ChroniclesrnA M A G A Z I N E OF A M E R I C A N C U L T U RErnPERSPECTIVErnCabbages and Wormsrnby Thomas FHemingrnLessons from Lombardia.rnVIEWS CORRESPONDENCErnPolonophobia by Paul GottfriedrnBeating up on the Poles.rnNazifying the Germans by Ralph RaicornThe stereotype lives on.rnTar and Feathering the South by Michael HillrnI lomcgrown hate.rnThe Russian Demon by Wayne AllensworthrnSlavophiles and Russophobes.rnThe Media War Against the Serbsrnby Negovan RajicrnThe triumph of propaganda.rnDemon States by Philip JenkinsrnThe construction of a terrorist network.rnOPINIONSrnA Good Communitarian Is Hard to Findrnby George W. CareyrnBruce Frohnen: The New Communitarians andrnthe Crisis of Modern Liberalism.rnOne source of our decline.rnREVIEWSrnDavid Frum’s What’s Right The NewrnConservative Majority and the Remakingrnof America seldom rises above boilerplate,rnreports Paul Gottfried ••• Gregory McNameernrecommends The Run of His Life: ‘I’he PeoplernV. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin • •rnSol Schindler gives a mixed review of Originsrnof a Catastrophe by Warren Zimmermann •rnThe Fennel Family Papers by William Baldwin is arncomic satire, writes Loxley F. Nichols • •rn12rn15rn18rn22rn25rn27rn30rn32rnForeign Correspondences: 39rnDown Ecuador Way, Part IIrnby William MillsrnLetter From Pittsburgh; White Devils With a Badge 42rnby Sarah J. McCarthyrnVITAL SIGNSrnFILM: Southern White Trashrnby Margie Burnsrn43rnREGIONALISM: J. Evetts Haley—Cowboy, Patriot 46rnbv Evetts Haley, Jr.rnDEPARTMENTSrnPOLEMICS & EXCHANGESrnCULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnPRINCIPALITIES & POWERSrnThe Ruling Classrnby Samuel FrancisrnTHE HUNDREDTH MERIDIANrnDust Thou Artrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnPOETRYrnCourmayeur, Italyrnby Holley CamprnDecline and Fall andrnWith Loss of Edenrnby Harold McCurdyrnON THE COVERrnCover and inside illustrations by Anatol Woolf.rn4rn5rn37rn49rn14rn21rnJANUARY 1997/3rnrnrn