The Public Interest articles from June 2003

The Public Interest archives from June 2003

A genealogy of anti-Americanism.
June 22, 2003... AMERICA'S rise to the status of the world's premier power, while inspiring much admiration, has also provoked widespread feelings of suspicion and hostility. In a recent and widely discussed book on America, Apres L'Empire, credited by many...

Breaking the drug-crime link.
June 22, 2003... THE American criminal justice system now spends a significant proportion of its resources enforcing the drug laws. More than 10 percent of all arrests and about 20 percent of all incarcerations involve drug law violations. (Most of the 1.5...

The Martin Luther King we remember.
June 22, 2003... A day committed to the honor of Dr. Martin Luther King is a day committed to the celebration and honor of the American Constitution and those who believed in it and lived by it. --Daniel Patrick Moynihan IT now seems like ancient...

Measuring achievement: the West and the rest.
June 22, 2003... EUROCENTRISM has in recent years joined racism and sexism as one of the postmodern mortal sins. The Left's fight against Eurocentrism explains why students in elementary school are likely to know more about Mayan culture than French culture,...

Women at religious colleges--subordination or secularization?
June 22, 2003... IN recent years, enrollment at sectarian colleges and universities has been expanding rapidly, an expansion fueled in large part by the growing number of women who choose to attend religious schools. While public colleges expanded at a rate of...

Education for profit.(University of Phoenix)
June 22, 2003... IN October of 1997, the New Yorker ran an article about the University of Phoenix. The piece was titled "Drive-Thru U," and all the familiar markers of a university-library, bookstore, campus-appeared in quotation marks to denote that they...

Gentleman, politician, scholar. (Remembrances).(former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan)(Biography)
June 22, 2003... I KNEW Pat Moynihan for over forty years. He was without a doubt, as Michael Barone once said, "the nation's best thinker among politicians since Lincoln and its best politician among thinkers since Jefferson." He served four presidents, two...

The black faculty gap. (Review).(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... INCREASING Faculty Diversity: The Occupational Choices of High-Achieving Minority Students, (+) by the sociologists Stephen Cole and Elinor Barber, has already aroused controversy. Recently the subject of a lengthy article in the Chronicle of...

Explaining black underachievement. (Review).(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... WHY do certain American minorities-in particular, American blacks--for the most part do so poorly in school? John U. Ogbu, a Nigerian-born anthropologist at the University of California at Berkeley, has spent more than 30 years addressing this...

Is the market society a good society? (Review).(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... IT is tempting to identify the European intellectual tradition with uniform hostility toward capitalism. Certainly, many of its leading thinkers have tended to resent a social order in which money plays the dominant role in determining the...

A new eugenics? (Review).(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... LEON Kass is a man with a mission. Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity, + a good portion of which has already appeared in print in Commentary, First Things, The Hastings Center Report, The New Republic, and this journal, draws together...

Comparing wealthy democracies. (Review).(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... HAROLD Wilensky is a longtime and distinguished sociologist at the University of California at Berkeley. His latest book, Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy, and Performance, (+) summarizes his 30 years of research on the...