The American Enterprise articles from July 1998

The American Enterprise archives from July 1998

Why China doesn't scare me.
July 1, 1998... Predicting the courses of nations is not easy. Intellectual graveyards are littered with the bones of men like Paul Kennedy, the Yale historian who became a media darling in the late 1980s by insisting in his book The Rise and Fall of Great...

Is China becoming democratic?
July 1, 1998... China has made some progress toward freedom. The Question is: How fast and how far will it go? Henry S. Rowen Without exception, rich countries are democracies (more or less) and stay that way. Some poor countries are also...

"Live" with TAE: Pat Buchanan. (The American Enterprise)(Interview)
July 1, 1998... A lively force in the Republican Party describes how he evolved from Cold War internationalist to economic protectionist. Patrick J. Buchanan--winner of the 1996 New Hampshire GOP primary, ubiquitous TV personality--is one talking head who...

A Chinese century? (includes related articles on China's economic future)
July 1, 1998... A year ago, Los Angeles banker Chris Leu sat in the gilded halls of the Ritz Hotel in Paris, watching the coronation of a new global elite. He listened to architect I. M. Pei, Computer Associates' CEO Charles Wang, and Deng Pu-Feng, son of the...

Dragon droop. (China's economic future) (includes related articles on China's economic growth)
July 1, 1998... The economic progress in China since the launching of its market-oriented reform program 20 years ago is remarkable. Now the world's seventh largest economy (bolstered by the return of Hong Kong), China has averaged 9.8 percent annual growth...

Why China could be dangerous. (China's potential for war) (includes related articles)
July 1, 1998... * Those inclined to stress the many good things about China today must not forget the real ugliness of China's political fundamentals. As the Tiananmen Square massacre reminds, the Chinese regime still rests, ultimately, on force alone. Much...

The "Chinese threat" is overblown. (includes related article)
July 1, 1998... In the last half-century, America has had to deal with competitors who were either strong economically (like Japan) or strong militarily (like the Soviet Union). As the first new superpower of the twenty-first century, China will wield both...

Are the Chinese ready for liberty & self-government? (includes related article)
July 1, 1998... It has been 18 years since the most draconian population control program of modern times was imposed on Chinese families by their own government. In a 1979 speech, Deng Xiaoping drew the first outlines ("Use whatever means you must to control...

Demographic clouds on China's horizon. (aging population)
July 1, 1998... While there is little about China's position in the year 2025 that we can predict with confidence, one critical aspect of China's future can be described today with some accuracy: her population trends. Most of the Chinese who will be alive in...

How to stop mass shootings.
July 1, 1998... The rash of public shootings America has been suffering recalls killings that took place in earlier decades in Israel. Over and over, groups of innocent Victims were killed in terrorist machine-gun attacks. Police were rarely in the right...

How the government killed affordable housing.
July 1, 1998... Federal intervention in housing has been a disaster for cities and the people who live in them. After a succession of fiascos associated with attempts to eradicate slums, build housing for the poor, and pursue other seemingly noble goals, it...

Teenage angst.
July 1, 1998... WESTBORO, MISSOURI--State Senator Sam Graves has introduced a bill in the Missouri legislature to do away with our system of annual vehicle inspections. Sam argues that less than half of the states now have vehicle inspections, and statistics...

Don't starve U.S. businesses for skilled workers.
July 1, 1998... The Information Technology Association of America estimates that there are 350,000 high-tech jobs vacant in this country right now because there is no one qualified to fill them. Because of this skilled worker shortage, American companies are...

The holes in Buchananomics. (Patrick Buchanan's economic policies)
July 1, 1998... It's not Pat Buchanan's fault his new book, The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy, has come out at an inauspicious time. Amid the hype about America's current...

Allegania the beautiful. (name for the United States)
July 1, 1998... Charles Fenno Hoffman was a one-legged Hudson Valley lawyer turned poet who wrote--seriously--one of the best odes upon a dead dog ever penned. Hoffman had earned his gimp when, in a fit of boyish daredeviltry, he tried to leap from a pier...

Bill Clinton, movie mogul?
July 1, 1998... Hollywood lore has it that Darryl F. Zanuck, the famous president of 20th Century Fox, had an insatiable appetite for beautiful young starlets. Before they were cast in his pictures, Zanuck supposedly conducted "auditions" in the secret...

The Hitler of History.
July 1, 1998... The Hitler of History By John Lukacs Knopf, 279 pages, $26 It has been more than 50 years since Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his bunker in the final days of World War II. Yet, surprisingly, there is no consensus on the man and his place...

Slaves in the Family.
July 1, 1998... Slaves in the Family By Edward Ball Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 504 pages, $30 Slavery is hot. Whether it's President Clinton's recent "apology" or liberal academics blaming almost every social pathology on "400 years of oppression," the...

The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism.
July 1, 1998... The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism. By Thomas Frank University of Chicago Press, 287 pages, $22.95 In this penetrating study of the advertising industry of the 1960s, Thomas Frank...

The Vision of Piers Plowman.
July 1, 1998... The Vision of Piers Plowman By William Langland, c.1379 Edited by A. V. C. Schmidt, Everyman's Library, 1995, 550 pages, $9.95 Within its first 1,000 lines, William Langland's Piers Plowman explores money's influence on politics, the...