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Vol. 035 Issue 002 (March 1 2002)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Continuing Crisis
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tyrell, R. Emmett
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THE NEWS FROM THE WAR against terrorism moved from good to very good and that knocking sound in Washington was the sound of Senator Tom Daschle's knees. The news from the economic front moved...
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Protection Rising
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Editors, The
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"Protection Rising" PROTECTIONISM BY THE EDITORS As our good friend Jack Kemp is fond of pointing out, Winston Churchill was so committed to the idea of free trade that in 1904 he chose to abandon his party...
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Real Recession, Real Recovery
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Wesbury, Brian S.
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"REAL RECESSION, REAL RECOVERY" BY BRIAN S. WESBURY lot of people may be wondering if Arthur Andersen audited he late great 2001 recession. In November, the National Bureau of Economic...
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Enron, Enron on the wall
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rutledge, john
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"Enron, Enron on the wall" market with Valley Girl ("Mat-ever") stock selection, is over. For 20 years interest rates went down and stock prices went up. During that extraordinary period caution was not rewarded....
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Enron and Me
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Moore, Stephen
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"Enron and Me" Now don't get me wrong, I'm not casting aspersions on the list of Enron luminaries—far from it. This article is motivated by jealousy, not rage. To have II received not so much as a nickel, while...
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Who Needs Energy?
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Tucker, William
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"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...
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Prevention Is No Cure
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Gottlieb, Scott
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"PREVENTION IS NOT A CURE" BY SCOTT GOTTLIEB, M.D. Doctors and millions of women gasped recently when a group of Danish researchers announced that annual mammograms might not, after all, decrease...
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Wages of Sin
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Shlaes, Amity
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"Wages of Sin" the total Medicaid population, up from coverage of 9 million beneficiaries in 1995. Medicaid HMOs such as Centene and Amerigroup have been some of the hottest stocks on Wall Street. The smart...
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Resistance Is Futile
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Rothenberg, Randall
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"Resistance Is Futile" John Tauras also did some research on nicotine replacement therapy, presumably a "better" behavior than smoking. They found that demand for the patch, nicotine cigarettes and similar alternatives to...
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Shut Up and Quit Driving
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Landsburg, Steven E.
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"Shut Up and Quit Driving" LIKE THAT BY STEVEN E. LANDSBURG Click and Clack. the Tappet Brothers of National Public Radio's popular weekly show Car Talk, have declared war on drivers...
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All Is Not Well in Euroland
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Davis, Natalia; Redenbaugh, Russell
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"All Is Not Well in Euroland" ALL IS NOT WELL IN EUROLAND BY NATALIA DAVIS AND RUSSELL REDENBAUGH The great experiment to homogenize the monetary, tax and trade policies of the 300 million souls of Europe is struggling...
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Somebody to Hate
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Lessing, Doris
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"Somebody to Hate" SOMEBODY TO HATE A NEW NOVEL BY DORIS LESSING COMES CLEAN ABOUT THE INTELLECTUAL ORIGINS OF FEMINISM Some people have come to think that our—the human being's—greatest need is to have some-thing...
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Watch Your Tongue
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Taki
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"Watch Your Tongue" BY TAKI 0k, let's have some fun with political correctness. Naomi Campbell, the supermodel who is no stranger to controversy and public rows, has sued an English tabloid for an...
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Your Rich Uncle
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hurst, Alex
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"Your Rich Uncle" GETTING REAL ABOUT HUMAN CAPITAL BY ALEX HURST after graduating from college last May, I asked my parents whether they thought my education was a good investment. Not an...
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Capitalism = Punk Rock
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Anderson, Rodd
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"Capitalism = Punk Rock" NEVER MIND THE HAIRCUTS BY TODD ANDERSON WTO. NAFTA. The IME All these are objects of scorn for the punk press and a lot of other idealistic young people. And rightly so....
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The Great Leap Upward: China gets space
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Pinkerton, James P.
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"The Great Leap Upward: China gets space" AMERICA CAN'T AFFORD NOT TO. BY JAMES P. PINKERTON I n 1972, Henry Kissinger met with Chou En-lai in Beijing and asked the Chinese foreign minister if he...
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The 800-Pound Gorilla: Shareholders arise!
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Bogie, John C.
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"THE 800-POUND GORILLA Shareholders Arise!" BY JOHN C. BOGIE If the message from the Enron saga is that we can't rely on the boards of directors to govern our great companies, who can we...
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Miss April
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"Miss April" Calling all Captain Nemos! Miss April may still be on the drawing board, but mega yacht has already been left at the altar once, by some suddenly for premier...
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The Long Goodbye: The dream of central control dies hard
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Lindsey, Brink
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"The Long Goodbye" THE DREAM OF CENTRAL CONTROL DIES HARD BY BRINK LINDSEY Near Gorky Park, on the banks of the Moskva River, lies the Graveyard of Fallen Monuments. It is located on the grounds...
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The Borking© of Bjorn Lomborg: Green rage at The Skeptical Environmentalist
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Ridley, Matt
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"The Borking© of Bjorn Lomborg GREENDOM'S GREAT AND ARE COMPETING TO FIND EPITHETS FOR THE AUTHOR BY MATT RIDLEY At the Christmas cabaret in the politics...
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That's Life: The evolution of Edward O. Wilson
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Bethell, Tom
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"That's Life: The evolution of Edward O. Wilson"
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Less Than Human: Just say no to Francis Fukuyama
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Haseltine, William A.
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"Less Than Human" FIRST FRANCIS FUKUYAMA ENDED HISTORY. NOW HE WANTS TO STOP SCIENCE T00. BY WILLIAM A. HASELTINE Frances Fukuyama is worried. He fears that biotechnology will alter human nature,...
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The Cat and the Camera: Foveon's revolution is just a click away
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Gilder, George
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"The Cat and the Camera" BY GEORGE GILDER As I walked out with Dick Merrill on a cool February day through the Foveon Corporation parking lot in Sunnyvale to drive to the Lion & Compass restaurant, my hands were...
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Party On, Dudes!: Ignorance is the curse of the information age
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Robinson, Matthew
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"PARTY ON, DUDES!" BY MATTHEW ROBINSON Almost any look at what the average citizen knows about politics is bound to be discouraging. Political scientists are nearly unanimous on the subject of voter...
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Notes from the Olive Garden
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Lileks, James
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"Notes from the Olive Garden" In which we plumb the exotic depths of Euro-think BY JAMES LILEKS Americans are easy to figure out.We're as complex as pasteurized cheese. If ever a diligent European...
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Ben Stein's Diary
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY I stood behind a starlet named "Logan,'' new to town, shining bright, Impossibly tall, impossibly thin, condent and deeply, richly tan, lovely and utterly...
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Public Nuisances
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett
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"Public Nuisances" The Conscience of a Self-Confessed Fraud —WASHINGTON y literary reputation is made! The Neu'Ybrker magazine has likened me to a member of the Communist Party U.S.A. You might remember that...
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Sexism Rampant in Nature
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Onion, The
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"STUDY FINDS SEXISM RAMPANT IN NATURE" SAN DIEGO—According to a University of California-San Diego study, sexism is ram-pant throughout the natural world, particularly among the highest classes of...
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