The American Enterprise articles from January 1999

The American Enterprise archives from January 1999

Chin Up: Some Ugly Trends Grow Lovelier.(social values)
January 1, 1999... History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into a political and economic decline. There has either been a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration to...

Sidelights.(unethical behavior)
January 1, 1999... At the State University of New York's Binghamton campus, freshman indoctrination includes the P.C. games "Cultural Pursuit" and "Wheel of Oppression."... In Singapore, House of Mao restaurants are staffed by waiters in People's Liberation...

SCAN.(value trends)(News Briefs)
January 1, 1999... HISTORIANS IN DEFENSE OF THE LIBERAL CONSPIRACY... On the Friday before this November's Tuesday election, a group referring to themselves gravely as "Historians in Defense of the Constitution" bought a splashy, $55,000 full-page ad in the...

CHRISTIAN LIBERTARIANISM.(interview with Bret Schundler)(Interview)
January 1, 1999... From a TAE interview with Bret Schundler, the Republican mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey. TAE: On economic matters, you're libertarian. You're also a devout Christian. Is there a conflict? SCHUNDLER: Without the values that come from...

Milton & Rose Friedman.
January 1, 1999... THE MOST INFLUENTIAL, AND ENDEARING, INTELLECTUAL COUPLE IN LATE-TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA DESCRIBE THEIR THOROUGHLY INTERTWINED LIVES. Sixty years of marriage, two children, four grandchildren, best-selling books (on economics, of all...

THE YEAR OF THE GOAT.(interview with Lucianne Goldberg, Mark Steyn and Andrew Ferguson)(Interview)
January 1, 1999... To make sense of the tumultuous year 1998, The American Enterprise assembled three seasoned observers of folly: Lucianne Goldberg, literary agent best known for her friendship with Linda Tripp; Mark Steyn, columnist for The American Spectator...

The Republican Stumble.(1998 elections)
January 1, 1999... At first glance, little changed on November 3. Republicans began and ended with 55 U.S. senators. Their 228 House seats edged down to 223. Out in the states, there were 32 GOP governors before the election, 17 Democrats, and one independent....

Democrats Hit a Jackpot.(lotteries for educational funding)
January 1, 1999... The soul of the Republican party today looks to be with its governors. Most of them were re-elected by huge margins, in gratitude for their effective reforms that limited state government, and their measured moral guidance. The noteworthy...

A VALEDICTORY ADDRESS ON LIBERTY, LICENSE, AND THE AMERICAN DILEMMA.(Transcript)
January 1, 1999... Today, people throughout the world are inspired by the hopes of America's Founders. But we should also be instructed by their fears. In 1819 John Adams asked Thomas Jefferson, "Will you tell me how to prevent riches from being the enemy of...

Is America Turning A Corner?(return to conservative values)
January 1, 1999... About 30 years ago, America had a national nervous breakdown. In the last half of the 1960s and the early '70s, a vast range of social trendlines headed south. We endured a crime wave, an illegitimacy surge, a welfare explosion, a drug abuse...

Is America Turning A Corner?(conservative social values)
January 1, 1999... A New Era of Civic Virtue Is Dawning Stephen Moore Over the past five to ten years a remarkable cultural turnabout has occurred. With few exceptions, the same social statistics that deteriorated in the 1960s, '70s, and early '80s, have...

WELFARE REFORM IS WORKING.
January 1, 1999... FOR THE POOR AND TAXPAYERS BOTH As I drove up Interstate 5 from San Diego to Long Beach, I thought back over 20-plus years of visiting welfare offices. Drab operations they were--interviewing moms, filling out 20-page forms, seeking...

Welcome to the Casbah.(immigrant experience)
January 1, 1999... Meet some immigrants well-suited to America's new economy Victor Sawan is the perfect man for a rapidly changing and unpredictable economy. Brought up amidst the chaos of Beirut, he later emigrated to Brazil, another land not noted for its...

WOODSY THERAPY.(deer hunting)
January 1, 1999... NEAR AUBURN, ALABAMA--I am a deer hunter. I get a few now and then, but killing deer has never been the goal. My real aim is just to get away. As a cop, I live and work in a pressure-cooker environment; the peace and quiet of the forest...

Stock Market Trumps Social Security Even During Dips.
January 1, 1999... Cheerleaders for government-provided Social Security were sur prisingly mum in recent years as the U.S. stock market charged upward and advocates of pension privatization won converts to their cause. But as the markets fell in late summer from...

Recycling Is an Economic Activity, Not a Moral Imperative.
January 1, 1999... Recycling--the great moral crusade of the late 1990s--was something rather different in nineteenth-century Paris: "Here we have a man," wrote Baudelaire, "whose job it is to pick up the day's rubbish in the capital. He collects and catalogues...

Arts & Crafts Apostle.(Elbert Hubbard)
January 1, 1999... Elbert Hubbard was a Buffalo soap salesman non pareil whose hobby was coining epigrams such as "take my advice--take nobody's!" He nursed literary ambitions like a swollen thumb, but his submissions to the popular magazines came back attached...

World War II Wild Card.
January 1, 1999... Hollywood's fascination with the Second World War rolls on, with a dozen projects currently in development at major studios. The next movie to tackle WWII, The Thin Red Line, will be a big one, costing more than $50 million to make and...

Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About the Event That Changed History.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About the Event That Changed History By William Ryan and Walter Pitman Simon & Schuster, 298 pages, $25 What is the relationship between scientific truth and religious truth? Are they two...

Main Street Blues: The Decline of Small-Town America.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Main Street Blues: The Decline of Small-Town America By Richard O. Davies Ohio State University Press, 236 pages, $39.95 When Americans are asked where they'd like to live, more of them say "a small town" than say a city or a suburb. The...

Lindbergh.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Lindbergh By A. Scott Berg G. P. Putnam, 628 pages, $40 A. Scott Berg's massive biography highlights the variegated life of that solo aviator who flew "The Spirit of St. Louis" in 1927. Dutiful son of a Minnesota populist and impassioned...

Reconstructing Woody: Art, Love, and Life in the Films of Woody Allen.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Reconstructing Woody: Art, Love, and Life in the Films of Woody Allen By Mary P. Nichols Rowman and Littlefield, 255 pages, $22.95 Woody Allen is famous for being a filmmaker who is both funny and deep. His movies are full of debts obvious...

Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War II.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War II By Stephen P. Halbrook Sarpedon Publishers, 319 pages, $25 If all you know is what you read in the papers, then you must think Switzerland is one of the most despicable countries in...

Invisible Man.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Invisible Man By Ralph Ellison, 1947 On last summer's Modern Library list of the 100 greatest English-language novels of the twentieth century, the first two by black authors were Invisible Man (1947) by Ralph Ellison and Native Son (1940)...

Native Son.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Native Son By Richard Wright, 1940 On last summer's Modern Library list of the 100 greatest English-language novels of the twentieth century, the first two by black authors were Invisible Man (1947) by Ralph Ellison and Native Son (1940)...

Go Tell It on the Mountain.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Go Tell It on the Mountain By James Baldwin, 1952 On last summer's Modern Library list of the 100 greatest English-language novels of the twentieth century, the first two by black authors were Invisible Man (1947) by Ralph Ellison and...

the Digest.
January 1, 1999... SUMMARIES OF IMPORTANT NEW RESEARCH FROM THE NATION'S UNIVERSITIES, THINK TANKS, AND INVESTIGATIVE PUBLICATIONS POLITICS Don't Limit Campaign Spending Stanley C. Brubaker, "The Limits of Campaign Spending Limits," in The Public...

Opinion Pulse.
January 1, 1999... WHAT THE VOTERS SAID ON ELECTION DAY Over 80 percent of voters on Election Day pronounced the condition of the country's economy as excellent or good. Only 13 percent said their family finances were worse than in 1996. Voters approved of...

the Mail.
January 1, 1999... Kudos to The American Enterprise for tackling race in America, which is sure to be a central issue in American public life well into the next millennium (November/December). To be taken seriously, however, TAE must avoid the kind of tokenism...