The American Enterprise articles from May 1998

The American Enterprise archives from May 1998

Why encouraging daycare is unwise.(Editorial)
May 1, 1998... There is an old saving that goes "Children have a special way of spelling love: T-I-M-E." What the very young hunger for more than for anything else in the world, modern researchers confirm, is closeness with their mothers and fathers. ...

Indicators.(school reform)
May 1, 1998... In February, results of the Third International Math and Science Study (TIMSS) were released. They showed that the average U.S. high school senior's math and science literacy is among the worst in the developed world. Among the 21 nations...

Randall Wallace. (film director, writer)(Interview)
May 1, 1998... The man behind Braveheart -- the epic story of the thirteenth-century Scotsman who led his people against the British ("I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free!") -- is...

The problem with day care. (includes related articles on early childhood attachment, warnings from experts, social effects of day care, nannies)(Cover Story)
May 1, 1998... Meryl Frank is an expert on child care. For five years she ran a Yale University program that studied parental leave.... Frank went back to work part time when her son, Isaac, was 5 months old, and in the two years since then she has changed...

Discovering motherhood. (includes related survey on what type of day care parents want)(Cover Story)
May 1, 1998... I represent the generation of women who came of age ignited by Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan. These angry and articulate matriarchs taught us that our power and identity should come from the world, and not solely from our husbands or...

Is going home possible? (entrepreneurs, career women return to the home)(Cover Story)
May 1, 1998... LOTS OF FAMILIES SAY YES Anne Haley Brown sounds like the quintessential career woman. She boasts an Ivy League education, an elite law school degree, and a stint at Los Angeles' best known law firm. But snagging a law firm...

What we should and shouldn't do to help parents.(Cover Story)
May 1, 1998... THE YEAR OF THE HOMEMAKER 1998 is shaping up to be the Year of the Homemaker and, boy, is it making a lot of people mad. Activists can't believe that mere amateurs are wrestling the debate over "child care" away from the...

Asia unravels: could this be the sequel to the fall of the Berlin Wall? (economic crisis)
May 1, 1998... The first milestone in the spread in the of economic freedom across the globe was the fall of the Berlin Wall. That signaled the end of totalitarian economic centralism. Some observers have suggested that the current Asian economic crisis --...

From beneficiary to investor: why American politics is now ripe for Social Security and Medicare reform. (includes related articles)
May 1, 1998... The time for fixing Social Security is here. The content of the reform is fairly clear -- individual investment accounts to replace part of the government benefits financed by the payroll tax, later retirement ages, adjusted cost of living...

Paul Johnson explains America. (author of "A History of the American People")(Transcript)
May 1, 1998... Here are my Ten Commandments for writing a history of America. The first concerns geography. The United States is a big country with a huge variety of terrain. Until the coming of the internal combustion engine, especially the airplane,...

A real-life test of the beef against national bookstores.
May 1, 1998... I still remember the black, white, and gold wrapping paper from Kroch and Brentano's. Secured with string rather than tape, a book from Kroch's seemed like a special present. Even if there was no occasion, my father would always have them wrap...

Escaping a dairyman's dilemma. (government policy)
May 1, 1998... My wife Doris and I have been in the dairy business for 41 years. We currently run a 125-cow farm which we started on the slimmest of shoestrings. I had just finished three years in the infantry and she had completed business college; neither...

The Un-American game. (soccer)
May 1, 1998... Americans do not speak Esperanto or measure in meters, but a third insidious agent of homogenization -- soccer -- is making alarming headway among our youth. Patriots, arm thyselves with baseball bats. Teams of savages have kicked balls...

Who loves lawyers?
May 1, 1998... "Suddenly, everyone loves lawyers." That's how ABC advertises its primetime drama series "The Practice," set in a Boston law firm. No less than half-a-dozen prime-time shows currently feature attorneys, with numerous projects about lawyers in...

The Dark Side of Camelot.
May 1, 1998... John F. Kennedy is surrounded by more myths than any other President. One reason, of course, is the sentimental reaction to the assassination of the handsome young leader. The popular tendency to see political leaders in heroic terms is...

Who Killed Classical Music? Maestros, Managers, and Corporate Politics.
May 1, 1998... Norman Lebrecht is a prolific young British writer who is a music columnist for The Daily Telegraph and author of several books. The inspiration of his best writing is not classical music per se but the music business. His latest book, Who...

Making the Corps.
May 1, 1998... Sara Lister's career-ending remarks labeling Marines "extremists" disconnected from the rest of society proved to be an invaluable gift for Thomas Ricks. Ricks, the Wall Street Journal's Pentagon correspondent, had what every author needs to...

The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood.
May 1, 1998... One of the reasons it's hard to create effective policies to help poor people advance is that far too many people have misguided notions about what the poor are like. Conservatives often think that a life on welfare is a loafer's paradise,...

Shane.
May 1, 1998... Sometimes taught in middle schools, Jack Schaefer's 1949 Western novella Shane (which inspired the classic movie) deserves mature respect as well. Jack Schaefer handles words as accurately, cleanly, and thoughtfully as Shane does an axe,...