National Review articles from January 2003

National Review archives from January 2003

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
January 27, 2003... When I saw the Dec. 23 issue, I knew I had to read the cover story ("Bad Lands, Bad Votes" by Byron York). Party machinery controlling the outcome, arm-twisting, improper conduct at polling sites, questionable absentee ballots: It all reminded...

The Week.(Column)
January 27, 2003... --So, Al Sharpton looks like a go for '04. Isn't it nice when a party gets the candidates it deserves? --The Democrats have found a theme for 2004: homeland security. "Washington is not doing enough to make America safe" (Sen. John...

Editorial: NORTH KOREA: Limited Options.(Editorial)
January 27, 2003... President bush greeted North Korea's expulsion of U.N. atomic-weapons inspectors and its threats to continue bomb production by saying that he expected the "situation . . . will be resolved peacefully." At the same time, he warned that Saddam...

Editorial: TAXES: Going for Growth.(Editorial)
January 27, 2003... Let's not beat around the bush: The president's new tax cut is the boldest free-market initiative since 1981, and it deserves the wholehearted support of conservatives and everyone else. We were not able to support Bush's last large tax cut,...

Editorial: THE LOTT AFFAIR: After the Fall.(Editorial)
January 27, 2003... Trent lott has only himself to blame for his fall. As all the world knows, he made a remark, at a party for Strom Thurmond's centenary, retrospectively endorsing Thurmond's segregationist presidential campaign of 1948. That was a foolish remark...

Notes & Asides.(Column)
January 27, 2003... -- Dear Mr. Buckley: I've just read your reply (Nov. 25) to my letter, in which you describe your idea for an "E-Z-Cap" keyboard. Serendipity is at work here. In N&A for Sept. 30, a letter suggested that the word "e-mail" should be written...

Pyongyang, Mon Amour: A sojourn in a surreal state.
January 27, 2003... I am a friend of North Korea. Or rather, that's what it probably says in my file in the North Korean ministry of foreign affairs. It happened like this. In 1992, as deputy minister for defense in Poland's first democratically elected...

Mob Scene: Trent Lott and the 'neo-lib-cons'.
January 27, 2003... Trent Lott's resignation from the post of Senate majority leader was greeted by an outburst of self-congratulation on both left and right. Liberals were pleased that the Republicans, having been unmasked as closet racists, would be less able to...

Illegal but Paid?: The question of Social Security for Mexicans.
January 27, 2003... 'U.S. Social Security May Reach to Mexico," blared a Washington Post headline last month: A U.S.-Mexico agreement would send hundreds of millions of dollars in Social Security benefits annually to roughly 37,000 Mexican workers. But this and...

USDA-Disapproved: Small farmers and big government.
January 27, 2003... Jenny Drake was a Virginia state health inspector until five years ago, when she and her husband moved to rural Tennessee and started Peaceful Pastures, a small livestock farm. They raise free-range beef, pork, turkey, veal, lamb, goat, duck,...

Hootie vs. Hootie: The morality play surrounding Augusta National.
January 27, 2003... It's strange that Augusta National's membership rolls should be such a big news story. Then too, it was strange that the 1948 presidential campaign should have been a big story -- in December 2002. Who knows how these things come about? ...

Escape from Hell: To be a refugee from North Korea.
January 27, 2003... Kang Kil-Ok knew she had to flee North Korea after security guards beat her 61-year-old mother so badly that the old lady couldn't walk. It was the summer of 1997. Kang's brother and his family had vanished. One suspicion was that the...

Checking Kim: The awful question of what to do.(U.S.-North Korea conflict)
January 27, 2003... The Bush administration is not being apocalyptic over North Korea -- but that doesn't indicate a lack of seriousness on the subject. This is not the Clinton administration, after all; these guys know how to think strategically, how not to leak,...

Abortion Now: Thirty years after Roe, a daunting landscape.
January 27, 2003... It is a lucky thing that most pro-lifers profess a religion that forbids despair. It is, of course, possible to be pro-life without being religious (and vice-versa). It is even possible for unbelievers to oppose abortion for the same reasons...

The Long View.(Column)
January 27, 2003... Coming soon to an AM talk station near you: host: "Hi, you're on with Evan Henderson-Kramer, Ph.D. The Liberal Voice of AM radio. Your voice is being heard and celebrated. What's your topic?" caller #1: "Hello? Am I on?" ...

Jesus, Jews, and the Shoah.("A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair")(Book Review)
January 27, 2003... A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair, by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (Knopf, 352 pp., $25) I began this book as an admirer of its author. Goldhagen's 1996 work, Hitler's Willing...

Mommy Dearest.("I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother")(Book Review)
January 27, 2003... I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother, by Allison Pearson (Knopf, 352 pp., $23) The central question of this much-talked-about book isn't: How does Kate Reddy, working mother, do it? It is, rather: Why is she...

The Straggler: Nor Custom Stale.(Column)
January 27, 2003... At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning. At thirty, I stood firm. At forty, I had no doubts. At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven. At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth. At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires...

Shelf Life: Bash Tha Police.("Are Cops Racist? How the War Against the Police Harms Black Americans")(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 27, 2003... Descartes once joked about common sense that it must be universal, because he had yet to meet anyone who didn't claim to have it. So it would do an injustice to Heather Mac Donald to assert that she is one of America's most commonsensical...

Music: Priceless.("Leontyne Price Rediscovered")(Sound Recording Review)
January 27, 2003... Sometime last summer, a new Marilyn Horne disc emerged on the market. It was of a live recital, given in Salzburg in 1979. Many of us were excited to have this CD -- it captured the great mezzo-soprano at the "peak of her powers," as critics...

On the Right.(Column)
January 27, 2003... In the Post-Lott World NEW YORK, DECEMBER 24 Coming up from under the Lott business, we can ask ourselves some questions, without committing ourselves to answering them. Did the Civil Rights Act wipe away Jim Crow? No, it wiped...

What's Right.(Column)
January 27, 2003... That Giant Swooshing Sound It's a strange thing to go to bed at night plain old David Frum and wake up in the morning the "controversial" David Frum -- and stranger still to have the same thing happen twice in one year. The first time...