Contributors
are partaking in another historical goings-on. It is but the latest edition of the miracles of television. Only Americans would think of combining the serious business of a cat house with...
...His campaign was thoroughly infiltrated by Johnson's agents...
...sometime feature editor of National Review, lives in Falls Village, Connecticut, caches at I~dian Mountain School, and works the shell game at fairs and carnivals throughout New England...
...But it is not only the luridities that fascinate the American audience, it is the calamitous-crashing edifices, clouds of dust...
...A life spent in progressive reform is more often than not a life spent overturning garbage cans and stoning alley cats...
...Progress is not their goal, but rather the satisfaction and celebrity that comes from making a commotion-frankly stated, they like to bust things up...
...Every president since John F. Kennedy has viewed himself as a Sun King, and every president since Mr...
...David Brudnoy is a visiting professor of history at the University of Rhode Island, a commentator with WNAC-TV ~CfkSI and WGBH-TV tPBSI in Boston, a free lance writer and lecturer, and an associate of The Alternative...
...The great McGoo was not only a low-grade populist, he was an egregious charlatan, who did everything trashy but campaign in cancer wards...
...All that ever troubled them was some vaguely limned backlash that they expected to see marching out of Indiana or Iowa under the banner of apple pie or the Farm Bureau...
...former editor of the Intercollegiate Review, now works for a Washington research group...
...In 1964 Barry Goldwater's telephones, unbeknownst to him, were transmitting messages all over the globe...
...Roosevelt they have praised forceful presidents for shady statecraft...
...For decades ritualistic liberals have prescribed centralization of power in the White House, and since Franklin...
...The pageantry of Watergate has even transcended the political conventions...
...What is more, many of these hinds spent the golden years of the sixties extolling violent idealists, vulgar rhetoricians, and lawless demonstrators for selected acts of illegality meant to intimidate society and provoke government...
...Veal, a Yale graduate, is a law student at the University of Illinois and a columnist for a campus newspaper Richard Wheeler, journalist and free-lance writer, has recently completed his first book, The Children of Darkness...
...The McGovern campaign was not only a campaign for bad judgment, it was a crusade for tastelessness...
...Phillip Abbott Lute holds an M.A...
...Naturally, this indelicate appetite influences our politics also...
...Contributors Duke J. Armstrong is a former employee of the Office of Economic Opportunity...
...So all the highfalutin piety that has become so infectious amongst the enlightenment mob merely adds to the many lurid visions that arise from the capitol of the great American republic during these golden days...
...Gary North is fm the staff of the Foundation for Efx>nomic Education and the author of Christian Economics, newly released by Craig Press .John Randolph is an assistant to a high public official...
...What surprises me is not that their lurid speculations were so accurate, but that their accompanying observations were so superbly hypocritical...
...Wayne H. Vails...
...Rev...
...This mob of misperceived neomaniaes is forever destroying and disrupting established customs and institutions, because its members suspect them all as being the creations of superior men and because it is always easier for a second-rater to flummox the works than to chisel out some substantial achievement...
...And it was done under the administration of a man who saw his first run at the White House publicly stolen from him in 1960 by Mayor Daley and Lyndon Johnson...
...How else can one explain the celebrity of the unreadable New York Review of Books, unitarianism, astrology in high places, health foods, eastern gurus, and reform politics...
...Y e t - a t the time, such technological achievements were viewed not only as manifestations of the Democrats' superior political wisdom but also of their virtue...
...And when I posit my theory that Americans lust for the lurid and the calamitous, I am not confecting a mere literary flourish...
...Let them glamorize their enthusiasms as "radical" or "progressive" or "advanced" or "liberal...
...For they can only apprehend life when it is painted in blacks, reds, purples, and shocking pinks...
...and the faint sense that somewhoro bodies are writhing and organiam.~ are dying...
...he has authored mmaerous magazine articles and several books, including The New Left, Road to Revolution, and The Intelligent Studentb Guide to Survival Frederick IL Lynch is a graduate student in sociology at the University of California at Riverside...
...Nell Howe, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, is managing editor of The Ahernatit,e...
...This was presidential power exercised for the commonweal...
...Abram N. S;hulsky is an assistant professor of politics at the Catholic University of America i.3 Washinoo/LOn, DC...
...It explains why the American Shakespeare, Norman Mailer, devoted himself to a blowzy biography of Marilyn Monroe...
...9 This vulgar appetite was noted by Mark Twain years ago...
...And it explains why this potboiler will eventually be reviewed with steamy superlatives by all the journals of haute culture in America...
...E.T...
...Life must always be a revelation of incredible treacheries and heinous schemes...
...God was on their side, and so much for old Barry...
...I am presenting an axiom that is the only satisfactory explanation I can lay hands on for our tin pot cognoscenti's repulsive and moronic enthusiasms...
...It explains such enduring American abominations as Hollywo,~M, which has crippled America's legitimate theatre for years...
...To them he was the dream candidate of the century, Bryan without the Holy Spirit...
...That is what the enlightenment mob wants...
...The fundamental American craving for what is lurid and calamitous ensures that when you scratch the average American intellectual you generally discover a slob...
...in days of yore they were more accurately put down as simply uncouth...
...Kennedy used the threat of IRS investigations against independentminded steel producers, all the divines of progressive politics hailed his vision...
...C. Bascom Nlemp is the chief Washington correspondent of The Alternative...
...Sbnonds...
...Contrary to regnant myth, it is not so much a desire to implement what is new and progressive that characterizes the enlightenment mob, as a mania to scotch what is old...
...it wants calamity, in full view from its armchairs...
...Only Americans would think of combining the serious business of a cat house with that of a confessional box and put it on television...
...Well, the reaction did not come out of the Heartland, but rather out of the progressive East, and it came from a much provoked government whose strong executive used the same kind of tactics Johnson and Kennedy had used to cow their less virtuous opponents...
...Nefarious designs rattle behind the most innocent facades, and foreign policy is decided by witches and goblins...
...in political science from Ohio State University...
...It operated in the same atmosphere of malversation that allowed Johnson, Bobby Baker, Billie Sol Estes, and a cast of thousands to get out of town with everything but the Washington Monument...
...After all, infantile skulduggery like the Watergate caper has been part of the normative politics of Washington for the past dozen or so years...
...Though the enlightenment mob talks about reforming our politics and unveiling the truth for all the world to see, their real accomplishment is the destruction of the modern American presidency first embodied by Franklin 8 The Alternative October 1973...
...Peter Hughes, a former resident of Berlin, is an associate of The Alternative who is currently comNeting a Ph.D in international relations in the Nation's capital...
...It is a breakthrough in dreadfulness...
...Kennedy has run his executive branch like a bureaucratized Tammany Hall...
...So on the evening of June 17, 1972, when the lights went on at Watergate, multitudes of expectant Americans knew something stupendous was in the air...
...Today in Washington, destruction is in the air...
...How else can one explain the continued popularity of Philip Roth and Norman Mailer or the existence of intellectualoids like Tom Wicker and Nicholas von Hoffman...
...And his slob audience is still mystified as to why the rest of the American electorate judged him below the salt...
...When Mr...
...The current Great Awakening amongst them would impress me more deeply if I did not know that their chosen candidate for the presidency is a man who allowed an erstwhile lady companion to soak in the waters of Chappaquidick for a dozen or so hours...
...another John Randolph once said, "I love iii),~ty, I hate equality "' Peter Rusthoven is ~tudying at Harvard Law School...
...They were furiously impatient with those prissy intellects who warned of the consequences of such primitive behavior...
...Twelve Swiss bankers control the world...
Vol. 7 • October 1973 • No. 1
