The Public Interest articles from January 2003

The Public Interest archives from January 2003

Senior Editorial Associates.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... It is time for a change at The Public interest. Founded by Irving Kristol and Daniel Bell in 1965, it has been co-edited by Kristol and Nathan Glazer since 1973. It has been a happy and successful partnership, but we are now elderly citizens...

The past and future of welfare reform.
January 1, 2003... WITH the passage of the welfare reform law of 1996, 60 years of federal welfare policy was abruptly reversed. The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF) ended the legal entitlement to benefits, mandated that a large percentage...

Psychiatry in the courtroom.(psychological testimony in criminal cases)
January 1, 2003... OVER the past quarter century, the Supreme Court has increasingly sent the message to the nation's criminal courts that the imposition of the death penalty must take into account psychiatric evaluations and understandings of mental disorders....

The public's stake. (Biotechnology: A House Divided).
January 1, 2003... FOR the first six months of this year, the President's Council on Bioethics met to consider the moral, biomedical, and human significance of human cloning in order to advise President Bush on the subject. The council's report, Human Cloning and...

Slavery plus abortion. (Biotechnology: A House Divided).(human cloning)
January 1, 2003... ON the cover of Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics is the image of a fingerprint. It's an inspired choice, for the fingerprint, as Leon Kass's "Foreword" says, "has rich biological and moral...

An opportunity lost. (Biotechnology: A House Divided).
January 1, 2003... IT is customary when making critical remarks to start out by saying nice things about the person one is criticizing, and I want to do that now, but not pro forma. The report of the President's Council on Bioethics is superb. It embodies the...

The danger of absolutes. (Biotechnology: A House Divided).
January 1, 2003... DESPITE my disagreement with some of its specific conclusions and recommendations, I have come to praise the report of the President's Council on Bioethics, not to bury it. The report is distinguished by an extraordinary civility of tone, by...

The horror. (Biotechnology: A House Divided).
January 1, 2003... THERE are three directions in which we might take a discussion of the report of the President's Council on Bio-ethics. We might first talk about the issue of cloning itself. Then again, we might turn to the deliberations of the President's...

A reply. (Biotechnology: A House Divided).
January 1, 2003... THESE were deeply searching, very thoughtful, very well-considered comments. I regard these remarks from the four of you as an enormous gift to our enterprise. One way to join comments made by Diana Schaub, Charles Murray, and Bill Galston...

The independent mind of Edward Banfield. (Reconsiderations).
January 1, 2003... THOSE of us who were privileged to know Edward Banfield can only with some difficulty convey to others his true greatness. If you neither knew nor read him, he is unknown to you, for he had no interest in fame or publicity. On one occasion, the...

Moving out of public housing. (Reconsiderations).
January 1, 2003... IN 1935, two years before Franklin Roosevelt signed legislation that would bring large-scale public housing to the United States for the first time, social reformer Catherine Bauer made the case for government-owned housing. Bristling with...

Souls without longing. (Reconsiderations).(apathy among college students)
January 1, 2003... THERE is a malaise spreading among America's college and university students, one that extends into the uppermost reaches of their hearts and minds, robbing them of delights at the moment they seem poised to enjoy them. This malaise leaves...

Commanding the commanders. (Review).(book relationships between military and civilian commanders)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... A SNAPSHOT in time: One evening, early in the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and his secretary of state, William Seward, called upon the Union General-in-Chief, George McClellan, at his house. McClellan was out, so they waited. When he returned,...

Juries on trial. (Review).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... THE nations of continental Europe, whose civil-law legal systems are structured around logically designed statutory schemes, take pride in the rationality and efficiency of their public regulations and of the governmental institutions that...

Defending the Constitution. (Review).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... ROBERT A. Dahl, one of America's most prominent political scientists, asks us in his latest book to judge the Constitution in the light of a single criterion: By present-day standards, how democratic is it? Dahl examines just about every...