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MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, thennovelist, and historian John Lukacs arenthe recipients of the 1991 IngersollnPrizes. Llosa will receive the T.S. EliotnAward for Creative Writing; andnLukacs, the Richard M. Weaver Awardnfor Scholarly Letters. The awards, eachnof which carries a cash prize ofn$20,000, acknowledge writers of abidingnimportance whose works affirm thenfundamental principles of Western civilization.nVargas Llosa was born...

and the management of the “globalneconomy” and the “global environment”nare two of the most commonnsuch formulas, though periodically thenapologists for globalism also invent newn”threats” of one kind or another tonwhich we must dedicate ourselves tonresisting and fighting.nYet all of these new globalist ideologiesnring hollow, and none has so farnoffered any compelling reasons whynAmericans should continue...

classical republican ideal of a citizens’nmilitia. Foreign aggressors should knownthat in order to invade the UnitednStates, they will have to cut their waynthrough the streets.n(4) There must be a clear recognitionnof congressional supremacy in foreignnaffairs, as opposed to the effectivenexecutive supremacy that post-Wilsoniannliberals and post-Reaganite conservativesnhave championed. Foreign policynis not different from any other publicnpolicy,...

Douglas Wilder made a splash in New Hampshire lastnAugust, when he devoted a pre-campaign speech tonthe theme of putting America first. “We cannot focus all ournenergies on the international arena at the expense ofnAmerica’s finances and economic health.” Denying he is annisolationist, Wilder asked, “If jobs are going to be found,nwhy not for Americans? If...

to worry more about their bread, their schools, theirnhighways, and their personal safety. Personally, I doubt it. Ifnan American man can no longer earn an income sufficientnto support a family, he can always send his wife out to work,nand if she loses her job, there is always the government tonturn to. Most of the country...

And our leaders make orations. This is the peoplenthat hopes to impose on the whole planetary worldnan American peace.nIt is an interesting fact that almost all the best Americannpoets of the time — Pound, Eliot, Frost, Stevens, andnJeffers — despised FDR. In this sentiment they were joined,ngenerally, by many of the best and brightest in...

THE WRONG WAY TO REDUCE CAMPUS TENSIONSnA STATEMENT OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARSnTht acadtmie eommunity is alarmed by reports ofinlergroup tension at many colleges, including those longncommitted to equal <^poriunity. Vr^fortunately, educators have failed to reassess some recent policies andnpractices that, far from promoting tolerance and fairness, are undermining them. Worse yet, many have...

Council for the Prevention of War. Founded in 1921 bynQuaker educator Frederick J. Libby as a clearinghouse forndisarmament efforts, the NCPW served as an umbrellanorganization for a host of leading religious and peace groupsnthat ranged from the National League of Women Voters tonthe Veterans of Foreign Wars. It reached the peak of itsninfluence in the...

Scripps-Howard columnist and leading advocate of airnpower; investor Sterling Morton, long a staunch conservative;nand advertising executive Chester Bowles, later one ofnthe more idealistic of President Kennedy’s New Frontiersmen.nLiberal columnist John T. Flynn, who had longnwritten a financial column for the New Republic, directednthe New York Chapter, a particularly activist unit holdingnrallies on city street corners....

On one level, the America First was a failure. Congressnpassed every bill the committee opposed, and publicnopinion polls seldom comforted the foes of intervention.nMore important, ultimately the United States entered WorldnWar II as a full-scale belligerent. America First, however, feltnno guilt over its stance. In its closing statement, the AFCnnational committee said, “Our principles were...

There were unsavory and disloyal members of the committee.nIts membership was extremely diverse, and its loose-knitnorganization made control over local chapters difficult. Anfew obscure individuals were convicted later for failure tonregister as foreign agents.nNonetheless, after studying America First and its membershipnthoroughly over the course of more than threendecades, I am increasingly impressed by how clean...

variables had been turned around, the balance betweenngains from American entry into the war versus costs andnlosses could have been altered radically. We still might havenbeen able to look back on victory with pride. But conceivablynwe would be doing so from a more deeply woundednAmerica in a less triumphant Western civilization than wenknow on this...

We thought it might have been a Washington Post reporter,nwho in the middle of an earlier night had examined thenWashington chapter’s trash and had written a defamatorynstory.nThe “Did You Know?” papers went regularly to approximatelyn35 Senators, 250 Congressmen, and 700neditors, writers, and columnists. Hardly a Congressionalndebate went by in which we did not find fruits...

annuities, and home-ownership (the suburban homeownernas the yeoman). In addition, the New Deal experience hadnwarned them about the evils of central control. They begannto see the homeowner and the consumer as the foundationnof modern society, and government legislation, regulation,nand bureaucracy as threats. It was not difficult for them tonsee that internationalist foreign policy, especially foreignnmilitary...

had seriously damaged British-Americannrelations by January 1940 — ifnRoosevelt in return would agree tonkeep this deal a secret from othernneutral nations and agree not to carryncargo that Britain considered contraband.nOn May 20, 1940, after months ofninvestigation, Tyler Kent was arrestednby Captain Maxwell Knight, head ofnthe British Security Service. Nearlyntwo thousand embassy documentsnwere found in his...

tive are substantiated. Moscow, fornKent, “must have been a great culturenshock, and the prospect of a stay of sixnyears quite daunting.” ConcerningnKent’s penchant for copying documents,n”Partly, no doubt, it was for hisnown satisfaction, like that of any collectornof stamps or books or paintings. Itnmust also have been partly to nourishnhis need to possess secret knowledgenand...

From the Family of the Lionnby M.E. Bradfordn’There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the tastesnas well as the fortunes of the world.”n— La RochefoucauldnAbraham Lincoln and the SecondnAmerican Revolutionnhy James M. McPhersonnNew York: Oxford University Press;n192 pp., $17.95nThere is a popular myth of AbrahamnLincoln, our 16th President,nthat...

tion.” Which, in both cases, is what Inhave argued all the time.nHowever, there is one big diflFerencenbetween McPherson’s Lincoln andnwhat the record should lead us tonconclude. For McPherson believes thatnall of this refounding by policy, construction,ndemagogy, and force of armsnwas wonderful to behold, pointing towardna “more perfect Union” thanneven James Madison could have imagined.nIn other...

ness: the actors in our contemporarynshort stories and novels, bastard offspringnof Raymond Carver’s deconstructionnof Chekhov, are as unthinkingnand uninteresting as the bulk of humankind.nFrom the days of Don Quixote untilnvery recently, the fabulist’s stock hadnbeen to place extraordinary charactersnin ordinary circumstances, or, evennbetter, to place ordinary characters innsituations that require ennobling — ornat least unusual...

Letter From thenLower Rightnby John Shelton ReednSpace Invaders:nPartinAs Americans continue their flight tonthe South from the regions that they’venalready ruined, I continue to monitornthe low-intensity conflict between Yankeensettlers and Southern natives. Thisnpublic service is needed, I think, becausenwe just don’t know much aboutnwhat’s going on. Foundations and governmentnagencies tended to see Southernnmigration to the north...

tolerance for delay. For the first fewnmonths, I would want to help waitressesntake my food to the table. I mean,nI’d try to make people’s lips move anlittle faster.”nI know what he’s talking about. Inwell remember when I was a graduatenstudent, in the 1960’s, waiting forntake-out coffee at the 116th Street andnBroadway Chock Full O’ Nuts....

troops in the “Middle West.” Listeningnto Marge Schott talk is like openingna package you suspect might be a gagngift: the possibilities for surprise — andntheir resultant effects — are endless.nWorst of all, Marge has tried thenpatience of Reds fans everywhere bynplopping a Reds cap on her adored (bynher) dog, an unpersonable and lethargicnSt. Bernard named...

caust is long ago. My students are thenthird generation past the war; theirngrandparents remember, their parentsndon’t. For another, Germany has utterlynrejected anti-Semitism. The only signsnof anti-Semitism these days are on thentoilet walls at the university, and evennhere, other anonymous voices covern”Juden raus” with “Nazi raus.”nThat does not mean Jews love Germans,nor Germans, Jews. High walls...

The Veterans ofnFuture Warsnby E. Christian KopffnIt was 1936 and the Depression stillnheld America in its grip. Few doubtednthat a new European war was coming,nand Japan and China had beennfighting in the East for years. MostnAmericans were opposed to participatingnin another futile European war.nThe President had begun his successfulncampaign for the White House in 1932nwith...

to Europe to visit the future battlefieldsnand cemeteries of their putative husbands.nIn addition, women of childbearingnage would receive a pension of fiftyndollars a month until the war came.nThe pension would continue for thosenwho lost their husbands, with a doublenpension for those whose spouses werendisabled. A woman who did not lose hernhusband would spend the years...

tapes are definitely hazardous to yournhealth.nOne of the purchasers of thenHealth-Line series is Switchboard ofnMiami, Inc., which describes itself asn”a private, non-profit, multi-servicenagency” serving South Florida “sincen1968” by ofiFering “a 24-hour telephonencrisis counseling, suicide prevention,ninformation and referral hotline,nas well as counseling andnprevention programs.” The centerpiecenof this switchboard “counseling”nis the University of Wisconsin-nMadison tapes, purchased in...

homosexuality, chances are itnwasn’t very accurate. There’s sonmuch misunderstanding aboutnthis minority group. Yes, that’snwhat it is — a non-ethnic,nnon-racial minority group.nMaybe you hear other kidsnusing words like queer, faggot,nor dyke. Or perhaps you’renafraid of your own sexualnfeelings. If these issues arentroubling you, we’re glad youncalled. . . .nFor some members of thenhuman race, the pull...

and CFR are funded by the RockefellernFoundation. Consider: the CED’snvice chairman of the board of trusteesnis CFR member John L. Clendenin,nchairman of the board and CEO ofnBellSouth Corporation. BellSouth advertisesnLink Line free of charge in itsnphone books and refuses to pull thenads. An official “advisor” to the CEDnis William Aramony, National Chairmannof United Way of...

Constitution, a complicated argumentncould be mounted. It could be arguednthat the Constitution of 1787 was notnborn de novo, but existed amidst ancultural consensus that involved a myriadnof traditional customs and everydaynassumptions, and that one they havenhad certain expectations of treatment,nor “rights” in that sense; that is, not thenFrench sense of “universal rights” butnthings that neighbors...

city, taken away to Marseille, andnturned out into a life of prostitution.nThat’s just the set-up, though. Thenreal business of the movie is her rescuenby Fernandel, playing an eady versionnof the honorable oaf that was to carrynhim through a long and illustriousncareer. He is a former foundling whonworks as a farmhand on her family’snfarm, and he...

red or royal partridges. The brace ofngame birds that Marcel retrieves is hisnfather’s glory, except that the real glorynis the father’s promotion from know-allndemigod (he is a teacher, after all, atnthe school young Marcel attends andncombines both parental and scholarlynauthority) to fallible and yet lovablenhuman being. These are issues of asnmuch subtlety as substance, and...

concrete like so many spray-dazed ants.nThey made no response, seemed obliviousnto me, if not to what I had done. Incommanded them a second time, withnno better luck. All I could do was standnthere and try to. think up something tonsay to Lieutenant Bingham that mightnmake some difference.nSo far, my experience with the Marinesnhad not been...

transactionnNew and Recent Books on Family and PolicynThenSwedishnExperimentnin FamilynPoliticsn? D A L S A f J Dn•J T E R V/ A RnION CRISISnAllannCarlsonnThe,. .npoliticsnHumannfsjaturenThomas FlemingnEsunilynQugstoonsn^ HnReflections on thenAmerican Social CrisisnAllan C. CarlsonnTHE SWEDISH EXPERIMENT INnFAMILY POLITICSnTHE MYRDALS AND THE INTERWAR POPULATION CRISISnAllan CarlsonnThis devastating account of ttie work of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal portraysnflow...

THE PERFECTnHOLIDAYnGIFTnlimitited number availablenCrackling entertainment.. .references to thenChandler family are scarcely veiled. ^ …ninformative and spellbinding. 2 … As much funnas a highminded gossip column.3 .. .if you likensaga stories, and newspapers, don’t miss this.”n.. .Outrageous metaphors.. .massive andnmemorable characters… simply good reading.^n.. .vituperative attack on the Los Angeles Timesnnewspaper and its founding family.. .an...

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that of the total depravity of humannnature. To equate this with a belief innthe impossibility of progress is mistaken.nThe only point the doctrine makesnagainst “works” is that they do not availntoward salvation. Good works are not,ntherefore, impossible. They becomeninevitable, indeed abundant, as thenoverflow of gratitude for a salvationnalready freely given to the believer bynthe grace...

THE BOTCHED COUP in thenSoviet Union should have been annoccasion for somber reflections. For anfew days it appeared that U.S. foreignnpolicy, built almost entirely around thenperson of Mikhail Gorbachev, mightnbe in ruins. The failure of the plot,nwhile it has temporarily restored Mr.nGorbachev’s fortunes, could not disguisenthe pitiable condidon into whichna great empire had fallen. Here...

quire: do these clinics really deservenfederal funds?nFor starters, the full-page newspapernads and expensive, five-color fundraisingnletter distributed by the chief recipientnof these funds, the Planned ParenthoodnFederation, might tempt thenaverage taxpayer to just say no. Withoutna doubt, tax dollars have freednmillions of private dollars raised by thisnspecial interest group (using its taxdeductiblenstatus, another subsidy) fornslick marketing campaigns...

dollars than were the defense contractorsnwho sold Uncle Sam those exorbitantlynpriced toilet seats in the 1980’s.n—Anne Marie MorgannGUNS AND RAPE are often deplorednin the public prints as two of ournnation’s worst plagues. One may be thencure for the other. Denver, for instance,nis at the mercy of a serial rapist.nIt is increasingly clear that the police,...

institutionalize the mentally ill for thenbenefit of all New Yorkers, includingnthe homeless, the ACLU declared ancivil right to live on busy thoroughfares.nOne of Koch’s “captives,” an obviouslynderanged woman, was even invitednto lecture at Harvard, while others gaventhe woman a job and a new set ofnclothes, all apparently to show thatnwhat the homeless merely needed werena...

had the misfortune to be a militaryngenius as well as a good composer andnpassable writer of French prose. Andnsince Hitler extolled his military abilitiesn(though not his nationalism), Fredericknmust surely have been a proto-nNazi. The reasoning is open to question,nbut recurs with regularity, especiallynin tasteless reports about Frederick’snbones being dragged from anWest German castle (where his...

and American Express could gain thengood will of working with civil rightsngroups and the opportunity to addressntheir interests in the bill. Public relationsnis important to consumer-drivennbusinesses such as AT&T, which inn1989 was threatened with a boycottnduring labor talks.”nBig Business, furthermore, is alsongetting dressed for the day when whitesnwill be a minority in the United States,nand,...

PERSPECTIVEnWestern Is as Western Doesn* ^ “P eople first, place second,” William Faulkner wrote;nJ. while Ford Madox Ford — whose last book was ThenMarch of Literature, described by its author as a survey ofnworld literature from Confucius to Conrad—believed thatngreat writing transcended not only national and culturalnboundaries but those of time itself. There is, nevertheless,ndescribably...

frontier) can be exploited for ideological purposes. Aboutnten years ago, I read a statement by John Updike to theneifect that, for the sake of his art, every serious writer shouldnreside in the Northeast, since no other part of the UnitednStates offers him the material from which to create masterpieces.nThere, in a nutshell, I am afraid,...

VIEWSnThe Garden of Alejandra RuiznIt was April and beginning to warm up in the mountains.nSnow melted from the deep basins, especially from thenexposures facing south and, in shrinking, formed pictures onnthe slopes — a snow hawk, a pack of running coyotes, annantelope. Alejandra Ruiz knew these animals would disappearnas the sun slid into its higher...

hip bothered her, but if she held the hoe at a precise anglenand leaned on it with just the right pressure, the painndissipated. She was a slight woman, but work had given hernstamina, and there was no hurry. There would be anothernfrost before planting.nThat afternoon, when they got home from school, thenneighbor children came down...

Ruiz,” he said without looking at her.nAleja came inside, away from the door, into the cooler air.nThe room brightened. Juniper smoke from the leakynwoodstove hovered under the roof. She smelled grease.n”What can I do for you?” Ernesto asked.n”There is a stone in my garden,” Aleja said.n”There are stones in my garden, too,” Ernesto said,npeering into...

rock in white. A pile of earth — topsoil, gravel, clay,npebbles — lay in the middle of the garden stubble.nErnesto wheeled the tools to the spot and considered thenjob. After a time he said, “I advise you, Alejandra Ruiz, toncover this stone and plant around it.”n”You don’t think you can get it out?”n”I can get...

“I may not have enough chain,” said Raul Gadin.n”This is a stone that wasn’t here before,” Ernesto said. “Ifnwe loosen it a little, we can dig it out.”nErnesto set about fixing the chain around the stone, whilenRaul steered the tractor into the position he decided wasnbest. Ernesto looped the chain twice around the girth of...

garden there would not be enough earth in Chimayo to fillnthe hole.nBut she said nothing. Instead what struck her was hownbeautiful the stone was, cleaned by the rain of the bits of dirtnand gravel. Its shape was graceful, elegant. In the morningnsunlight it shone whitish pink, and the mica in it glitterednsilver.n”Sefior Montoya thinks it...