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The Public Interest archives from June 2000
Postmodern nursing.
June 22, 2000... IN the late 1980s, Linda A. Rosa, a registered nurse working in Denver, Colorado, was deluged with brochures promoting courses for nurses in crystal healing, color therapy, and a technique called "therapeutic touch," derived from the laying-on...
Welfare reform--four years later.
June 22, 2000... FOUR years ago this August, a Republican Congress pushed a reluctant President Clinton to sign a bill that ended welfare as we had known it. But since the 1996 welfare-reform act expires on September 30, 2002, its eventual fate is not yet...
The lessons of W-2.
June 22, 2000... LIKE pious Muslims making the pilgrimage to Mecca, policy wonks have been flocking to Milwaukee to study its ambitious experiment in welfare reform. The reason why isn't hard to figure out. Since 1987, Wisconsin's welfare rolls have plummeted a...
Culture and achievement.
June 22, 2000... THE relationship between their cultures and the economic and political trajectories of nations and civilizations is now a major topic among analysts of the differences among nations. The context has been set by such provocative theses on the...
Improving, empowering, dismantling.
June 22, 2000... EVERYONE agrees that getting and keeping good teachers is key to improving America's schools. How to accomplish this goal, however, is a matter of significant disagreement. While America is blessed with many fine teachers, we don't have enough...
Homeschooling comes of age.
June 22, 2000... THE rise of homeschooling is one of the most significant social trends of the past half century. This reemergence of what is in fact an old practice has occurred for a distinctly modern reason: a desire to wrest control from the education...
The spirit of a free man.
June 22, 2000... THE life and writings of Frederick Douglass are far from forgotten. For the last 30 years, the figure of Frederick Douglass has been a textbook staple. Every schoolchild can be presumed to have heard the dramatic story of the runaway slave...
Love among the ruins.
June 22, 2000... JUST when you thought American culture couldn't sink any lower, along comes Fox TV's "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?" During the two-hour show this past February, 50 young women vied in a beauty contest, which included a swimsuit parade, to...
The journal that saved the city.
June 22, 2000... CITIES are humanity's hothouses, where human potential develops to its fullest pitch of excellence and variety." So says Myron Magnet, editor of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal, a magazine that gets more policy bang per philanthropic...
How are we doing?
June 22, 2000... WRITERS often overestimate themselves and their projects, which they consider more important, urgent, and original than they really are. Marc and Marque-Luisa Miringoff, the authors of The Social Health of the Nation: How America is Really...
Philosophizing public opinion.
June 22, 2000... SLAVKO Splichal is a "professor of mass communications an public opinion" at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. He tells us in the Preface to his Public Opinion: Developments and Controversies in the Twentieth Century [+] that he "started...