to conceal his admiration for the thinrnblue line that protects defenseless foreign-rnborn criminals from our homegrownrnones: “the San Diego Police Departmentrnoperates a . . . unit that patrolsrnthe canyons every night assuring surprisedrnillegal immigrants that they arernthere to protect them.” And the protectionrndoesn’t stop at the border. Accordingrnto McDonald, “the State’s Attorney’srnOffice in Montgomery Country [sic],rnMaryland, has begun operating a ‘theftrnof services’ unit, which deals primarilyrnwith getting justice for illegal immigrantsrncheated by employers who often threatenrnto report them to INS if they complain.”rnYour tax dollars at work.rn• Free at Last: The London Times reportsrnthat an increasing number ofrnyoung career women in England arernchoosing sterilization, even before thevrnget married. Living in a man’s world,rnthe)’ view children with all the maternalrnfeeling of a CPA. A 27-year-old “salesrnmanager for a health companv,” who wasrnsterilized at age 25, is a typical case, accordingrnto the Times: “I always knew Irndid not want to have children; I don’t likernthem and could see no reason why Irnshouldn’t be sterilised. My mother wasrnthrilled when I told her. She is not vervrnmaternal cither, and I am an only child.”rn(Apparently she’s now decided that onernchild was too many.) “But my grandmotherrnwas devastated. She thmksrneverybody should breed like rabbits.”rnBehind this upsurge in sterilizations isrnthe feminist belief that a woman can’trnlive a full life unless she denies her veryrnnature: “I felt liberated when I had itrndone and was glad to have put thernmotherhood issue behind me. .. . Myrnpartner… is as anti-children as I am, andrnsees it as a bonus.” No doubt. After all,rnhe can always change his mind.rnO B I T E R DICTA: The League of thernSouth (formedy the Southern League)rnconducted its first summer school in earlyrnJuly on Johns Island, South Carolina.rnBy all accounts, it was a stunning success.rnMore than half of the students attendedrnbecause the} saw an advertisement inrnChronicles, and some came from exoticrnlocales such as California, New York, andrnMinnesota. The next summer schoolrnwill be held on Johns Island in late Junern1998. The Southern League, by the way,rnhas changed its name to the League ofrnthe South in order to avoid confusionrnwith the Southern League baseballrnleague. Please make the appropriaternchanges in your back issues of Chronicles.rnMichael Washburn, the assistant editorrnof Chronicles for the past three years, hasrnreturned to his old stomping grounds ofrnBrooklyn, New York. He now works forrnThames and Hudson, the British publishingrnfirm. We wish him well in hisrnnew career. Our new assistant editor,rnScott Richert, is no stranger to thesernpages. He has worked at the RoekfordrnInstitute for almost two years and directsrnthe Institute’s Main Street Voices op-edrnprogram and our new Main StreetrnSpeakers’ Bureau. I le and his wife, Amv,rnhave two children, Rebekah and Jacob.rnLIniversity of Calgarv classics professorrnBarry Baldwin, whose article “Crime,rnPunishment, and Civility” appeared inrnthe August issue of Chronicles, has beenrnelected to the Royal Society of Canada.rnThe Royal Society’s citation reads inrnpart: “In over a dozen books and 400rnscholarly papers, Baldwin has earned anrninternational reputation for his acuternstudies of the classical wodd and late antiquity.”rnWe congratulate him on thisrnaugust honor.rnThe poetry of Harold McCurdy returnsrnto our pages this month. The author ofrneight volumes of verse, Mr. MeCurdy’srncurrent collection is Realizing Westward.rnChronicles is illustrated this month by H.rnWard Sterett, an artist who works in a varietyrnof media. A resident of Roseoe, Illinois,rnMr. Sterett has traveled widely andrnparticipated in snow-sculpting competitionsrnin Sweden and Switzerland.rnChronicles is now sold at the followingrnstores in Tennessee: Little ProfessorrnBook Center, Northtown Center, Hixon;rnDavis Kidd Booksellers Inc., 113 NorthrnPeters Rd., Knoxville; Anderson News,rn10612 Dutchtown Rd., Knoxville;rnWilliams Booksellers Ltd., 262 HeritagernPark Dr., Murfreesboro; Davis KiddrnBooksellers, 869 North Pkwy., Jackson;rnDavis Kidd Booksellers, 4007 HillsborornRd., Nashville; Media Play, 100 OaksrnMall, Nashville; Media Play, Hickoryrn} follow Mall, Antioch; Media’Play, CunbarrelrnCrossing, Chattanooga; MediarnPlay, Cool Springs Market, Franklin; TobaccornCorner News Room, 671 S.rnMendenhall, Memphis; Barnes & NoblernSuperstore, Cermantown Village, Memphis.rnThe Stance Of Atlas by Peter F.rnErickson Examines Ayn Rand’srnPhilosophy of ObjectivismrnAyn Rand’s major teactiings arernconsidered in detail. In addition tornthis, special attention is given to thernrelation of her philosophy ofrnObjectivism to Einstein’s theory ofrnrelativity and also to DialecticalrnMaterialism (the intellectual basis ofrnMarxism).rnAyn Rand’s rejection of collectivismrnis not disputed. Her position on thernefficacy of reason remains—also herrnacceptance of freewill.rnAyn Rand’s epistemological andrnmetaphysical teachings are subjectedrnto extensive criticism. Her attempt tornsolve the problem of universals isrnshown to be a failure. The Stance OfrnAtlas actually provides the correctrnsolution. She believed, incorrectly,rnthat Objectivism has the key tornanswering the problem of induction.rnThe Stance Of Atlas shows that thisrnproblem was basically solved by arnforgotten English logician early in thisrncentury. Contrary to Rand’srnObjectivism, it is established thatrnreason is open to the possibility ofrnGod’s existence.rnAyn Rand’s attempt to found a newrnmorality is shown to be less than whatrnshe took it to be. The defense ofrnfractional reserve banking made byrnAlan Greenspan in Rand’s book onrncapitalism is related. Other importantrnissues are discussed.rnConsiderably less relativistic thanrnObjectivism, The Stance Of Atlas isrnalso implicitly more individualistic.rn364 pages, including index.rnPaperback.rnPRICE: $19.95 +$4.00 for postagernand handling.rnCHECKS, CREDIT CARDS (Visa,rnMaster, Amex).rnTOLL FREE: 1-888-492-2001.rnOR MAIL TO:rnHERAKLES PRESS, INC.rnRO. BOX 8725rnPortland, OR 97207.rnOCTOBER 1997/9rnrnrn