National Review back issues from September 1993:
High anxiety. (low interest rates reflect economic stagnation) (Editorial)
Sep 06, 1993 ... Hardly a day goes by when President Clinton does not boast that his economic program is already a great success because interest rates have hit a twenty-year low. The President insists that what is driving down interest rates is the prospect of lower budget deficits. But wait: if lower ...
Not fighting crime. (failure of Bill Clinton's proposals) (Editorial)
Sep 06, 1993 ... The Clinton Administration "crime fighting" package is of a kind with other Administration initiatives. It is unimaginative, it is deceptive, and it is flawed. Ultimately, it will exacerbate the problems it is designed to address. It is unimaginative in its tired reliance upon ...
Things to come. (federal spending under Bill Clinton compared to George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon) (Column)
Sep 06, 1993; ... <Pre> Composition of Federal Spending by Administration (Spending as a % of GDP) SocialNet President (FYs) Welfare Interest Defense Other Total Nixon (1970-75) 9.4 1.46.7 2.6 ...
A pension for trouble. (Olena Berg's responsibility in the Department of Labor for regulating private sector pension fund assets) (Editorial)
Sep 06, 1993 ... Robert Reich. Laura Tyson. Olena Berg. Olena Berg? As the Labor Department bureaucrat in charge of regulating private-sector pension-fund assets, Miss Berg arguably wields far more raw economic power than her better-known colleagues. While they talk, she has the power to act ....
Mining for misconduct. (federal government failure to prove mining companies have evaded coal-dust limits) (Editorial)
Sep 06, 1993 ... On April 4, 1991, President Bush's Labor Secretary, Lynn Martin, made a huge media splash by charging that more than five hundred coal-mining firms had tampered with dust-sampling cassettes, used to assure that their miners are protected from the dusty mine conditions that can cause ...
Papal states. (Pope John Paul II's visit to Denver, Colorado and his efforts to sustain the religious values inherent in Catholic theology) (Editorial)
Sep 06, 1993 ... The Pope's visit to Denver was a triumph, demonstrating that millions of people-not only Catholics, or even believers-respond with joy to uncompromising reaffirmations of the morality the modern West so sorely lacks. Even Bill Clinton and Al Gore felt obliged to pay their respects to a man ...
Biology and destiny. (controversy in the Jessica DeBoer adoption case) (Editorial)
Sep 06, 1993 ... Far be it from us to attempt to resolve the perplexing, agonizing controversy over the adoption of the child known as Jessica DeBoer. Much in the case depends on particulars which we are too remote from to judge. Yet for this very reason, we wonder about the fitness not only of the ...
Slice of life. (case of marital sexual abuse and malicious wounding between John Wayne Bobbitt and his wife Lorena) (Editorial)
Sep 06, 1993 ... The case of the Virginia man whose wife sliced off his penis has been the subject of sick humor, but it is turning serious in more ways than one. John Wayne Bobbitt's wife, Lorena, claims he raped her; she took her revenge with the filleting knife after he drifted to sleep. She has been ...
Undoing Reaganism. (the real motivations behind Bill Clinton's economic policies)
Sep 06, 1993; ... Speaking to reporters at the white House on August 3, budget director Leon Panetta said of the Clinton budget plan, "The reason the President of the United States is taking on this challenge is because we've had 12 years of trickle-down economics, and we have paid a great price in this ...
The next Balkan war. (potential conflict over the Serb-controlled Croatian territory of Krajina)
Sep 06, 1993; ... While the Serbian and Croatian presidents divide Bosnia between them, their forces on the ground are edging toward another Serb - Croat war, this time over the Serb-held Croatian territory of Krajina. Serbia seized the Krajina when war broke out in 1991, claiming that Croatia ...
Colorado in the gay nineties. (lawsuits challenging Amendment 2, the anti-gay rights statute)
Sep 06, 1993; ... One of the strangest buildings in Denver, architecturally, is the State Justice Building. Its five stories, housing the appellate courts, sit thirty feet off the ground on two enormous pillars, as if to say to the people who walk underneath: "The law is separate from you; the law is above ...
Money makes the world go awry. (collapse of the European Monetary System)
Sep 06, 1993; ... There is a delicious moment when currency systems break apart. At the instant just before total collapse, political leaders must get up and tell transparent lies. They must declare that the system is not breaking up, that their commitment to their currency's strength is total, that ...
Trial by therapy. (the case of alleged child abuser Dale Akiki) (includes examination of other cases where children's testimony was based on fantasy rather than fact)
Sep 06, 1993; ... Across the country, the innocence of small children is being destroyed by unwanted knowledge of bizarre sexual activities. But who is doing the destroying? On the afternoon of May 10, 1991, Dale Akiki sat on his regular homeward-bound bus from downtown San Diego, chatting with ...
Eight years in Kafkaland. (personal narrative of Kelly Michaels, falsely convicted of child abuse at the Wee Care Day Nursery in Maplewood, New Jersey, 1985)
Sep 06, 1993; ... |Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!" said the jury foreman, rattling off the words with the efficiency of an auctioneer. "Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!" "But this is absurd!" I whispered. "Impossible! I did not do these things!" Turning to look at the packed courtroom I scanned the ...
The leader of the opposition. (political commentator Rush Limbaugh) (Cover Story)
Sep 06, 1993; ... Which is the real Rush Limbaugh - the merry prankster of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, or the unifying voice of conservatives across the country? Just tune in . . . To begin with, he's not Mr. Limbaugh. You've got to call the ornament of the EIB (Excellence in Broadcasting) network, ...
The danger of being effective. (bribery charges against California Assembly Pat Nolan)
Sep 06, 1993; ... The Pat Nolan case shows that the Left still knows how to deal with an effective conservative. When former Labor Secretary Ray Donovan walked out of the courtroom after being acquitted of all charges, he was surrounded by microphones, lights, cameras, and shouts: "How do you ...
Next victim. (what is wrong with Bill Clinton's health reform proposals)
Sep 06, 1993; ... Before embarking on a cure, a good doctor makes sure of his diagnosis. Did Dr. Clinton? The carrot of health-care reform that President Clinton used to tantalize the electorate during the 1992 campaign now looks more like a stick that would be used to whip consumers, physicians, ...
Stockmania. (former Office of Management and Budget director David Stockman's uncharacteristic support for Democratic economic policies)
Sep 06, 1993; ... Dave Stockman's back, and he seems far more in tune with the President than with his old colleagues. As if his 1986 polemic The Triumph of Politics hadn't given us our fill of David Stockman, he's back. In a March 14 syndicated editorial, the former Reagan OMB director wrote, ...
Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State.
Sep 06, 1993; ... Not long after the Berlin Wall came down, a young Russian democratic leader met with Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. Asked where he was going next, the young man replied "to California," to fulfill his dream of meeting Ronald Reagan, "the father of perestroika." Whether or not this young ...
At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War.
Sep 06, 1993; ... Not long after the Berlin Wall came down, a young Russian democratic leader met with Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. Asked where he was going next, the young man replied "to California," to fulfill his dream of meeting Ronald Reagan, "the father of perestroika." Whether or not this young ...
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life.
Sep 06, 1993; ... Philip Larkin was a dedicated poet. His three volumes, distinguished by a fine accuracy of language and a wholly individual subject-matter, became an English classic in his own lifetime. Of course, there was other writing - two novels, book reviews, criticism of jazz records - through all ...
A Generation of Seekers.
Sep 06, 1993; ... I was born into the baby-boom generation and the Methodist Church. Since A Generation of Seekers is about baby-boomer spirituality, while The Churching of America is, in large part, about the rise and fall of Methodism, I read them with special interest. But they draw larger, and opposite, ...
The Churching of America: 1776-1990.
Sep 06, 1993; ... I was born into the baby-boom generation and the Methodist Church. Since A Generation of Seekers is about baby-boomer spirituality, while The Churching of America is, in large part, about the rise and fall of Methodism, I read them with special interest. But they draw larger, and opposite, ...
A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America.
Sep 06, 1993; ... |Serving the Post-Christian Community," reads the sign outside the tony, Episcopal Park Street Church in Boston. The words mean more than they are intended to mean: the liberal Christian denominations have entered a post-Christian phase, while sincere Protestant Christians have in large ...
The Fugitive.
Sep 06, 1993; ... I Know a little about the Dr. Shepard murder case, but nothing about the TV series it inspired, so I came to The Fugitive relatively unencumbered. The first reel left me reeling. The director, Andrew Davis, and the screenwriters, Jeb Stuart and David Twohy, try to pump up excitement by ...
House of Angels.
Sep 06, 1993; ... House of Angels is a Swedish film written by Susanne Falck and directed by Colin Nutley, a British filmmaker who works in Sweden. There is something odd about an Englishman leaving home not for sunny Italy or France, but for a country that, in some ways, is more English than England. But ...
Take a walk. (the joy of regular walking and country hiking) (Column)
Sep 06, 1993; ... When I was a schoolboy, walkers were considered the Clintons of the time. They were the wimpy ones who did not go out for sports, excelling instead in theatrical pursuits, and whose girls during the prom weekend resembled young Barbra Streisands. Walking was compulsory for boys who refused ...
The Aspect of Eternity.(Brief Article)
Sep 06, 1993; ... In this collection of essays first published in The New Criterion, Bruce Bawer often seems to judge writers not just as artists but as people. For Bawer, literature has an unavoidable moral mission - rendering truths about our unavoidably moral world - and a writer who is self-absorbed or ...
My Tears Spoiled My Aim and Other Reflections on Southern Culture.(Brief Article)
Sep 06, 1993; ... |What are Southerners, anyway - or, more precisely, what do Southerners think they are?" asks John Shelton Reed, a University of North Carolina sociologist. The question has spawned a class of professional Southerners earnest about grappling with it. Reed's answer is an unusual one: that ...
His brothers' last keeper. (public reaction to Joe McGinniss's biography of Edward Kennedy, 'The Last Brother') (Column)
Sep 06, 1993; ... Through no exertions on my part, I came by a copy of The Last Brother, Joe McGinniss's controversial biography of Teddy Kennedy. I call it "controversial," but "controversial" is one of those words, like "diversity" and "taboo," that has come to mean precisely the opposite of what it used ...
Bosnian trap. (Bill Clinton's plan to offer 30,000 US troops to uphold peace plan in Bosnia-Herzegovina) (Editorial)
Sep 20, 1993 ... It is a maxim of international politics that a timid course usually ends up being the most dangerous. That is about to be proved in Bosnia. Because this Administration shrank from arming the Bosnians and giving them air support against Serbian aggression, it is about to place American ...
Dr. Gridlock and Mr. Hyde. (Sen Bob Dole's shifting positions in opposing Bill Clinton's policies) (Editorial)
Sep 20, 1993 ... Despite democratic cries of "gridlock," the GOP's performance on the Clinton budget was largely a triumph: Republicans articulated a broad alternative vision, made the budget a Democratic liability, and came close to defeating it. But with health-care reform looming, Republicans are ...
Eye of the beholder. (why mortgage loan rejections for African Americans are not racist) (Editorial)
Sep 20, 1993 ... The social issue du jour for much of the media is the "shocking" pattern of racial discrimination in bank mortgage lending. According to a Boston Federal Reserve Bank study of 6.6 million mortgage applications in 1991, blacks of all income levels are rejected for mortgages at more than ...
They don't embarrass easy. (refusal of the Environmental Protection Agency to recognize criticisms of the agency's failure to produce scientific evidence that would justify environmental regulations) (Editorial)
Sep 20, 1993 ... We have written harshly in the past ("The Week," July 19) about the EPA's manipulation of science to justify its imperial agenda. As if control over rivers, wetlands, trash, chemicals, and outdoor air were not enough, the agency seems determined to gain authority to regulate indoor air as ...
Middle East breakthrough? (agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization) (Editorial)
Sep 20, 1993 ... We cross our fingers, praying that the new agreement unveiled between Israel and the Palestinians turns out to be the breakthrough to peace that it is claimed to be. On the face of it, the plan incorporates key ideas that have been part of Israeli (and U.S.) policy for years - a ...
Laura Tyson's tall tale. (how the new head of the Council of Economic Advisers has tried to avoid her 1984 written report approving of Romanian economic policy) (Editorial)
Sep 20, 1993 ... When President Clinton's eye settled on Berkeley economist Laura Tyson as head of his Council of Economic Advisors, Llewellyn Rockwell criticized her writings on Nicolae Ceausescu's economic policies (NR, Feb. 1). Her reaction, we have learned late in the day, was to deny she ...
Letting go. (how Bill Clinton's vacation was used to help the President's image)
Sep 20, 1993; ... The Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts The Long political odyssey of Bill Clinton seemed to pass a milestone of sorts, as he vacationed here on Martha's Vineyard with his wife and daughter. The frenzied pace of his first six months in office, to nearly everyone's surprise, just stopped. Mr ....
To Russia with love. (medical supplies contributed by AmeriCares)
Sep 20, 1993; ...Chris chiaia, a 25-year-old regular guy from the idyllic suburb of Darien, Connecticut, is in charge of about $2 million worth of medicines and medical supplies in the heart of a country which is notoriously descending into chaos. It's not unusual, in the world of international aid, for ...
NAFTA: can Clinton lead? (political strategy to passage of the trade bill)
Sep 20, 1993; ... BACK IN JUNE, Lee Hamilton (D., Ind.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, complained that the White House was not doing enough to fight for the North American Free Trade Agreement, the trade pact that would link the economies of Canada, the U.S., and Mexico: "NAFTA will be a ...
So far from God. (Nicaraguan politics)
Sep 20, 1993; ... The author revisited Nicaragua last month, to find Sandinista hands on too many levers of power, the Contras still brave but abandoned by the U.S., and a political elite that doesn't know what hit it. By the time I left Managua, half the people I had met were either hostages or ...
Does the Sphinx have a riddle? (trying to figure out H. Ross Perot's political agenda and future) (Cover Story)
Sep 20, 1993; ... Politicians across the spectrum are mesmerized by Ross Perot. What will he do in '94? Will he run in '96? He may be distracting them from questions closer to home Republican pollster Frank Luntz has a dream. It is the week before the 1994 midterm elections. President ...
Babbitt's ecobabble. (Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt's alternative solution to listing endangered species under the Endangered Species Act)
Sep 20, 1993; ... Bruce Babbitt says he was born to be Secretary of the Interior, a destiny that was finally fulfilled this January. Considered by many to be the brightest star in Bill Clinton's Cabinet, Secretary Babbitt is staking his political life on something called "ecosystem management." He views ...
The return of the dinosaurs. (the fallacy that an infusion of money will solve public school problems)
Sep 20, 1993; ... Old ideas don't always fade away. The idea that there is nothing wrong with our schools that money wouldn't cure is proving the next thing to indestructible. After the political meteors that smashed into the nation over the past quarter-century and altered its education-policy ...
High-tech hustle. (how the introduction of various technologies has not always helped public school students) (The Schools: Four Reports)
Sep 20, 1993; ... |Every Class Needs Computer, Jeffco Panel Says," read a Rocky Mountain News headline. Coast to coast the latest fad in public-education "reform" is technology - mostly computers, but also fiber optics and video multi-media hardware. No grant proposal, no model-school outline sees the light ...
Afrocentrism in the suburbs. (problem with Prince George's County, Maryland's multicultural curriculum) (The Schools: Four Reports)
Sep 20, 1993; ... Washington-area residents fondly refer to outlying Prince George's County, Maryland, as "PG" County. The term has recently assumed an unexpected irony. With the near-adoption of a set of multicultural curricula, students might soon need Parental Guidance in order to unravel the strange ...
Better off at home? (increasing numbers of families are pursuing better education for their children by teaching them at home) (The Schools: Four Reports)
Sep 20, 1993; ... Consider two examples of American youth. Daniel is becoming knowledgeable about the metric system, has read the Esther Forbes classic Johnny Tremain, easily identifies the four states that border Mexico, can confidently define "recluse" and "esoteric," and still has time to tend goal for ...
Free the schools. (how and why other countries encourage independent schools and offer parents school choice for their children) (The Schools: Four Reports)
Sep 20, 1993; ... When I had last been in Berlin, in 1988, the Wall still stood. The train trip through East Germany by night was eerie, passing row after row of barbed wire and flying past train stations boarded up since the end of the World War II. Little did I guess that within a year the gates would be ...
The textbook wars: when does a 'censor' become a 'positive pressure group'? Ask Holt Rinehart. (the pressure to impose a liberal agenda on the publisher Holt, Rinehart and Winston's Holt Basic Reading textbook products)
Sep 20, 1993; ... It has become one of journalism's autumn perennials: Book-burners are conspiring to relegate our children to ignorance. Read a bit further in the articles and, almost invariably, the would-be censors turn out to be conservatives. Most book protests do indeed originate with the ...
The Last Brother.
Sep 20, 1993; ... Aware of the fusillade of abuse that has been aimed at this latest book about the Kennedys, I approached it cautiously, hoping, frankly, to find in it some redeeming features, if only out of sympathy for an author who had captured me in the past and now seemed to be the victim of an ...
Leaving Town Alice: Confessions of an Arts Warrior.
Sep 20, 1993; ... In the long history of how Washington calls to national service both wise men and fools, the accident of political circumstance leaving the Republic in the hands of sheer chance, rarely have we lost more at the toss of the political dice than in the spring of 1989, when, in the midst of a ...
The National Review College Guide: America's Top Liberal Arts Schools.(Young Adult Review)
Sep 20, 1993; ... The chances of finding out what kind of education any particular college supplies - by studying its catalogues or promotional videos, by taking a guided tour, or by consulting a standard college guide - are about as good as the CIA's chances of estimating the size of the Soviet economy ...
From Cottage to Work Station: The Family's Search for Social Harmony in the Industrial Age.
Sep 20, 1993; ... The good, albeit old, news is that Allan Carlson knows more and understands more about the decline of the American family than just about anyone else writing today. The bad news is that he has just about given up hope. Carlson's starting point is unusual for American ...
Manhattan Murder Mystery.
Sep 20, 1993; ... Woody Allen's latest, Manhattan Murder Mystery, was made under crisis conditions; intended for Mia Farrow, it was hastily readjusted for Diane Keaton. One could make excuses, but an artist such as Allen fancies himself to be doesn't accept special pleading. Life is always difficult; making ...
Betty.
Sep 20, 1993; ... Claude Chabrol hasn't been heard from much lately. Now he is back with Betty, based on a Georges Simenon novel. Betty, an attractive, 28-year-old, obviously affluent woman, sporting a strange look - is it hostile, preoccupied, weirdly detached, downright crazy? - finds herself, drunk on a ...
N.Y.P.D. Blue.
Sep 20, 1993; ... About the best entertainment to be had from television nowadays is hearing producers and actors try to palm off their various brands of vulgarity verite as serious stuff, "daring" and "controversial" in its cultural implications. The big talk now centers on N.Y.P.D. Blue, ...
Honegger: Le Roi David. (Jean-Claude Casadesus, Orchestre National de Lille)
Sep 20, 1993; ... Now that Lady Hillary has taken to discoursing on the meaning of meaning, are critics empowered to write on the meaning of music? Composers have said us nay for many years, and I delight in two expressions of their disdain. The great musical ironist Erik Satie could address a critic: ...
Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien. (Michael Tilson Thomas, Leslie Caron, London Symphony Orchestra)
Sep 20, 1993; ... Now that Lady Hillary has taken to discoursing on the meaning of meaning, are critics empowered to write on the meaning of music? Composers have said us nay for many years, and I delight in two expressions of their disdain. The great musical ironist Erik Satie could address a critic: ...
Faure: Piano Quartets Nos. 1 and 2. (Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo, Yo-Yo Ma)
Sep 20, 1993; ... Now that Lady Hillary has taken to discoursing on the meaning of meaning, are critics empowered to write on the meaning of music? Composers have said us nay for many years, and I delight in two expressions of their disdain. The great musical ironist Erik Satie could address a critic: ...
Verdi: String Quartet in A Minor. (Juilliard String Quartet)
Sep 20, 1993; ... Now that Lady Hillary has taken to discoursing on the meaning of meaning, are critics empowered to write on the meaning of music? Composers have said us nay for many years, and I delight in two expressions of their disdain. The great musical ironist Erik Satie could address a critic: ...
The Hidden Life of Dogs.(Brief Article)
Sep 20, 1993; ... This short book has been receiving reviews couched in superlatives, and it is a pleasure to report that they are fully deserved. The book is moving, beautifully written, and finely observed. Mrs. Thomas, an anthropologist and novelist, wondered about the thought processes and emotions of ...
Madness, Heresy, and the Rumor of Angels: The Revolt Against the Mental Health System.(Brief Article)
Sep 20, 1993; ... In this relentless book, Seth Farber argues that psychiatrists are no less than totalitarian jailers, social enforcers charged with the duty of incarcerating nonconformists. Simultaneously shocked and unsurprised, he presents the accounts of seven former psychiatric patients who tell of ...
Some Blues.
Sep 20, 1993; ... Now that Lady Hillary has taken to discoursing on the meaning of meaning, are critics empowered to write on the meaning of music? Composers have said us nay for many years, and I delight in two expressions of their disdain. The great musical ironist Erik Satie could address a critic: ...
Flip Phillips with Strings: Try a Little Tenderness.
Sep 20, 1993; ... Now that Lady Hillary has taken to discoursing on the meaning of meaning, are critics empowered to write on the meaning of music? Composers have said us nay for many years, and I delight in two expressions of their disdain. The great musical ironist Erik Satie could address a critic: ...
Of Kindred Souls.
Sep 20, 1993; ... Now that Lady Hillary has taken to discoursing on the meaning of meaning, are critics empowered to write on the meaning of music? Composers have said us nay for many years, and I delight in two expressions of their disdain. The great musical ironist Erik Satie could address a critic: ...
Matchbook Man. (the demise of the masculine image that use to grace the ads on matchbook covers promoting self-improvement studies, vocational training or high school completion courses) (Column)
Sep 20, 1993; ... To liberals he's the "blue-collar, white-male, racist, sexist homophobe." To feminists he's the "unsocialized" male because he continues to elude their gelding shears. I call him the Matchbook Man because he was the target of self-improvement ads in the matchbooks of my childhood. ...