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Vol. 026 Issue 011 (November 1 1993)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Continuing Crisis
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• September was President Bill Clinton's best month yet! All right, it was his first good month. Okay, maybe "good" is stretching it, but all his other months have been worse, including January, in...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Frostie Reception I thoroughly enjoyed Richard Carlson's "Frostie's Revenge" (TAS, September 1993) and hope that TAS will publish more of his writing—perhaps excerpts from his...
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Editorials / Father Higgins, RIP / Senator High Horse
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS Father Higgins, RIP by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Indianapolis T hey buried coach Bob Knight's favorite cleric out here in the rolling greenery of south central Indiana the other day. Bob...
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Capitol Ideas Immigration, Sí; Welfare, No
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Bethell, Tom
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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...
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Collective Guilt
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O'Rourke, P. J.
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Collective Guilt To mark the November birthday of Great Americans Joe McCarthy and P. J. O'Rourke, our fifth annual New Enemies List—which this year applies the Nuremberg Laws to all operatives...
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The Secretary-Generalissimo
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Gedmin, Jeffrey
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Jeffrey Gedmin The Secretary-Generalissimo Since Bill Clinton doesn't seem to want to do it, U.N. secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali is finding it easy to run U.S. foreign policy. W hen...
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Three Limericks
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Riley, Tom
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THREE LIMERICKS Member of the Club? Will Bill Clinton disebver today yet another half-brother? He may, for the family's that big. I suspect Porky Pig may be one—but he's too proud to say. The...
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Superfund as Godzilla
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Norman, Geoffrey
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Geoffrey Norman Superfund as Godzilla Al Gore and the EPA have created a monster that even sucks the blood out of socialist businessmen in Vermont. B iff Mithoffer is a genial, energetic man and...
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Clintonism in One State
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Adams, James Ring
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James Ring Adams Clintonism in One State Gov. Lowell Weicker won liberal plaudits when he passed Connecticut's first-ever income tax two years ago. It is destroying the state's economy. His next...
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Presswatch / Fairness Most Foul
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Cony, John
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Fairness Most Foul by John Corry / t may indeed be the "Hush Rush" bill, just as the Wall Street Journal said, or it may be only the reflex action of liberal politicians still frozen in time, but...
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Spectator's Journal / To Syria, With Love
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Lewis, Saul
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To Syria, With Love by Saul Lewis W hen Israel's prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, ran for office last summer, he campaigned on a platform that promised, among other things, not to recognize the...
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The Washington Heights Spectator / Miracle on 204th Street
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Conlon, Edward
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THE WASHINGTON HEIGHTS SPECTATOR Miracle on 204th Street by Edward Conlon F or weeks after Margarita Duarte saw the image of Jesus Christ on the bathroom window of Rosa Diez's fifth-floor...
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The Nation's Pulse / The Framing of Pat Nolan
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Kannon, John Von
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The Framing of Pat Nolan by John Von Kannon S tate Assemblyman Pat Nolan is not known to many people outside California, but his story is an important one. It is a story that shows just how hard...
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Ben Stein's Diary / My Private Idaho
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY My Private Idaho by Benjamin J. Stein Monday N ow, this is like old times, or the good old days, or something like that. Staci, one of my two original Valley Girls, now a...
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The Public Policy / Choice: A Burkean Dissent
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Allen, Charlotte
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Choice: A Burkean Dissent by Charlotte Allen 0 6 6 ur theory is that school districts are merely creations of the state," the lawyer said. "They're artificial. They're arbitrary boundaries...
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Politics / Florio Fights Back
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Norquist, Grover G.
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Florio Fights Back by Grover G. Norquist F our years ago, New Jersey Governor Jim Florio raised state taxes by a record-breaking $2.8 billion. Despite a campaign promise to oppose higher taxes on...
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Constitutional Opinions / Mainstream Radical
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Eastland, Terry
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CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS Mainstream Radical by Terry Eastland A t the end of Judge Ruth Ginsburg's confirmation hearings, Sen. Orrin Hatch undertook to explain why he admired five of the opinions...
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The Talkies / The Fall of the Family
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Bowman, James
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The Fail of the Family by James Bowman T wo films out this month begin with discussions between fathers and sons about loyalty. In Striking Distance, a policeman (Bruce Willis) laments the fact...
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Nathan Bedford Forrest
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Hurst, Jack
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BOOK REVIEWS W hen the train carrying Tennessee's delegation to the 1868 Democratic National Convention in New York stopped at a small Northern town (its name long forgotten), a gang of toughs...
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The Immobile Empire
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Peyrefitte, Alain
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THE IMMOBILE EMPIRE Alain Peyrefitte Alfred A. Knopf/630 pages / $30 reviewed by WILLIAM McGURN A mong certain sinophiles it has the ill-fated embassy of George always been popular to...
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Coming Attractions
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Stoller, Robert J.; Levine, L S.
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For the performer with an active career, "a complete relationship" remains necessarily a fantasy. One improvises as much stability as one can. "I couldn't have been in this business if I hadn't had...
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Degenerate Moderns
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Jones, E. Michael
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1 n 1938, the English novelist Aldous Huxley admitted something that the other literary mandarins of his day probably wished he had kept to himself. Huxley's revelation was this: the real reason...
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Whoredom in Kimmage
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Mahoney, Rosemary
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/ n the course of two long volumes of autobiography, which deal in loving detail with such minutiae as his childhood toys and distant relatives' drinking habits, the Irish short story-writer Frank...
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The Real World Order
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Singer, Max; Wildaysky, Aaron
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F oreign policy thinkers continue to cast about for a unifying framework with which to confront the post–Cold War world. The aim is for something in the nature of George Kennan's pathbreaking "X"...
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Moscow Bulletin / Bolshie Ballet
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Bernstein, Jonas
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Bolshie Ballet by Jonas Bernstein As we go to press, Boris Yeltsin and his Communist parties among them, most in enemies from the dissolved Soviet parlia- this crowd are the kind who love...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Harper's In a symposium on the scortatory arts 'as practiced by our profs and students, Prof. William Kerrigan of the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), arguably the handsomest...
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The Palace Spectator / Oh, to Be in Graceland
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Reid, Stuart
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Oh, to Be in Graceland... by Stuart Reid N 4 ow this is really wonderful. This is something else." The auto dealer from Leesburg, Virginia, stood in the middle of the State Dining Room at...
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