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the Canadian prophet who announced the death of thenbook in 1980. It was Sir Edmund Leach, eminent Britishnsocial anthropologist, then provost of King’s College. That isnto say, a distinguished mandarin of the alphabetic culture ofnour time. We should not take such statements lightly. If SirnEdmund Leach thinks that the alphabet stinks, something innthe alphabet must...

for the first time sung by the rhapsodies, we too are made tonexperience vicariously those ceremonies of passion andnadventure that are eagerly desired by the human soul ofnevery civilization. The fire that Shakespeare lit when henrecreated in his tragedies and comedies the Elizabethannuniverse — from the plebeian street gossip with its fresco ofnpicturesque types and...

work was the victim of an obsessive scrutiny for signs ofnheterodoxy, and the literary occupation became a depersonalizednand aseptic ritual in which spontaneity had beennsuppressed. This servitude left the creator no alternative butnto direct his imagination towards formal ostentation. Asnpersonal thinking was risky, even suicidal, the writer had toncomply in the world of ideas with...

In 1807 the first meeting of the Anglo-American andnSpanish cultures occurred when an expedition under thencommand of Zebulon Montgomery Pike was capturednnorth of Santa Fe. Soon thereafter, fur trappers and tradersnbegan to make their way into the region, often convergingnon the village of Taos; and after Mexico won its independencenfrom Spain in 1821, Anglo-American incursionsnmetamorphosed...

Quebec can bring the Canadian confederation to the brinknof disintegration even though France lies an entire oceannaway, should there not at least arise a certain reflectivenessnabout our own Southwest, which lies contiguous to annoverpopulated Third World nation?nThe inchoate fear that immigrants are not assimilating isnnot without a degree of justification. While rates of Hispanicnassimilation are...

6 San Miguel de Mimiahuapam 6nPlaza de TorosnMonumental Bull RingnThere were already a few cars in the parking lot up front bynthe red-and-yellow-painted gates and the ticket booths, onento the left and another to the right — “Sol” and “Sombra”n— and people wandering behind these. Next to the parkingnlot was the Monumental Bar & Disco,...

Monumental Bar were extremely crowded now, and the daynfelt hotter than ever. At the service bar, boys with tongs werenbusy dragging in big blocks of sweating ice. A commercialnbus stopped beside the bar to discharge passengers, while thenpeople standing around took pictures.nAt last Jim said it was time to go. We finished the beer andnwalked...

colored ribbon; the banderilleros’ job is to implant them innthe morillo, thus weakening the muscle still further andncausing the bull to drop his head even lower. Also, thenbanderillas are used to correct unwelcome tendencies in thenbull’s use of his horn. The speed with which the placementnof the banderillas, in pairs, is accomplished is so great,...

seen to do, but extremely impressive to the neophytenspectator. When Arruza had to kill, he did so with thensecond thrust but very neatly, so that the bull dropped as ifnpoleaxed, spouting an eruption of blood from the mouthnthat should have emptied him completely before he reachednhis knees in the sand, and rolled onto his back...

Poems by Jorge Luis BorgesnTranslated by Robert MezeynTexasnHere too. Here, as on the other unfurlingnFrontier of the continent, the greatnPrairie where a solitary cry fades out;nHere too the lariat, the Indian, the yearling.nHere too the secretive and unseen birdnThat over the clamorous strains of historynSings for one evening and its memory;nHere too the mystic alphabet,...

Conqueror of the sea, he trod the solidnLand which is the root of mountain ranges,nMotionless in time, a sleeping compass,nAnd over which he notes an uncertain route.nIn the hereditary shade of orchards,nMelville crosses the evenings of New EnglandnBut sea inhabits him. It is the shamenOf the mutilated captain of the Pequod,nThe untranslatable ocean and its...

plicity, and disinterested devotion tongreat principles; and … his virtuousncharacter and impressive personalitynlent authority to his writings.” Recently,nthis line of reasoning was carried tonits reductio ad absurdum by ChristophernKelly in Rousseau’s ExemplarynLife (1987). Although MacDonald’snsources for the empirical facts of thatnlife were severely limited, she claimednthat all scholars who deal with thenbiographical facts and writings,...

primitive man also militates against thenpossibility of forming such a socialncontract. In total contrast to Aristotlenand Burke, Rousseau denied that civilnsociety and its institutions are “natural”nto man; he believed that organizednsociety is “artificial.” He would havenwholly rejected Burke’s aphorism, “Artnis man’s nature,” and its derivativenargument that “the state of civil societyn… is a state of...

celebrated author into the object of ancult. . . . Julie . . . established him asna dominant figure in European culture.nIt changed the ways in whichnpeople thought and felt and acted.”nPrecisely so, which is why betweenn1761 and 1780, 50 books in Francenimitated Julie and 72 editions ofnRousseau’s novel appeared beforen1800. “Sensibility” is of paramountnimportance...

Being attentive to the realities ofnhuman existence as adumbrated byntraditional classical and Christian philosophynand theology, the FoundingnFathers were wise enough to moderatenthe recent political theories entanglednwith Hobbesian and Humean andnLockean ideas. The Greek philosophers,nthe Stoics, Hebrew thought, andnespecially Christian thought from thenApostles to Thomas Aquinas, contributednto the intellectual climate fromnwhich the founding of a new...

tied existences a new “society.” FornMarx, it was the idea of the state as thengod of all being. In our case, we nonlonger know the end intended and sonresort, in desperate vagueness, to “humanitarianism.”nIt is in response to such obfuscationsnof political reality that Professor Sandoznwrites his book. What he recognizes asnnecessary to a viable social...

Letter From thenLower Rightnby John Shelton ReednHome MoviesnIn a recent letter I mentioned thencircuitous route my wife and I drove lastnsummer on our way from Californianback home to North Carolina. The firstnday it took us past Bakersfield, wherenI’m told the children and grandchildrennof Okies have imposed something resemblingnSouthern culture on a part ofnCalifornia. (I’m sorry...

which began when a force of Texansnswarmed up the Rio Grande with thencry “On to San Francisco!” Now, Inhave to say that the plan to capturenCalifornia’s gold and unblockadednports strikes me as awfully ambitious.nI’d just driven from the Bay Area andnknew in my posterior how far away itnwas. Still, the campaign did begin well,nwith a...

where no one ever visits (except to drivento and from the airports), New York is anpatchwork of ethnic neighborhoods.nEach neighborhood, sometimes only anfew blocks in area, has its own characternand fights fiercely for its own integrityn— which generally means bitter “turfnwars” against interlopers hangingnaround, and a fortiori committingncrimes, on some other group’s cherishednturf. While in...

The Lubavitchers came out in force,ntaking care to throw a protective cordonnaround the Rebbe and his worldnheadquarters. Apologists for the riotersnof course claimed they were expressing,nonce again, their rage for thenlegacy of slavery. For once, it was easynfor the rioters to find “a Jew,” since thenHasids could be spotted by their distinctivenuniform. Finally, after days...

I knew nothing about it.”nAs an extra lagniappe to the proceedings,nthe question soon loomed:nwho exactly is to pay whom after manynloving years of litigation expected tonensue from this tragedy? When thenfamed burly figure of leftist lawyernWilliam M. Kunstler appeared on thentube (one of the few whites except fornpolice spokesmen), the knowledgeablenviewer realized that there were...

was not published. Father Shaw,nknown to his friends and students asnFather Frank, died soon after, aged 63,nin December 1970, by which time thentroubles in the north had been renewed.nTwo years after his death Studiesnpublished the article, in the belatednhope of bringing the extremists to theirnsenses.nFather Frank’s argument was blunt.nAt no time had independence fromnBritain been...

LETTERSnl^r’^^itAn^’h ‘, !• js*â„¢/nThe Love ThatnDare Not SpeaknIts Namenby Stephen Provizern”Snap out of it, they’re only a pair ofnpants. . . . That’s what I keep tellingnmyself. Actually, they’re a pair of linennpleated trousers I bought at Louis lastnspring. Little did I know what I wasngetting in for. The more I wear them,nthe more I...

sleazy bars; joints where they wouldn’tnknow linen from gabardine and eventually,neven they wouldn’t let me in.nThe only way to stop the downwardnspiral was to dry-clean, but I couldn’tnlet those butchers get their hands onnmy pants.nI let it all slip away and now, here wenlay in tatters. But if you think either ofnus regrets an instant...

X^ c&n^-n^nName -nCitynTHE YEAR IN REVIEWnSecessions—January 1991—Tomislav Sunic on globalismnand the right of self-determination, Bill Kauffmannon why Upstate should secede from New York City,nand Thomas Fleming on Italy’s example of unitynthrough division. Plus Theodore Pappas on MartinnLuther King, Jr.’s doctoral dissertation, AllannBrownfeld on Pat Buchanan and his critics, andnJ.O. Tate on the correspondence of AndrewnLytle,...

movie T^elig, and that, I am convinced,nis what unhinged her. “Eighty poundsnof pepper,” the headline read. She’dnprided herself on the fact that they’dnhad to do only two takes. Playing thenmother of the psychiatrist who curesnZelig of his chameleon tendencies,nNoni played a part for which she wasntypecast. Her hair marcelled into stickyn1920 waves, she glared out...

transactionnNew and Recent Books on Family and PolicynThenSwedishnExperimentnin FamilynPolitiesnIHE MYR0AL5 AMDnTHE” INTERWARnPOPULATION CRISISnAllannCarlsonnThe,. .npoliticsnHumannNaturenThomas FlemingnPajnilynQuestiorLSn^mnReflections on thenAmerican Social CrisisnAllan C. CarlsonnTHE SWEDISH EXPERIMENT INnFAMILY POLITICSnTHE MYRDALS AND THE INTERWAR POPULATION CRISISnAllan CarlsonnThis devastating account of the work of Gunnar and Alva Myrdai portraysnhow two young scholars used the power of ideas to help engineer a...

”Informed, Entertaining, and Ruthless”nThe monthly Rothbard-Rockwell Report, edited b); Murray N. RothbardandUeweUynH. RockweU,Jr.,nis so entertaining you’ll read it standing up at the mailbox. And so hot you’ll want to wear asbestos gloves.nThe RRR covers politics, economics, movies, sports, everything, from a radically anti-state, culturally ultra-conservative viewpoint.nNo wonder all the bad guys, from neo-conservatives to left-libertarians,...

EDITORnThomas FlemingnASSOCIATE EDITORnTheodore FappasnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSnChilton Williamson, ]r.nEDITORIAL ASSISTANTnEmily Grant AdamsnART DIRECTORnAnna Mycek-WodeckinCONTRIBUTING EDITORSnJohn W. Aldridge, Harold O.].nBrown, Katherine Dalton, SamuelnFrancis, George Garrett, Russell Kirk,nE. Christian Kopff, Clyde WilsonnCORRESPONDING EDITORSnJanet Scott Barlow, Odie Faulk,nJane Greer, John Shelton ReednEDITORIAL SECRETARYnLeann DobbsnPUBLISHERnAllan C. CarlsonnPUBLICATION DIRECTORnGuy C. ReffettnCOMPOSITION MANAGERnAnita FedoranCIRCULATION MANAGERnRochelle FranknA publication of The Rockford Institute.nEditorial and...

Semite, he finds the sentiments expressednby Mr. Sobran “indefensible,”nand also “finds it impossible to defendnPat Buchanan against the charge thatnwhat he did and said during the periodnunder examination amounted to anti-nSemitism, whatever it was that drovenhim to say and do it.”nIt would be unproductive to retreadnthe road by which Mr. Buckley and annumber of others...

ITALIAN POLITICS get more “interesting”nevery day. FraneesconCossiga, the head of state, is continuingnefforts to convert his largely ceremonialnposition into something like thenbenign dictatorship of Charles denGaulle. His most risky stunt so far wasnto order the junior officers at a carabinierinstation to go on alert last November.nActually, he only advised them,nbut the mes.sage was clear: Cossiga...

female.”nIn the play various women fromndifferent stages of history speak achinglynof the need for the Goddess. Rachel,nwife of Jacob (“As in Abraham, Isaacnand . . .” Pearson explains) is made tonmouth the contemporary feminist partynline: she remembers the benevolentnera of the Goddess and the brutal,nmonotheist patriarchs who deposed then”Mother.” This memory, we are told,nexplains Rachel’s...

point: “If it had happened to a heterosexualnwoman who had been with 100nor 200 men, they’d call her a whorenand a slut, and the corporations wouldndrop her like a lead balloon. And she’dnnever get a job in her life.” MissnNavratilova, a lesbian, added: “I don’tnhave one damn endorsement outsidenof rackets and shoes.” Conclusionnfrom Madison Avenue:...

deeds. For today’s would-be heroes, it’sngrab your “cap” and carpe diem. Or, asnstated in Magic’s old Nike commercials,n”Just do it!”n— Theodore PappasnPUBLISHERS WEEKLY (PublishersnWeakly in my book), though it isnone of the most depressing magazinesnin America, obviously considers itself ansprightly, thoughtful, and somewhatn”irreverent” publication, gifted withnthe insight to see that the emperor hasnno clothes on...

supply,” Baker writes, “the textbooksnand reading materials most of [thenschools] use; it is. very much in ourninterest, as business people as well asncitizens, to want to see an educatednpopulace that can read and enjoynbooks.” What cant. A glance at the restnof the issue suggests PW’s idea ofn”reading,” of “books,” and of thennature of literary enjoyment....

Name-nCitynTHE YEAR IN REVIEWnSecessions—January 1991—Tomislav Sunic on globalismnand the right of self-determination. Bill Kauffmannon why Upstate should secede from New York City,nand Thomas Fleming on Italy’s example of unitynthrough division. Plus Theodore Pappas on MartinnLuther King, Jr.’s doctoral dissertation, AllannBrownfeld on Pat Buchanan and his critics, andnJ.O. Tate on the correspondence of AndrewnLytle, Allen Tate,...

The Middle-Class MomentnWith a whoop and a holler, politiciansnhave suddenly discovered that there’s anwild animal called the American middlenclass prowling around, the votingnbooths, and officeholders are poundingndown the stairs to make sure the roughnbeast does no damage once it gets insidenthe house. Almost every issue that hasnemerged in national politics in the lastnyear—term limits and...

the social system. It staffed thenexecutive offices of thenburgeoning industrial machine,nit supplied the majority ofnoffice-holders in national, state,nand to a lesser extent cityngovernments, it created the artnand literature of the time, andnperhaps most important, it setnthe style which those whonhoped to rise must follow. In ancertain sense this Victoriannmiddle class would — for thenmoment —...

PERSPECTIVEnMarriage — the Real Right to PrivacynThe 150-year-old crusade for women’s rights in Americanhas, in the different phases of its history, devoted itsnenergies to diverse causes. In the decades before and afternthe War Between the States, the principal cause was thenright of married women to control their own property. Innthe early 20th century, the cause...

impossible. If a serious woman has freely married a seriousnman, lived with him, born him children, what legal formulancan undo such an experience? That there are exceptions tonthis description of marriage, no one doubts; and they havenfurnished plots for plays and novels through the ages:nunconsummated unions, incestuous unions, marriagesnmade under compulsion.nThe ancient Jews recognized various...

who puts her husband through professional school, sacrificingnher own educational ambitions, and bears severalnchildren, only to find herself abandoned in favor of a trophynwife, once her husband has a well-established career. Innresponding to the uncertain market situation presented bynno-fault divorces, a spouse may choose to “invest less in thisnmarriage or in being married,” as Lloyd...

these extra-familial services are only available; they are notnmandatory.nIt is still possible to educate one’s children at home or innprivate schools. Such things are difficult and expensive,nbecause families are required to pay taxes to supportngovernment schools; the choice is, however, open to mostnpeople, and in a period of marked decline in the quality of allnschools,...

customers.)nExcept for their human and female credibility, nothingnabout the movie women I loved in my adolescence — notnthe way they talked, looked, dressed, or lived — remindednme much of the women in my own life. That is, it was notnnecessary to identify with them in order to understand them.nThose women, and their movies, were for...

over-analyzed, it would be nice to believe her—but I don’t.nThe “idiots” in this film aren’t idiots, they’re slime. Andnthey’re unmistakably male slime.) Through a series ofnliterally incredible decisions — how many women do younknow who, after experiencing sexual assault and witnessingnmurder, would plead to pick up a male hitchhiker? —nThelma and Louise find themselves in...

(Mrs. Oscar Williams)—all little read today — reached anconsiderable public and surely inspired many an imitativensonnet penned by sensitive teenage girls in the hinterlandsn— Anne Sexton was one of them — whose only exposure tonserious poetry came through popular magazines and anthologiesnedited by those two poedc Barnums, Williams andnLouis Untermeyer. Read today, however, they seem...

Plath, living in England with only one volume of poetry andna pseudonymous novel published during her life, had barelynbegun to reach her public when she killed herself at 30,nwhereas Sexton, with major prizes, honorary degrees, andnseven volumes of verse published by the time of her death,ntasted about as much celebrity as America is likely to...

literary biographer has ever made use of intimate medicalninformation in this way, but it seems doubtful that Sextonnwould have wished it suppressed, or at least that is the viewnof her daughter Linda Gray Sexton, who is also her literarynexecutor. Since Sexton originally saw her poetry as annextension of her therapy sessions and never, to my...

Iam so deathly afraid of those women.nStrawberry pie again, Eleanor, how nice. Pity it didn’tnset.nEvery Fourth of July I vow not to, but sooner or later I sitndown and cry. I used to cry the minute Philo came in thenkitchen with the strawberries; he would start to hull them,nthinking it was the work I was...

into the water and jump in after it. Oh look everybody, it’snEleanor, and she’s brought the strawberry pie.n”Poor Philo, if he hadn’t married Eleanor.”nThey think I don’t hear them. They think it’s my faultnPhilo is so feeble. They think he should have marriednsomebody big and strong, that knew how to take care ofnthings — as...

The next year we went to my family for the Fourth ofnJuly. I saw to it; I made Philo explain to his folks, he wasnsweet about it but the kids had fits when they found out;nthey whined the entire way. When we got there the housenseemed too small and there wasn’t enough food because mynmother...