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Vol. 026 Issue 008 (August 1 1993)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Continuing Crisis
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• June was a hellish month in politics. A No-confidence vote against Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa conduced to the crack-up of his Liberal Party, portending finito to its 38-year dominance...
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Correspondence
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The Silent Squeam To take issue with anything in Matthew Scully's uncommonly generous review of my book (For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports, TAS, June 1993) might seem paltry on...
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Editorials / Oh, Brother! /Come Fly With Me!
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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A midst all the public musings over the astonishing disarray of the Clinton presidency, is it not odd that hardly anyone has placed the blame on President Clinton's ideas? Some tell us that the...
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Capitol Ideas / Doubting Dada Physics
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Bethell, Tom
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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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In Memoriam Christina Reagan
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Morris, Edmund
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The sanctity of the womb, that once-inviolate limbo whose dark waters were home only to the spirit of God, has become so subject to alien invasion in recent years that I was not surprised, at a...
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Bill and Hillary at the Trough
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Schiffren, Lisa
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Ever wonder why President Bill and First Lady Hillary seem so genuinely to believe that all money earned in the 1980s was somehow illegitimate and undeserved? Or why, after a decade-long national...
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Jane and Jill and Anita Hill
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Brock, David
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In response to a review of my book The Real Anita Hill in the May 24 issue of the New Yorker, I wrote the following eight-page single-spaced reply. The review had appeared on Monday, May 17. On May...
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Gunning for Koresh
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Wattenberg, Daniel
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It was only when their funding was up for review—and a pattern of sexual harassment emerged at their agency—that the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms decided to make an example of...
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No Longer Untouchable
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Pate, James L.
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In April, when Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents in charge come to Washington for an annual meeting, the nearby Baltimore field office organizes the Idiot Ness birthday party, honoring...
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Special Correspondence/ What Health-Care Crisis?
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Doctors; Patients; Barnes, Fred
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Though I pretty much agree with the specifics of Fred Barnes's article ("What Health-Care Crisis?" TAS, May 1993), including the expectation that whatever changes (reforms) are brought about by the...
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Clinton's America/Hill 1969
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Carrad, David Clayton
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On Memorial-Day this year I got up and caught the 8:22 a.m. train to Washington, D.C., headed for the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Wall to join the protest against Bill Clinton's presence there. In...
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The Public Policy /Another AIDS Scam
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ByronYork; Johns, Joe
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In the next few months the govern/ ment's AIDS bureaucracy will spend millions of dollars to test a drug most experts say is useless against AIDS. Just last year, the Department of Health and...
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Eminentoes / NAACCCP
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Schwartz, Stephen
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There is a reason the press coverage of Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.'s appointment to the top post in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has dealt so superficially with his...
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Politics /Bogus Charlie Stenholm
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Norquist, Grover G.
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0 n Thursday afternoon, May 27, 1993, Texas congressman Charlie Stenholm cast his vote in favor of Bill Clinton's budget reconciliation package, which increases taxes by $300 billion over the next...
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Ben Stein's Diary /Boy in the Hood
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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A beautiful day in Sunny Southern California. I wrote about bonds in the morning, and then strolled out the door of the mighty Shoreham Towers to lunch. As I walked out, I saw some of my favorite...
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Presswatch/ What a Character!
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Corry, John
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N o doubt about it; Bill Clinton was in trouble. "The Incredible Shrinking President," the Time cover shouted, while Newsweek asked, "What's Wrong?" Just about everything, apparently—bad staff work,...
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Constitutional Opinions / Lani Meets Her Quota
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Eastland, Terry
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E xactly one day after President Clinton announced Lani Guinier as his nominee to head the Justice Department's civil rights division, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed sharply criticizing...
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The Talkies/ The Summer of Our Discontent
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Bowman, James
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/ t is a particularly grouchy way to greet the season of children's movies, I agree, but I can't help noticing how the American entertainment industry so rarely produces anything but children's...
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Point Blank and The Samurai / the Mountie and the Cowboy
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Kleck, Gary; Kopel, David B.
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I once attended a conference on gun-control policy. Most of the participants were earnest scholars, but a few were real gun enthusiasts. At one point, a law professor spoke of the gulf between gun...
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At the Hand of Man
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Bonner, Raymond
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R aymond Bonner is the author of two award-winning—i.e., leftleaning—books on U.S. foreign policy. Now he has focused on Africa to uncover one of the most egregious environmental hoaxes of recent...
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From Yale to Jail
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Dellinger, David
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B enjamin Franklin was his great-uncle, Calvin Coolidge a family friend. At Yale, he argued politics with Walt Rostow and McGeorge Bundy, later his opponents in a more public debate over the Vietnam...
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Sister Aimee
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Epstein, Daniel Mark
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L os Angeles is home to more than 7,000 churches. One of them represents more than the quiet accumulation of prayers and the steady, unglamorous work of saving souls. The Angelus Temple is the...
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Strange Bedfellows
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Rosenstiel, Tom
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0 f all the mysteries left behind by the 1992 presidential race, one in particular continues to vex me: Why did George Bush give up on the tax-cutting economic plan that he trumpeted in the early...
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Pack My Bag and Surviving
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Green, Henry
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0 n receiving the 20-year-old Henry Vincent Yorke—a.k.a. Henry Green—in the early 1920s, Edward Garnett, celebrated for his abilities as a literary talent scout and his eccentricity of manner, asked...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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New York Times The pitiable mental condition of Our President when during nationally televised press conferences the words "original deadline" are directed his way: Q. Mr. President, the original...
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