The Public Interest articles from June 1996

The Public Interest archives from June 1996

Christian socialism in Britain.
June 22, 1996... Americans no longer bother much with political developments in Great Britain. True, an IRA bomb set off in London's theater district, near Harrod's department store, or at other sites favored by American tourists, can garner a few paragraphs in...

Divorce American style.
June 22, 1996... James and Janne Hayes were married in 1941 as 19-year-old college students. They had four children. With one brief exception, Janne Hayes never worked outside the home. After 25 years of marriage, she filed for divorce under California's...

What glass ceiling? (gender-based employment discrimination)
June 22, 1996... As the debate over affirmative action heats up, a concerted effort will be made to convince women that they are victims of job discrimination. Currently, a constitutional initiative in California, headed for the November 1996 ballot, threatens to...

Freud and the culture wars, part 3. (The Culture Wars)
June 22, 1996... About one-hundred years ago, Freud published his first major work, Studies on Hysteria, which became a milestone on the road to understanding the complexity of man's nature. To celebrate the centenary of the birth of psychoanalysis, and to...

Cleaning up Superfund.
June 22, 1996... The cleanup of hazardous wastes is the number one environmental concern of the American people. The government's response: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched its Superfund program, which was established by Congress in 1980 and...

How immigration harms minorities.
June 22, 1996... The popular press tends to portray proposals to reduce yearly immigration quotas as pitting whites against nonwhites. Yet they are overlooking the fact that the downsides of immigration often fall more heavily and more directly on nonwhites,...

On Justice Clarence Thomas.
June 22, 1996... It has been almost five years since Associate Justice Clarence Thomas was confirmed as the 106th Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. During that time, he has come under sharp and unrelenting criticism from the liberal media. He has...

The benefits of marriage.
June 22, 1996... In a sane or sensible society, marriage is more an answer than a question. Of course, it is never the only answer: In any culture, a noticeable minority never marry, some because they resist for their own reasons what their culture and their...

Posthuman Bodies.
June 22, 1996... If you thought quotas were bad, just have a look at these quoters! Quotation-mark culture seems to have gone about as far as it can go when the editors of Posthuman Bodies,(*) on the introductory page of the introductory essay, refer to...

Payback: The Conspiracy to Destroy Michael Milken and His Financial Revolution.
June 22, 1996... In Payback: The Conspiracy to Destroy Michael Milken and his Financial Revolution,(*) Daniel Fischel sets out to refute one of the most popular myths of the Reagan era: that Milken, the media's poster boy for the "decade of greed," was a crook...

Union of Words: A History of Presidential Eloquence.
June 22, 1996... Differences between the early and late American presidency are easy enough to recognize. The twentieth-century executive branch is larger than its nineteenth-century counterpart, more apt to introduce and supervise legislative programs like the...

Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy.
June 22, 1996... Some 20 years ago, in an important article in the American Scholar, Robert Nisbet wrote about the "many Tocquevilles," sometimes contradictory and of varying cogency and staying power, who have become part of our intellectual landscape since the...

Molding the Good Citizen.
June 22, 1996... During the past year or so the kulturkampf between political correctness and more traditional values has shifted from literary studies to American history. Flare-ups have occurred over Smithsonian exhibits dealing with the American West and with...

Lies My Teacher Told Me.
June 22, 1996... During the past year or so the kulturkampf between political correctness and more traditional values has shifted from literary studies to American history. Flare-ups have occurred over Smithsonian exhibits dealing with the American West and with...