The American Enterprise articles from June 2003

The American Enterprise archives from June 2003

Rise up, return, rebuild. (Bird's Eye).(lessons on reconstructing Iraq from Central Europe)
June 1, 2003... As I write this in early April, the situation in Iraq remains unresolved. Saddam Hussein's militia--the fedayeen--takes pot shots at coalition troops and supply lines hourly but, so far, this seems more likely to prove an irritant rather than a...

Sidelights.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Anti-war protesters in La Habra, California destroyed flags, flowers and patriotic signs at a 9/11 memorial that residents had erected soon after the terrorist attacks.... In a piece in the Guardian on left-wing opposition to the war in Iraq,...

Pat Moynihan, 1927-2003. (Scan).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... We mourn the passing of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, one of the great statesmen of our age, a fascinating and sometimes maddening man who combined the heart of a working-class regular with the head of a reformist intellectual. Has...

Safety cards. (Scan).(national identity cards )
June 1, 2003... In March 2003 the FBI issued a worldwide alert for Adnan El Shukrijumah, who is sought for questioning in connection with possible terrorist threats against the United States. A major problem in apprehending him: He uses a variety of aliases...

Hope for Chechnya? (Scan).(limited autonomy proposed)
June 1, 2003... Chechnya: nearly a decade of terror, death, and misery, suffered and inflicted. Dealt with pitilessly by the Russians, 20 percent of their population killed, yet more displaced, agonized Chechens gained worldwide sympathy for their fight for...

Heavy disagreement on the left. (Scan).(People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals campaign offends overweight people)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... In their new "Viva Las Veggies" campaign to promote vegetarianism, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) argues against eating steaks and pork chops because they could make you fat. But another liberal lobby thinks PETA is...

Hollywood cold warrior. (Scan).(Roy Brewer)
June 1, 2003... Roy Brewer is still the toughest anti-communist in Hollywood. During the 1940s and '50s, he and Ronald Reagan worked together to stop the Communist Party insurgency in the film capital, Reagan from his posts at the Screen Actors Guild, and...

Don't mess with J. C. (Scan).(J.C. Adams shoots robbers)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... J. C. Adams was sitting in the rear office of the small grocery store he owns near Atlanta when he saw armed robbers on his video monitor. The Korean War veteran grabbed his 12-gauge shotgun with one hand, using his other hand to guide his...

Criminals who sue. (Scan).
June 1, 2003... A Manhattan subway car ran over Seong Sil Kim on May 3, 2000. While she survived, her right hand did not, and she also endured skull fractures and facial lacerations. Kim sued the city of New York and won $9.9 million. But don't cry for...

God help us. (Scan).(funeral blessing unwelcome)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Vietnam veteran Patrick Cubbage was fired from his job as an honor guard at a New Jersey veterans cemetery for saying "God bless you and this family" at a burial service when he handed the folded U.S. flag to the widow. Two fellow honor guards...

Watching McCain-Feingold. (Scan).(Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act)
June 1, 2003... When "bipartisan campaign finance reform" was signed into law by President Bush, both backers and critics knew that only time would tell exactly what effects the changes in campaign law would have. Would the parties crumble without soft money?...

Cold comfort. (Scan).(anti-fur movement has economic impact on indigenous peoples)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The largely successful animal-rights campaign against wearing fur turns out to have had some unintended consequences. The livelihoods of thousands of Eskimos who depend on hunting have been badly damaged. Deprived of their traditional ways...

A radical for capitalism. (Scan).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The Left is willfully blind to the enormous contributions that capitalism has made to democracy and individualism. Over the past two centuries capitalism has raised the standard of living and enhanced the health and life expectancy for untold...

Finally: prizes for conservatives. (Scan).(Bradley Prizes)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... For over 20 years now, Chicago's MacArthur Foundation has given out its famous MacArthur Fellowships: $500,000, no-strings-attached grants intended to encourage interesting and creative work. With a very few exceptions--such as former AEI...

Indicators.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... THE CAPITALIST MAJORITY A new study confirms that, for the first time in our history, a majority of Americans owned stock as the millennium turned. FED TO DEATH America faces an obesity epidemic. About a quarter of the population...

The new fifth column. (Politico).(European challenge to American dominance)
June 1, 2003... This column usually handicaps the ongoing struggle for political control in the United States between Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives. The short story is that the center-right coalition created by Ronald Reagan is winning...

Judith Martin: America's favorite authority on manners and personal conduct says our national vision of a more egalitarian society is influencing etiquette and behavior across the globe. ("Live" with TAE).(Interview)
June 1, 2003... Judith Martin, known as "Miss Manners" in her widely circulated writings on etiquette, is an updated successor to Emily Post and Amy Vanderbilt, a witty writer who applies panache, humor, and grace to her interpretations of cultural style and...

Schoolyard brawl.(Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle Over School Choice)(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle Over School Choice By Clint Bolick Cato Institute, 219 pages, $12 Javanny, my "little" from the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, just turned 13, but she can barely read at a third-grade level. Since...

This woman's work.(Feminist Fantasies)(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Feminist Fantasies By Phyllis Schlafly Spence Publishing, 256 pages, $27.95 Courses in women s studies carefully avoid mention of Phyllis Schlafly, a living example of how women really can have it all. A graduate of Washington University...

Victory through guilt.(Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Toward a Secular Theocracy )(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Toward a Secular Theocracy By Paul Edward Gottfried University of Missouri Press, 158 pages, $24.95 Multiculturalism has emerged from politically correct academe to shape every major Western...

Beat the summer movie hype. (Now Playing).(advice for filmgoers)
June 1, 2003... Like the blazing summer sun, the media and marketing blitz surrounding Hollywood's hottest season can be searing. Event movies are trumpeted as the biggest thing to come along in the history of the planet--then quickly forgotten in favor of...

The war on terror: an update. (Opinion Pulse).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... President Bush continues to receive high marks from Americans on handling the war on terror. The recognition that this will be a long and difficult struggle has set in. Large majorities believe that most of the military action that will need to...

Going to war with Iraq. (Opinion Pulse).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Americans made up their minds early about war with Iraq, and as the chart below shows, they hardly wavered in their positions during the contentious discussions in Washington last fall and early this year. One explanation for consistent public...

The media and the war. (Opinion Pulse).
June 1, 2003... The media aren't as highly regarded as the military, as the chart on the previous page shows. Still, solid majorities describe the coverage of the war against terrorism as excellent or good. Sixty percent say coverage of the administration's...

The mail.(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2003... As a teacher who has been fired for simply having upheld the same standards for all of my students, I appreciated your April/May issue--particularly John McWhorter's attack on racial preferences in education ("Don't Do Me Any Favors"). ...

Last gasp.
June 1, 2003... "Never mind what Susie's mother said. Two-parent families are not a cult!" "Would you like to see this list of my shortcomings or would you rather discover them for yourself?" "MEAT OR ANTI-MEAT SECTION?" "I lift the same weights...