Capitol Ideas/I Hate to Spoil the Party
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS I HATE TO SPOIL THE PARTY by Tom Bethell In a way it's remarkable how little things have changed in the last twenty years. Walk down Haight Street in San Francisco and you sense...
...Radical Philosophy is too tedious to summarize...
...A stimulating history of nine of America's largest ethnic groups, this powerful book questions the merits of government racial policies and shows that "there is no single majority but rather a complex mosaic...
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...Voices of Mexico worries about "The War on the Welfare State...
...Thus refreshed, we find more than enough reading material to keep the most single-minded feminist busy: Outwrite, New Directions for Women, Spare Rib, Women of Power, Links, Hurricane Alice (a "feminist review," which wonders, oddly, "Why Do White Women Have Vaginas...
...The outstanding, Pulitzer Prize finalist on the men and ideas behind the Constitution...
...Yes, but who opposes them...
...12 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1987 Credit card orders only...
...by feminism...
...And don't forget, folks, we're the ones who are called ideologues, in this conservative era...
...There are also "just blend" packets of coffee from collectives in Angola, Nicaragua, and Mozambique—a cash crop you don't have to feel guilty about...
...American collapse and Communist triumph in East Asia...
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...Moving on to Central America, South sees Nicaragua as "Battered But Not Beaten...
...It also cautioned that, despite the end of the union boycott of Coors, "progressives still won't drink Coors...
...Unity, standing for "peace, justice, equality and socialism," less skeptically encouraged the reverend to "Run, Jesse, Run...
...Today there may indeed be a growing realization that socialism does not work at the material level, but then the provision of material goods never was the real goal of socialism...
...Martin Luther King," "My Mom Travels a Lot," "Just Us Women"), copies of Dragon's Teeth ("the anti-racist children's book magazine"), and a rack of left-wing comic books (Commies from Mars, The People's Comics...
...K. Galbraith) saw a "Sandino Sunrise" in one issue, "Birth of a New Man" in another...
...Men, WomaNews, Immigrant Women, Sage Woman, Knowing Woman, the New Republic, Feminist Review, Media Report to Women, Off Our Backs, Sojourner, On the Issues, Women and Environments, WIN News...
...Have a cup of collectivist tea from Tanzania and browse with me among the mags...
...This is very far from being the case...
...Lest we deceive ourselves, this has not been a conservative era...
...Environmental Action discussed "Nukegate," with particular reference to "private greed...
...I believe that a similar ratio exists between magazines of the left and the right...
...By the door are packets of Uhuru tea, grown in collective farms in Tanzania and Mozambique and blended into a comforting socialist brew...
...1011 353 pages, paperback, $9.95 THE FEDERALIST PAPERS by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay These famous articles, written during the bitter debate over the Constitution, formed the basis for our resulting federal system of government...
...Israeli World Affairs, "an independent monthly research report on Israel's diplomatic and military activities worldwide," exposed "Israel's Men in Guatemala...
...New Internationalist ("A magazine with a purpose we can all applaud and must support...
...Movement, announced on March 12, 1984, which has regrouped many Marxist-Leninist parties from around the world," its pages open to all "on the same side of the barricades in the fight against imperialism and reaction...
...Resurgence, "a magazine and a movement" offering "hope for a better future," had a cover story entitled "Long Live the Weeds...
...is The American Spectator's Washington correspondent...
...The Third World Book Review gave space to "Writers and Artists Against Apartheid...
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...and by abortion...
...But first let us break for a cup of Sandino-Luanda-Chissano coffee...
...It has been in business for seven years, owned by a gentleman called David Marcuse (no relation to Herbert...
...Worker's Democracy, Open Road theCatholic Worker, News and Letters, World War Three Illustrated, Dissent, Monthly Review, Socialist Review, New Left Review, New International, Social Anarchism, Socialism and Democracy, Across Frontiers, and the World Today...
...2006 756 pages, hardcover, $14.95 1,2006 #2034 #2026 #2002 #2015 a THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1987 13...
...Witness the astounding disparity of activism engendered by the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Robert H. Bork...
...2011 417 pages, hardcover, $29.95 THE IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION byBernard Bailyn, Ph.D...
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...What has happened since 1967...
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...by Charles S. Hyneman and Donald S. Lutz A seminal selection of the highest intellectual quality, containing seventy-six pieces which shaped the founding of America...
...QUANTITY COMMON SENSE, THE RIGHTS OF MAN, AND OTHER ESSENTIAL WRITINGS by Thomas Paine The powerful writings on human liberty that sparked revolutions in America and countries around the world...
...Science for the People was concerned about "Technology and Women's Health," the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists concentrated on "How Reagan Was Sold Star Wars...
...Campaiiero, "the international magazine of Guatemala's Guerrilla Army of the Poor," chronicled "The Bloody Rise to Power of the Bureaucratic Bourgeoisie," and (more optimistically) discerned "The Fighting Fist of the Masses...
...The Communist regimes are still in power," Booker continued, "entrenched in privilege, punch drunk with the most insane collective flight from reality in history...
...Nuclear Times wondered whether the INF treaty really was a good idea—Reagan and the peace movement weren't normally in bed together, after all...
...Another twenty years will undoubtedly see large and clarifying changes—whether for the better or worse it is hard to say...
...Let us also take note of: Propaganda Analysis Review, No KKK, No Fascist USA...
...Southern Feminist had an interview with our old favorite Sonia Johnson, now all too infrequently in the news...
...power...
...In These Times deplored "The Fouling of the Atlantic...
...They say we live in a conservative age...
...Synthesis, a journal for those interested in social ecology, bioregionalism, ecofeminism, and the Green movement, reported on a widely neglected "Fourth World Assembly in San Francisco...
...Footnoted references in this journal to yet more unsuspected caches of leftist publications suggest that I may be only scratching the surface here...
...East Wind, about the "politics and culture of Asians in the U.S.," discerned those politics to be leftist, deploring, for example, the English-only movement, as threatening to "eliminate the rights of minority groups...
...Howard Beach, Have You Heard, This is Not Johannesburg...
...You say the readers of these publications are not typical of America nor a majority within it...
...Sojourners described "Jesus' Second Campaign of Nonviolent Direct Action...
...Bristles with wit and intellectual energy...
...Lead story: "Yes, Struggle Outside the Unions is Possible...
...Animals' Agenda, the "animals' rights magazine," documented "Road Kills: 400 Million a Year...
...The Guardian ("independent radical weekly") discerned `Apartheid's Children Battered by State...
...I would estimate that 100 people actively opposed Bork for every one person who actively supported him...
...Now we have homosexual shamelessness and claims to victim status...
...Then choose between: African Concord Africa Report, Africa Events, Africa News, TransAfrica Forum, West Africa, the African Guardian, New African, African Business, Afkar Inquiry, and Journal of African Marxists...
...The great secular religion of socialism emerged in Europe in response to a growing religious void at the heart of Western civilization," the English writer Christopher Booker said recently...
...Let's see now, we're barely half way through the progressive's monthly reading...
...by Adrienne Koch and William Peden This powerful biography and collection of JEFFERSON's writings reveals the basis of his enormous influence as a leader of the American Revolution...
...Mother Jones wondered of Jesse Jackson: "What Does He Really Want...
...Dopin' Dan, Wimmen's Comb Class War Comix...
...But it was the magazine racks that caught my attention...
...Southern Feminist, Connexions Women and Revolution ("Journal of the Women's Commission of the Spartacist League'), which unconditionally demands: "Free America's Class War Prisoners...
...Likewise I can give only a fleeting glance to: International Correspondence ("Union Women Launch a Political Challenge"), the North Star ("The Infinite Horizon: Feminism and Sexuality in the New Nicaragua"), Shmate ("Journal of Progressive Jewish Thought"), Tikkun, Southern Changes, the Texas Observer, International Labour Reports, the Neighborhood Works (worries about "Incinerator Ash Laden with Toxic Metals"), Changing Work, Talkin' Union ("Gene Debs Remembered"), Against the Current ("Won't Let Death Squads Turn Us Around"), Peace and Freedom, Spartacist ("Honor Bolshevik Leaders...
...Sonia was discussing her new book Going, Out of Our Minds' The Metaphysics of Liberation...
...True, most people (if they knew there was a war on) would side with the conservatives, because most people are basically content with the world as it is...
...Chile Newsletter advocated "Pulling Props from Pinochet...
...Absolutely excellent...
...There has been a considerable breakdown of religious (specifically Christian) faith and practice...
...Frontline, on "the frontline of the struggle against war and fascism," recorded with calm triumph: "Missile Pact, Third Summit, Signal Changing U.S.-Soviet Relations...
...Covert Action Information Bulletin wondered about the "origin and spread of AIDS: Is the West Responsible...
...Gore Vidal: Bad Boy of the Bourgeoisie"), Internationalism ("publication of the International Communist Current in the U.S...
...ime now for a look at the women's 1 magazines...
...Anyone who believes that we live in a conservative age should visit this fascinating store...
...had an article entitled "Lest We Forget the Women of Bhopal...
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...Rushing on, I barely have space to mention: Marxism Today, Searchlight ("the Anti-Fascist Monthly"), Radical America, Socialist Politics, Our Times, New Options, Socialist Review, Peace Courier (sees a "Hot Autumn"), GATT-Fly (addressing "global issues of economic justice"), and Intervention...
...Peace in Action, and A World to Win, the latter "inspired by the formation of the Revolutionary Internationalist...
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...I have suggested that the lobbying disparity in the case of Judge Bork may have been 100 to one against...
...Unquestionably the finest book on the ideas of liberty that generated the American Revolurtionary War...
...What of the Big Apple Dyke News, for example, or the Haiti Progress...
...There were many more women's magazines and I shall list them hurriedly as I know you must be movini on to other reading matter in this anniversary issue: Helicon Nine, Third Women, Women Artist News, Changing...
...I confess I nearly bought this issue...
...Central Americas Writers Bulletin is a "project of the Central American Resource Center," while Central America Report had a cover story on a favorite subject: "Favored Few: The Rich in Guatemala...
...Elsewhere there are Anti-Monopoly board games, records of tribal drumming, Soviet jazz, and Pete Seeger, anti-racist, non-sexist childrens' books ("Hello, Amigos," "Meet Dr...
...2008 288 pages, paperback, $8.95 F2:1 WRITINGS DURING THE AMERICAN POLITICAL FOUNDING ERA (2 vol), ed...
...Bulletin in Defense of Marxism, Peace Letter...
...Greenpeace recalled "A Forgotten War: The Assault on Central America's Environment," while the Ecologist wondered (with a note of realism), "Can We Trust the World Bank...
...Processed World, an anti-technology journal out of San Francisco, carried much the same message...
...but in the short run most likely for the worse...
...Radical Teacher discussed "Education in Yugoslavia," and "Feminists at the Bargaining Table...
...CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR #2015 359 pages, paperback,$1.2.95 THE LIFE AND SELECTED WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON ed...
...Above all, perhaps, the spiritual void which gave rise to socialism in the first place still lies at the heart of our entire materialistic civilization...
...followed by the sexual revolution...
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...The Anti-Apartheid News had a redundant air, THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1987 11 noting sadly that "Botha Opts for Self Destruction...
...Let's see now, there's National Review, Commentary, Encounter, the Public Interest, Human Events . . . ummmm...
...Pulitzer Prize O #2004 335 pages, paperback, $8.95 ETHNIC AMERICA by Thomas Sowell, Ph.D...
...They hunger for a "new society," one that does not now exist anywhere in the world, never has existed, and which they are unable to specify or describe except in the most general terms...
...Communism comes to Central America...
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...The Workbook, a "sponsor" of whom is Thomas N. Bethell (not me, folks), is a "tool for all the people who, in their various ways, are working to provide a world characterized by economic justice, clean air and water and uncontaminated soil...
...They would rightly worry about the left's program to transform it into a "new society...
...Writers who supported apartheid would of course be rather more newsworthy because so hard to find...
...Left and right are not so much two camps as a sizable army on the one hand and a few scattered individuals on the other...
...Unfortunately, however, most people do not know what is going on...
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...Women's World, connected to Isis-Wicce, "an action-oriented resource center" (something to do with witches, I wonder...
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...All the evidence suggests that the great liberal age of apostasy and rebellion against natural law, unleashed at the time of the French Revolution, not only is still with us but is still gaining strength...
...The American response is negotiation: Perhaps the Communists can be talked into yielding up their own sources of Tom Bethel...
...The present world situation is obviously not stable...
...Nicaraguan Perspectives saw the "Human Cost of U.S.-Sponsored Terrorism," and threw in for good measure a "special section" on "Nicaraguan Women...
...Report on the Americas described "Death Squads in Los Angeles...
...Detente, "devoted to understanding the Soviet Union," interviews a "top official in the Party's Central Committee" who "reaffirms his conviction that the future belongs to socialism...
...abundant, safe, minimally polluting energy supplies...
...As though we could...
...Don't miss Internationalist Perspective, published by the "external fraction of the International Communist Current...
...Large numbers of educated people in the West are now extraordinarily disaffected from their own societies and regard patriotism, fidelity, and loyalty as outmoded virtues—either irrelevant or downright undesirable...
...W hat follows is a 1987 time-capsule—a report on a bookshop called Common Concerns, on Connecticut Avenue, NW., just south of Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C...
...by Walter Cronkite Especially produced for the Bicentennial, here is the authoritative and fascinating story of our Constitution...
...But for once it had nothing on Nicaraguan poets, of whom there is one in every pro-Sandinista household...
...Walk down Haight Street in San Francisco and you sense that 1967 lingers on: not so much that it might come back as that it never really left, and that the forces that created it have in many respects gathered strength...
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