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...hasn't been focused on the fact that the two scholars gathered much of their data from questionable sources. In the acknowledgments to The Bell Curve, for example, Murray and Herrnstein say they "benefited especially from the advice" of Richard Lynn, a scholar who in 1991 wrote in the neo-eugenicist journal Mankind Quarterly that "the Caucasoids and the Mongoloids are the only two races that have made any significant contribution to civilization." Then there's J. Phillipe Rushton, a Canadian psychologist who suggested in 1986 that Nazi Germany's military prowess was connected to the purity of its gene...
...composer's death diminishes the musical scene, but Stephen Albert's fatal automobile accident two years ago was especially costly. At 51, Albert had emerged as one of the leaders of the neo-conservative traditionalist movement, a position cemented by his winning the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for his first symphony, RiverRun, a work that was by turns lyrical, witty and sardonic. So it was a bittersweet occasion last week when the New York Philharmonic premiered Albert's Symphony No. 2: the music was first rate, and that made the loss of its composer seem all the more dear...
Thomson Professor of Government Martin Luther Kilson Jr. said the Cole incident is endemic of the "two pennied neo-racism" in the Square...
...Thomas-Hill Books. Call it neo-Thomism. Recent additions include Senator John Danforth's Resurrection and Jane Meyer and Jill Abramson's Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas. If ever we become tired of the Democrat/Republican two-party system, we could always mold American politics around the great Thomas-Hill divide...
...economy. Most of Germany's neighbors were at least a bit apprehensive about how the country would behave after coming triumphantly together five years ago, but Kohl's administration has reassured them. "Germany is not what it was in the past," says a French government official in Paris. German neo- Nazis have committed shocking public atrocities, but they do not presage a national trend toward extremism. An important proof: the far-right Republican Party took only 1.9% of last week's vote...