OPINIONSrnThe Habit of Makingrnby Loxley F. Nicholsrn”Nature I loved, and next to nature, art.”rn—^W.S. LandorrnRobert Penn Warren: A Biographyrnby Joseph BlotnerrnNew York: Random House;rnS44 pp., $35.00rnIn October 1986, I heard Robert PennrnWarren read a selection of his poemsrnat an LSU conference marking the 50thrnanniversary of the Southern Review.rnl ie was 81 years old, exceeding frail,...

The Rump Rightrnby Paul Gottfriedrn”A perfect democracy is the most shameless thing in the world.”rn—Edmund BurkernConservatism: An Anthologyrnof Social and PoliticalrnThought from David Humernto the Presentrnby jerry Z. MullerrnPrinceton: Princeton University Press;rn464 pp., $59.50rnLexikon des Konservatismusrnedited by Caspar von Schrenck-NotzingrnGraz: Leopold Stocker VerlagrnLe Radici dell’Ordine Americano:rnLa tradizione europea nei valorirndel Nuovo Mondornby Russell Kirkrnedited by...

REVIEWSrnBig EmergingrnMistakesrnby William R. HawkinsrnThe Big Ten: The Big EmergingrnMarkets and How They WillrnChange Our Livesrnby Mfrey E. GartenrnNew York: Basic Books;rn2S6 pp., $24.00rnThe theory that “big emerging markets”rn(BEMs) m the Third Woridrnwill be the driving force of the worldrneconomy, and thus of worid politics, hasrnbeen at the core of the Clinton administration’srnforeign policy. As...

American market is serving more as thernengine for the accelerated growth of otherrncountries than it is for the growth ofrnthe United States.rnThe United States is deindustriahzingrnon the supply, not on the demand, side.rnRising imports are substituting for thernexpansion of domestic capacity, closingrnoff job opportunities during the cyclicalrnupturn and short-circuiting the longtermrngrowth process. Two dire resultsrnfollow:...

true-crime stories, for the ultimate paradoxrnof his melodramatic fiction is itsrnfirm hold on truth. Chandler has morernin common with Balzac and Dickensrnthan he does with his host of imitators.rnHiney’s book is flawed by errors inrnproofreading, among others. His summaryrnof the plot of Farewell, My Lovely,rnfor instance, gets whodunit and otherrnthings wrong. Even so, his biography...

OPINIONSrnThe Future of the Jewsrnby Jacob Neusnerrn”A people still, whose common ties are gone;rnwho, mixed with every race, are lost in none.”rn—George CrabbernFaith or Fear: How Jews CanrnSurvive in a Christian Americarnby Elliott AbramsrnNew York: Free Press;rn237pp., $25.00rnThe Vanishing American Jew:rnIn Search of Jewish Identityrnfor the Next Centuryrnby Alan M. DershowitzrnBoston: Little, Brown;rn412 pp., $24.95rnThat...

REVIEWSrnThe Condottierernby John LukacsrnAndre Malraux: A Biographyrnhy Curtis GaternNew York: Fromm;rn451 pp., $29.95rnWe live in an age when biographvrnflourishes, contrary to earher expectations.rnThe reason for this is the declinernof the novel and the rise of popularrninterest in all kinds of history, and biographyrnbelongs within history. The problemrnis “all kinds”: for appetite may be fedrnby a...

A Man forrnHis Timernby William J. Watkins, Jr.rnMaking Constitutional Law:rnThurgood Marshall and thernSupreme Court, 1961-1991rnhy Mark V. TushnetrnNew York: Oxford Vniversity Press;rn256 pp., $29.95rnCharles Hamilton ilouston, dean ofrnthe Howard Law School, taught hisrnstudents to view law as an instrument ofrnsocial engineering, and Thurgood Marshall,rnone of Houston’s top students inrnthe eady 1950’s, never forgot this basicrnlesson....

OPINIONSrnCity of Man, City of Godrnby James Hitchcockrn”Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God.”rn—Psalms LXXXVIIrnHeart of the World, Heartrnof the Churchrnby David L. SchindlerrnGrand Rapids: Eerdmans;rn3iO pp., $37.50rnThis rich and complex book is on onernlevel the summing up of a controversyrnover a properly Christian, specificallyrnCatholic, view of politics which hasrnpitted the author,...

A Prophet’s Rewardrnby Ralph de Toledanorn”Every honest man is a prophet.rn—BlakernWhittaker Chambersrnby Sam TanenhausrnNew York: Random House;rn638 pp., $35.00rnWhat is now known as the Hissrncase exploded across the frontrnpages of the nation’s newspapers on Augustrn4,1948. The day before, WhittakerrnChambers—a short, stocky man in arnrumpled grey suit—had taken the standrnbefore the House Un-American ActivitiesrnCommittee to testify...

REVIEWSrnRetooling thernConservativernMovementrnby James ThorntonrnRevolution from the Middlernhy Samuel FrancisrnRaleigh: Middle American Press;rn251 pp., $6.95rnSamuel Francis’s newest book, composedrnof 30 essays originally publishedrnin Chronicles between 1989 andrn1996, is much more than a collection ofrnarticles about matters of passing concern.rnRather it attests to Francis’s singularrnefforts in constructing a strategy byrnwhich Americans might recapture theirrnnation from the decadent...

Gold Cross, BlackrnHelicoptersrnby Philip JenkinsrnHarvest of Rage: Why OklahomarnCity is Only the Beginningrnby ]oel DyerrnBoulder: WestviewPress;rn304 pp., $24.00rnMaybe in another decade or so wernwill be ready to assess the full politicalrnand psychological impact of thern1995 bombing of the federal building inrnOklahoma City, but already we can observernsome of the major effects. Thernpartisan impact became clear...

OPINIONSrnA Bard, By Any Other Name . . .rnby Frank Brownlowrn”Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare^”rn-R.W. EmersonrnAlias Shakespearernby ]oseph SobranrnNew York: The Free Press;rn311 pp., $25.00rnStory-telling is a feature of all societies.rnIf the world is to make sense, ifrnwe are to live together in families, cities,rnnations, if we are to do our daily work,...

REVIEWSrnWhy TheyrnHate Jeffersonrnby Clyde WilsonrnThe Long Affair: Thomas Jeffersonrnand the French Revolution, 1785-1800rnby Conor Cruise O’BrienrnChicago: University of Chicago Press;rn367 pp., $29.95rnWhat a marathon of Jeffersonbashingrnwe have had in the lastrnfew years. This book by the “globalrnstatesman” O’Brien follows several otherrncritical biographies, all of which havernbeen highlighted in the fashionablernreviews. More than usually offensive tornJefferson...

consent of the people that no number ofrnpettifogging scribblers can suppress.rnClyde Wilson is a professor of history atrnthe University of South Carolina.rnNot Ours to Givernby Harold O.J. BrownrnUnrepentant, Self-Affirming,rnPracticing: Lesbian/Bisexual/GayrnPeople Within Organized Religionrnby Gary David ComstockrnNew York: Continuum;rn348pp.,$29.9SrnGary David Comstock is Protestantrnchaplain and visiting assistant professorrnof sociologv at Wesleyan University.rnThe author cites his “lover/partnerrnTed” in...

God nothing is impossible, activists regardrnhomosexuality as so fundamental arnpart of one’s identity that the possibilityrnof change seems to threaten the homosexualrnwith annihilation. I low numerousrnare repentant, changed, or recoveringrnhonrosexuals by comparison with thosernwho do not change? We really don’trnknow. It is a dogma of the homosexualrnmovement that true homosexuals cannotrnchange; but there is much...

To the dark and lament.rnBut no, I was out for stars:rnI would not come in.rnI meant not even if asked,rnAnd I hadn’t been.rnSuch poems, Brodsky points out, are fullrnof set-ups, what Walcott calls “traps.” Inrn”Home Burial” the husband mounts thernstairs to answer for himself what he hasrnasked his wife: “She let him look, surernthat he...

OPINIONSrnThe Character of Stonewall Jacksonrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rn”Look, men, there is Jackson standing like a stone wall! Let us determine to diernhere, and we will conquer! Follow me!”rn—General Bernard E. Bee, C.F.A.,rnshortly before falling, mortally wounded,rnin First ManassasrnStonewall Jackson: The Man,rnthe Soldier, the Legendrnby James I. Robertson, Jr.rnNew York: Macmillan;rn950 pp., $40.00rnThe era of the...

REVIEWSrnIn Hoc Signo Vincesrnby Collie OwensrnUncertain Glory: Lee’s GeneralshiprnRe-Examinedrnby ]ohn D. McKenziernNew York: Hippocrene Books;rn384 pp., $29.95rnTactical strengths and strategic weaknessesrnmark John D. McKenzie’s reassessmentrnof Robert E. Lee’s generalship.rnThe strengths of this book arernmany. The weaknesses, however, undercutrnthe very point that the author attemptsrnto make; namely, that Lee was atrnbest an average military leader, and...

Reflections inrnMiniaturernby Paul GottfriedrnHoods and Saints: The Extieme Rightrnin Pennsylvania, 1925-1950rnhy Philip ]enkinsrnChapel Hill: University ofrnNorth Carolina Press;rn323 pp., $29.95rnPhilip Jenkins’ book is a gold mine ofrninformation on pro-fascist and pro-rnNazi groups in Pennsylvania during thern1930’s. Jenkins makes informative distinctionsrnamong the various bearers ofrnCamicie fasciste, differentiating silver,rnkhaki, black, and brown shirts and explainingrnthe significance of...

in the Spanish Civil War against thernCathohc nationalist side.) Moreoer,rnmuch of w hat Jenkins describes as the interwarrnultra-right in Pcnnsvlvania wasrnnot specifically rightist: e.g., Italianrnparish and civic organizations that expressedrnsolidaritv with the Italian nationalrnrevolution (a stance also taken in thern2()’s and early ?0’s by non-Italians and b’rnsome socialists, most notably at the NewrnRepublic). It is...

SurroundingrnDisorderrnby Alan CoinettrnGentility Recalled: “Mere” Mannersrnand the Making of Social OrderrnEdited by Digby AndersonrnLondon and Grand Rapids:rnThe Social Affairs Unit andrnThe Acton Institute;rn206 pp., $19.95rnNo one can deny the decline of civilityrnand manners, both a cause andrneffect of our decadent society. DigbyrnAnderson and the British-based SocialrnAffairs Unit have explored this trend,rnand the quickening downward spiral...

The Last Nomadsrnby Gregory McNameernDesert Placesrnby Robyn DavidsonrnNew York: Viking Press;rn288 pp., $23.95rnIn his journal, the psychologist WilliamrnJames records that he once metrnSir James Frazer, whose Golden Boughrnhad been among the first Western booksrnto attempt to record systematically thernbeliefs of traditional peoples around thernworld. James, then undertaking ambitiousrnprojects of his own, asked Frazerrnwhether he had...

OPINIONSrnThe Lincoln Legacyrnby Michael Hillrn”If the general government should persist in the measures now threatened, therernmust be war. It is painful to discover with what unconcern they speak of war, andrnthreaten it. They seem not to know what its horrors are.”rn—Stonewall JacksonrnEmancipating Slaves, Enslaving FreernMen: A History of thernAmerican Civil Warrnby ]effrey Rogers HummelrnChicago: Open...

REVIEWSrnReluctance atrnReveillernby John AttarianrnOne World, Ready or Not:rnThe Manic Logicrnof Global Capitalismrnby William GreiderrnNew York: Simon & Schuster;rn528pp.,$27.S0rnThe global industrial revolution beingrnengineered by multinationalrnfirms and the dismantling of internationalrntrade barriers have producedrnwrenching social changes and will unleashrnmore. Rolling Stone National EditorrnWilliam Greider, author of Secrets ofrnthe Temple (on the Federal Reserve) andrnWho Will Tell the...

“narrow, nationalistic protectionismrnbased on racial and cultural nativism,”rnand perhaps fascism. Fascism arose, hernargues, in response to dislocations causedrnby capitalism—yet fascism was weakestrnwhere economic liberalism wasrnstrongest, and vice versa.rnBut Greider has a larger agenda. Understandingrnglobalization’s “deepest socialrnmeaning” to be that we are citizensrnof one world, Greider calls for a “globalrnhumanism” grounded in the reality thatrn”we are...

sented Catholic victims in litigationrnagainst the Church. They described therncases, milieus, and motivations most familiarrnto them. Not surprisingly, the mediarnand their audiences came away withrnthe impression tliat sexual abuse by thernclergy was primarily an unfortunate resultrnof the unwise practice of priestlyrncelibacy and that it was reaching epidemicrnproportions.rnIn attempting to arrive at trustworthy,rnnonhyperbolic numbers, the authorrnwalks...

casual, sloppy, prolix instant poemsrnwhere verbal brilliance and fresh,rnhardworking metaphor are censored asrnunrepresentative of democratic mediocrity.rnLieberman may well understand butrnhe never touches on the idea that the effectrnof spontaneity, in poetry or anythingrnelse, usually requires the artifice, thernstructuring, of revision. Even TheodorernDreiser revised, though he still seemsrnto drag the whole “real life” thing,rnwith all its...

OPINIONSrnAt the Heart of Darknessrnby Samuel Francisrn”The New Englandeis are a people of God, settled in thosernwhich were once the Devil’s territories.”rn—Cotton Matherrn• •faiyt”jl i i y f * * !rnH.P. Lovecraft: A Biographyrnby S.T. JoshirnWest Warwick, Rhode Island:rnNecronomicon Press;rn704 pp., $20.00rnH.P. Lovecraft:rnMiscellaneous WritingsrnEdited by S.T. joshirnSauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House;rn568 pp., $29.95rnS.T. Joshi begins...

REVIEWSrnGetting to Knowrnthe Generalrnby Wayne AUensworthrnZa Derzhavu Obidno . . .rn(It’s a Pity for a Great Power…)rnby Aleksandr LebedrnMoscow: Moskovskaya Pravda;rn464 pp.rnThe rise to political prominence ofrnformer Airborne Forces GeneralrnAleksandr Lebed, and especially his emphasisrnon law and order as the only realrnbasis for proceeding with reforms, hasrnraised the specter in the Russian mind ofrnthe proverbial...

Red Is Beautifulrnby Michael WashburnrnThe Indebted Societyrnby James Medoffand Andrew HarlessrnBoston: Little, Brown;rn241 pp., $24.95rnAccording to Harvard professorrnJames Medoff and financial analystrnAndrew Harless, one of the most balefulrninfluences on America’s economicrnhealth—and a reason for the decliningrnstandard of living of both blue- andrnwhite-collar workers—is the moneylendingrnsector, which includes manyrncommercial and investment banks andrnindividual investors. In the...

and working classes and bankrolls ourrncandidates for high office.rnMichael Washburn is the assistant editorrno/” Chronicles.rnThe StraussianrnSidesteprnby Marco RespintirnLeo Strauss e la destra americanarnby Germana ParaboschirnRome: Editori Riuniti;rn162 pp.rnDr. Germana Paraboschi’s LeornStrauss e la destra americana {LeornStrauss and the American Right) is one ofrnthe few serious studies of the Americanrnright to come out of Italy. Dr....

OPINIONSrnClip Clop, Bang Bangrnby J.O. TaternQuantrill’s War: The Life and Timesrnof William Clarke Quantrillrnby Duane SchultzrnNew York: St. Martin’s Press;rn338 pp., $24.95rnThe Devil Knows How to Ride:rnThe True Story of William ClarkernQuantrill and His Confederate Raidersrnby Edward E. LesliernNew York: Random 1 louse:rn534 pp., $30.00rnThe manipulative sensationalism regardingrnany display of the Confederaternbattle flag continues unabated.rnThe...

REVIEWSrnAuthenticity andrnOpportunityrnby Paul GottfriedrnHeideggerrnby David E. CooperrnLondon: Claridge Press; 94 pp.rnDavid Cooper has written a first-raternintroduction to the hfe andrnthought of Martin Heidegger. Despiternthe brevity of his work, Cooper hasrnpacked into it a biographical sketch ofrnHeidegger, a discussion of Being andrnTime (1927) and of Heidegger’s other intcrwarrnand postwar writings, an appraisalrnof interpretive literature dealing with...

Cooper observes that Heidegger’s reconstructionrnof phenomenology into anrnexistential ontology both prefigured andrnstrengthened his turning toward the radicalrnright. A critic of rationalism and individualism,rnHeidegger gravitated towardrnmovements stressing both culturalrnrootedness and an aversion to modernity.rnHis German Catholic and at least derivativelyrnpeasant background nurtured thisrnantimodernism, although Cooper properlyrnwarns against the facile connectionrnmade by one Heidegger debunker, VictorrnFarias, between...

social concerns. Both speak to causesrnthat Snyder—in the familiar personae ofrnwalker and hitchhiker, forester and trailrnworker, anarchist evangelist and sometimernZen monk—has made his own in arndistinguished body of work, most famouslyrnhis 1974 book Turf/els/and. Bothrnforge an aesthetic of wildness findingrnbeauty in landscapes, many of them remoternfrom us in space and time.rnAt the heart of the...

are frequenth deluded into thinking thatrna catalogue of bones, potsherds, andrngraves constitutes some kind of history.rn\’ithout the written evidence of narratirnc histor), legal cases, and literature, werncan hae erv little idea of another civilization.rnWhere such records exist, ofrncourse, archeology can be enormouslyrnuseful in solving problems, but wherernthere is no literature—as in the Greekrn”Dark Ages”—the results...

OPINIONSrnRecoil and Revulsionrnby Frank Biownlowrn”Ambition and suspicion always go together.rn—G.C. LichtenbergrnMuggeridge: The Biographyrnby Richard IngramsrnSan Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco;rn264 pp., $27.50rnBack in the 1950’s and 60’s, whenrnMalcolm Muggeridge was one ofrnthe resident personalities of British television,rnall over Britam people used tornwonder what the origins of such a bizarrernfigure might be. Many of them wouldrnwatch solely to be...

American Gothicrnby Allan Carlsonrn”Do not the seas and the mountains and the prairies and the plains in somernmanner and to some extent transform men into their own Ukeness?”rn—Cyrenus ColernKinship with the Land: RegionalistrnThought in Iowa, 1894-1942rnby E. Bradford BurnsrnIowa City: University of Iowa Press;rn195 pp., $27.95rnThe America First cause of 1959-41rnfiuds a powerful, if unusual...

REVIEWSrnWallace Stegner,rnWriter of the Westrnby Gregory McNameernWallace Stegner: His Life and Workrnby ]ackson BensonrnNew York: Viking Press;rn488 pp., $32.95rnThe Geography of HopernEdited by Mary StegnerrnSan Francisco: Sierra Club Books;rn288 pp., $14.95rnWallace Stegner: Man and WriterrnEdited by Charles RankinrnAlbuquerque: University of NewrnMexico Press;rn280 pp., $45.00rnWallace Stegner’s death on Aprilrn13, 1993, was not, as the clichernhas it,...

al affairs. More and more he criticizedrnthe get-rich-quick hucksters who guidernso much of the West’s economy and politics,rnthe Sagebrush Rebelhon speculatorsrnwho profit from the land’s destruction.rnWallace Stegner’s passing made thernfront pages of papers on the coasts, therninner or back pages of papers in thernWestern states he had long fought to describernand protect. Less ephemerally, itrnhas...

with an overdose of a powerful sedative.”rnRegarding himself, “And I? I have threernfailed marriages and have fathered a sonrnwho is sullen, suspicious but brilliant inrncomputer science.”rnReligion had no real role in his upbringing.rnHis family was nonobservant,rnalthough they did celebrate the Jewishrnholidays, perhaps as many putativernChristians still observe Easter andrnChristmas, without these Christianrnsolemnities having any real...

OPINIONSrnFour More Yearsrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rn”Where law ends, tyranny begins.”rn—William PittrnThe Seduction of Hillary Rodhamrnby David BrockrnNew York: The Free Press;rn452 pp., $26.00rnBoy Clinton: The Political Biographyrnby R. Emmett Tyrrell, jr.rnWashington, D.C.:rnRegnery Publishing, Inc.;rn356 pp., $24.95rnOn the eve of the inauguration ofrnthe second CHnton administration,rnreading biographies of the FirstrnCouple is like reading Airport while waitingrnto...

REVIEWSrnSadly for Adlairnby William MurchisonrnThe Stevensons: A Biography of anrnAmerican Familyrnby Jean H. BakerrnNew York: VV.W. Norton;rn577 pp., $30.00rn^^ A /Tadly for Adlai,” proclaimed therniV-lcampaign buttons in 1952.rnBut Adlai Ewing Stevenson II wasn’t thernkind of politician who aroused madrnaffections, or, for that matter, hostilities.rnHe was a Stevenson. Passion isn’t thernStevenson thing; service is—service conductedrnwith objectivity...

Managed Citizenshiprnby Paul GottfriedrnAmericans No More:rnThe Death of Citizenshiprnby Georgie Anne GeyerrnNew York: Atlantic Monthly Press;rn352 pp., $23.00rnGeorgie Anne Geyer is no stranger tornthe immigration issue. For yearsrnher syndicated columns have includedrnspirited criticism of efforts toward the redefinitionrnof American identity. Theyrnhave attacked what Geyer calls the “citizenshiprnmill,” the thoughtless naturalizationrnof masses of Third World residentsrn(not...

The Paralysisrnof Sciencernby John CaiazzarnThe End of Science:rnFacing the Limits of Knowledgernin the Twilight of the Scientific Agernhy John MorganrnReading, Massachusetts:rnHehx Books/Addison-Wesley;rn309 pp., $24.00rnI n The End of Science, John Horgan, arnstaff reporter for Scientific American,rnwrites about his encounters with bothrnscientists and philosophers of sciencernand concludes that modern science isrncoming to an end.rnIn every significant...

finding truth, carrying with it the convictionrnthat we cannot “know” any truth atrnall. Independent of other principles, sciencernis unable to mantain its own codernof values, which includes honesty, publicityrnfor the results of research, diligence,rnand rationalism: that is the true implicationrnof Morgan’s thesis. Potentially, thern”end of science” is the final nail in therncoffin of Western culture,...

OPINIONSrnA Good Communitarian Is Hard to Findrnby George W. Careyrn”Never say No when the world says Aye.”rn—E.B. BrowningrnThe New Communitarians and thernCrisis of Modern Liberahsmrnby Bruce FrohnenrnLawrence: University Press of Kansas;rn271 pp., $29.95rnThis thoughtful and provocativernanalysis of the new communitarianismrncan profitably be viewed as a casernstudy in how liberahsm, not unlikernscheming alien forces in sei-fi...

REVIEWSrnAnd What Isn’t…rnby Paul GottfriedrnWhat’s Right: The New ConservativernMajority and the Remakingrnof Americarnhy David FrumrnNew York Basic Books;rn208 pp., $23.00rnIn this collection of his occasional papers,rnDavid Frum once again demonstratesrnhis worthiness to the harmlessrnpersuasion. Having agonized over hisrnuneven prose, I finally concluded thatrnFrum’s intellectual weaknesses are hisrnpractical strengths. His writing never offendsrnanyone in the political...

the nature of the litmus test, though herndoes try to refute it by citing RichardrnNixon and Jack Kemp as conservativesrnwho would have failed it. It is questionablernwhether Nixon as President orrnKemp at any time was a conservative,rneven by the definition applied elsewherernby Frum, which is that of a Taft Republicanrnwho believes in small governmentrnand fiscal...