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cently announced his readiness to return to the throne if he is called. With the rise of unrest in these captive nations where the memory of royal rule is still fresh, can American foreign...
...Rand's person, writing, ideas, and followers, was pointless, tasteless, and cowardly...
...Well, almost...
...Ross's article ("Allah and Man at Columbia," TAS, May 1982) reeks with it...
...Two paths indeed...
...The Seabed Authority was, in economic terms, quackery...
...Mullen, Jr...
...That CSI is determined to foster awareness about intelligence among social scientists does not mean that CSI is a crew of ideological academics full of Mittyesque dreams of espionage...
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...How do the Liberals say...
...I regret the error...
...Instead, like some of his "left-wing" and "existentiali s t " foes, Dannhauser has used Nietzsche as an occasionto air some of his pet grievances (e.g., subjec(continuedon page 40) 38 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1982 participants included nine academics, twelve former CIA and other intelligence agency officers, and eight congressional committee staffers, among others...
...Albert R. Doyle Valley Cottage, New York I am not an Orientalist or a literary critic, but I can recognize ethnic contempt when I see it and Mr...
...There are three possible explanations to pursue at this point...
...Is The American Spectator thus now straining to be chic...
...Leslie Graves Key Madison, IVisconsin Aram Bakshian's posthumous "tribu t e " to Ayn Rand (May 1982), a lengthy recital of invective and obloquy d i r e c t e d at the late Ms...
...And why, by the way, is liberating Nietzsche from the Nazis a move in the trivialization of Nietzsche ? The point of all this is to say that the question of Nietzsche and the Nazis is a pseudo-issue of concern only to those whose preoccupations are with the titillating and the vulgar rather than with philosophy, politics, or scholarship...
...Heidegger was indeed not the first rector of the University of Freiburg under Hitler's rule...
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...Our own form of elective monarchy exists in perpetual crisis: Its sovereign dies every four years without issue...
...Chmaamty & the ln~llsctuals...
...That this anguished cri du "cerveau is a deliberately banal exercise in the tired dialectic of the Bertrand Russell school of antinuclear protest, a dark parody aimed at mocking the vacuous moral pretense of that movement with such lines as: "In weighing the fate of the earth and, with it, our own fate, we stand before a mystery, and in tampering with the earth we tamper with a mystery...
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...one of the most important works of recent years . . . there may still be hope to save our civilization" (Walter Cronkite...
...One leads to death, the other to life...
...Would we not be, at least i n t h i s regard, in the debt of these new readings--readings you, in any event, erroneously attribute to the Left...
...These are serious people all, discriminating readers not apt to confuse an important book with a spooE Mondale, if memory serves, was once Vice President of the United States...
...But from the Law of the Sea Conference it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . is clear that many of them have EDITORIAL (continued from page 6) century, some snoozing nearer the Middle Ages, simply declared that the planet's resources are " t h e common heritage of mankind...
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...Thus, for example, we may cite, "Thy men shall fall by the sword, and the mighty be in the war" (Isaiah 3:17), and, "There can we see heroic warriors, powerful a r c h e r s . . . " (Bhagavad Gita...
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...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1982 29 nuclear dilemma, playing both roles, Seeker and Guru...
...A worthwhile project for the American monarchist is to raise the historical consciousness of American foreign policy to the level of recognizing foreign monarchies as a valid possibility...
...And when he leaves off such rantings long enough to mention any of Rand's ideas, he misrepresents those ideas, adding intellectual dishonesty to insult...
...I think he has just discovered that water is wetand I congratulate him, but my article discussed Nietzsche's meaning rather than his imagery...
...Woody Allen, come out from behind that curtain...
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...Hatfield, as a leader of the " n u c l e a r f r e e z e " campaign, can hardly be awed by yet another eye-rolling, hand-wringing dissertation on its behalf...
...Such was the father of the late Shah of Iran...
...Needless to say, Barry Commoner loves it, as does Thomas Watson, Jr...
...Wherein, thus, does Dannhauser differ from those he says "trivialize" Nietzsche...
...The third is that my Woody Allen hunch is wrong...
...In fact, these comments are as useful in helping us understand Rand as comments by other writers in other journals about Thomas Sowell's "blackface sociology," "vituperative attacks," and alleged belief in the genetic inferiority of black people are in understanding Sowell (TAS, May 1982...
...As the Reagan Administration belabors the distinction between "authoritarian" and "totalitarian" regimes, and as commentators mull over the moral compromise in supporting Fascist dictatorships, the self-defeating futility of seeking to appease Marxist juntas, and the infeasibility of setting up democracies in backward nations, why is there no discussion of monarchy...
...To borrow a phrase from Mr...
...And yet, and y e t . . . If this is the case, why are all the most deep-creased Liberal brows of the age taking this book to their collective bosom, greeting it, even in advance of publication, as "the most important book of the decade...
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...Ross is honest enough to explain his attitude by telling the reader t h a t " the Jewish State is a special case among the nations of the modern world...
...Only a handful of men in the Reagan Administration prevented us from going along with such an idiotic scheme...
...It is a task Allison would carry out with a great deal more wit and fairness than Dannhauser has employed in his mugging of The New Nietzsche...
...To The American Spectator I am obl!ged to observe that I think Dannhauser's essay is so corrupt that were it not for the fact that I would miss R. Emmett Tyrrell's fulminations and Tom Bethell's analyses I would cancel my subscription...
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...I was comparing it not only to Nietzsche's View of Socrates, by me, but to Nietzsche's Gift by Harold Alderman, a book from which I learned something, though I have forgotten what it was...
...Yet whereas our attempt to rescue the hostages began honorably and ended as a media event, Dannhauser's endeavor is conceived and e x e c u t e d - - s e l f - executed i f I may say so--strictly as a media event...
...I see your hand, you irreverent rascal...
...In the full heat of his tantrum, Bakshian even likens Objectivism to Marxist Leninism and Scientology...
...I never thought her ideas, her writing, or her s e l f were intellectually or morally substantial enough to warrant a strong emotional reaction...
...Meanwhile, the flame of hereditary legitimacy, the secular form of the apostolic succession, continues to burn, tended by patriots, priests, and professors, who privately confess their belief in the sacramental nature of power...
...It seems to me that non-Liberals committed to economic and political freedom should expend their energies vindicating these beliefs instead of engaging in ad hominem, internecine attacks on one another...
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...Finally, permit me to endorse Professor Alderman's suggestion that The American Spectator invite David Allison to comment on my book about Nietzsche...
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...1) The French appropriation of Heidegger is an undesirable thing because it involves the trivialization of both Heidegger and Nietzsche...
...Following the example of Spain, Portugal may be the next European nation to return to monarchy...
...If only h e ' d had the minimal decency to make his attacks on a victim who was still alive and could thus set the record straight...
...Wilhelm von Moellendorf was...
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...So long as the royal hand is able to intervene in moments of crisis, the specific machinery of administration is not all that important...
...To Dannhauser: Why in heaven's name is the French appropriation of Heidegger's reading of Nietzsche an undesirable thing...
...That idea, after all, has been kicking around for a while...
...In July 1981, twenty-five faculty members from American universities convened for eight days at Bowdoin College in Maine to study and discuss the subject matter of the CSI symposia and how to turn the material into academic courses, complete with bibliography, reading lists, and examination questions...
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...Hyde, etc...
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...By systematically presenting Miss Rand's ideas out of context, your writer seeks to discredit one of the f i n e s t minds free enterprisers have ever had on their side...
...Of course, my critic might contend that not every use of a text is legitimate...
...Her accomplishments as a writer and a thinker, and the clear impact she has had on thousands of people, deserve thoughtful analysis, not d i a t r i b e s full of unenlightening name-calling...
...Five volumes of the proceedings have already been published.~ After two years of experience, CSI's members decided to survey several hundred universities to see whether there was ]'The five volumes, Elements of Intelligence, Covert Action, Counterintelligence, Analysis and Estimates, Clandestine Collection, are available from Transaction Books, New Brunswick, N.J...
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...When Nietzsche is cited in that way he is sometimes used, unfortunately...
...4) The difference between Nazism and v~lgar Nazism can be most simply stated as follows...
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...For example, I am not sorry that I took it for granted that discerning readers would understand that Nazism is the most virulent kind off-ascism...
...Even granting the connection you assume between this reading and "the Left," would not any reading which undermines the fantasies of Marxism be a cause for 40 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1982 celebration and a further augury of its demise...
...It would be the worthiest of missionary efforts, but one, I fear, doomed to failure...
...So much for the economic development of the seas...
...Marion Montgomery...
...Thomasson and some of the other respondents are typical of the acolytes Miss Rand has left behind, she may have more to answer for than I originally thought...
...Simplistic...
...The Law of the Sea was, then, the ultimate con perpetuated by the Third World ideologues of UniWorld, a scheme for pilfering the wealth of the civilized world while the backward nations sank ever deeper into the kind of barbarism that has recently been visited upon Uganda, the Central African Republic, Southeast Asia, and other less notorious hellholes of the globe...
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...Vulgar Nazism is oblivious to Heidegger's work...
...Based on that article, I'd like you to cancel my subscription and refund the unexpired portion of it...
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...J u s t as Miss Rand aroused little enthusiasm on my part, she aroused no hatred...
...Let the Gideons of this "new Bible" take on that project...
...They ought not to be shackled to the economic archaicism of the Third World...
...Aram Bakshian's "tribute" to Ayn Rand ("Ayn Rand, R . I . P . , " TAS, May 1982) was an uncontrolled torrent of venom that revealed far more about Bakshian than about Rand...
...Paper...
...Why has The American Spectator sponsored his undertaking...
...Liebling errantly chose the Wrong Path, of looking only at the magazine's cartoons, which are intentionally funny...
...How far offcan one be...
...Another faculty seminar is scheduled this summer again at Bowdoin...
...Yassir Arafat doesn't need PLO terrorists to fan the fires of Palestinian nationalism...
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...That both his tract and legend are towering send-ups, in the grand tradition of the old New Yorker of S.J...
...O Karl Adam...
...But then there would be scarcely anything worth reading...
...Are your fulminations, in fact, nothing more than an extended and misdirected ad hominem argument...
...Let me dismiss this s o l e c i s m - - t h e Fascists were not Nazis and Nietzsche was neither--by observing that both the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita abound in similar imagery...
...Would that the Great Commoner, this one time, were right...
...It also happens that I don't think she was much of an artist and I proceeded to cite examples of her inadequacies as a novelist and critic (none of which the correspondents refute in their outpourings of wrath...
...The fact is that, while I do think Ayn Rand was a bit of a crank and a rather unappealing character as she grew more and more dictatorial in her world view, I also credited her in my piece with having made a number of valid points against liberal-collectivist altruism...
...Both of t h e s e p a s s a g e s are p a r t s of extended a l l e g o r i e s d r a m a t i z i n g the human soul's struggle for wisdom--however that may be construed...
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...Perhaps this will comfort the Palestinian family whose home is blown up because a son or nephew is a PLO suspect and maybe it will explain to Arab students in the West Bank why their books must be censored by the Israeli military and their teachers carefully monitored lest they get too "uppity" on the idea that Arabs also have the right to a homeland...
...Thomasson, "I will not bore your readers by drawing the obvious conclusions...
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...though, admittedly, it lacked the cachet of appearing on the pages of the New Yorker...
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...C 0 R R E S P 0 N D E N C E Friends of Ayn Rand Aram Bakshian, J r . ' s caricature (TAS, May 1982) of the " f r i g i d , " " f a d d i s h , " " o n e - dimen s i o n a l , - "dogmatic," " r i g i d , " " s h r i l l , " "pontificating," "drearily earnest," "tyrannical," "silly," "crankish," "limited," "seldom original," and "seldom right" person many of us know as Ayn Rand (but whom he identifies as " a long-winded messiah minus a god," " a grand inquisitor," and " a n old t r o u t ' ') d o e s n ' t really help us understand her impact or analyze the value of her ideas...
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...It would be well for him to examine carefully how they came to be a minority in a few short years...
...Ross forgotten that the Arabs were the majority in Palestine...
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...Indeed, in a not too distant past when The American Spectator was more interested in the grit of things than in their glitter, it would have invited David Allison to review Dannhauser's own book on Nietzsche, a work presumably exempt from the class of interpretations that trivialize Nietzsche...
...We are told that Ayn Rand was an "old trout" whose works lacked artistic merit and who preyed on middleclass adolescents suffering from frayed self-esteem--' 'the impotent in search of omnipotence" and "hypochondriacs who blamed the outer world for internal inadequacies of their own making or imagining...
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...After all, I wrote that Heidegger's book "remains quite simply the best book about Nietzsche ever written...
...As to the theme of "trivializing" Nietzsche, there are many things that might in fairness be said about the s t r a i n i n g for p r o f u n d i t y and the o v e r - i n t e r p r e t a t i o n of some of the w r i t e r s in The New Nietzscbe, but unfortunately Dannhauser has failed to say any of them...
...As to N i e t z s c h e ' s role as a precursor of Nazism, Dannhauser uses the same arguments as the Nazis themselves, and he uses them with equal p e r s p i c a c i t y . Thus because martial images and allegories, as well as other metaphors glorifying the life of struggle, are found in Nietzsche's texts, Nietzsche obviously, according to Dannhauser, endorses "Fascism...
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...The second is that they have read it, but are incredibly obtuse and / or trendy, even for deepcreased Liberals contemplating the challenge of Soviet power in a nuclear age...
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...I simply fail to recall any passages by Nietzsche that favor the beating of swords into ploughshares but perhaps Professor Alderman and I use different versions of Nietzsche or of the Bible or of both...
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...This is known about Nietzsche even ifDannhauser and the Nazis are u n a b l e - - o r perhaps unwilling--to see the point...
...They do not seem to believe that our advanced civilization has requirements or concerns that must be secure against grasping leaders in the Third World...
...The point, then, is t h a t m a r t i a l imagery, in Nietzsche as in these classical cases, is a device used to depict an inner struggle of the self with itself...
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...For The American Spectator I very much regret to hazard that its participation in this sordid affair is due to the fact that, as with its left-wing opponents, it has discovered the power of playing to the expectations of its audience, and thus, like Der Spiegel some months ago, it trots out the Nazis and Nietzsche for the prurient delectation of its readers...
...Dannhauser replies: Professor Alderman begins by likening my article to America's ill-fated attempt to rescue our hostages from Iran...
...Thus for the edification of both Dannhauser and the Nazis we must fairly distinguish a use of Nietzsche's texts from the texts themselves, just as we must also distinguish a hammer from the m u r d e r e r ' s use of the hammer...
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...He has written a book which, in the words of Barry Commoner, "gives us hope that we will, in fact, put an end to the horrendous threat of nuclear war...
...Fleming ton, New Jersey The New, New, New Nietzsche The cover of the May issue of The American Spectator and the Werner J . Dannhauser essay ("The Trivialization of Friedrich Nietzsche") to which it i s . u n f o r t u n a t e l y r e l a t e d demand comment...
...Ross's article will delight fans of the Master Race theory who mourned its death in Hitler's bunker...
...In an early draft I said that, but that is an explanation and not an excuse...
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...Has Dannhauser perhaps lost the facts in the morass of his own s t r i c t l y rhetorical subjectivity...
...Before turning to the specific questions asked of me, I must plead innocent to the charge that I underestimate Heidegger's work...
...Professor Alderman goes on to argue (if one can call it that) that not everybody who uses "martial imagery" favors war...
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