Category: Imported

Nasty As They Wanna Be to Public Enemy’srn1991 video for the rap “B thernTime I Get to Arizona,” which depictedrnthe shooting and poisoning of public officialsrnwho declined to approve a publicrnholiday honoring Martin LutherrnKing, Jr.; from Madonna’s fall 1992 releasernof the aptly named “Erotica” tornIce-T’s infamous “Cop Killer,” whichrnrime Warner, the parent company ofrnhis record...

of this supposed counterculture stemsrnnot so mueli from 12 years of Reaganrnand Bush as it does from parents whorndidn’t loan out the car keys last weekend.rnSeveral years ago the music industryrndecided young fans should do its politicalrnbidding. As a result, record companiesrnbegan to fund organizations likernRock the Vote, which gets guitar heroesrnand video x’amps to...

pnbic of being classical, naturalistic, orrnDadaist, to pick a random handful ofrnother “literary” approaches) or of thernhistory of the business. She seems unawarernof just how and in what ways rockrnremains great or of all the \as in whichrnher suggestion would ruin it.rnhi nearly eyery American city of anyrnsize, particularly in college towns wherernlate adolescents congregate...

could never happen /You failed to mentionrnsuch dissension / Would be groundrndown with an iron fist.” Buehananitcs,rntake note.rnAt its best, this lively, bouncy, countr-rnrootcd rock touches mythic Americanrnroots. (“To sa that I am lost is torntell the farmer he is tired / Or the windrnthat it is wise / Yeah, I know my ownrndisguise,” ‘I’exas...

cities, much of Gainesville’s best musicrnis played by bands—like Doldrums, JustrnDemigods, the Jeffersons, What AnnernLikes—that exist for a moment in timernfor their community and then disappear.rnTheir music, however, survives in thernmemories of the people who were there.rnThe best rock functions as a personalrnand local form of capitalism, living orrndying either by its own stubborn will...

irtuoso vehicle, recorded in the year ofrnhis American debut, puts I leifetz alongsidernsvich other pupils of Leopold Auerrnas Mischa Elnian, Efrem Zimbalist,rnNathan Milstein, Toscha Seidel, Eddy-rnBrown, Mischel Piastro, and CeciliarnHansen, hi such a comprehensive collection,rnLeopold Avier himself finds arnplace, as well as another Auer pupil whorndid not emigrate westward, MironrnPolyakin. Thus the Auer influence andrnthe...

for the hillbilly.rnScholars say the term was coined circarn1500 in hilly Scotland, where “billie”rnmeant fellow or companion. The termrncrossed the Atlantic and re-routed intornAppalachia. I’here were other terms forrnhardworking migrants: poor white, woolhat,rnredneck, tarhecl, bluegrass. NorthrnCarolinians arc still known as tarhecls,rnand Kentucky is the Bluegrass State.rnBack then “western Virginia” meantrn”western America.” The WildernessrnRoad was a...

transactionrnNew and Recent Books on Family and PolicyrnThernSwedishrnExperimentrnin FamilyrnPolitiesrnAllanrnCarlsonrnC/-rnThernpoliticsrnHumanrnNaturernThomas FlemingrnEamilyrnQu^tgpQSrnrnReflections on thernAmerican Social CrisisrnAllan C. CarlsonrnTHE SWEDISH EXPERIMENT INrnFAMILY POLITICSrnTHE MYRDALS AND THE INTERWAR POPULATION CRISISrnAZ/an CarlsonrnThis devastating account of ttie work of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal portraysrnflow two young scholars used the power of ideas to help engineer a newrndomestic order in Sweden. It...

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EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnEDITORIAL ASSISTANTrnChristine HaynesrnART DIREGTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnJohn W. Aldridge, Harold O.].rnBrown, Katherine Dalton, SamuelrnFrancis, George Garrett,rnE. Christian Kopff, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnJanet Scott Barlow, ]ohnrnShelton ReedrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCOMPOSITION MANAGERrnAnita FedorarnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn934 North Main Street, Rockford, IL...

is reflected in this shallow and deceptivernarticle.rn—Mary PridernFenton, MOrnDr. Kopff Replies:rnMary Pride writes under the misapprehensionrnthat my remarks about “BiblebelievingrnChristians” were aimed atrnhomeschoolers, many of whom, I agree,rnare attempting heroically to salvage theirrnheritage and America’s future. Theyrnrepresent a goodly number in absoluternterms, but only a small percentage ofrnAmerica’s Christians. My generalizationsrnwere based on some four...

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnWHAT DO YOU GET if you crossrnsix Catholic bishops with five “Christianrnfeminists”? The answer: economicrnignorance and cultural lunacy. In whatrnhas to qualify as the meeting from Purgatory,rnthe bishops and the feministsrnmet for eight and a half years. As a committeernof the National Conference ofrnCatholic Bishops (NCCB), they conferredrnwith each other and traveledrnaround the country...

multilingualism (except for Latin). Hispanicsrnshould be encouraged to learnrnEnglish. Some first steps, not mentionedrnin this document, would be tornpull down every Spanish street sign inrnMiami, to abolish public-school instructionrnin Spanish, and to burn all foreignlanguagernballots. And speaking of language,rnthe report wants the Bible andrnthe liturgy to be rewritten with “inclusive”rnlanguage so they can get the...

statutory provisions.rnThe Court also said that it couldn’trnoverturn Roe because it would be seenrnas acceding to public pressure, therebyrnjeopardizing its institutional legitimacy.rn”But whatever the premises of oppositionrnmay be, only the most convincingrnjustification . . . could suffice to demonstraternthat a later decision overruling thernfirst was anything but a surrender to politicalrnpressure.” “So to overrule underrnfire...

Jackson and Andrew Lytle’s of BedfordrnForrest were the work of young men (thernfirst pubhshed books of each author)rntrying to come to terms with theirrnSouthern heritage. Although DonaldrnDavidson had entered middle age beforernwriting his two-volume history ofrnthe Tennessee River, he had wrestled forrnyears with what it meant to be an artistrnand a Southerner. Even a book...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnThe Life of RileyrnOne good way to ruin your Christmasrnthis year would be to spend the holidaysrnreading a new book entitled Abandoned:rnThe Betrayal of the American MiddlernClass Since World War U, by two lawrnprofessors at the University of SouthrnCarolina, William ]. Quirk and R. RandallrnBridwell. Maybe you don’t want tornruin your...

w ^^’re the firstrnoDnservativernI’ve seen in four years.’rnOne evening lastrnspring, bestsellingrnauthor and lecturerrnDinesh D’Souza delivered arnspeech at Kent State University.rnAt the end of his talkrnseveral students thanked himrnfor coming to their campus.rnOne of the students, a senior,rnsaid sadly, “You know, I’vernbeen at Kent State for fourrnyears and you’re the firstrnconservative speaker I’ve everrnseen.”rnThings aren’t much...

“lesser of two evils.” For some reason itrndoes not oceur to them to develop candidatesrnand political mechanisms betweenrnelections so that they will not bernin the same fix the next time. Whyrnshouldn’t Republican leaders take themrnfor granted?rnBut neither, also to their great credit,rndo the authors of Abandoned fall for therncurrent Republicarr line that the Reaganrnera was...

sive corporations, government, and culturalrninstitutions in education and thernmass media swallowed this independentrnmiddle class and converted it into therndependent, passive, well-fed, and wellentertainedrnmiddle-income proletariatrnof the 1950’s. The major cultural themernof that decade was the new dependencernof Middle American life on the structuresrnand mechanisms of the mass organizationsrnand on the elites that governedrnand manipulated these organizations.rnTelevision,...

PERSPECTIVErnThe Ten CommandmentsrnI. OTHER GODS AND IMAGESrnby Thomas MolnarrnThe Ten Commandments, and many other bibhcal texts,rnused to be for me pious, nondescript, and rather gratuitousrnstatements. That was youth. With maturity and age,rnthey began to reveal (the right word) an immeasurable depthrnof wisdom, whose exploration occupied the life of a Pascalrnand a Chesterton. Our contemporary “culture”...

clearly established the right of certain of our protected minoritiesrnto go well beyond simple coveting and to take whateverrnthey think they want without any shame or any serious consequences.rnAll the conventional manifestations of coveting—greed,rnenvy, lust, rage, gluttony, sloth, and pride—are so familiar as tornbe (in secular terms) neither vices nor virtues, but merely descriptionsrnof the...

For all the media attacks, the Church has remained remarkablyrnresilient and has even won political successes, forrnexample through its leadership of the pro-life movement. Itsrnopponents had therefore to be even more resourceful in seekingrneffective weapons for sabotage. One problem they facedrnwas that many of the traditional rhetorical devices of prejudicernno longer worked, because of changing...

most, presents a number of quite significant difficulties. Forrnexample, it cannot be denied that some priests, being human,rncommit serious crimes, while large institutions tendrnsometimes to favor self-interest and self-protection over thernpublic good. But we knew this already. What is more contentious,rnand indeed wildly speculative, is the estimate of thernscale of the problem. Who has the...

liberal critics of the Church—celibacy, confession, the malernpriesthood. All have been denounced in the aftermath of thernsex scandals, and the Church has had to struggle to defend itsrntraditions—needless to say, with the critics receiving thernwholehearted support of the media. As a rhetorical device, thernassociation is brilliant; to oppose the “reform” of celibacy orrnwomen’s ordination is...

evitability of World War II, and he spent the whole war in intelligence.rnHe was given the Legion of Honor, the Croix dernGuerre, and several British decorations (though he maintainedrnthat “the two most ridiculous activities I’ve ever been engagedrnin have been war and sex”).rnIn the I950’s, he wrote from all over the world, editedrnPunch, and took...

themselves upright. Yet, his most important trait was that hernreally wanted to know the truth and that he said and wroternwhat he believed it to be regardless of whether it was popular.rnThe fact that he was a freelance writer all his life, with no SocialrnSecurity or pension, made that even more remarkable,rnbecause the danger of...

Though he held his atheism withrncomplete conviction, Lewis-the-youthful-rnpersecutor-of-Christians seems to bernentirely a creation of his later years. Hisrnheathenism was a rhetorical ploy to put arnhuman face on his uncompromising andrnunconditional apologetics. As his friendrnand confessor, Austin Farrer, was laterrnto say, the persona Lewis as authorrnchose for himself invited the reader torn”look and see that such...

Angry Aleut, and Greer the VikingrnRastafarian (“I be a Viking from Bimini,rnby yumpin’ yiminy”). But Sailor Songrneludes pure anachronism by tacklingrnmatters of immediate concern. Set in arnsmall Alaska town called Kuniak at thernturn of the next millennium amongrnforests “choked by thick air, cooked andrnconfused by the Anarchy of the Age,” itrnraises the green flag of...

act to save themselves. Maclean trackedrndown a few of the forest rangers whornsent these men to their doom. Many ofrnthem retained scars of their terrible culpability;rnothers, professional desk jockeys,rnmaintained their innocence. Survivingrnfirefighters were not so quick tornforgive, and their hard words are hallmarksrnin Maclean’s narrative.rnAs Maclean notes, the lessons of Augustrn1949 did not go unlearned...

to support Great Britain’s impracticalrnmonetary policy, it created credit again,rnproducing the boom that turned intornthe Great Depression, which in turnrngave us Franklin D. Roosevelt, the NewrnDeal, gold confiscation, the welfarernstate, and America’s entry into WorldrnWar II.rnThe final blow to sound money camernon August 15, 1971, when Richard M.rnNixon closed the “gold window” thatrnhad allowed foreign...

ume to be slammed shut than to bernscanned. The mini-tale of the eapturedrnCaptain S. L. Freeman on page 108 is arnsalient example: “Following a brief struggle,rnthe Confederates succeeded in recapturingrntheir artillery pieces, but failedrnto liberate Captain Freeman. Their failurerncost him his life. As he ran alongrnin the hands of his captors, they apparentlyrndid not believe...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Tucsonrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnSanctity & SanctuaryrnFrom the barrio of South Tucson, thernTucson Mountains appeared clean andrnsharp like hammered copper on a clearrnmorning following the equipata or winterrnrains, nearly the season’s last; thernglassy towers downtown held the sky reflectedrnin squares of wavery unnaturalrnblue. The university students were onrnspring break and already the snowbirdsrnwere flying...

the date for a children’s march in downtownrnTucson in support of the Salvadoranrnpeople.rnFollowing the service, the ReverendrnFife baptized an infant, “child of CecilrnBillingsley and Joelle Waldron.” Thernchoir celebrated by singing a syncopatedrnhymn and accompanying it with thernclapping of hands, while a young blackrnwoman in a scarlet dress boogied to thernmusic. As the congregation filed out...

that the Vekhi authors were simply morernmoderate socialists than the Bolsheviks,rnthat perhaps they were like the Mensheviksrnor the Social Revolutionaries. Notrnso: Vekhi rejected not just Bolshevism,rnbut all forms of revolutionary Marxismrnand populism. In 1918, after the fullrnhorror of Leninist rule had becomernmanifest, one Vekhi contributor wroternthat “the Russian socialists, had theyrnfound themselves in power, would...

Letter From BatonrnRougernby John Patrick ZmirakrnOld LovernMv Downtown is dying. That is perhapsrnsaving too little; Downtown is nearlyrndead. The neat, grid-patterned, wellpavedrnstreets of the old Baton Rouge,rnthe white hot eemcnt Huey Longrnpounded Florsheim heel and toe against,rnthe small optimistie stores set up in thern30’s and 40’s and equipped with illuminatedrnsigns in the 50’s and 60’s...

VITAL SIGNSrnCOMMONWEALrnThe Great San JosernFinger Flaprnby James p. DegnanrnRemembering Jessica MitfordrnIrecently watehcd a television specialrnabout the life and times of JessicarnMitford, and the program took mc backrnfifteen years or so to my first meetingrnwith Jessica. It was mid-December, thernbeginning of the Christmas recess atrnSan Jose State College, and Jessica hadrnbeen informed that, at the close...

we ended our conversation, agreeing tornresume it at one of Jessica’s few remainingrnSan Jose State classes after the holidays.rn”Do come to class,” Jessica said,rn”we’re having some convicts in.”rnJessica taught two classes: “MuckrakingrnTechniques,” a relatively small classrnof about twenty students, and “ThernAmerican Way,” a huge lecture class ofrnthree hundred or so. It was in the latterrnclass—the...

doubtlessly occurred during her confrontationrnwith the aforementionedrndean of social sciences, a gentleman appropriatelyrnnamed Sawrcv. Foolishly,rnDean Sawrcy permitted this confrontationrnto take place in Jessica’s lecture classrnbefore some three hundred students andrnother Jessica sympathizers, whom shernhad prepared for Sawrey’s appearance.rnInterrupting the lecture, Sawrey announcedrnthat Jessica had been “rndehired,” that she was no longer authorizedrnto teach, that a...

sary, the Penguin, played by Danny De-rnVito in ‘Batman Returns,’ is not just arndeformed man, half-human, half-Arcticrnbeast. He is a Jew, down to his hookedrnnose, pale face and lust for herring. No,rnMr. DeVito is not Jewish, but that’s justrnit: Man in penguin costume. Christianrnin Jew face.”rnSo, reluctantly, skeptically, and with arndegree of apprehension that had...

ous narrative gifts are likely to follow uprnthe movie with at least a look at thernpages, which are also pretty good andrnwhich also depend on the almost incantatoryrnmagic of repetition and variation,rnset-ups and pay-offs, the rhythm ofrntheme and riff, departure and return. Itrnis a brilliant piece of talking, better byrnfar than My Dinner With Andre,...

starts fresh, defines first principles, andrnaugments and elaborates them in balance,rnproportion, and, above all, logicalrnorder. True, the Pentateuch draws uponrnmuch older materials in its reformulationrnby Ezra in 450 B.C., but the reformationrnof these materials into a systemrnimparts to all details the message of thernsystem as a whole. In a traditional process,rnby contrast, we never start...

such a writing. A systematic writingrnmay allude to or draw upon receivedrntexts, but does not recapitulate them,rnexcept for its own purposes and withinrnits own idiom of thought; it not onlyrndoes not recapitulate texts, it selects andrnorders them, imputes to them a wholerncogency (which their original authorshipsrnhave not expressed in and throughrnthe parts), and expresses through...

I POLITICSrnThe Formidable Evilrnbv Andrei NavrozovrnSovietology Pastrnand PresentrnRe’icving a polemical pamphlet ofrnmine on Sovietology published bvrnthe Claridge Press in London, ArnoldrnBcichman assured readers of the May issuernof Chronicles that I am “a seriousrnman.” The bulk of his review, however,rnsupported the proposition that I am arnconspiracy nut, a proposition whose originalityrnthe reviewer may well have overestimated,rnhi...

itude, the proverbial mote that, in therntwihght of our totalitarian century, onlyrnan editor of Commentary or NationalrnReview, utterly oblivious to the beamrnprotruding from his own eye socket, canrncheerfully discern. By contrast, the intellectualrncapitulation of the right in thernface of a modernized, 21 st-century totalitarianismrnis without precedent, atrnleast since the day when the right firstrnbecame the...

LEFT OR RIGHTrn”When you read a magazine likern[The New American], you reedlzernwhat a free country we have.rnThese are really crazy people.”rnBarney FrankrnMember of Congressrn4th District, Massachusettsrn”The New American gives you hardhitttngrninvestigative reporting from arnperspective you normally cannot findrnin mciny of our leading journals.”rnPhilip M. CranernMember of Congressrn12th District, IllinoisrnE^veryone has an opinion of The New...

She Didn’trnLet The DeanrnIntimida)rnHer.rnJennifer Imle is a junior atrnSouthwestern University inrnTexas. Like many studentsrnsiie believes that importantrncampus issues should be discussed.rnIssues like rigged admissionsrnpolicies based on race.rnBut when she displayed arnYoung America’s Foundationrnposter attacking such policiesrnshe ran into a firestorm. Shernwas attacked as a racist by campusrnactivists and she wasrnridiculed by professors in class.rnDean of...

EI3IT0RrnThomas FlemingrnASSOCIATE EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, jr.rnEDITORIAL ASSISTANTrnChristine HaynesrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnJohn W. Aldridge, Harold O.].rnBrown, Katherine Dalton, SamuelrnFrancis, George Garrett,rnE. Christian Kopff, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnJanet Scott Barlow, JohnrnShelton ReedrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCOMPOSITION MANAGERrnAnita FedorarnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn934 North Mam Street, Rockford, IL...

Remember, Mexico is still plaguedrnby those big debts from the 1970’s, andrnthe international bankers at State andrnTreasury are nervous. They know thatrnall the salsa in all the Taco Bells in thernworld won’t produee the kind of hardrncurrency needed to service the debt.rnBut Mexico’s reformist president has anrnidea that might attract the needed capital.rnCarlos Salinas is...

America. If we can only become poorrnenough, maybe some nice, rich sugarrndaddy hke Japan will see the benefit ofrnone day signing a NAFTA-type accordrnwith us.rn—]ohn P. CreganrnSPEAKING ENGLISH has becomernrarer than I thought. When I recentlyrnput my 1985 Plymouth Horizon up forrnsale in the classifieds of the WashingtonrnPost and the Washington Times, I wonderedrnhow many...

define us are as naive as they are insulting.rnNevertheless, it may be useful tornconsider what wc are not. Wc arc notrnAmerican, nor are we English or French.rnWe are not German or Iranian or Irish orrnJapanese, and all that is needed to provernthis assertion is to visit the countriesrnwhere those people live. They are different.rnThis is...