeeting had been shifted to Decemberrnto coincide with the Congress of thernSupreme Soviet....

bands Russian men are. Her first husband,rna Russian, was unable to stay awavrnfrom the bottle. Whether he beat her,rntoo, was unclear, since her ability to conversernin English was somewhat limited.rnShe did say that her Armenian husband,rnlike most Armenian men, is a workaholic.rnThe next evening Vladimir took us tornan Uzbek restaurant, which turned outrnto be a...

VITAL SIGNSrnEurope’s OtherrnTerroristsrnby Philip JenkinsrnThe Croatian NetworkrnThe recent attack on New York City’srnWorld Trade Center has oncernagain reinforced in Western minds thatrnterrorism is a purely Middle Easternrnphenomenon, and that terms like “Palestinian,”rn”Shi’ite,” and “Muslim fundamentalist”rnare virtual synonyms for “terrorist.”rnThere is no room here to discussrnthe damage that such a view has had onrnAmerican Middle East...

Others sought help in the “rat line” operatedrnby the Vatican and found exile inrnthose countries that had shown somernsympathy to the Axis, notably in Spainrnand Latin America: Pavelic himself becamernpart of this diaspora, fleeing to Peron’srnArgentina. In such congenial settings,rnCroat leaders formed alliancesrnwith other like-minded victims of therncollapse of fascism. The Croats, likernthe exiled Ukrainians,...

and the founding of the Pavelic puppetrnstate. The Croat regime also tried to rehabilitaternthe memory of some of the nationalistrnleaders most associated withrnthose ghastly years. The record of Croatrnterrorism therefore goes far in explainingrnSerbian reluctance to permit any of theirrnpeople to live under Croat rule, and therndesperate necessity to redraw frontiersrnaccordingly. This is the paramount...

had time to do a swan dive on the wayrndown.rnTo me, as a kid, being shot from arncannon seemed the most exciting thingrnin the wodd. That puff of smoke; thatrnperfect arc; that final, graceful turn. Yournbounce off the net, land on your feet,rnthrow your arms into the air, and therncrowd goes wild. But did you...

Horse Playsrnby David R. SlavittrnUlzana’s RaidrnProduced by Carter De HavenrnDirected by Robert AldrichrnWritten by Alan SharprnReleased by Universal, 1972rnDances With WolvesrnProduced by ]im Wilson andrnKevin CostnerrnDirected by Kevin CostnerrnWritten by Michael BlakernReleased by Orion, 1990rnNo, I haven’t lost my mind, or atrnleast that’s what I choose to believe.rnBut this hasn’t been a terrificrnmonth for movie-viewing,...

son—we’re white, after all, but howrnmany of us were Indian fighters or evenrnbuffalo hunters, or how many of ourrngrandparents or great-grandparents? Werncan send out waves of love, maybe, andrnuphold the banner of the Sioux—exceptrnthat, one, they didn’t have banners; two,rnthe Pawnees hated them, and virtuallyrnevery tribe thought that every other tribernwas scum, which is why...

From the big bangrnto the hiture of the Universernand anything interesting in between…rnthat’s SMITHSONIAN magazine.rnYou’re invited to join in Smithsonian’s exploration of the human adventure.rnWhen you open the covers of SMITHSONIAN magazinernbe prepared to be entertained. And be ready to have your lifernenriched. Because no other magazine offersrnSMITHSONIAN’S delightful variety and wealth of ideas.rnSMITHSONIAN looks...

transactionrnNew and Recent Books on Family and PolicyrnThernSwedishrnExperimentrnin FamilyrnPoliticsrnAllanrnCarlsonrnThernpoliticsrnHumanrnNaturernThomas FlemingrnFamilyrnQu^tipnsrn*rnM^’-rnReflections on thernAmerican 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 in Sweden. It...

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

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnSACRIFICE, a word not often heard inrnthe nation’s capital during the pastrndozen years, is being spoken by Washingtonrnpohticians again. Since none ofrnthese gentlemen or ladies has been noticedrneven to observe Lent, much less tornabstain from newly acquired powers,rnperquisites, and salaries, the rest of therncountry may be likened to 255 millionrnturkeys nervously watching the BigrnHouse...

Chief of Staff John Sununu. Darman arrivedrnwith one sheet showing the costs.rn”It just blew apart Kemp’s ideas beforernthey ever got started,” said former Kemprnaide Thomas Humbert. “The deathrnquestion was always, ‘How are you goingrnto pay for it?'” an administration officialrntold DeParle. “These people had nornclue.”rnThey did come up with the wordrn”empowerment” as “a way of...

about drafting women. Navy SecretaryrnSean O’Keefe told midshipmen in Annapolisrnshortly before the Clinton Anschlussrnthat women should performrncombat roles in all the services and bern”conscripted on an identical sociologicalrnbasis as men.” What a gentleman.rnSpeaking of gentlemen, Republicanrn”opposition” to the Clinton plan consistsrnof a bare majority within a minority.rnSome GOP senators have run for cover,rntrying to appease...

thrown upon our 60’s ideals are morernthan a little nervous that his coming-ofagernhas to occur in the White House.rnHe still has that shoot-from-the-hip,rnlaugh-at-the-elders quality that we oncernhad until we learned about complexities,rnunintended consequences, and thernlimits of idealism. How other than fliprnimmaturity, appealing in a rock star butrnscary in a President, can we view hisrnstatements that...

violent gays alike.rnThe psychological basis of the creativernlife is in transcending the tunnel vision ofrnlabels and identities, and in abstainingrnfrom the comforts of communal membership.rnA true artist seeks out peoplernwho are different: nothing human isrnalien. That cop guarding TompkinsrnSquare Park during curfew hours is forrnthe artist a possible subject or characterrn—not through projecting hang-upsrnand prejudices...

on Capitol Hill to announce the May issuernof Chronicles, which—as readers willrnremember—focused on foreign lobbying.rnThe principal essayists for the issuernwere all present to offer brief remarks tornkey members of Congress and the media.rnChilton Williamson, Jr., senior editorrnfor books at Chronicles, participated in arnLiberty Fund conference entitled “Libertyrnand Individualism in Western Literature”rnfrom April 15-18 in Jackson,rnWyoming....

gal scholar Douglas Bradford expressed itrnin an article in the journal This World lastrnvear, “upon this rock [of the IncorporationrnDoctrine] rests the authority of thernfederal judiciary to oversee busing, quotas,rnschool district boundaries, abortion,rnMiranda warnings, probable cause forrnarrest, prison and asylum standards, libel,rnpornography, subversive speech, and thernseparation of church and state.” In thernabsence of the Incorporation...

coming under the centralized dominancernof a particular interest, faction, orrnregion. Throughout American history, itrnhas been that very feature of the Constitutionrnthat has so profoundly offendedrnand alarmed the legions of those armedrnwith a Better Idea —High Federalists,rnabolitionists. Social Darwinists of thernGilded Age, Wilsonian apostles of thernNew Freedom, Roosevcltian peddlers ofrnthe New Deal, New Frontiersmen, GreatrnSociety social...

1992 IN REVIEWrn^ ^ •rn^^^rn^”^rn^^^rn^_>*rnrnI he Coming Wrath—January 1992—Samuel Francisrnn James Burnham and the managerial revolution,rnAndrei Navrozov on democracy and dictatorship.rnTomislav Sunic on the future of nationalism, andrnHarold O.J. Brown on the prophecies of PitirimrnSorokin. Plus Chilton Williamson, Jr.. on DeeprnEcology, William Grigg on the case against thernBoy Scouts, and Anne Marie Morgan on thernbureaucracy...

PERSPECTIVErnMind Your Own Businessrnby Thomas FlemingrnThe murder of abortionist David Gunn in March of thisrnyear ought to sharpen the focus of the national debate onrnabortion, although partisans on both sides may be slow in gettingrnthe point. The New York Times, in a ponderous exercise ofrnsoft journalism, portrayed the event as a study in character contrasts.rnMichael...

cent children and the devils who rape and murder them. I supposernit is a clever dodge that enables a liberal theologian to opposernabortion without forfeiting his status as an intellectual.rn”See, it’s not just babies I’m defending but everyone and (whyrnnot?) everything.”rnBut if life is a sacred, albeit revocable gift from the Creator,rna man can do...

all the killers that are turned loose by the legal system. The resultsrnwould be, in sheer quantity, thousands of times more successfulrnthan their rescue missions.rnIt goes without saying that I am opposed to all of the abovernand all for the same reason. It is no part of Christian doctrinernor of the older ethics that a...

overstate the Christian position on this point. The first Christiansrnwere practicing Jews Hving under a law that emphasizedrnGod’s exclusive contract with his chosen people and the inferiorityrnof all other nations. Even the Torah, in forbiddingrnusury, had exempted loans made to foreigners, and among thernworst punishments proclaimed against disobedient Israel wasrnthat the alien would rise above...

stumped for an answer; but answer or no answer, there can bernno doubt that the usual interpretation is the right one. So inrninterpreting texts far more is known, and certainly known,rnthan is commonly noticed; one can be certain, and rightly certain,rnwithout justification, without explaining where the knowledgerncame from or how it is grounded.rnThat seems to...

mark in conversation, or a novel—is to make all sorts ofrnbeyond-the-dictionary assumptions and to make them withrnunspoken certainty. Those who put up notices against billrnposting know perfectly well they will be understood, thoughrnnot necessarily obeyed. They do not need to explain what theyrndo or do not mean.rnWe live in an age when the humanities arernskeptic-credulous....

oratories had been burned down, scientists lynched, sciencernteaching abolished, and anyone’s view of the physical universernimagined to be as good as anyone else’s. Today, he proclaims,rnthere is total moral chaos. The reader is given no chance to demurrnat this powerful image of modern anarchy, and Maclntyrernreturns to it at the end of the book: with...

posed to be the moral order of Samuel Johnson, with the novelsrnof Jane Austen, which echo that world, as a late fictionalrnpendant. So let us look at that alleged instance of moral consensus.rnBoswell reports that Johnson was once taken by a friend tornhear a sermon at the Temple in London, where the preacherrn”ranted about liberty.”...

give birth in pain and think it worthwhile; wilHngly, they endurerna long period of inconvenience, discomfort, pain—perhapsrnsevere, often dangerous—in order to bring life into thernworld. If it were not so, human life would have vanished fromrnthe planet once the nexus between procreation and pain wasrnestablished. Death itself can be chosen when there seemsrngood reason for...

tithesis—that prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament,rnadversity of the New—seems to us mere gibberish. In the agesrnof faith, Job was of key importance as the recourse-figure whenrntrying to comfort the innocent sufferer, the blameless victim.rnBy any human calculation. Job gets a raw deal. Yet, in his totallyrnundeserved affliction, he steadfastly exhibits a saintly...

At the same time as we attempt to disguise doom as merernaccident, the development of anesthetics, analgesics, and narcoticsrnhas helped us to dull the sensitivity in us that bears affliction.rnWe demand not only that we shall not suffer, but thatrnthe sufferings of others—carried beyond a certain point—rnshall be removed from our gaze. Wordsworth in his...

tions of biotechnological solutions to what earlier would havernbeen understood as purely human and moral situations. At anyrnrate, we have left behind critics like Ortega and his mass-manrnor the more pertinent Bergson, who perceived in technologicalrnman the sclerosis of the elan vital, the ossification of thernspirit’s potentialities. The last word among technology’s criticsrnbelongs to Jacques...

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