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Page --California eview--SeptemberBy Midge DecterThe itle f my alk an ardly ven e calledrhetorical uestion. veryone n this oom nowsthe est s n anger.hy lse, ndeed,re e ere fnot o ake ounselbout hat ery act? he ruth swe have ll ome, ven f y eparateoutes, o hesame ense f urgency. peaking or yself, wouldsay t s erribleense f rgency,red n he deacannot hake oose: hat e ave ever een loser olosing hat hich t has een ur nique istoricalprivilegeo be he uardiansf. mean, f ourse,nothing lse han ur ery reedom. hat reedom snowadays hreatened n many ays. gain, neednot ist hem ll n his ompany.There s, or nstance,o need o peak ere fSoviet eapons nd he lmost ninterrupted,ra-zen ncroachmentsf Soviet deology. ny eadingof one’s orning aper s a sufficienteminder fboth. or do I aim to speak f the dequacy rinadequacyf the resent dministrationrespond-ing o hose ncroachments.here live, t east -which ately eels o me as f it is n the huttlebetween ew ork nd ashington - we have eenspeaking f little lse or early year ow. urdisappointments n inverse atio o ur igh opes-- he irst n ecades- f year go. ut here redangers o freedom hat he eagan dministration,or any ther dministration,an o nothing bout,for hey tem rom ut- elationo ife nd eality-and t s ne f hese hat wish o all ttentionotoday.ht he nd, elievet s far ore ntractableridpossibly ar ore ivisive anger han ither heaggressivenessf ur nemy r he o ar ess-than-forceful esponses f our government o it. Thedanger ant eferringo is hat ontainedn a sim-ple, eadly, orrosive uestion. his uestion,spoken r nspoken,s in the ir ll round s. tinfuses ur uhure, t dogs he ducation l ourchildren,nd t eeps, nh’ss e are ternallyig-ilant, nto he ery arrow f our ),mes. t islil,eral uestion,mdamentally,ut alling ur-selves onservativesill ot. y itself,)rote(tfrom ts imple,eadly,orrosiveffectsn ur ri- vate pirits nd n ur ublic ouduct.he uestionI mean s expressed n two hort ords hat, uttogethernd ombinedith he nterrogative,ight nowadays ust e the wo ost otent ords n theEnglish anguage.hey rt’. So hat?" s in, ohnh,ves ary - so what? s in, precious onstitu-tional rinciple s being iolated - so what? swhen he ovel r fihn r play r music urrentlybeing outed s a profound asterpiecey our uhu-ral tandardbearerss ctually piece f eritriciousjunk - so what? One ould nowadays pply hisformulation n immediately ecognizable ays ojust bout very rea f life - private, ommunal,national, nternational;o sex, o amily bliga-tions, o uhurai tandards,o ur entandsn ub-lit fficials,o ur eading f heir emands n s,md o ur ense,r ack f ense,f esponsibilityo

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the orld t arge.The est uropeansre n a course f surrender-ing hemselvesoluntarilyo he himate nroads fSovietization?ell, et hem. e an urely efendour wn orders. lectionshat o not roduce hedesired esuhs an e negotiatedway n he erviceof ublic elationsr social onvenience?ell, sthat ot he ay the orld eally orks nyway?Why kid ourselves? ach edding e now attendfeels ot ike sacramentalnitiationnto he idesand urrentsf man’s ruitfulojourn n arth, utrather ike throw f the ice? ell, fter ll, e¯ have new et f ocial elationseplacinghe ld.But here s ne rea f our ocial ttitudesnwhich he ynicism nd espair f "So hat?" eemsto me to have ecome ost articularlyervasiveand hreatening.his rea, suppose,s ffectedy the resentovernment’sailureo ct. ut he peed and ase, ith hich t ook ver ra he irst lacemust ell s something e cannot eny bout hedeeper ickly onditionf ur ationalthos.I am speakinghout he ear bliterationf whatwe refer o n he horthandl publi( iscussionsthe dea f erit nd ts ubstitutiony he dea fgroup r lass ntitlement.his ubstitutions not,and ever as een, s ts roponentslaim, n ssueof usticer ven, s any f ts pponentslaim, nissueofnjustice.t s, nd lways as een, matterof cynicism,lain nd imple. eare acing prob-lem aused y the aldistributionf achievementsand wards? ery ell, hen, e hall - y fiat -declare he ature f chievementull nd oid. nddo ot eceive ourselves;ffirmativection s notonly a matter of employment nd educationalaccreditation.omorrow,s e see, t ill ouch heelectoralrocesstself;ndeed,t s lreadyoing t), and rom here t will ouch verything.hat s hya stroke f Reagan’s en. hough t would lakevery reat ifleren(e,ill ot y tselfufficeo id us f this piritualancer. basi, rincil)leis-mantled ill. ike uml)ty umpty, ot o asily it’put ogethergain. nd he asic rincipleere oesdeeper han quality f pportunity,hough his nitself s he ne ruly evolutionaryiscoveryf hemodern orld - our ation’s iscovery,y irtue fwhich e have een he ne enignly evolutionarynation n odern istory. evertheless,he rinci-ple oes eeperven han hat. t s, ike he uestionthat mderminest, hlindinglyimph’ rinciple:that reality ounts or omething. hat t hasweight hat t as eaning,nd ill ot e enied.I ave aid hat ffirmative(tion,he ost erfectexample f "So hat?", s not eally matter femploymentnd ducation.hat was eferring ois the nderlyingessage f this olicy, messagetaken o eart ll ver his ociety;hat verythingsa fraud, racket, deal, n arrangement.ork snothing; tanding s verything.hat ne eeds nthis ife - nti here s ot n ssue f women’smagazine, or nstance, hat oes ot omewherecarry n rticle r a passage f an rticle ointingthis ut - is not mbition,nergy, raining,ndthat ne ndispensablend completely ncommen-surable rait or uccess alled, here come rom,"moxy." ne oes ot eed hese hings. hat neneeds s n%work - ld-boy,ld-girl,r racial.Look t any ist f rants warded y major oun-dations.ook t any ist f literaryr ournalisticprizes, f honorary egrees, f appointments oboards, f wards hat arry old laques, nd ouwill ee he ork f a committeehich y now oesnot eed o calculate ercentages,or they reimprintedn the ery ervous ystem. oes ll hismatter? here s that nsidiousuestion gain. tmatters - nothing ore. Take something, orexample, hat ight ot ound ery mportant.achfavorable eview f a book he eviewer imselfkr~ows o be bad ut s the ork f a woman, r ablack, r homosexual,r ust n nemy f rdinarylife and e ee uch review,omewhere,very ay)is a blow t he ropositionhat here s good ndbad, orthy nd nworthy, ealthy nd nhealthy;in short, blow t the ropositionhat ife sweighty nd as onsequences.ach low t thisproposition roduces nother ivorce, notherdeserted hild, nother ecision o abort he etusthat mniocentesiseveals o be mperfect,notherimpulse o pull he lug n a sick arent, notherhomosexual, nother ugging.Am I being xtreme? ll his rom ffirmativeaction?es. ll his rom he ame ense f ife hatmade ffirmativection easibleolicy.ll his, n other ords, rom So hat?" ut hat, ou ightask, oes his ave o o ith he act hat 00 S-20’sare ointed t urope; hat new oviet leet ailsthe even eas; hat ur uropeanllies re, ithoutsaying o, onsideringhe ossibilityf urrenderand hat n order o heedle hem nto econsideringwe disastrously end negotiators o Geneva rVienna; hat he oviets ave aunched he ostmassive ropaganda ampaign ra hree ecades odisarm s and hat e have ad o stand y sheep-ishly s this ampaign as wept cross ur wnshores nd hrown ur opulace nd ur oliticiansinto eep onfusion?he nswer s -- verything.thas verythingo do ith hese hings. hose ovietmissiles,hips, nd ies re eing rmed n all hemore eadly ashion y our wn ecay. e have ot-- not et - applied ur o dangerousuestion othe rospect f Soviet onquest,ut e are omingclose. do ot hink n he nd e ould o o - ut"in he nd" s oo ate.A few ears go, he ew York imes arriedstory bout n antidraftemonstrationt PrincetonUniversity. think t was ntidraft.he ccasionwas orgettable,lendednto o many thers ike t.What was unforgettable, owever, as the newsphoto hat ccompaniedhe tory. t as f a youngman - healthy,ital, rivileged,anned, o oubt,by he uns f kiing n Vermont nd eaching n heVirgin slands. e was arrying placard m whichwas crawled he motto. There s nothing orthdying or." e is our child, hat oung an. edesperately o not ish or im o die. ut hisannouncementn that lacard s an announcementabout ore han he raft, ore han uclear ea-lions, ore han ar. e who ays here s nothingworth ying or ays here s nothing orth ivingfor.We, s a society, ave ome easure f esponsi-bility or he essage n that lacard,or he actthat young merican - the ealthiest,uckiest,most enderly reated oung an n history, t theheight f is hysicalnd exual owers, archingaround hat retty, retty own n a day f brightsunshine- e ave onte esponsibilityor he actthat ie ould ind othing f value ave is wnskin; either other, or ather, or ith, or in,nor tmntry, or od. ietzsche aid hat e whovalues nly taying live as he ind f slave.Until e take t upon urselveso make hat oyfree nan - oth: ree rrd man - the ontinuedsurvivalt ur wlr reedoms nalion ill ol ieassured.This peech as iven t the nnual eeting fthe /uladelphiamietv n Chicago pril 7, O82.Midge ecter s the xecutiveirectorf The om-m ittee or ire ree orld, omposed[ hum er ]eminentitthorsnd ~,holar.~n oth ~ides [ ire Atlantic.ormerly he enior ditor [ Basic ooksand xecutiveditor [ arper’s,iss ecter s theauthor ] The ew hastity nd Liberal arents,Radical hildren.First rinted y the ock]ord nstitute’scca-sional aperseries.September--Californiaeview--Page

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Dear r. Young:Congratulations.t s lively,iterate,nd un o read. ll he est o ou.Yours ordially,William . Buckley, r.New YorkCaliforniaeview,I think our ublications urely nd tterlytu-pendous. he it, umor, nd iting hastisementsof he eft re nequaledn ny ublication haveencounteredately. eep p the ood ork.Thank ou,John MabieSan DiegoP.S. am currently ttending an iego esa ol-lege nd ill e at CSD or he inter ession extyear. am ooking orward o y transfernd lan oparticipatectivelyn he niversity’sonservative movement. lease ontact e with nformation npresent ndeavorsnd uture lans f he aliforniaReview nd he College epublicans f UCSD.Viva onservatismlGo ReaganP.S.S. hanks or he ip n Glider’s ook; t wasgreat.Dear ric,Thank ou or ending e the alifornia eview.I read very ord nd as elighted. thoroughlyagree ith our tand n affirmative ction ndthought t as ery ell xpressed.nd was nter-ested nd mused y other rticles. here id ouget he Cruikshank rawings?Love,GrannyBurge lantationMansfield, eorgiaDear Mr. Young,We ope or he uccess ,[ our ew ublication.My husband s scientistngaged n ancer esearch(mon(x;Ionalntibody nd umor ntigen) t ScrippsClinic.Many cientistselieve hat nly iberalsupportresearch.e would ike o orrect hat mpression.My husband nd would e happy o contributeshort rticleo our aper. lease all s f ou reinterested¯Best egards,G.L. eisfeldLa JollaAn Open etter o the aliforniaeview.We find your attempt t right-wing, seudo-satiricalournalismo be tastelessnd utless n additiono its dmittedlitist,acist, exist,nd ageist iewpoint.While ou obviously hink that hin uise ofhumor ill emper he erocity f your emarks efind hat his ather eeble ttempt t satire nlyemphasizes our lready rchaic ttitudes. our"President" nd Editress" ounded he aper opreserve he "American ay." his questionableattempt t ournalismertainlyarries his ut. oupreserve he merican ay f blindnessnd nepti-tude n ealing ith he est f tbe orld.We cannot all or ou o ease ublication.e,thankfully,o ot ave hat ight. ut e an all nanyone ho reads our eriodical o leave ourstacks f papers ntouched pon ublication. fyour dvertiserso ot ee ny ignificantircula-tion hey ertainlyand opefully)ill iscontinuetheir upport. e also all pon ll CSD tudentsand taff o oycott our dvertisers:onoco an ilconglomerate),ee ory ift tore, a Jolla arber-ing nd tyling, he oggery hop, illy ulitzerresortwear,nd oors an ppressiveutfit o eginwith).We are ending opies f this etter o the ewindicator nd o the CSD uardian. hile e maynot lways gree ith heir tance n issues, eknow hat hey elieve n equal ime.Jean anglerDean H. HaasEditor’sote:Californiaadicalsre miserableot. or long time his ampus as been he urf f ideologueblockheadsith esigns n replacingur onstitu-tional ystem ith heir ighschoolerm rojects.Leftistsre, nderstandably,hreatenedy he rospect f more nformationeaching heir heep. oy-cotts, amecalling,bscene hone alls nd therMcCarthyactics,owever,on’t arry ny ntellec- tual eight.What akes hese olks fraid?s t ecausehey’rewitless? he urrent isdom s that olzhenitsynwas nvented y the IA.--ECY

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Today mostArgentinesre illionaires--indeed,ultimillion-aires-just s Colonel uan Domingo eron ro-phesied hen e rose o ower n the 940s. hanksto n veragenflationate f 40 ercent, millionpesos re xchangeableor $43.00 n the nitedStates.¯ One ould xpect CSD’s elcome eek to be atime hen tudents re aught ow o use he am-pus ibraries nd ow o read book. ot o. heUniversityas fferinguch cintillatingivertis- sements as "COLLEGE AND FREEDOM: MAK-ING CHOICES ABOUT SEX. Men and women areinvited o a wide-rangingiscussionbout eetingand hoosingex artners,lternativeexual ifes- tyles, nd exual ecision-makingithin elation-ships." Not to mention ’"HOPE IS NOT AMETHOD’", birth ontrol eminar. f we’re oingto be open, e should top alling urselves heUniversityf aliforniat San iego nd tart al-ling urselveshe niversityf Californiaor in and ebauchery.¯ I HAVE A DREAM DEPARTMENT: The forcesof ntegrationontinuedheir truggleuring elcome eek, oo. eatured as the sian tudentOrientation, lack tudent rientation, lackCommunity et-together, lack tudents cienceOrganizationrientation,nd lack tudentsnion Dance.¯ Joseph Jo-Jo" iorgianni he 65-pound sth-matic nd ex ffender ho as eleasedrom risonbecause is ell id ot ave ir onditioningasreincarceratedfter e was een reating imselfwith igars hile n a casino. r. iorgianni sserving ime or he ape f a 14-year-oldirl. eclaimed hat here as othing rong ith hat edid nd hat f e ad ot een at nd taliano newould ave ared. nfortunately,either he eu,indicator or the CLU ere vailable o defendthis ictim f eightismnd acism.¯ The eek hat he oviets ccused he sraeli’sfcommitting genocide n Lebanon as the w’rysame eek hat he oviets assacred very an,woman, nd hild n six illagesf the .ogar ro-vinte n fghanistan.ore han ,000 ivilianserekilled.¯ Liberal retty-boyobert edford, substantiallandownern Utah, ants o develop he rea earhis undance esort, ays edford’s ropertiesmanager,ohn ear. he ctor as pplied or er-mits o evelopetween0 nd 0 ots ear he mallski esort nd as sked ear o draw p a masterplan or he esort,edford’sanch n panishork, and ther oldings.Formerly n uhra-preservationist,edford owviews eveloped ilderness n a different ight."Economics re laying big ole n everyone’slife," ear aid. ames att e proud.¯ Helen aldicott, f the hysicians or ocialResponsibility,as iagnosedhe rms ace s caseof "missile nvy" temming from n inadequatemale exual omplex n he art f he orld’s ead-ers." he rofounds. aldicotts lso rying o etthe ierra lub o join he uclear reeze ovementbecause uclear ar would hurt chipmunks, ndbirdies,nd he zone ayer.¯ The ew ndicatorwns rime ffice pace n theStudent enter, eceives unding rom he niver-sity through ou nd e), nd as paid taff,(Reggie illiams, he ollective’s ne an bandmakes early 6.00 n hour). ali]ornia eviewreceives o Universityunding, perates n a com-pletely olunteerasis, nd as o office pace. edon’t all p our competition’sdvertisers ndthreaten oycotts ither. aybe hat’s hy e’recalledlitist.¯ Stephen. obs f os atos ade t o his ear’sForbes our undred ist. n 976, he 7-year-oldcollege ropout aw otential n personal ompu-ters. e sold is elongings,oved nto garage,and ow wns 3.6% f Apple nc. hares, alued tabout 100 illion. f course, s Robert ekach-man ill ell ou, here’so pportunityn merica.¯ After wo men ere arried o each ther n acounty n Colorado. local owboy ried o getlicense o arry is are. zi nt ct f specieistarrogance,he ounty lerk enied he equest venthough here s no law prohibiting man frommarrying is orse.¯ A lot f eople eem o think hat he nly oral-ity orth aving hese ays s no orality.ali[or-nia eview isagrees.here s right nd here swrong nd veryone s free o choose or imself.Life s ot asy, ut he rong hoice ill ake ifemore ifficultor neselfnd or thers.¯ During recent adres elecasthe gregiousaveCampbelldentifiedhe adre rganist’sendition of Wagner’s Ride f he alkyries"s "music romsome urfing ovie. t ounds ike he ntroductionto "Ben-Hut."ang star n that ne.¯ The World eace ouncil, ne of those roupsagitatingor nuclearreeze,as cheduledts ext meeting n Afghanistan.he resident f the PC,Romesh handra, former ember f the centralcommittee f the ommunistarty n India, as hefollowingaxim or is ollowers:People sk e,’You re peace ovement. hy o you upport hearmed trugglesn Nicaragua,alestine,ietnam?’ And reply, The rmed trugglen hese ountriessthe peace ovement.’"¯ Many f you agged t Ms. onda’s xercise ook,but ow ou an ry ne f the ane onda orkoutsalons opping p around he tate. ut ane sn’tjust shaking he flab--she’s ouring 30,000month into hubby Tom "Chicago even" ayden’sCampaign for Economic Democracy CED) groupin Santa onica, opefully oosting is hances nthe ace or tate ssemblymann the 4th istrictthis all. rashed n the 76 ace or he emocraticSenate omination,ommy s putting is ocialistideals nto racticey rying o uy he lection.sJane onda’s ody ll hat reat?¯ It’s fficial.he umber ne rms erchant n heworld s he oviet nion. ittle ttentionas ivento his ews y he eace ront, ut ome eople regetting ed-up ith he etter ed han ead et. nAmerican orrespondentn London sked gregar-ious eacenikhy merica atches ll he lack. heresponse?Because he ussians on’t isten."

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The layboyhilosopher

Mortimer mith n his ook y School he ity:AMemoir ] New ork n the wenties ecounts owhe used ew ork ity s a classroom. ewsstandswere tocked ith iterary agazines, egitimatetheatre as hriving, ovies ere ecoming n artform, nd institutions--museums,hurches, nduniversities--hadours, ermons,nd ectures hatmade utodidacticismhappy ducationallterna-tive. oday good eal f that lternativeas eeneffaced, uch o the etriment f the rban lumdweller nd to America s a whole. he eason:pornography.n New ork, here he productionsof George . Cohan sed o capture very heatre nBroadway, he very same theatres ave becometriple-X rcades. ornographyominates he aga-zine ndustry, loods oviehouses,nd, or hosefortunatenough o have able, t comes n TV. ewonder hy crime s astronomical, hy violentcrime nd exual ssaults ontinueo rise, hy utlargestriminallass s ade p f uveniles.t’s ot tough conomic imes. rime ates uring he reatDepressionepresent n Eden ompared o the ur-rent tatistics.t s ecauseur usic,ur iterature, and ur ilm eems o have o other ission ut oshock ur ensibilities,lorify ur epravity,ndbreak own aboos.his s he ew efinitionf rt;and rt s idactic--iteaches essons.axi rivertaught ohn inckley lesson.Alexander olzhenitsynas old s how orno-graphy owers he orld’s iew f America. e onceexported ilms ike: he est ears [ Our ives,Going y Way, t’s Wonder]ul i[e, he oreYellow ibbon, nd he ride f the ankees. owwe export ilms ike: orky’s, nimal ouse, p inSmoke, Making Love, The Blue Lagoon, DeepThroat, arzan he pe an, nd riday he hir-teenth. ndeed, hen he ussiansirectedhe ol-ish rmy o impose artial aw n Poland he mer-ican movie playing n Polish oviehouses asApocalypse ow. The irony is almost oo much.The eader f he ree orld lagellatingtself nfront f eople ufferingeal ppressionrom ivili-zation’s nathema. hen the Nazis arched ntoFrance he French eople heered he Americanmovie laying n their heatres--Mr.mith oe.~ oWashington.he oles ad o such ption.Any ntelligent,ivilizederson an ee hat or-nography s a horror--degradingo humanity ndclogging ur odes f discourse.hy hen oes texist? ho could ossibly upport uch thing?Meet he layboy hilosopher.You’ve een im. e’s he ne hat pproacheshemagazine ack ooking ver is houlder. e’s heone ith hose ophisticatednd rogressivepin-ions hat e closed inded rudes an’t olerate.A sampling:1) "Hey, hat’s ot ornography.hat’s he aylifes."2) "I’m ro-choice hen t comes o abortion.There’s othing ike pregnancy o ruin girl’sshape."3) "I support he ERA. Hugh Heiner oes. Ifyou’re oing o et irls o ose ude or ou, ou’vegot o make oncessions."These re the en that eep the masturbationindustry hriving;nd heir umbers ren’t imitedto he oung.here re ots f wingingldstersoo. Contraceptionuts cross ll enerationaps. on-sequently, lder en re o longer atisfied iththeir ives. he atural rocessesf age nd atu-ration, he atural ading way f arly aritalon-cupiscence,s to them horrible cheme, o doubtpropogated y that illain f all illains, hepoliceman f the bedroom, he Moral ajority.Women re upset ecause hanks o contraceptionand he ospel ccording o Penthouse ny how fwarmth, enderness,r affectionn their art staken y he ibidinousale s n nvitationo ide.Pornography as ehumanized uman elations.Pornographyakes ex consumer tem. s C.S.Lewis ointed ut, f ou ent o a foreign ountrywhere he eople ere ot tarving nd et heyflocked o urlesqueouses here ood as nveiledyou ould hink hat heir ppetitesad een er-verted. ell, o ave ur exual ppetites.ex s nolonger inked o procreationr even he piritualbonding f husband nd ife. ex oday s supposedto e othing ut un. he esult s that ne allo[all arriagesnd n ivorce,ne hird f all reg-nancies nd n abortion,nd en ho re therwisetightfistedith heir oney ay own ive ucks rso o watch he atest n aping echniques.It sed o e aid hat he ush-hushexual oral-ity f he ictoriansed o ll orts f sychologicalproblems. ur pen orality as not ade s anyless ex bsessed,ut athert as ade s ore o. thas ade ust part f the ationalharacter.No doubt, omeday oon, the Playboy hilo-sopher ill evelop he ltimate n progressivethinking. nhappy ith the wife who wishes ewould row p, lienatedrom is hildren ho redisgusted ith him, unable o find enough nenight stands ree from VD, and uncomfortable(though e won’t dmit t) ith he omosexuals,coprophiliacs,nd necrophiliacs,ho he helpedlegitimizeith is ex-is-nothing-but-funifestyle,the layboyhilosopherill urn o he reatestun of all, ne ith o responsibilitiesnd o humanbeings o worry bout--pantheonizednanism.HWC Ill

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We all now bout he eports hat ink ari-juana smoking ith lung cancer, rain damage,lowered perm ounts, d nauseum. eople ho renot lready onvinced hat arijuana s unhealthyand ho ling umbly o the oliticallyotivatedcounter tudies f pro-marijuanaroups ill everbe onvincedy uch tack. hey re lready ntel-lectual hattels f he rug. would ike o rydifferentpproach. would ike o attack arijuanaon estheticrounds.Marijuanaetains he lamor f he ixties oun-terctthure hat anned t. hough very ormstersmokest, t s till upposedo e n ct f ebellion.Being dope moker s n ct f con ormity;nd nycollege ge tudent ho till eels e has o ebelagainst is arents as bviously ot rown p atall.The arijuana igarette s a decidedly impishexcuse or fag. t looks ike ome indergardener’spaper ache ersion f a condom. t is neithermanly igaretteor femininene. t lacks halli-cism nd t s ertainlyot raceful.t lso tinks.The ickly weet mell f marijuanas not he centthat akes omen mpatient or heir en o comehome rom he ea. arijuana mokers ave ten-dency o drool, nd combined ith heir eavilyveined yes nd roopy yelids, hey arely ooksuave.Lastly, n this ra hen o one ants o makecommitment o another human being or to ournation ne onders hy oung eople re o eagerto ive p heir ibertyor he aol f rugs.uringthe Vietnam ar it was he policy f the orthVietnamese overnment o smuggle ope o Ameri-can ervicemennd o he nited tates. heir ur-pose as two-fold. ne, hey sed the oney tosupport he iet ong. wo, hey elieved t wouldhelp o weaken merica’s ill. he orth ietna-mese remembered how opium had made China apatsy or the imperial owers. oday the drugmarket s controlled y organizedrime nd idelCastro who ses he oney o supplementis ightmillion ollar day llowance rom he oviets).Does oday’s ope moker eally ant o ie imselfto hat istorical,conomic,nd oliticalradition?

HWC II!Behind eminary oorsBy effreyart

As everyone nows, ollege acultiesre oliti-cally inky, ut recenturvey f he oliticaltti-tudes f hose ho each merica’suture inistersand riests everthelessame s bit f shock.The eculiar oliticalehavior f academicsasbeen ocumented gain nd gain.In heir tudy f the 972 lection,or xample,Everett arll add nd eymour artin ipset ellus that, espite ixon’s andslideefeat f McGov-ern n the ation t large, cGovern arried heprofessorsy 6 o 3 er ent, contraryandslide.But hose igures on’t egin o tell he tory.According to Ladd and Lipset, McGovern wasbacked by hree-fourthsf faculty n the iberalsocial ciences, y seven n 10 among umanists--but y nly alf f he aturalcientistsnd thirdof he aculty t business chools.urther, cGov-ern as he hoicef 0 er ent f he acultyt liteinstitutionss comparedith ess han alf t lowertier nstitutions."I suppose his hould ave repared s for heresults f a new oll onductedy Roper nd ocus-ing n professorst Christianeminariesnd heo- logical chools hroughouthe ountry.Hold our reath. inety-twoer ent f Episco-palian aculty elieve he nited tates pends oomuch n its ilitary. nly 7 per ent f the amegroup elieveshe nitedtates s force or ood nthe world. ther denominations how the samesplit, hough o marginallyesser egree.Eighty-fiveer ent f the atholic rofessorsbelieve he nited tates treats he hird orldunfairly."Seventy-fiveer ent f the piscopalianselieve"repressiveegimes acked y the nited tates" rea greater roblem n the orld oday han Corn-monist xpansion."In ranges arying rom ne-quartero one-third,the heologyacultieselieve here hould e "toplimit n incomes o that o one an arn ery uchmore han thers." bout alf f the piscopalian,Methodist,utheran nd atholic aculties elievethat the nited tates ould e better ff f itmoved oward ocialism."More han alf f those acultiesisagreed iththe tatementhat economicrowth s better ayto improve he ot f the oor han istributingexisting ealth."According o Mr. Ladd, mentioned bove, hoheaded his urvey, he oliticalttitudesf thosetheologianslosely esemble hose f the eneralhumanities acuhy.These oll esults,nd hey re uch ore xten-sive han an e indicated n a column, ere ub-lished n a new nd pry seful agazinealled hisWorld, hich ocuses n the elationshipetweenChristianitynd ssues f politicsnd conomics.My own impression, ased on an admittedlylimitedample,s hat he ap etweenacultyolit- ical ttitudesnd hose f he eneralublic s ctu-ally idening.The ountry oved o the ight ith he lectionof Reagan, nd he olls how ightwardrends nwhole ange f issues.In consequence, cGovernite pinion n thecampuseels tselfn conditionf iege.t ears he loss f the gains" t made uring he’60s--reversediscrimination,rendy thnic nd eminist rograms,ecologicaltuff.McGoverniteccess o overnmentt ll evels sbeing hoked ff. he ood f he acultyeftistsshardeningnd urning itter.

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