The American Enterprise articles from December 2002

The American Enterprise archives from December 2002

Improving access to innovative medicines. (Pfizer forum: a world of ideas on public policy).
December 1, 2002... Trends of the past few years have drawn a great deal of attention to the research-based pharmaceutical industry, both positive and negative. On the positive side, the discovery of breakthrough medicines is making it possible to effectively...

Old and in the way. (Bird's Eye).
December 1, 2002... In April of this year, I was asked by the State Department to give a presentation on American culture at a large conference of European academics, government officials, and businessmen held in Warsaw, Poland. The event was sponsored by a major...

Sidelights.(political newsbites )
December 1, 2002... Norwegian rock band Taliban Airways marked the anniversary of 9/11 with a concert entitled Hit Another Tower.... In her September 11, 2002 sermon, Presbyterian minister Gretchen Graf, of Grand Forks, North Dakota said that the 9/11 hijackers...

Our weak friends. (Scan).(defense spending and capability of Canada and other United States allies)
December 1, 2002... As the United States prepares for another war against Iraq, it's high time to look at the military readiness of our closest allies. The view is not pretty. Since the end of World War II, no nation has fallen further than America's neighbor...

Military spending, 1997. (Scan).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... MILITARY SPENDING, 1997 per capita as % of GNP United States $1,030 3.3 Canada 257 1.3 Australia 459 2.2 France 708 3.0 Germany ...

Double-standard democrats. (Scan).(Democrats who oppose United States action against Iraq once supported action in Kosovo)
December 1, 2002... Democrats resisting President Bush's call to remove Saddam Hussein from power insisted we should not go to war with Iraq unless we had United Nations support. Their underlying principle seems to be that only the U.N. can bestow moral legitimacy...

Thank you, Bill Clinton. (Scan).(North Koreans developed nuclear weapons due to Bill Clinton's lenient arms control policies)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... "North Korea cannot be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb. We have to be very firm about it" President Clinton declared on "Meet the Press" on November 7, 1993. Now we learn the North Koreans went ahead anyway. Is anyone really surprised that...

A full-blown fruit and nut case. (Scan).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Michael Newdow, the atheist who filed suit to prevent the Pledge of Allegiance from being recited in his daughter's classroom, has recently taken up a new cause: A public campaign to rid the English language of masculine and feminine pronouns....

This is a problem? (Scan).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Erika Harold is a 2001 Phi Beta Kappa college graduate of mixed black and American Indian ancestry who can sing arias in six languages. She is headed for Harvard Law School. But first she will spend a year travelling the country making public...

Those dangerous religious folk. (Scan).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... People who give to religious causes also give generously t6 secular causes. In fact, they are apt to give substantially more to non-religious groups than those who only give to secular organizations, according to a new national study of giving...

Held hostage. (Scan).
December 1, 2002... Miguel Estrada came to the United States when he was 17 years old, speaking only rudimentary English. Within five years he graduated magna cum laude from Columbia College in New York. Then he earned a law degree, again with high honors, from...

Political pork. (Scan).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... A naval officer who is a TAE subscriber e-mailed us recently to express his surprise, upon opening his Florida Absentee Ballot this year, at finding the following on the ballot: Constitutional Amendment #10 Limiting Cruel and Inhumane...

Rationalizing bias. (Scan).
December 1, 2002... The stunning research presented in our September issue, documenting a gross imbalance between conservative and liberal faculty members on college campuses, stirred up enormous interest, inspiring numerous TV news shows, an ABC segment by George...

Fight campus discrimination. (Scan).(discrimination against conservatives )(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Meanwhile, two national groups are making concrete efforts to improve political balance on campuses. One is FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which has resisted the imposition of academic speech codes and campaigned for...

A conservative reading list. (Scan).(excerpted from 'Letters to a Young Conservative')(Bibliography)
December 1, 2002... As our combined boon-to-self-education and aid-to-Christmas-gift-shoppers, here is a book list for the mind and soul. It is drawn from the final chapter of Dinesh D'Souza's new book Letters to a Young Conservative, just out. To be an...

Greens eat organic pears, Africa starves. (Forward Observer).(European Union ban on genetically modified crops hurts Africa)
December 1, 2002... What my colleagues Chistopher DeMuth and Steven Hayward have christened "romantic environmentalism"--the view that protecting the environment must override all other concerns--emerged as a big loser at the giant U.N. Earth Summit in...

Five easy steps to tax reform. (Politico).
December 1, 2002... Before September 11 of last year, Social Security reform sat at the center of the Bush administration's economic agenda. The war, a plummeting stock market, and resistance from congressional leaders, however, has most likely postponed Social...

A prominent British editorialist and conservative takes a pessimistic look at the future of an increasingly centralized and socialist Europe. ("Live" with TAE: Peter Hitchens).(Peter Hitchens)(Interview)
December 1, 2002... There is something about the Hitchens family that breeds controversialists with deft pens. The British expatriate Christopher Hitchens is one of America's most coruscant essayists; brother Peter, a Trotskyite turned Tory, has emerged as one of...

The European disease: irrational anti-Americanism takes root across the Atlantic.
December 1, 2002... In response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, German chancellor Gerhard Schroder promised "unlimited solidarity" with the United States. A year later, he won a second term by pledging to German voters his unconditional refusal to cooperate...

A German-American requiem.
December 1, 2002... There was nothing like the great German-American romance. Just ask all those American soldiers who came to Germany as victors over the greatest evil in history, and stayed to become the German people's most devoted friends. (Not to mention...

A very mixed bag: economics and politics in today's Europe.
December 1, 2002... Once you get past the slanting rain under the steel gray sky in July, the Christmas decorations put up by Muslim workers under government contract, the piles of newstand pornography placed at toddler height, the dogs that get into barking duels...

Europe loses its mind.
December 1, 2002... Almost all of my adult life I have been a Europhile. I lived in Europe for the better part of 11 years, and considered myself lucky, because the thing I cherish most--good, informed intellectual conversation with people who know a lot about...

Scandinavia's surprising turn from socialism.
December 1, 2002... Since the early 1990s the four nations of Scandinavia have opened their economies to international competition, chopped taxes, and pruned regulations. In Denmark and Norway, market-oriented parties now control the government. Parties of the...

Royal mess: a crosswise look at Britain's monarchy.
December 1, 2002... Americans instinctively disdain monarchy. "There is not a crowned head in Europe whose talents or merits would entitle him to be elected vestryman by the people in any parish in America" wrote Thomas Jefferson to George Washington. By blood and...

This old house. (In real life: first-person America).
December 1, 2002... TARKIO, MISSOURI--We live in an agricultural region that has just endured a record drought. The stock market is in a swoon. So is the local economy. We decided to celebrate by buying a house. Mind you, our decision was made even tougher by...

How to liberate Iraq. (Working Lunch).(Michael Rubin of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the American Enterprise Institute)(Interview)
December 1, 2002... Wisdom... is social. She seeks her fellows--Thomas Jefferson After becoming fascinated with the Middle East, Michael Rubin traveled widely and worked in the region, including a nine-month stint as a history teacher in Kurdish areas of...

The center didn't hold.('Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950')(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950 By Robert M. Fogelson Yale University Press, 493 pages, $35 At first I simply couldn't believe this book's subtitle. Had American downtowns already "fallen" by 1950? If you'd ridden the passenger...

Democrats rising?('The Emerging Democratic Majority')(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... The Emerging Democratic Majority By John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira Scribner, 213 pages, $24 In 1969, political analyst Kevin Phillips announced that a new coalition of voters was emerging that would end "New Deal Democratic hegemony" and...

The frontier fed ex.('Stagecoach: Wells Fargo and the American West')(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Stagecoach: Wells Fargo and the American West By Philip L. Fradkin Simon and Schuster, 250 pages, $27.50 One of the certainties of American life is the perennial inefficiency of the U.S. Post Office. In the nineteenth-century West, mail...

A golden tale updated. (Now Playing).(Movie Review)
December 1, 2002... How do you extol the value of hard work and personal sacrifice to today's kids without boring them to tears? The same way Robert Louis Stevenson did in the early 1880s: by weaving moral instruction into a rousing adventure tale. In fact, why...

Not stocks alone. (Economics And Business).(analysis of 'After Irrational Exuberance' by John Makin in the September 2002 issue of Economic Outlook)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... John Makin, "After Irrational Exuberance," in Economic Outlook, American Enterprise Institute, September 2002 (aei.org) During the go-go stock market of the 1990s, financial advisors, media figures, and academics urged Americans to put more...

Make money with the poor. (Economics And Business).(analysis of 'Serving the World's Poor, Profitablly' by C.K. Prahalad and Allan Hammond in the September 2002 issue of the Harvard Business Review)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... C. K. Prahalad and Allan Hammond, "Serving the World's Poor, Profitably," in Harvard Business Review, September 2002 (hbr.com) Shantytowns and ghettos across our planet house nearly 4 billion people subsisting on less than $2,000 per year....

Costly medicine. (Society).
December 1, 2002... Joseph Antos and Grace-Marie Turner, "What Congress Should do About Prescription Drugs for Seniors," AEI on the Issues, September 2002 (aei.org) The U.S. Senate and House are struggling to agree on a workable proposal for helping senior...

Baby-step toward school choice? (Society).(The Century Foundation report on school choice)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Lowell Weicker et al., Divided We Fail: Coming Together Through Public School Choice, The Century Foundation, September 2002 (tcf.org) A report from a task force assembled by a liberal think tank suggests that letting students choose among...

Progress against drugs. (Science An Environment).
December 1, 2002... Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA), National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse VII: Teens, Parents, and Siblings, Columbia University, August 2002 (www.casacolumbia.org) A Columbia University research center has...

Ready for war. (Other Countries).(analysis of 'Poisoned Missiles: Syria's Doomsday Deterrent' by Dany Shoham, Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2002)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Dany Shoham, "Poisoned Missiles: Syria's Doomsday Deterrent" in the Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2002 (meforum.org/meq/) Syria has gathered a large arsenal of chemical weapons and is preparing to use them, and has also made some progress on...

European views. (Opinion Pulse).(on social welfare and military spending)
December 1, 2002... Europeans favor a stronger role for government on social welfare issues than do Americans. In some areas such as education and crime, both populations want an active government. Questions about the proper level of defense spending produce stark...

Europe on Europe. (Opinion Pulse).(public opinion survey results on European Union)
December 1, 2002... Europeans differ about whether membership in the European Union is a plus for their country. They differ on the single currency and on whether the E.U. should be expanded to include new countries. When asked specifically about expanding NATO to...

The mail.(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2002... I enjoyed Michael Ledeen's excellent and thoughtful piece on Bobby Knight ("The Real Bobby Knight" October/ November). Ledeen's depiction of Knight captures his character and personality far more accurately than do the mainstream media. One...

Last gasp.
December 1, 2002... "We find the defendant not not guilty." Long Live The Matriarchy! "At the tone, please leave your e-mail address." "I got you a muscle shirt. The rest is up to you." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]