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ety" have been discredited in actual practice, and few politicians anxious to win election or re-election wish to revisit them) As it is, the first Democratic president to be re-elected to...

The Public Policy I Diversity's Deep Roots (October 1995)

Diversity's Deep Roots by David Frum A professor I know who teaches at a small liberal arts college tests his students' adherence to the doctrines of "diversity" by writing three questions on the...

The Public Policy/Consumption Tax Follies (September 1995)

Consumption Tax Follies by David Frum C an we talk like grownups for a minute? Over the past few months, triumphant Republicans have loudly proposed abolishing the income tax and even the Internal...

The Public Policy / Working for the Man (August 1995)

House rules. On April 17, it also made Working for the Man the full Phelan report public. by David Frum Support for Wright among his Democratic colleagues had already been dwindling over...

The Public Policy /A Supply-Side Strategy (July 1995)

A Supply-Side Strategy by David Frum D oes the fact that a policy is driven by polling and cynicism in itself prove the policy wrong? If the answer is yes, then nothing could be more wrong than the...

The Public Policy/UP From Subsidy (June 1995)

W hich matters more: friends or principles? This dilemma afflicts all political parties, but seldom does the wrong choice bristle with as much danger as it now does for the new congressional...

The Public Policy/Building Blocks (May 1995)

Building Blocks by David Frum F ix it in Washington or in the states? All at once or bit by bit? That's the choice Republicans are facing as they prepare to reform welfare. And the longer you think...

The Public Policy/Errors of Commission (April 1995)

Errors of Commission by David Frum S o much for blue-ribbon commissions. For a decade, politicians afraid to make tough decisions on the budget have nervously suggested passing their job to panels...

The Spending-Cut Spectator / Wish List (February 1995)

Wish List Republicans are happily interpreting the 1994 election as a mandate for smaller government. Splendid. Unfortunately, if past performance is any indicator, the new Republican majority will...

Dead Right (September 1994)

L ike just about everybody else who worries about the condition of conservatism and the Republican Party, Canadian journalist David Frum, formerly of the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, has a gloomy...

The Campaign Spectator/Spending Time With Pat (April 1992)

Spending Time With Pat by David Frum Concord, New Hampshire We're all Big Government conservatives now. Pat Buchanan and President Bush may disagree about many things, but they do agree on one...

The Work of Nations, by Robert B. Reich (October 1991)

even years ago, Robert Reich—until 0 then an obscure young professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government—seized the attention of the Democratic party and the national media with The Next...

Special Correspondence/Robert Novak (August 1991)

criminately returning their ashes, giving, for instance, the ashes of a dog to a cat owner or those of an angel fish to the owner of an opossum. The pet cemetery's owners also face charges...

The Conservative Bully Boy (July 1991)

THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 24, NO. 7 / JULY 1991 David Frum THE CONSERVATIVE BULLY BOY Pat Buchanan's critique of "neoconservatism," whatever he understands it to mean, rests on...

Campus Counterrevolution (May 1991)

David Frum CAMPUS COUNTERREVOLUTION New appointments at Harvard Law School and Yale College indicate that the left's assault on the universities may be petering out. Al along the front, the...

The Most Overrated Book of the Year (March 1991)

David Frum THE MOST OVERRATED BOOK OF THE YEAR Bronx cheers to conservatives who've been heaping praise on Jim Sleeper's socialistic The Closest of Strangers grr he cause of bad writing," 1 H. L...

A Poorhouse Divided (February 1991)

David Frum A POORHOUSE DIVIDED Conservatives can be the champions of the poor, but they're of two minds on how to go about it: offer economic incentives, or impose the mores of middle-class...

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