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The Public Interest archives from September 2003
What to tell the kids about sex.
September 22, 2003... SEX education has been the Middle East of the culture wars and one of the longest-running, most rancorous battlegrounds of American social policy. For nearly 40 years, conservatives--many of them, though by no means all, observant Catholics and...
What was Leo Strauss up to?(Biography)
September 22, 2003... The only way to begin to understand Leo Strauss's political thought is by studying his writings. This may seem a simple rule of common sense. Yet a glance at the current controversy over Strauss's supposed influence on contemporary American...
Do we need more scientists?
September 22, 2003... FOR much of the past two decades, predictions of an impending shortage of scientists and engineers in America have gained increasingly wide currency. The country is failing to produce scientists and engineers in numbers sufficient to fulfill...
Snow's two cultures--and ours.(British novelist C. P. Snow)
September 22, 2003... Today, perhaps more than ever before in America, science has become a political issue. A series of advances in cloning, embryo research, and related biotechnologies--long predicted but now upon us--has forced the nation to ask itself some hard...
Defining the "peace party."(opponents of the Iraq War)
September 22, 2003... ABOUT one-fifth of Americans strongly opposed the war in Iraq. Surveys taken in December 2002 showed that 15 to 20 percent of the public resolutely opposed the war three months before it began, and the numbers remained about as high in April...
The behavioral aspects of poverty.
September 22, 2003... In a famous exchange between Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald is reputed to have said, "The rich are different from the rest of us," to which Hemingway replied, "Yes, I know, they have more money." Liberals have long contended that...
A new strategy for the new geopolitics.(Comment)
September 22, 2003... THE late Nicholas Spykman, a pioneer in the study of international relations, once said that "he who controls the Rimland controls Eurasia, who controls Eurasia controls the destinies of the world." This classic statement of geopolitics has...
The new class vs. social democracy.(Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... THEDA Skocpol is a distinguished sociologist and political scientist who has served as president of the Social Science History Association and the American Political Science Association. While her early work employed cross-national studies,...
Child experiments.(Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... IN Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children, [dagger] Ann Hulbert examines several generations' worth of expert advice on the rearing of children. It is a carefully structured and meticulously documented book....
The sources of urban renewal.(Block By Block, House By House)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... WHAT explains the urban revival of the 1990s? Centrists and conservatives have credited the innovative crime and welfare policies implemented by a new generation of take-charge mayors, most famously New York's Rudy Giuliani, who ceased looking...
Family ties.(The Family in the Modern Age: More than a Lifestyle Choice)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... SINCE the 1960s, the cultural left has launched attack after attack on the conventional nuclear family. In the 1960s and 1970s, the attacks came head on--recall Betty Friedan's 1963 manifesto, The Feminine Mystique, in which she derided the...
Wise guys.(Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians?)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ALTHOUGH they have become a favorite punching bag for many conservative commentators, intellectuals play an important role in American life. Their impact is felt not only on university campuses and in the pages of academic journals but also...
Ex-convicts in society.(When Prisoners Come Home)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... IN the late 1970s, the United States embarked on a prison-system buildup of a scale previously unknown in a free society. By 2002, nearly 2 million American men and women were serving sentences in local, state, and federal correctional...