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January 1997 Issue - 53 Articles- Bird's Eye, pp. 4-7
Headless Conservatism Attacks Bottomless Problems.
- Sidelights, p. 8
Fish-Cheek Fillets. The Values Gap. Manipulating Moral Issues. Parfum de G+T.
- Scan, pp. 9-17
Irish Potato Quotas. Three-Foot-Tall Harassers. Janitors for School Choice. What's in Y...
- Indicators: Numbers Etc., pp. 18-20
Entitlements Are Exploding. Personalized Social Security Is Popular.
- Two Views, pp. 21-23
Medicare Needs Rescuing. Here Are Two Very Different Ideas on How to Do That.
- "Live" with TAE, pp. 24-27
Cabinet Heavyweight Caspar Weinberger on What Government Should and Shouldn't Do.
- The '96 Election: Freedom vs. Entitlements
Harvey Mansfield and Arianna Huffington
, pp. 28-31 Uncontrollable Government Is Not Self-Government
Real Political Reform
- Institute Single-Sex Voting
Kate O'Beirne
, p. 32 - Allow Only Homegrown Money...
Bill Kauffman
, p. 32 - ...or Get Rid of All Money Limits
Steve Hayward
, p. 33 - Increase the House to 2,000 Members
Eugene McCarthy
, p. 34 - Send the Supremes to Kansas...
Robert P. George
, p. 34 - ...And Let Congress Curb Their Excesses
Robert Bork
, p. 34 - Give Businessmen the Same Privileges as Union-Bosses
Kenneth R. Weinstein
, p. 34 - Repeal the Two-Term Limit
Peter Augustine Lawler
, p. 35 - Bust Ghost-Writers
Allan Carlson
, p. 35 - Change the Election Calendar
Michael Barone
, p. 35 - Make Voting Harder, Not Easier
Arianna Huffington
, p. 36 - Keep Whippersnappers Out of Office
Mark Steyn
, p. 36 - Race Quotas Just Died. What Comes Next?
Michael Barone and Dinesh D'Souza
, pp. 37-40 The Death Knell for Racial Quotas Was Sounded in 1996 - At the Polls and in Court. How ...
Social Security Doesn't Work Any More
- --- by James L. Payne, p. 41
- Fixing Old-Age Entitlements Is the Task of the Day
Robert J. Samuelson
, p. 42 - Social Security Imbalances Could Wreck the U.S. Economy
William Modahl
, p. 43 - Entitlements Are Corroding Personal Responsibility
Blake Hurst
, p. 44 There Is an Alternative
- Creating a New Kind of Social Security
Carolyn L. Weaver
, pp. 45-48 - Will "Wired Workers" Lead a Push for Privatization
Joel Kotkin
, p. 49 - Could Individual Retirement Accounts Be Part of a New Wave of American Self-Reliance
Karlyn Bowman
, p. 50 Personal Savings Accounts Would Be Good for Everyday Workers
- --- by David R. Henderson, p. 51
- Is Saving Privately for Retirement Safe?
Stephen J. Entin
, p. 52 - Why "Little People" Need Personal Savings Accounts
Sam Beard
, p. 53 - Social Security as a Property Right
Malcolm Wallop
, p. 54 - Personal Savings Accounts Would Invigorate the Economy and Strengthen Families
Bruce Bartlett
, pp. 54-55 - How Much Does Social Security Really Cost?
James L. Payne
, pp. 56-57 - Personal Savings Accounts Would Strengthen Families
Allan Carlson
, p. 58 - Social Security Needs a Bypass. Will Our Politicians Allow It?
James K. Glassman
, pp. 59-60 - When Government Pits Old Against Youth
Blake Hurst
, pp. 61-62 - Why "Conservative" Entitlement Reforms Are Coming, Like It or Not
Karl Zinsmeister
, pp. 63-64 - Welfare Reform, Stage Two
Amy L. Sherman
, pp. 65-69 Mainline Churches Need to Stop Resisting Welfare Reform and Pitch in to Help Make It Work.
- Now Pot Time Limits on Public Housing
Howard Husock
, pp. 70-72 Public Housing Programs Need the Same Kinds of Fixes Welfare Programs Are Receiving.
- Transcript: Words Worth Repeating
Michael Barone
, p. 73 Unions Are Doomed by Their Disdain of Markets and Romance for Big Government.
In Real Life: The Daily Work of Americans
- The Great Depression Principles He Grew Up with.
John Phipps
, p. 74 - What Drives a Cop Crazy.
Raymond Wisher
, p. 75
- Enterprising: Business as an Imaginative Act
Daniel E. Troy
, pp. 76-77 The Threat of Clinton's Second Term Is Regulation, Not Legislation.
- The Economist
Clint Bolick
, pp. 78-79 The Dirty Little Secrets, Past and Present, of the Davis-Bacon Act.
- Flashback, p. 80
Old Senator Wadsworth Knew Just How Social Security Would End.
Book Talk
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A Not So Civil War (Review) Alan Pell Crawford
, p. 81 Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men, by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
- Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
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I Am Somebody---Right? (Review) Ernest W. Lefever
, p. 81 Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson, by Marshall Frady
- Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson by Marshall Frady
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American, Help Thyself (Review) Gwen J. Broude
, p. 82 Self-Reliance and the Accountable Life, by Nathaniel Branden
- Self-Reliance and the Accountable Life by Nathaniel Branden
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Is Evil a German Trait? (Review) Paul Gottfried
, p. 83 Hitler's Willing Executioners, by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
- Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
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Grain of Truth (Review) Nick Gillespie
, p. 84 In the American Grain, by William Carlos Williams
- In the American Grain by William Carlos Williams
- The Digest: Summaries of Important Research, pp. 85-88
Tomorrow's Wars...Grandpa Spends Too Much...Wolf Stories.
- Opinion Pulse: The Latest Survey Data, pp. 89-94
Social Security Insecurity. Physician-Assisted Suicide. Election '96.
- The Mail, pp. 95-98
What Runaway College Tuition? With Zoning, Houston Would Be Minneapolis. Exiled from Ne...