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Policy Review articles from May 1998
A bimonthly journal of the Hoover Institution that promotes inquiry into the American condition, American and other government and political and economic systems, and the role of the United States in the world. For the academic audience.
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Policy Review archives from May 1998
A textbook case of marriage-bashing. (undergraduate textbooks)
May 1, 1998... What are we teaching the next generation about marriage? Judging from a review of a representative sample of 20 recently published undergraduate marriage and family textbooks, the answer is: not very much, and what students are learning is...
Beasley makes it finah in Carolina. (David Beasley, South Carolina governor)
May 1, 1998... South Carolina governor David Beasley can hardly sit still in his chair as he recalls pressing state bureaucrats to upgrade their computer capability back in 1995. Beasley, a self-confessed Internet hound, wanted to network all state cabinet...
Beyond quotas: a color-blind vision for affirmative action.(includes related article on equal opportunity in the U.S. Army)(Cover Story)
May 1, 1998... The term "affirmative action" is dangerously ambiguous. To some it means simply public policies that afford individuals opportunity without discrimination. To others, it means the use of preferences in public life to assist groups on the basis of...
The new "massive resistance": the Clinton administration defies the Constitution to save racial preferences.(includes related article on the Supreme Court's strict scrutiny test)
May 1, 1998... On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that racially segregated public schools were unconstitutional. The unanimous decision dealt a severe blow to the Jim Crow system of state-sponsored discrimination...
I'll stand bayou: Louisiana couples choose a more muscular marriage contract. (covenant marriage)(includes related article on legal separation and divorce in covenant marriage)
May 1, 1998... The pipe organ at the First Baptist Church in Robert, Louisiana, erupts into "The Wedding March." The bride, Erlene Thompson, is a little nervous. She need not be: She has known the gray-haired groom for most of her life. More precisely, she has...
Learn while you earn. (education savings accounts)
May 1, 1998... Q: What conservative idea advances tax reform, helps families, and counters Clintonian politics? A: Education Savings Accounts
Just when conservatives started to believe that serious tax reform was gaining momentum, along came the 1997 budget...
No strings attached: a private college spurns federal aid to save its academic freedom.
May 1, 1998... If American athletes in certain premier sports perform poorly in the next Olympic Games, in Sydney, Australia, we may have the federal government in part to blame. Not because it fails to support our teams adequately, but because its intrusion...
Blocking the exits: libertarian opposition to school vouchers is an attack on freedom.
May 1, 1998... What do many thoughtful, committed libertarians and Sandra Feldman of the American Federation of Teachers union have in common? Almost nothing--except their opposition to school choice. Answering the concerns of these libertarians is essential to...
Memphis's medical Graceland. (Church Health Center, Memphis, Tennessee)
May 1, 1998... Traditional health care neglects the working poor. A church-based clinic steps in.
After more than a decade of providing health care for the working poor of Memphis, Tennessee, I have grown certain there is no single solution for providing...