The Public Interest articles from January 1995

The Public Interest archives from January 1995

The next British revolution. (British underclass)
January 1, 1995... IN 1989, the London Sunday Times asked me to explore whether England was developing an American-style underclass. I reported then that England seemed to be replaying the American scenario but with some imponderables that were peculiarly...

White lies about black crime.
January 1, 1995... IN the Fall 1994 edition of this journal, Glenn C. Loury, James Q. Wilson, Paul H. Robinson, Patrick A. Langan, and Richard T. Gill commented on my essay "The Question of Black Crime." I am very grateful to each of them, to the many others who...

Immigration and the American future.
January 1, 1995... THE discussion of immigration and its impact on American society should be based on facts, on meaningful projections, and on a reasoned discussion of impacts in various areas. The area in which we have the greatest capacity to determine impact is...

Environmental injustice.
January 1, 1995... Eliminating "environmental racism" has fast become one of the premier civil rights and environmental issues of the 1990s. Over the past 15 years, what began as a modest grassroots social movement has expanded to become a national issue, combining...

Why global warming would be good for you.
January 1, 1995... IN his book World on Fire: Saving an Endangered Earth, Senator George Mitchell prophesied that: Climate extremes would trigger meteorological chaos--raging hurricanes such as we have never seen, capable of killing millions of people;...

Sisters at odds. (Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women)
January 1, 1995... JUST as the movement for "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" had its Jacobins, so too the feminist movement, with its parallel call for women's liberation, the equality of the sexes, and politically conceived sisterhood. According to Christina Hoff...

Not quite in our genes. (Galen's Prophecy; The Moral Animal)
January 1, 1995... FROM the time human beings started to reflect on their condition until the fourth or fifth decade of the present century, the essence of human nature was ferociously debated. Answers varied from the Platonic tri-partition of the soul to the...

Dead Right.
January 1, 1995... IF nothing else, David Frum's tour of the "conservative" political landscape proves that he is a very talented writer. Dead Right(*) bounces along at an invigorating--but never too taxing--pace. Its arguments are studded with arresting little...

The Almanac of State Legislatures.
January 1, 1995... THE United States, it has often been observed, is a nation defined not by territory or by blood but by ideas. It is also a nation defined, more so than most people realize, by statistics. The Founders were convinced that the strength of a...

Invisible, Outlawed, and Untaxed: America's Underground Economy.
January 1, 1995... SURROUNDING America's towering measured economy toils an unmeasured economy of frenetic energy and voluminous dimension. Unweighed, unscaled, it waxes fatter every year, engorging on a global drug market and incessant tides of immigrants. The...