Arnold Beichman (Sunday 8 3 03 Washington Times) effectively smears Ann Coulter, calling her defense of McCarthy "rant" and comparing it, cutely poised as a mock example of her excess, to Hitler's attack on Jews. And Mr. Beichman "knows" there are "more conservatives who have been sickened by her book" Treason.

His review, along with one by Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal, helps draw the line Coulter is now etching into public discourse. This would replace with a single line the four lines dividing Conservative and Liberal where conservative backs into "fascist," and liberal into "communist." Her point, that liberalism is now in practice what it was in sentiment, treason, is indeed an emetic medicine. Clear away this corrupting digest of shared principles among liberals, fascists, communists and conservatives, (a rag-bag of ex-Marxists, relativist economists, Burkeans and well-meaning people such as Beichman and Rabinowitz) and see what emerges in its place!

The effectual line of difference is between totalitarianism in its resting phase and totalitarianism in action. Totalitarianism is a hatred of what isn't total -parts, which is what everything is. These four would-be lines that are one line, best represented in American life by the liberals who were "hysterical" about McCarthy are the single line. It is a single impatience with mortality all focused in the second term of human existence which is the large human bodies (what we call nations today). In its place they see instead "a single global authority," a World State into which Self or the first term must be collapsed.  

This is the treason of liberalism. But it is now the agenda of the Democrat Party as it has been the single teaching and policy-basis of the elites in the West for more than a century. Coulter is quite right. Mr. Beichman's conservative friends who are made "sick" by a defense of McCarthy have been eating forbidden food, probably because they were liberals and communists early on. It is imperative that the line be redrawn now, for exactly the convergence between Western elites and Islam runs from their intersection at the point of agreement on a World State. It is not a coincidence this intersection harbors the fatal totalitarian equation of murder and killing. The line of policy and political discussion is actually drawn between One World and the life of peoples in nations, which are, when healthy, identified by the difference between murder and killing.

Robert J. Loewenberg

President Institute for Advanced Strategic & Political Studies, Jerusalem

and Washington, D. C.