Policy Review articles from January 1995

Policy Review archives from January 1995

An offer too good to refuse; Americans put out a contract on big government.
January 1, 1995... In the Spring of 1993, Policy Review predicted that "1994 will be the most important year in American politics since the 1980 race between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan." At least we got that one right. "If the Democratic Party maintains its...

What will happen to the children? Who will step in when welfare is abolished.
January 1, 1995... The new Republican Congress has promised to put welfare reform at the top of the agenda when it convenes in January. Conservatives are championing radical change: the end of the welfare state. Specifically, conservatives are proposing to abolish...

Bench mark: conservative principles for rejecting Clinton judges.
January 1, 1995... Thanks to the GOP landslide, President Clinton is unlikely to achieve any major legislative victories for liberalism during the next two years. But that does not mean the liberal agenda is dead. The Clinton Administration and liberal-left...

Lead us not into temptation: a Christian case against school prayer.
January 1, 1995... If God truly answers prayers, then politicians, lawmakers, and religious activists may soon have Him working overtime: Speaker-elect of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich promises a constitutional amendment allowing voluntary,...

Advice to the lovelorn; how presidential candidates can woo conservatives.
January 1, 1995... The most important question for conservatives today is not who will be the GOP presidential candidate in 1996. It is whether Republican congressional leaders will honor their Contract With America in such a way as to build a permanent governing...

Geo-conservatism; why conservatives are better than liberals at foreign policy.
January 1, 1995... The congressional elections of 1994 were a stunning rejection of liberalism in foreign policy as well as domestic policy. The Democratic Party lost control of the Senate and House, not only because Americans thought the country was economically...

You must remember this; what's right with American culture.
January 1, 1995... When The Heritage Foundation asked me to address the subject, "What's Right About American Culture," I was particularly challenged by the idea. My wife, Diane, immediately commented "That will probably be a very short speech." Praising the...

A Madisonian compromise; term limits for the House, but not the Senate.
January 1, 1995... In the summer of 1787, the delegates who gathered in Philadelphia to reform our nation's Congress were deeply divided on matters both of principle and of prudence. Those from the larger or more ambitious states sought to make the Congress a...

Smoking them out; how to close down a crack house in your neighborhood.
January 1, 1995... "I'll tell you how powerful it is," says Manfred, a former crack user in Washington, D.C., of the drug he once used daily. "When I first started, I had a girlfriend. Sex doesn't even compare to getting high. You can have the finest woman on the...

Prodigal dad; how we bring fathers home to their children.
January 1, 1995... I see a lot of angry kids in my work, but none can match the anger of a boy I knew years ago. He was the second-youngest of six children; his mother was a housewife, his father, a coal miner. He lived in a cinder-block house about a block and a...

A pension deficit disorder; teacher unions betray their members.
January 1, 1995... This year the largest number of teachers ever will become eligible for retirement. They're the lucky ones. With the help of teachers' unions, many of these instructors have won high salaries, small class sizes and seemingly generous retirement...

Second opinions: principles for health care reform in a free society.
January 1, 1995... President Clinton's Health Security Act is dead--the consequence of a misunderstanding of the popular concerns, a misdiagnosis of the major problems, the arrogance of the technocrats, and Bill Clinton's own overreaching. Unfortunately, many of...

The crime of the crop; why this farmer doesn't cotton to ag subsidies.
January 1, 1995... A political dust storm is development around the need to make changes in U.S. farm policy. I am afraid, however that after the dust settles on the 1995 farm bill debate, Congress will succumb to political pressures and adopt a status quo farm...

Natural born killers? Preventing the coming explosion of teenage crime.
January 1, 1995... From 1985 to 1991, homicides committed by boys in the 15- to 19-year-old age group jumped 154 percent. From 1982 to 1991, the juvenile arrest rate for murder rose 93 percent, for aggravated assault 72 percent, and for forcible rape 24 percent....

Them vs. Unz; special letters section. (includes reply by Ron K. Unz on legal and illegal immigrants)
January 1, 1995... Ron K. Unz, in "Immigration or the Welfare State" (Fall 1994), challenged the notion that out-of-control immigration is fueling a host of social and economic problems, from crime to welfare dependency to job loss. Unz, chief executive officer of...