The American Enterprise articles from July 2000

The American Enterprise archives from July 2000

Can You Say Senator Clinton?(New York Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton)
July 1, 2000... I'm a New Yorker; in fact, my children are sixth-generation New Yorkers. Specifically, we're upstaters--residents of a region that will cast close to 40 percent of the vote in the Hillary Clinton-Rick Lazio Senate, race. Contrary to what many...

Sidelights.
July 1, 2000... Seven out of ten Italian men say if they don't eat pasta, they lose their appetite for making love, reports Rome's Il Messagero. Since 1995, complains the Wall Street Journal, general-fund spending by state governments has "soared" by 40...

WILL THE REAL HILLARY PLEASE STAND UP?(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Recently, Hillary Clinton took umbrage when New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani likened the paramilitary INS agents who snatched Elian Gonzalez to "storm troopers." Referring to U.S. law enforcement officers in such terms is "extreme and...

BIAS BY THE NUMBERS.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Eron Shosteck, media columnist at National Journal.com--no hotbed of conservatism--writes that journalists "will do nearly anything" to avoid writing about "whether the media are biased" in their political reporting. He decided to gather "the...

SAFETY NUTS MAKE LIFE DANGEROUS.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Outbreaks of E. coli, listeria, and other forms of food poisoning continue to be big news. In March, hot dog maker Sara Lee launched a voluntary recall of its franks, following on an earlier recall that cost the company $76 million. There...

A PERSONAL VIEW ON CAMPAIGN SPENDING.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... The McCain presidential campaign put Republicans on the spot about campaign spending. Dissatisfaction with the current system is justified, but the McCain-Feingold reforms, in addition to disadvantaging Republicans, would make things worse....

NO WITHDRAWAL.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... At the annual convention of the National Association of Evangelicals this spring, the Bliss Institute at the University of Akron presented results of a survey of evangelical leaders on the question of political involvement or disengagement. The...

PRIVILEGE WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITY?(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... The Los Angeles-based Parents' Television Council (PTC) recently reported results of their study of changes in TV content from 1989 to 1999. On a per-hour basis, sexual material was three times commoner in 1999 than in 1989. Foul language...

HOW ONE WOMAN GOT HER GUN.
July 1, 2000... Like many other Million-something events, the Million Mom March against guns served up more rhetoric than reality. For this mom, it was a reminder of my own progress in discarding the notion that guns are The Problem. It began when my...

THREATENING INVESTMENTS.
July 1, 2000... Ida Mae Fuller put in $22 and got back $20,000. That wasn't a lucky hit on one of Trump's slot machines; Ida was America's first recipient of a Social Security check. It was a great deal, too, for most Americans who retired from the 1940s to...

POLICING THE DECOR.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Boston bar owner Tom English puts up displays in his establishment every month--frogs in April because of the rain, fish over the summer, elephants and donkeys in November. In February he decorated his bar with stuffed monkeys and statues of...

Peggy Noonan.(book on Hillary Clinton)(Interview)
July 1, 2000... ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST GIFTED POLITICAL WRITERS--WHO CUT HER TEETH PENNING SPEECHES FOR RONALD REAGAN AND DAN RATHER--HAS A BOOK ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON, HER WOULD-BE SENATOR. As a presidential speechwriter, Peggy Noonan helped craft some of...

Is Hillary Clinton Eleanor Roosevelt?
July 1, 2000... I attended Oxford with Bill Clinton (at one point sharing a girlfriend in common--she later became a radical lesbian), so I have a deep-rooted understanding of both the President and the President's wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton. And I regard...

Hillary Rodham Clinton as First Lady.(Panel Discussion)
July 1, 2000... In the first of three panels examining Hillary Clinton's record, a mix of critics and defenders looks at her White House legacy. The contributors are * John Brummett, a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette who has covered Mrs....

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton?(Panel Discussion)
July 1, 2000... This panel looks at Hillary Clinton's run for U.S. Senator from New York. Mulling her prospects of moving from behind-the-scenes operator to elected official are three well-informed political journalists: * John Fund, a member of the...

Hillary Rodham Clinton as Feminist Heroine.(Panel Discussion)
July 1, 2000... Hillary Clinton has obviously become a female icon, of a very controversial sort. Our final panel considers what type of example she sets for women. Participants include: * Christina Hoff Sommers, Brady Fellow at the American Enterprise...

Hillary Rodham Clinton and The Third Way.
July 1, 2000... I would argue Hillary Clinton is America's foremost leftist. This is not obvious even to conservatives. My friend Peggy Noonan in her new book, The Case Against Hillary Clinton, skewers Mrs. Clinton not for her kitsch Marxism, but for her...

America's Startling New Urban Geography.
July 1, 2000... In 1902, H. G. Wells wrote, "Already for a great number of businesses it is no longer necessary that the office should be in London, and only habit, tradition, and minor consideration keep them there." By the telephone and the post office...

Meet America's best BUSINESS SCHOOLS (You'll be surprised).
July 1, 2000... West Point, the Naval Academy, and the U.S. Air Force Academy train young Americans in the business of war. In the process, they turn out many men and women superbly prepared for the war of business. Indeed, America's military academies may...

WORDS WORTH REPEATING.(condensed from article in Syracuse Post-Standard, February 22, 2000)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... "TOO MANY KIDS TODAY ARE SOFT" Condensed from an essay by Jim Vermeulen--an upstate New York teacher and coach--printed in the Syracuse Post-Standard, 2/22/2000. As my high school track and cross-country coaching seasons accumulate, so...

FIRST-PERSON AMERICA.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... SOFTBALL AT 60 I know how it happened, but not why. A friend asked me if I'd like to play in a softball league for men age 55 and up. Why did I submit to an offer that struck me from the start as ridiculous? Didn't I know my other...

Can Land Trusts Be Trusted?
July 1, 2000... Al Gore has made combatting "urban sprawl a major part of his presidential campaign, but the debate about preserving open spaces is over a century old. In 1890, conservationist Charles Eliot warned that much of the Massachusetts countryside was...

Milius the Moviemaking Maverick.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Curtis LeMay isn't what you'd call a hot property in Hollywood. Studio executives and producers haven't exactly been clamoring to turn the life of the staunch Cold Warrior--who was the youngest major general in the Army during World War II, and...

The Blue, The Gray, and Gotham.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... If the mayor of New York City had had his way in 1861, Jerry Seinfeld, Rudy Giuliani, Al Sharpton, and the Yankees would all be crammed into the "International News" section of your local Gannett paper. Mayor Fernando Wood was of...

Just War Pictures.(Brief Article)(Review)
July 1, 2000... Much of warfare is noisy and chaotic, but it's often in the still, quiet moments that a soldier's true character is revealed. That's certainly the premise of Rules of Engagement and U-571, two recent military films that portray the act of...

POLITICS.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... SUMMARIES OF IMPORTANT NEW RESEARCH FROM THE NATION'S UNIVERSITIES, THINK TANKS, AND INVESTIGATIVE PUBLICATIONS Campaign Finance Rights and Wrongs George L. Priest, Buying Democracy: A New Look at Campaign Finance `Reform.' ...

ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS.
July 1, 2000... Thomas DeLiere, "The Unintended Consequences of the Americans with Disabilities Act," in Regulation (No. 1, 2000), Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001. The goal of 1992's Americans with Disabilities Act...

SOCIETY.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... The Price of Work Lawrence M. Mead, "The Twilight of Liberal Welfare Reform," in The Public Interest (Spring 2000), 1112 16th Street N.W. #530, Washington, D.C. 20036. New York University political scientist Mead shows the latest...

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Malthus Was Wrong Ronald Bailey, "The Law of Increasing Returns," in The National Interest (Spring 2000), 1112 16th Street N.W. #540, Washington, D.C. 20036. In An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), Thomas Malthus predicted...

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny By Robert Wright Pantheon, 435 pages, $27.50 A academics tend to focus on quite mundane questions--if government taxes shoelaces, do people buy more loafers?--because they are simple enough to be...

The World of Mike Royko.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The World of Mike Royko By Doug Moe University of Wisconsin Press, 128 pages, $29.95 Mike Royko's immigrant father held a number of jobs before opening a tavern. After his parents divorced, his mother opened a watering hole, too. Young...

The New Agrarian Mind: The Movement Toward Decentralist Thought in Twentieth-century America.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The New Agrarian Mind: The Movement Toward Decentralist Thought in Twentieth-century America By Allan Carlson Transaction Publishers, 218 pages, $29.95 Allan Carlson's work jars long-settled opinions. Much unconventional information can be...

Up from Slavery.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Up from Slavery By Booker T. Washington, 1901 Thanks to Dover Thrift Editions, you can buy Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery and W.E.B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk for two dollars each. (For another dollar, you can also get the...

The Souls of Black Folk.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The Souls of Black Folk By W.E.B. DuBois, 1903 Thanks to Dover Thrift Editions, you can buy Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery and W.E.B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk for two dollars each. (For another dollar, you can also get the...

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Public views about Hillary Rodham Clinton suffered with her involvement in the administration's health care initiative and during the Whitewater investigation. During the impeachment drama, her image improved and became more favorable than her...

Honesty and Character.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Doubts about the First Lady's honesty grew over the course of the Whitewater investigation. A solid majority of Americans believe that her comments about a right-wing conspiracy against her husband during the impeachment saga were political and...

Candidate and Wife.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... In the nation as a whole, views about Hillary Rodham Clinton's candidacy for the Senate are decidedly lukewarm. Around four in ten say they wouldn't vote for her under any circumstances if she were running in their state. The pollsters have had...

the Mail.
July 1, 2000... David Horowitz clarified much in his article "Full-contact Politics"(April/May). I've always considered myself a reasonably professional politico--I've worked for liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans--but I never understood why Gore,...