The Truce Is Overrnby Clyde WilsonrnTTie Long Truce: How TolerationrnMade the World Safe forrnPower and Profitrnby A.]. ConyersrnDallas: Spence Publishing Company;rn266 pp., $27.95rnToleration in public life, the agreementrnto disagree peaceably, is onernof the great achievements of Westernrnman. Toleration can sometimes bernfound in static societies, but in dynamicrnsocieties, it is rare—save for a few recentrncenturies of...

But such hiccups are more than compensatedrnfor by the wealth of good thingsrnthe volume contains. There are classicrnpieces by Michael Oakeshott (“ThernMasses in Representative Democracy”),rnMichael Polanyi (“The Eclipse ofrnThought”), and Cyril Darlington (“ThernImpact of Man Upon Nature”), and lessrnwell-known reprints that certainly meritrnresuscitation. A good example is PhiliprnRiefFs 1983 article on “The ImpossiblernCulture,” which uses...

books, such as Pius XII and the SecondrnWorld War by Pierre Blet, S.J., and ThernLast Three Popes and the jews by PinchasrnLapide. He has done Httle (if any) originalrnwork or real synthesis, and his book isrntoo hurriedly composed to be consideredrnscholarship. The Defamation of Pius Xllrnis similar in style to a fundamentalistrnChristian pamphlet, decrying in...

good-humored decency. For those seekingrnto understand the eontemporar)’ leftrnin all of its fanaticism. Commies is indispensable.rnMyles Kantor is editor of www. Free-rnEmigration.com and a columnist forrnFront Page Magazine. .rnHapless Mealsrnby Katherine DaltonrnFast Food Nation: The Dark Side ofrnthe All-American Mealrnby Eric SchlosserrnBoston: Houghton Mifflin Company;rn356 pp., $25.00rnAfew years ago, an old friend of myrnhusband watched...

REVIEWSrnDirty for Dirtyrnby Samuel Francisrn”Nothing is easier than to blame the dead.”rn-Julius CaesarrnAmerican Terrorist: Timothy McVeighrnand the Oklahoma City Bombingrnhv lx)it Michel and Dan HerheckrnNew York: ReganBooks;rn426 pp., $26.00rnIn the 1944 movie Thirt)’ Seconds OverrnTokyo, Spencer Tracy, playing Col.rnJimmy Doolittle, briefs his flyers beforernthcv take off to bomb tlieir Japanese targetsrnb’ telling them that the}’...

The ReluctantrnCandidaternby Alan MillerrnBefore the Storm: Barry Goldwaterrnand the Unmaking of thernAmerican Consensusrnby Rick PerhteinrnNew York: Hill and Wang Publishers:rn671 pp., $30.00rnAs a consenative undergraduate studentrnduring the early 1960’s, I spentrnmany a long night engaged in animatedrnpolitical argument with a close friendrnwhose supercharged Q was exceededrnonly hv his condescending manner. Thernfellow never Hred of reminding...

Democratic National Convention inrn1896.)rnIncidentally, my liberal Republicanrnfriend from college has become arnstaunch conservative. To paraphrase thernlament of Goldwater voters four decadesrnago, those 27 million Americans turnedrnout not to be wrong after all.rnAlan Miller is an editorial writer for thernSan Diego Union-Tribune.rnThe Lionrnand the Foxrnhy J.O. TaternJames Burnhamrnby Samuel FrancisrniMndon: Claridge Press;rn164pp.,$M.95rnT his second edition of...

Robert Nisbet what Samuel Francis didrnfor James Biirnham. In Nisbet’s case, thernneed for such an act of retrieval mayrnseem all the more remarkable, given thernacademic fame and publishing successesrnhe enjoxed during his life. The author ofrndistinguished books that sold well (includingrnThe Quest for Community (1952),rnThe Sociological TracUtion (1967), andrn’I’he Twihght of Authorit’ (1975)), AlbertrnSchweitzer Professor...

AmericanrnRenaissance ManrnbyBillCrokernAmerican Character: The Curious Lifernof Charles Fletcher Lummis and thernRediscovery of the Southwestrnby Mark ‘ThompsonrnNew York: Arcade Publishing;rn372 pp., $27.95rnCharles Fletcher Lummis was bornrnnear Bristol, New Hampshire, inrn1859 and received an extraordinar}’ educationrnat the feet of his father, HenryrnLummis, an erudite Methodist minister.rnThis homeschooling was so effectivernthat, by the time young Charlie got tornHarvard,...

OPINIONSrnNew England Against Americarnby Clyde Wilsonrn”The fiction of Mr. Simms gave indication, we repeat, of genius, and that of norncommon order. Had he been even a Yankee, this genius would have been renderedrnimmediately manifest to his countrymen, but unhappily (perhaps) he was arnSoutherner…. His book, therefore, depended entirely upon its own intrinsicrnvalue and resources, but...

The Final Solution of the Philological Problemrnby E. Christian KopfFrn’With him the love of country meansrnBlowing it all to smithereensrnAnd having it all made over new.”rn—Robert FrostrnPaul de Man’s life was “the classic immigrantrnstory” (according to JamesrnAtlas). He arrived in New York in 1948rnfrom his native Belgium and worked as arnclerk at the Doubleday bookstore...

From the Family of the Lionrnby M.E. Bradfordrn”There is a kind of revolution of so general a characterrnthat it changes the tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.”rn—La RochefoucauldrnThere is a popular myth of AbrahamrnLincohi, our 16th President, that isrnknown to most Americans. According tornthe orthodox version of this highly sympathehcrnconstruct, Lincoln was...

REVIEWSrnIrnOnan Agonistesrnby ].0. Tatern’ve been trying to fignre out whatrnsomebody could do with the thirtyrnbucks (plus tax) that they’re asking forrnHarold Brodkey’s word-processing product.rnMy copy was no bargain for free.rnYou could buy two pizzas and two sixpacksrnand have quite a party for that sum.rnYou could wire your sweetie pie a nicernbouquet by FfD. If movies...

Walker Percy (c) makes a point to Russell Kirk (I) andrnThomas Fleming.rnear time and history. By a “certain view of realit}'” I am speakingrnof the hnearity of history, the density of things and events,rnthe mystery and uniqueness of persons, a view that seems naturalrnto us but is in fact the cultural heritage of Judeo-Christianity.rnWliich is...

Orwell: Wintry Consciencenof a Generationnhy Jeffrey MeyersnNew York: W.W. Norton & Companv;n320 pp., $29.95nGeorge Orwell was born Eric ArthurnBlair in 1903 in Motihari, India,nwhere his father worked for the IndiannCivil Service as a sub-deputy opiumnagent in charge of manufacturing thennarcotic for transport to China. Hisnmother, the daughter of a French teaknmerchant and boatbuilder, had grown...

Reflections on a Disruptive Decade:nEssays From the Sixtiesnby Eugene DavidsonnColumbia, MO: University of MissourinPress; 245 pp., $29.95nThe “disruptive decade” referred tonin the title of this collechon of essaysnis the 1960’s, when Eugene Davidsonnserved as editor oiModem Age. Althoughnthe 60’s ended only 30 years ago, Mr.nDavidson’s writing (the prefatory editorialsnto each issue of the conser’ative quarterlynjournal)...

Come, Sweet Deathnby Harold O.J. BrownnCulture of Death:nThe Assault on Medical Ethicsnin Americanby Wesley /, SmithnSan Francisco: Encounter Books;n•244 pp., $23.95nI n the spring of 1975, C. Everett Koop,nM.D., addressed a conference of Christiannlajinen in New Orleans on the topicnof abortion—more specifically, on the implicationsnof Roe V. Wade. Among thenchanges he foresaw were a growing...

chapel would help to determine whethernthe common culture would be “inspirednby Chrishan or pagan conceptions of thenmeaning and purpose of human life.” Asnthe “heart of the university,” it would proclaimn”eternal verities” and insist thatn”Thou shalt have no other gods.”nLynn Hough, then-dean of Drew TheologicalnSeminary in New Jersey, deliverednthe main dedicatory sermon:nThe cathedral on the campus...

OPINIONSrnEnglish Tractsrnby Derek Turnerrn”England, with all thy faults, I love thee still.”rn—William Covvper, The Task, 11rnThe English: A Portrait of a Peoplernhy jeremv PaxmanrnUmdon: Penguin; 309 pp., £7.99rnEngland—An Elegyrnhy Roger Scndonrnlondon: Chatto & Windus;rn270 pp., £16.99rnF or the last ?00 ears, “England” andrn”Britain” liave been largely synonvnious.rnWhen Glasgow-born General SirrnJohn Moore lay dying at Corunna,...

REVIEWSrnCollision Coursernhy Thomas FlemingrnPioIXrnhy Roberto de MattelrnCasale Monferrato: Piemme;rn253 pp., £30rnThe polemics engendered by the beahficahonrnof Pope Pius IX are un-rnHkely to go away. When all the falserncharges of anhscmitism arc set aside, thernfact remains that diis one man may haerndone more to stem the tide of liberalismrnthan all the great English and Americanrnconservatives of...

coopt Catholic rituals. On Easter, a renegadernpriest served “Mass” in a mockrnCatholic cereinon’ in St. Peter’s, completernwith republican symbols, histead ofrnthe Pope, Maz/ini appeared on the balc()rnn- beside the priest. Mazzini’s governmentrnfined the canons of the cathedralrnwho refused to take part in the blasphemy.rnin later years. Pope Pius IX—still anrnhumane reformer—watched as the PiedniontesernKingdom of...

joined by more troop ships and seeralrndestroyer escorts. This armada had beenrnassembled for “Operation Olympia” —rnthe invasion of Japan.rnWilHs powerfully conveys the reliefrnthat he and his fellow Marines felt whenrnthe dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshimarnand Nagasaki—not the plannedrnamphibious invasion — ended the Pacificrnwar. Had the bomb not been dropped,rnthe invasion of Japan woidd...

hveen the ribs! Intellectualism—the cultrnof ignorant indignation—amounts to thernseeking of sainthood by revolting againstrna societ)’ that is, supposedly, ignorant andrnclueless. For Wolfe, however, the self-appointedrnsaints have missed the real point:rnHow could they not notice and give creditrnto America’s astounding successes —rnthe innovation, the democratic spirit, thernfreedom, the unimaginable affluence ofrnthe common people?rnHilaire Belloc, who hated...

been forgotten.” If that is so—iind I don’trndoubt that it is —then Hfe is too short notrnonly for viewing that movie, but also forrnreading about it.rnNevertheless, Death on the Cheap isrngood to have for its exposition regardingrnB movies and the eitations of some goodrnnoirs that man people toda are inrnsearch of. Lyons has succeeded in...

OPINIONSrnAntiquities of the Republicrnby Samuel Francisrn”The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Unionrna republican form ofgovemment.”rn— Constitution of the United States, Article IVrnStates’ Rights and the Union:rnImperium in Imperio, 1776-1876rnby Forrest McDonaldrnLawrence: University of Kansas Press;rn296 pp., $29.95rnUntil the triumph of the civil-rightsrnmovement at the end of the 1960’s,rnprobably the most disruphve...

porting” in any traditional sense of thernword: Rather, the process is outsonrcing,rntlie net effect of which is the loss of Americanrnjobs.rnI question, though, whether Tonelsonrnadec[uately deals with two related points.rnOne is the long-term impact of our annualrnrecord-breaking trade deficits. Won’trnanother shoe drop as the United Statesrnturns from the world’s largest creditor nationrnto the world’s largest...

and demonstrate how Perkins, asrnboth editor and friend, aided Wolfernin solving them. They set thernrecord straight.rnPerkins, who worked with a variety ofrnwell-known writers — Hemingway andrnFitzgerald, Caroline Gordon, NancyrnHale, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlingsrnamong them—seems to have concernedrnhimself chiefly with questions of structurernand point of view. Thus, the fundamentalrndifferences between O Lx>st andrnAngel are structural and...

off buying and reading this book for fivernyears, you will have only yourself tornblame.rnThomas Fleming is the editor ofrnChronicles and the president ofrnThe Rockford Institute.rnHogan Foreverrnby J.O. TaternThe Fundamentals of Hoganrnby David Leadbetter withrnLome RubinsteinrnNew York: Doubleday and Sleeping BearrnPress; 133 pp., $27.50rnOn July 25, 1997, Ben Hogan diedrnin Fort Worth at the age of...

OPINIONSrnThe Boringest Man in the Worldrnby Samuel Francisrn”Everything is good when it comes from the hands of the Almighty;rneverything degenerates in the hands of man.”rn—Jean Jacques Rousseau, EmilernDo What Thou Wilt:rnA Life of Aleister Crowleyrnby Lawrence SutinrnNew York: St. Martin’s Press;rn483 pp., $27.95rnNot the least of the ironies of thernmodern age is that the more...

No Place Like Homernby Randall Iveyrn”If any man hunger, let him eat at home.”rn— 1 Corinthians 11:34rnFamily Gatheringrnby Fred ChappellrnBaton Rouge:rnLouisiana State University Press;rn11 pp., %Tl.SQrnJayber Crowrnby Wendell BerryrnWashington, D.C.: Counterpoint Press;rn384 pp., $25.00rnFred Chappell’s Family Gathering,rnhis first book of poems since 1995’srnSpring Garden: New and Selected Work,rnis a collection of short verse portraits thatrnallows...

REVIEWSrnThe Banalityrnof Banalrnby Clyde WilsonrnA Life in the Twentieth Century:rnInnocent Beginnings, 1917-1950rnby Arthur M. Schlesinger, ]r.rnBoston/New York: Houghton Mifflin;rn557 pp., $28.95rnIfirst thought I would title this reviewrn”Memoirs of the hnperial Jester.” Thernjester being one who, though of no importancernhimself, is always present at thernimperial court, I thought I discerned certainrnparallels between him and the authorrnof...

for his research: “Pseudo-IntellectuaHsmrnas a Force in American History.”rnClyde Wilson is thought of in somernlimited circles as a real historian.rnThe Bishop’s Eggrnby Christie DaviesrnThe PoHtics of Sex andrnOther Essays on Conservatism,rnCulture, and Imaginationrnby Robert GrantrnNew York: St. Martin’s Press;rn248 pp., $55.00rnobert Grant’s essays range widelyrnacross political philosophy, literature,rnand aesthetics, from EdmundrnBurke to Vaclav Havel, from...

watching a corpse,” when they conversedrnon serions subjects, Johnson stretchedrnBoswell’s mind to the utmost. When hisrngreat friend died, Boswell wrote: “He hasrnmade a chasm, which not only nothingrncan fill up, but which nothing has a tendencyrnto fill up . . . No man can be said tornput you in mind of Johnson.” hie thenrndedicated himself...

OPINIONSrnFlannery Flummeryrnby J.O. Tatern”[I]fl were not a Catholic, I would have no reason to write, no reason to see,rnno reason to feel horrified or even to enjoy anything . . . J feel myself that beingrna Catholic has saved me a couple of thousand years in learning to write.”rn—Flannery O’ConnorrnFlannery O’Connor:rnThe Obedient Imaginationrnby Sarah GordonrnAthens:...

REVIEWSrnThe Executioner’srnTalernby Paul GottfriedrnMy Love Affair With America:rnThe Cautionar)’ Tale of arnCheerful Conservativernhv Norman PodhoretzrnNew York: Free Press; 248 pp., $25.00rnThis “celebration” of his intense loernaffair with America will not likelyrnteach Norman Podhoretz’s devotees anythingrnnew. F’or the most part, it incorporatesrnmaterial that can be fonnd in earlierrnautobiographical writings and in Podhoretz’srnother published recollectionsrnabout life in...

Marx, Albright,rnBlair & Gatesrnby Srdja TrifkovicrnKmpirernby Michael Hurdt and Antonio NegrirnCambridge, MA:rnHarvard Vniversih’ Press;rn512 pp., $35M)rnWhen the jacket blurb tells you thatrnthe book before you “basiealhcombinesrna kojesian notion of global marketrnas post-historv (in this sense akin tornFukuama’s eschatology) with a Foucauklianrnand Deleu/.ian notion of bio-pokrnitics (in this sense crossing the road of arnSloterdijk who also...

look seemed preth- grim from the Marxistrnperspective, but—as Hardt and Negrirnpoint out—the end of the Cold War hasrnclear«:d the way for the rise of global Empire,rnand with it the new hope that allrniiia turn out well in the end.rnThis is the key message of the book.rnHardt and Negri are true revoluhonariesrnwho want to move beyond...

as a function of sexual idcntitv’ and favorsrnliberal soeial and governmental policiesrnto coimteract what he sees as a malernflight from responsibility. It’s easvrnenough to argue vith his political agendas,rnbut these do not detract from arndiought-provoking book.rnBut is its thesis correct? There arc twornob ions objecHons, the first of which isrnthat Americans, in their restlessness as...

OPINIONSrnRaising a Flag for Mr. Davidsonrnby Randall Iveyrn”An outlaw fumbling for the latch, a voicernCommanding in a dream where no flag flies.”rn—Donald Davidson, “Lee in the Mountains”rnWhere No Flag Flies:rnDonald Davidson and thernSouthern Resistancernby Mark Royden WinchellrnColumbia: University of Missouri Press;rn386 pp., $29.95rnThe University of Missouri’s publicationrnof Where No Flag Flies: DonaldrnDavidson and the Southern...

REVIEWSrnMr. Clinton’s Legacyrnby Clark Stooksburyrn”Feeling Your Pain”: The Explosionrnand Abuse of Government Power inrnthe Clinton-Gore Yearsrnby James BovardrnNew York: St. Martin’s Press;rn426 pp., $26.95rnBill Clinton has often been comparedrnto Warren C. Harding, and consideringrnthat president’s scandals and adulterousrnaflair within the White House, thernparallel seems valid. The better comparison,rnhowever, may be with Harding’srnpredecessor, Woodrow Wilson. At...

by a bullet that passed through an openingrnin his vest: no bullet penetrated hisrnbody armor.” And in October 1996, thernPresident used the death of Louisiana’srnJerome Harrison Seaberry to further hisrnanti-gun agenda, “hi Lake Charles,” hernintoned:rn1 met with that officer’s widow andrntwo beautiful, beautiful young sons.rnAnd I thought to myself, ‘Tonrnknow, if people like these folks...

The CentralrnIntelligence Agencyrnby ].0. TaternEssays of Four Decadesrnby Allen TaternWilmington, DE: ISl Books;rn640 pp., $29.95rnThere are historical reasons —historicalrnin more than one sense —whyrnwe should be glad to see this work back inrnprint. Since I can so well rememberrnowning the editions of 1959 and 1968rnand absorbing their contents, the thoughtrnthat these essays will reach new...

had such knowledge carried to his heart.rnBut beyond such uecessarv’ works arernother treatments of topics that I will callrnpolitical and even religio-philosophical.rnTvo of the best essays were presented atrnthe hiternahonal Exposition of the Artsrn(under the auspices of the Congress forrnCultural Freedom) in Paris in 1951, and Irnwill neglect this context to observe that thernCentral Intelligence...

OPINIONSrnThe Autocrat of the Dinner Tablernby Thomas Flemingrn”But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue?”rn— Edmund BurkernAn Enemy of the State:rnThe Life of Murray N. Rothbardrnby Justin RaimondornAmherst, hlY: Prometheus Books;rn400 pp., $35.00rnMurray Rothbard was like the elephantrnthe blind Chinamen in thernstory tried to describe. Everyone whornknew Murray saw only one or two sides...

REVIEWSrnMad Cows andrnEnglishmanrnby Paul GottfriedrnDreamer of the Day:rnFrancis Parker Yockey and thernPostwar Fascist Internationalrnby Kevin CooganrnNew York: Autonomedia; 644 pp., $16.95rnCool Croatiarnby Tomislav SunkrnGlastonbury, England: Vineyard Books,rn60 pp., £2.5rnStandardbearers:rnBritish Roots of the New RightrnJonathan Bowden, Eddy Butter, andrnAdrian Davies, editorsrnKent, England: Bloomsbury Forum,rn176 pp., £6.00rnIn recent months, several works havernappeared that throw Hght on the...

Risking Nothingrnby Philip JenkinsrnGod’s Name in Vain: The Wrongs andrnRights of Rehgion in Pohticsrnby Stephen L. CarterrnNew York: Basic Books; 264 pp., $26.00rnAmericans like to think this is a landrnof diversity unparalleled anywherernin the world, but in religious matters atrnleast, such a view is far from the truth.rnAmerica remains today substantiallyrnwhat it has always been,...

jiLst for the causes they have adopted, hutrnfor the deuominations aud creeds thevrnrepresent. The experiences of the MoralrnMajority and the Christian Coalitionrnpresent many such examples.rnUltimately, Carter warns, the danger isrnthat, as religion “gets into” politics, it becomesrnno more than politics —and whatrna fall that is. At worst, in such instances,rnreligion really does become the worstrnkind...

OPINIONSrnFrankenstein’s Childrenrnby George McCartneyrn”Monstrum horrendum, informe ingens.”rn—Vergil, AeneidrnMonsters From the Id: The Rise ofrnHorror in Fiction and Fihnrnby E. Michael JonesrnDallas: Spence Publishing Company;rn336 pp., $27.95rnI n 1974,1 first encountered one of therncreatures E. Michael Jones writesrnabout in Monsters From the Id. It appearedrnin the guise of one of m graduate-rnschool classmates. She was a...

REVIEWSrnSlender Threads ofrnLibertyrnby Steven H. AdenrnThe Tyranny of Good Intentions:rnHow Prosecutors and BureaucratsrnAre Trampling the Constitutionrnin the Name of Justicernby Paul Craig Roberts andrnLawrence M. StrationrnRoseville, California: Prima Publishing;rnm pp., $24.95rnAlthough Paul Craig Roberts, a nationallyrnsyndicated columnist andrnHoover histitution fellow, and LawrencernM. Stratton, a fellow of the Institute forrnPolitical Economy, are trained in economicrnand legal...

a misunderstood defender of civil rightsrnwho set “high standards” for FBI ethics.rnIf their work has a flaw, it is the authors’rnproclivity to pamphleteer rather thanrnpresent a balanced, cogent case. Strattonrnand Roberts overstate their argument,rnand thereby weaken it, by parading theirrnlist of horribles as if there were no countervailingrnforces acting to restrainrnLeviathan, while eschewing discussion ofrnthose...