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The Coming Cultural Disintegration (April 2012)

The Coming Cultural Disintegration With his new book, Coming Apart,* Charles Murray has once again changed the terms of debate in America. By William Tucker On sunday, february 19, the New...

NUCLEAR SINCE FUKUSHIMA (March 2012)

Nuclear Since Fukushima by William Tucker It was one year ago that a 9.0 earthquake hit Japan and its eastern Fukushima province and buried whatever hopes there might have been for a...

America'S Last Nuclear Hope (March 2011)

THE ENERGY SPECTATOR America's Last Nuclear Hope Small reactors may save us yet. by William Tucker Griz deal had been Entrepreneur in Residence at the Los Alamos Laboratory for only six months...

NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE BLOSSOMS - WITHOUT THE USA (October 2010)

Nuclear Renaissance Blossoms— Without the USA The world is going nuclear while we're going nowhere. By William Tucker This summer china surpassed the United States as the world's largest...

THERE'S PLENTY OF ENERGY AT THE BOTTOM (April 2009)

ON DECEMBER 29, 1959, on the threshold of the 1960s, Richard Feynman, "the best mind since Einstein" and interpreter of quantum mechanics, gave a lecture at the California Institute of...

MAX sCHULZ (January 2009)

bookS In revIew Nuclear Recovery O ne clear measure of nuclear power’s rising fortunes is that both presidential candidates this year came out in favor of harnessing the power of the atom...

IS IT REALLY OVER? (April 2008)

like tobacco litigation exhausts itself something comes along to take its place.” Yet as events have unfolded over the past year, it is becoming apparent that the tide may have turned....

REPORT FROM BAGHDAD (June 2007)

REPORT FROM BAGHDAD Are we destined to remain an occupying force in Iraq for the next ten years—or will President Bush learn from President Nixon? AS I LOOK BACK, I think the quintessential...

An Army on One (September 2005)

Books in Review - "An Army on One" calling Leninists "leftists," he him-self, when the quote marks end, doggedly calls the same Leninists "conservatives"! In this sleight of hand, Kuhn is not...

THE TRAVEL SPECTATOR: Oh, Jerusalem (March 2005)

THE TRAVEL SPECTATOR WILLIAM TUCKER ^11.1.,LIL-f III U Oh, Jerusalem EOPLE TAKE their religion seriously in the Middle East. Things that happened eight centuries ago often seem like...

THE HELLHOLE SPECTATOR: The Suicide Bachelors of Polygamous Islam (June 2004)

THE HELLHOLE SPECTATOR WILLIAM TUCKER The Suicide Bachelors of Polygamous Islam N MARCH, ISRAELI SOLDIERS DISARMED a 14-year-oll I Palestinian youth as he attempted to blow himself ui at a...

Don't Fight The Power: Learning to Love Nukes (May 2002)

"Don't Fight The Power" Oil's too political. Coal's too dirty. Solar, wind, hydro-they're all just green dreams. Hydrogen is lovely stuff, but it takes energy to make it. It's time Americans learn to stop worrying and...

Who Needs Energy? (March 2002)

"Who Needs Energy?" published a piece entitled "Friends of Enron Launch Vicious Ad Attack on Daschle." (Why oh why couldn't this have appeared in Rolling Stone?) The piece's lead is so absolutely perfect that I...

Horror on the Hudson (January 2002)

"Horror on the Hudson" Junk Sciences Green Gangsters & The Pursuit of PCBs BY WILLIAM TUCKER The Hudson River is one of America's most treasured natural resources. An early avenue of commerce, it offered NewYork...

Your Social Justice or Your Air Conditioning (May 2001)

Your Social Justice or Your Air Conditioning The Big Apple ponders power plant racism BY WILLIAM TUCKER A A couple of years ago. during a doormen's strike. the Nev) Y'Ork'f'inies ran a...

California Unplugged (April 2001)

I In 1986, on a sunny afternoon in May, officials of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company cut the ribbon on Unit II of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Station, halfway between San Francisco and Los...

Why the Death Penalty Works (October 2000)

S ome day' when the smoke has cleared in tire presidential election and either George Bush, Jr. orN Gore, ]r. is sitting in the Oval Office, somebody will go back and do an analysis of...

On the Internet No One Knows You're a Dog (May 2000)

T he moment of enlightenment came while I was waiting in vain for the New York Post to send me a check for $3oo. I'd been a freelance writer for more than twenty years. In many ways it's the...

ERISA: A Prescription for Health Care Inequity (November 1998)

E 11 CURRENT MEDICAL INSURANCE LAW FAVORS BIG CORPORATIONS AND LABOR UNIONS WHILE MAKING CARE MORE COSTLY FOR THOSE WHO CAN LEAST AFFORD IT. hi1uflklucNEfl here's been a lot of hypocrisy in...

The Choices Are Expanding (September 1998)

S chool choice is an idea whose time has come. Legal barriers are falling. Institutional momentum is accelerating. Prominent individuals everywhere are announcing their conversion. From a single...

Open Season on Bill Gates (July 1998)

VEZ434-4'•W 12.4 Open Season on Bill Clan Bill Gates and Microsoft have committed the crime of understanding the Information Age better than anyone else. Now the Reno Justice Department has...

Byting the Hand That Feeds Us (May 1998)

YUNG THE MAN THAT FEE'S lis , A By restricting the immigration of much-needed "information technology" workers, Dumbocrats in Washington are making the U.S. poorer and less competitive. • •...

Unbroken Windows: The Good News on Crime (March 1998)

Unbroken Windows THE GOOD NEWS ON CRIME by William Tucker WO RK? p erhaps it is foolish to be optimistic, but the news on crime of late is not all that bad. First and foremost, crime is...

The New York Spectator: Moving On Up (July 1997)

THE NEW YORK SPECTATOR by William Tucker Moving On Up eople who should know say that p New York City's rent control administration compares favorably with other confiscatory, Third World...

The Brooklyn Spectator: Al's Toyland (June 1997)

THE BROOKLYN SPECTATOR by William Tucker Al's Toyland since childhood. On a good day, they'd The biggest little toy store any kid ever saw. even escort you into the back room, where everything...

Guilty as Charged (April 1997)

(11,T1 AS CHARGED Galileo Gingrich would have been better off insisting that the Earth is fiat than speaking openly about opportunity and personal responsibility and private volunteer eff...

The Nation's Pulse: Soccer Dads & Single Moms (March 1997)

by William Tucker Soccer Dads & Single Moms sa t fall I looked at the roster of my L soccer team and couldn't believe it. Every kid had two parents! "That's not all," my wife noted. "Some of them...

Last Call: Scout's Honor (February 1997)

LAST CALL by William Tucker Scout's Honor A FEW SATURDAYS AGO, the Cub Scout pack I run in Brooklyn helped serve lunch at a homeless shelter. One of the first men in line was a bug-eyed...

The Moral of the Story (October 1996)

"The Moral of the Story" The welfare reform bill marks the first time the federal government has given up a major entitlement. But it won't make a difference unless marriage and legitimacy...

Get Out of Town (July 1996)

"Get Out of Town" Get Out The Yankees are all set to leave New York of Town and no one admits the city is driving them out. ABOUT A MILE FROM MY HOUSE, RIGHT IN THE HEART OF downtown Brooklyn, there's a huge...

Fatherless America (David Blankenhorn) (August 1995)

Though like White a true-believing veteran of the 1964 campaign, Edwards covers Goldwater's career not in iconic but human terms, from the clay feet up. Goldwater, he writes, "led a generation of...

Sweet Charity (February 1995)

William Tucker Sweet Charity It is, when it's paid for by government. The shocking story of nonprofits feeding at the trough at your expense. C atholic Charities, the largest nonprofit...

0. J.' s DNA in Court (November 1994)

William Tucker O.J.'s DNA in Court Blood evidence places Mr. Simpson at the scene of the Brentwood murders, but in a courtroom culture dominated by well-heeled defense lawyers, will it matter? T...

Three Strikes and You're Dead (March 1994)

Three Strikes and You're Dead The anti-crime proposal now winning praise from both parties is little more than a gimmick that will increase the incentive to murder. by William Tucker 5 Young...

Revolt in Queens (February 1993)

All of the following are from educational materials now being distributed to children in the New York City public school system: The Teenager's Bill of Rights: I Have the Right to Decide Whether...

Populism and Elitism (Jeffrey Bell) (January 1993)

"Populism and Elitism (Jeffrey Bell)" discussed since, chastised writers for leaving reality to the journalists and rebutted recent laments, like Philip Roth's, that the real world had become hyperreal, daily discharging in the news...

Chronicler Without a Clue (June 1991)

William Tucker CHRONICLER WITHOUT A CLUE Nicholas Lemann reports brilliantly on the great black migration from South to North in this century, only to stumble when trying to account for the...

Give Us This Day Our Daily News (March 1991)

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY NEWS. U nlike almost everyone I know in New York, I am a loyal fan of the Daily News, New York's largest tabloid. Like all great art, it offers a simple reflection of the...

Congress in Crisis: The Economies of Public Housing (November 1989)

William Tucker THE ECONOMIES OF PUBLIC HOUSING Forget the HUD scandals. The real scandal is that most Americans haven't a clue as to the progress made under Presidents Reagan and Bush in getting...

Pity the New York Landlord (February 1989)

right into the ceremony. It was a jimdandy, complete with what I took to be a grail, an ornate ceremonial dagger, and a phallic ritualistic instrument periodically elevated above the gathering in...

Our Homestead Plan for the Poor (July 1988)

William Tucker OUR HOMESTEAD PLAN FOR THE POOR Welfare reform will come to no good unless it allows the underclass to work and have families. D erhaps no problem poses a greater 1 danger to the...

Cuomo for President? (January 1988)

William Tucker CUOMO FOR PRESIDENT? What it will mean if this family man makes it official. It was a few days before the 1982 New York gubernatorial elections. Lieutenant governor Mario Cuomo...

The Nation's Pulse/Howard Beach Bums (March 1987)

THE NATION'S PULSE HOWARD BEACH BUMS I n 1982 three black subway workers 1 returning home from their afternoon shift on Coney Island stopped at a bagel shop in Gravesend, a tough Italian...

Homeless People, Peopleless Homes (February 1987)

William Tucker HOMELESS PEOPLE, PEOPLELESS HOMES No vacancy in New York City. T n 1937, Fitzroy Maclean, a British New York City today practices its buildings containing about 50,000 vacancy...

Eminentoes/The Big Apple's Nomenklatura (September 1986)

newer, more sophisticated systems is continuing. By most assessments, the conventional war-fighting capability of the U.S. armed forces is better today than five years ago. In any conflict, however,...

Bring Back the Jury (August 1986)

judicial branches had been perceived a s extensions of the Crown. On the other hand; the Colonial legislatures— immensely popular institutions—repre -sented the will of the people. Wheneve r...

Moscow on the Hudson (July 1986)

good or ill, the wall dividing the Times from the church is lower than it once was. "If they want respectability," says editorial-page editor Cheshire, "I say they deserve it. I don't see any...

Down on the Farm (June 1986)

such dialogues were necessary because "international Jewry is undoubtedly behind the persistence of misunderstanding between Muslim and Christian and has disseminated deviation among Christian...

Private Prosecutions (May 1986)

briefed on modern conditions and established modern practices before entering the debate. A very strong case can be made for the proposition that this is now our general condition—that there is no...

The Nation's Pulse/Hurricane Carter's Comeback (February 1986)

In the great battle twenty odd years earlier for Lenin's mantle, Stalin was the moderate and Trotsky the radical. Trotsky wanted to push the revolution onward and outward without respite, while...

Among the Environmentaloids/Westway Story (January 1986)

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Vigilante (January 1986)

"to make their protests in language appropriate to their sense of occasion." Otherwise, free speech would not have "the same value to them as it has to a member of the bourgeois establishment." By...

Why We Have Families (December 1985)

would give an opening to Col. Moammar Qaddafi. The Tunisians attributed the killing of several Tunisian Jews by a berserk policeman shortly after the air strike to anti-Semitic broadcasts beamed...

Visits with the Homeless (May 1985)

William Tucker VISITS WITH THE HOMELESS How some people live on $50,000 a year. Help the Homeless," said a button pinned to the woman's beret. She was black, about 30, and standing in front of a...

The Unjust World of Bernhard Goetz (April 1985)

William Tucker THE UNJUST WORLD OF BERNHARD GOETZ But it helps to have Barry Slotnick for a lawyer. The other day I was talking to a neighbor of mine in Brooklyn. He's a nice,...

Environment/Reclaiming Conservative Ground (February 1985)

Environment RECLAIMING CONSERVATIVE GROUND by William Tucker Last September, I was invited to Washington by the Heritage Foundation to join a group of people meeting with William Ruckelshaus,...

Condemned to Liberation: The Woman as Breadwinner (November 1984)

William Tucker CONDEMNED TO LIBERATION: THE WOMAN AS BREADWINNER There were once very good reasons to discriminate against women. What went wrong? Why have women made less than men for doing...

The Evolution of Cooperation (September 1984)

T h i s book is a landmark in social thought. For centuries, centralists and statists have been able to dismiss the doctrine of laissez-faire by saying that nothing will happen if government...

Black Family Agonistes (July 1984)

returns. Even so, it isn't foolproof, and thus during that adjustment period Lehrman would have the Treasury Secretary keep close track of the activity of marginal North American gold mines,...

Jesse Jackson: The Great Man's Populism (May 1984)

Union, and that there is nothing wrong with any adversary of ours that cultural exchange would not cure. When it comes to the Third World, however, the conscience finds its true voice and...

Tullock, Gordon

Tung, Tung

Turkle, Sherry

Turner, Grace-Marie

Turner, John R.

Turner, Robert F.

Tushnet, Eve

Tuttleton, James W.

Twitchell, James B.

Tynan, Kathleen

Tynan, Kenneth

Tyrell, Emmett Jr.