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Polonophobia

Paul Gottfried - DECEMBER 01, 1996

Since the fall of the Soviet Empire, no former Soviet captive nation has fared as badly as Poland in the American press.

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VIEWS

Tar and Feathering the South
Michael Hill - DECEMBER 01, 1996
Demonization as a political and social stratagem knows no temporal or geographical bounds; it is a ploy as old as civilization itself.
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Principalities & Powers

The Ruling Class
Samuel Francis - DECEMBER 01, 1996
One of the ironies of American political discussion in the last generation or so— indeed, of the last century—has been that, for all our boasting and braggadocio about being a nation founded on the proposition that all men are created equal, it...
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Cultural Revolutions

Defining Relationships
Harold O.J. Brown - DECEMBER 01, 1996
The "Defense of Marriage Act" was making its way through Congress as these lines were being written. Having passed the House, the debate was turned, by the "good" offices of Senator Edward Kennedy, into a joint defense of marriage and homosexual...
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REVIEWS

A Good Communitarian Is Hard to Find
George Carey - DECEMBER 01, 1996
This thoughtful and provocative analysis of the new communitarianism can profitably be viewed as a case study in how liberalism, not unlike scheming alien forces in sci-fi movies, assumes new and attractive forms to beguile the unwary.
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REVIEWS

And What Isn't . . .
Paul Gottfried - DECEMBER 01, 1996
In this collection of his occasional papers, David Frum once again demonstrates his worthiness to the harmless persuasion. Having agonized over his uneven prose, I finally concluded that Frum's intellectual weaknesses are his practical strengths.
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REVIEWS

The Washington Touch
Sol Schindler - DECEMBER 01, 1996
Warren Zimmermann was the last American Ambassador to Yugoslavia (from 1989 to 1992), and his memoir is of historical interest, but not for reasons the author intended.
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