For the nuns and monks of the Serbian Patriarchate at Pec in Kosovo Christmas 1999 will be a sombre affair. Huddled in their monastery together with a few refugees, only the protection of Italian KFOR troops stands between them and an angry Albanian rabble outside....
WORRYING ABOUT THE RUSSIAN ARMY
On Monday night "Nightline'' featured a program whose taped intro was fraught with worry about yet another possible overseas enemy. Noting that the Russian government seems intent on wiping out virtually the entire nation-province-territory-whatever of Chechnya...
Truth or Consequences in an Age of Empire
Empire is not like the weather, which is sometimes said to be the subject of much talk and little action. Generally, Americans don't even talk about empire, so they're not likely to do anything for or against it. That is a shame, since the existence of a world-saving...
THE NEED FOR ENEMIES,
My old friend or at least acquaintance of (shudder!) more than 30 years Rep. Dana Rohrabacher came to the Orange County Register last week and I got a little more insight into just how difficult our job of keeping the United States out of foreign...
Felix Morley: An Old-fashioned Republican
FELIX MORLEY (1894-1981) Felix Morley served the cause we now call the Old Right for many years. His thought was a well-wrought synthesis of classical republicanism and classical liberalism. This led people to see him as a "conservative" but let's not...
The First Casualty
In war, goes the old saw, the first casualty is truth. That was certainly the case in the Kosovo war/bombardment/whatever, but it is important to remind ourselves and others of the fact. Lies will certainly be told during the next conflict and who among us can...
The Betrayal of Democracy In Post-Soviet Georgia
The Betrayal of Democracy in Post-Soviet Georgia by Chad Nagle British Helsinki Human Rights Group Special to Antiwar.com 11/30/99 Maybe, when the Soviet Union collapsed, it was infeasible for the West to hold Nuremberg trials for all the Communist Party nomenklatura...
Frank Chodorov: A Libertarian’s Libertarian
LIBERTARIAN AND GEORGIST Frank Chodorov (1887-1966) could well be called a libertarian's libertarian. The eleventh child of Russian immigrants on the Lower West Side of New York, he was named Fishel Chodorowsky but was "always known as Frank Chodorov."1 A...
DUBYA’S EXPANSIVE VISION
I wrote last week about the disappointment Steve Forbes has been in his foreign policy statements essentially embracing Cold War nostalgia and Great Power clichés about the continuing need for the United States to be wary of enemies and especially to...
A Policeman’s Lot Is Not a Happy One at Home and Abroad
A Policeman's Lot Is Not a Happy One at Home and Abroad GOVERNOR EDWARD EYRE AND THE 'JOYS AND SORROWS OF EMPIRE' Edward John Eyre (1815-1901) was a great builder of the British Empire. After a career as a magistrate in Australia, where an occasional lake is...


