As the 1990s began, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. argued that America was due for a new era of affirmative government in keeping with the cycle of liberal and conservative periods that runs through our history. Uncannily, Bill Clinton’s election came right on schedule, roughly 90 years after Theodore Roosevelt became president, 60 years after Franklin Roosevelt, […]
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Can We Keep Guns away from Kids?
The Brady Bill was a modest beginning. But if we want to stop youth violence, we need to crack down on the black markets for firearms.
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The False Messiah: Pete Peterson’s Revelations Are Not Gospel
Virtually without challenge, Pete Peterson claims to be a champion of the middle class. But his proposals would actually cut taxes for the rich and benefits for middle-income people.
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Self-Fulfilling Prophets: Inflated Zeal at the Federal Reserve
Greenspan’s rate increases needlessly threaten to abort the recovery. A more accountable central bank is long overdue.
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Divided Families, Whole Children
Listening to the children of divorce can help us understand how to mend the damage of marital discord and family breakup.
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The Consequences of Single Motherhood
Children of single-parent families suffer measurable harm. But the problems of the family are far more complex than the popular debate often suggests.
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The New Crusade for the Old Family
A new wave of family restorationists says that the evidence on families is in and that the remedies are clear. Their case doesn’t hold up.
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Instant Replay: Three Strikes Was the Right Call
Instant Replay Three Strikes Was the Right Call John J. DiIulio, Jr. Jerome H. Skolnick’s essay on crime policy (“Wild Pitch: `Three Strikes, You’re Out’ And Other Bad Calls on Crime,” Spring 1994), omitted some important facts and ignored several valid arguments. Echoing the anti-incarceration consensus within criminology, Skolnick asserts that life without parole for […]
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The New Dialectic
Modern economic life crosses national boundaries to form a web of intricate association that retards aggressive and regressive nationalism. Trade, investment, enterprise, technology, communications, and travel are today relentlessly transnational. Yet this same globalism undermines the capacity of the nation-state to stabilize its economy. From this paradox comes the first of the dialectics of our […]
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Seismic Stimulus: The California Quake’s Creative Destruction
The earth literally had to move to jolt Congress into passing a stiumulus package — and to lift California out of recession.
