The American Enterprise articles from October 2004

The American Enterprise archives from October 2004

Goodbye "regular Joe" democrat.(Bird's Eye)
October 1, 2004... Democrats: the of the little , Republicans: the of the wealthy. Those images of America's two major political wings have been frozen for generations. The stereotypes were always a little off, incomplete, exaggerated. (Can you say Adlai...

One Hollywood actor we should listen to.(Scan)
October 1, 2004... Welsh actor John Rhys-Davies, whose Hollywood career spans decades, is perhaps best known for his role as Gimli, the defender of the dwarf civilization in the film trilogy Lord of the Rings. He raised his profile megafold, however, and put his...

It's the corruption, stupid.(Scan)
October 1, 2004... It is easy to feel sorry for Jim McGreevey. In a stunning speech broadcast live nationwide on August 12, the governor of New Jersey came out as a "gay American," admitted to having pursued a homosexual affair, and announced his resignation,...

Hume Horan, 1934-2004.(Scan)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
October 1, 2004... It is with regret that TAE notes the passing on July 22 of Hume Horan, who contributed an essay to our September issue ("Saudi Arabia: A Successful Anomaly... So Far"). Born in Washington, D.C. in 1934, Horan served the United States as a...

Ingratitude of Olympic proportions.(Scan)
October 1, 2004... Emerging from years of mediocrity under the "dark cloud" of former Iraqi Olympic Committee president Uday Hussein, the Iraqi men's soccer team surprised the world with a fourth-place finish at the Summer Olympic Games. Playing without the fear...

An overriding public danger.(Scan)
October 1, 2004... From the September 1 address of former governor and current senator, Zell Miller, Democrat from Georgia, to the Republican National Convention in New York: In the summer of 1940, I was an eight-year-old boy living in a remote little...

Higher edumacation.(Scan)
October 1, 2004... I'm not an academic, but I've played one for much of the past seven years. I taught magazine journalism at Indiana University, and then nonfiction writing at two Pennsylvania liberal-arts colleges. My academic station has ranged from lowly...

Viva Bush?(Scan)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Recent intelligence has provided evidence that al-Qaeda is attempting to infiltrate the United States via Mexico, as well as collaborate with Mexican organized crime. Terror groups Hamas, Hezbollah and al-Gamaa al-Islamiyyah have settled in the...

John O'Sullivan: native Brit, he was an adviser to Margaret Thatcher before becoming a leading light for American conservatives through his direction of several prominent American opinion journals.("Live" with TAE)(Biography)
October 1, 2004... Editor of the highly regarded foreign policy magazine The National Interest, John O'Sullivan is a forceful and eloquent advocate of continuing strong American ties with Europe. In 1996, he founded The New Atlantic Initiative, an organization...

John Kerry's America: pride, privilege, and presumption.
October 1, 2004... STRETCHING around the northeastern boundary of Boston Harbor sits a small, picturesque town with seven miles of beach, shady fruit trees, and quaint cottages. The town is part of a peninsula that, in 1632, the founding governor of the...

The New England factor.
October 1, 2004... HAS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY MOVED TO NEW ENGLAND? By Ken Von Kohorn In the race for the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination, tiny New England produced the top two contenders. Though Vermont's former governor Howard Dean eventually...

The Kennedy connection: John Kerry makes Teddy look good.
October 1, 2004... Senator John Forbes Kerry has an obsession with the Kennedys. John Fitzgerald Kennedy is, in many ways, his lifelong model. Kerry's signature Naval service, his first race for public office--all were modeled on the late President. But the JFK...

The Moldy Massachusetts miracle: elitism doesn't work well in economic policy either.
October 1, 2004... A midst the coverage of John Kerry's nomination in Boston last summer, the region that produced him--New England--received remarkable little intelligent scrutiny. For the most part, the area was portrayed as quaint, idiosyncratic, and brainy, a...

The (Vietnam) war for the White House.
October 1, 2004... PICK A PRESIDENT, NOT A GLADIATOR By Jim Bohannon I don't care that much if John Kerry inflicted his own wounds with accidental ricochets. Or that the Bay Hap river convoy may not have come under enemy fire. Or that Kerry may have recreated...

Divided America? Don't mind the gap.
October 1, 2004... As the nation enters the home stretch of the 2004 Presidential election, the campaign appears to be beaded for a photo finish. The press and pundits tell us that the nation is divided into "blue" states and "red" states, churchgoers and...

1979-2004 in America: from malaise to mastery.
October 1, 2004... Twenty-five years ago, on July 15, 1979, a mere ten years after America put a man on the moon, President Jimmy Carter addressed the nation. Carter spoke to his television audience of "a fundamental threat to American democracy." A threat, he...

A short, unhappy history of campaign finance reform.
October 1, 2004... Notice that you no longer hear what was, until recently, an incessant rhetorical drumbeat--the campaign finance reformers' lament about there being "too much money in politics." What happened? Liberals discovered that they could raise lots of...

How Republicans can save education--and win votes.
October 1, 2004... Since volunteering for Bill Clinton's first Presidential campaign as a high school senior, I have wavered back and forth between competing political ideologies. Over the last five years, though, there has been one issue that has swung me safely...

Urban legends about the Iraq war.(Transcript: words worth repeating)
October 1, 2004... Excerpts from an August 12, 2004 White House memo: URBAN LEGEND: The Bush Administration in general, and the Vice President and his office in particular, pressured the Central Intelligence Agency to exaggerate evidence that Iraq possessed...

Mr. Cremeans goes to Washington.(In real life: first-person America)(Frank Cremeans)(Obituary)
October 1, 2004... "Don't drink the tap water here. Use this stuff in the fridge. I bring it from home." So said my Congressman, Frank Cremeans, pointing to several gallon milk jugs filled with Ohio water, taking up much of the space in his otherwise barren...

The many faces of Mr. Smith.(Flashback: to know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain ever a child--Cicero)(Gerrit Smith)(Obituary)
October 1, 2004... Gerrit Smith has come down to us through history as the hypochondriacal abolitionist sugar daddy who bought John Brown his guns in 1859 and then avoided prosecution for treason with a well-timed stint in the nuthouse. Smith's posthumous...

The Reagan revolution lives on.(Politico)
October 1, 2004... We must wait for several weeks to learn who will serve as President from January 2005 to January 2009. But one question asked in 2000 can now be answered: Will the Reagan coalition continue to define the nature and structure of the modern...

Our "ally" Egypt.(Forward Observer)
October 1, 2004... In this Olympic year, a new record has been achieved in a popular international sport: bashing America. A survey of six Arab countries in June by Zogby International found that 98 percent of Egyptian citizens have an "unfavorable attitude"...

Blurring language, taking homes.(Enterprising: business as an act of creation)
October 1, 2004... Owning a home, starting a business: It's the American Dream, which lured millions of immigrants, like Mr. and Mrs. Ciavaglia, to America. The Ciavaglias found their dream in New London, Connecticut, where they bought a home near the waterfront...

Mind the machines.(Now Playing)(Movie Review)
October 1, 2004... If computers "got" irony, they would likely smirk at the re-release of George Lucas's first film, a dystopian science-fiction tale from 1971 called THX 1138. In this new director's cut, Lucas hasn't changed the original narrative, a bleak...

Absolute threat.(In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on Terror)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on Terror By Michelle Malkin Regnery, 376 pages, $27.95 No, despite what the title of her new book might lead you to believe, Michelle Malkin does not...

Catholic America.(The American Catholic Voter: 200 Years of Political Impact)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The American Catholic Voter: 200 Years of Political Impact By George Marlin St. Augustine's Press, 420 pages, $30 Catholics remain a swing group no politician can afford to ignore, which is why both Presidential candidates should study The...

Maternal misconceptions.(7 Myths of Working Mothers: Why Children and (Most) Careers Just Don't Mix)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... 7 Myths of Working Mothers: Why Children and (Most) Careers Just Don't Mix By Suzanne Venker Spence Publishing, 208 pages, $24.95 In 7 Myths of Working Mothers, Suzanne Venker documents the deterioration of American children's well-being...

The Dems speak.(Politics)
October 1, 2004... The Dems Speak Tom Vilsack et al., Stronger at Home, Respected in The World: The Democratic Platform for America, July 2004 (democrats.org) The Democratic Party's 2004 platform, issued shortly before the party's Boston convention, speaks...

GOP expands goals.(Politics)(Grand Old Party)
October 1, 2004... GOP Expands Goals Bill Frist et al., A Safer World and a More Hopeful America, August 2004 (gop.org) The Republican Party's 2004 platform was not released until the convention's opening in New York City, underscoring its emphasis on...

Fixing the U.S. Postal Service.(Economics and Regulation)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Fixing the U.S. Postal Service Rick Geddes, "Timid Steps Toward Postal Reform," AEI Postal Reform Paper, July 2004 (aei.org) Under competition from e-mail, faxes, and private delivery companies, the nation's giant postal monopoly has lost...

That's all, folks?(Culture And Society)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... That's All, Folks? Justin Peters, "Toon In: The Best TV Happens When No One Is Looking," Washington Monthly, June 2004 (washingtonmonthly.com) During the 1930s and 1940s, Americans enjoyed what many consider a golden age of hand-drawn...

A Vision for the future.(National Security)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... A Vision for the Future Thomas Donnelly, "The Top Ten Questions for the Post 9/11 World," AEI National Security Outlook, July 2004 (aei.org) In a series of very short essays outlining the state of the post-9/11 world, AEI fellow Thomas...

Smarter is better.(Science And Environment)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Smarter Is Better Linda Gottfredson, "Schools and the 'g' Factor," Wilson Quarterly, Summer 2004 (wilsonquarterly.com) Under the influence of the nation's egalitarian, meritocratic ethos, many Americans refuse to believe that intelligence...

Bad priorities in the Arab world.(Other Countries)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Bad Priorities in the Arab World Tamara Cofman Wittes, "The Promise of Arab Liberalism" Policy Review. July 2004 (policyreview.org) Change in the Arab world, Brookings Institution fellow Tamara Cofman Wittes believes, must come from the...

Election 2004.(Opinion Pulse)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... On November 2, Americans will go to the polls to cast their ballots in the 55th consecutive Presidential election in their nation's history. If recent elections are a guide, slightly more than half of Americans eligible to vote will do so. That...

Electoral shifts.(Opinion Pulse)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Party fortunes wax and wane depending on candidate strengths and the country's mood. But there have been some significant shifts in underlying geography as the House results below show. Over the past 40 years, Democrats have lost ground in the...

How some key groups voted in 2000.(Opinion Pulse)
October 1, 2004... Polls in the spring and summer of 2004 suggested a very close election in November. For some clues about the 2004 contest, we look below at how some key groups of voters cast their ballots in the excruciatingly close 2000 Presidential contest....

The mail.(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... In "The Festering Problem of Indian 'Sovereignty'" (September), Jan Golab has condensed the monumental mess that is federal Indian policy into a six-page eye-opener that all members of Congress should read and heed. The problems outlined by...

Last gasp.(Comics)
October 1, 2004... I'M NOT SURE IF I SHOULD BE FLATTERED OR WORRIED... Technical Support Hotline "Yelling at your screen won't do any good, sir. Try yelling at your keyboard." SMOKING OR NON-SMOKING? [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED]