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AuthorBeard, Patricia
AuthorBeattie, Ann
AuthorBeatty, Jack
AuthorBecker, Brenda L.
AuthorBeckmann, Petr
AuthorBefllell, Tom
AuthorBehe, Michael J.
AuthorBeichman, Arnold
AuthorBeichxnan, Arnold
AuthorBelin, David W.
AuthorBell, Daniel
AuthorBell, Derrick
AuthorBell, Jeffrey
AuthorBelli, Humberto
AuthorBello, Saul
AuthorBellow, Saul
AuthorBelsky, Dick
AuthorBelthell, Torn
AuthorBelz, Herman
AuthorBemell, Tom
AuthorBendix, Reinhard
AuthorBenfey, Christopher
AuthorBenjamin, Daniel K.
AuthorBennett, James
AuthorBennett, Ralph Kinney
AuthorBennett, William J.
AuthorBennigsen, Alexandre
AuthorBenston, Kim
AuthorBerendt, John
AuthorBerg, A. Scott
AuthorBerger, Peter
AuthorBerger, Peter L.
AuthorBerger, Raoul
AuthorBergman, Ingmar
AuthorBergmann, Barbara R.
AuthorBergreen, Laurence
AuthorBering-Jensen, Henrik
AuthorBerkhofer, Robert F. Jr.
AuthorBerkis, Dr. Alexander V.
AuthorBerlau, John
AuthorBerlin, Isaiah
AuthorBerlinski, David
AuthorBERMAN, ILAN
AuthorBerman, Paul
AuthorBerman, Ronald
AuthorBerns, Laurence
AuthorBerns, Walter
AuthorBernstein, Carl
AuthorBernstein, Jonas
AuthorBernstein, Mark F.
AuthorBernstein, Paul
AuthorBernstein, Richard
AuthorBernstein, Robert
AuthorBerry, Kevin
AuthorBerry, Mary Frances
AuthorBerry, Wendell
AuthorBersnak, Bracy
AuthorBertram, Scot
AuthorBeschloss, Michael
AuthorBeschloss, Michael R.
AuthorBeston, Paul
AuthorBethel!, Tom
AuthorBethel, Tom
AuthorBethell, Tom
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CAPITOL I D E S TOM BETHELL The Economist HEN I CAME TO WASHINGTON, in 1975, the first wave of the so-called energy crisis was underway. I was at an advantage compared to most people because...
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VOLUTION STIRS UP GREAT PASSIONS, as I 1_11 have found over the years. Something those might only lgyea it tpeople er na alternatives, vexcited.es I h A basic is at stake, so it's not...
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CAPITOL IDEAS TOM BETHELL The Human Genome Project: Another God That Failed OR YEARS, THE HYPE surrounding genetic engineering and gene therapy knew no bounds. With the Human Genome...
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TOM BETHELL been living through "a dark age of theoretical physics." The underlying problem is that scientists, professors, editors, journalists—the intellectual classes, in short—are...
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CAPITOL IDEAS TOM BETHELL Democracy: A Little Goes a Long Way HE PROBLEM WITH DEMOCRACY iS that we only hear the good news. Criticism is taboo. It's as though any discussion of its drawbacks...
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CAPITOL IDEAS TOM BETHEL!. The AIDS Scandal That Never Quits NTHONY FAUCI has directed the Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases almost since AIDS began. It is a part of the...
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S ince corning to Washington in 1975, I recall one truly pungent remark by a Republican leader. Rep. Newt Gingrich was its author—a decade before he became House Speaker. He said that Sen. Bob Dole...
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CAPITOL IDEAS By Tom Bethell "It's the Bishops' Problem" Recently, Senator Santorum of Pennsylvania reiterated the teaching of the Catholic Church on homosexuality. He used a slippery-slope...
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attended an education confer/ ence in Washington the other day, and something unusual happened. It is not easy to notice when the watchdogs don't bark, but this time they surely didn't. The...
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In 1949, Evelyn Waugh wrote an article for Life magazine entitled "The American Epoch in the Catholic Church:' Catholicism was an "essential part" of the American spirit, he wrote, and America was...
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"Why Government Can't Do Science" CAPITOL IDEAS By Tom Bethel/ Why Government Can't Do Science Two comments on the midterm elections—the good news and the bad. It does seem that something has changed. That's good. The bad news is...
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"Capitol Ideas" By Tom Bethell Celebrating My 40th Anniversary I write on August 28, which is the 40th anniversary of my arrival in these United States. It is a date I am always conscious of. The...
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"Cancer Crusader" Bruce Ames Has Some Answers BY TOM BETHELL Bruce Ames was in Washington recently, speaking to a small group invited by the George C. Marshall Institute. His subject was...
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"With Enough Shovels" With Enough Shovels Nuclear terrorism isn't funny. Neither are fallout shelters. BY TOM BETHELL 0nce in my life, I openly crossed the gulf that is supposed to separate the reporter and his...
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"We're Not Very Good at Politics" Even free drugs can't buy Big Pharma love Even though I have promised him anonymity, communications are spotty, guarded, and interrupted. He's in the air, or on...
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A Map to Nowhere THE GENOME ISN'T A CODE AND WE CAN'T READ IT BY TOM BETHELL he principal actors had appeared in the White House last June—Francis Collins of the National Human Genome Research...
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In the summer of 1977, Scott R. King had just graduated from the University of Chicago when he took a trip down the Mississippi Valley to visit a friend in Louisiana. On the journey south by car,...
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Independ atthew Robinson, 13, has a Colt .45 strapped to his waist as he practices the piano in the living room. He lives on a 350-acre farm in southern Oregon, with his brothers and sisters,...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas (February 2001)
by Tom Bethell The Bush Clan's Return Will President George W. be more than his father's son? We welcomed a Bush presidency 12 years ago, and we do so even more today. Any doubts we...
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by Tom Bethell ~ have years--every written this issue column of the for magazine-- the last 2t true. education The relative an}.way. advantage But that of is...
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losophy. But they do not have the right to teach it as though it were science. In science, all theories--including Darwinian evo- lution- must be tested against the evidence. Since Gould knows...
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[ , 4 r • ~ INII u N I i l l ~ i . I :NNP'• by Tom Bethell Bay Area, Abridged Life is more difficult when no-growthers get their way. T he economy of the San Francisco Bay Area has been...
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[ ' l f : B | _9 l o l l - - _9 ' ! ;W_~I,_ by Torn Bethell Politics as Sideshow Markets and interests impose their own gridlock. S omehow it's hard to get excited. I watched the conventions,...
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~AP ITO L I D EA~ by Tom Bethell Boastful Genome Science Journalists decline to play an adversary role. A t the time of the White House announcement about the human genome, we were reminded...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Genes or Chromosomes? (July 2000)
~ AP / T 0 L I D E A by Torn Bethell Genes or Chromosomes? Searching anew for the origins of cancer. p eter Duesberg of U.C. Berkeley has recently pointed out that virtually all solid...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: What's Duesberg Up To? Rediscovering the Cause of Cancer (June 2000)
by Tom Bethell What's Duesberg Up To? Rediscovering the cause of cancer. p eter Ducsberg was packing dusty papers into boxes when I saw him. He was being moved from his lab on the 5th floor of...
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by Tom Bethell Back to the Future Does more efficiency mean smaller profits? I remember, around 197o, wondering what the year zooo would be like and whether I would still be here. When you do...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Inventing An Epidemic (April 2000)
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Inventing An Epidemic H ype about AIDS in Africa has reached new heights. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Vice President Al Gore (at the U.N. Security...
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by Tom Bethell The Frenzy of Politics McCain wins Strange New Respect Award of Century. T he Bradley-Gore rivalry has unintentionally drawn attention to the sorry mess that is...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Raising McCain (February 2000)
by Tom Bethell Raising McCain Why all the liberal interest in a "conservative"? A few words on the news media's incessant doting on John McCain. George Will called it the "third great love...
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CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell The Evolution Wars T he conference "Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe," sponsored by the Wethersfield Institute, was held at the great hall of Cooper...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: The Age of Consent (October 1999)
,CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell The Age of Consent I s America moving in a more conservative, or a more liberal direction? Lee Edwards, the author of biographies of Ronald Reagan and Barry...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Rip Van Winkle in England (September 1999)
CAPITOL IDEA S1 by Tom Bethell Rip Van Winkle in England Even the cricket isn't what it used to be. I n an interview with an English journalist, Bob Woodward of the Washington Post recently...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: The Prophet of Profits (August 1999)
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell The Prophet of Profits W hat's George Gilder up to these days? He used to write about feminism, marriage, and tax cuts. He's still interested in those things but now...
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CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Liberals Go to War The quintessential liberal Eleanor Clift complained the other day about "all this whining about civilians being hurt." You thought there was...
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CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Freedom and Its Enemies ichard Pipes, a professor of history at R Harvard, has written many books on Russia and is perhaps the preeminent historian of the Bolshevik...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Shots in the Dark (May 1999)
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Shots in the Dark „ yla Rose Belkin was a lively, alert five-week-old baby when I last held her in my arms,” said her father, Michael Belkin, a financial analyst in...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Rethinking Relativity (April 1999)
CAPITQIt I A by Tom Bethell Rethinking Relativity N o one has paid attention yet, but a well-respected physics journal just published an article whose conclusion, if generally accepted, will...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: The Hum of Hate (March 1999)
CAP TOL I DEAS by Tom Bethell The Hum of Hate The progressive Hive has a new queen. R eaders who go way back may recall an earlier column (Capitol Ideas, February 1981) in which the bee hive was...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Hustler (February 1999)
APITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Hustler T wo weeks after the election, a vote in the House of Representatives to impeach the president seemed most unlikely. But something unusual happened, something...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas (January 1999)
CAP TOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Dynamic Scoring W hen news came in 1994 that the GOP had taken control of the House for the first time in decades, Jude Wanniski of Polyconomics thought, even before...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Jim Garrison's Great Escape (December 1998)
This is the background image for an unknown creator of an OCR page with image plus hidden text. pictures in the newspaper, placed symmetrically on the front page, both of them smoking pipes!...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Losing One's Soul (November 1998)
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Losing One's Soul T he one time I met the Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich, about ten years ago, I suggested that if he really wanted to get world population down, he...
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CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell The Ex-Gay Movement In July, full-page ads were taken out in national newspapers, proclaiming that homosexuals can change. The San Francisco Chronicle, alone among...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Controversy in Shadowlands (September 1998)
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Controversy in Shadowlands T he C.S. Lewis centenary approaches. Born in November 1898, he famously died on the same day as John F. Kennedy (and Aldous Huxley). Lewis...
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CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Hot Property T he book that I have been working on for years should now be available, although the official date is early August. It's about property, broadly...
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CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell The Hazards of Charity V cry often, rich people give money to causes that are already being funded by governments. I suppose the idea is that no one will come along...
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CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Falling on the Ball F ailing on the ball in the hope of running out the clock often has disastrous consequences in football, and we are seeing the same thing in...
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CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell California at the Polls C alifornia illustrates the trend unintentionally set by campaign finance reform: More and more self-financed multimillionaires are running...
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CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell A Heinous Procedure T he writer Jack Hitt described a partial-birth abortion in a recent New York Times Magazine: He pulled firmly. A back appeared, then with the...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Unpatriotic Gore (March 1998)
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Unpatriotic Gore As I write, Hurricane Monica is erupting, and it is difficult to predict the state of the Clinton White House a month from now. There's just one...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Leading the Fanatics (February 1998)
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Leading the Fanatics W ithout embarrassment, Vice President Al Gore went to the climate-change meeting in Kyoto, Japan, and said that "we have reached a fundamentally...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas (January 1998)
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Whose Country Is It? I spent a week in Jerusalem, and what an extraordinary city it is. My visit was arranged by the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political...
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CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell 1967-1997 T hirty years...I still have my 7th (1967) edition of Paul Samuelson's Economics, the best-selling textbook of its day. The Nobel Prize–winner had a section...
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by Tom Bethell A Different China American critics have this unfortunate blind spot... The changes in China in the last two decades have seen no precedent in the twentieth century. It is as though...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Conspiracy Talk (October 1997)
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Conspiracy Talk I went to see Conspiracy Theory the other day, hoping that it might shed some light on conspiracy theories. But it turned out to be a love story,...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Two Jeers for Democracy (September 1997)
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Two Jeers for Democracy The inability of elected governments to reduce the level of their spending, not just in Washington but all over the Western world, must at...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: A Conference on Gayness (August 1997)
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell A Conference on Gayness I t's a comment on our times that when a group of academics called the American Public Philosophy Institute sponsored a three-day conference...
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CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Our Meter Maid Military I t was not hard to foresee that the U.S. military would come a cropper after the Cold War. The institutions and service academies were left...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Politics Comes Cheap (June 1997)
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Politics Comes Cheap T he most important item on the Beltway agenda this year is the increased regulation of political speech. An early indicator was the four-part...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Outing Shakespeare (May 1997)
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Outing Shakespeare perhaps the greatest difficulty in discussing the Authorship Question is persuading people that it is serious: Who wrote the plays and poems...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Memorials are Made of This (March 1997)
by Tom Bethell Memorials Are Made of This They're close to completing the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington. It is an exercise that has been going on for so long, inching forward...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Losing the War (February 1997)
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Losing the War L ast month I noted that the left is winning the cultural war. Every year they advance a little, and nothing is ever rolled back. The Brezhnev Doctrine...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: First Things First (January 1997)
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell First Things First F first Things, a New York–based monthly magazine, caused a stir with a recent symposium. Quite an achievement. Normally, such abstractions indulge...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: No Nukes America (December 1996)
"Capitol Ideas: No Nukes America" by Tom Bethell No Nukes America Over a period of several decades, the weapons in the U.S. nuclear arsenal were assembled at the Pantex plant, a few miles northeast of Amarillo,...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Coming to Terms (November 1996)
"Capitol Ideas: Coming to Terms" Coming to Terms As in a second term for the Democratic incumbent....
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Kultursmog Alert (October 1996)
"Capitol Ideas: Kultursmog Alert" by Tom Bethell a science talk show on KGO. With one The policy-making elite wants to drive you off the road. of the largest audiences on the West Coast, he has been a prime...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: A New Beginning (September 1996)
"Capitol Ideas: A New Beginning" A New Beginning Darwin revisionism goes mainstream....
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: The Law of the Land (August 1996)
"Capitol Ideas: The Law of the Land" by Tom Bethell The Law of the Land Rule of law as a precondition of economic growth....
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: He Keeps on Ticking (July 1996)
"Capitol Ideas: He Keeps on Ticking" by Tom Bethell He Keeps on Ticking Ihave been reading Paul Johnson's new book, The Quest for God (Harper-Collins, 288 pages, $25), and trying to think about God myself. As we all...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Roe's Disparate Impact (June 1996)
"Capitol Ideas: Roe's Disparate Impact" by Tom Bethell Roe's Disparate Impact Earlier this year, I went to the Mall for the March for Life. Ever since the Roe v. Wade decision, usurping the legislative power of all fifty...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Sex, Lies, and Kinsey (May 1996)
"Capitol Ideas: Sex, Lies, and Kinsey" by Tom Bethell Sex, Lies, and Kinsey My survey (sample size: three) shows that the younger generation has not heard of the Kinsey report. For college students everywhere, then, I...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: A Flat Tax Is Gonna Come (April 1996)
"Capitol Ideas: A Flat Tax Is Gonna Come" by Tom Bethel' A Flat Tax Is Gonna Come The Communist Manifesto contained a ten-point program thought by Marx and Engels to be suitable for "the most advanced countries." Most of...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Letter From Dead City (March 1996)
"Capitol Ideas: Letter From Dead City" by Tom Bethell Letter From Dead City As we have been kept indoors by the snow, this may be the moment for a letter from the capital. Evidently Marion Barry sold off the city's snow...
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"Capitol Ideas: Dues & Don'ts" by Tom Bethell Dues & Don'ts An apparently minor move on the chess board can sometimes be more aggressive than it looks. There's an opportunity for the Republicans to make just such...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Priests and Conservatives (December 1995)
Priests and Conservatives by Tom Bethell G nosticism is an ancient Christian heresy whose spirit has animated American liberalism for two decades or more. Ecclesiastical feminism is perhaps the...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / The Spending Is Killing Me (November 1995)
The Spending Is Killing Me by Tom Bethell T oday is our budget lesson, I'm afraid, so put on your mortar boards, and class will come to attention. I only hope the editors didn't use the b-word in...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Vote in the Frauds (October 1995)
Vote in the Frauds by Tom Bethell 1 n San Francisco, candidates for public office compete with one another by moving to the left. Who is the most virtuous of them all? Who dares to hit business the...
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Drug Story by Tom Bethell 6 6 hT e news is not good," says the latest edition of National Drug Control Strategy, put out by the White House; 1.1 million people were arrested for drug offenses in...
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How Enviros Kill Endangered Species Species Logic The property rights movement, now consisting of about 1,800 groups across the country, is a decentralized army without a commander-inchief. But...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Turnabout Is Fair Play (July 1995)
Turnabout Is Fair Play by Tom Bethell T he old political blocs, frozen during the Cold War, really are breaking up, as the events following the Oklahoma City bombing showed. In some respects there...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Land Reform Lost Vietnam (June 1995)
Land Reform Lost Vietnam by Tom Bethell When it came, the collapse in Saigon was more sudden than anticipated. President Thieu, it turned out, had very little support among his own people. This...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Aid Affects Everyone (May 1995)
Aid Affects Everyone by Tom Bethell L ouis Menand, who teaches English at the City University of New York (formerly City College), published an interesting defense of professionalism the other day....
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T-Cells and C-Notes by Tom Bethel! A IDS is now as much a government program as a disease. James Scutero, 33, of Manhattan, told me that his benefits for being labeled HIVantibody-positive include:...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Bomber Bonior (March 1995)
Bomber Bonior E ver since computers began retrieving phrases from data banks, intriguingly lopsided statistics have emerged from the media morass. In recent years; for example, the phrase...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Armey's Divisions (February 1995)
Armey's Divisions by Tom Bethel! / nside the Cannon Office Building, the old tenants had left but the newcomers had not yet arrived. The movers were evidently expected at any moment. Cardboard...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Back Back to the Future (January 1995)
Back to the Future by Tom Bethell C an the endless encroachment of government into so many aspects of our lives be turned back? That is the question after the November 8 election. Liberals, who...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Breaking Away (April 1994)
CAPITOL IDEA Breaking Away by Tom Bethell T he Committee for Waco Justice turned out to be a rather pitiful group of no more than fifty people holding candles in Lafayette Square. Some carried...
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Renaissance Weakened by Tom Bethell / don't bother much with the newsweeklies anymore. Jazzy graphics and ever-larger photographs try to disguise their predictable rehash of the conventional...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/ The New Comintern (November 1994)
The New Comintern by Tom Bethell L ast month I noted what a bizarre movement American-style liberalism has become. Since then, the feminist-dominated conference on population in Cairo brings us...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Bearish on California (October 1994)
Bearish on California by Tom Bethell T he old cliché that national trends begin in California and move on to the rest of the country is thought to be no longer true. Probably with good reason....
Paid articleCapitol Ideas I Inflation, Confiscation, and Gold (September 1994)
Inflation, Confiscation, and Gold by Tom Bethell T his month we'll put on our thinking caps and take a look at inflation. Ever since the spring of 1993, when the price of gold began to rise, it has...
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CAPITOL IDEAS Property and Tyranny by Tom Bethell / n the 1980's, Peggy Reigle was vice president of finance for the New York Daily News. But she grew tired of battling printers' and drivers'...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/E-Mail Evolution (July 1994)
E-Mail Evolution by Tom Bethell F rom my window I have been marveling at the miracle of spring, and on my computer I have been following an e-mail discussion of evolution. As to the wonders of...
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Welfare Wizards by Tom Bethell ome may not recall the feverish agitation in the press when Ronald Reagan became president. Every day there was this great whirring of wings, this incessant whine...
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The Tony Awards by Tom Bethell A little noted benefit of liberalism is the privilege of accusation. Without evidence, liberals can impugn the motives of adversaries and dish out accusations of...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (February 1994)
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Tom Bethell S cientific ideas have been shaped by culturally dominant ideas in the past, and in that sense science has always been partly "political." Today,...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / The Gathering Storm (January 1994)
The Gathering Storm by Tom Bethell W hile in England recently I had the opportunity to reflect on a hopeful portent: the increasing rustiness of the welfare state in Western Europe. Sometimes I...
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Exporting Famine by Tom Bethell S everal months ago, the Village Voice carried an unusual story about Somalia on its cover: "The Famine Food Created," by Michael Maren. In October he spoke at the...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas Immigration, Sí; Welfare, No (November 1993)
Immigration, Si; Welfare, No by Tom Bethell hile in San Diego recently, I W took the electric trolley down to the Mexican border, a pleasant ride of about twelve miles, past rectangular...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / The "Client" State (October 1993)
W ithin days of coming out to California, I met three people who said they would like to sell their house but "couldn't afford to." One problem is that if you bought a house in the San Francisco Bay...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / The Poisoned Chalice Revisited (September 1993)
S omehow, I had assumed that wily Democrats would resist swallowing the same medicine they encouraged George Bush to take in 1990. The bottle, of course, is misleadingly labeled Deficit Reduction....
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I reached Petr Beckmann by phone at the Community Hospital in Boulder, Colorado. He sounded very weak. He had an infected kidney, a complication of prostate cancer. He was eager to get back home so...
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p atrick Buchanan has a new organization called the American Cause, whose supporters recently convened at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington. The topic was "Winning the Culture War." Ever since his...
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nowledge is never more askew K than when it has been silently politicized. This is true of a good deal of government-funded science, which can serve political interests in ways that the public,...
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/ t was a little unusual to receive a phone call from Senator Bob Dole's office. Invitation to a breakfast meeting at his office in the Capitol Building, room S230. Hmmm, what could that be all...
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T wo days after the left-wing Game Show Host addressed the Joint Session of Congress, I journeyed to Capitol Hill, in search of Capitol Ideas. I was walking along the central corridor of the...
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Acouple of days before the Inauguration, I went downtown to take a look at America's Reunion on the Mall, a "celebration of America's cultural diversity" that was somehow intended to "unite us." The...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas /A Girls' School in Baltimore (February 1993)
The Laurence G. Paquin High School for Expectant Teenage Mothers is a bleak brick fortress in a desolate section of east Baltimore; a squiggle-painted, cinder-block, boardedup-row-house,...
Paid articleCaptiol Ideas/Geaorgia (Ave.) on My Mind (January 1993)
"Captiol Ideas/Geaorgia (Ave.) on My Mind" A week before the election I had dinner with a group of British journalists. All had recently arrived in the country, all had bought copies of the "Gennifer Flowers" issue of Penthouse at...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/A Major Ultimatum (December 1992)
A Major Ultimatum by Tom Bethel! T he changes in England, since I left in 1962, have probably been as great as the changes here. Recently, I spent a few days in England and made a few notes on what...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/The End Is Nigh (November 1992)
The End Is Nigh As I write, at the end of Septem- ber, the conventional wisdom is that Bill Clinton will win the election. The feckless Ross Perot, who poses as an outsider but seeks to implement...
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Better Dukakis by Tom Bethell / have been trying to get inside George Bush's head, but as usual everything looks blurred from that vantage point. He has a lot of friends out there, I can see that,...
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Strange New Respect, 1992 by Tom Bethell / n recognition of his school prayer and abortion rulings, Justice Anthony Kennedy recently received the Strange New Respect Award for 1992. The award...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/De Sow in Peru (August 1992)
De Soto in Peru by Tom Bethell Over the years, America has sent any number of sociologists and anthropologists abroad to study foreign societies. Few with any wisdom have come here to study ours....
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Sonny California by Tom Bethell T he California Republicans held a convention at the Burlingame Hyatt this winter, and I'm afraid I have been a little slow in getting around to telling you about...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Darwin in the Dock (June 1992)
Darwin in the Dock by Tom Bethell 4 4 f evolution did take place," Joe Tussman was saying, "God could have used that method for his own purposes." "How do we know that evolution did take place?"...
Paid articleCapitol IdeaslHeretic (May 1992)
Heretic by Tom Bethell 4 4 eH retic" is a much admired category in contemporary liberal thought—provided the heretic in question is safely dead. (Galileo comes to mind.) The other day I went...
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Trojan Army by Tom Bethell 4 4 ueer Army will be conducting a fabulously fun condom giveaway at the University of San Francisco, which has a policy of prohibiting condoms on campus," said a campy...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Warren Brookes (March 1992)
Warren Brookes by Tom Bethell The columnist Warren Brookes and his wife Jane had lived almost seven years in Lovettsville, Virginia, about sixty miles west of Washington, D.C., but by the summer...
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Pat's Answers by Tom Bethell One week after announcing his presidential candidacy in New Hampshire, Patrick J. Buchanan held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington. Standing...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Doing the Right Thing (January 1992)
Doing the Right Thing by Tom Bethel! After a couple of weeks in England, I returned to find conservatives divided, the entire Opinion Cartel in an uproar because, a former Grand Wizard of the Ku...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/A Chat with Irving Kristol (December 1991)
CAPITOL IDEAS A CHAT WITH IRVING KRISTOL It was the day before Prof. Anita Hill's vindictive debut on Capitol Hill, and Irving Kristol was feeling depressed. Depressed? Normally he is the voice...
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Communists read these writers at underground universities, along with the eighteenth-century free-marketeer Adam Smith and such contemporary American conservatives as William E Buckley, Jr. They...
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sentiments of Soviet anti-coup leaders, most of whom were active Communists during the long years when Ronald Reagan and George Bush steadfastly opposed Communism. At a time when we might be noting...
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gory unforeseen a generation ago, when all Liberals and advocates of civil liberties dreamed of a color-blind America. The Democrats' 1991 Civil Rights Bill attempts to overthrow a 1989 Supreme...
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WATERING THE CHIPS by Tom Bethel! Stanford, California Thomas Graff is a senior attorney with the Environmental Defense Fund and a graduate of Harvard Law School, with offices in Oakland right...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Original Sin in the Promised Land (June 1991)
she is a greater reporter than any of the dozens who covered Washington for the Times during the Reagan era. Doubtless the Times will soon be offering Miss Kelley a position, and why not an...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Tulane and the Big Government Campus (May 1991)
CAPITOL IDEAS TULANE AND THE BIG GOVERNMENT CAMPUS New Orleans Like other professors who have re- sisted the importation of "politically correct" thought into the university, Tulane's Paul Lewis...
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CAPITOL IDEAS STAR-WARS WARS by Tom Bethell efore a small group the other day in the late 1970s, to avoid running afoul thing it wasn't. Government programs Warriors (1985). "The site was named...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Stanford, Angela, and Me (March 1991)
CAPITOL IDEAS STANFORD, ANGELA, AND ME O ne of the things adults do today that may seem peculiar in the future is hold hands in public. At Stanford University, on the day after the Gulf War began,...
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CAPITOL IDEAS THE FANTASY OF A UNITED EUROPE A s I realized on a recent visit to England, no subject has been more misleadingly reported than the putative emergence of a "United States of Europe."...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Politics Misconstrued (January 1991)
CAPITOL IDEAS POLITICS MISCONSTRUED F or Republicans, the political landscape does not look very promising following the midterm elections. The claim that the number of House seats lost was below...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Smoke, Mirrors, and the Adversary Press (December 1990)
SMOKE, MIRRORS, AND THE ADVERSARY PRESS by Tom Bethell resident Bush's performance in the 1 budget talks perhaps even surpasses conservatives' worst suspicions about his lack of political...
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press conference on the savings and loan mess. There was a Washington Post story analyzing the Rev. Jackson's complaints that "news media are ignoring his activities." And there was a brief news...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Civil Rights and Wrongs (October 1990)
CAPITOL IDEAS CIVIL RIGHTS AND WRONGS F ollowing Saddam Hussein's seizure of Kuwait, Washington is in the grip of something close to war fever. With Congress away on vacation, most of the Cabinet...
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CAPITOL IDEAS MITCH SNYDER'S SENDOFF by Tom Bethell F or the "Farewell Celebration of as though requesting release from its Emergency Preparedness and various provided with passes so that they...
Paid articleThe Courage of His Convictions (August 1990)
not even that flower of Soviet womanhood, Dr. Gorbachev, shared their peculiar vision of careers before all else and ego above everything? The Angry 150, who, let us note, have wide support...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Getting off the Dole (July 1990)
CAPITOL IDEAS GETTING OFF THE DOLE R ecently the Senate Republican leader, Bob Dole of Kansas, proposed that U.S aid to Israel (and to the four other largest recipients of our aid, Egypt, the...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Moon Over Moscow (June 1990)
CAPITOL IDEAS MOON OVER MOSCOW We passed through customs at Moscow with scarcely an official glance at our luggage. It seems the Soviet authorities have given up trying to control what people...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/On the Road to Jerusalem (May 1990)
CAPITOL IDEAS ON THE ROAD TO JERUSALEM A s we drove from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem (about the same distance as Washington to Baltimore) Daniel Doron pointed out that the highway actually crosses the...
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sexual magazine (that is to say a magazine written for homosexuals, not a magazine that loves other magazines), one Chris Bull, which is an ideal name for a journalist, don't you think? At any rate...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/The Giant Rat of Kenya (March 1990)
CAPITOL IDEAS THE GIANT RAT OF KENYA by Tom Bethell 0 n January 15, ABC's "World News Tonight" broadcast a news story about the African rhino, pointing out that a lady in Kenya named Anna Merz...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/A Cruel Housing Hoax? (February 1990)
CAPITOL IDEAS A CRUEL HOUSING HOAX? K imi Gray is the chairperson of the Kenilworth-Par kside Resident Management Corporation, which manages a much-celebrated 464-unit public housing property in...
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CAPITOL IDEAS COMMUNISTS SHOOT PEOPLE, DON'T THEY? A t the request of a reader in Maryland, a special Strange New Respect citation will be given this year to Paul H.Nitze, once the leading...
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CAPITOL IDEAS REPORT FROM BRITAIN by Tom Bethell F rom time to time a number of Danger Prognosis for Radioactive high time for the British Army of the Stephen Haseler. I spent an evening readers...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Mind Over Matter (November 1989)
CAPITOL IDEAS MIND OVER MATTER by Tom Bethell G eorge Gilder spoke at the Willard inner space of small-scale matter. The one understands quantum mechanics. certainly can. In short, "atomic Hotel...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Divided Over Defense (October 1989)
CAPITOL IDEAS DIVIDED OVER DEFENSE by Tom Bethell T n recent months the confusion that aggressively by a signed piece of paper. air-based, and sea-based missiles. The between two options by...
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CAPITOL IDEAS HERETIC AS HERO by Tom Bethell B drums in the lead, the .1.— 3 African American liturgical procession came solemnly down the aisle of Suitland High School's Anabelle Ferguson...
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what I had seen before." West German opinion has rapidly metamorphosed in the 1980s, from good sense toward dreaminess. In 1982, 55 percent of the West Germans saw the Soviet Union as a...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/The Mexican Kleptocracy (July 1989)
CAPITOL IDEAS THE MEXICAN KLEPTOCRACY by Tom Bethell T hose who worry about the integrity 1 of our southern border rarely pay attention to the economic conditions in Mexico. They ought to. The...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Third World Hydraulics (June 1989)
CAPITOL IDEAS THIRD WORLD HYDRAULICS by Tom Bethell A feature of recent reporting about Third World debt has been a kind of willful self-deception. We are told that the issue is above all one of...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/The Colony of E1 Salvador (May 1989)
pened—without the U.S. funding— when Mexican farmland was reformed into the ejido system in the 1920s.) Some of the most productive land in El Salva-dor was collectivized. It was national-ized. If...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/From Mercantilism to Markets (April 1989)
CAPITOL IDEAS FROM MERCANTILISM TO MARKETS rr he Cato Institute was packed as I 1. have never seen it, with one or two standing outside in the February cold, their noses pressed to the window...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Defenseless Cowards (March 1989)
• CAPITOL IDEAS DEFENSELESS COWARDS by Tom Bethell O n September 30, 1988, in a Wall we are told. "The Establishment is last summer, Jon Utley, a friend of among the American leadership class...
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vocates, some of whom oppose all blood sports. Others oppose medical experimentation on animals. There are some who would arrest every butcher in the Republic and others who, would shut down all pet...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Guidelines for President Bush (January 1989)
CAPITOL IDEAS GUIDELINES FOR PRESIDENT BUSH by Tom Bethell fight years ago I offered congratulations to President-elect Ronald Reagan, happy as I then was to see the last of Jimmy Carter. That...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Operation Rescue (December 1988)
CAPITOL IDEAS N . A Ci;) -i?_-_ - .C. ---: -------- " -17-- ------7 '''. - - •-• --'"- ___j . - ,-,-: ----- tlt;',\ 1 \,\'\,----,t,%-- ' --.-;7-- ==_-=-_ .=-,--_‘—,.----, '...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/The Battle for Berkeley (November 1988)
CAPITOL IDEAS THE BATTLE FOR BERKELEY Berkeley, California Last month the Berkeley Property Owners Association met for supper and speeches at Spenger's Fish Grotto, which is in the western,...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/New Orleans Spells No Real News (October 1988)
CAPITOL IDEAS NEW ORLEANS SPELLS NO REAL NEWS by Tom Bethell T he judges were unanimous. The writer managed to smuggle out a tran- the publisher continued. In the cor- with the observation that,...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Gays on Parade (September 1988)
CAPITOL IDEAS GAYS ON PARADE by Tom Bethell 4 CM his year's theme—Rightfully 1. Proud—is a very fitting one," the Bay Area Reporter claimed in an editorial heralding this year's San Francisco...
Paid articleThe Electric Windmill (September 1988)
THE ELECTRIC WINDMILL: AN INADVERTENT AUTOBIOGRAPHY Tom Bethell/Regnery Gateway/$17.95 William McGurn It was in Rome that I first met Tom Bethell the reporter, the spring of 1983 to be exact. As...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Reagan, Armand, Gorby & Cockburn (August 1988)
CAPITOL IDEAS REAGAN, ARMAND, GORBY & COCKBURN D eaders of this column should beware of predictions about U.S.-Soviet affairs. At one point I reassuringly promised that President Reagan would...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Beckmann vs. Einstein (July 1988)
CAPITOL IDEAS BECKMANN VS. EINSTEIN by Tom Bethell A fter Howard Higman's conference ter (a marvelous read every month), dangered (both his parents were Com- will continue "until we are hit over...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Boulder's World (June 1988)
Yet those of us who see the present congressional involvement in presidential foreign policy decisions as an encumbrance might want to consider an alternative congressional involvement. Given the...
Paid articleCapitol. Ideas/Gore's Gambit (May 1988)
CAPITOL IDEAS GORE'S GAMBIT by Tom Bethell In chess, the Queen is said to be pinned when it is attacked by an opposing piece but cannot move because doing so would expose the King to check. An...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Lonesome Highways (April 1988)
CAPITOL IDEAS LONESOME HIGHWAYS by Tom Bethell It took four days to drive across the Coast to the West: 1-80, via Omaha, tion Agency; a bureaucrat escaped of the Strange New Respect Award and ...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Trading for Dollars (March 1988)
CAPITOL IDEAS TRADING FOR DOLLARS In a more perfect world one would hardly have to think about economics at all; and certainly not about that mysterious entity called The Economy, envisioned by...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / The Blindfolded Synagogue (February 1988)
CAPITOL IDEAS THE BLINDFOLDED SYNAGOGUE "D lindfolded, the Synagogue still moves forward in the universe of God's plans. It is itself only gropingly aware of its path in history." So wrote...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Dole's Bitter Medicine (January 1988)
CAPITOL IDEAS DOLE'S BITTER MEDICINE T he correlation of political forces is I of exceptional interest as we enter the election year. The October stock market drop inexplicably gave the Beltway...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/I Hate to Spoil the Party (December 1987)
CAPITOL IDEAS I HATE TO SPOIL THE PARTY by Tom Bethell In a way it's remarkable how little things have changed in the last twenty years. Walk down Haight Street in San Francisco and you sense...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Humanists and Heretics (November 1987)
CAPITOL IDEAS HUMANISTS AND HERETICS At the time of the Pope's visit the secular humanists met in conference at the American University, barely a mile from where I live. There was to be "dialogue"...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/In the Castro (September 1987)
CAPITOL IDEAS P^,, A --7--__—_------:.-- --r__.--, - ' "---.,,„ IN THE CASTRO by Tom Bethell "use condoms," say the ads on office of Lesbian and Gay Concerns It was only in May that the...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Conservative Bird, Liberal Bush (August 1987)
CAPITOL IDEAS CONSERVATIVE BIRD, LIBERAL BUSH The story so far: Republicans keep getting into trouble because they have so little sense of entitlement or legitimacy. They don't understand that...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Chumps and Charleys (July 1987)
CAPITOL IDEAS CHUMPS AND CHARLEYS T he principal difference between 1 Democrats and Republicans seems to be this: The Democrats don't understand government but they do understand politics; the...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Old Debates, New Twists (June 1987)
CAPITOL IDEAS OLD DEBATES, NEW TWISTS rr here is something rather delicious 1 about the potential arms control agreement on intermediate range missiles. For many years, as Irving Kristol pointed...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/A Stroll with Sidney Hook (May 1987)
CAPITOL IDEAS A STROLL WITH SIDNEY HOOK by Tom Bethell FT he phrase "sweet reason" took on 1 new meaning for me when I became acquainted with Sidney Hook at the Hoover Institution. He rejoices in...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Festive Foolery (April 1987)
CAPITOL IDEAS FESTIVE FOOLERY by Tom Bethel! T he great condom hullaballoo suggests that AIDS is perceived as a greater threat to the sexual revolution than to the health of America. If the...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Shepherds in the Locality (March 1987)
CAPITOL IDEAS SHEPHERDS IN THE LOCALITY I went to Midnight Mass at St. 1 Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco —Archbishop John Quinn celebrating. It's one of those ultra-modern structures, as...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Bonn Mots (February 1987)
CAPITOL IDEAS ;mss----.., .-i,__ 7„ , -=42=-4:6 ip,r,i;;Il,..,... L.—. -,-',(,1$ - -1_ -- - rhi/rt,;:-,--------------- BONN MOTS by Tom Bethell R ounding out a peripatetic year, I...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Mealy Mouths (January 1987)
CAPITOL IDEAS MEALY MOUTHS by Tom Bethell I was going to say something about 1 the Administration's arms-forhostages trading, but by the time this comes out, a month from now, everything will no...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Cross Currents (December 1986)
"Capitol Ideas/Cross Currents" I was at JFK Airport en route to a London conference on British taxation when news of the successful conclusion to the Reykjavik summit came over the airwaves. A television screen in the...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Asia Watch (November 1986)
From the air Tokyo's outskirts looked as trim and orderly as a sunlit landscape in a child's picture book. It was a long bus ride into the city, past compact, economical pastures. To our left a...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Seoul Searching (October 1986)
very little can be done to relieve many of our public problems. Drug abuse is a timely example of how policy initiatives are flummoxed in this Era of Good Feelings. Gone are the days when the...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/King David's Royal Family (September 1986)
de lettres, and the lovable paterfamilias. Only in the America of the 1970s could such a thing grow so eminent. Now the mood has changed, and Will is under fire. He has long been the occasional...
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are all around that its anointed herald s are going to get together to have a good cry . . . and, incidentally, to continue to distort it. When in the fullness o f time all the superlatives...
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fused with high-minded idealism to the ruin of every Democratic presidential candidate since 1964, save one. La-Rouche must have recognized that were he to enter the staid primaries of the...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Das Kapital Ideas (June 1986)
cidentally, considering the literacy of those rich heirs whom I know, the Census Bureau's 14 percent must include plenty of gilded idlers. My guess is that in terms of longevity, comparative...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Contra Investment (May 1986)
the brats would be a personal disaster. This is particularly true for many American Presidents, as recent publishing events make poignantly obvious. If Americans held to Euripides' maxim that the...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Senator Simpson's Reward (February 1986)
When the Senator alludes to the family's tradition of Jacobinism, he is being somewhat misleading. The radicalism goes back no further than to Robert Kennedy. John F. Kennedy always raised the...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/No Timing Back (January 1986)
some other subject of fascination. After Mr. Jackson there was Madonna. Soon even a Madonna undraped and featured in the pages of our leading porn magazines attracted little attention. Who will stir...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Luncheon Reveries (December 1985)
in society, the champions of standpattism assert that the innovator is a dissembler and an opponent of minorities. If a policy-maker claims that change is needed in welfare policies to bring the...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Arabesque (November 1985)
CAPITOL IDEAS ARABESQUE The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is or purports to be one of those civil rights groups that we hear so much about, forever accusing the rest of us of...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Mitch Snyder in Hell (October 1985)
CAPITOL IDEAS MITCH SNYDER IN HELL It was a hot summer afternoon on Euclid Street and Mitch Snyder of the Community for Creative Non-Violence was working on a legal brief. Three or four cats were...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Cowardly Lions (September 1985)
CAPITOL IDEAS COWARDLY LIONS by Tom Bethell The other day I met Comandante Zero in Congressman Armey's office in the Cannon Office Building. (How about that for a militaristic lead?) Dick Armey,...
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practiced in backwater America when a local reactionary tries to ban from the school house the books of, say, Kurt Vonnegut. The Endowment had made a $50,000 grant and asked that the Freedom to...
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practiced in backwater America when a local reactionary tries to ban from the school house the books of, say, Kurt Vonnegut. The Endowment had made a $50,000 grant and asked that the Freedom to...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Star Wars over NATO (June 1985)
CAPITOL IDEAS STAR WARS OVER NATO by Tom Bethell Imagine a country with a large, heavily armed band of robbers. So ruthless are they that after prolonged debate the citizens conclude that it would...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Habernus Vigorbachev (May 1985)
CAPITOL IDEAS HABEMUS VIGORBACHEV by Tom Bethell When the black smoke emerged from the Kremlin chimney, announcing Mikhail Gorbachev's victory in the latest power struggle, sympathetic vibrations...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/What a Fool Believes (April 1985)
smoking, Mr. John Banzhaf (and as you may be the parent of a prospective law student be advised that he is a Pro- fessor of something called Law and Legal Activism at George Washington...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Worst Book of the Year (March 1985)
CAPITOL IDEAS TAS's Annual J. Gordon Coogler Award: WORST BOOK OF THE YEAR Like the use of the word "protocol" in connection with arms control negotiations. It refers both to the forms of etiquette...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Ducks and Bees (February 1985)
CAPITOL IDEAS DUCKS AND BEES For conservatives, the weeks following President Reagan's re-election were not at all auspicious. Reagan himself seemed to go into a protracted hibernation, but by the...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Hilton Spirituality (January 1985)
obvious--our responsibility to our neighbors--whale prescribing fmled panaceas, to w~t SOClahsm or at least a welfare state w~thout hm~ts Others, such as Yuppms, are absolutely con- vmced...
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so that Americans from every walk of life can sit back and enjoy. In August we relived Woodstock, very little being made of its unappetizing aftermath: drug addiction, venereal...
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little more than disguised press secretaries. Well, they raise a tricky issue here, so when we meet, no funny business. The last time we were together you shook my hand rather excessively...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Republicans Tarnished (October 1984)
of the 1960s supported radical politics, and that if you were not a radical in the 1960s you were a sorry wallflower, a member of a benighted minority. Well, I hate to be a stickler for...
Paid articleBad News: The Foreign Policy of the New York Times (September 1984)
that Wilhelmian Germany was an "appeasable" state, unlike either the United States or France at that time. A state with unlimited goals, which aims for world hegemony, cannot be accommodated,...
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memorations last month, reiterating their wartime charge that we should have invaded Europe two years earlier. They were lucky that we were there at all. Many Americans who opposed FDR's...
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was insistent that we end military assistance to El Salvador "immediately." He was vague about where beyond our borders we might ever use force. He was poetic about how all disagreements...
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a rule Orientals are not "low-income" people. Moreover in political terms what do the growing number of professionals who are Hispanic, black, or Oriental have in common with lowincome...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/The Hive Perceives (May 1984)
Overnight the head of the National Security Council, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Secretary of the Navy, and all manner of smaller fish are turned from their...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/A Yankophobe's Doubts (April 1984)
finger at one of the enormously expensive canvases hanging from the wall of some gallery or museum and the thing's value could plunge along with the reputations of all the establishment art...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/ Smithwick and the Hive (March 1984)
DOPED A decade or so ago all the progressive cognoscenti were in the ardors for idealizing various drugs: marijuana for the small fry, LSD and the like for the Big Leaguers. I personally recall...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Feeding Off Capitalism (February 1984)
rolled back into his head so that only the whites showed. The indignity committed against Lieutenant Lange was less spectacular. Blood-spattered and near death, he was shown in a frontal...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Entrail Reading (January 1984)
of homosexual rights, no-nuke JFK champion of the nuclear freeze and holistic medicine--doubtless many of the Believers now at work have spied evidence of all these good causes in John F....
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/High Priests (December 1983)
CAPITOL IDEAS HIGH PRIESTS by Tom Bethell The big event this month promised to be the Neoliberal Conference in Reston, Va., put on by Charles Peters, the founder and editor of the Washington...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/The Trouble with Reagan (November 1983)
CAPITOL IDEAS THE TROUBLE WITH REAGAN by Tom Bethell 1 see that Mark Shields, my favorite liberal columnist, has predicted in the Washington Post that President Reagan will not run for...
Paid articleIs Supply-Side Economics Dead? A Symposium (November 1983)
IS SUPPLY-SIDE ECONOMICS DEAD? A Symposium. As tout le monde must know by now, I like Ronald Reagan. Anyone who can remain debonair while a bullet burns beside his heart is American Spectator...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / The Ad Hoc Hike (October 1983)
CAPITOL IDEAS THE AD HOC HIKE by Tom Bethell Tomorrow I'll be attending that well-advertised grievance jamboree, the "New Coalition of Conscience" on the Mall, celebrating the twentieth anniversary...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / The Morality Charade (September 1983)
CAPITOL IDEAS THE MORALITY CHARADE The disproportionate attentiont given to the Reagan Administration's acquisition of Jimmy Carter's 1980 debate papers has shown us once again American institutions...
Paid articleEric Hoffer, R.I.P (August 1983)
Tom Bethell ERIC HOFFER, R.I.P. Stopping by the old man's aerie for one last visit. Eric Hoffer, the longshoreman philosopher whose first book The True Believer caused a stir among intellectuals...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/The Bishops' Brain (July 1983)
chess and the students around him, suggested that the kids play chess. Adepts of the social sciences might have considered this absurd, and their charts and statistics would back them up. When the...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/We're Not KGB (June 1983)
CAPITOL IDEAS WE'RE NOT KGB by Tom Bethell I wondered what I should wear for the Institute for Policy Studies' 20th anniversary party at the Pension Building. It said on the invitation "Attire:...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Under Roman Ruins (May 1983)
CAPITOL IDEAS UNDER ROMAN RUINS by Tom Bethell As we drove into Rome, past litter-strewn outskirts which would have made any American liberal feel proud of his Environmental Protection Agency, the...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / The Lovelies of Greenham Common (April 1983)
: C A P I T O L I D E A S ~., THE LOVELIES OF GREENHAM COMMON Atone point in Richard Attenborough's interesting and thoughtprovoking film, Gandhi is shown using the British-imposed system of...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Badlands Bolshevism (March 1983)
CAPITOL IDEAS BADLANDS BOLSHEVISM by Tom Bethell April 1, 1986: There have been reports in some right-wing news media about the possible arrival of Soviet troops and equipment in North Dakota....
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Sound Minds (February 1983)
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Paid articleCapitol ideas/Burgers on the Left Bank (January 1983)
C A P I T 0 L I D E A S ~ r 1 6 2 1 6 2 1 6 2 1 6 2 1 6 2 1 6 2 1 6 2 1 6 2 1 6 2 1 6 2 1 6 2 1 6 2 1 6 2 1 6 2 1 6 2 1 6 2 1 6 2 1 6 ~2e e - . e e 6 e . * e e o e e c e . . e o e e o . c e e e e o...
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goody Liberal exists who does not hear a voice in the back of his skull whispering "You are a little creep." Even Galbraith hears the voice. The voice does not lie. For f i f t e e n years The...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/A Question of Faith (November 1982)
C A P I T 0 L I D E A S A QUESTION OF FAITH I n a recent article I said that America was in a state of sad decline-probably irreversible. Just recently a, U.S. Air Force colonel suggested...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/ The R**l*ty Principle (October 1982)
C A P I T O L I D E A S THE R**L*TY PRINCIPLE I have a horrible feeling your Correspondent in the Capital has been a bit remiss, failing to file a single report on the Reagan Administration...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / The Once and Future Israel (September 1982)
C A P I T O L I D E A S THE ONCE AND FUTURE ISRAEL by Tom Bethell The longshoreman philosopher Eric Hoffer said in 1967 that " i f Israel fails, then history can have no meaning." The rebirth...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Congress, Lobbied by Mountebanks (July 1982)
C A P I T O L I D E A S CONGRESS, LOBBIED BY MOUNTEBANKS by Tom Bethell I t is with a heavy heart that one turns to the querulous topic of civil rights. The very phrase conjures up an...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Pulitzers from the USSR (June 1982)
C A P I T O L I D E A S PULITZERS FROM THE USSR An April editorial in the New York Times touched on the subject of "Soviet propaganda," a phrase that piques one's curiosity in such a...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/ A Cross of Gold (May 1982)
C A P I T O L I D E A S A CROSS OF GOLD by Tom Bethell I n normal times, no subject could be more tiresome than monetary policy. Money can be likened to the railway lines along which the...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Occasional Economics (April 1982)
SENATOR WILLIAMS FIGHTS BACK by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. D e s p i t e our admittedly flyblown canons of dignity and good sense, the jig is not yet up for Senator Harrison Arlington Williams, J r...
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It goes without saying that Mr. Holmes is duly exercised over child abuse and violence in the home. And he is a creative type, having written over 17 television scripts and " a t least" five...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Solidarity No More (February 1982)
Research, and Queens College. She has been a Senior Research Associate at the Center for the Social Sciences at Columbia. The Ford Foundation funds her "researches." The plangent stupidity of...
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not work very well in Russia. We do know that a few days later President Brezhnev looked very haggard during meetings in West Germany. According to the p r e s s , he consumed a bottle and a...
Paid articleThe Public Policy / Taxing Interest Rates (January 1982)
TAXING INTEREST RATES by Tom Bethell Everyone seems to be puzzled about interest rates. The chairman of the F e d e r a l Reserve Board is puzzled. The chairman of the Council of Economic...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Archaic Notions (December 1981)
CAPITOL IDEAS ARCHAIC NOTIONS by Tom Bethell I recently received a letter from my left-wing, Guardian-reading sister in England, and enclosed with it was a newspaper article by a certain...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Solidarnosc Usurped (November 1981)
THE SIDEWALKS OF ROME ROME- Here in the Eternal City people heave things from first, second, third, and fourth story windows. Why they do this I cannot say, but as one walks the streets, especially...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Every Word of It True (October 1981)
CAPITOL IDEAS EVERY WORD OF IT TRUE by Tom Bethell Once upon a time I had tea with Kitty and Malcolm Muggeridge at their Sussex farmhouse, and the conversation soon turned to a most remarkable...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Another Ventriloquist's Doll (September 1981)
government is the nature of Francois Mitterrand and of French socialism. From Paris last month Patrick Wajsman, the brilliant columnist for Figaro, scoffed at Dr. Mitterrand's new economic program....
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ANIMAL RIGHTS As the baseball strike lengthens and our national despair grows, let us never forget that what brings most of us out to the great baseball pastures of the major leagues is...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / The Bloomsbury Savings & Loan (July 1981)
CAPITOL IDEAS THE BLOOMSBURY SAVINGS & LOAN by Tom Bethell I was listening to the radio a few weeks ago when I realized that a counter-revolution had taken place in one important area of public...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Rent Asunder (June 1981)
CAPITOL IDEAS RENT ASUNDER by Tom Bethell I've reluctantly come to the conclusion that the ability to understand the price mechanism, the most important idea in economics, is beyond-the power of...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Beyond the Ochre and Umber (May 1981)
CAPITOL IDEAS BEYOND THE OCHRE AND UMBER It's surprising how few transcontinental airline passengers bother to look out of the airplane window. They are too busy studying real estate maps of Los...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/In Defense of Dirt (April 1981)
CAPITOL IDEAS IN DEFENSE OF DIRT for a few days following the election of President Reagan the liberal-left observed a respectful silence, the better to conjure up in the rest of us the illusion...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Lost Continence (March 1981)
CAPITOL IDEAS LOST CONTINENCE by Tom Bethell Oomewhere around the National Archives building on Pennsylvania Avenue I joined the March for Life, now in its eighth year. I was happy to be with...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / The Apiculture of Socialism (February 1981)
This was to be Jimmy's hour. Here was a scamp mountebank from jerk. water America whose knowledge of government and of history was somewhere between that of the bathroom attendant at "21" and...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/A Strange New Respect (January 1981)
CAPITOL IDEAS A STRANGE NEW RESPECT by Tom Bethell Federal budgeting now involves five-year projections, mark-up, spend-out, bipartisan chumminess, dawn-to-dusk staff meetings, concurrent...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / The Passing of the Buck (December 1980)
"Capitol Ideas / The Passing of the Buck" To offer sympathy to a wrongdoer is an act of common decency; to return him to the House of Representatives is an act of frivolity bordering on the infantile. It is an indication of how far...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Evolution Now (November 1980)
"Capitol Ideas/Evolution Now" its policies suggests that it is not the decade of the eighties but the age group that the Carter administration has in mind. Apparently the administration senses that most of us...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Letter from Martha's Vineyard (October 1980)
"Capitol Ideas / Letter from Martha's Vineyard" genius, hence not smart enough maintain double digit inflation plus 7.8 percent unemployment. Then, too, he will charge that Reagan is strictly nineteenth century, hence...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Scuttled Masses (September 1980)
"Capitol Ideas/Scuttled Masses" some tanks and short-range ballistic missiles. At the end of every Olympiad the IOC President in accordance with the IOC ritual asks the youth of the world to reassemble in four years....
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Weary of the Leisure Class (August 1980)
a very positive contribution to the Crimes of America conference, had he survived his sad political setbacks of yesteryear. Undoubtedly, he and the Hon. Clark would have spent many pleasurable...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Sheer Gold (July 1980)
"Capitol Ideas / Sheer Gold" anniversary of Harry Truman's 1947 signing of Executive. Order 9835, authorizing loyalty investigations of federal employees. He died of gunshot wounds and a broken heart. Mr. Bruno, born...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Citizen Nader ' s Loaded Dais (June 1980)
"Capitol Ideas / Citizen Nader ' s Loaded Dais" students out to fight their good fights for them. Not only was "Big Business Day" a flop, but, when Earth Day 1980 was celebrated on April 22 only the Wall Street Journal seemed to care. When...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Altars, Pulpits, and Knaves (May 1980)
"Capitol Ideas / Altars, Pulpits, and Knaves" and he presents the Left's case most candidly and fully. He ought not to be denied political and financial support because of the fickleness of the Victorian Gent, whose enthusiasm has d i v e...
Paid articleSiding With Supply (May 1980)
"Siding With Supply" I had to admit that I'd never heard the story told quite that way before. Was Mo nothing but one of those campaign groupies, waiting to be driven off by the first handsome aspirant who winked...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas /The Soviet Sphere of Influenza (April 1980)
"Capitol Ideas /The Soviet Sphere of Influenza" of international relations and of those who practice international relations. Our President, the one who was once given to saying " If I ever lie to you, don't vote for me," could serve...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Counter-intelligence at the Times (March 1980)
I was glad to see that the Center for Ethics and Public Policy in Washington has published its study of foreign intelligence, The CIA and the Amen can Ethic, by Ernest Lefever and Roy Godson....
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Easy Money-And Hard (February 1980)
"Capitol Ideas / Easy Money-And Hard" and snakes and became as hysterical as any faith-healer in an Arkansas hollow. Some journeyed to the enemy camp, some scolded American POWs, some became apologists for the invincible...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Kennedy's Hearing Aides (January 1980)
"Capitol Ideas / Kennedy's Hearing Aides" is our only proper response. Today this mentality stands exposed in all its decrepitude. In the Southeast Asian holocaust and in the Iranian hysteria, we see the utter discrediting of...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Priests and Cannibals (December 1979)
CAPITOL IDEAS PRIESTS AND CANNIBALS by Tom Bethell I returned from a month's holiday in England and could not decide which was the more unpleasant sight facing me: a grubby mountain of Washington...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Washington's Ways and Mean Streets (November 1979)
CAPITOL IDEAS WASHINGTON'S WAYS AND MEAN STREETS From time to time people ask me what it is like to live in Washington, and I see their point: that it is possible to write about the goings-on and...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Death of a Journalist (October 1979)
CAPITOL IDEAS DEATH OF A JOURNALIST With the media so powerful these days, and the Presidency in such an enfeebled state, it seems hardly an exaggeration to say that the big news of the summer in...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Cold War Vistas...Guerrilla-Chic...One Grant, One Vote...Newsweek Gas (September 1979)
CAPITOL IDEAS COLD WAR VISTAS... GUERRILLA-CHIC... ONE GRANT, ONE VOTE... NEWSWEEK GAS by Tom Bethell The strategic arms limitation debate, which will preoccupy the U.S. Senate after the August...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Statutory Race/Free-lance Fortunes/Welfare Eunuchs (August 1979)
CAPITOL IDEAS STATUTORY RACE / FREE-LANCE FORTUNES / WELFARE EUNUCHS by Tom Bethell Two days after the Supreme Court handed down its Weber decision supporting affirmative action in employment, I...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Electric Windmills / D.O.E. Ad Lib / Troopers (Storm Variety) (July 1979)
CAPIT0L IDEAS ELECTRIC WINDMILLS/D.O.E. AD LIB/TROOPERS (STORM VARIETY) by Tom Bethell X stopped my car beside the Mall, because I was curious about the overflight appearance of some quaint little...
Paid articleThe Tom Wolfe Interview (July 1979)
Tom Bethell THE TOM WOLFE INTERVIEW Astronauts, test pilots, the uncritical willingness to face danger, the Right Stuff, reporting, essay-writing, the ''new journalism," and more from America's...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Food and Art/H G Wells' New Class/Senate Spenders (June 1979)
CAPITOL IDEAS FOOD AND ART/H.G. WELLS' NEW CLASS/SENATE SPENDERS by Tom Bethell This is a story about Modular Mon-drian and Crisp Romaine Lettuce. You see, I've been back to that new East...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Inequality Now (May 1979)
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell A visit to New York-and simultaneously an escape from Washington-inevitably conjures up thoughts about individualism and egalitarianism. How striking that the...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/"Involuntary Capitalism"/Hoffer's Prophecies (April 1979)
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell "Involuntary Capitalism" / Hoffer's Prophecies AS has often been pointed out by such magazines as Commentary in recent years, politically free countries (which hold...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/1980 Forecasts/Teng on Tour/Jonestown Scapegoat (March 1979)
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell 1980 Forecasts/Teng on Tour /Jonestown Scapegoat Today one might plausibly predict that Jimmy Carter will be sworn in for a second term in January 1981. My prediction...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/What the Press Doesn't Say About Jonestown (February 1979)
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell What the Press Doesn't Say About Jonestown "He was trying to build a whole new kind of man in the jungle-the pure socialist man." - Odell Rhodes "There were people...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Neglected Scandals/Three Dangerous Democrats/The Honorable Diggs (January 1979)
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Neglected Scandals/Three Dangerous Democrats/The Honorable Diggs I surface here from my investigative mineshaft to survey the news briefly before ducking back down...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Stoolies / Art Moderne/ Bond:Senator for the 60s (November 1978)
"Capitol Ideas / Stoolies / Art Moderne/ Bond:Senator for the 60s" The national mood of self-abasement is far from being exhausted, to judge by recent events in Washington. One might...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Dope in the White House (October 1978)
"Capitol Ideas / Dope in the White House" however Mr. Nixon may be thought to have abused it, involves issues that go to the heart of effective functioning of the most important public office in our system. But the bulk of the press had...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / HEW' s Silver Anniversary (August 1978)
"Capitol Ideas / HEW' s Silver Anniversary" The season offered a few "fringe benefits" such as several and Moliere, but I found none of them especially distinguished. plays about the horrors of South African apartheid. Our sense In brief,...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Espionage in Outer Georgetown (June 1978)
"Capitol Ideas / Espionage in Outer Georgetown" simultaneously needs and is repelled by the narcissistic drivel she plays, by "five hours a night, ego-tripping in this toy store." The brilliant Martin Mull, playing an extension of his Barth...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas (May 1978)
"Capitol Ideas" an asset rises because of circumstances unrelated to the activities of its owner, the added value belongs to the government. Using this principle, our government is expropriating nearly $14 billion...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas (April 1978)
"Capitol Ideas" Tom Bethell Undoubtedly the most entertaining event of recent weeks has been the publication of H.R. Haldeman's memoir, The Ends of Power. This has occasioned a good deal of comment,...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas (February 1978)
"Capitol Ideas" do, I—unlike Szasz—would not object to confinement to restrain the psychotic from acts that would be criminal if done by a sane person. But our ability to predict is much less than psychiatrists...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas (January 1978)
"Capitol Ideas" - Economist, 2 April 1977, pp. 64-65, which published an admittedly incomplete list of these Gulag institutions.) Is there no relationship between the Gulag on the one hand and the particular quality...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas (November 1977)
"Capitol Ideas" Record, offering him a job. "I turned it down," Smith says, "because Kay was a St. Louis girl, and I didn't want to leave town. But I couldn't fight my way past Bovard, and I got the Record to...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas (April 1977)
Inflation has pushed more and more people into higher and higher tax brackets, and has resulted in onerous taxation of purely illusory profits--capital gaihs and_interest earnings. In the...
Paid articlePsycho Justice (February 1977)
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Paid articleMe and Ralph (October 1976)
would buy. Perhaps this was appropriate, for it was the excessive wage and pension demands of municipal unions that led to much of the city's financial chicanery. But there were good reasons why...
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