The American Enterprise articles from December 2000

The American Enterprise archives from December 2000

Not All Immigrants Are Alike.
December 1, 2000... The last three decades brought a record surge of immigrants to U.S. shores. By the time I die (if current trends continue and my life expectancy is average), immigrants arriving just since 1970 will account (with their descendants) for fully a...

Sidelights.
December 1, 2000... President Clinton "revels in the stock-market rise during his tenure," notes columnist James Glassman, "yet for the period when he governed with a Democratic Congress, the Dow rose only 600 points" Since Republicans have controlled Congress,...

DON'T WRITE OFF THE NEXT GENERATION.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... In Millennials Rising: The Next Generation, Nell Howe and William Strauss predict the generation of young Americans due to start hitting college campuses soon will have little patience for the politics of baby boomer faculty members, and will...

HOME ON THE RANGE.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Nevada house builder Ignatius Piazza has put up a new 177-home development near Pahrump, Nevada, with some highly unusual amenities: 13 shooting ranges and 400 yards of shooting trenches. Oh yes, and free gun cleaning for every resident. ...

A 1 PERCENT PICTURE.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... In the last election, the "wealthiest 1 percent" of Americans were frequently invoked in sinister tones. But they were hardly ever described. Are they partying Kennedy kids, chauffered oil barons, retired rock stars? Hardly. For 1998 (the...

DID SOMEONE SAY DIALOGUE?(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... From the newsletter published by iconoclastic black commentator Larry Elder: Harvard's African-American Studies department chairman, Henry Louis Gates, once complained that because of white racism, "when I walk into a room, people still...

HEIGHTS OF FOLLY.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... A Pennsylvania farmer hit the jackpot for $300,000 after he put his ladder on top of a pile of frozen horse manure, reports The Cato Review of Business & Government. When the manure thawed, the ladder slipped, and the man sued. The target of...

YES, COMRADE!(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Following are excerpts from a list of "Class Ground Rules" given by an American University sociology professor to her students. They are adapted from rules being promulgated nationally by Tennessee women's studies instructor Lynn Weber Cannon....

ANOTHER MEDIA MURDER OF THE TRUTH.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... It was a shocking allegation, sure to come up in the presidential debates. On the very day of the first debate, the Los Angeles Times published two front-page stories about hundreds of criminals obtaining concealed-handgun permits in Texas and...

DEMOCRAT'S LAMENT.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Richard Lamm, the Democratic governor of Colorado from 1975-87, wrote sadly just weeks before the election: "The teachers' unions and the trial lawyers have taken over the Democratic Party and prevent much-needed reform from occurring. We...

THE PARTY OF FEAR.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Facing the tightest national election since 1960, Democrats rolled out the race card hoping to boost black turnout. Asked about racial profiling at the vice presidential debate, Senator Joseph Lieberman replied that a black presidential...

WASHINGTON INTERNSHIPS.
December 1, 2000... Are you a reliable student interested in journalism, politics, economics, and public policy? The American Enterprise offers full- and part-time Washington internships. Positions mix administrative, research, writing, and business tasks,...

SAVE THE MALES.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Perhaps men aren't a "privileged" group after all. At their latest annual meeting, college admissions directors held panels worrying over the declining presence of males on campus. "I call this the issue that dare not speak its name" says...

THE RIGHT TO SLEEP AROUND.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The Contender's cinematic pardon of Bill Clinton's Oval Office infidelities performs so many painful back flips trying to prove its point that you'll feel like putting a heating pad on your own spine after watching it. The movie argues for the...

Does America Have An Assimilation Problem?
December 1, 2000... Michael Barone says NO Our Immigrants Always Melted Before Heavy immigration has been the rule in American history, not the exception, and the minority groups of 2000 in many ways resemble the major immigrant groups of 1900: Blacks...

The Special Case of Mexican Immigration.
December 1, 2000... Why Mexico Is a Problem America is often described as a country defined by commitment to a creed formulated in the writings of our Founders. But American identity is only partly a matter of creed. For much of our history we also defined...

Our New Immigration Predicament.
December 1, 2000... As a result of reforms in immigration law in the 1960s, the United States is currently experiencing the largest sustained wave of immigration in its history. Approximately 800,000 legal immigrants enter the country annually, a dramatic increase...

The Case for Choosing More Skilled Immigrants.
December 1, 2000... The United States offers unequaled social, political, and economic opportunities to anyone lucky enough to enter its borders. Because of these opportunities, many more people want to come to the U.S. than the country is willing to admit....

Second-Generation Question Mark.
December 1, 2000... The Real Test Is How Immigrants' Children Will Do Arjun Malhotra is a classic immigrant success story, albeit with a modern twist. His first entrepreneurial triumph was back at home in India, where he and five buddies started a business in...

Techno-Utopia or Techno-Hell?
December 1, 2000... With human genes being mapped, the cloning of large mammals becoming common, and other startling innovations on the way, a triumphant ideology is beginning to take root among many scientists, doctors, and computer whizzes. Princeton biologist...

THE GIFT OF COMPETITION.
December 1, 2000... Why It's Time for Black America To Stand Up Black America is currently mired in a detour, intended by neither blacks nor whites, from the path to the mountaintop that Martin Luther King envisioned. Having learned to cherish victimhood over...

What I Want from a Jewish Vice President.
December 1, 2000... The following is excerpted from a speech given by author Michael Medved at the annual meeting of the national Jewish organization Toward Tradition, held in Washington, D.C. I have warm personal feelings toward Joe Lieberman, whom I've...

TAKING A WHACK AT GOLF.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... TARKIO GOLF CLUB, MISSOURI--I came to golf rather late in life, playing my first round in my middle thirties. Moreover, I have little athletic talent, no muscle memory, no ability to learn from my mistakes, and a slice that just won't go away....

Gay Intolerance.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... According to the New York Times, children cannot learn about honor from the Mormon Church, Orthodox Judaism, the Catholic Church, most Southern Baptists, the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, most of the Muslim world, much of the Third...

We've Lots of Room for People.
December 1, 2000... The notion that human beings, through their growing numbers and their escalating levels of consumption, are outstripping the globe's capacity to sustain them is one of the most powerful economic claims of the modern era. Ever since T.R. Malthus...

New Deal Turkey.(Thanksgiving history)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... As you prepare to dig into the turkey and stuffing this November 23, STOP! You've got the wrong day. George Washington issued the first National Thanksgiving Proclamation on November 26, 1789, but our early Presidents, disproportionately...

American Dreamer: A Life of Henry A. Wallace.(Review)
December 1, 2000... American Dreamer: A Life of Henry A. Wallace By John C. Culver and John Hyde Norton, 608 pages, $35 Henry Wallace was weird. In their very Sympathetic biography, former Iowa Senator John Culver and reporter John Hyde make much of his...

Citizen Coors: An American Dynasty.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Citizen Coors: An American Dynasty By Dan Baum William Morrow, 352 pages, $27 In 1873, a German immigrant named Adolph Coors fathered a small brewery that would become one of Colorado's most important and controversial businesses. He...

An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard.(Review)
December 1, 2000... An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard By Justin Raimondo Prometheus, 400 pages, $35 Murray Rothbard, the subject of this spirited biography by journalist Justin Raimondo, his admiring disciple, made a practice of "never...

Consumption Matters.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Consumption Matters Daniel T. Slesnick, Living Standards in the United States. AEI Press, 1150 17th Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. National income statistics suggest America has considerable economic inequality. But Slesnick, an...

Disabled by Uncle Sam.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Disabled by Uncle Sam James M. Taylor, Facilitating Fraud. Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001. Changes must be made to the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program, argues Taylor, managing...

The Virtues of Learning at Home.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The Virtues of Learning at Home Brian C. Anderson, "An A for Home Schooling," in City Journal (Summer 2000), Manhattan Institute, 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, New York 10017. In the '90s, homeschooling became increasingly common. The top...

How Privatization Is Affecting Latin America.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... How Privatization Is Affecting Latin America Mark Falcoff, "Regionalist Momentum in the Southern Cone," in Orbis (Summer 2000), Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1528 Walnut Street #610, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102. As privatization...

Taiwan Bounces Back.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Taiwan Bounces Back Arthur Waldron, "The `Chineseness' of Taiwan," in Policy Review (August/ September 2000), Heritage Foundation, 214 Massachusetts Avenue N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002. In 1949, after losing a vicious civil war, Chinese...

How the U.N. Learned to Dislike Families.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... How the U.N. Learned to Dislike Families Allan C. Carlson, "`The Family' at the United Nations: What Went Wrong?" in The Family in America (August 2000), Howard Center, 934 North Main Street, Rockford, Illinois 61103. U.N. documents on...

PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARD IMMIGRATION.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Economic good times may be improving Americans' views on immigration. Although we don't want to increase immigration, the highest proportion in half a century says that it should be kept at the level it is now. Around four in ten, down from...

ATTITUDES OF IMMIGRANTS.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Immigrants tell survey researchers that they felt welcome when they first came to this country. They are more likely than the population as a whole to believe that people who work hard can get ahead in America. Most immigrants feel that it is...

Immigrant Parents on Ideals, Values, and the Schools.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Immigrant parents' ideas of what the United States stands for and what children should be taught are remarkably similar to the views of all parents. Immigrant parents believe our society has to teach kids actively what it means to be an...

the Mail.(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2000... Though there are some excellent articles in the September issue, the one that stands out is James Webb's "Heroes of the Vietnam Generation." I was in the Air Force from 1969 to 1972, and although the closest I came to the war was a Southern...

CORRECTION.(correction to "Sister Power" in the October/November 2000 issue)(Correction Notice)
December 1, 2000... CORRECTION: In "Sister Power" (SCAN, October/November), Mari Thompson is misidentified as Mary Compton.

Last Gasp.
December 1, 2000... "He's dot-com and I'm dot-nets, but we've decided to raise the children as dot-org." They were originally bred to hunt for subatomic particles. It's the school nurse--she wants to know if she has our permission to shoot Tyler with a...