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the United States later helped to dismantle. The Monroe guage is emphasized there both as the unifier of Mexico and asndoctrine, the Spanish-American War and the American a means of undermining the United States, particularly thosengovernment’s indifference to the persecution of religion in states that once belonged to Mexico. By contrast, thenSpain and Mexico in...

was invited everywhere. We finally have adequate editionsnof her Tribune articles in Larry K. Reynolds and Susan BelasconSmith’s “These Sad But Glorious Days”: Dispatches from Europen(Yale, 1991), and her letters up to 1849 in five volumes bynRobert N. Hudspeth (Cornell, 1983-88). Both sources tellnus of her meetings with Thomas Carlyle. She expected thensage of Sartor...

bear her child in seclusion, pleading ill health, while Giovanninstayed with his regiment in Rome.nHorace Greeley was not sympathetic. It was the spring ofn1848 and all Europe was exploding with revolution. In FrancenLouis Philippe fell and Metternich was chased from Vienna.nThe Austrian hold over northern Italy was shaken. Milan andnVenice declared themselves republics and King...

he was no nobleman, wrongly. It is somewhat droll to seenMargaret’s modern defenders insist that she was a radical feministndemocrat who slept only with a true scion of the Romannnobility.nAround Margaret hangs always the fascinating aura of thenopus imperfectum. Her best writing is found in her letters andnher articles, literary and historical, for Greeley’s Tribune....

(nin1njn1n^ni!ln wnMnynCrime StorynThe Godfather as Political Metaphorn.-.o^-nby Samuel Francisn•:…;;. • . ‘ ^nf^nin nProbably not since Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Windnhas a popular novel influenced Americans as deeply asnMario Puzo’s The Godfather. Appearing in 1969, the booknremains, according to the inflated come-on of its publisher’snblurb, “the all-time best-selling novel in publishing history.” Ifntrue, that...

a symbolic complex of primal patterns out of which modernnWestern society grows and from recognition of which the characteristicnsuperstitions of modernity usually flee.n”Behind every great fortune there is a crime,” wrote Honorende Balzac in a cynical sentiment that Puzo chose as the epigraphnof his novel. The line at once establishes the metaphornthat dominates the book...

self for the first time into “family business.” His plan is simple.nSollozzo won’t suspect Michael, precisely because Michaelnhas nothing to do with the family’s activities. Michael proposesnto accept Sollozzo’s offer of a meeting on neutral groundnfor the ostensible purpose of negotiating, but Michael willnsmuggle a gun into the meeting and kill Sollozzo, It is a...

blood, place (land), and mind, or kinship, neighborhood, andnfriendship—are all encompassed in the family,” wrote thenGerman sociologist Ferdinand Tonnies, who first used thisnterminology, “but the first of them is the constituting elementnof it. . . . The prototype of the association in Gemeinschaftnremains the relationship between master and servantnor, better, between master and disciple.” Tonnies...

music. At the wedding, the poHce are kept out of the reception,nthough they observe the whole celebration from theirncars, and Don Corleone’s pet judges and politicians are invitednbut politely decline to attend. At the confirmation, thenmafiosi take state troopers plates of food, and the guest ofnhonor is Senator Geary, himself a crook and an almost...

could Michael hope to preserve his family, but by being strongnfor it, he destroyed it. That was his tragedy, as it is the tragedynof human society. Power is not only necessary to the functioningnof society, as Machiavelli taught; it also possesses anrelentless logic that eventually eats up itself as it irresistiblynconverts Gemeinschaft into Gesellschaft and...

dency to judge the Indians according tontheir ideals and beliefs, while condemningnthe Europeans for their individualnactions (European ideals are understoodnto be simple hypocrisy); a nearly infinitencapacity for appreciating the mostnbizarre absurdities of Indian religionnwhile taking snide pokes at the Europeans’n”absolutist” theology of “thenthree gods” and the “creed that regardsnthe quintessential creature of the earthnas evil”...

Englishmen eat meat at every dinner,noblivious to his immediately previous assertionnthat “the poor were virtually excludednfrom a beef-centered diet untilnwell into the last quarter of the nineteenthncentury, having to settle insteadnfor . . . cheese, milk, butter, and otherndairy products.”nRifkin considers the keeping of pedigreednanimals to be racist, and unfairlynaccuses Charles Darwin of racism. Henlinks...

moted with great notoriety some sixtynyears ago. Bertrand Russell’s Marriagenand Morals, which Posner frequentlyncites, devotes a chapter to it, but Posnernhas apparently not taken notice.nThe type of marriage that has prevailednin the Western world for nearlyntwo thousand years is, according to Posner,ndue for replacement. Contemporarynwomen have entered the job marketnin large numbers and their financial...

overexpose any given shot, a vexingnenough situation given the day’s alternatingnperiods of bright sunhght andnblack storm clouds. The result was a seriesnof photographs that were competentnenough but less than dramatic, farninferior to those an old Brownie wouldnhave delivered.nWith many advances in technologynthere follows a diminution of quality.nOr so Donald Norman sets out tondemonstrate in Turn...

Letter From SouthnCarolinanby William P. BaldwinnColumbus in ColumbianThe American Indians are on thenwarpath and with good reason, it wouldnseem. For at least two hundred yearsntheir grave sites have been desecratednsimply to satisfy the curiosity of thenWhite Man. On the defensive, archaeologistsnare arguing that in all culturesnstudied graves are one of the bestnsources of information. The...

of that last century leaves us only withnsome happy rhyming and the illusion ofnsubstantive meaning. The fact is, in thisnvicinity, the few Indian names that cannbe translated are simply mundane descriptions.nSantee probably means “thenbig river,” and most of the rest are alsonreferences to water in some form. Thatnjust won’t do for a state capital like...

ably on their shared sexual orientation.nWhen Jim escaped and went to the policento report this assault, the policemannhe told reminded him that sodomy isnillegal in North Carolina and suggestednthat he might want to think twice aboutnpursuing the matter. Believe it or not,nthe point of Jim’s story was that bothnthe policeman’s attitude and the epithetsnhis assailant...

uine bad-asses. Even the folks who getnmost het up about date rape don’t seemnready to do much about it. A couple ofnyears ago, for instance, Donna Shalala,nthe politically correct chancellor of thenUniversity of Wisconsin, was asked bynTime magazine what her school was doingnabout the problem. After some conventionalnblather about preventing it byneducation, communication, and counseling.nPresident...

stream, it is necessary to clearly identifynwhat is the enemy. . . . And for me, thenmain enemy is not communism, but liberalism.nI think liberalism is very similarnto Marxism, but the problem is that it isnmore viable than communism, andntherefore it is more dangerous.nQ: You identify yourself as part of thenNew Right intellectual movement innEurope....

fun. There is also the personahzationn[of candidates]; this is the Americanizationnof European politics.nQ: Do you see the danger of this?nA: Of course, I think there is a greatndanger. The political parties are losingnall the ideas. They all went to a mainstreamnthey call mitte—“middle.” Fornexample, Social Democrats say they arenthe party of the middle. ChristiannDemocrats say...

My Former In-Lawsnby Thomas O. JonesnChristopher Columbus’nNorth American DescendantsnMy former in-laws in the UnitednStates are direct descendants ofnChristopher Columbus. This is fact. Itnwill now be demonstrated. No othernfamily in North America can make thisnclaim. These worthy people are thenBoals. Their ancestral home in Americanis a tiny village called Boalsburg in centralnPennsylvania. I’ll attempt to explain,nwithout...

and we accepted the chorus of laughternas we made our vows in a generous spirit.nThis carel”ree start made our divorcenmore poignant.nThis year marks the 20th anniversarynof our separation and divorce. Unhkenthe sailor from Genoa, Rose and I arennot making the covers of news magazines,nand scholars are not holding conferencesnto present papers and panel discussionsnon our...

from starvation, dead from cold. .n. . Most agonizing of all was thenthought of the thousands of thendead, the hundreds upon hundredsnof wounded men abandonednon the snow, on a littlenstraw. . . . You who read thesenpages, do you know what itnmeans?”nThis question, hurled from the depthsnof tragedy, will haunt the writer’s entirenliterary life. Passing...

Forgotten Voicesnby George WatsonnHow Buchenwald Lived OnnWhen I visited Buchenwald concentrationncamp, near Weimar,nin 1988, in what turned out to be thenlast year of German partition, the SovietnUnion’s use of the camp for five yearsnafter World War II was hardly to be spokennof inside what, with memorablenirony, was still called the GermannDemocratic Republic; my research onnthis...

TRAVELnM onday,nGonna Takena DysfunctionalnJourneynby Stephen PiovizernNews Item: AMTRAKnDerails North ofnNew York Cityn9; 30 A.M.—^Arose after annevening of drinking, soft-shellnJazz and mainstream crabs; oops—ndyslexia margarita. My sister’s cleaningnlady arrives with an armload of TitonPuente records and an Electrolux withoutna muffler; I decide to skip coffee andnhead right to the train station; lookingnforward to a leisurely trip...

Yours FREE —nthe ”mother lode”nof home-schoolingnwisdom, by thenfounder herselfnCharlotte Mason’s 6 classicnvolumes, chosen as “Pick of thenCrop” hy Teaching Home MagazinenLong unavailable even in good libraries, this monumental setngives you “how to” guidance in eveiy aspect of home schooling.nAnchored in the author’s Christian — and groundbreakingn— educational philosophy, it will help you tonbecome a better...

1 Education Is domplete Uatil It Includes Us.nYoung America’s Foundation begins with the assumption that a college education is incompletenunless the student has a firm understanding of conservative principles. Because university educationntoday omits this key component, the Foundation offers students an array of programsnto enable them to complete their education.nSince 1978, thousandsnof top students fromnacross...

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impact from the genocide of certainngroupings of people, or more importantly,nfrom living with “the idea,” isnfoolish.nWith that said, I must strongly disagreenwith the final point of Neusner’snpiece. Neusner says: “For our part, wennever conceived a Marshall Plan ofnideas, a rebuilding of the ruined intellectualnlife of a great country.” Not onlyndoes he imply that somehow America,nand...

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATIONnhas rediscovered the family. A year ago,nWhite House minions strove to torpedonthe Final Report of the National Commissionnon Children, worried that itsnrecommendation of tax relief for familiesnwith children might upset thenhallowed “budget agreement” withnCongress. Today, with one eye on thenembers of Los Angeles and the othernnervously on the polls, the Bush team isnin...

for our cities, and investing in ownershipnof property in our cities.”nThat “solution” sounds strangely likentraditional welfare. True, he wants thenpoor to own property. But what GreatnSociety liberal has ever opposed that?nThe question is whose property the poornare supposed to own: property they’venearned, or property that has been confiscatednfrom the middle class and redistributed?nAt a time...

Callers noted the one common denominatornon the faces of the rioters—npimples. A Miami caller said, “Thosenwere children—Lord of the Flies gonenweird. These kids in their designer runningnshoes seem like Beirut in Air Jordans.nAfter twenty-five years of GreatnSociety spending,” he wondered, “whatn[were these] well-intentioned policiesn[that] have so dissolved family discipline?”nCallers of all colors are frightened.nThey know...

another word for the “reform process.”nBy agreeing to CODESA Mr. de Klerknundermined his own Parliament, just asnhis exclusive preoccupation with thenANC at CODESA kept him from dealingnwith all blacks—not only Buthelezi :nbut also the other homeland leaders, es- •npecially Mangope of Bophuthatswana— ;nwho truly want to negotiate instead ofnusing talks merely to seize power.nDe Klerk’s...

The Buchanan Revolution,nPart IInThe greatest irony of the periodic politicalnrevolutions that occur in Americanndemocracy is that most of the votersnwho make them possible have not thenfoggiest notion of what they are doing.nIn 1932, Franklin Roosevelt won thenWhite House by promising to balancenthe budget and reduce the scale andnpower of the federal government, andn, there is...

it, “lure” more blacks and Hispanics intonRepublican ranks and otherwise morencredibly convince the archons of liberalismnhow harmless they were. The endnresult, of course, was the Kemp campaignnin 1988, and it was hardly surprisingnthat a candidate who sought tonwin the votes of a largely white, suburban,nmiddle-class party by telling its votersnhow he wanted to make the...

My old teacher, the classicist (and Scots Nationalist)nDouglas Young, once interrupted a boring conversationnabout television by declaring loudly, “Speaking of Aeschylusn…” When one of his naive colleagues insisted, “But Douglas,nno one was speaking about Aeschylus,” Young responded,n”Yes, but I want to be speaking of Aeschylus.” This month,nwhen I ought to be writing an essay on...

life, and some of them write more books (as was said of Livy)nthan most people read. The truth is that whether a writernwrites many novels, like Dickens, or a few, like Flaubert, theirnbest work is usually compressed into three or four really goodnbooks. Wordsworth wrote thousands of pages of verse thatnhelped to sink his reputation...

Carthage, where they see a temple of Juno under construction.nThe sculptural ornaments of the temple turn out to be scenesnfrom the Trojan War. “What place,” Aeneas asks his friend,n”what part of the world is not full of our suffering? Behold Priam.nHere there are the rewards due his merit. The thingsnmen do draw tears, and touch...

learn to hate them and to love them. He must argue withnthem, quarrel with them, forgive them, and even submit tonthem.”nTo submit to one’s own creations is not a rational or considerednact. It cannot be part of a plan or serve an ideologicalnpurpose. When Trollope tries to make a point openly, as hendoes in The...

it a memoir? a pamphlet? a lament over the century?) is a lyricalnyet never sentimental tableau of the human condition; itnis perhaps significant that its publication coincided with Malraux’snultrapoliticized thus ephemeral La condition humaine.nMalraux, however, was an intellectual infected with the century’snUtopia, revolution, and illusion-chasing, while Celinentalks about real people: the tired waitress who has...

In short, the domination of leftism in postwar Uterature isnbroken, although the agony and the burial took an inordinatelynlong time. The media are still ruled by the Marxist epigones,nthe recycled liberal-democrats, the conformist little bureaucratsnready to cash in on any regime’s handouts. With an admirablynexecuted about-face, they now turn not to Moscownbut to Washington, from...

Between 1913 and 1962 Robert Frost published 11 books ofnpoetry, won four Pulitzer Prizes, established himself as thenunofficial poet laureate of the United States, and acquired annational and international literary reputation. Despite hisnfame as a poet and public speaker, and because of his friendshipnwith such liberal Democrats as Vice-President Henry Wallacenand President John F. Kennedy,...

In accepting the moral law of Moses in the Decalogue, Frostnmade justice paramount to mercy both between God andnman and for man in civil society. This meant that in his socialnand political philosophy he resolved the conflicts in whatnhe called “the justice-mercy contradiction” in favor of justice.nMercy had an important place in his philosophy, but...

ulation or the will of a numerical majority. It followed thatnthere was no such thing as “the people” apart from its geographical-cultural-legal-politicalncharacter. A nation is morenthan merely numbers of individuals counted by the head andnliving within a geographical area. As a nation the “people” isnthe product of its total historical inheritance, which gives it anunique...

clearly made national self-interest paramount to any internationaln”one world” organization:nMy friends all know I’m interpersonal.nBut long before I’m interpersonalnAway ‘way down inside I’m personal.nJust so before we’re internationalnWe’re national and act as nationals.nTwenty-six years later, in a letter to President John F. Kennedyn(24 July 1962), Frost reiterated his conviction that nationalnself-interest is primary in all...

private lives and institutions of Americans, to force equality ofncondition on everyone, was to Frost the great evil of New Dealndomestic politics, and the chief source of moral corruption innsociety. The welfare state could not save men from their inherentnlimitations and failures; it could only intensify theirnweaknesses by making them slavish wards of the state....

tique, fictional vision, and satiric insight of Wyndham Lewisnin his most ehtist and unrelenting guise.nSet apart by his birth (on a yacht moored at Amherst, NovanScotia), and as an only child by his father’s absence and bynhis mother’s intense love, Lewis was always “the Man fromnNowhere.” Me himself claimed that the Continent, where henstudied life...

situation by more than half a century. His disassembly of thenprogressive mind-set is still instructive today, as when he notesn’ that “[male inversion] is as an integral part of feminism propernthat it should be considered a phase of the sex war. Then’homo’ is the legitimate child of the ‘suffragette.'” Such observations,nhowever, constituted only a part...

counting for all the allusions to Lewis, his works, and his attacksnon Joyce. Eliot called Lewis “the only writer among myncontemporaries to create a new, an original prose style . . . thenmost fascinating personality of our time.” Pound communicatednwith Lewis during five decades and placed him in thenCantos more than once. W. B. Yeats...

of writing a book, aping the sound andnfury of literature but signifying nothing.nReading it, I was reminded of what RaymondnChandler said of literary imitators:n”They can’t steal your style, if younhave one. They can as a rule only stealnyour faults.” But even if the writing werencompetent, Tyrrell’s appalling self-importancenwould overwhelm it. In a booknthat is literally...