The American Enterprise articles from January 2003

The American Enterprise archives from January 2003

Defend the Homeland--or lose it. (Bird's Eye).
January 1, 2003... Six weeks before September 11, the Central Intelligence Agency informed the Federal Bureau of Investigation that two terrorists had entered the United States. Yet the terrorists were able to board a plane in Boston using their own names. ...

Sidelights.
January 1, 2003... Sixty percent of Europeans favor an American-led invasion of Iraq as long as the U.S. first secures the support of its allies and the United Nations, according to a survey by the German Marshall Fund.... Sixty-nine percent of Americans aged 18...

Killer conservatives. (Scan).(relationship between suicide and conservative governments)
January 1, 2003... Conservatives are used to being called callous and uncaring, being accused of wanting to throw grandmothers out in the snow, starve school kids, cut down every tree in sight, poison all the rivers and lakes, bomb the Third World, lock up...

America's irrelevant third party. (Scan).(Libertarian Party)
January 1, 2003... The only apparent purpose of the Libertarian Party is to distract and confuse the determined combatants in our most critical national struggles. Consider the Libertarian role in the most recent midterm elections. South Dakota represented...

Win win. (Scan).(welfare reform)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Since 1995, more than 1 million people have left the welfare rolls in New York State, saving taxpayers billions of dollars, and improving the life of most of the individuals leaving public assistance. A recent study conducted by a branch of the...

Aiming for equality. (Scan).
January 1, 2003... Every year, feminists across the nation hold "Take Back the Night" marches to protest violence committed by men against women. They march, hand out brochures denouncing the "cultural ideology" of violence, and hold speak-ins. But do they do...

More good news. (Scan).(teenage pregnancy)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The U.S. abortion rate has fallen 11 percent over the last six years, the Alan Guttmacher Institute recently reported. The drop was sharpest among the youngest women--down a startling 39 percent for teenagers 15-17. This is not just a...

Another green scare. (Scan).(policies of the Environmental Protection Agency)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency scared the wits out of parents when it announced that it would ban residential use--in decks, playground equipment, picnic tables--of wood treated with chromated copper arsenate (CCA), the standard wood...

In memoriam: John Rawls. (Scan).(Obituary)
January 1, 2003... Conservatives the world over can breathe a little easier: On November 24, at age 81, Harvard philosopher John Rawls ran out of primary goods. If you chuckled knowingly at the above reference, you are deserving of pity, for at some time you...

Washington internships. (Scan).
January 1, 2003... Are you a reliable student interested in journalism, politics, and public policy? The American Enterprise magazine is offering full- and part-time Washington internships. Positions are unpaid, but provide a chance to be part of a team...

First things first. (Scan).(report on motherhood in America)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Evidence continues to gather that many mothers of young children are embracing motherhood and putting their careers second. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a majority of women with children under age six work part time or not at...

Don't know much about history. (Scan).(history education in America)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... America's public education system is famously underwhelming. At the American Enterprise Institute, a panel moderated by AEI senior fellow Lynne Cheney recently paid special attention to the teaching of U.S. history in America's classrooms. Four...

Newfound respect? (Scan).(Christianity in America)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Somehow in recent years, Christianity seems to have gained a little fresh respect from the mass media. Nicholas Kristof pointed out in the New York Times this spring how evangelical Christians have scored laudable recent legislative victories...

Puppy love--it's real. (Scan).(Pres. George W. Bush's dog)
January 1, 2003... The Republicans' victory in the November elections had a lot to do with a certain inarticulate, but gutsy, little fellow who resides in the White House. Not the President, mind you, but rather his faithful dog Barney: the Scottish terrier who...

Two dead economists. (Forward Observer).(theories of Frederic Bastiat and John Maynard Keynes )
January 1, 2003... As I write, the U.S. economy has grown 3 percent over the past 12 months (average for the post-World War II period), unemployment is 5.7 percent (also average), and inflation is 1.5 percent (well below average). Those are pretty good numbers....

Lessons of the fall. (Politico).(Democratic Party)
January 1, 2003... Democrats had hoped that a traditional out-of-power party pickup in the House and Senate would translate into a national political message that Social Security is once again untouchable, prescription drugs are a silver bullet, and Americans...

John Ashcroft: the leading conservative in the Cabinet of President Bush is that rarest of breeds in our nation's capital: a political figure of firm principle. ("Live" with TAE).(Interview)
January 1, 2003... U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, 60, is the nation's chief law enforcer, with responsibilities ranging from advising the President on judges and Constitutional law to fighting the wars on drugs and terror. When George W. Bush nominated...

No compromises: why we're going to lose the war on terror ... and how we could win. (Cover Story).(Cover Story)
January 1, 2003... After 19 terrorists hijacked commercial airplanes, crashed them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and killed over 3,000 Americans, the U.S. government sprang into action: The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation held a...

Prepared for terror? One local police agency readies itself for the worst.
January 1, 2003... One rainy Thursday this past November, as prison guards led a man the Washington Post called a "harbinger of terror" to the death chamber at Virginia's Greensville Correctional Center, the lights went out at Pentagon City mall in Arlington,...

Wake up and smell the bio threat.
January 1, 2003... In August 1999, four New York City residents showed up at hospital emergency rooms complaining of headaches and dizziness. A few became paralyzed. Doctors were stumped. Botulism? A rare nerve inflammation? Scans eventually revealed that the...

Better unsafe than (occasionally) sorry? Meet one of the crusaders blocking intelligent profiling of terrorists.
January 1, 2003... David Harris is the University of Toledo law professor who provided much of the intellectual heft behind the war on racial profiling. His 1999 report for the American Civil Liberties Union, which has filed most of the anti-profiling law suits,...

A fatal flaw? A hole in the Constitutional system could prevent Congress from functioning after a terrorist attack. America needs bold action.
January 1, 2003... The attacks on September 11, 2001 could have been worse. Were it not for the brave passengers on board United Airlines Flight 93, much of Congress might have perished. Recent interviews with captured terrorists have confirmed that this plane...

Welcoming the enemy.
January 1, 2003... Joel Mowbray has famously reported on the visa scandal concerning the September 11 hijackers in National Review and on national television. Almost all of the terrorists' visa applications should have been rejected on their face: They were...

The Islamization of Europe.
January 1, 2003... When it comes to immigration, Patrick Buchanan has an ally of sorts in Germany. Bassam Tibi, Professor of International Relations at the University of Goettingen, has been speaking out for a long time on the perils of excessive immigration into...

Keep legal battles off the battlefield.
January 1, 2003... U.S. troops aren't the only ones waging the war on terror. An army of lawyers has also been drafted into the fight. Regrettably, they haven't been as effective as their camouflaged counterparts. In fact, most of the legal maneuvers have been...

Defending the homeland begins at home.
January 1, 2003... "LET ME TELL YOU, AS A COP, I'm not gonna be there," Mark Granko told his students, who sat transfixed, listening to war stories from his 25 years as a police officer, including five on a SWAT team. "I don't care if you call 911. By the time we...

Our values, Iraq's freedom: why Democrats should support regime change in Iraq.
January 1, 2003... Is a commitment to a regime change in Iraq compatible with the core values of the Democratic Party? A majority of Democrats in the House and Senate voted against giving President Bush the military power to compel Saddam Hussein to...

Homeland security: restoring civic virtue.
January 1, 2003... The September 11 terrorist attacks did more than bring a tragic end to over 3,000 American lives. They also helped shatter two long-cherished illusions. The first, that we live in a secure homeland, was shared by most Americans. Blessed by...

How the West was won--and how it will be lost.
January 1, 2003... On October 22, 2002, Oriana Fallaci addressed an audience at the American Enterprise Institute. Following are short excerpts from her talk. Ms. Fallaci, a native of Florence, Italy and a life-long journalist, caused turmoil across Europe with...

The life and times of Flavius. (In real life: first person America).
January 1, 2003... In 1995, I started the Adobe Foundation. Adobe operates an orphanage for abandoned children in Santana, Romania that opened its doors in 1998. By March of that year, I'd already done many things outside the usual career path of Washington...

Frum the right. (Working Lunch).(Interview)
January 1, 2003... David Frum, a Harvard educated lawyer, is one of the most iconoclastic and outspoken pundits in Washington. From an almost universally admired book about the culture of the 1970s to a sometimes snarky, always perceptive, daily journal for...

Modernize America while rescuing New York. (the Political Economist).
January 1, 2003... The new Republican government in Washington will find it easier to accomplish great things if it can draw new constituencies to its agenda. Here's my suggestion for a perfect place to start. It offers Congress and the President a chance to...

Luther Martin's theses. (Flashback).
January 1, 2003... Martin Luther launched a Reformation, Martin Luther King got a national holiday, yet what does their nominal inversion, Luther Martin, get? No respect! Luther Martin of Maryland, perhaps the finest lawyer at the Constitutional Convention,...

Free speech rots from the inside out. (Beat the Press).
January 1, 2003... There's a TV commercial currently running in Washington, D.C. and, for all I know, nationally. It features a bunch of young hipsters using everyday trash as musical instruments. "Never throw away anything you can use to express yourself!" says...

Independent thinker.(The Nat Hentoff Reader)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... The Nat Hentoff Reader By Nat Hentoff Da Capo Press, 322 pages, $16.50 Nat Hentoff is best known as a fervent civil libertarian and an enthusiastic jazz critic. Both qualities are on display in The Nat Hentoff Reader, though they do not...

God and man at college.(Religion, Scholarship, & Higher Education: Perspectives, Models, and Future Prospects)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Religion, Scholarship, & Higher Education: Perspectives, Models, and Future Prospects Edited by Andrea Sterk University of Notre Dame Press, 256 pages, $14.95 When Nancy Ammerman told her professors in the late 1970s that she wanted to...

What might have been ...(An Unlikely Conservative: The Transformation of an Ex-Liberal (Or How I Became the Most Hated Hispanic in America))(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... An Unlikely Conservative: The Transformation of an Ex-Liberal (Or How I Became the Most Hated Hispanic in America) By Linda Chavez Basic Books, 255 pages, $26 In January 2002, Linda Chavez withdrew her nomination to serve as President...

Imax: bigger, better, breathtaking. (Now Playing).
January 1, 2003... The American maxim that bigger is better is often uttered with a tinge of irony, but a new movie trend has so far proved the theory. Three Hollywood hits--Apollo 13, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, and The Lion King--have recently...

A Himalayan McDonald's? (Society).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Tyler Cowen, "The Fate of Culture," in Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 2002 (wilsonquarterly.com) A George Mason University economist believes that the small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan would be better off if it had a McDonald's. In an article...

Let colleges pick accreditors. (Society).
January 1, 2003... George Leef and Roxana Burris, "Can College Accreditation Live Up to its Promise?" American Council of Trustees and Alumni, October 2002 (goacta.org) Since the federal government began playing a major role in higher education following the...

Too much devolution. (Politics).
January 1, 2003... Michael Greve, "States' Rights on Steroids," in AEI Federalist Outlook, September/October 2002 (aei.org) Following a successful crusade to regulate the tobacco industry through a series of lawsuits, state attorneys general have turned their...

Red, red leaves. (Science And Environment).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... David Lee and Kevin Gould, "Why Leaves Turn Red," in American Scientist, November/December 2002 (americanscientist.org) Each fall, leaves turn bright red on many trees. Despite years of research, scientists still don't know exactly why....

CEOs get insecure. (Business And Economics).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Chuck Lucier et al., "Why CEOs Fall," in Strategy+Business, Third Quarter 2002 (strategy-business.com) The job market, three Booz Allen & Hamilton consultants argue, is beginning to treat corporate chief executive officers a lot like...

Troubled Arabia. (Other Countries).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Richard Engel, "Yemen Feels the Backlash," in Jane's Defense Weekly, October 16, 2002 (jdw.janes.com) The government of Yemen, a small, poor state on the Arabian peninsula that has backed the U.S. in the war on terror may face threats to...

The homefront: World War II. (Opinion Pulse).
January 1, 2003... Polling was in its infancy during World War II, and Gallup and Roper asked Americans many interesting questions about the war and the homefront. In commentary on its 1941 Roper poll, Fortune magazine said that although the nation's leaders had...

The mail.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2003... "Old and in the Way" (BIRD'S EYE), "Our Weak Friends" (SCAN), "Irritating and Irrelevant," "Europe Loses its Mind"--read some article titles from your December issue. Might you not have overdone it a bit? I understand that you have been...

The last gasp.
January 1, 2003... "You're having a good bad reaction to getting old." "This C+ isn't consistent with the vision I have of myself." "Wait 'til you see what you got me for Christmas!"