The American Enterprise articles from June 2000

The American Enterprise archives from June 2000

Let Boys Be Boys.(Review)
June 1, 2000... A few months ago, my 13-year-old son read James Fenimore Cooper s The Last of the Mohicans in school. From a teenage boy s point of view this great story of frontier life in eighteenth-century New York state has it all--Indians, Redcoats,...

Sidelights.
June 1, 2000... A California man attempted to auction his soul to the highest bidder on eBay.com, but the company stopped the sale, saying he had no proof the merchandise existed. * Governor and welfare reform pioneer Tommy G. Thompson is trumpeting a new...

SCAN.
June 1, 2000... BUSHWHACKED? Ward Connerly, the nation's leading opponent of racial preferences whose new autobiography we extract on pages 36-40, has his concerns about presidential candidate George W. Bush. Though applauding the idea of Bush's...

The Right Campaign Issue: Education.
June 1, 2000... Most presidential campaigns aren't very edifying. The current one threatens to be typical, with Vice President Al Gore attacking Texas Gov. George Bush on guns, abortion, and "risky tax cuts," and Bush trying to link Gore to campaign finance...

"Live" with TAE.(Interview)
June 1, 2000... TODAY'S MOST RESPECTED SPORTS BROADCASTER IS ALSO AN IMPORTANT INTERPRETER AND ARBITER OF THE GAME OF BASEBALL. HEREWITH HIS THINKING PERSON'S VIEW OF SPORT. Bob Costas Despite his perennially boyish appearance, Bob Costas of NBC has...

Victims of Androgyny.
June 1, 2000... Many 14-year-old son, David, sometimes shows signs of the kind of emotional disengagement that worries feminists who would like to "reform" boys. He came to me one evening when he was in the seventh grade, utterly confused by his homework...

Compassionate conservatism Ahead.
June 1, 2000... How Would It Work? Bush vs. Gore on Faith-based Charity By Joe Loconte What exactly, Americans wonder, does George W. Bush mean when he says his presidential campaign is founded on something called "compassionate conservatism"?...

LAYING DOWN the BURDEN of RACE.
June 1, 2000... NOT LONG AGO, after I'd given a speech in Hartford, Connecticut, I saw a black man with a determined look on his face working his way toward me through the crowd. I steeled myself for another abrasive encounter of the kind I've come to expect...

Novelist Thomas Mallon.(Interview)
June 1, 2000... FRESH FROM THE SCARLET LETTER, Nathaniel Hawthorne composed a campaign hagiography for presidential candidate Franklin Pierce, his old Bowdoin classmate. So it ought not startle us that Thomas Mallon--who has emerged in the last decade as one...

End of An ILLUSION.
June 1, 2000... The Kansas City experiment should put a stop that too little money is what ails bad schools. The longest running and most expensive experiment in the history of U.S. public education is coming to a close: The Missouri State Board of...

FANNING REAL DESIRE.(Panel Discussion)
June 1, 2000... The following remarks are excerpted from a recent American Enterprise Institute discussion of Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar, a new anthology of "readings on courting and marrying" by authors ranging from Homer to Tolstoy to Miss Manners. Christina...

A GRINDSTONE TRIUMPH.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... TARKIO, MISSOURI--The phone rang Friday night, at about midnight. No parent sleeps easy once his children are old enough to drive, and a late-night phone call can make your heart stop. I restarted mine, rolled over to the night stand, and with...

Casino Tries to Squash Property Owner.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Corporate welfare is taking a new and alarming turn. You thought it was bad enough that your state and local government occasionally took your money to give it to favored private businesses. Lately, however, many state and local governments...

Mother Jones, Anti-Feminist.
June 1, 2000... TO KNOW NOTHING OF WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE YOU WERE BORN IS TO REMAIN EVER A CHILD--Cicero Today we know Mother Jones as the name of a magazine for yuppie consumerist liberals whose idea of a radical act is selling their R.J. Reynolds stock...

Because It Is There.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Just when it seems we've given up on outer space, who would have expected Hollywood to get our rockets revving again? Movies often serve as propaganda (most often, at present, for things like casual sex and offhanded violence). But Mission to...

She can't do that, betrayal is our job!(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... When A Vast Conspiracy, the Clinton apologia by Jeffrey Toobin, appeared in bookstores last winter, my phone almost exploded. A few reporters and about a dozen TV and radio producers called out of the blue: "Jonah, why haven't we talked more?"...

POLITICS.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Divided Over Clinton Seymour Lipset and Karlyn Bowman, Public Opinion and the Clinton Legacy. American Enterprise Institute, 1150 17th Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. Political scientist Lipset and Bowman of the American...

Free Traders Fight Back.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Free Traders Fight Back Bruce Stokes, "The Protectionist Myth," in Foreign Policy (Winter 1999/2000), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. After the anti-World Trade...

SOCIETY.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Keep Bureaucrats Out of the Medicine Cabinet John E. Calfee, Prices, Markets, and the Pharmaceutical Revolution. AEI Press, 1150 17th Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. Congress is debating whether to extend to prescription drugs used...

A Necessary Evil.(Review)
June 1, 2000... A Necessary Evil By Garry Wills Simon & Schuster, 352 pages, $26 What a remarkable book this is. Garry ills has managed to categorize and rebut more "anti-government myths" than most of us could identify. By the time he's finished,...

The Trust.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Trust By Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones Little Brown, 896 pages, $29.95 As incredible as it may seem, the New York Times began its life as a Republican Party propaganda organ. It was founded by Henry J. Raymond, a staunch Republican...

Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man By Susan Faludi William Morrow, 662 pages, $27.50 In 1991, journalist Susan Faludi made her name with Backlash, a classic feminist name arguing that men--in journalism, business, the fashion...

THE GOOD LIFE.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Over the past 25 years, there has been little change in Americans' belief that they will be able to achieve the good life. Around three-quarters say the chances are good, and only around 15 percent think their chances are not very good or not...

Measuring Prosperity.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... There are many ways to chart America's increasingly prosperous condition. One interesting approach asks people to compare ideas about status today and when they were growing up. Nearly half of adults 30 years of age or older say that a family...

Down Time.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Today about a third of Americans say they have about the right amount of leisure time. Slightly more than 10 percent say they have more than they want or need. At the other end of the spectrum, around a quarter say they don't have nearly as...

the Mail.
June 1, 2000... I was delighted to read the critique of the gay Left by Justin Raimondo ("A Gay Man Decries Gay Rights" March). He rightly notes that most of the gay rights movement seeks to use the government to enforce their views, while condemning their...