which means that a newspaper or television news division is onerncomponent of a chain of business ventures that may also includernfast food and computers, sports teams and book publishing.rnThese connections cannot fail to constrain the investigativernambitions of editors or journalists, who fall underrnenormous pressures to exhibit corporate loyalty. Few . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe...
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The Politics of Morbid Fascination
Rafael Palmeiro has ED. How do I know? He told me. He told you, too. Heck, he told the whole country about 15 years ago. He went on national television (while intermittently swinging a big bat—Freudian subtlety is lost on the Madison Avenue types) to say that he . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now...
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Bring Me a Grape
What a peculiar, in some respects downright weird little world this fascinating biography introduces us to. Imagine a very clever, very plain, very spoiled little boy, born at the turn of the century into the intensely competitive upper-middle or lower-aristocratic class in Britain. Conventional success at sports . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to...
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Cultural Revolutions
really rock and roll, he would have beennas welcome as the young West Germannwho landed his plane in Red Square.nPerhaps the Politburo only wanted to getna closer look at Christie Brinkley.nThe last American musician to benattacked in the Soviet press was MichaelnJackson, and that was when he wasnmerely . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now...
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The Albatross
vive and advance within its ranks are likely to be less treacherousrnand to retain more allegiance to ethnic, community, andrnsocial bonds than managers in the law-abiding firms. Nevertheless,rnthe Commission system inaugurated by Luciano andrnLansky did reduce internecine wars, vendettas, and unauthorizedrnassassinations among the gangs for a generation. Corporaternmanagement . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now...
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An Epic Bogosity
Edmund Spenser (1554-99) decided while still a student to make himself into the great English poet on the model of Vergil. So he began his publishing career with a set of 12 pastorals, and planned an enormous 24-book allegorical romance-epic, The Faerie Queene, to glorify Elizabeth . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access...
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On Morality in Film
In his review of John Boorman's The Tailor of Panama (In the Dark, June), George McCartney comments in detail and at great length on what he . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article and gain access to other exclusive features. Already a subscriber? Sign in here
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Screen
Goodbye, Peter Pan The Big Chill; Directed by Lawrence Kasdan It is unique in that it has something for virtually everyone to hate. Consider the . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article and gain access to other exclusive features. Already a subscriber? Sign in here
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Criticism Lite
Any reader familiar with Martin Amis' novels—especially his most recent, Money: A Suicide Note (1984)—will not be surprised by the relentlessly contemptuous tone of The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America, a collection of his essays and articles on America and Americans . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article...
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Old Possum in his Letters
"Talent is an adornment; an adornment is also a concealment." —Nietzsche "I think one's letters ought to be X about oneself (I live up to this theory!)—what else is there to talk about? Letters should be indiscretions—otherwise they . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article and gain access to other...
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The Commodities Exchange
suffer cuts.nGoldman pays tribute to the manynspontaneous and automatic decisionsnthat are made in a market economy andnMWch produce its flexibility and responsivenessnto consumer demands. However,nit is not clear that Goldman wouldnreject central plarming if it would dropnCentral planning is handicapped evennfiirther in an era of technological revolution.nInnovation . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to...
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Secularism and the Mosque Flap
Let's say the mosque (you know what mosque) gets built, as it certainly might, public opinion notwithstanding. What's the next theological concession America's Christian churches get to make in the name of brotherhood, sisterhood, pluralism, world peace and amity, the reconstruction of America's image, etc., etc.? First it's one thing, ...
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Indispensable Petrarch
Old-fashioned English professors like to speak of "the Canon" in reverential tones, as if there were a list of great books as ancient as the Spartan king list and as hallowed as the kyrie. In fact, what they usually have in mind is a rummage sale . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access...
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PERSPECTIVEnVIEV^SnLiberalism: CoUectivist and Conservativenby Edward ShilsnThe war over a term and its definitions.nBuchenwald's Second Life by George WatsonnThe Soviets did not close this concentration camp.nOPINIONSnThe Straight and Narrow by Timothy Ashby 20nHernando de Soto: The Other Path: The InvisiblenRevolution in the Third World.nIn statist Peru . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the...
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The Fading of Feminism
Writing her column the other day in a London newspaper, a feminist confessed that the women’s movement that started some 25 years ago had “spluttered to a halt.” Many a middle-aged feminist nowadays will tell you the same thing. The young, they will say with an air of regret, meaning their daughters and the friends...
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Polemics & Exchanges
EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, Jr.rnMANAGING EDITORrnScott P. RichertrnART DIRECTORrnH. Ward SterettrnDESIGNERrnMelanie AndersonrnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnKatherine Dalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rn].0. Tate, Michael Washburn,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, Donald Livingston,rnWilliam Mills, William Murchison,rnAndrei Navrozov, Jacob NeusnerrnFOREIGN AFFAIRS EDITORrnSrdja TrifkovicrnLEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORrnStephen B. PresserrnRELIGION EDITORrnHarold O . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article...
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4 Comment James]. Thompson, Jr.nOpinions & Viewsn6 Things He Believed In Allan C. Carlsonn--- The Eisenhower Diaries: Edited bynRobert H. Ferrelln8 Ryan's World Lee Congdonn--- William Ryan: Equalityn10 The Imagination Freak Betsy Clarken--- John Ir'ing: The Hotel New Hampshiren12 Foreign Fiascos & Domestic Mire Alan ]. Levinen--- Oscar . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now...
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Chicken Soup Starring: The Marx Bros.
"How can tyrants safely govern home I Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?"—William Shakespeare There is something compelling in reading about spies and something compelling as well about spying, or we would not have so many spies to read about, fictional or not. Our . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now...
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Myths, Visions, Passions
must be handled with some delicacy.nFor reasons that are inexplicable fromneither her photographs or her poetry,nRiding exercised a magnetic appeal toncertain personalities that has given her anlegendary stature out of proportion tonher artistic achievements. But she cannotnbe dismissed simply as the archetypalnOther Woman. Although married at thentime, Riding . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now...
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Maxims for American Intellectuals
(good for putting down right-wing bigots at cocktail parties or in the classroom) Taking off your shoes at the airport is patriotic . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article and gain access to other exclusive features. Already a subscriber? Sign in here
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Great Expectations
tar Fund have failed.rnA principal reason that some areas remain mired in povert' isrnthat populations are far larger than they were when internationalrnaid began. (Populations are still growing, although the rate ofrngrowth has deelined.) Plots of land per farm family are significantlyrnsmaller than 50 years ago, so rural populations . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe...
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Comment
No one, to our recollection, has tried to summarize thenLiberal Culture's overall stance, so let us try.nThe Liberal Culture has a philosophy. It is based on mistakingnthe spontaneity of life instincts for indeterminism. Such anview of the nature of life brings permissiveness forward as thenultimate guide for existence . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now...
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The Allure of the Lurid
Reviews of Blonde, adapted from the Joyce Carol Oates biographical novel of the same title, and the 1951 film, The Enforcer.
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Religion: A Christian Critique of American Foreign Policy
immoral, and viciously self-serving characterrnof much of American foreign policyrntoday. This attitude gives the policies ofrnthis great, but disfigured, nation their anti-rnChristian character.rnAn important difference between today'srnWestern atrocities and those of therncommunists and the Nazis is to be foundrnin the hypocrisy in which Allied brutalityrnclothes itself . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access...
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Great Expectations
Foreign aid, like other forms of aid, is a subsidy that distorts choice. The distortion takes many forms; for example, aid is sometimes put to uses unintended by the giver; it also lets the recipient pursue activities below their real cost. Since President Harry Truman launched the foreign-aid crusade, U.S. economic aid to developing nations...
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Second Thoughts
hurlers, big-talking nothing-doing rioters who shut downnuniversities and disrupted the Democratic Convention innChicago, 1968. I thought then and I continue to think ofnthem as spoiled children who, if they could not have thisncountry on their own terms, would do anything they couldnto destroy it.nThey were, by and . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to...
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Have a Good Day
does public virtue barely exist, there arernfew incentives for it ever to flourishrnagain! In fact, it could be reasonablyrnargued that public virtue existed inrnAmerica only for brief moments, at ourrnnation's inception and perhaps at a fewotherrntimes, and that ever since each newrnday has brought its further diminishment.rnIn our . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now...
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Shall We Gather by the River?
When I was invited last spring to be a judge at the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest some envious backbiters put it about that it wasn't because I'm well known as a discriminating ami de swine, but because my sister knows the . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the...
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Liberal Culture
horror and suffering, vows to eradicatenthe very notion of progress from thenhuman soul. This forefather has children,ngrandchildren and great-grandchildren,nand when he is about to expire,nhis most beloved offspring---annexceptionally bright lad---sketches fornhim, with a stick in the sand, an ideanof a wheel. The patriarch tries . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full...
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Boredom, Sex, and Murder
result in fiction is more tiresome thanneven pathetic. Mailer's figures live in anhigh-voltage world of internal and externalnviolence. His protagonists standnready at any moment to confront thenexistential challenges which will securenor compromise their manhood,nbring them closer to psychic salvationnor to the onset of cancer. As a result . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to...
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Doe Fever
In entrechats each fluttering insectrntherernRose two steep yards in air,rnThen slowly floated down to climbrnonce more,rnSo that thev all composed a manifoldrnAnd figured scene.rnAnd seemed the weavers of somerncloth of gold,rnOr the fine pistons of some brightrnmachine.rnWatching these lifelong dancers ofrna dayrnAs night closed in . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the...
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plied a criticism of the structure of thenU.S. Congress itself did not seem tontrouble the justices.) The governor'snpress secretary, Susan Neely, expressedndoubts about this interpretation.nShe noted that the most prominentnopponents of the lottery werenfundamentalist preachers in urbannchurches. But a 1983 poll conductednby the Des Moines Register and . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to...
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The Grit and the Gritless
True Grit Produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen The Green Hornet Produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures Directed by Michel Gondry Screenplay by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg The King’s Speech . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article and gain access to...
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Cultural Revolutions
withstanding that the minutes of thenmeeting are a matter of record.) In ansubsequent, poorly-attended meetingnof full professors of arts and sciences, anproposal that Gottfried's credentials benconsidered was turned down. As onenparticipant put it, Gottfried was "ideologicallyndangerous."nSince Paul Gottfried has enjoyedncivil debates and friendly relations withnmany Straussians, particulariy . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to...
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the Marquis de Sade writ large. It is anmatter of record that Ivan ordered andnoften took part in the torture of thousandsnof men and women, that henmarried nine times, and that he killednhis own son in a rage. Still, a fixationnon Ivan's brutality does not help usnunderstand how he . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe...
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Correspondence
antihistamine.nAllen wishes to visualize the poetrynof city lore, but those who remembernRenoir, Rene Clair, Capra or DeSica,nquickly realize the charmlessness of hisnefforts. He has no knack for telling anstory visually; he needs words, a delugenof words---in fact, in all of Manhattan,nthere's only one sequence that . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the...
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Lamentations of a Recovering Marxist
"Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes." —Elbert Hubbard The case for pessimism has been easy to make since Lincoln, and mandatory since Franklin Roosevelt. Today, not much is left of . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article and gain...
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Pope Garry the Great: Bare Ruined Choirs
not riting about Roman law but his ownrnsins against Christian morality, and of hisrnconversion.rnThe most recent example of Wills'rnmethod of politicizing a subjectrnwhile undermining his own claim to intellectualrnindependence is found in hisrnorgy of polymorphous perversit)', PapalrnSin: Structures of Deceit. Wills pays tributernto two ex-priests (one of . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to...
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Letter From Finland
equally massive, massy Krishna temple inrnLondon—which seems inevitable, gicnrnthe feebleness of (especially Anglican)rnChristianity, the anti-Western bias ofrnthe multieulturalist ideolog', and thern1991 Census statistics which demonstraternthat white Britons in the boroughrnof Brent will almost certainl- be in thernminority within 20 years. John Major'srnfamous speech to the contrary . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access...
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Cultural Revolutions
grain of truth in it. He is a ferocious criticrnof globalization and its faceless corporaternculture, and a staunch opponent ofrnNAFIA, the Wl'O, the IMF, and thernWorld Bank. Nader argues that the greatestrnthreat toda' to "traditional values"rndocs not come from Marxism or evenrncountercultural leftism; rather, he insistsrnthe most revolutionary . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now...
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Deciding What’s Bias
" 'Darling, you are a silly old Oxfordndon, it is only a word.'n'Only a word?~s,otry. No, this wholenthing is all about language.' "nIn this terrible qtaagmire of abused andnbloodied language, there seems to benno way out. Jake has no "strong barriersnof moral conviction [that] can be raisednagainst . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to...
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The Goading of America
The Goading of AmericanFisher Ames is the Founding Father who draws a blank.nFew people today have heard of him, yet he wrote thenfinal version of the First Amendment, and his speech onnJay's Treaty, delivered when he was the leader of thenFederalists in the First Congress, was called the . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now...
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Moujik ‘n’ Pulp Sandwich
norm for the New York literary andnintellectual establishment, it is silly fornme to condemn it. It is the same as goingnto an operetta and then announcing thatnthe content is both trite and haphazard,nthe scenery gaudy, the costumes garish,nthe music atrocious, and the singersncannot sing. After all, this is . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now...