The American Enterprise articles from January 1998

The American Enterprise archives from January 1998

The humble generation. (Generation X)
January 1, 1998... Generation Xers--the young Americans born between 1965 and 1983--get miserable press. Am I the only one who finds this unfair? A "cynical, purple-haired blob watching TV," snaps Advertising Age (whose writers certainly ought to know about such...

Clint Eastwood: the most successful star in Hollywood talks about his films, 67 years of life in America, and politics, politics, politics.(Interview)
January 1, 1998... The most successful star in Hollywood talks about his films, 67 years of life in America, and politics, politics, politics. The first year Clint Eastwood was named a top-ten box office star (in 1968), he was among the likes of Elizabeth Taylor,...

The year in review: 1997.(Panel Discussion)
January 1, 1998... When, TAE invited three of the country's most caustic wits to look back over the year 1997, eyes rolled, stilettos flashed, and axes swung all around the table. Conservative humorist P.J. O'ROURKE (foreign affairs correspondent for Rolling Stone)...

What kind of America will Gen Xers inherit? (includes response)(Cover Story)
January 1, 1998... What sort of America will Generation Xers inherit as they enter our leadership ranks over the next decade or two? The conventional view is that the country is entering an era of champagne and roses. This summer Wired, a magazine of giddy '90s...

Gen X is OK, part 1. (Generation X) (Cover Story)
January 1, 1998... Today's young adults read little. They're poorly prepared for college. They're suckers for the instant gratification of booze and drugs. They're enormously confused about sex and scared to death of marriage. They're all for a woman's right to...

Gen X is OK, part 2. (generation X) (Cover Story)
January 1, 1998... When Allan gloom published The Closing of the American Mind, his best-selling 1987 meditation on the slack souls of the young, I was graduate student. At the time, I was quite willing to believe it fairly described a generation. Now that I have...

No...generation X is not OK.(Cover Story)
January 1, 1998... Educators like to believe that despite the changing of generations students maintain roughly the same basic attitudes toward hard work, success, learning, and knowledge. Obvious problems, therefore, regularly get categorized as "no worse than in...

An intimate profile of generation X.(Cover Story)
January 1, 1998... For the past ten years I've taught a seminar at an Ivy League university on "Psychopathology and the Family." I also lead a seminar on depression. Through these courses, as well as my advising and clinical work, I've gotten to know many...

Sex codes on campus. (includes related article)(Cover Story)
January 1, 1998... Our survey of colleges across the nation found that traditional dating is largely dead on campus. It has been replaced by group dating, in which men and women travel in unpartnered packs. "Large groups are seen as low risk, making for a safer...

The girls of Gen X. (problems of generation X women) (includes related article)(Cover Story)
January 1, 1998... All is not well with the women of Generation X. Consider the evidence: Close to 40 percent of college women are frequent binge drinkers, a behavior related to date rapes and venereal disease. Young women suffer higher levels of depression,...

Welfare to work: what happens when recipient meets employer?(Welfare Reform at Year 1)
January 1, 1998... In 1996, Congress converted four federal welfare entitlements into Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, a program that will limit recipients to a lifetime eligibility of five years. The significance of this change has been widely debated. ...

Little miracles: how churches are responding to welfare reform.(Welfare Reform at Year 1)
January 1, 1998... Supporters and critics of welfare reform agree on at least one thing: Such a momentous change in many Americans' way of life won't succeed without a vigorous increase in outreach to the poor by private institutions, particularly churches. The...

Why welfare reform can't succeed without the help of religious people. (includes related article)(Welfare Reform at Year 1)
January 1, 1998... Our welfare problem is part of a larger crisis in America. Every year, more American blacks are killed in urban violence by other blacks than the total number of blacks who died in service throughout nine years of the Vietnam War. Today, little...

What government must do: make welfare unappealing or reform will fail.(Welfare Reform at Year 1)
January 1, 1998... Years ago I worked for a research company that evaluated social programs for the federal government. One time I was heading a team assessing a program for troubled inner-city teenagers. As the evaluation approached its end, no quantitative...

Put pro sports blackmailers out of business. (sports stadium subsidies) (includes related article)
January 1, 1998... Taxpayer subsidies for new sports stadiums have been responsible for some of the biggest expansions of government during the 1990s. Cities have used public money to engage in unseemly bidding wars, with pro teams playing government against...

My favorite Martian. (astronomer Percival Lowell)
January 1, 1998... If NASA's ho-hum display of rocks and alleged microbes from Mars was intended to galvanize support for the space program, the spacocrats miscalculated. They ought to have learned from the blue-blood astronomer Percival Lowell, who a century...

All the President's Words: The Bully Pulpit and the Creation of the Virtual Presidency.
January 1, 1998... The Bully Pulpit and the Creation of the Virtual Presidency When Woodrow Wilson delivered a speech before Congress on April 8, 1913, thus breaking the 113-year tradition in which every president since Thomas Jefferson had honored the...

Bringing the Market Back In: The Political Revitalization of Market Liberalization.
January 1, 1998... By John L. Kelley NYU Press, 270 pages, $45 Intellectual histories of left-wing movements are commonplace; hundreds of books have been written on the various Marxian sects. Rare, however, is a serious treatment of individualist thought and...

Speaking Freely: A Memoir.
January 1, 1998... By Nat Hentoff Knopf, 303 pages, $25 In writing his memoirs, a journalist has an advantage over a civilian, in having a record of his life. And where Nat Hentoff's notebooks left off, his FBI files provided items he'd forgotten, such as the...

Generation of Vipers, rev. ed.
January 1, 1998... By Philip Wylie Originally published in 1942; published in a revised edition by Dalkey Archive Press, 1996 The jeremiad is a peculiar genre of American literature, but its examples are legion. The fire-and-brimstone rhetoric of moralism was...