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state to another bv day and eruised therninternational meat raeks b night. Inrnfaet, as a praetieing CathoHe who is alsornan aetive homosexual, and a eonservativernwho has spent the last 11 yearsrnworking for the federal bureaueracy, hernis perpetuating it. In the role of gav aetix’ist.rnhe makes even greater hash ofrnCatholie moral theoiogv than he doesrnof eonscrvativc...

manipulating interest rates. But it hasrntaken the eollapsc of sociahsm to makernthe names and ideas of Menger and hisrnfollowers (Mises most prominently)rnwidely rceognizcd. Austrian economicsrnnow finds itself in a boom phase, fromrnhaving been almost alone in predictingrnthe abvsmal consequences of centralrneconomic planning and collectivelyrnowned propertv. The intellectual edificernit built to counter socialism, explainingrnthe workings of...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From EastrnBerlinrnby Hamilton BeckrnThe New KohlonizationrnThe euphoria that accompanied thernopening of the Bcdin Wall on Novemberrn9, 1989, should still be fresh in ourrnminds. Wc remember the scenes ofrnpeople dancing on the Wall in front ofrnthe Brandenburg Gate, total strangersrnembracing each other, sharing bottles ofrnchampagne. We remember the partyrnatmosphere that culminated in reunificationrnin October 1990....

since some of the property expropriatedrnby the GDR was previously expropriatedrnby the Soviet oecupiers and beforernthat by tlie Nazis. With questions ofrnownership often up in the air, Westernrncompanies are reluctant to invest in thernEast, which has come to be seen as anrnarea where Western companies can sellrntheir used cars and discount items, notrnas a place...

the GDR, “I must confirm that forrnmany people their GDR identity has becomernmore stable now after it’s all overrnthan ever before.” Adds WolfgangrnThicrsc, deputy chairman of the SocialrnDenrocrats and an Ossie, ” I’he Germansrnare now just beginning to realize howrndifferent they have beconre from eachrnother.”rnOssics arc tired of what they view asrnan “occupation” or even...

Conquest, who are not phonies. Conquestrnin his latest book describes Stalinrnas an extreme dogmatist; Marxism “wasrnobviously well-tailored to Stalin’s ownrnpersonality.” Marxism was obviouslyrnwell-tailored not to the personality ofrnStalin but to the personalities of NewrnYork intelleetuals, so many of them neoconservativesrntoday.rnMarshal Mannerheim knew better.rnl ie was perhaps one of the two or threernmost admirable leaders of...

era, of the past? Yes and no. All aroundrnme are awful premonitions of a globalrnfuture. There is one kind of sound andrnone frenzied gunfire of pictures thatrnthrobs, rules, pervades, dominates all thernpublic places on every floor, screamingrnand yelling throughout this monstrousrnprison-box of the Hotel Oliimpia, at thernbar and coffee shop and in the corridors,rnelevators, halls,...

mcnt party that will extend its rule overrnthe entire state apparatus, including therntelevision news (very important now).rnThe minority will be allowed to grumblern(within bounds), it will keep a newspaperrnor a magazine of its own, but itsrnchances of becoming a majority will fadernmonth by month, year by year; it will bernabout as effective as the American...

ter of New York, of tliat “numb brilliantrnjittery city” (as Malcolm Lowry andrnJulien Green wrote nearly 50 years ago;rnthey must have meant the traffic andrnthe hustle, but now that jitteriness is allrninside). Here a somewhat chilly cozincssrnexists but still with some measurernof an interior tradition. Cold comfort.rn]ohn Lukacs is a professor of historyrnat Chestnut Hill...

the boos were more heartfelt than thernchants of “Bush! Bush! Bush!” that a fewrnpeople tried to start. Clinton, his gluedonrnsmile unbroken, shouted the traditionalrn”Gentlemen, start your engines”rnover the jeers and catcalls and beat arnhasty retreat as the mighty machinesrnrolled out behind the pace car, enginesrnthrobbing and growling. They circledrnthe track at highway speed; then at...

of ‘Senator Pothole.'”rnSenator Alfonse D’Amato, the onlyrnRepublican victorious in a statewidernelection in New York in many years, isrnindeed affectionately known as “SenatorrnPothole.” He is “the fixer,” the lastrnof the old-time pols, to whom ideologyrntakes a distant back seat to fixing everyrnlittle problem, including potholes, forrnhis constituents. Not only his supporters,rnbut all constituents. Democrat andrnRepublican alike....

inists, queasy. Holt/man’s killer tactiesrnagainst Ferraro worked, but onlv to thernbenefit of Abrams. In the final tally,rnAbrams edged out Ferraro bv 1 percent,rnwhile Holtzman, incredibly, plummetedrnto 9 percent, 1 percent bcloy even AlrnSharpton. Holtzman’s tactics turnedrnout to be not only killer but kamikaze.rnFerraro, blind-sided and bitter, calledrnfor a recount and refused to endorsernAbrams, who had...

VITAL SIGNSrnThe TotalitarianrnBugrnby Andrei NavrozovrnOne day last autumn a stray clippingrnreminded me that the first newsrnfrom abroad that startled me in Englandrn—wliere, six years ago, I fled fromrnthe optimism of the New York Times as Irnhad fled from the comparably totalitarianrnbonism of Pravda 12 years earlier—rnwas not some distant rumbling ofrnKremlin intrigue or American neoconscrxatism.rnIt...

English as fluently as his elder brotherrnused to quote Marx or Engcls in Russian,rnwhile the President of the UnitedrnStates is no more ashamed of acting likerna Tammany boss of a century ago thanrnhis running mate is ashamed of spellingrnlike one.rnThere is more to this than some Orwcllianrnforeboding that totalitarianismrnis destined to become the last custodianrnof...

who can spell “Leibniz”?rnIn 1960, 13 percent of staphylococcusrninfections were resistant to penicillin.rnn 1988, two years after the Obserrcrrnarticle, the figure was 91 percent.rnIf ininiunologists had stopped updatingrntheir research in I960, it is quite likelyrnthat bv 1993 medicine would be backrnwhere it was before Fleming. But thernsocial, political, and cultural immunologistsrnof the West did stop...

are receiving what amounts to interestfreernshort-term loans.” Sucli statements,rnwhich stand in sharp contrast to laterrnones by the Speaker and other Housernmembers, were stricken from the finalrndraft of the GAO’s report, hi addition,rnthe Speaker’s wife may have played arnpart in obstructing an earlier investigationrnof the post office’s misdeeds.rnThe abolition of congressional perks,rntrumpeted loudly last March, was...

r IrnNewly revised and updatedrninto tiie 1990s —rnthe finest history ofrnour century ever writtenrnReviewers raved over thernearlier edition — because it’srntlieliistoryttiey ENJOYEDrnreadingrn’ ‘Wide-ranging and quiri»t’ )rn• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •...

A FIRM FOimONrnNo Education Is domplete Until It Includes Us.rnYoung America’s Foundation begins with the assumption that a college education is incompleternunless the student has a firm understanding of conservative principles. Because university educationrntoday omits this key component, the Foundation offers students an array of programsrnto enable them to complete their education.rnSince 1978, thousandsrnof top...

EDll’ORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDI’lORrn’i’heodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnEDITORIAL ASSISTANTrnChristine llaynesrnART DIRECT ORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnJohn W.Aldridge, Harold O.].rnBrown, Katherine Dalton, SamuelrnFrancis, Ceorge Carrett,rnE. Christian Kopff, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnJanet Scott Barlow, ]ohnrnShelton ReedrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBI -ICATION DIREC TORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCOMPOSIT’ION MANAGERrnAnita FedorarnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rockforcl Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn934 North Main Street,...

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnT H E BREAKFAST TABLE is the latestrnbattleground in the war against thernfamily. School-based breakfast programsrnhave been tried at the local level forrnyears, and the idea goes back at least asrnfar as the Black Panthers in the 1960’s.rnThe big push now is for a national program.rnLast year, a federally subsidized breakfastrnprogram was tried in...

Ijack of the magazine, can find nothingrnmore important to talk about than thernAIDS quilt and similar topics of uni crsalrninterest.rnWilliam Bucklev, who must knowrnbetter, seems now to grant homosexualsrnthe special rights of a victimized minority.rnBut over the vears National Reviewrnhas mercilessly attacked the notionrnof group rights for anyone. Of coursernhomosexuals have rights, the samernrights the...

But if a closclv watched California courtrndecision is sustained on appeal, racialrnbanders will be beating the drums bigtime.rnIn a 79-page (!) decision, U.S. DistrictrnJudge Robert Peckham ruled thatrnSan Francisco could depart from a merit-rnbased, top-down system of promotingrncops to sergeant in favor of hiring insteadrnfrom within a narrow band of lowerrnscorers. The judge noted enthusiasticallvrnthat...

characters, but the players! As if it werernsmart to see through the pretence to thernreal stuff.rnWell, sure, there have been all thesernheadlines. But who cares? We are notrnthinking about inviting these people torndinner. It’s a movie. These are moviernpeople, who are generically unreal.rnThose primitive tribes who refuse to bernphotographed because the camera willrnsteal their souls...

Principalities & Powersrnbv Samuel FrancisrnIn Search of ImpulsesrnSome years ago, there was a scries onrnAmerican television called In SearchrnOf. . . , a documentary show that everyrnweek embarked upon some intrepidrnquest “in search of” such titillating arcanarnas the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot,rn[‘lying Saucers, tablerapping, and peoplernwho turn into giant mushrooms inrnthe dark of the moon....

lishcd in the March issue ofrnChronicles signed, and presumablyrnwritten, by Samuel Francis,rnan erudite journalist associatedrnwith the Washington Times. Herncannot believe (he tells us) that Irnhad anything serious to say aboutrnMessrs. Buchanan and Sobran.rnCould it have been . . . a Jewishrnplot! “Given the triviality of Mr.rnBuckley’s conclusions, the absencernof any compelling evidencernto support them, and...

nipulatcd into being an unconscious toolrnof such a plan?rnFinalK’, we come to my supposed “anti-rnSemitic impulses,” which is actuallyrnwhere Mr. Buckley started out. Since Irnhave met Mr. Buckley only briefly andrnhave never discussed with him Jews, anti-rnSemitism, “Jewish plots,” or relatedrnmatters, and since I almost never writernon such subjects, I do not see how Mr.rnBueklev...

PERSPECTIVErnUncle Sam’s Childrnby Allan CarlsonrnThe recent election season opened with hopes high forrnan intelligent debate of family issues. The 1991 FinalrnReport of the National Commission on Children (on which Irnserved) seemed to have broken the moral and political logjamsrnthat had long prevented this dialogue. The commissionersrnhad decided, after extensive argument, to avoid the mistake ofrnearlier...

conceptions of patriarchy, charity, and shared obHgation andrnCommon Law understandings of family and community governancerncould, and did, hold sway.rnLike so much else in our constitutional system, this iew ofrnthe family began to falter during the Jacksonian period. Thernfirst juvenile reformatory in the United States, the New YorkrnHouse of Refuge, opened its doors in 1825. With...

under the covers, where it had been heating up since thernAmerican hbido was drafted in 1942, to do battle with thernarthritic and thinning legions of Christian decency. The familyrnitself fell into disrepute, pummeled bv nco-Malthusians,rnneofeminists, neo-Marxists, and neopagans alike.rnHealthy American families are subjectedrnto the real abuse of state investigations intorntheir structure and character, a special...

THE YEAR IN REVIEWrn&^^ ^^^rn>rnvernThe Coming Wrath—JanuiJiy W92—Samuel Francisrnon James Burnham and ihe managerial revolution,rnAndrei Nuvrozov on democracy and dictatorship,rnTomislav Sunic on the future of nationalism, andrnHarold O.J. Brown on the prophecies of PicirimrnSorokin. Plus Chilton Wilhamson, Jr. on DeeprnEcology, William Grigg on the case against thernBoy Scouts, and Anne Marie Morgan on thernbureaucracy of...

dencc has bathed their brain tissues and nerve cells with thernnatural equivalent of happy dust for months, and the act ofrnnursing triggers a maternal response that manv women describernas erotic. By the time the moon-tide of hormones hasrnsubsided, returning their minds to a normal state of hunran indifference,rna habit of care and affection has been...

of Lloyd de Mause, “the history of childhood is a nightmarernfrom which we have onK- recently begun to awaken.” It is arncatchy phrase, but its author is little better than a propagandistrnwho pretended to survey the evidence of classical antiquityrnwithout knowing either L.atin or Greek and without possessingrnany of the equipment that might have justified...

children and to prevent the problems that hae arisen underrnthe preious sstem. What is not much talked about in thernerusade against child abuse is the scandal of children molestedrnb the teachers, social workers, and foster parents to whomrnthe hae been entrusted. The author of By Silence Betrayed:rnSexual Abuae of Children in America discusses well-knownrncases of...

The iiRcstigntors, however, have duly aeeepted tliese fantasiesrnand brought appropriate ehargcs in court.rnSome child witnesses have also eliarged that babies wererntortured or killed, gi’ing rise to a whole subindustry of “ritualrnabuse” experts, anxious to prove a Satanie conspiracy againstrnAmerica’s children. Since McMartin, there have been hundredsrnof mass or ritual abuse eases across the eouirtry, as...

drcn’s rights advocates, and lawyers—this powerful eoalitionrnhas been able to place a political emphasis on the detectionrnand prosecution of abuse, which few hae had the will or therndesire to oppose. (I’cw otcs arc to be gained from assertingrnthe due process rights of alleged child molesters or incestuousrnparents.) hi practice, this political support has been expressedrnin...

of all the obstacles posed bv outmoded legalism. Iiidiidualrnrights and proteetions must, according to this philosophy, bernsuperscdecl in the interest of defeating domestic tvrannv andrnexploitation. And when such proteetions have been underminedrnin one area of law, how much easier it is to acceptrntheir dilution in other matters—in drug cases and rape prosecutions,rnin matters of domestic...

Law in LehirnA Case of Abusernby William N. GriggrnLehi, Utah, is somewhat famiHar to those who have seenrnthe movie Footlooae. The small Mormon eommunitvrnprovided Hollywood with the perfect setting for a tale of adolescentrnrebellion against parental and religious autlioritv. Yetrnshortly after the movie’s release 1 ;ehi’s pious image was rupturedrnbv a child abuse scandal.rnOne morning...

gregation is located, had been riven into factions b’ the scandal;rnaccusations lit up ward meetings like tracer fire. Rumorsrnof a Satanic child sexual abuse ring ran rampant. Sccral familiesrnwho believed that the state had not done enough to investigaternthe allegations formed a small therapy group underrnSnow’s direction. Within that group was the family of AlanrnIladfield,...

they had neither the experience nor the “political will” to createrna child abuse ease ex nihilo.rnHadfield went on trial in Proo, I’tah, in December 1987.rnThe courtroom was packed with Iladfield’s supporters; amongrnthem was Bishop Keith Burnham. The prosecution’s case wasrnessentially built upon the testimony of the Hadfield childrenrnand the recollections of Barbara Snow. Two physical...

programs recognized bv the state require that an offender admitrnhis guilt before treatment can begin, Hadficld has neverrnconceded his guilt. Dr. Robert Card, the therapist appointedrnto preside over Hadficld’s treatment, had already administeredrnseveral tests to Hadfield and had found him to be vibrantlvrnnormal.rnThe state Attorney General’s office sought a writ that wouldrncompel Judge Christcnsen to...

for moral ones. While it was far fromrnunusual for Amcriean politieians in thernera before Lineoln to invoke God andrnquote seripturc in their speeches, it hadrnal\a s been done in the pro forma mannerrnexpected of public figures in arnChristian nation, hi his liberal use ofrnscriptural metaphor, Lineoln demonizcdrnhis political enemies in an unprecedentedrn\a and succeeded in...

igntircd the connections between immigration,rneeonomics, and poverty, preferringrnto extend the 1964 Ciil RiglitsrnAct and the spirit of the “Great Society”rnto the entire world. While thern1965 act is best remembered for its removalrnof national origin quotas, thernmeasure also established famiU’ reunificationrnas the dominant criterion forrngranting immigrant status. The fact ofrnwhom you are related to in the...

has now splcndidK’ edited—is to comernto know what Adams called the “tpernbourgeois-bostonien.” In old age Adamsrnhad nothing but disdain for the achievementsrnof this tvpc—himself, James,rnWilliam Wetmore Ston, Ralph WildornEmerson, Charles Sumner, Bronson Alcott,rnand James Russell Lowell. All ofrnus, he told James in 1903, “were in actualrnfact only one mind and nature; thernindiidual was a facet...

claims of the sex maniae who is the narrator.rnWithout wishing to spoil the book forrnanyone who hasn’t gotten through to thernlast page, I should diseuss “face value” ifrnonly to dismiss it later. The narrativernpurports to be a Gogol-like diary of arnmadman. Marc McMann, who worksrnas an editor in a publishing house inrnNew York, wants to...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From SouthrnCarolinarnby William P. BaldwinrnFamily, Films,rnand FallacyrnThere’s something about a book sale.rnThe blood quickens, the nostrils flare,rnthe eyes narrow. Anyway, it’s for a goodrncause. The “Friends of the Library” arernputting it on, and somewhere amongrnthose one hundred thousand used booksrnis at least one of value. The doors openrnand in wc rush. Almost at once,...

this and why I watched every episode ofrnMiami Vice at least twiee.) Don neededrna break and got one in Paradise. I le andrnwife Melanie don’t embarrass themseK’es.rn(Which would have been easyrnenough plaving against their accustomedrngrain and alongside two quite capablernchildren.) Thev make a credible troubledrncouple. You can believe they’rernmarried and that they’ve fought. I thinkrnboth...

But someone who purports to knowrnthe South needs to know the NASCARrnscene, so I jumped at the chance to gornto Darlington with a buddy of mine whornhas been going for man’ vears and hasrneven written about it once or twice. Atrnthe crack of dawn on race da’, he and Irnset off for South Carohna, he...

Letter FromrnNew Yorkrnby Murray N. RothbardrnThe Saga of Esteban SolarzrnNot long ago, during the glory days ofrnthe Gulf War, Stephen J. Solarz, ferretfacedrnlittle Democratic congressmanrnfrom southern Brookhn, was riding almostrnas high in the saddle as our Commander-rnin-Chief. For it was Solarz whornplaed the major role in dragging his often-rnreluctant liberal colleagues awayrnfrom their traditional dovish...

New’field went so far as to denounce Solar/,rnas an “ethnic arsonist,” endangeringrnhitherto peaceful Jcvvish-IIispanicrnrelations. Understandably, Nevficld didrnnot elaborate about which ethnic grouprnhe expected to commit most of the arson.rnMost liberals drew back from therndangerous logic of this position: for if itrnis evil for a nonblack or non-IIispanicrnto run in a designated minority district,rnthen why isn’t...

VITAL SIGNSrnTaking AmericarnBackrnby Christine HaynesrnThe Musical Front ofrnthe P.C. WarrnThe music business is the latest battlegroundrnin the p.e. war—and recentrnevents indicate that dissident orrncontroversial musicians have no defendersrnin the media establishment that nowrncontrols the industry. In yet another instancernof censorship by the “free-speaking”rnleft, singer Steve Vaus has been stifledrnin his efforts to “Take AmericarnBack,” exen...