The American Enterprise articles from October 2005

The American Enterprise archives from October 2005

Europe learns the wrong lessons.(Bird's Eye)
October 1, 2005... Nearly one third of Germans under 30 say that the U.S. government ordered the 9/11 attacks. In France, a book insisting that Americans carried out the assault themselves to increase defense budgets becomes a huge bestseller. In Britain, major...

Sidelights.
October 1, 2005... The Pentagon spends $2.5 million per year to feed those held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, or $12.68 daily per prisoner. It costs $8.85 a day to feed a U.S. soldier serving in the Middle East, and $2.78 a day to feed a convict in a...

Kill off the Indians?(NCAA bans the use of native American nicknames and mascots )
October 1, 2005... The NCAA announced in August that during postseason tournaments it will ban the use of 18 Native American nicknames and mascots it considers "hostile or abusive." Starting on February 1, 2006, college teams with Indian mascots will also not be...

Endangered: religious euros.(Scan)
October 1, 2005... In 1965, Ireland ordained 659 men to the Catholic priesthood. In 2005, the total will be eight. The nation that once sent missionaries around the world now has only one Catholic seminary. And Ireland remains by far the most religious...

Homeschooling update.(Scan)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Over the last five years, the number of homeschoolers selected as National Merit Scholarship semifinalists has risen from 137 to 250. --Isabel Lyman, Columbia University's Teachers College Record

More election fraud.(Voting Rights Act of 1965)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... A recent rally in Atlanta was billed as a commemoration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. But people who turned out expecting a celebration discovered that today's civil rights movement has little nice to say about anything. In his speech...

Calling John Bolton.(United Nations)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The U.N... has proved to be a broken reed in maintaining the peace. It merely provides a forum for the weak to unite to tie the U.S. Gulliver down with a thousand strings.... The Security Council has been largely irrelevant since its...

Fighting artists.(World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001 depicted in arts)
October 1, 2005... In his BIRD'S EYE essay opening our last issue ("It Will Come Down to Fortitude," September), your editor recorded his surprise that so little memorable art has been inspired by the unforgettable destruction of the Twin Towers right in the...

Europe's latest export.(antisemitism)
October 1, 2005... For years, Americans have consumed fashions, expensive cars, and fancy foods from Europe. But the latest export from the old continent won't be nearly as tasty. It's left-wing anti-Semitism. Over the past decade, Americans have noticed the...

Ana Palacio: a free marketer who believes in using military force when necessary, she was an ally of the U.S. in the war against terror while she served as Spain's foreign minister.("Live" with TAE)(Interview)
October 1, 2005... Ana Palacio became Spain's first female foreign minister in 2002. During a period when Spain was part of the coalition fighting to liberate Afghanistan and Iraq, she argued eloquently for maintaining strong ties with the U.S. The 3/11/04...

Endangered Europe.(unemployment, economic conditions)
October 1, 2005... Three decades ago, signs first began to appear that Europe was entering a deep funk. The lands which had birthed Western civilization and devised many of modernity's most critical innovations in science, economics, religion, and the humane arts...

Europe's not working: the continent's major economies have fallen asleep. And there's not much hope this will change soon.
October 1, 2005... BERLIN -- They call themselves "The Happy Unemployed," and they fight "the dictatorship of wage dependency"--at a very leisurely pace. This German group so far consists of a few amateur humorists, and seems unlikely to grow larger. For...

America still beckons.
October 1, 2005... The American dream may be a musty old relic in the minds of some American elites, but for Annique Lambe--who arrived in the U.S. 12 years ago from Ireland--it is alive and well. Now a schoolteacher in Manhattan, she marvels at the energy and...

Red, white, and bruised: a brief history of European anti-Americanism.(Cover Story)
October 1, 2005... Over the last few years, the media have created the distinct impression that the anti-American attitudes now visible (and quite audible) in various parts of the Earth are something new. Some blame it on George Bush's foreign policy. Others say...

How wide is the Atlantic? Victor Davis Hanson, Danielle Pletka, James Glassman, and Thomas Donnelly offer very different views on the future of the relationship between America and Europe.
October 1, 2005... Victor Davis Hanson: Today's Euro-USA Split Will Persist The new chasm between Europe and the United States seems to widen still--even as transatlantic diplomats assure us that it has narrowed--despite a common heritage and a supposedly...

Europeans go AWOL in the terror war: obstruction from France goes way back.
October 1, 2005... France's participation in the global war on terror has been about as enthusiastic and effective as its 1940 defense along the Maginot Line. Long before George W. Bush appeared on the scene, the French were refusing to join longtime friends and...

It's a dirty wonderful life.(In Real Life: First-person America, purchasing of townhouses)
October 1, 2005... WASHINGTON, D.C. -- When my husband suggested we buy and fix up a dilapidated townhouse in Washington D.C.'s historic Mount Pleasant neighborhood, it sounded terribly romantic. We didn't purchase your average fixer-upper, with out-of-date...

Good leaker, bad leaker.(Beat the Press)(american journalists' civil disobedience)
October 1, 2005... The hand that rules the press... rules the county--Judge Learned Hand Having gone to jail to protect the confidentiality of her source, Judith Miller is, in the eyes of her New York Times colleagues, not merely the brave journalist she...

Ranch houses on fire.(prices and rates)
October 1, 2005... Here we are, full circle. A quarter century ago, I wrote a piece for The New Republic about soaring home prices. The cover featured a cartoon of a husband and wife entering a dinner party, the husband saying under his breath, "When they start...

Walt Whitman, free trader.(Flashback)
October 1, 2005... To know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain ever a child--Cicero Before Walt Whitman, poet, there was Waiter Whitman, editor of the New York Aurora and the Brooklyn Eagle and author of vehement, if sometimes prolix,...

Soak the rich! (Colleges).(the Campus Economist, endowments)
October 1, 2005... University and college faculties are overwhelmingly liberal in their politics. The faculties of Harvard and the University of California at Berkeley were large contributors to John Kerry's Presidential campaign. The Berkeley faculty gave six...

Treasures amidst the trash.(children television programs in Canada)
October 1, 2005... Television... that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night--Ray Bradbury If ever they defrost and re-animate the head of Walt Disney, it will be greeted by a long line of parents who wish to discuss his namesake...

Boys gone wild.(40-Year-Old Virgin )(Movie Review)
October 1, 2005... A Trojan horse of a sex comedy, The 40-Year-Old Virgin wouldn't be wholly out of place as part of an abstinence campaign. Teens hoping for sex scenes and naughty talk might be shocked by the message of restraint that is smuggled in along with...

America's first war of wills.(1776)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... 1776 By David McCullough Simon & Schuster, 400 pages, $32 In 1776, David McCullough tells the story of the first year of the Continental Army and shows that George Washington's victory over the British was far from foreordained. Rather, as...

Hipsters do econ.(Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything By Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner Morrow & Company, 256 pages, $25.95 University of Chicago pop-economist Steven Levitt and writer Stephen Dubner revel in...

Bourgeois like me.(Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class )(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class By Lawrence Otis Graham HarperPerennial, 422 pages, $14.95 When Lawrence Otis Graham's book was published in 1999, it was greeted with controversy. The black upper class, while not...

Student power?(effect of internet on student teacher relationships)
October 1, 2005... Matthew Crawford, "The Computerized Academy," The New Atlantis, Summer 2005 (thenewatlantis.com) The information revolution has changed academia. This change is evident not just in the omnipresence of laptops in the classroom or even in...

Making crime cost.(CULTURE AND SOCIETY)(Charles Murray's work on civil procedure in United Kingdom)
October 1, 2005... Charles Murray, "Simple Justice," Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society in association with The Sunday Times, June 27, 2005 (civitas.org.uk) AEI scholar Charles Murray has for many years paid visits to the United Kingdom under...

Beware the basket cases.(NATIONAL SECURITY)
October 1, 2005... The Fund for Peace, "The Failed States Index," Foreign Policy, July/August 2005 (foreignpolicy.com) The U.S. National Security Strategy concluded in 2002 that America is now threatened less by conquering states than we are by failing...

Is only government science good science?(government finance for pharmaceutical industry)
October 1, 2005... Iain Murray, "The Nationalization of Science." OnPoint, July 21, 2005, Competitive Enterprise Institute (cei.org) Draconian new ethics rules threaten to forbid researchers at the National Institutes of Health from having ties with industry....

Science is fallible, too.(SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT)(Contradicted and Initially Stronger Effects in Highly Cited Clinical Research)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... John Ioannidis, M.D., "Contradicted and Initially Stronger Effects in Highly Cited Clinical Research," Journal of the American Medical Association, July 13, 2005 (jama.ama-assn.org) Science progresses in steps. Experimentation leads to...

Goodbye Swedish model.(Sweden After the Swedish Model: From Tutorial State to Enabling State)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Mauricio Rojas, Sweden After the Swedish Model: From Tutorial State to Enabling State, Timbro, June 21, 2005 (timbro.com) For decades, self-styled progressives and leftists have hailed the "Swedish model" as a working example of a social...

How we see the Europeans.(Opinion Pulse)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Americans have expressed abiding affection for Great Britain since pollsters started asking about that country many years ago. Germany has been viewed positively in recent years in Gallup's polls, though American attitudes took a dip before the...

How Western Europeans see us.(Opinion Pulse)
October 1, 2005... People in most Western European nations want to be more independent of the United States. With the exception of attitudes in the Netherlands, support for U.S.-led efforts to fight terrorism is not robust. Views of the United States and...

American exceptionalism.(public opinion on government programs)
October 1, 2005... Although the war in Iraq has contributed to negative attitudes toward the United States, there are more fundamental differences between Western Europeans and Americans that are producing tensions. Americans are less enamored of government...

The mail.(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2005... When it comes to foreign relations, TAE has simply "gone over the top." In "It Will Come Down to Fortitude" (September), Karl Zinsmeister states that our post-9/11 adventures have transformed the world. Afghanistan is a "democracy." Iraq...

Last gasp.
October 1, 2005... "IF A GUY IN YOUR ALGEBRA CLASS BUYS YOU A WEDDING GOWN, YES, I WOULD CONSIDER THAT AS FLIRTING." "The graphics here are great." "I'm your father, so I'm telling you this because I love you--you're an idiot." "I can't concentrate....