Independent Review articles from March 2002

Independent Review archives from March 2002

Health and human services "privacy" standards: the coming destruction of American medical privacy.
March 22, 2002... Federal privacy regulations issued by the Clinton administration on December 28, 2000, and adopted by the Bush administration on April 14, 2001, perpetrate a fraud on the American people, proclaiming privacy as their goal when ever-wider access...

An ambivalent legacy: black Americans and the political economy of the New Deal.
March 22, 2002... No group in America votes Democratic more than black Americans, who from Reconstruction until the Great Depression had clung just as tenaciously to the Republican Party. Historians usually regard the New Deal as the turning point in this...

The stakeholder concept of corporate control is illogical and impractical.
March 22, 2002... Existing criticisms of the stakeholder concept of corporate governance, centering on the threat to private-property rights that it poses and the distortion of traditional notions of accountability in the firm that it entails, are highly...

Can a reparations package be a bill of attainder?
March 22, 2002... Aristotle once observed that to give money away is an easy matter and in any man's power, but to decide to whom to give it, for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter. --Justice Oaks, Lamont v. Woods (1)...

For-profit schools are making a comeback.
March 22, 2002... Private for-profit schooling has grown rapidly in the United States in recent years. In many respects, this development marks the revival of a form of delivery of educational services that has existed for several millennia. In this article, we...

Richard T. Ely: paladin of the welfare-warfare state. (Cameo).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... During the 1880s and 1890s, bright young graduate students in history and the social sciences went to Germany, the home of the Ph.D. degree, to obtain their doctorates. Almost to a man, they returned to the United States to teach in colleges...

Now more than ever, your vote doesn't matter. (Political Arithmetic).
March 22, 2002... Public-choice scholars have long argued that voting is instrumentally irrational because the probability that a single vote will change the outcome of an election is nearly zero. Dennis Mueller made the point well when he noted that "the...

State lotteries: advocating a social ill for the social good. (Reflections).
March 22, 2002... Fifty years ago, anyone caught "playing the numbers" might be in serious trouble with the law. At that time, the government acted as if protecting citizens from the evils of gambling was one of its inherent responsibilities. Today, Americans...

On the brink of World War II: Justus Doenecke's Storm on the Horizon. (Review Essay).
March 22, 2002... Justus Doenecke, professor of history at the University of South Florida, has made a distinguished career of researching the history of American "isolationism" before and after World War II. His latest book, Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge...

The Constitution and the New Deal. (Book Reviews).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... * The Constitution and the New Deal By G. Edward White Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 385. $ 47.50 cloth. The constitutional history of the twentieth century has long been dominated by the narrative of President...

Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America's Urban Poor, 1825-2000. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2002... * Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America's Urban Poor, 1825-2000 By Joel Schwartz Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2000. Pp. xxii, 353. $39.95. Cusins. Excuse me: is there any place in your religion for honor,...

The Natural Gas Market: Sixty Years of Regulation and Deregulation.
March 22, 2002... * The Natural Gas Market: Sixty Years of Regulation and Deregulation By Paul W. MacAvoy New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. 135. $35.00 cloth. Paul MacAvoy's Natural Gas Market is a thin volume of just 135 pages. Despite its...

Crime and Politics: Big Government's Erratic Campaign for Law and Order. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2002... * Crime and Politics: Big Government's Erratic Campaign for Law and Order By Ted Gest New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 256. $24.95 cloth. In Crime and Politics, Ted Gest chronicles the rapidly expanding but largely...