UnfortunatenMajoritiesnby Wayne LuttonnThe Population Explosionnby Paul R. Ehrlich andnAnne H. EhrlichnNew York: Simon and Schuster;n320 pp., $18.95nTwenty-two years ago Paul Ehrlichnpublished The Population Bomb.nIn an effort to dramatize his thesis, henincluded a number of scenarios aboutnthe future. These tended to obscurenthe thrust of his work, for many viewednthem as predictions. When they failednto come to...

OPINIONSn- – t C/2nNational Servicenby Theodore Pappasn”/ cally therefore^ a complete and generous education, that which Bts a man tonperform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private andnpublic, of peace and war.”n— John MiltonnNational Service: Pro & ConnEdited and introduced bynWilliamson M. EversnStanford: Hoover Institution Press;n261 pp., $21.95 (cloth),n$14.95 (paper)nOn February 25, 1906,...

The Secret of the Twentieth CenturynThe Politics of Rich and Poor:nWealth and the AmericannElectorate in thenReagan Aftermathnby Kevin PhillipsnNew York: Random House;n262 pp., $19.95nWhen Kevin Phillips’s The Politicsnof Rich and Poor hit thenbest-seller list last summer, the Gipperitesnbegan to squeal like a worn-out fannbelt in a used Toyota. “Anti-Reagannsophistry,” sneered David Brock of thenHeritage Foundation...

Tuition for Americanby William R. HawkinsnSelling Out: How We Are LettingnJapan Buy Our Land, OurnIndustries, Our FinancialnInstitutions and Our Futurenby Douglas Frantz andnCatherine CollinsnChicago: Contemporary Books;n400 pp., $9.95nCniinommerce is a perpetual andnpeaceable war of wit and energynamong the nations” wrote the 17thcenturynFrench statesman Jean BaptistenColbert. He likened his Grandes Compagnies,nstate chartered trading companies,nto “armies” attacking...

to act in behalf of Japanese, rather thannof American, interests. Whatever one’snviews on the purely economic issues,nthe dangers of allowing people whosenloyalties lie overseas to control Americannpolicy are obvious. Money goesnnot just to politicians but to those whoninfluence their thinking: “there is anhuge pool of academics and think-tanknoccupants in Washington whose billsnare paid in full...

struggle to destroy traditional society.nIncreasingly, traditionalist views arensimply illegal. Woe to the corporatenexecutive who dares to utter a commonsensicalnpreference for men asnmanagers! In Canada, special governmentnfunds have been established tonsubsidize women bringing affirmativenaction and comparable worth suits. InnMrs. Steele’s words, “Millions of dollarsnhave actually been pouring intonsupport mechanisms across the country,nfrom federal and provincial governments,nto...

be acquisition of the tribute to Tibbettnassembled by Andrew Farkas.nJ.O. Tate is professor of English atnDowling College on Long Island.nOn the Road tonSomewherenby Chilton Williamson, Jr.nThe Return of Richard Nixon andnOther Essaysnby Gregory McNameenTucson and New York: HarbingernHouse; 213 pp., $9.95nThis book is mistitled, in the sensenthat Richard Nixon is the leastninteresting of the multivarious...

The Swedish Experiment in FamilynPolitics: The Myrdals and thenInterwar Population Crisisnhy Allan CarlsonnNew Brunswick, New Jersey:nTransaction Publishers; 235 pp.,n$39.95nIf there were an award for the mostnsuccessful revolutionaries of the 20thncentury, two relatively unsung yet worthyncandidates would be Gunnar andnAlva Myrdal, The Swedish husbandand-wifenteam has exerted an alarminglynpervasive influence upon modernnsociety, in part because their bloodless,nbureaucratic...

Carolina Cavalier: The Life andnMind of James Johnston Pettigrewnhy Clyde N. WilsonnAthens and London: The Universitynof Georgia Press; 303 pp., $35.00nEven in these dreariest of days innacademia, when American historynhas largely become a plaything for cantingnideologues, the Old South continuesnto attract outstanding talent. Finenbooks and articles continue to appear, asnClyde Wilson’s Carolina Cavalier attests,nnotwithstanding the...

A Niagara of Printnby Theodore Pappasn”It used to be one of our proudest boasts that we welcomed the downtrodden, thenoppressed, the poverty-stricken, the fit and the unHt to a land of freedom, of plenty,nof boundless opportunity. Our hindsight tells us that this boast was fatuous.”n— George Horace LorimernCreating America: George HoracenLorimer and the SaturdaynEvening Postnby...

Engines of Declinenby Allan C. CarlsonnDisturbing the Nest: FamilynChange and DecUnenin Modern Societiesnby David PoponoenHawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter;n390 pp., $49.95 (hardcover),n$24.95 (paper)nDisturbing the Nest is among thenfinest and most readable works ofncomparative sociology published in thenlast ten years, and the most effectivencritique of the Swedish welfare statennow in print. David Poponoe’s careful,nfully documented, and...

honest scholar resident on one of thosensocialist (and hardly democratic) enclavesnotherwise known as an Americannuniversity.nAllan C. Carlson is president of ThenRockford Institute and author of ThenSwedish Experiment in FamilynPolitics: The Myrdals and thenInterwar Population Crisisn(Transaction).nPacific Rimshotnby Gregory McNameenVinelandnby Thomas PynchonnBoston: Little, Brown and Company;n383 pp., $19.95nThomas Pynchon has been livingnout of the public eye for...

slick, and — worst of all—boring.nIn his conversations with Karajan,nRichard Osborne isn’t about to upsetnthe apfelwagen by pursuing any uncomfortablenpoints. He adores thenMaster, and when you come to thinknabout it, who can blame him? So muchnpower, money, and control of musicalnshelf-space are united in the Karajanntrademark; so much too of sheer talent,nof shrewd patience, of...

colorful cussing, who shelved it. BasicnEnglish was never heard of again, butnHitchens believes it inspired GeorgenOrwell’s “Newspeak.”nHitchens sees U.S. English as thenlatest example of Anglophilia, and onenwith clear designs on U.S. immigrationnpolicy. He traces the group back to thenPioneer Fund of 1937 to study appliedngenetics in Germany, and uncovers anprivate organization called WITAN,nfrom the Anglo-Saxon...

where he was struck by the car, he wasnan outpatient at the hospital and undergoingntherapy for the wrist he hadnslashed some months before. Thenpassengers in the car said that Jarrellnhad “turned” or “lunged” toward it.nPritchard poses all of the possible questionsnabout what might or might notnhave been on Jarrell’s mind that darknnight and responsibly concludes...

Escape from GrubnStreetnby Russell KirknHenry Fielding: A Lifenby Martin C. Battestin withnRuthe R. BattestinnLondon and New York: Routledge;n738 pp., $45.00nWalter Scott, in 1820, wrote thatnFielding is “father of the EnglishnNovel.” Yet James Russell Lowell,nin 1881, remarked to an English audiencenthat “We really know almost asnlittle of Fielding’s life as of Shakespeare’s.”nLives of Fielding, or importantnessays...

Liberal Arts and Community: ThenFeeding of the Larger Bodynby Marion MontgomerynBaton Rouge: Louisiana StatenUniversity Press; 171 pp., $27.50nVirtue and Modern Shadows ofnTurning: Preliminary Agitationsnby Marion MontgomerynLanham, Maryland: ThenIntercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc.,nand University Press of America;n186 pp., $29.25 (hardcover),n$14.25 (paper)nPoet, critic, and teacher MarionnMontgomery is known to haventaken a fortnight’s break from a booknproject in order...

Intifadanby Ze’ev Schiffand Ehud Ya’arinNew York:nSimon and Schuster;n337 pp., $22.45nThe American public has fallennvictim in recent years to a propagandanassault, launched and coordinatednby the Israeli Likud party and theirnAmerican partners, whose theme isnclear and simple: the long-term securitynof the Jewish state lies in its ability tonmaintain control over the West Banknand the Gaza Strip with...

for the great cultural achievements ofnthe past. The legacy we idenhfy withnDead White European Males is notn”professed” but profaned by academicsnobsessed with racial quotas, questionsnof “gender,” the control of thought,nand the suppression of free speech.nDoes anyone suppose that the rapidlynapproaching anniversary of Columbus’snfirst voyage will be celebrated as anheroic achievement and as a positivengood, or...

At the time of this writing, the ethnicnsolidarity and loyalty of a minority—12npercent of the population, to be exactn— is producing a national binge ofnemotional hysteria on behalf of a mannwhom one participant called “a dreamnfor the human people,” but who is innfact the terrorist deputy leader of anCommunist political party bent on destroyingna civilization...

Ecology in the Twentieth Century:nA Historynby Anna BramwellnNew Haven: Yale University Press;n292 pp., $16.95nThis Incomperable Lande: A Booknof American Nature WritingnEdited by Thomas J. LyonnBoston: Houghton Mifflin;n495 pp., $29.95nSlow learners that we humans are,nonly recently have great numbers ofnus become aware of the tremendous,nseemingly insurmountable ecologicalncrises facing us. Some environmentalistsndate the earliest stirrings of thisnnow-widespread...

Russian Soilnby Michael WardernSiberia on Fire: Stories and Essaysnby Valentin RasputinnTranslated by Gerald MikkelsonnandnMargaret WinchellnDeKalb: Northern Illinois UniversitynPress; 252 pp., $30.00 (cloth),n$12.50 (paper)nIf blood and soil are the stuff ofnnationalism, what does a Russiannpatriot do when the soil goes bad? Henbecomes an environmentalist—at least,nthis was the response of Valentin Rasputinn(no relation to Gregory Rasputinnwho haunted...

A Grasp of thenObviousnby Odie B. FaulknWater and the Future ofnthe SouthwestnEdited by Zachary A. SmithnAlbuquerque: University of NewnMexico Press; 278 pp., $32.50nIn an attempt to lure immigrants tonArizona in 1881, Patrick Hamiltonnwrote, “Irrigation is the life of agriculturenin the Territory. Without it scarcelynanything can be raised; with it the soil isnthe most prolific in...

Some of the articles are straightforwardnand without bias. Richard A.nWehmhoefer does an excellent job ofnexplaining water law in the Southwestnand giving the historical precedent fornit, as does Albert E. Utton in his studynof Mexican-American water relations.nOther articles, as one would expect in anbook largely written by professors ofnpolitical science and public administration,nare heavily slanted in...

spending had a significant negative netnimpact on the economy.” Those whoncite only Japan as an example of ancountry exhibiting lower defense spendingnwith higher economic growth asncompared to the United States overtooknthe counterexamples of South Korean(higher defense spending, higherngrowth) and Western Europe (lowerndefense spending, lower growth). Whatnis more, “the reduced role of ideologyn[in the world] does...

continued employment to Ed Meese.nParticular features of the independentncounsel law can be criticized, especiallynthe fact that it does not apply tonCongress. The principle behind the independentnprosecutor statute — thatnthe targets of investigations should notncontrol the investigators — is fundamentalnto the rule of law.nBut that is the old conservativenlearning. The new strict construction,nas practiced by born-again...

Kusumoto would like his fellow nativenJapanese to remember how thingsnwere when the shoe was on the othernfoot. He’d like the Japanese to opennthe doors to American rice and othernagricultural imports. But he also wantsnthe U.S. to stop ranting about penetratingnthe Japanese domestic market.nThat penetration has been accomplished,nhe notes. But it is also verynimportant to recognize...

ble Faun of the 1850’s. This randomngame of historical hopscotch makes itnall but impossible for even the educatednreader to see development in ournnation’s response to Rome.nTopics and personalities are scatterednthroughout the two volumes.nCole’s The Course of Empire is discussednin two separate chapters, andnwe get to see only three of the fivenpaintings. Margaret Fuller’s and NathanielnHawthorne’s...

Friends or Strangers: The Impactnof Immigrants on the U.S.nEconomynby George J. BorjasnNew York: Basic Books;n274 pp., $22.95nThe Economic Consequences ofnImmigrationnby Julian L. SimonnCambridge: Basil Blackwell;n402 pp., $59.95nThe publication of a Julian Simonnbook is a cause for rejoicingnamong advocates of laissez-faire andnopen-border immigration. According tonDr. Simon, who teaches business administrationnat the University of Marylandnand is an...

The Years of Lyndon Johnson:nMeans of Ascentnhy Robert A. CawnNew York: Alfred A. Knopf;n506 pp., $24.95nWhen on January 3, 1949, LyndonnBaines Johnson of Texasnwas sworn in as a United States senator,nan era in the politics of his state hadncome to an end, a period that hadnbegun when Reconstruction concluded.nSimilar events occurred in othernSouthern states, as...

Tar Heel Deadnby Clyde Wilsonn”In my honest and unbiased judgment, the Good Lord will place the Garden ofnEden in North Carolina, when He restores it to earth. He will do this becausenHe will have so few changes to make in order to achieve perfection.”n— Sam J. Ervin Jr.nDictionary of North CarolinanBiographynYAited by William S. PowellnChapel...

Forty Years in thenAmericannWildernessnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.nConfessions of annOriginal Sinnernby John LukacsnNew York: Ticknor & Fields;n328 pp., $19.95nIt is probably fair to say that JohnnLukacs, the Hungarian-Americannhistorian and historical philosopher, authornof 13 books, remains after morenthan forty years an enigma to Americannhistorians in particular and to Americannpolitical intellectuals in general. Thenhistorical profession, which persists innrefusing...

“the increasing intrusion of mind intonthe structure of material events.” Economicnforces, he was beginning tonperceive, far from being the determiningnfacts of history, are not even reallynvery important ones. “It took me anquarter of a century to formulate this:nthat the very opposite of not only whatnKarl Marx but also of what AdamnSmith had said is true...

beautiful ears, “enormous innocentnears,” says Seymour-Smith: “Thenwinglike ears add to his delicacy, andnmust have excited women and othersnwho could love men.” Wolcott thenndied, and Kipling married his unattractivensister because she knew his guiltynsecret. And that would have been that,nexcept that Kipling was also a geniusnpossessed by a daimon that kept thenflame of liberal and humane...

Vidal doesn’t go that way, but he hasnbeen flying high as a popular writer. Anmillion five, which I’m told was hisnadvance on Hollywood, may not be anrecord, but it’s nothing to sniffs at,nparticularly when the performance is asnconsistent and reliable as his has been.n”I am,” he likes to say, “the secondrichestnserious writer in the world.”nThis...

Lost innWonderlandnby Gregory McNameenDisappearing Through thenSkylight: Culture and Technologynin the Twentieth Centurynby O.B. Hardison, Jr.nNew York: Viking Press;n389 pp., $22.95nIt’s a brave new world out there.nFactory workers are made of metalnand plastic; money, an increasingly abstractnproposition, is made and lost notnin workshops and fields but on flickeringnscreens; databases grind through a millionnmainframes, assembling your biographynand...

What I Saw at the Revolutionnhy Peggy NoonannNew York: Random House;n353 pp., $19.95nThis book is at once a strange objectnand a peculiar event. To touch onnthe latter for a moment, it was excerptednbefore publication in the New YorknTimes Sunday Magazine, which chosenwith an unerring eye those passagesnmost damaging to Ronald Reagan andnhis administration. Using those...

Edward Abbey: R.I.P.nby Wayne Luttonn”By retaining one’s love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and toads, onenmakes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable.”n— George OrwellnHayduke Lives!nby Edward AbbeynBoston: Little, Brownnand Company;n308 pp., ^18.95nWith the death of Edward Abbey,naged 62, in March of last year,nthe Western portion of what once wasnreally the...

Dancing Mannby Russell KirknFrom Eden to Babylon: The Socialnand Political Essays of AndrewnNelson LytlenEdited and Introducednby ME. BradfordnWashington: Regnery Gateway;n290 pp., $19.95nAfew months past there came tonvisit us for a weekend, at our housenin the backwoods, Mr. Andrew Lytle,nman of letters, aged 87 years. Althoughnthere are not many big houses farthernnorth than ours, and although...

convert practically anybody into anSouthern partisan. The picture of thentypical Southern family farm in hisnfamous essay “The Hind Tit” — thatnfarm before industrialization — is marvelouslynwinning; it tempts this northernnreviewer to taste sallet, or turnipngreens.nAndrew Nelson Lytle does not despair.n”The South may well become thensalvation of this country yet, both atnhome and abroad,” he writes...

gent man who knew Lewis well. Butnthere is a certain myopia that comesnfrom such a perspective, too. Furthermore,nas is well-known, some majornprimary sources have become availablento serious researchers since Sayer finishednthe first draft of his book. Fornexample, over two thousand volumesnfrom C.S. Lewis’s personal library —nmany complete with his incisive marginalnnotes — were acquired and...

The Shiny Surfacenof Obscuritynby Cosma SianinMottetti, Poems of Love: ThenMotets of Eugenio MontalenTranslated and Introducednby Dana GioianSaint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press;n77 pp., $14.95na obody would write verse ifnN poetry were a question ofn’making oneself understood’; indeed, itnis a question of making understood thatnquiddity which words alone fail tonconvey.” This much-quoted statementnby Eugenio Montale, the Nobel...

peculiar mood, as in Motet X:nWhy are you waiting? Thensquirrel in the pine treenbeats its torchlike tail on thenbark.nThe half moon sinks with onentip fadingninto the sun. The day isnfinished.nThe lazy smoke is startled by anbreezenbut gathers itself to cover you.nNothing will end, or everything,nif you,nthe flash of lightning, leave thencloud.n(A misprint must have escaped...

that they became immensely funnynand perfectly unusable for later poets.nNow at the end of his life Ovid camenfull circle and showed that great poetryncould indeed be built on the rag-andbonenshop of personal experience andnemotion.nSlavitt’s renderings are related tonOvid’s exile poetry as Shakespeare’snVenus and Adonis relates to the Metamorphoses.nThey are an attempt tonsolve Ovid’s problem as...

With cheeky, college-age lesbiannhippies running in and out of hernoffice, yelling and playing rock music,nshe did scream: “I lost my tempernwhile trying to write a check.” Hernperfectly natural outburst “proved” tonthe communards that she had enteredna manic stage and was losing her mind.nThey ganged up on her and naggednher to take her Lithium, and evennthough...

OPINIONSnLittle Jimmy’s Last Hurrahnby Clyde Wilsonn”A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation.”n— James Freeman ClarkenThe Last of the Fathers:nJames Madison and thenRepublican Legacynby Drew R. McCoynCambridge and New York:nCambridge University Press;n386 pp., $29.95nJames Madison was not “The Fathernof the Constitution.” I know younwere probably taught that in school. Inmyself...

J acobnA Man for Distinctionsnby Paul Gottfriedn’The Jews are a race apart. They have made laws according to their own fashion, and keep them.”nThe Ecology of Religion:nFrom Writing to Religion innthe Study of Judaismnhy ]acob NeusnernNashville: Abingdon Press;n320 pp., $27.95nNeusner’s bibliography is asnlong as the laundry list of a professionalnfootball team. Only in his mid-n50’s,...

The Homesteadnby Chilton Williamson, ]r.nNew York: Grove Weidenfeld;n288 pp., $18.95nThere’s a story about the filming ofnThe Big Sleep that ought to bentrue even if it isn’t. When HowardnHawks was supervising the final cut henrealized he didn’t know who had killednthe butler, so he summoned thenscreenwriter, William Faulkner, to findnout. Faulkner’s response was Helliflknow.nThe two of...

The Warriors andnthe Warnby Neal F. FreemannThe Long Gray Line: ThenAmerican Journey of West Point’snClass of 1966nby Rick AtkinsonnBoston and New York: HoughtonnMifflin; 576 pp., $24.95nIn the spring of 1962, the great Irishnwit John F. Kennedy journeyed tonNew Haven to accept an honorary degree.nHe was in good form. “I now feelnthat I have the best...

with each other over the design of thenVietnam Veterans Memorial, exorcisingndemons, pummehng each othernin the national media, praying for respect.nAtkinson’s tale is epic, and his tellingnof it is a masterwork, the great book onnthe Vietnam era. Throughout, he doesnhis reader the great service of separatingnthe warrior from the war, allowingnus to hear the words that...