The American Enterprise articles from April 2000

The American Enterprise archives from April 2000

Three P's in a Political Pod.
April 1, 2000... Politics has three elements: personalities, principles, and process. On the personalities front, America is currently in the midst of an unusually lively and healthy election season. Whatever else may be said of today's stable of presidential...

Sidelights.
April 1, 2000... The American Federation of Government Employees has 17,000 more members than it did before Vice President Al Gore began his "reinventing government" crusade, observes columnist Paul Gigot.... Another government employees' union, the American...

PAY FOR GAY PLAY.
April 1, 2000... A few weeks ago two students representing the Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth came before the Massachusetts Board of Education asking the Board to enhance regulations designed to protect homosexual students from harassment in...

THE INDIVIDUAL PATH TO GROUP SUCCESS.
April 1, 2000... Racial quotas are counterproductive not just because they undermine the foundations of equality before the law, but also for the practical reason that they shield black Americans from vital lessons of cause and effect, thereby depriving them of...

HELPING CRIMINALS, HURTING CITIZENS.
April 1, 2000... Gun control advocates are pushing a growing number of minor restrictions, such as trigger locks and "safe storage" laws, which would require that all firearms be locked up when not in use. Presidential hopefuls McCain, Bradley, and Gore all...

AFFLUENCE BUYS GOVERNMENT SPRAWL.
April 1, 2000... The American era of big government began with Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, each with his own forthright, popularly compelling vision of active government hitched to a common national purpose. It continued with Franklin Roosevelt, who...

THE TRUE IVY LEAGUE MINORITY.
April 1, 2000... The Newhouse News Service recently printed a story by reporter Jonathan Tilove which found that, statistically speaking, the most serious "diversity" problem at elite universities today is "the underrepresentation of the white, non-Jewish...

RELIGION ON CAMPUS--NOT.
April 1, 2000... From the Smith Alumnae Quarterly: "I think the academic suspicion of religion is very deep, and there's a tremendous amount of ignorance on college campuses," says Jewish and women's studies scholar Judith Plaskow. "People who are very...

COOL DOWN ABOUT WARMING.
April 1, 2000... Environmentalists argue global warming is a looming catastrophe and can only be stopped with massive expenditures. In his recent study The Greening of Global Warming, Robert Mendelson of the Yale School of Forestry argues that advanced...

IT'S THEIR BABY.
April 1, 2000... A posting we came across recently on an Internet bulletin board for architects, from Jerry Schwinghammer of Orlando, Florida: I know a woman who drives a huge $40,000 SUV. She drives 50 miles each way to work at a job that pays about $1.00...

(T)RUTHLESS AL GORE.
April 1, 2000... At least Bill and Hillary Clinton had good reason to lie--the truth could have landed them behind bars. How can you come clean about Chinese money drops or the 10,000 percent return in the Miracle of the Cattle Futures? With Al Gore, it's...

THE VAST LEFT-WING CONSPIRACY.
April 1, 2000... As Hillary Clinton runs for the Senate in New York, polls consistently show the First Lady trailing Republican opponent Rudolph Giuliani among white women. Even thoroughly liberal females are grumbling, as indicated by these harsh responses...

McCAIN: PRINCIPLE OR AMBITION?
April 1, 2000... At John McCain's fete on the night of the South Carolina primary, McCain spokesman Todd Harris told me what the entire McCain campaign has been telling the national press corps for months: "Our campaign had wide appeal and reached out to...

A Right to an Internet Connection?
April 1, 2000... A spectre is haunting America. The spectre of a "digital divide." That, anyway, is what President Clinton thinks. He said in his State of the Union Address on January 27 that Congress needs to provide subsidies to help low-income folks get...

What Role for Religious Conservatives?
April 1, 2000... TWO LEADERS OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT DEBATE ENGAGEMENT VERSUS WITHDRAWAL FROM POLITICS At the February national convention of the National Religious Broadcasters, Cal Thomas (the former Moral Majority vice president who is now one of the...

Ideas & People in the 2000 Election.
April 1, 2000... Observations and conversation among: John Fund John Julio Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Michel Barone Ralph Reed Christopher Hitchens People Bush. Gore. McCain. Bradley. Buchanan. Who are they and what do they want? To mull the...

Political Lessons for 2000.
April 1, 2000... The electoral victories of Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and the 1994 House Republicans led to enormous change. Reagan decisively pointed the nation in a different direction, and his economic reforms launched an entrepreneurial revolution....

FULL-CONTACT POLITICS.
April 1, 2000... Time for Conservatives to Stop Whining and Start Fighting Conservatives claim to be the defenders of personal responsibility, yet they have recently taken no responsibility for the predicaments they find themselves in. Instead,...

The Right Way for Republicans to Handle Ethnicity in Politics.
April 1, 2000... AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. Immigration. Bilingual education. Over the past few years, these issues and broader matters of ethnic politics have become the stuff of nightmares for Republican candidates around the country. On the one hand, ethnic...

My View from the bus.
April 1, 2000... A First-time Presidential Campaign Adviser Describes How Candidate Policy Gets Made The "Straight Talk Express" is a customized bus that John McCain uses to move from place to place during his campaign. It has two sitting areas--one in...

Dry Quixote.
April 1, 2000... Prohibitionist Earl Dodge Makes His Fifth Run for the White House In a fourth-floor room of the Bucks County Sheraton in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, perennial Prohibition Party presidential candidate Earl Dodge serenades me, in church-choir...

Rein in the Lawyers.
April 1, 2000... Another age of robber barons is upon us. But today's plutocrats aren't big businessmen, they're lawyers. The legal profession has long been plagued with ambulance chasers. In recent years, though, courtroom exploiters of ill-fortune have...

FISHING AROUND IN THE DARK.
April 1, 2000... TIPPY DAM, MICHIGAN--Each autumn, I take a little trip that makes my friends wonder about my judgment and worry about my safety. I head north, the direction that since childhood I have most deeply associated with creation and recreation, all...

A Dirty Little D.C. Secret Threatens to Expand.
April 1, 2000... Fannie Mae (the Federal National Mortgage Association) and Freddie Mac (the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) are government-sponsored financial institutions that are extremely powerful yet seldom covered in the general media. But the...

April's Forgotten Day.
April 1, 2000... Once upon a time in America, schoolchildren celebrated a lovely little holiday called Arbor Day. The children would sing songs about Johnny Appleseed, recite Joyce Kilmer into the ground, learn the difference between an oak and a maple, and...

Ten Commandments vs. Springer?
April 1, 2000... Not long ago, Laura Schlessinger made a deal that turned her into a certified Hollywood player. In September, the popular 53-year-old radio therapist known to an estimated weekly audience of 20 million as "Dr. Laura" will join the club of...

Little Government, Not Big.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Little Government, Not Big George W. Liebmann, Solving Problems Without Large Government. Praeger Publishers, P.O. Box 5007, Westport, Connecticut 06881. Liebmann, a contributing writer to TAE, argues that many of today's social problems...

Empty Budgets.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Empty Budgets Eric M. Patashnik, "Budgeting More, Deciding Less," in The Public Interest (Winter 2000), 1112 16th Street N.W. #530, Washington, D.C. 20036. Yale political scientist Patashnik believes the federal budget debate is...

A Regulatory Report Card.(Review)
April 1, 2000... A Regulatory Report Card Robert W. Hahn, "Changing the Federal Register to Improve Regulatory Accountability" in Regulation (No. 4, 1999), Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001. Washington bureaucrats...

Deregulation Still Makes Sense.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Deregulation Still Makes Sense Roger G. Noll, The Economics and Politics of the Slowdown in Regulatory Reform. AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, 1150 Seventeenth Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. The years 1975-85 saw...

Cities Strike Back.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Cities Strike Back Joel Kotkin, The Future of the Center: The Core City in the New Economy. Pepperdine University Institute for Public Policy/Reason Public Policy Institute, 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard #400, Los Angeles, California 90034....

Wasted Cleanup.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Wasted Cleanup W. Kip Viscusi and James T. Hamilton, "Are Risk Regulators Rational? Evidence From Hazardous Waste Cleanup Decisions," in The American Economic Review (September 1999), American Economic Association, 2014 Broadway #305,...

Stay Out of the Caucasus.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Stay Out of the Caucasus Anatol Lieven, "The (Not So) Great Game," in The National Interest (Winter 1999/2000), 1112 16th Street N.W. #540, Washington, D.C. 20036. In the late nineteenth century, the British and Russians fought a war of...

Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid to Talk About It.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid to Talk About It By Jon Entine Public Affairs, 387 pages, $25 Asians are 57 percent of the world's population but are virtually invisible on the world stage of running, soccer,...

Print the Legend.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Print the Legend By Scott Eyman Simon & Schuster, 592 pages, $40 Think of John Ford in black and white. While many of his greatest pictures, including The Searchers and The Quiet Man, were shot in color, it is the nuanced, monochromatic...

A Foreign Policy for Americans.(Review)
April 1, 2000... A Foreign Policy for Americans By Robert A. Taft Doubleday, 1951 It's easy to understand why most Americans paid little attention to the war in the Balkans. In the first place, nine out of ten people probably couldn't pick out Kosovo on a...

ELECTION 2000.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2000... Although we hear many complaints about our elections, large majorities of Americans believe their votes count and that it makes a difference who is elected President. This year more Americans believe that there is a candidate running for...

the Mail.
April 1, 2000... Joel Kotkin captures a few reasons that big, bureaucratic corporations are slipping--or totally collapsing ("The Rise and Fall of the Giant Corporation" January/February). But he misses one of the most important changes in twentieth-century...