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Character and culture.
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Public Interest
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March 22, 2005
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IN The Public Interest's twentieth anniversary issue, an essay appeared suggesting that Americans were increasingly concerned about the question of character. After many years of worrying about economic cycles, industrial management, and the negative income tax, we were beginning to be troubled by problems that seemed to arise out of a failure of character: poor school achievement, rising welfare rolls, a tolerance for deficits, and predatory crime.
I think it is time to take account of what has happened about these matters in the last 20 years. Since I wrote that article, I take some personal responsibility for reckoning up the score. We have done pretty well in some ...
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