than that proclaimed by the WarrennCourt in Brown nearly sixty years later.nIn Brown, only state-enforced schoolnsegregation was struck down. Marian’snreasoning would forbid private racialndiscrimination as well, and it isnHarian’s view that Mr. Thomas andnother Jaffa disciples chanipion.nJaffa-ite Kenneth M. Holland hasnwritten that “The Court [in 1883 andn1896] erroneously held that the ThirteenthnAmendment did not reach pri­nvate acts of racial discrimination” andnthat “By itself, the Thirteenth Amendmentnprohibited all forms of racialndiscrimination practiced by governmentsnor by individuals and corporationsnproviding public services.” ThenCourt’s error, in Mr. Holland’s view,nwas illuminated only by the dissent ofnJustice Harian, and Mr. Thomas substantiallynconcurs. “Justice Harian understood,nas did Lincoln,” Mr. Thomasnwrites in the Howard Law Journal,nGREAT TOPICS, GREAT ISSUESnCaught in the Cash Nexus — April 1991n— Irving Horowitz and Mary Curtis onn”bottom-line” thinking and national productivity,nJosh Ozersky on the seduction of cable’snNick at Nite, and Thomas Molnar on whynEuropean unification will never occur. PlusnSamuel Francis on the European New Right,nGeorge Carey on the present health of thenConstitution, and Frank Bryan on the casenfor Vermont’s secession.nU.S.S.R.: Crack-up or Crackdown? — Junen1991 — Andrei Navrozov on Soviet deceptionnand the liberation of Eastern Europe, YurinMaltsev on the unveiling of Soviet myths,nArnold Beichman on Gorbachev and reform,nJay Kinney on the state of Soviet propaganda,nand Thomas Fleming on the lessons Americancan learn from the Soviet Union. Plus JeffreynTucker on enterprise zones, and MatthewnScully’s review of Carl Rowan’s autobiography.nPenny Dreadfuls — August 1991 — RobertnSampson on adventure fiction, Richard S.nWheeler on the cliches of the traditionalnWestern, and Thomas Fleming on thenUtopian and dystopian visions of science fiction.nPlus Llewellyn H. Rockwell onnChristopher Lasch’s The True and OnlynHeaven, Ellen Wilson Fielding on ElizabethnFox-Genovese’s Feminism Without Illusions,nand Bill Kauffman on the life and work ofnHenry W. Clune.nConservative Movement: R.I.P.? — Mayn1991 — Six views on conservatism by WicknAllison, Charley Reese, Clyde Wilson,nMurray N. Rothbard, Howard Phillips, andnDonald Devine. Plus Samuel Francis on thenfailure of American conservatism, FlorencenKing on misanthropy, Chilton Williamson onnthe history of isolationism, and Peter Stanlis’ ,nvindication of Edmund Burke.nThe Promise of American Life — July 1991n— Chilton Williamson on the cultural andnenvironmental arguments against increasednimmigration, Richard Estrada on the impactnof immigration on Hispanic-Americans,nThomas Fleming on how Ellis Island hasnsuperceded Jamestown and Plymouth Rock,nand novelist Edward Redlinski’s account ofnemigrating to America. Plus Milton Rosenbergnon Paul de Man and J.O. Tate on thenmusic of Ignaz Friedman.nCultural Amnesia — September 1991 —nJacob Neusner on the loss of knowledge andnits consequences, George Watson on the rolenof the literal man, Anthony Harrigan on thenimportance of dreams and reveries, andnTheodore Pappas on the meaning of the NewnWorld Order. Plus Frank Brownlow onnDinesh D’Souza’s Illiberal Education, JacknD. Douglas on the sex studies of AlfrednKinsey, and Lorrin Anderson on the politicsnof television docudrama.nBACK ISSUE ORDER FORM Each issue $5.00 (postage & handling included)nTITLE DATEnQty. CostnCaught in the Cash Nexus April 1991nConservative Movement: R.I.P.? May 1991nU.S.S.R.: Crack-up or Crackdown? June 1991nThe Promise of American LifenPenny DreadfulsnCultural Amnesian’ Name.nCity_n12/CHRONICLESnJuly 1991nAugust 1991nSeptember 1991nAddress _nTotal Enclosed $nState . ZipnMail with check to: Chronicles • 934 N. Main Street • Rockford, IL 61103nnnJn”that his task was to bring out the bestnof the Founders’ arguments regardingnthe universal principles of equality andnliberty.”nAnd logically so. If equality as thenJaffa school understands it is the premisenof American government, then itnmust be universal and uncompromisingnin its application. Mr. Jaffa’s factionnhas manufactured a rationale by whichnany social or individual act, if it can benshown to involve “discrimination” andntherefore to perpetuate some supposititiousn”badge of slavery,” can be extirpatednby the state on the grounds thatnit violates the imperative of equalitynthat Mr. Jaffa and his academy ofnastrologers spy in their metaphysicalnzodiac. Not just the segregation ofnpublic facilities but also any privatenchoice that reflects a desire for racialnhomogeneity: choosing to live in anwhite neighborhood, to send one’snchildren to a white school, or merely tonassociate with other white people.nThese, in the absolutist Weltanschauungnof the Jaffa-ites, are not matters ofnindividual preference but transgressionsnof the egalitarian message thenschool sees carved in the face of thenheavens.nHow far the Jaffa school in generalnand Mr. Thomas in particular arenwilling to carry the ideological missionnthey have shouldered is not clear, butntwo warning signs should be posted.nFirst, regardless of how far they wish toncarry it themselves, the country todaynis full of crackpots and demagoguesnwho are eager to push the implicationsnof equality to the limit and beyond.nSecond, the Jaffa doctrines do nothingnto resist or to challenge these implicationsnor their champions. Indeed, it isnthe proudest boast of Mr. Jaffa’s adherentsnthat the tree of equality will bearnmuch larger fruit if it is planted in thensoil of “natural rights” rather than innthe sociological compost heap of thenegalitarian left.nBut the tree is the same speciesnnonetheless and is scarcely to be distinguishednfrom the egalitarianism of thenleft. It is no less and perhaps even morenrevolutionary and totalitarian in its implications,nand serious conservativesnought to understand and repudiate it asnstrongly as they do the more commonnvariety that Thurgood Marshall and hisnown school leave behind them.nn