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Vol. 026 Issue 004 (April 1 1993)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Continuing Crisis
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• February passed thus: on February 15 President Bill Clinton outlined his economic plan in a nationally televised address. On February 16 the stock market dropped 83 points. • In religious news,...
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Correspondence
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All You Can't Eat Sandy Hume's gustatory guide to Clinton's Washington was informative ("All You Can Eat," TAS, February 1993), but I believe the President, his Partner, and the American people...
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Editorials / Clinton's Trickle-Down/Hillary Polluted
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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T rickle down, trickle down—ha, ha, ha. From (roughly) William Jennings Bryan's 1896 "Cross of Gold" speech to President Bill Clinton's ramblings in his State of the Union address on February 17,...
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Capitol Ideas/Impolitic Pol
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Bethell, Tom
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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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Emily's List: Chicks With Checks
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Hirschmann, Susan
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E ver since Anita Hill was shamed before an all-male Senate Judiciary Committee, activist women have been itching to get back at the political system. The feminist backlash, we have been endlessly...
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New Players in the Middle East
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Dorsey, James; Karny, Yoav
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A short man in his late fifties, Yuri Shanibov hardly strikes one as Caucasia's most wanted man. His mild manners, cultured voice, and sense of history reflect his distinguished academic and legal...
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Comrade Slobo
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Gedmin, Jeffrey
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S erbian President Slobodan Milosevic deplores the nationalism and extremism that has unleashed unspeakable savagery in the Balkans. At times he concedes, with gentle assurance, that "no one is...
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Clinton's America/Paper Cuts
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Novak, Zelda
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1 n an attempt to soften up the American people for coming tax increases, President Bill Clinton announced a plan to share the nation's sacrifice by reducing his own White House staff by 25 percent,...
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Rule by the Rich
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Hume, Sandy
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A t first glance, President Clinton would seem to have kept his promise to appoint, as one transition official put it, "more than the usual white boys who run Washington." Indeed, he appointed four...
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Politics/Congress's Feisty Frosh
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Norquist, Grover G.
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0 n January 5, 1993, the 103rd Congress was sworn in with 110 new members. This unusually large influx of new blood was caused by the decennial redistricting for the nineties, the House Bank and...
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Ben Stein's Diary / Two Steps Forward
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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I see America dancing, and it's a Texas two-step. Let me tell you some more about The Borderline. Near my house in Trancas, at the North End of Malibu, there was for years a tumbledown restaurant...
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Spectator's Journal/ Churchill and the Thatcherites
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Reid, Stuart
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F orget Camillagate. It surprised no one. What could be more natural than for the heir to the throne and future Supreme Governor of the Church of England to be on richly intimate terms with his...
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Among the Intellectualoids / Multicultural Instruction
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Sowell, Thomas
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M ost of the arguments for so-called "multicultural" education are so flimsy, inconsistent, and downright silly that it is hard to imagine that they would have been taken seriously if they were not...
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Presswatch /Licked by Leaks
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Eastland, Terry
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1 s the Clinton era fun, or what? I start with leaks, three big ones in particular. The first occurred six days before Bill Clinton took the oath. This was the leak to the New York Times of Zoe...
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Russian Presswatch / In the Name of Humanity
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Young, Cathy
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I f the Clinton administration is shaping up to look like soap opera, what genre can adequately describe the politics of post-Communist Russia? Theater of the absurd, perhaps. The end of 1992 was...
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The Great American Saloon Series / The Sprucewood Inn
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Shiflett, Dave
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A t a remote crossroads in the Pike National Forest, forty-five miles southwest of Denver, stands the Sprucewood Inn, a small tavern in the log-cabin style, the sort of establishment the...
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The Talkies/Dogs and Groundhogs
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Bowman, James
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N ear the end of Joe Dante's new film, Matinee, a couple of beatnik types coming out of a 1962 vintage horror flick about a man who turns into a giant ant are heard saying in exasperated tones:...
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China in Our Time
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Terrill, Ross
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0 n a sunny Memorial Day afternoon in 1971, an academic resident at Harvard received a phone call from the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Ottawa. The Middle Kingdom was again...
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Turning Point
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Carter, Jimmy
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/ n October 1962, as President John F. Kennedy faced Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba and took the world to the brink of World War III, the man who would occupy the Oval Office fifteen years later...
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Eco-Scam / Science Under Siege / Environmental Overkill / Sound and Fury
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Bailey, Ronald; Fumento, Michael; Guzzo, Dixy Lee Ray with Lou; Michaels, Patrick J.
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They are hardly alone. Butterfly expert Paul Ehrlich has long forecast disaster from resource exhaustion and overpopulation, as did Jay Forrester's Club of Rome. Carl Sagan, Mr. Cosmos himself,...
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Louis Auchincloss
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Gelderman, Carol
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j ohn O'Hara was a strange and angry soul, and when Louis Auchincloss allowed as much, he occasioned this reply from the fat man: "I don't know anything about your importance as a lawyer, but in my...
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Making War
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Lehman, John
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Making War offers more than the title promises. The author does not take us down a narrow spiral staircase to the basement of a law library with shelves full of legal scholarship that seeks to...
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Eros and the Jews
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Biale, David
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S oon after the creation of the state of Israel, chief Ashkenazic rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook described the relationship of body and soul in a way that was as much a departure from orthodox tradition...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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Handbill (California State University, San Marcos) An intriguing handbill distributed to the barnyard animals that attend Cal State, San Marcos, soliciting monographs of righteous indignation...
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