The American Enterprise articles from November 1998

The American Enterprise archives from November 1998

When black and white turn gray. (inappropriately applying social ills to racial causes)
November 1, 1998... "No whites, whether they are congressmen from, Georgia or reporters from New York, understand Anacostia. Who said that a couple years ago about Washington, D.C.s well-known all-black precinct? Al Sharpton? Maxine Waters? Some other prominent...

"Live" with TAE. (The American Enterprise; interview with Leonard Garment, attorney for former President Richard Nixon)(Interview)
November 1, 1998... Richard Nixon's White House lawyer comments on his boss, President Clinton, impeachment, Watergate, morality, and politics. Talk of presidential impeachment or resignation is in the air for the first time in 25 years. So TAE set up a chat with...

The greatest story never told: everyday America's racial harmony.(Fresh Thinking About Race in America.)
November 1, 1998... It's August 2 in New York's Central Park as radical black poet Amiri Baraka reads a poem to musical accompaniment. "Suppose you was so out, your murder was not a crime,' says Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones). "Suppose you are the usual suspect...

Why is America's black middle class strangely fragile? (includes related article on attitudes whites and blacks have toward education)(Fresh Thinking About Race in America.)
November 1, 1998... Today's black professional is sometimes an invisible man. Even the President's national initiative on race has focused obsessively on the poor and unsuccessful, and ignored the burgeoning black middle class. Partly because they are prosperous,...

We want to depend on ourselves. (Ghanaian immigrants)(Fresh Thinking About Race in America.)
November 1, 1998... African immigrants illustrate some of the many variants of "blackness" in America today On a windy February day a small girl sporting pig-tails puts aside an algebra textbook to tell a visitor how she feels about being taken to a meeting of...

Out of the box. (African American intellectual who thinks outside of stereotypical academic patterns)(Fresh Thinking About Race in America.)
November 1, 1998... Stephen Carter is black, intellectual, and... "To be black and intellectual is to live in a box," declared Yale Law professor Stephen L. Carter almost a decade ago, whereupon the owners of the box factory nodded sympathetically and...

Independents' day: the growing ranks of non-liberal blacks. (includes excerpt of speech given by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas)(Fresh Thinking About Race in America.)
November 1, 1998... Political diversity has taken root in black America, and we are beginning to see its fruit. A remarkable variety of new voices have addressed everything from economics to morality to affirmative action in ways that diverge sharply from the...

When race matters & when it doesn't. (includes related article about government employment applications requesting race of applicant)
November 1, 1998... Americans living in mixed-race families explain... MARVIN OLASKY I, like many traditional liberals and modern conservatives, enjoy quoting Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous statement stressing the content of our character, not the color...

Black racism: the hate that dare not speak its name.
November 1, 1998... The hate that dare not speak its name In what passes for discussions on race these days, small problems are often blown up large, while real traumas are completely ignored. For instance, despite what President Clinton's "Race Initiative"...

A deadly mix. (American Indians and welfare state liberalism)
November 1, 1998... American Indian + Welfare State Liberalism = An article of faith among Indian activists and their liberal allies today is that any problems experienced by Native Americans are caused by their unjust, rapacious treatment at the hands of...

School reform. (solution to racial problems)
November 1, 1998... America's Single Most Promising Racial Solution is... "Education is our passport to the future... tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today." For years, the civil rights establishment has viewed affirmative action and...

Bulworthless. (Pres Bill Clinton's race initiative)(includes excerpt from Time magazine)
November 1, 1998... "The Negro has nothing but `friends,' and may God deliver him from most of them, for they are like to lynch his soul." He's been called everything from ineffectual to intolerant--a `60s relic hauled out to chair President Clinton's race...

What Clinton's year-long rap on race left out.(A Symposium)
November 1, 1998... The Market Is Racism's Enemy Larry Elder The marketplace punishes racism. But try telling that to the President. The Advisory Board to his Race Initiative recently suggested a minimum-wage hike, better media images for minorities,...

Up from slavery. (excerpt)
November 1, 1998... Which should come first for black Americans: the economic or the political? Wealth or votes? At century's end, the choice is often presented as one between the assertive black nationalism of Malcolm X and the Christian integrationism of Reverend...

The souls of black folk. (excerpt)
November 1, 1998... An adaptation from The Souls of Black Folk, 1903. Easily the most striking thing in the history of the American Negro since 1876 is the ascendancy of Mr. Booker T. Washington. To gain the sympathy and cooperation of the various elements...

The "environmental racism" hoax.
November 1, 1998... When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled its heavily criticized environmental justice "guidance" earlier this year, it crowned years of maneuvering to redress an "outrage" that doesn't exist. The agency claims that state...

The atheist who played in Peoria. (19th-century Republican party leader Robert G. Ingersoll)
November 1, 1998... Before the Civil War, he was a shrewd Illinois lawyer with corporate and railroad clients. A celebrated wit and gifted speaker, he entered politics, convinced that slavery was a wicked institution whose time was up. He was rumored to be a...

TBS does RWR. (TBS Superstation, former President Ronald Reagan)
November 1, 1998... Imagine you're a studio executive or network honcho. One day a writer comes to you and pitches this idea: "It's the story of a young man from the Midwest, circa 1937. Chasing the American dream, he journeys from Iowa to Hollywood. Overnight,...

Coolidge, An American Enigma.
November 1, 1998... Coolidge, An American Enigma By Robert Sobel Regnery, 419 pages, $34.95 Liberal historians delighted in Calvin Coolidge, for to them he was the perfect example of what they thought was wrong with pre-New Deal America. In the face of demands...

Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973.
November 1, 1998... Flawed Giant: London Johnson and His Times 1961-1973 By Robert Dallek Oxford University Press, 628 Pages, $35 Since the foundation of the Republic, no President has held sway over the United States as did Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1964 and...

Plagiarism and the Culture War: The Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Other Prominent Americans.
November 1, 1998... Plagiarism and the Culture War: The Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Other Prominent Americans By Theodore Pappas Hallberg, 212 pages, $16.95 For the past eight years, intellectual sleuth Theodore Pappas, longtime managing editor of...

It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand.
November 1, 1998... It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand By Jerome Tuccille, 1971. When writing about conservatives, intelligent liberal commentators like E. J. Dionne or John Judis will announce that the Right is now an uneasy coalition of libertarians interested...