The American Prospect articles from January 2002

The American Prospect archives from January 2002

The Enron economy. (Comment).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
January 1, 2002... JUST AS WATERGATE BECAME A metaphor for the Nixon era and Whitewater the right s symbol for Clinton, Enron is the emblem of the Bush administration's way of life. Enron is to George W. Bush what Teapot Dome was to Warren G. Harding. Its demise...

Our democratic Lords. (Comment).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
January 1, 2002... FAST TRACK HAS GONE TO THE Senate, where its passage, alas, is assured. "I don't think we stand a chance of defeating it," says one dispirited union official. Indeed, labor lobbyists aren't even focusing on the trade legislation itself, but on...

Excusing terror. (Correspondence).
January 1, 2002... I AM GLAD THAT TAP published Michael Walzer's "Excusing Terror" [October 22], but it is conceptually misguided. Nobody (except perhaps al-Qaeda) is trying to excuse terrorism, but many are trying to understand and explain it. These are not the...

The business of America. (Correspondence).
January 1, 2002... SOMETHING CAN BE ADDED to Robert Kuttner's column on the need for new public outlays in a time of serious recession and public-health and domestic-security challenges ["The Business of America," December 3]. Organized business is not the only...

Home-court advantage. (Correspondence).
January 1, 2002... I HAVE GREAT RESPECT FOR Michael Massing ["Home-Court Advantage," December 3] and his understanding of treatment for drug addiction as a public-health issue. However, to argue that the war on drugs teaches us anything about the war on terrorism...

Here's hard times. (Correspondence).
January 1, 2002... WHEN IT COMES TO ILLEGAL immigrants, the hard times David Moberg describes in his article ["HERE's Hard Times," December 3] are largely self-inflicted. We accept illegals as long as they pay their dues. They know that the federal government...

Tax and spend. (Correspondence).
January 1, 2002... IN HIS "COMMENT" COLUMN, Robert Kuttner [September 24-October 8] makes some good points but also contributes to the confusion about Social Security. Kuttner writes that Social Security is one of America's most cherished and expensive...

Drawing board. (Correspondence).
January 1, 2002... WHILE I ALWAYS ENJOY reading the many insightful articles in TAP, I must confess that my secret obsession is the "Drawing Board." Tom Tomorrow has to be the most incisive political cartoonist in America today. Keep 'em comin', Tom. Hopefully, I...

A war economy. (Correspondence).
January 1, 2002... JAMES K. GALBRAITH'S gloom and doom runs deep ["A War Economy," October 22]. The unimaginative do try to assert that present market-driven solutions cannot prevail over the present slump. I take exception to this short view. Prosperity is not...

Kudos. (Correspondence).
January 1, 2002... I CAN'T WATCH OR READ much "political" discourse these days because of the blatant dishonesty by most people involved. I searched Robert Kuttner's name online and have discovered the Prospect. I feel better now! CINDY FUNKHOUSER San...

The roots of treason, explained. (Devil In The Details).(American who joined Taliban)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... FROM SHELBY STEELE, writing on American Taliban John Walker on the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal (December 10, 2001): Walker came out of a self-hating stream of American life. Yes, alone in Yemen and later in Pakistan, he...

Bless you, little redundancy. (Devil In The Details).(United States Postal Service management)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... SAY YOU'RE THE HEAD OF A New Democrat think tank and a report you've commissioned on how to downsize the U.S. Postal Service, in best third-way fashion, has just been plopped upon your desk. Right up top in the introduction, the study...

If at first you don't succeed ... (Devil In The Details).(Republican tax policy)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... LAST OCTOBER, WHILE THE World Trade Center ruins still smoldered, House Republicans decided that the best way to help the economy along was with a gigantic corporate and upper-bracket tax cut thinly disguised as a "stimulus" package. At the...

GOP charitable giving. (Devil In The Details).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... WHERE, OH WHERE, ARE our tax dollars going if the key provisions of the House economic-stimulus package make it into the final legislation? (Assuming there ever is final legislation.) The list of corporations up for mega handouts--should they...

Dewey defeats Truman.(media coverage of New York City's mayoral candidates)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... According to Paper--the slick bimonthly that's the bible of New York's downtown club scene--the Big Apple's incoming mayor thinks that the "Giuliani criminalization of clubs and club owners has Done too far," wants to "look at whether we should...

Preventing another Florida. (Networks).(presidential election)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY of the Supreme Court's Bush v. Gore decision has come and gone, and Congress still isn't taking the 2000 election debacle seriously. On December 12, the House passed the NeyHoyer "election reform" bill, which is hardly...

Welfare to what? (Networks).(welfare-to-work programs)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... AS TIME LIMITS ON WELFARE benefits, or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), start to hit this fall, gains in transitioning people from welfare to work over the past five years are eroding as the recession takes hold. Harder...

Fast-track attack and Davos by the Hudson. (Networks).(presidential trade negotiating authority)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... PRESIDENT BUSH MAY BE granted broader trade-negotiating authority, but he shouldn't feel that he's being handed a political mandate. When the House passed the fast-track bill in a 215-to-214 vote on December 6, the scene, in the words of one...

First step or last gasp? Al-Qaeda as anticolonial travesty. (Below the Beltway).
January 1, 2002... THERE IS WIDESPREAD AGREEment that the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States ushered in a new stage of world history, one distinct from the last 50 or 100 years. Secretary of State Colin Powell has referred to the period...

Homegrown horror: the prospects for all-American bioterrorism. (Gazette).
January 1, 2002... WHEN THE FIRST POST -- September 11 anthrax cases were revealed, speculation about who was responsible focused immediately on associates of Osama bin Laden or the government of Iraq. Now, though, it's widely believed that the anthrax attacks...

Controlling Pakistan's nukes: has the U.S. taken over the stockpile? (Gazette).
January 1, 2002... BATTALIONS OF REPORTERS and analysts who have been scouring the tinderbox region of South Asia and Central Asia since October 7--the start of the bombing of Taliban and al-Qaeda hideouts--have missed the significance of one of the biggest...

Suddenly serviceable: is this the moment for national service? (Gazette).
January 1, 2002... FOR YEARS, CHARLES MOSKOS has been churning out impassioned arguments for creating an American system of compulsory civilian and military service. The Northwestern University sociologist is widely recognized as the intellectual guru behind the...

Play dead: Sony muzzles the techies who teach a robot dog new tricks. (Gazette).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... THE HARDCORE FANS OF AIBO, a popular robotic pet, are a creative, if geeky, bunch. Since 1999, when the lifelike toys first appeared beneath Christmas trees, hundreds of Aibo enthusiasts have programmed their charges to perform tricks...

A Merry Christmas for tax-credit abusers. (The Taxonomist).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION HAS COME UP WITH STILL another outrageous tax-giveaway scheme, this time not by legislation but by administrative fiat. In mid-December, the administration announced that it would soon send out billions of dollars in tax...

Freeh's reign: at Louis Freeh's FBI, with carte blanche from congressional Republicans, real cops didn't do intelligence and counterterrorisrn.
January 1, 2002... WASHINGTON HAD RARELY SEEN SUCH URgency and bipartisan resolve. On a warm September day, the president and his hand-picked Federal Bureau of Investigation director laid out a new vision for what Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy has called the...

Ashcroft's hypocrisy: it's double-standard time at the new model justice department.(Attorney General John Ashcroft)
January 1, 2002... THREE YEARS AGO, JOHN ASHCROFT--THEN A senator from Missouri, now the U.S. attorney general--opened a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on gun control by declaring that a citizenry armed with both the right to possess firearms and to speak...

War and the constitution: Bush's military tribunals haven't got a legal leg to stand on.(President George W. Bush)
January 1, 2002... THE MEDIA ARE AWASH IN DISINFORMATION ABOUT military tribunals. Since November 13, when President George W. Bush issued his controversial executive order mandating the use of military commissions to prosecute suspected terrorists, one...

Enron's end: no one pushed harder for deregulation, and no one had more to conceal, than this pillar of the new economy.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... THE SPECTACULAR FALL OF THE HOUSE OF ENRON would have been a huge news story were it not for the terror war. Just a few months ago, Enron Corp. ranked number seven on the Fortune 500. But in little more than 15 months, it managed to lose over...

Onward, Christian moguls: the lord and the FCC provide a televangelical bonanza.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... VISION IS A FAVORITE TOPIC OF DR. GARTH W. Coonce, a minor Christian-broadcasting magnate from Marion, Illinois. In his monthly newsletter, Partnership, he often muses on the sacred visions that have inspired him to amass 16 television...

Ignorant bliss. (On the Contrary).(US public opinion towards the war against terrorism)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... IN THE LOCKER ROOM, TWO WOMEN ARE DISCUSSING the war against terrorism. They agree that Attorney General John Ashcroft is right not to reveal information about the 1,000-plus people detained since September 11. The trouble is, "we're too soft"...

Tradecraft. (The Critics Film).
January 1, 2002... THE QUALITY OF MOST AMERican movies released lately has been so low that Spy Game stands out as a significant pleasure. This Robert Redford-Brad Pitt vehicle is not a film for the ages--I may well have forgotten all about it by next year--but...

My dinner with Derrida. (Food).(social aspects of food)
January 1, 2002... IN THE 1960s, WHEN MY HUSBAND and I first traveled in England as students, we would have starved without the Chinese. From Brighton to Durham, from Bath to Norwich, the only inexpensive restaurants open at night were serving sweet-and-sour...

A royal shame. (Wunderkinder).(motion picture 'The Royal Tennenbaums')(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... A YOUNG MAN NAMED Anthony, inmate of an Arizona mental hospital, says a friendly good-bye to his psychiatrist and then prepares to shin down the wall on a rope of knotted sheets. Anthony's stay at the hospital has been voluntary; but, as he...

Three Strikes: Labor's Heartland Losses and What They Mean for Working Americans. (State of the debate: solidarity strikes out).
January 1, 2002... Three Strikes: Labor's Heartland Losses and What They Mean for Working Americans By Stephen Franklin. Guilford Press, 308 pages, $23.95 SOMEDAY, WHEN OUR OWN TIME is a distant memory, scholars will blow the dust off the 1935 Wagner Act, the...

Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century. (State of the debate: solidarity strikes out).
January 1, 2002... Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century By Howard Zinn, Dana Frank, and Robin D.G. Kelley. Beacon Press, 174 pages, $23.00 SOMEDAY, WHEN OUR OWN TIME is a distant memory, scholars will...

From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States. (State of the debate: solidarity strikes out).
January 1, 2002... From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States By Priscilla Murolo and A.B. Chitty. The New Press, 364 pages, $27.50 SOMEDAY, WHEN OUR OWN TIME is a distant memory, scholars will blow...

Free Flight: From Airline Hell to a New Age of Travel. (Books in review: planes, trains, and air taxis).
January 1, 2002... Free Flight: From Airline Hell to a New Age of Travel By James Fallows. Public Affairs, 256 pages, $25.00 IF EVER THERE WERE A TIME FOR top-to-bottom reassessment of the U.S. transportation system, now is that time. James Fallows's Free...

Breaking Gridlock: Moving toward Transportation That Works. (Books in review: planes, trains, and air taxis).
January 1, 2002... Breaking Gridlock: Moving toward Transportation That Works By Jim Motavalli. Sierra Club Books, 304 pages, $23.00 IF EVER THERE WERE A TIME FOR top-to-bottom reassessment of the U.S. transportation system, now is that time. James Fallows's...

Globalism and poverty.
January 1, 2002... THERE IS A VERY SERIOUS CASE NOT AGAINST "globalization," but against the particular version of it imposed by the world's financial elites. The brand currently ascendant needlessly widens gaps of wealth and poverty, erodes democracy, seeds...

How to judge globalism: global links have spread knowledge and raised average living standards. But the present version of globalism needlessly harms the world's poorest.
January 1, 2002... GLOBALIZATION IS OFTEN SEEN AS GLOBAL WESTernization. On this point, there is substantial agreement among many proponents and opponents. Those who take an upbeat view of globalization see it as a marvelous contribution of Western civilization...

Medicine as a luxury: the west treats vital pharmaceuticals as just another commodity. If poor countries can't afford filet, why should they get cheap drugs?
January 1, 2002... IT'S GENERALLY RECOGNIZED THAT PEOPLE HAVE THE right to eat. When famine breaks out, relief agencies rush food to the hungry. Politics and war may get in the way (indeed, they are often the causes of the famine). Sometimes relief efforts are...

The Mirage of progress: the economic failure of the last two decades of the twentieth century.
January 1, 2002... EVERYONE KNOWS THAT THE VAST 20 YEARS HAVE been an era of rapid overall economic progress for the vast majority of countries, especially in the developing world. Tariffs have collapsed and countries have flung open their borders to...

Free markets and poverty: since 1980, as the world has deregulated its markets, income gaps have widened. Why is this record heralded as a success?(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... FOR BETTER THAN TWO DECADES, THE ORTHODOX recipe for global growth has been embodied in the so-called Washington Consensus. This approach, advocated by the United States and enforced by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF),...

Globalism's discontents: integration with the global economy works just fine when sovereign countries define the terms. It works disastrously when terms are dictated.
January 1, 2002... FEW SUBJECTS HAVE POLARIZED PEOPLE THROUGHOUT the world as much as globalization. Some see it as the way of the future, bringing unprecedented prosperity to everyone, everywhere. Others, symbolized by the Seattle protestors of December 1999,...

A deal built on sand: at the Doha meetings, the World Trade Organization got back on the fast track. But a train wreck lies just ahead.
January 1, 2002... PULLED ALONG BY THE WAR ON TERRORISM, THE multinational corporate campaign to deregulate the global economy seems back on course--at least for the moment. By shrewdly buying votes and appealing to patriotism, the Bush administration engineered...

Justice for refugees: Americans are a generous people who all but ignore the world's dispossessed.
January 1, 2002... AHMAD HUSSEIN IS 12 YEARS OLD. "MY GREATEST wish," he says, "is to learn to read and write, to have warm shoes, and eat as much as I want to." But Ahmad's wish has long been thwarted. He is one of more than 3.6 million Afghan refugees--the...

Starved for attention: Globalization has increased the need to end hunger in the developing nations--and has provided the means to do it.
January 1, 2002... AS THE AFTERMATH OF SEPTEMBER 11 PROMPTS questioning about anti-Western rage, a good starting point is a statistic: 800 million. That's the number of people in the developing countries who lack "food security"--who don't have enough food to...

The costs of orthodoxy: Argentina was the poster child for austerity and obedience to the IMF formula. Not surprisingly, its economy tanked.(International Monetary Fund)
January 1, 2002... "En este pais esta todo mal hecho, pero esta tan bien hecho que es indestructible." (Everything in this country is made badly, but it is so craftily done as to be indestructible.) --ARGENTINE PRESIDENT ARTURO "FRONDIZI (1960) WHAT...

A politics of denial: are the world's fledgling NGOs a match for its repressive governments?(Non-governmental associations)
January 1, 2002... ON THE SIDEWALK OUTSIDE THE DURBAN INTERnational Convention Center last September, members of India's lowest "untouchable" castes staged a hunger strike. They,were protesting their government's refusal to let the issue of caste come before the...

Springtime for Democrats? (Comment).(Democratic Party must plan for next year)(Brief Article)
January 28, 2002... AS THIS ELECTION YEAR begins, one can imagine two equally plausible scenarios. In the first, George W. Bush wraps the whole Republican Party in the flag. He outflanks the Democrats' latent advantage on virtually every domestic issue; the...

Liberty since 9-11. (Comment).(history of war and civil rights repression)(Brief Article)
January 28, 2002... WARTIME GENERATES violations of civil liberties. Wartime justifies restrictions of civil liberties. So we have heard since September 11 from people variously trying to explain or to defend departures from standing protections of individual...

I $ New York. (Correspondence).
January 28, 2002... REMEMBER U.S. SENATORS Michael Ciresi, Bob Rovner, and Ed Bernstein? How about Representatives James Humphreys, Phil Sudan, Roger Kahn, Peter Wareing, and Shawn Donnelley? If these names don't ring a bell, that's understandable. These are just...

Smart Bomb. (Correspondence).
January 28, 2002... IN HIS DECEMBER 17 ARTICLE "Smart Bomb," Eyal Press fails to mention an important factor. If Gore had been inaugurated, his commission's report could have been enacted, thus possibly preventing September 11. It boggles the mind that the airline...

Time's Up. (Correspondence).
January 28, 2002... KEVIN O'LEARY'S ARTICLE ON California term limits ["Time's Up," December 17] devastatingly demonstrates one deleterious consequence of mandatory restrictions. He could have also described the increased knowledge and power of executive agencies,...

Feinstein's Rule. (Correspondence).
January 28, 2002... PETER SCHRAG'S ARTICLE "Feinstein's Rule" [December 17] is a fantastic piece. Most stories about H-1B visas are generally told from the perspective of the laid-off, low-income foreign worker who has to return home. There are too many...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
January 28, 2002... ROBERT KUTTNER'S COLUMN "The Enron Economy," January 1-14, 2002] should have stated that Kenneth Lay donated $326,000 (not $326 million) to the Republican Party.

Fair-weather friend. (Devil In The Details).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
January 28, 2002... THE GOOD NEWS, FOR missile-defense aficionados, is that in a December test of the military's fledgling antimissile system, one of our prototypes shot down a dummy warhead on an intercontinental ballistic missile over the Pacific. The bad news...

Going down as it came up. (Devil in the Details).(Brief Article)
January 28, 2002... WE CAN ONLY IMAGINE THE tension in Enron's executive offices in the week before it filed for bankruptcy. Each day brings new revelations about the company's dubious business practices and dire financial status. Dynergy seems about to pull the...

School sprays. (Devil In The Details).(Brief Article)
January 28, 2002... IT DOESN'T RISE TO THE level of an all-purpose maxim, but we've stumbled on a pretty good general rule for explaining the fate of one kind of congressional legislation, given the current House leadership: No bill that regulates pesticides is...

They're back! (Devil In The Details).(Brief Article)
January 28, 2002... Two years ago, ur-conservative Paul Weyrich stunned the religious right by calling for a retreat from temporal concerns. "Conservatives have learned to succeed in politics," he wrote in an open letter that's still available on the Web site...

Recess wars ... (Networks).(Brief Article)
January 28, 2002... WASN'T IT JUST YESTERDAY that The Wall Street Journal editorial page was thundering at Bill Clinton for appointing Bill Lann Lee to the Justice Department's civil-rights desk without congressional approval? Now, under the very same terms of the...

... and Clean Air battles. (Networks).(Brief Article)
January 28, 2002... SPEAKING OF CLEAN AIR, a massive coalition of environmental groups has set its sights on a plan now gestating in the White House and among industry lobbyists to grant regulatory waivers to energy plants, chemical manufacturers, and oil...

Bush-league economics: our bum steers for Argentina and Japan. (Below The Beltway).
January 28, 2002... THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION is getting an A for its prosecution of the war against al-Qaeda and the Taliban, but it is flunking international economics. While energetically lobbying Congress for "fast track" authority (which is not a trade...

Down, Argentine way: how the IMF's darling collapsed. (Gazette).
January 28, 2002... A WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS, the slow-motion collapse of Argentina suddenly turned swift and violent. Two days of rioting brought down the government and left 31 people dead. All but one were killed by gunfire from shopkeepers and police. Some died...

The Coca-Cola killings: is plan Colombia funding a bloodbath of union activists? (Gazette).
January 28, 2002... AFTER THE LEADER OF their union was shot down at their plant gate in late 1996, Edgar Paez and his co-workers at the Coca-Cola bottling factory in Carepa, Colombia, tried for more than four years to get their government to take action against...

The war at home: wartime used to entail national unity and sacrifice. (Gazette).
January 28, 2002... ONCE UPON A TIME, THE war at home meant frugality and sacrifice. Our parents or grandparents collected string and made balls of tinfoil, one gum wrapper at a time. They accepted rationing and went each week to the grocer with coupons for...

Why there was no stimulus bill? (Taxonomist).(Brief Article)
January 28, 2002... THE BEST NEWS ON THE ECONOMIC AND BUDGET FRONT in December was the failure of Republicans to ram their big corporate tax-cut package through Congress in the name of "stimulus." The bad news was that nothing was done to boost the economy and...

Supply-side stupor: the energy-policy alternative to Saudi dependency isn't Arctic drilling. It's efficient use.
January 28, 2002... AMERICA IS AT WAR. THE ECONOMY IS DOWN. Global prosperity, stability, and environment are at risk. Domestic politics is reverting to gridlock, driven by the coming battle for both houses of Congress. And energy policy, strongly polarized, is...

Tougher than terror: to fight criminal terrorism, we need to strengthen our domestic and global system of criminal justice, not militarize it.
January 28, 2002... THE DEBATE OVER MILITARY TRIBUNALS HAS BEEN largely conducted in terms of the trade-offs between national security and civil liberties. But this debate has tended to obscure an equally important issue: How does the question of where to try...

Gun shy. (On The Contrary).(firearm ownership and law)(Brief Article)
January 28, 2002... GUN SALES ARE SAID TO HAVE INCREASED DRAmatically since September 11--to the bemusement of some, who point out that guns won't protect us from terrorists armed with viruses or nuclear bombs. Still, it's long been clear that many Americans feel...

Postcards from the edge. (The Critics Film).(Critical Essay)
January 28, 2002... ORPHANED CAMBODIAN amputees, Bosnian war widows, prepubescent Liberian soldiers, Rwandan rape victims forced to bear and raise the children of their attackers.... The upcoming Human Rights Watch International Film Festival (which will travel to...

Can Buffy's brilliance last? (Television).(Buffy the Vampire Slayer)(teen life in television programs)(Critical Essay)
January 28, 2002... WHEN FUTURE CRITICS ask whether turn-of-the-century American TV produced any works of genius, the verdict on the entire medium--all 128 channels of it--is likely to depend on their assessment of a cult teen hit currently airing on UPN, with...

The humor and the pity. (Literature).(Critical Essay)
January 28, 2002... THERE IS A FEATURE THAT has often marked the dust jackets of V.S. Naipaul's books. We are first given some perfunctory details about the writer's birth in Trinidad, his education at University College, Oxford, and the year, 1954, when he began...

Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965. (Books in review: listening to Lyndon).
January 28, 2002... Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965 Edited by Michael Beschloss. Simon and Schuster, 475 pages, $30.00 WHEN DEALING WITH the amazing personality of Lyndon Baines Johnson, there is just no substitute for...

The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World. (Books in review: the control of ideas).
January 28, 2002... The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World By Lawrence Lessig. Random House, 352 pages, $30.00 ASPECTER IS HAUNTING culture: the specter of intellectual-property law. Soon every embodiment, however ephemeral, of...

Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity. (Books in review: the control of ideas).
January 28, 2002... Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity By Siva Vaidhyanathan. New York University Press, 243 pages, $27.95 ASPECTER IS HAUNTING culture: the specter of intellectual-property law. Soon...

The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology. (Books in review: spy tech).
January 28, 2002... The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology By Jeffrey T. Richelson. Westview Press, 416 pages, $26.00 IN 1954, JAMES R. KILLIAN, JR., then president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and...

Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail. (Books in review: getting by).
January 28, 2002... Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail By Ruben Martinez. Metropolitan Books, 330 pages, $26.00 Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted... They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves. ...

Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do about It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs. (Books in review: the other war at home).
January 28, 2002... Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do about It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs By Judge James P. Gray. Temple University Press, 272 pages, $19.95 ONE DAY ABOUT EIGHT years ago, Judge James P. Gray held a press...

Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment. (Books in review: illuminating the enlightenment).
January 28, 2002... Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment By Emma Rothschild. Harvard University Press, 353 pages, $45.00 SHOULD YOU CARE ABOUT THE Enlightenment? Yes, you should, and more than a little, says Emma Rothschild, the...