The American Enterprise articles from June 2001

The American Enterprise archives from June 2001

Crime Is Down, But Far From Out.
June 1, 2001... Those of you who had reason to pass through New York City in the dark, going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket days of the late 1970s and early `80s: Remember the signs city residents used to post in their cars when they parked on the street? They read...

Sidelights.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign now offers the course "History 289: Oprah Winfrey, the Tycoon." * The U.S. Department of Education finds that about 40 percent of students pursuing a four-year degree have only marginal academic...

SCAN.
June 1, 2001... ONE THIRD OF YOUR LIFE "Tax Freedom Day"--the date when the composite American has worked long enough to pay off his total tax bill for the year--moved rapidly the wrong way over the last decade, according to the Tax Foundation. Whereas in...

A Hundred-Year War for School Reform?(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Nobel economist Milton Friedman once said new ideas in public policy typically take 20 years to become reality. If that's true, one of his own ideas--breaking the government's monopoly in elementary and secondary education--is overdue. ...

Indicators.(crime in the United States)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... THE U.S. TAKES CONTROL OF CRIME During the last decade and a half, crime rates fell by about a third in the United States--one of the sharpest reductions since organized record keeping began early in the century. The shift was broad...

"Live" with TAE.(interview with James Q. Wilson)(Interview)
June 1, 2001... America's most quoted criminologist--and one of our most prominent social scientists generally--discusses crime, race, religion, slavery, regional differences, and marriage. James Q. Wilson is a provocative and influential scholar who...

Delinquents in Suburbia.
June 1, 2001... Thanks to family decay, criminality is creeping into America's middle class If you think "juvenile delinquent" only means a 17-year-old minority male from the inner city whose impoverished mother is on welfare, you haven t been paying...

Judging Juveniles.
June 1, 2001... It's barely past nine o'clock on a crisp Wednesday morning in Fort Myers, Florida. On the fifth floor of the Lee County Justice Center, defendants, their family members and lawyers are squeezed into Courtroom C. Soon the bailiff will instruct...

Joint at the Hip.(drugs and crime)
June 1, 2001... The powerful link between, drugs and crime My partner, Tony G., tossed another manila crime file towards me in disgust. I picked it up and read the details. Apparently, a business owner had hired a man to do some work and the guy ended up...

On Patrol.
June 1, 2001... The tough job of police officer gets more complicated every day Bored after writing a few traffic tickets, throwing a foul-mouthed malingerer out of a hospital, and grabbing a bite to eat, Fort Myers patrol officer Rebecca Prince heads...

Sad Reality.
June 1, 2001... Truths about prisons Estelle "Sissy" Arwood doesn't look like a murderer. She's short, overweight, with a fair complexion, too much makeup, up, a new "perm" she's proud of, and subscriptions to both Glamour and Cosmopolitan. At 16,...

China's Communists Walk a Thin Line.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Just prior to the U.S.-China aircraft incident, the following remarks were delivered at the American Enterprise Institute by Willy Lam, China correspondent for 12 years at Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. A recent, important...

Frogs.(Short Story)
June 1, 2001... When I watched each of my three sons flailing the nursery air after birth, my first clear thought was that we had some serious work to do to smooth out those jerky arm motions before they could become the fine fly fishermen I hoped they would...

The Decline of Muckraking.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... They call it the "news" business, but when it comes to the subjects they tackle, elite journalists live in the distant past. Today's press is so nostalgic for the days when muckraking meant exposing the evil doings of fatcat businessmen, it's...

Dictator for a Day.(Excerpt)(Fiction)
June 1, 2001... I'll state the rules again, said Sam to his class of students. "You are a dictator. You can pass one law while you are dictator. One law and one law only. And it has to be a law, not merely a good intention. You cannot simply decree that people...

Where Legal Activists Come From.
June 1, 2001... Lately, we've seen many crocodile tears shed by left-wing lawyers lamenting the judicial decisions which cemented George W. Bush's election victory. How wrong for unelected judges to be imposing themselves on the popular will! they have cried....

Bubba's Uncle Warren.
June 1, 2001... Flashback To know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain ever a child--Cicero Now that Bill Clinton is out of office--albeit in a way that brings to mind the apocryphal song "How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go...

Hollywood's Latest: Deperately Seeking Ugliness in The Everyday.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Am I the only one craving more fake TV? From the war-record films of the '40s to television's recent "Cops" "reality"-based entertainment has always been with us--but it has proliferated at an alarming rate this past year. As "Temptation...

The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends, and Lore.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends, and Lore By David Dary Knopf, 368 pages, $30 "Early the following morning, as the travelers were breaking camp, someone in the group saw a party of Indians approaching from some distance....

Friedrich Hayek: A Biography.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Friedrich Hayek: A Biography By Alan Ebenstein St. Martin's Press, 320 pages, $29.95 The opening of Alan Ebenstein's Friedrich Hayek hints at the book's theme: "The twentieth century will be remembered in part as a battle between...

Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in Postwar Consumer Culture.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in Postwar Consumer Culture By Andrew Hurley Basic Books, 405 pages, $27.50 When artists, journalists, and academics first began writing about the American...

Big Government Causes Big Campaign Spending.(Review)
June 1, 2001... John R. Lott, Jr., "A Simple Explanation for Why Campaign Expenditures Are Increasing: The Government Is Getting Bigger" in The Journal of Law & Economics (October 2000), University of Chicago Press, Box 37005, Chicago, Illinois 60637. ...

Sensible Antitrust Policy.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Robert W. Hahn, "Competition Policy and the New Economy," in The Milken Institute Review (first quarter 2001), 1250 Fourth Street, second floor, Santa Monica, California 90401. In the 1990s, industrial Old Economy firms began to be...

Government as Land-grabber.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Rob Gurwitt, "Land Grab" in Governing (January 2001), 1100 Connecticut Avenue N.W. #1300, Washington, D.C. 20036. State and local governments have a nearly unlimited power to condemn and then to seize private property using powers of...

Beating Back the Mob.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Steven Malanga, "How to Run the Mob Out of Gotham," in City Journal (Winter 2001), Manhattan Institute, 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, New York 10017. The crime-fighting efforts of New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani have not only made his...

The Business of Avoiding Disasters.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Paul R. Kleindorfer and Howard Kunreuther, "Managing Catastrophe Risk," in Regulation (No. 4, 2000), Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001. When major disasters occur, the government spends billions to...

Morality Bureaucrats.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Sally Satel and Christine Stolba, "Who Needs Medical Ethics?" in Commentary (February 2001), 165 East 56th Street, New York, New York 10022. The 1990s saw the rise of the "medical ethicist or bioethicist who advises large hospitals, health...

The Unknown North Korea.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Nicholas Eberstadt, "Disparities in Socioeconomic Development in Divided Korea: Indications and Implications," in Asian Survey (November/December 2000), University of California Press, 2000 Center Street #303, Berkeley, California 94704. ...

Crime Stats: Better But Not Good.(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... Polls support the idea that the nation is making progress on crime. Today, 46 percent say there is less crime in their area than a year ago. Only 10 percent felt that way in 1972. Far more feel that we are losing ground on the drug problem (54...

Police Files.(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... Six in ten Americans say they have a great deal of respect for the police in their community. The police get high marks for being helpful and friendly, lower ones for solving crime. In terms of interactions with the police, nearly six in ten...

Parents, Juveniles, and Justice.(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... Americans are holding parents accountable for their children's criminal activity. Large majorities say parents should be held legally responsible if their child commits a crime with the parents' guns. Americans are tougher on juvenile law...

the Mail.(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2001... I enjoyed Blake Hurst's "Left-wing Trash Talk" (March). It made me recall some of my own experiences. A couple of years ago, my wife and I moved from the Denver area to Idaho. When we announced our intention to (liberal) friends, we were...