National Review back issues from December 1998:
Party Time: Should conservatives start their own party?(independent national conservative party recommended )(Abstract)
Dec 07, 1998; ... THE U.S. News & World Report headline said it all: "Can Bush Save the GOP?" Here is a political party so demoralized as to accept the media spins that it lost the election it actually won, that its "defeat" is the result of embracing hard-right social policies and non-mainstream ...
Scandal Bust: Why Clinton won Monicagate.(conservatives may have overplayed their hand and underestimated President Clinton's standing in the Clinton-Lewinsky investigation)(Abstract)
Dec 07, 1998; ... EVER since the Lewinsky story broke in January, conservatives and pundits have been prophesying Clinton's demise. Now the pundits are scratching their heads, and Newt Gingrich is scratching the stump where his head used to be. What went wrong? Basically, conservatives underestimated ...
Off Base: Republicans need to tend to their own voters.(the Republican party's anticipated increased vote because of their aversion to President Clinton did not happen in the past election)(Abstract)
Dec 07, 1998; ... PUNDITS had barely recovered from their failed election predictions before they began delivering an equally unanimous evaluation of the Republicans' defeat: too much impeachment, not enough moderation. Of course, the conventional wisdom misses much of the story. GOP ...
Peace Accord: The House GOP closes ranks.(Bob Livingston is acceptable replacement for Newt Gingrich's house speaker seat)(Abstract)
Dec 07, 1998; ... AS Rep. Jim Talent (R., Mo.) watched election returns from his brother's tavern in St. Louis on November 3, he began to sense a major GOP shakeup. "The disappointing Indiana and Kentucky results came in, and then we didn't win open seats in the South," he says. "By about ten o'clock, I ...
Altered States: Democrats come roaring back in the states.(Democrats gains back both houses of the Washington state legislature and recaptured the house in North Carolina in the 1998 national elections)
Dec 07, 1998; ... RALEIGH, N.C.-After Election Day 1994, the big news wasn't just a GOP takeover of Congress. At the grassroots, the story was the coming parity between Democrats and Republicans in state capitals. Two states, separated by thousands of miles and very different political traditions, typified ...
Histrionics: Where's the history in the historians' statement?(a report published by 400 professional historians about the impeachment inquiry is published)(Abstract)
Dec 07, 1998; ... WHEN word came that four hundred professional historians had published a "Statement" about the impeachment inquiry, few expected it to back Ken Starr and Henry Hyde. It had been orchestrated, after all, by Kennedy court intellectual and Democrat for all seasons Arthur Schlesinger Jr ....
Founding Principles: White House spin aside, America was built on virtue.(discussion of the country's founding fathers consideration of perjury issues)(Abstract)
Dec 07, 1998; ... WE know what Congress wants to do about impeachment. Democrats, who have defended President Clinton in every investigation, from Whitewater to campaign finance, will do it again, while the demoralized Republicans wish the whole thing would go away, before they do. History has ...
Forbes ASAP: The last election underscores the need for a presidential candidate with ideas. But are ideas enough?(Steve Forbes)
Dec 07, 1998; ... AS a breed, the once and future presidential candidate does not, in general, place his own phone calls. Steve Forbes still does. I took a message from him last year for a colleague: "Can you please tell her that Steve Forbes returned her call? F-O-R-B-E-S." Forbes's charm when he entered ...
Growth Cut: It's not the Fed that holds the key to growth.(economic growth needs tax and regulation cuts)
Dec 07, 1998; ... WITH the U.S. economy shifting into lower gear, all eyes in Washington and on Wall Street are riveted on the Fed. The prevailing view in both the financial and policymaking worlds is that Alan Greenspan has nearly unilateral power to pump enough antibiotics into the economy to prevent the ...
Surprise, Surprise: When it comes to ballistic-missile proliferation, expect the worst.
Dec 07, 1998; ... IN August, North Korea fired a three-stage rocket, the Taepodong-1 ballistic missile, over Japan. Many experts were skeptical that the TD- 1 could fly at all. And it had been the conventional wisdom that multiple stages and systems integration were too complex for countries such as North ...
All American? Conservatism needs to become more thoroughly American.
Dec 07, 1998; ... CONSERVATIVES have a ready explanation for the disappointing election: it's the Republicans' fault. The Republican Party could hardly have run a more issueless campaign, and even those Republicans who had some issues and stuck to them seemed hard-pressed to say why. The diagnosis, in other ...
Comeback Kid?(Newt Gingrich)(Brief Article)
Dec 07, 1998; ... THE November 16th Time magazine cover photo of Newt Gingrich- clearly produced in the first moments after he announced his resignation-is a portrait of someone both very somber and very sad. Now, Newt is by nature and habit neither of those things, neither sad nor somber, and looking at ...
LETTER FROM AL.(satire on Vice-Pres. Gore)(Brief Article)
Dec 07, 1998 ... The Vice President Washington November 15, 1998 Dear Rusty, The worst thing about politics, Rusty, is that it can drive two people apart. For the weeks leading up to the election, Tipper and I were kind of like two of those big glaciers up north. Only in ...
Tragic Justice.(Review)
Dec 07, 1998; ... Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary, by Juan Williams (Times Books, 480 pp., $27.50) THIS book recounts one of the saddest tales of a Supreme Court Justice ever told. Thurgood Marshall emerged from modest circumstances to lead a crusade against racial discrimination, ...
Pod People.(Review)
Dec 07, 1998; ... An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future, by Robert D. Kaplan (Random House, 393 pp., $27.50) ASKED by an Oregon basket-weaver what the book he was researching was about, Robert D. Kaplan replied that it had to do with the question of whether Americans will be moved a ...
Gay Narcissus.(Review)
Dec 07, 1998; ... Love Undetectable, by Andrew Sullivan (Knopf, 265 pp., $23) ANDREW SULLIVAN has become so central to any discussion of gay politics in America that one rarely comes across such a discussion without hearing his name or seeing his talking head. During his stint as editor of The ...
By the Numbers.
Dec 07, 1998; ... The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth, by Paul Hoffman (Hyperion, 306 pp., $22.95) My Brain Is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos, by Bruce Schechter (Simon & Schuster, 226 pp., $25) A Beautiful Mind: ...
Two for the Road.(Review)
Dec 07, 1998; ... A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton, by Mary S. Lovell (Norton, 736 pp., $35) IT is not often that a book comes along which inspires a serious reconsideration of all that had previously been written on its subject. But A Rage to Live is just such a book-and ...
(Un)common Sense.(Review)
Dec 07, 1998; ... Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays, by Susan Haack (Chicago, 212 pp., $17.95) THE estrangement in this country between the world of affairs and action and the academic world strikes a foreign academic person as very marked, even if like Susan Haack and this ...
No Phony.(Jackson Pollock, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York)(Brief Article)
Dec 07, 1998; ... JUST before flinging a table at a luckless photographer, the perennially inebriated Jackson Pollock started shouting, "I am not a phony! I am not a phony!" Indeed, he wasn't. Still, neither in his lifetime nor subsequently could he quite succeed in putting to rest the lingering doubts of a ...
Food & Drink: Mug's Game.(cultural influence of Starbucks Corp.)(Brief Article)
Dec 07, 1998; ... 'OHHH," Monica e-mailed her friend (no, not that one), "how i long for the time when we can just spend a day together . . . starting w/ coffee at Starbucks . . ." Starbucks. It's where an intern bought a mug to give a President, and it's where Nicole Simpson first met Ron Goldman. I go ...
Sexual Orientation and Human Rights in American Religious Discourse, edited by Saul M. Olyan and Martha Nussbaum (Oxford, 260 pp., $29.95).(Review)(Brief Article)
Dec 07, 1998; ... THE editors of this volume fear that "reasoned debate" about homosexuality is imperiled. Indeed Martha Nussbaum in her introduction reports that she was "surprised" to "discover" that she could engage in such debate with religious thinkers who take a less permissive view than she in the ...
ON THE RIGHT.(federal aid to states; Thomas Jefferson; investigation of Pres. Clinton)(Column)
Dec 07, 1998; ... Strains in Democratic Practice NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 16 THE news and related developments flowed up in midweek in ghastly non- recognition of each other. But that is becoming habitual in the matter of federal aid to the states. The headline on Friday was "congress ...
THE MISANTHROPE'S CORNER.(political forecasting and 1998 elections)(Brief Article)(Column)
Dec 07, 1998; ... IAM one of the .07 per cent of pundits who predicted the November elections correctly. Other practitioners of the beige arts confidently opined that the GOP would pick up anywhere from seven to 15 seats, but I said they would lose seats and that the Democrats might even take back the ...
Anne Frank: Melissa Muller (Henry Holt,).(Review)
Dec 07, 1998; ... JUST when you thought the world had heard all it needed to know about the adolescent musings of the Holocaust most famous victim, Melissa Muller offers a gripping documentary account of her fate, including new information. Forget the pubescent prose of Anne Frank's rages and her bumbling ...
Letter from Al.(political humor)(Brief Article)
Dec 21, 1998 ... The Vice President Washington December 1, 1998 Dear Janet, Can I tell you without sounding like a complete suck-up how courageous and thoughtful I think you are? To have stood up to all of those employees, to the head of the FBI (who was never ...
The Jewish Question.(Review)
Dec 21, 1998; ... Mr. DiIulio, a professor at Princeton University and a frequent contributor to NR, directs The Jeremiah Project at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. The Lord Will Gather Me In: My Journey to Jewish Orthodoxy, by David Klinghoffer (Free Press, 272 pp., $24) ...
A Book for All Readers.(Review)
Dec 21, 1998; ... The Life of Thomas More, by Peter Ackroyd (Doubleday, 447 pp., $30) ERASMUS addressed him as mellitissime Thoma and famously proclaimed that his sweetest Thomas was omnium horarum-a man for all seasons, whose affability remained constant through fair weather and foul. It's true ...
Fighting Words.(Review)
Dec 21, 1998; ... Gen. Bunting has been superintendent of Virginia Military Institute since 1995. The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster, 400 pp., $20) FOR whom is serious history written? The American academy has long ...
Apocalypse Soon.(Review)
Dec 21, 1998; ... Mr. Scully is an NR contributing editor. Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days, by Tim F. LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (Tyndale, 468 pp., $19.99) Tribulation Force: The Continuing Drama of Those Left Behind, by Tim F. LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (Tyndale, 450 ...
The Meaning of Madness.(Review)
Dec 21, 1998; ... The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, by Simon Winchester (HarperCollins, 242 pp., $22) AT first glance, a hard-driving journalist and traveler to dangerous places would not seem the obvious person to write ...
MUSIC: Frankophilia.(academic conference on Frank Sinatra at Hofstra University)(Brief Article)
Dec 21, 1998; ... Everyone should have at least one Frank Sinatra story; mine involves a seventy-year-old former member of the Soviet Politburo. One morning when I was in college, not long after the USSR crumbled, my Residential Advisor informed me that a certain Yegor Ligachev was visiting the campus and ...
CITY DESK: Gentle Souls.(New Age beliefs)(Brief Article)
Dec 21, 1998; ... NEW YORKERS are people on the move. When we travel, the down tempo of our countrymen astonishes and enrages us. Stuck behind the revenants clogging the aisles of 7-Elevens in Ohio or Texas, we wonder helplessly, "Don't they have anything else they have to do today?" Visitors here are ...
FILM: Down the Tube.
Dec 21, 1998; ... THE twins David and Jennifer, living in a broken home with their unhappy mother, console themselves: she by becoming the high-school slut, he by immersing himself in reruns of an idyllic Fifties black-and-white family television show, Pleasantville. An elderly television repairman arrives ...
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Killer Doc.('60 Minutes' broadcasts tape of Jack Kevorkian providing euthanasia to man with Lou Gehrig's disease )(Brief Article)
Dec 21, 1998 ... NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 24 DR. Kevorkian is gleeful about his role in life and death. Up until this last time around, he would rig things so that the person at death's door would himself/herself finally activate the killing agent. But in the matter of Thomas Youk, Kevorkian provided ...
In Reading the Fine Print.(voting patterns evident in exit polls for Nov. 1998 elections)(Brief Article)
Dec 21, 1998 ... NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 10 COURTESY of the New York Times we are given the results recorded by the Voters News Service. Their findings are based on questionnaires completed by just over ten thousand voters leaving 250 polling places around the country on Election Day. The survey ...
Gephardt-Proof Tax Reform?(Republican Party should support tax credits for charitable contributions)(Brief Article)
Dec 21, 1998 ... NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 13 EVERYONE (who cares) is focusing on the upcoming Republican leadership's convention, at which the new Speaker will be named and, it is hoped, the credenda for the 1999-2000 GOP will be given. A survey of individual Republicans' views reminds us how marked ...
The Misanthrope's Corner.(humorous commentary on Thomas Jefferson and race relations)(Brief Article)(Column)
Dec 21, 1998; ... Miss King can be reached at P. O. Box 7113, Fredericksburg, Va. 22404. AS soon as the Jefferson DNA story broke I got numerous calls from editors asking me to write about it. I declined for my usual reason-my first duty is to this column-but in truth I didn't really want to ...
Rear Windows: The software market is changing faster than the Clinton Administration can regulate it.(antitrust law does not apply)
Dec 21, 1998; ... Mr. Reynolds is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and senior editor of the Institute's journal, American Outlook (www.hudson.org). This article is adapted from a study prepared for the National Center for Policy Analysis. WHEN the Federal Trade Commission first began ...
Letters to the Editor.
Dec 21, 1998 ... American Psycho Richard Brookhiser's elegant, highly sophisticated piece about the Freud exhibition at the Library of Congress ["The Final Analysis," Nov. 23] deserves a word or two from a modern, practicing psychoanalyst. As Mr. Brookhiser suggests, Freud was never interested ...
For the Record.
Dec 21, 1998 ... n Following criticism of race initiative by American Indian leaders, President Clinton claims he is one-sixteenth Cherokee. White House can't locate ancestor's name, however, and Cherokee Heritage Center genealogist Tom Mooney tells U.S. News & World Report, "If you lived in Arkansas . . ....
The Week.
Dec 21, 1998 ... n A sculptor named Mihail has created a life-size, anatomically correct elephant for the United Nations. There is sentiment for a gelded version, modeled no doubt on the Republican Party. n Kenneth Starr's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee was calm, clear, and ...
Bush's League: How George W. Bush Woos the Right.
Dec 21, 1998; ... THE night after the election, William Bennett recommended on Larry King Live that "everybody in the Republican Party" talk to the Bush brothers, whose success running for governor in Texas and Florida stood out on an otherwise dismal day for Republicans. Watching from his home outside ...
Minority Party: Minority outreach is not the answer for the GOP.(Republican Party and minority voters)
Dec 21, 1998; ... AFTER the campaign comes the campaign to define its meaning. The party would have done better, says the advice-giver, if it had been more . . . like the advice-giver. Since the GOP was disappointed this time out, it has fallen to its factions to enact this dance. But while they disagree on ...
Greenbacks: Businesses see profits in the Kyoto treaty.
Dec 21, 1998; ... Mr. Adler is senior director of environmental policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and editor of The Costs of Kyoto (CEI, 1997). WHEN some businesses consider the UN global-warming treaty, known as the Kyoto Protocol, and what it would mean for them if adopted by the ...
Black Russians: The mob makes a bid to rule Russia.(Russian politician Galina Starovoitova assassinated for opposing organized crime)(Brief Article)
Dec 21, 1998; ... Mr. Satter, the author of Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union (Knopf), is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. THE murder of a Russian politician, Galina Starovoitova, ...
Low Class: How progressive education hurts the poor and minorities.
Dec 21, 1998; ... Mr. Nadler is editor of K.C. Jones Monthly, a Midwestern journal of opinion. Kansas City, Mo. IN 1996, Kansas City had its first shot at school reform in years. The school-board elections were swept by a coalition of black, white, and Hispanic activists who shared a ...
Thin Red Line: A taxpayer-funded insurance breakdown.(government-funded activists use of anti-discrimination laws to mandate racial preferences by private companies)(Brief Article)
Dec 21, 1998; ... Mr. Detlefsen is director of insurance reform at Citizens for a Sound Economy in Washington, D.C. FEW tears were shed last month when a jury ordered Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company to pay more than $100 million in damages for discriminating against black homeowners in ...
Pointless: College basketball players throw the game. So what?(college basketball players should not face criminal penalties for shaving points)(Brief Article)
Dec 21, 1998; ... Mr. Moore is director of fiscal policy studies at the Cato Institute and an NR contributing editor. ON November 23, two former Northwestern basketball players, Kenneth Dion Lee and Dewey Williams, were convicted of sports bribery for fixing three games during the 1995 season ....
The Perils of Peace: The peace process may really be advancing the cause of war-a personal report.(diary of a grandfather's trip to Israel)
Dec 21, 1998; ... Mr. Podhoretz is editor-at-large of Commentary and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. His new book, Ex-Friends, will be published in February by The Free Press. EN ROUTE, October 26, 1998 The older I get, the harder I find air travel to take, especially to ...
Gun Shy: Cities turn from regulation to litigation in their campaign against guns.(product liability suits in Chicago and New Orleans)
Dec 21, 1998; ... Mr. Lott, the John M. Olin Law and Economics fellow at the University of Chicago School of Law, is the author of More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws (University of Chicago Press). THE state attorneys general and trial lawyers behind the recently ...
For The Record.
Dec 31, 1998 ... * Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D., Calif.) on House impeachment vote: "This would put our economy in the tank, it could destabilize the entire world." . . . Abe Hirschfeld, New York parking-lot mogul who offered to pay Paula Jones $1 million to settle her lawsuit against Clinton, arrested for alleged ...
The Week.
Dec 31, 1998 ... * "If [Arkansas representative] Jay Dickey votes to impeach the President, it's probably an indication he will not run for re-election in 2000," said a White House source. "It's suicide-we will make sure it is." In Arkansas, that's a death threat. Ed.'s Note: This issue of ...
Private Dreams.(Social Security privatization unlikely)
Dec 31, 1998; ... President Clinton privatize Social Security? Dream on. SAID President Clinton on December 8, as he kicked off a two-day White House conference on Social Security, "America faces no more important challenge than the need to save Social Security. Our ears and our minds ...
New Team.(Will Hoffa the Son move labor to the center? )
Dec 31, 1998; ... Will Hoffa the Son move labor to the center? Mr. Puddington is a vice president at Freedom House. THE day after he became president of the Teamsters, James P. Hoffa-son of the legendary Jimmy Hoffa-was asked on Meet the Press about his relations with the AFL-CIO ...
Bad Imitation.(Oliver Stone movie finds murderous admirers: 'Natural Born Killers')
Dec 31, 1998; ... An Oliver Stone movie finds murderous admirers. Mr. Schweizer is a media fellow at the Hoover Institution and co-author of Disney: The Mouse Betrayed (Regnery). ON the night of March 5, 1995, two teenagers, Sarah Edmondson and Ben Darrus, spent the night together in a ...
Goodwill Hunting.(How to think about hunting)(Brief Article)
Dec 31, 1998; ... How to think about hunting. Mr. Kimball is managing editor of The New Criterion. IAM not myself a hunter. I've often considered taking it up, though, on grounds that anything that so irritates the politically correct must have something going for it. But ...
The Partisans.(Judiciary Committee Republicans defy bipartisanship and make history)
Dec 31, 1998; ... Judiciary Committee Republicans defy bipartisanship and make history. A SMALL part of the sky over Antarctica, New York Democrat Charles Schumer explained during the House impeachment hearings, is pink. Schumer, with a gravelly Brooklyn accent and reading glasses that he ...
Moderate Ambitions.(GOP moderates were in the spotlight on impeachment. Get used to it. )(Brief Article)
Dec 31, 1998; ... GOP moderates were in the spotlight on impeachment. Get used to it. IN the days leading up to the historic floor vote on impeachment, Republican staffers estimated that about twenty GOP congressmen were truly undecided. Some published lists of fence-sitters doubled that ...
Femme Fatale.(Is the softening of American culture ruining our politics?)
Dec 31, 1998; ... Is the softening of American culture ruining our politics? THE House votes on whether to impeach the President, and the nation yawns. According to the polls, the American people are sick unto death of the Lewinsky scandal. They would much rather talk about the important issues. ...
Watergate Babies.(Veterans of Watergate think no scandal measures up to their own)
Dec 31, 1998; ... Veterans of Watergate think no scandal measures up to their own. JOHN Dean remembers when the Republic teetered on a precipice, with night falling all around. "There was a sense of fear in the air," he recently told the Washington Post. "It really sent a shudder" through the ...
Neuroscience and the Human Spirit.
Dec 31, 1998; ... Explanations of man's behavior advance, but science doesn't and can't have all the answers. Mr. Bennett is the author, most recently, of The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals (Free Press). This article is adapted from a speech to a conference of ...
The Dangerous Korea.(North Korea)
Dec 31, 1998; ... The current North Korean regime guarantees crisis after crisis. Nicholas Eberstadt is a researcher at the American Enterprise Institute and Harvard University. His many books include the forthcoming End of North Korea (AEI). ONCE again, the "Democratic People's ...
It Says Here . . .(Christmas with ten children and two parents)(short story)
Dec 31, 1998; ... Christmas with ten children and two parents. A Christmas story by the late Aloise Buckley Heath is an NR tradition. The collection Will Mrs. Major Go to Hell?, in which this and Mrs. Heath's other Christmas stories appear, is available from National Review Books. YOU ...