National Review back issues from November 1995:
Deconstruction, American-style.(race relations)(Editorial)
Nov 06, 1995; ... Much of this issue is devoted, in one way or another, to race. But then, so is much of American politics. The combination of the O.J. verdict and the Million Man March has shifted it to the forefront of politics again, temporarily overshadowing even Medicare.As so often, however, ...
The two nations.(African Americans and whites)(Editorial)
Nov 06, 1995 ... IN the 1930s, when James Burnham, later a founding editor of this magazine, was a young professor becoming committed to Marxism, he was recruited by Earl Browder, the head of the American Communist Party. Browder managed to explain all his party's doctrines but one: its endorsement, as ...
Play hardball.(budget showdown)(Editorial)
Nov 06, 1995 ... IN RECENT weeks, President Clinton has been on the offensive. He is buoyed by the early budget feelers sent out by Congress, by his own rebounding poll numbers (an astronomical -- for him -- 61 per cent favorable rating) coupled with the corresponding dip in those for Congress, and finally ...
Mrs. Smith goes to D.C.(Rep Linda Smith)
Nov 06, 1995; ... Rep. Linda Smith (R., Wash.) chuckles at a headline: "Funds for former Speakers would be killed under a proposal pending before Congress." The proposal is hers; she recounts how one day a constituent tried to reach her district office, but instead got the office of former Speaker Tom Foley, ...
Embrace or embargo?(Cuba)
Nov 06, 1995; ... President Clinton's new moves on Cuba have left more than a few observers confused. Is he getting tougher, or is he loosening the embargo? The day the President announced his Executive Order the Washington Times story was headlined "U.S. Plans to Tighten Its Embargo on Cuba," while the New ...
The biter bit?(David Bonior's movies to unseat Newt Gingrich)
Nov 06, 1995; ... Thanks to last November's vote Newt Gingrich became Speaker of the House of Representatives and David Bonior was denied the Majority Leader post he had expected to inherit. Bonior was not about to stand for this.Immediately after the election, he began a campaign to unseat ...
Bread & circuses.(Colin Powell)
Nov 06, 1995; ... I CONFESS that I love a guy in uniform, but the appeal of the military man of the moment is wearing thin. Colin Powell is flirting with the nation and the GOP. But will he respect them after the election?Powell will announce his political intentions next month, and Washington ...
Speaking in tongues.(Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judges Alex Kozinski and Stephen Reinhardt)
Nov 06, 1995; ... Some lawyers call it the "Steve and Alex Show" -- the occasional stylized jousting between two heavyweights on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the federal appellate authority for California and eight other Western states.On the Left: Judge Stephen Reinhardt, champion of an ...
In darkest England.(murder trial of Rosemary West)
Nov 06, 1995; ... WHY should America have all the best trials? No sooner had the O. J. Simpson case ended than, in England, the trial began of Rosemary West, who is accused of torturing, raping, and murdering ten girls and young women, including her own 16-year-old daughter. All except one were buried in or ...
Gekko.(Maastricht Treaty)
Nov 06, 1995; ... MY father, who spent half a lifetime successfully navigating the Foreign Service, once gave me the key to bureaucratic power: "Turn everything into a technical question."That's the secret of the Maastricht Treaty, a blueprint for turning the European Community into a supreme state ...
Proliferation of privilege: quotas forever.(affirmative action)
Nov 06, 1995; ... Opinion-makers airily distinguish between 'affirmative action' (good) and 'quotas' (bad). It is a distinction without a difference, and has been almost from the beginning.PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS & LAWRENCE M. STRATTONMr. Roberts is John M. Olin Fellow and Mr. Stratton is a ...
No Americans need apply: something for everyone.(affirmative action)
Nov 06, 1995; ... Mr. Robb is senior analyst of The Social Contract and author of the study, Affirmative Action for Immigrants: The Entitlement Nobody Wanted.WHAT liberals wishing to save the affirmative-action system did not need was the growing realization that some of the biggest winners in ...
Soul goes marching: one cheer for Farrakhan.(Louis Farrakhan)
Nov 06, 1995; ... Minister Farrakhan's message is an odd mixture of self-help and blame. This day, anyway, his followers seemed more receptive to the hope than the hate.I suppose I should have expected it. The last time I visited Washington was for my wedding, and the day my wife and I had picked ...
Liberal doublethink: meanwhile, back in L.A.(OJ Simpson verdict)
Nov 06, 1995; ... Mr. Cunningham is a senior editor at Investor's Business Daily in Los Angeles.'LIBERALS don't want to admit it, but a majority black jury won't convict in a case like this." Marcia Clark denies speaking those words, but they contain much truth about liberals' rush from judgment in ...
Welfare states.(benefits of tax cuts)
Nov 06, 1995; ... Congressional Republicans take note: Tax-cutting politicians create jobs and prosperity. And win elections.STEPHEN MOOREMr. Moore is director of fiscal-policy studies at the Cato Institute.IT SEEMS only yesterday that America's statehouses were dominated by a ...
Fair trade, foul politics.(protectionism)
Nov 06, 1995; ... Protectionists are a minority in the Republican Party -- but a growing one. There are a number of reasons for this. The postwar bipartisan consensus in favor of free trade rested on beliefs about American leadership of the world which younger Republican congressmen tend not to share. Then ...
The Vice President, Washington.(humorous fictitious letter to Al Gore)
Nov 06, 1995 ... If this letter sounds funny, it's because my new ThinkPad is in the shop for a radical memory upgrade, so I'm composing this letter in the laborious, time-consuming old-fashioned way -- I'm dictating it into a tiny tape-recorder.I sent my old computer down to Tennessee, for Dad to ...
My American Journey.
Nov 06, 1995; ... Mr. Bacevich is executive director of the Foreign Policy Institute of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C.AS THIS review appears, the return of Colin Powell to public life has taken on the trappings of a triumphal procession. In treatment ...
Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1938-1944.
Nov 06, 1995; ... "THE real war will never get in the books," Walt Whitman wrote in Specimen Days. This sentiment is echoed throughout Reporting World War II, the Library of America's superlatively edited new collection of wartime journalism. Time and again, those who were paid to tell Americans about the war ...
Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1944-1946.
Nov 06, 1995; ... "THE real war will never get in the books," Walt Whitman wrote in Specimen Days. This sentiment is echoed throughout Reporting World War II, the Library of America's superlatively edited new collection of wartime journalism. Time and again, those who were paid to tell Americans about the war ...
Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Confederate Community, 1861-1865.
Nov 06, 1995; ... Miss King is the author of The Florence King Reader and other books.CULPEPER, Virginia, is thirty miles west of Fredericksburg where I live. To get there you drive out toward Spotsylvania Mall and continue on past other burgeoning retail centers at Chancellorsville and Wilderness ....
Showgirls.
Nov 06, 1995; ... SINCE everybody writing about film, and everybody not writing about film, has seen fit to carry on about sex and violence in the movies -- as unsunderable, it appears, as a bicycle built for two, hence to be discussed only in tandem -- I resolved to abstain. But a time comes for all good ...
Assassins.
Nov 06, 1995; ... SINCE everybody writing about film, and everybody not writing about film, has seen fit to carry on about sex and violence in the movies -- as unsunderable, it appears, as a bicycle built for two, hence to be discussed only in tandem -- I resolved to abstain. But a time comes for all good ...
Strange Days.
Nov 06, 1995; ... SINCE everybody writing about film, and everybody not writing about film, has seen fit to carry on about sex and violence in the movies -- as unsunderable, it appears, as a bicycle built for two, hence to be discussed only in tandem -- I resolved to abstain. But a time comes for all good ...
Understanding the Papal bull.(Column)
Nov 06, 1995; ... NEW YORK, OCTOBER 10The impression made by Pope John Paul was quite simply stunning. Granted, the panoply was intoxicatingly splendid; yet all those millions of candles and choirboys and bishops would not have given the spectator such life as he got from what he saw and heard if ...
Grave business in Los Angeles.(OJ Simpson case)
Nov 06, 1995; ... The cliche has it that anything Johnnie Cochran et al. can do to spring their client is okay. If this is so, they have certainly abided by that liberty. At the end of Thursday, Mr. Cochran had done his best to convince the jurors that either O. J. Simpson is guiltless and should be set free, ...
The hangover.(OJ Simpson case)
Nov 06, 1995; ... The brainy wife of the brainy professor said, "I think the O.J. verdict should be protested." The brainy professor said, "How?"Indeed. How?The prattle, in which such as Senator Dole are engaged, is that we must accept the verdict and turn over a new leaf. Well, it is one ...
The gimlet eye.(househusbands; humor)(Column)
Nov 06, 1995; ... REMEMBER when people first started talkin about "househusbands," and it was supposed to be this kind of "sensitive guy" deal, where you would stay home with the baby and pick up dirty TV-dinner trays all day long while your wife reported to her job as assistant manager at Wal-Mart? ...
America's son.(Colin Powell)
Nov 27, 1995 ... "THIS IS a magnificent country; I am proud to be one of its sons," said Gen. Colin Powell in pulling himself out of the 1996 presidential race. His with- drawal -- by turns dignified, witty, and modest -- showed what a powerful candidate he would have made. Yet there are good public reasons ...
Death of a soldier.(Rabin, Yitzhak)(Obituary)
Nov 27, 1995; ... WHEN Yitzhak Rabin was Israel's ambassador to Washington in the early 1970s, he got into hot water with liberal American Jews by letting all and sundry know that he preferred Richard Nixon to George McGovern and that he supported Nixon's policy in Vietnam. Rabin the strategist knew that a ...
Death taxes: right data.(estate taxes)
Nov 27, 1995 ... SOAK the rich? How about drown the very rich? That's what Washington tries to do with estate taxes. Since 1987 estates of $600,000 and up have faced tax rates ranging from 37 per cent at the low end to 60 per cent at the top. The tax confiscates vast sums from a relative handful of heirs. ...
Polymorphous perversity.(daytime talk shows)
Nov 27, 1995 ... ON THE Jerry Springer show, a hefty woman with pumpkin hair and a prominently missing tooth, named "Peaches," tells her boyfriend she wants to "get physi- cal" with another lady. On Ricki Lake, Brenda from Indiana, with a variety of missing teeth, berates her son-in-law for something or ...
Don Lipsett, RIP.(conservative activist)(Obituary)
Nov 27, 1995; ... DON LIPSETT came to NATIONAL REVIEW when we were only a few months old, asking for work not because he cared especially to be associated with a magazine, but because he cared to associate with the conservative movement. He was very young (26), blond, quiet in manner, quick to smile but ...
Precarious peace.(US troops in Bosnia)
Nov 27, 1995; ... Mr. Rodman, an NR senior editor, is director of National Security Programs at the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom.WASHINGTON, D.C.THE President has dropped a red hot potato in the Republicans' lap -- U.S. troops in Bosnia. Shuttle diplomacy in September and October by ...
Emptying the well.(federal grants to leftist organizations)
Nov 27, 1995; ... Mr. Lowry is NR's national political reporter.WASHINGTON, D.C.It wasn't long after freshman Rep. David McIntosh (R., Ind.), former head of Vice President Quayle's Competitiveness Council, returned to Washington that he got a re-introduction to the self-perpetuating ways ...
Bread and circuses.(Republican women)
Nov 27, 1995; ... Six hundred Republican women convened at the Capital Hilton last month to meet with the new congressional leadership. They told Newt and his lieutenants what they wanted: tax cuts and a balanced budget, the Education Department eliminated, English as the official language, and welfare ...
Republicans v. reform.(immigration reform)
Nov 27, 1995; ... Mr. Mehlman is California media director of FAIR (the Federation for American Immigration Reform).LOS ANGELESAT times it seemed as if the House Judiciary Committee mark-up of the com- prehensive immigration-reform bill introduced by Lamar Smith (R., Tex.) would last as ...
Goldsmith holding his own.(author Jimmy Goldsmith)
Nov 27, 1995; ... Mr. Sikorski is NR's roving correspondent.WARSAW"SO YOU mean we don't have to intensify our agriculture as the Western experts tell us?" The girl was stocky, with the red cheeks of a farmer's daughter. We were in a lecture room of Warsaw University, and she was ...
Ils se souviennent.(Quebec separatist movement)
Nov 27, 1995; ... Mr. O'Neill writes frequently for the Detroit News on trade and North American affairs.MONTREALCANADA was lucky to survive the latest round of Quebec separatism. Whereas the previous sovereignty referendum, in 1980, was rejected by 60 per cent of the voters, the ...
Dying of the light.(AIDS)
Nov 27, 1995; ... Presumably aware of the dangers they court, homosexuals continue to contract AIDS at an astonishing rate. The 'support' they receive for doing so is unconscionable.Mrs. Decter is a writer living in New York City.SINCE 1981, the experts tell us, some 441,528 Americans have ...
Where the races relate.
Nov 27, 1995; ... As the universities struggle with growing racial tensions, they ignore the lessons of the battlefield, and of their own playing fields.Mr. Sailer is a Chicago businessman and writer.Much ink has been spilled bemoaning the rancorous state of race relations on our nation's ...
Flight of fancy: did the First lady connive in false accusation and destruction of evidence?(White House Travel Office)
Nov 27, 1995; ... Did the First Lady connive in false accusation and destruction of evidence? Is someone covering up?Mr. Levin is director of legal policy at Landmark Legal Foundation and a con- tributing editor of NR.ON MAY 19, 1993, four months into the Clinton Administration, all seven ...
Second opinion: is the GOP Medicare reform just the Clinton health plan in disguise?
Nov 27, 1995; ... Is the GOP Medicare reform just the Clinton health plan in disguise?Mr. Goodman is president of the National Center for Policy Analysis.MICHAEL Kinsley (Time magazine) was the first to say it on the Left. M. Stanton Evans (Human Events) was the first to say it on the ...
Pleading the tenth: with the demise of liberalism, can federalism be brought back to life?
Nov 27, 1995; ... With the demise of liberalism, can federalism be brought back to life?Mr. du Pont is policy chairman of the National Center for Policy Analysis.The 28 words of the Tenth Amendment -- "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it ...
The mandate hoax of 1995.(Unfunded Mandate Reform Act of 1995)
Nov 27, 1995; ... Mr. Lund is a professor of law at the George Mason School of Law.IN recent decades the United States Congress has developed the taste and the means for evading the constitutional inhibitions on the growth of government. The most insidious mechanisms so far adopted have included ...
The Trap.
Nov 27, 1995; ... The Trap, by Sir James Goldsmith (Carroll & Graf, 207 pp., $11.95)Mr. Friedman is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.A STANDARD component of my mail consists of letters from successful businessmen, mostly retired, offering a solution for some major social problem ...
The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society.
Nov 27, 1995; ... The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society, by Dinesh D'Souza (Free Press, 724 pp., $30)Mr. Brimelow is a senior editor of NR and author of Alien Nation: Common Sense about America's Immigration Disaster."I AM married to a Protestant woman named Dixie, who ...
Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality.
Nov 27, 1995; ... Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality, by Andrew Sullivan (Knopf, 209 pp., $22)Mr. Minogue is a professor of political science at the London School of Economics.ANDREW Sullivan, editor of The New Republic, has done for homosexuality what John Stuart Mill did ...
Heart: A Memoir.
Nov 27, 1995; ... Heart: A Memoir, by Lance Morrow (Warner, 323 pp., $22.95)Mr. Buckley's current novel is Brothers No More.THE author of this book was 53 when hit by a massive heart attack, 17 years after surviving the first such attack, sustained in 1976 at Kansas City while covering for ...
To Die For.
Nov 27, 1995; ... Mr. Simon is NR's film critic.WELL now, To Die For is almost enough to restore one's faith in the American cinema. It is "based on a true story," which is today's magic film formula. At worst, this means guaranteeing the audience something more authentic than the typical Hollywood ...
Leaving Las Vegas.
Nov 27, 1995; ... There is no such subtlety in Leaving Las Vegas, written and directed by the Britisher Mike Figgis from an autobiographical novel by John O'Brien, who killed himself two weeks after the book was sold to the movies. It is about Ben, whose alcoholism has lost him everything, and who heads for ...
Patti LuPone on Broadway.
Nov 27, 1995; ... Mr. Bloom is NR's theater critic.THOSE of us who arrived for Patti LuPone on Broadway without proper visas were diagnosed according to our degree of benightedness and assigned seats adjacent to fervid LuPonistas. You can recognize these gentlemen (they are rarely females) by their ...
Clothes call.(women's clothing)
Nov 27, 1995; ... Mr. Klinghoffer is NR's literary editor.FALL is here at last and I've been looking forward to it for a number of rea- sons: crisp autumn air, orange leaves, pumpkin pie, and the probability that the sexier women on our city streets would begin to put their clothes back on again. By ...
Emotional Intelligence.(Brief Article)
Nov 27, 1995; ... Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman (Bantam, 352 pp., $23.95)THIS entry in the politically correct psychology sweepstakes has been winning big on the best-seller lists, no doubt because its message is so touchy-feelingly agreeable. Daniel Goleman tells us that a) what mainly ...
The UN at 50.(United Nations)
Nov 27, 1995; ... NEW YORK, OCTOBER 24Fifty years of the United Nations certainly does not bring on undifferentiated congratulations. The world organization received a jump start on hypocrisy when, in San Francisco, on a motion that Sweden, Switzerland, and Ireland be admitted, the ruling was ...
New York live.(New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliana, Fidel Castro and others)
Nov 27, 1995; ... NEW YORK, OCTOBER 27New York City early in the week was just the place to sharpen up on political and social protocol, Messrs. Giuliani and Rangel acting as dancing masters. The headlines went to the mayor, who sent two bouncers to Lincoln Center to escort Yasir Arafat out of the ...
Should there be a law?(illegitimacy)
Nov 27, 1995; ... NEW YORK. OCTOBER 13This is an exploratory column, its purpose to encourage thought on a question that badly needs thinking about.The Problem: The birth every year of one million babies to unwed mothers.The Consequence: One million children who, on reaching the ...
The misanthrope's corner.(OJ Simpson verdict and Catholicism)(Column)
Nov 27, 1995; ... Miss King is the author of The Florence King Reader and other books.THE O.J. verdict and the Pope's visit should not have anything in common, but they do. As throngs cheered John Paul II, a poll found a majority of American Catholics favored "the dictates of their own consciences" ...