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GATB-like “ethnic conversion table”nwith its widely used personnel test.nThe Illinois-based testing company opposesnany move to prohibit race-norming.nPragmatism is one thing, but corporatenpersonnel offices also have adoptednthe doubletalk of the bureaucracy.nPanning any use of test results thatnhave not been race-normed, an officialnof Campbell Soup Company ofnOmaha opposed suspension of racenormingnbecause he did not believenthe Labor Department...

Their ideal of the bureaucratic state asnthe agent of human progress and enlightenmentnreceived its rationale innthe writings of the Webbs, BernardnShaw, and H.G. Wells, all of whomnpreached varieties of that secular religionnknown as scientism, whichnamounts to the naive belief that man’snbehavior can be modified and improvednby scientific design, just asnnature has been similarly modified andnmade...

even while deploring large-scale capitalism,nnot admire small-scale capitalismnand call it such? Because to call thensmall businessmen, craftsmen, andnfarmers of their day capitalist would, innthe distributist’s view, be very misleading.nIt would be to tar such people withnthe predatory attributes that both modernneconomic developments and modernneconomic theories have made thendefining features of capitalism. Distributistsnwished to dissociate themselvesnnot...

has termed “active citizenship.” Passivencitizenship is the product of thenservile state, active of the proprietarynstate. Belloc did not underestimate thendiflBculties of moving from the one tonthe other: “We are attempting a radicalnchange. We are attempting a reactionarynrevolution.”nIan Crowther is the literary editor fornthe Salisbury Review in London.ni Endangered Speciesnby David R. SlavittnBilly BathgatenProduced by Arlene...

sure of details of his complicated empirenand, without any particularnthought, takes one of the cupcakes,nwhich are his favorite kind. The kid isnsafe. It’s so contrived and old-fashionednas to be sweet, and that sweetness is justnwhat Stoppard and Benton are aimingnfor. Schultz’s business manager, OttonBerman (Steven Hill, the rumpled oldncharacter actor who is brilliant here),nlooks up,...

lUD^GnmnINSTITUTEnFacultynMurray N. RothbardnUniversity of Nevada, Las VegasnRobert BatemarconMarymount CollegenWalter BlocknHoly Cross CollegenRoy E. CordatonJohns Hopkins University; IRETnThomas DiLorenzonUniversity of Tennessee, ChattanooganRoger GarrisonnAuburn UniversitynDavid GordonnLudwig von Mises InstitutenJeffrey HerbenernWashington & Jefferson CollegenRobert HiggsnSeattle UniversitynHans-Hermann HoppenUniversity of Nevada, Las VegasnYuri N. MaltsevnCarthage CollegenLlewellyn H. RockwellnLudwig von Mises InstitutenJoseph SalernonPace UniversitynMark ThorntonnAuburn Universityn66nIn my classes at Harvard, the...

If you like Pat Buchanan,nyou’D love bis new book.nEnjoy it —FREEnPat Buchanan grew up in strange times. Mothers stayednhome to raise the children, and no Phil Donahue puttingnsick ideas into their heads. Big Govemmenfmeant the fedsnwere spending $35.billion. Even the liberals.wanted a strongnAmerica. . , •nSo if some of Buchanan’s NEW ideas startle you, this...

EDITORnThomas FlemingnASSOCIATE EDITORnTheodore PappasnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSnChilton Williamson, Jr.nEDITORIAL ASSISTANTnEmily Grant AdamsnART DIRECTORnAnna Mycek-WodeckinCONTRIBUTING EDITORSnJohn W. Aldridge, Harold O.J.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...

WHEN CLARENCE THOMAS,nour newest Supreme Court Justice,nasked to be sworn in a week before thenofficial ceremony, so he could go onnthe payroll early, it summed up thenwhole affair for me. Why are conservativesncheering his ascent to the judicialnoligarchy? Yes, it’s fun to beat liberalnsenators, but not with a virtual ringernfor one of their guys. Here...

Law School classmates claimed thatnanimals had always interested thenjudge. In the mornings at New Haven,nthey said, he would deliver an impromptuncolloquium on last night’snflick (and Flicka). Thomas refused tonanswer questions about his alleged interestnin pornography, and the senatorsn— caught between the Scylla and Charybdisnof the feminists and the blacksn— didn’t dare ask. Newsweek, however,nreported that...

‘N’ Roses at a Tom Harkin rally, butnthe musical tastes of faux populistsnhave certainly improved since the Wallacencampaign of 1948. Harkin’s presidentialncampaign theme song is BrucenSpringsteen’s “Born in the USA,” innwhich a jobless, womanless Vietnamnvet finds himself with “nowhere to run,nI got nowhere to go.” Senator Harkin,nhappily, can run to a partnership withnAkin, Gump should...

Americans have learned what the mediancall one of the “major lessons of thenGulf War”: that women can performnin the military every bit as well as men.nThe problem with restricting womennfrom combat, we are told, is that itnunfairly hinders their ability to ascendnthe. military career ladder. Concernsnfor national defense, the needs ofnyoung children, or the protection...

denominations, many of them scandalizednover anti-Christian NCC activitiesnbankrolled by their donations. Thenarchbishop, who has a name for practicalitynand who would not at all like tonsee a similar hemorrhaging of his (relatively)nconservative communicants,nhas, to put it crudely, acted to protectnhis turf This, no doubt, was part of hisnmotivation, and was certainly goodnreason for his actions. Nevertheless,nthere...

Nineteen ninety-one was the year of revolutions, thengreatest, perhaps, since 1848. Many who observed thenevents from safe seats on this side of the Atlantic must havenrecalled Churchill’s great Fulton speech, in which hendescribed the “Iron Curtain” that had “descended acrossnthe continent,” cutting off “all the capitals of the ancientnstates of Central and Eastern Europe,” from...

Common Law or a free press; neither individual dignity nornthe principle of habeas corpus are the specters hauntingnEurope, but greed and self-indulgence. It is our vices — ourndepravities and addictions — that we are exporting, not thenvirtues of our way of life.nThis is in fact the triumph of what we call democracy overnwhat they called...

natural instincts, put himself solidly behind the views ofnLocke and Helvetius: human beings enter the world asnmalleable clay that is molded by custom and circumstance.nUnlike Helvetius, Dewey realized that nature and customnwere formidable obstacles. To overcome them would requirena wholesale reformation of social institutions. This would bendifficult, he argued, but far from impossible.nDewey’s argument boils...

the high divorce rate in the Western nations is hardlynsurprising.nOf course, there is the loser, who “can’t get no girlynaction.” This is the “kind of man who reads Playboy” andnchecks out the X-rated films from the Family Video Store.nTo be fair, even some of the Don Juans are addicted tonpornography. It helps to keep their...

New Deal — were permanent, and when the Germans lostnthe war and several New Deal agencies were abolished afternRoosevelt’s death, Burnham’s critics seized upon thesendevelopments to argue that his prophecies and analysis hadnbeen discredited. Finally, Burnham wrote in an aggressive,nnot to say brutal, style that was often too dismissive of criticsnand alternative social theories, and...

dominate owners and stockholders but also to the wholensocial, political, and cultural revolution that he predictednwould ensue from managerial rule.nBurnham interpreted the events of the 1930’s in terms ofnthis theory. Contrary to what Trotsky maintained until hisndeath, Stalinist Russia was not a “workers’ state” that wasntemporarily deformed by Stalin’s dictatorship but was a fullyndeveloped managerial...

individualist ideas and belief patterns of premanagerialnsociety have been all but forgotten or have been convenientlynreinterpreted to suit the new social, political, and economicnrealities. Regardless of Burnham’s errors, then, it ought tonbe obvious that he was essentially correct in the substance ofnhis prophecies.nIt is possible, of course, to argue that Burnham’s analysisn— his explanahon of...

Among the social and political phenomena for which thentheory of the managerial revolution offers a unifiednconceptual explanation is the conflict between left and rightnin the United States since the New Deal era. Until recently,nthe mainstream of American conservatism has been closelynlinked with the defense of premanagerial (mainly bourgeois)ninstitutions and belief-patterns and with resistance to managerialnpolitical,...

when the Soviet grain harvest exceeded two hundrednmillion tons. The year Stalin developed the atom bomb thenSoviet grain harvest was less than fifty million tons.nYet instead of looking at the reality of totalitarianism, withnits historic chasm between the burgeoning military-industrialnand destitute civilian spheres, the West’s Sovietologists andnthe decision-making establishment as a whole chose to looknat...

deputies, such as KGB’s Leonid Shebarshin, to ensure thatnthe apparatus of power would be decapitated yet capable ofnhandling the consequences of the provocation? In short, wasnthe reorganization of this apparatus, to be achieved by theneventual amalgamation of the internal security structuresnwith the armed forces, the underlying aim of Gorbachev’sncoup?nSo long as Gorbachev remains in direct...

Katmandu became an elegant way of wallowing in newnpolitical romanticism. This vicarious type of meta-nationalismncontinued to play a role of psychological repository fornthe dormant and domesticated Europeans who needed timento heal wounds and wait for yet another renaissance.nHas this renaissance already occurred? The liberal parenthesisnthat lasted for 45 years, and which received its majornboost after...

quences, each other’s national aspirations. It is no smallnwonder that in the German and Slavic political vocabularynthe concept of federalism and democracy will acquire anradically different meaning than in linguistically homogeneousnEngland, France, or America.nBy ostensibly putting aside its racist past, yetnby pushing its universalist message to thenextreme, the West paradoxically shows that itnis no less...

chy, despite its shortcomings, was a stable society, proven bynits five hundred years of existence. During the First andnSecond Reich, principalities, towns, and villages within thenbounds of the Austrian and Prussian lands had a largenamount of self-government that frequently made themnvulnerable to French, Swedish, and English imperial ambitions.nGerman Volksheit is an aristocratic as well as...

Spengler and Toynbee, who tend to think in centuries orneven longer periods, Sorokin breaks down his analysis ofnculture — mostly Mediterranean and European —into 20yearnperiods and provides data virtually year by year.nIn the immensely detailed four-volume work, Sorokinndiscusses, among many other things, the “Fluctuation ofnSystems of Truth.” One section is devoted to what he callsnthe...

His analysis of the crisis is broken down into severalnsections, beginning with the fine arts, and going on tontruth, ethics and law, and the contractual family (each ofnwhich has a number of subdivisions). Here is a citation fromnhis chapter “The Crisis of the Fine Arts”:nTo sum up, contemporary art [in 1941] is primarilyna museum of...

Going to Groundnby David R. SlavittnA green world, buzzing, benignnin hidden glen or hushed gladenwhere the sun’s rays dance on motesnswimming in air like midges, magic,nand, surely, the sound of running waternenlivens the place, an Eden or evennbetter, our best dream — its serpentsnare penises laughing girls have tamednas amusing pets. There’s no such place,nbut...

not a work of scholarship but of imaginativenintellectual synthesis that in betternand less frivolous times would havenbeen published by a sober trade house.nIts thesis, stated succinctly by the author,nis straightforward. “In context,nideas of wilderness (Paleolithic, ancient,nmodern, and postmodern) appearnas historically inevitable. If thenhypothesis that the idea of wilderness isnlinked with the developing character ofnhuman existence...

by evolutionary process. God, by definition,ncan do anything He pleases, asnBlaise Pascal pointed out three centuriesnago. In Matthew 13:31-32, Christngives us the parable of the mustardnseed: “The Kingdom of Heaven is likena mustard seed which a man took andnsowed in his field. It is the smallest ofnall seeds, but when it has grown it is...

pious wish or a cynical farewell.nThe ambiguity of the greetingncorresponded to the ironynimplicit in the view to the west.n. . . meaning New York City in all itsnaffluence. The rubble of the tenementsnin the foreground, set against that “resplendent”nmetropolis glittering in thendistance, leads him in the course of hisnessay to resolve the subtle ambiguitynwith the...

Letter From CapenBreton Islandnby Jigs GardnernThe New UtopiansnPicture the scene: I am shoveling shav- •nings into the team wagon, stooping overnin my patched overalls and faded flannelnshirt to scrape the barn floor clean, nownand then climbing into the wagon tontread down the mounting heap. Thenyoung man who owns the new barn,nthe new tractor, the new...

requires a mastery of technical detailnalmost unimaginable forty years ago.nAs a liberal arts education has becomenever more nebulous, forestry (or agriculturenor mining, or any of a numbernof subjects) studies have become morentechnical, complex, and rigorous. It isnnot surprising, then, that environmentalistsnshould have very simplemindednnotions about how to manage endeavorsnlike forestry, nor is it remarkablenthat middle-class...

growing substantially since 1920. Wenare not running out of wood at all.nThat’s the essence of Greenism: absurdn”solutions” for nonexistent problems.nGlobal warming, greenhouse effect,nozone layer depletion — they’renall frauds.nGreenism is, in fact, the latest manifestationnof a Utopian, Manichaeannworld view fueled by hatred of modernnbourgeois Western civilization. Unablento muster the maturity to recognize thenimpersonal forces of change,...

each other, but that’s about all,” a kidnfrom Illinois told the paper. “It’s a verynsuperficial friendliness.”nSome northerners who have figurednthis out like it anyway. A graduate artnstudent from Boston observed thatnSoutherners’ greater friendlinessn”works two ways.” “Some of them arenfriendly,” he said, “and some of themnare but really aren’t. It’s just sort of anpoliteness.” But, he...

Scouting and Sinnby William GriggnThe Case Against thenBoy ScoutsnThe Boy Scouts of America havenrecently been accused of sinsnagainst Democracy, in the form ofndiscrimination against atheists, homosexuals,nand women. Four recent lawsuitsnhave challenged the organizationalnprerogatives of the Scouts. The familiesnof nine-year-old twins Michael andnWilliam Randall of Anaheim, California,nand eight-year-old Mark Welsh ofnChicago are suing to get their...

the Scouts more “inclusive” has takennhold among the “chattering classes.”nThe United Way of America representsna second vulnerability to thenScouts. Donations from the UnitednWay constitute approximately 25 percentnof the organization’s annual budget.nThe United Way advises its localnchapters not to contribute to organizationsnthat discriminate on the basis ofnrace, color, creed, sex, or nationalnorigin. The United Way chapter...

sideration is this: although “not all”nhomosexuals are predatory, the BoynScouts cannot afford to play sodomynroulette.nOver the past five years the Scouts,nwho receive annual revenues of aboutnninety million dollars, have been orderednto pay approximately fifteen millionndollars in damages resulting fromnsexual abuse complaints. About sixtyncases of abuse are reported each year,nin spite of the rigorous screening tonwhich...

readiness, sexuality, and “critical”nitems. (The last item is a compendiumnof the “best” questions flushed out ofnall the categories — and a low score innthis section is considered a dire foreshadowing.)nHere is a sampling of the inventorynstatements and questions to which thencouple is traditionally asked to respondn”agree,” “disagree,” or “somewhat”:nI am uncomfortable when I amnaround some...

patibility. “I was surprised andnstunned,” said one bride-to-be who ultimatelynwas not. “When we took thentests, I never anticipated what wouldnhappen. About a week after my fiancenand I took the tests, the priest brought innour scores. Based on our scores, henrefiised to marry us. We had alreadynmade wedding plans, and we callednthem off because we didn’t...

Walking through the dirty streets,ncrowded with poorly dressed womennand children and smelling of frying oil,nshe found it inconceivable that thisngreat writer could have been expellednfrom his position as rector of the historicnSpanish university at Salamanca,nbecause of his opposition to AlfonsonXIII and his prime minister, Primo denRivera. Unamuno loved Spain as anpatriot, a champion of personal...

renew their ideas, to burn those ideasninto their souls, to spiritualize them —nthat is what I would do, what I amntrying to do even here in Hendaye,”nsaid the author of El sentimiento trdgiconde la vida.n”Utopia?” my aunt murmured.n”Yes! Utopia!” he said emphatically.n”We need Utopias and Utopians.nThey are the salt of the spirit.”nHe was quiet for...

The original McGuffey’snReaders were different.nThey were ChristiannNow they’re available againncffter 150 years. You can get thenfull set here and SAVE $75nRev. William McGuffey publisiied his legendary Readers in the 1830s.nLater editions, from 1857 on, were revised without his approval, and expurgatednmost references to religion. They were still excellent texts, butnno longer Christian texts.nNow a Christian...

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EDITORnThomas FlemingnASSOCIATE EDITORnTheodore PappasnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSnChilton Williamson, ]r.nEDITORIAL ASSISTANTnEmily Grant AdamsnART DIRECTORnAnna Mycek-WodeckinCONTRIBUTING EDITORSnJohn W. Aldridge, Harold O.J.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...

IJWEDEN experienced an unexpectedneruption of right-wing populismnthis autumn. While news accountsnfocused on the electoral defeatnof the ruling Social Democrats and thenvictory of a center-right coalition, thenbigger story was the success of two newnpolitical parties: one telling thenSwedes, “be good”; the other, “benhappy.”nThe left suffered across the board.nThe Social Democrats, who promisednto defend welfare state benefits,...

So Gaskins was resting for life in ournstate prison when he made the mistakenof killing another murderer. This individual,nRudolph Tyner, was also thenguest of the state, courtesy of thenSupreme Court, although he had coldbloodedlyngunned down an elderlyncouple in their country store. A relativenof Tyner’s victims (subsequently alsonsent to prison) hired Gaskins to carrynout the justice...

tor.nIn another case in our state, a youngnwoman (white) was kidnapped andnmurdered by three men (black) underncircumstances so heinous that thendeath penalty was handed down for thenringleader by a predominantly blacknjury. Again, within weeks the sentencenwas overturned by a judge on groundsnof a very minor technical violation innthe conduct of the trial. Many, manynsimilar instances...

“religious preference” notwithstanding.nWhen a German opinion survey indicatednthat 29 percent of those surveyednfelt that AIDS has at least had thenbenefit of curtailing excessive sexualnfreedom, and the minister of health ofnNorth Rhine Westphalia called theirnattitude “cynical and abhorrent,”nWiedemann regretted that the churchnhad not made a similar condemnationnof such reactionary and unloving attitudes.nWith most varieties of conduct...