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CORRESPONDENCE The New Hart Since there still appears to be some dispute concerning the true name of one of our current clutter of candidates—but no dispute remaining regarding his social...
...Last Year in Chernobyl Jonathan Cohen's article on the Russian nuclear reactor accident at Chernobyl ("Chernobyl Anniversary Time," TAS, April 1987) is one of the best summary articles on this incident that I have read...
...reactors remember being "given the gears" by some of our colleagues because of what was deemed our excessive concern for safety in contrast to the pragmatic and much less costly path the Soviets had opted to take...
...I expect to find this kind of snide and disparaging attack on traditional conservatives in the pages of the New Republic where the trendy neoliberals hang out (Fred Barnes excepted...
...That is why he thinks the evangelicals' regard for the "traditional family" is a hearkening to the nineteenth century rather than to the biblical sources they think they're referencing...
...He may be right, because I've seen with my own eyes what going to Culver, DePauw, Wabash, Earlham, or Franklin can do to change otherwise unassuming youngsters into self-assured, purposeful citizens...
...The answer is simple and academically sound: Professor Hunter was interested in studying that cultural network, known as American evangelicalism, which has historically seen itself as being the bearer of theological orthodoxy...
...I hope Mitch Daniels grows up to be just like him...
...Along the way, the conservatives emerged from outsiders at the 1960 Republican national convention where Richard Nixon was the party's nominee, to a position of strength four years later when we nominated one of our own, Barry Goldwater, and subsequently elected a conservative to the White House in 1980 with the ascendancy of Ronald Reagan to the presidency...
...I, along with Mr...
...The "pols" are OK when it comes to working in that dirty business of elections...
...In a footnote I referred to "the two graphite reactors operated by the federal government for nuclear weapons production...
...Finally, Herbert Schlossberg concludes his review by encouraging Hunter to move on to work that Schlossberg believes is more important...
...Anyone not familiar with the review who read his response would be unprepared to learn that I judged the author to be "completely convincing" in his statement of the basic thesis, or that the last paragraph concluded that "it's good to have such thoughtful work from a young sociologist...
...Nothing you have written or said ("The Continuing Crisis," TAS, May 1987) is worth one performance of Jochum/ Bruckner...
...However, it doesn't negate the fact that graphite adds a fire and radiation hazard to the design of the RBMK...
...Third, Mr...
...That cobbled-up definition is unlikely to appease Platonic authoritarians, antinomian libertarians, or, for that matter, reactionary populists...
...While futile, I'll say itanyway—,the Bruckner scherzos are more innovative than any following Beethoven's, while Bruckner's late adagios are incomparable...
...Hunter's ability to do something more important...
...By embracing Christianity, I finally discovered the values of Judaism .. . [and] a better way of being Jewish...
...That is what I too am after, reasonably more than...
...Owen's pseudo-intellectual attack on "The Conservatives" might win him a guest lecture appearance at the Ivy League University of his choice, but it does nothing except confuse anyone seeking a real understanding of how and why conservatives got where we are today in American society...
...In addition, I mentioned that Chernobyl operators "struggled through the early morning hours on April 25 and into the afternoon on April 26 to produce the right conditions...
...The rapid steam formation blew out both the top and bottom core pressure tubes, then blew open the top reactor cover plate and ejected fuel and graphite and lifted nuclear fuel particles and fission products high into the atmosphere...
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...It would be a shame to forgo the decided strategic and environmenTHE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1987 47 tal advantages of this non-fossilburning energy source because of the callousness and technical ineptitude of the Soviet Union...
...Oppenheimer accept him as such...
...When Buckley was permitted to speak on the Georgetown campus one year later, he spoke to a packed house at the largest auditorium at the university...
...Even if all of the core graphite that the Soviets estimate was lost—about 10 percent, or 200 tonnes, is assumed to be oxidized, this corresponds to a rate of loss of only .0701o/hr...
...Ken Masugi Washington, D.C...
...What Bill Buckley said back on the campus of Georgetown University in the early 1960s—that he would rather be governed by the first few thousand names in the Boston phone book than the two thousand members of the Harvard University faculty—makes even more sense today...
...Upon taking Mr...
...The evidence for graphite burning is the red glow visible in pictures taken ofthe damaged core and the Russian estimate of a 10 percent loss of core graphite...
...The Soviet report to the IAEA on the accident contains a calculational estimate of the core temperatures as a function of time following the accident...
...Schlossberg needs to re-read Hunter's chapter on the family...
...I find this statement to be totally perplexing...
...Graphite is extremely difficult to burn, and there is no evidence that graphite burning was responsible for the dispersal of radioactive materials...
...It is revealing that Mr...
...The American Spectator Attention: Newsstand Departm P.O...
...Professor Hunter is a brilliant and prolific young scholar whose work has enriched us all and will continue to do so...
...With all due respect to Mr...
...I have two other corrections...
...In Vienna several composers, including Bruckner, are looked upon as gods...
...Oppenheimer's puzzling comment that "the dominant Zionist posture permits Jews to be anything other than Christians" (implying a peculiar anti-Christian animus among Jews), well, this is not well thought out...
...It's boring...
...As I explained later in the article, it was early in the morning of the 26th that Chernobyl Unit 4 exploded...
...Owen's thinly veiled contempt for Cliff White and those "political operatives, publicists, and activists" who took over the Republican party from Nelson Rockefeller and the Eastern Establishment...
...This damage to the core set up a natural air draft chimney, driven by the nuclear decay heat, which probably continued to release fission products to the atmosphere for several days until it was smothered by sand, and cooled by nitrogen pumped under the core...
...Maybe Mr...
...Once the United States decided to make nuclear safety a priority, however, it never backed off...
...If he and I receive no reviews more unfavorable than mine of Mr...
...Oppenheimer really think we are not distressed by this steady fading away of so many of our brothers and sisters...
...My address to you and TAS is: Vienna...
...Thomas A. Johnston Executive Consultant GA Technologies Inc...
...It is great to have the neoconservatives and New Right as part of the conservative movement in the 1980s, but it is easy to forget that it was the Old Right (pure and simple conservatism) which has brought us as far as we have come as conservatives...
...Owen would classify as "political hacks" were enormously successful in capturing the Republican party...
...I take it, then, that he agrees with my perspective rather than with Hunter's...
...Historically, conservatism has been inclined to impose order too rigorously, probably because, as George E Kennan observed, that is more readily attainable than justice...
...Because Christianity is the dominant religion in the West, it is relatively easy for converts to assimilate into it and stay there...
...However, I must take issue with Mr...
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...As graphite glows red at temperatures of about 600 °C, considerably below that at which any significant oxidation takes place (let alone burning), the most likely cause of the red glow was the small graphite pieces in the rubble bed on top of the core that were maintained at temperatures of 700 °C and above by the heated air column...
...Finally, I think Mr...
...On the contrary, my intention was to criticize the program's scope and emphasis so that what I take to be traditional, historical, nonideological conservatism could be accurately presented and understood...
...You and TAS are the Beatles...
...I can't let Mr...
...Curry suggests, then I find it hard to understand what he himself thinks he's doing...
...Schlossberg wonders why Hunter chose to focus his study on what he calls "neo-evangelicalism...
...Curry's advice and rereading the chapter in question, I think his interpretation is also possible, but if that's what Hunter had in mind then many of his readers will be misled...
...In my view it would be shameful if The Movement required ideological loyalty oaths...
...What Hunter does argue is that the idealized family of some fundamentalists is morea reflection of a nineteenth-century family ideal than a Biblical ideal...
...and the decay heat from the fuel was the major driving force for the observed fission product release after the major release accompanying the initial explosion...
...It's those experts and technocrats, not the political activists, who have gotten this country in the mess it is in today...
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...The Marshall-Lincoln debate with Taney over the nature of the Union is the precursor of our contemporary debate of individual rights versus group rights...
...Finally, I cannot resist responding to Mr...
...Your mouthings indicate a probable preference for music akin to the clinician Brahms...
...2) With respect to Hunter's focus on neo-evangelicalism, I have no quarrel with anyone defining his subject as he chooses...
...Just one addition to Mr...
...It was Buckley and the National Review crowd that provided the intellectual underpinnings of that political movement while Human Events gave conservatism its populist shape...
...Philip Averbuck Newtonville, Massachusetts Dear Maestro Tyrrell You and TAS are declared non-events...
...Many confused Jews who become Buddhists, Marxists, or atheists (to use Mr...
...Now, I know that no book is perfect and no reviewer wants to be charged with writing an unabashed encomium...
...he is simply a Christian claiming incorrectly (sincerity aside) to be Jewish...
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...passionately...
...And someone like Mr...
...In summary, the bulky core graphite temperature was probably quite low following the accident (600-700 °C...
...Marshall's (and Lincoln's) understanding of the Union is dramatically opposed to that of his successor, Chief Justice Roger Taney...
...Finally, Mr...
...CORRESPONDENCE The New Hart Since there still appears to be some dispute concerning the true name of one of our current clutter of candidates—but no dispute remaining regarding his social proclivities—can we not now appropriately call him Gary Hotpants...
...In fact, at meetings in those early days, those of us who had successfully pushed for containment structures around U.S...
...But Mr...
...Cohen on one important point, namely that a graphite fire was responsible for most of the radioactive materials dispersed over the Ukraine and Western Europe...
...Thus, nuclear decay heat was the prime driving force for the transport of fuel particles and fission products from the core...
...In addition, the fission product release during this period shows characteristics which are consistent with low fuel (and graphite) temperatures, i.e., transport of small fuel particles, and is completely different from the release to be expected if there was a large graphite fire, i.e., predominant release of volatile fission products...
...Dean C. Curry, Chairman Department of History and Political Science Messiah College Grantham, Pennsylvania Herbert Schlossberg replies: I'm surprised that Dean Curry would respond so to a very favorable review of Evangelicalism: The Coming Generation...
...There is no need.to be surprised at the puerilities described by Tom Bethell in the April issue ("Festive Foolery...
...You have permission to send my unused subscription money to the Bruckner Society of America...
...Schenectady, New York Jonathan Cohen replies: Thomas Johnston's analysis of the role of graphite in the disaster is enlightening and convincing...
...In brief, the accident was caused by a very rapid power excursion which melted the fuel, failed the zirconium cladding, and vaporized the water coolant...
...over the six-day period following the initial explosion...
...but, when the election is over, they should leave thegoverning to the experts, men like David Stockman, George Shultz, Cy Vance, Henry Kissinger, McGeorge Bundy, Joe Califano, Robert McNamara, and their ilk...
...I speak as one who dates his own involvement in the conservative movement to my freshman year at Georgetown University in 1961 and who is very grateful to Neal Freeman and all those responsible for "The Conservatives...
...But there is absolutely no way on earth a person canbelieve that Jesus Christ was the Messiah and credibly claim to be Jewish...
...Oppenheimer seems to imply that this should cause non-Christian Jews to reconsider their usual perceptions of Christianity...
...Thomas W. Pauken interprets my essay on "The Conservatives" as a "pseudo-intellectual attack" on American conservatism...
...Schlossberg still is...
...Scottsville, AZ Books Etc...
...Schlossberg questions whether the only choices left to evangelicals in their confrontation with modernity is—in Schlossberg's words`conformity or ghettoization...
...Owen, the "neoconservatives" had little, if anything, to do with this ongoing effort...
...Hence no ghettoization...
...I think not, and for very good, obvious reasons...
...Schlossberg...
...Even if all this graphite were assumed to be oxidized in the most exothermic fashion, the total energy generated from graphite oxidation is less than half of the energy generated by decay heat in the fuel in the same time interval...
...Now to the specifics...
...Owen exhibits his elitist perspective in looking down with disdain on these activists whom he chastises for being everything from single issue-obsessed ideologues to zealots and bigots...
...Owen shows his ignorance of conservative intellectual thought during those early years (the 1950s and the 1960s) by failing to acknowledge the central role played by Bill Buckley and the National Review crowd (Willmoore Kendall, James Burnham, Brent Bozell, Frank Meyer, and others) in providing the intellectual firepower for the conservative political movement...
...This temperature is high enough to cause the graphite to glow, but not burn...
...Voluntarily...
...1) On the fami46 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1987 ly, while acknowledging a possible overstatement, Hunter quotes with approval the opinion that children were regarded as deserving of "little adult sympathy or compassion...
...If I may be excused for gratuitous elitism, it is my fervent wish that the profession of politics, both for officeholders or organizers, will attract more persons of high intelligence, strong competence, and stainless integrity in the tradition of Messrs...
...However, in light of the pressures of the modern world, a point central to Hunter's analysis, is there really reason to believe that the Christian witness can remain untainted by the pressures to accommodate...
...In fact, the early releases of fission products would likely have been much larger if the graphite had not been present to act as a heat sink to slow the increase in temperature of the fuel elements...
...Schloss-berg's advice...
...In form and in substance it emanates from them...
...Much of the fuel would have been fragmented and molten...
...Owen didn't see the same film that I did, but "The Conservatives" to me evoked many warm feelings about that long struggle to take a movement, once considered virtually an outlaw in our own society, and turn it into a major political and intellectual force in America...
...My remarks on that score are based entirely on the fact that Hunter often makes generalizations about what he calls "conservative Protestantism" (at least a dozen times in the first chapter alone), and, as the review says, he defines evangelicalism in those terms...
...This is well below the rate for a self-sustaining "burning" of graphite...
...Kent Owen and that he did review "The Conservatives" for the Spectator...
...Lehrman's apt comparison of Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice John Marshall: Lincoln's Gettysburg Address formulation of "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" probably owes its inspiration from Marshall's famous opinion in McCulloch v. Maryland: "The government of the Union, then . . . is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people...
...If I could show Mr...
...I still remember that one year before I enrolled at Georgetown in 1961 William Buckley had been banned from speaking at the university because his views were considered too radical...
...Oppenheimer summarizes the Cardinal's attitude after his baptism: "...Lustiger, now Aaron Jean-Marie, determined to remain a Jew, a Christian Jew, an identity not widely welcome today...
...Oppenheimer a distinguished Islamic mullah who said that only his long-ago conversion to Islam from Christianity and his fervent devotion to the Koran had enabled him to become a true Christian, would Mr...
...This is a mistake, since there is only one such dangerous white elephant (in Hanford, Washington...
...Understand that I am a college student with many rewarding distractions from more actively pursuing the conservative cause...
...White's accomplishments on behalf of the Republican party is both thickly garbed and nakedly apparent...
...On Jewishness I was surprised to read the comments of the usually perspicacious Franz M. Oppenheimer in the April issue of TAS, regarding the Cardinal of Paris, Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger...
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...If Jewish parents seem less horrified when their kid converts to Buddhism than to Christianity, it is because they see a fairly good chance he will drop this experiment before too long...
...Does Mr...
...It estimated that the fuel temperature, and hence the graphite temperature, was about 600-700 °C in the days following the initial explosion...
...I, for one, hope that James Hunter ignores Mr...
...At Least He's Honest I have let my subscription lapse because I have decided to spend less time reading and thinking, and more time working and partying...
...White and Daniels...
...The graphite blown from the core would have been below its peak operating temperature of 750 °C...
...Pauken would do well to browse through back issues of the National Review to remind himself of what Frank S. Meyer, James Burnham, John Dos Passos, and Russell Kirk, among many thoughtful conservatives, had to say so well about thought-control, compulsory allegiance, and the mindset of police-states...
...Curry is too solicitous for his friend's reputation, taking umbrage as he does with such a glowing report...
...4) My suggestion for Hunter's future efforts were based on my undisguised conviction that survey research ought to be left to people (like graduate students) who can do nothing requiring more sophistication, and my undisguised admiration for Mr...
...However, in his attempt to balance the scales a bit, Mr...
...Curry implies...
...But they must not "simply mirror trendy assumptions...
...Strictly speaking, elitism denotes a regard for high standards and principles by which excellence is measured, and I trust that, though a simple Hoosier yeoman of middling condition, I am able to appreciate the worth of the good, the true, and the beautiful...
...There may have been some oxidation of the graphite, but it is unlikely that there was any self-sustained burning...
...Anthony D. Edwards Londonderry, New Hampshire Safe Sex at Stanford The Leland Stanford Junior University is America's only junior university...
...John A. Allwein Ambler, Pennsylvania One More Thing Lewis E. Lehrman's thoughtful essay "The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Life" (TAS, April 1987) recovers for the Declaration and the higher law teaching, it espouses the touchstone nature the Founders anticipated it having...
...Hunter's work, a most unlikely outcome, we shall be fortunate indeed...
...Indeed, if "The Conservatives" has a single hero, other than Barry Goldwater, it's Clifton White, whose counsel is still as wise and sound as ever...
...Oppenheimer did not even mention how Jews react to conversion to Islam, which still occasionally takes place in Israel: the reactions are at least as sharply negative as when a Jew converts to Christianity...
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...Finally, the release would have occurred whether or not the graphite was present...
...Such criticisms as there were should be attributed to what I saw in the book rather than to any fear of writing too favorable an assessment, as Mr...
...Pauken apparently takes elitism to connote the snobbery of arrogant,supercilious, high-handed grandees who mistake their academic, social, and economic privileges for the right to lord it over the commoners...
...Schlossberg, would hope so—but, Hunter's arguments are persuasive enough that I am not as optimistic as I once was and apparently Mr...
...It was their ability as political leaders, first, Barry Goldwater and then his successor, Ronald Reagan, to tap the conservative political instincts of the majority of Americans that moved the Republican party and the nation to the right...
...The Future of Evangelicalism As one who teaches at a college which James Davison Hunter used as part of his data base for his study of the future of evangelicalism, I was very interested in Herbert Schlossberg's review of Professor Hunter's Evangelicalism: The Coming Generation (TAS, March 1987...
...On the night of November 19, 1985, my wife and I saw Eugen Jochum lead the Philadelphia Orchestra, the feature work being Bruckner's Ninth...
...For that one should see Neal Freeman's excellent documentary, "The Conservatives...
...But his evidence comes only from the one subset of that universe...
...Clearly those Mr...
...Leafing through his contribution, I read that "Christians have a special responsibility to help reconstruct the public square...
...As I suspected, your humor's primary purpose is to "hand on vulgarity like a coat-of-arms" (GKC...
...Vienna is the only large Western city not to present a Beatles concert...
...Schlossberg makes criticisms of Hunter's book which I believe to be unwarranted: First, Mr...
...I called it as I saw it...
...none of the radioactivity would have escaped...
...If it seemed to him that way, let me hasten to say my admiration for Mr...
...Schlossberg means, and I share his concern...
...We in the United States pioneered a light water nuclear technology which has an unparalleled safety record...
...In place of these options Mr...
...Let the hacks fall where they may...
...Hence no conformity...
...Having read the book myself, I believe that Hunter's work is immensely important, a fact acknowledged by Mr...
...3) If there is no practical alternative to either ghettoization or conformity, as Mr...
...Oppenheimer's examples) over time lose their affection for these groups, since they are too small and isolated within Western societies to have adequate spiritual and cultural support structures...
...This situation holds true in spades for those Jews who become atheist inside the Soviet empire...
...Aryeh H. Samuel Wheaton, Maryland The...
...San Diego, California Jonathan Cohen is quite right: it would be folly for Western nations to abandon their nuclear power plants because an unstable Soviet RBMK finally lurched out of control...
...As to my "elitist perspective" or kinship with "those Ivy League technocrats (the 'Best and the Brightest' breed)" or likeness to Michael Kinsley and the New Republic school, I reckon I ought to feel thoroughly scolded...
...Coincidentally, the same mail delivery in which his letter arrived brought from his publisher (with ninety-four cents postage due) a book to which he is a contributor...
...Although I think that Neal Freeman's "Conservatives," while instructive in many ways, fails to take into account the necessary breadth and depth of a complex subject...
...Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit...
...As already noted, however, a significant amount of graphite was ejected in the initial steam explosion...
...What nonsense...
...Schlossberg suggests a third way which he identifies as being "the salt of the earth" option...
...I know exactly what Mr...
...Freedom of choice is essential to any political philosophy centered on human dignity, provided that individuals accept the consequences of their choices and that such choices be in general accord with the greater good of the society as a whole...
...Oppenheimer quotes with apparent approval (and I hope I am wrong) Cardinal Lustiger's ideas on his own Jewishness: "I do not stop being a Jew...
...I hope that the estimable Franz M. Oppenheimer will step a little more carefully the next time he ventures into this dark thicket of theology, motives, and politics...
...Time, of course, has proved the wisdom of that decision...
...American Spectator is carried in these fine bookstores: Shakespeare Beethoven Co...
...May they also serve disproportionately in the ranks of the Republican party and traditional conservatism...
...Owen reminds me of those Ivy League technocrats (the "Best and the Brightest" breed) who swarm around any new presidential administration like bees to honey while looking down with barely disguised contempt at the "political hacks" who help make victory possible...
...But it disappoints me to find such a shallow and confusing piece of journalism in one of my favorite magazines, written by someone who clearly doesn't understand the origins of the modern conservative political and intellectual movement in America...
...In fact, most of the neoconservatives still considered themselves during the1960s to be liberal Democrats, although to their credit they were anti-Communist in contrast to most of their fellow liberals...
...Mr...
...Thomas W Pauken Dallas, Texas Kent Owen replies: Mr...
...Writers who examine general ideas must make distinctions, and such distinctions, if well drawn, reveal telling differences in values, attitudes, and actions...
...Charles F Goslee Flint, Michigan Missing the Point After reading Kent Owen's April review of "The Conservatives," a 90-minute documentary produced by Neal Freeman and shown on the national Public Broadcasting System, I thought for a moment that Michael Kinsley must be writing now for The American Spectator under a pseudonym or that perhaps I had mistakenly picked up a copy of the New Republic...
...Alas, I am informed by a friend at your magazine that there is indeed a Mr...
...Again, I found the Cohen article to be excellent overall and hope these comments will be accepted in a constructive manner...
...Pauken has my thanks for concerning himself so passionately with "seeking a real understanding of how and why conservatives got where we are today in American society...
...Second, Mr...
...Henry Hurwitz, Jr...
...As for Mr...
...Pauken's charge of "thinly veiled contempt for Cliff White" pass unchallenged...
...It is very easy today, now that conservatism has become acceptable in the wake of the election of a conservative President, to forget how difficult it was in the 1950s and 1960s to dissent from liberal orthodoxy in society at large and even within the Republican party...
...It is likely that if the Soviet reactor had been housed in a U.S.-style containment building, we in the West would never have heard of the accident...
...Thus it's natural that he regards the normal display of family affection as an example of "hyperindividuation and hyper-sentimentalization...
...Owen who has no sense of how and why we conservatives got where we are today obviously has no business reviewing a film produced by a man who has been intimately associated with that conservative movement since the late 1950s...
...From this standpoint, it's a sign of good health that what is now broadly described as conservatism can accommodate diversity and dissent (continued on page 46) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1987 7 CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 7) among those who call themselves conservatives in any sense...
...Certainly Southern Baptists and Missouri Synod Lutherans are important, but to merge these groups with American evangelicals would be the sociological equivalent of mixing apples and oranges...
...I should have written: "through the early morning hours on April 25 and into the afternoon of the same day...
...We in the American nuclear community knew that the Soviet design was flawed back in the 1950s...
...Nowhere does Hunter argue that parental love is inherently socially conditioned...
...I suggest, however much it matters to me, that you eliminate the "Saloon Series...
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