Correspondence
Correspondence The "Whatever" Generation And Dole John Podhoretz's "Dole, the GOP and the Genetically Endowed" (May 27), while making some valid points about the importance of Bob Dole's freeing...
...It reflects a Zeitgeist shared by members of two "whatever" generations: the true veteran of the "hard way" and the youthful foot soldiers of the conservative movement who deserve more than having their commitments to the cause reduced to a dismissive so-called "genetic endowment...
...Podhoretz stumbles onto the innate commonality between the generations by pointing out Dole's predilection for "whatever," a phrase overheard in most malls these days...
...Mason points out (hilariously) that Starbucks sells you less coffee, less service, less taste, and less space for about five times the price...
...The tyranny of watery beer has been overthrown...
...R. Lynn Kelley Bentonville, AR I don't get the point of John Podhoretz's denigration of the "Genetically Endowed...
...The only issues with zing in the presidential race are the issues dealing with government mismanagement, including the broke Medicare system, the so-called criminal-justice system, and the education system...
...In so doing, he categorically rejects the notion that culture and pop culture can or should be synonymous...
...Starbucks, where you get less for more, may be a yuppie's dream, but this fiscal conservative won't pay more than a dollar for a coffee...
...The stock market, a gauge of the future health of the economy, is very susceptible to the great differences in the long-run path of economic growth that policy changes can make...
...God forbid, conservatism is chic, and that will be the seed of its (self-destruction...
...While he was sipping latte in the poetry section of Borders, the rest of us were discovering the greatest boon to America since co-ed college dormitories-better beer...
...Those who have spent any time in law enforcement would agree that both anecdotally and empirically DiIulio articulates what we belly up to every day...
...For example, in the six years leading up to the GOP victory in 1994, the S&P 500 yielded a yearly return of 5 percent, adjusted for inflation...
...Good luck...
...Your article unfairly lumped Wiles into the wrong camp...
...There were several Reagan White House aides on that plane, including Ken Khachigian, Jim Ciccone, Wiles, and me, who were asked to pull together as a seasoned team to assist then-Sen...
...Where there is only one parent, he or she would be the principal wage earner...
...Once reserved for the beneficiaries of Cecil Rhodes's plot to make Anglophiles out of the brightest young Americans and other international travelers, ales, strong lagers, and stouts are now available to the masses...
...David P. Prosperi Northbrook, IL Feminism and Family Wage Congratulations on correctly identifying the role the feminist movement played in the elimination of the family wage ("A Return to the 'Family Wage,'" May 13) and on suggesting that this wage could be reconstructed under our present laws against sex discrimination by promoting "one breadwinner per family, but on a non-gender basis: The breadwinner could be either the husband or the wife...
...They want to be taken account of in American culture, which, to them, means pop culture...
...This plan would be wholly voluntary, and it has the logic of simple justice...
...In America, the distinction is a blurred one at best and, in fact, may be completely nonexistent...
...The conservatism of the Republican party has more in common with the "Genetically Endowed" than it realizes...
...In that moving moment, he punctuated each major passage with two simple words: "How American...
...Just looking at the host committee of No Left Turn, one finds activists who have been in the trenches for more than a decade...
...I witness the potency of DiIulio's message every day...
...Auren Hoffman Berkeley, CA Handlers for Quayle Regarding "Dole's Conventioneers" (Scrapbook, May 27), there were several of Dan Quayle's "handlers" who did many things for the candidate in the 1988 campaign, including Lanny Wiles...
...Why the difference...
...What we have on display here is a bias all too common in the conservative family: He says that the role of conservatism and Republicanism is "to defend the traditional structures of American life against the sustained attack over the past four decades by cool itself...
...Quayle in his first national campaign...
...Perhaps no political concept can prevail whose first premise is to impose the rule of law over the majority (and the minority), regardless of genetic heritage...
...Robert S. Stein Washington, DC Beer, Better Than Latte Chris Caldwell blew it ("Five Ways America Keeps Getting Better," May 27...
...Each married couple could itself decide which spouse is to be designated as the principal wage earner, and this decision would be registered with the Social Security Administration...
...Well, to borrow from (I believe) Alex Haley, grandparents and grandkids get along so well because they have a common enemy...
...companies...
...Yes, there were "GOP sources" who repeatedly took shots at the vice-presidential nominee in the 1988 election, but we were there to help him, not trash him...
...As a child of the infamous 60s generation, I believe I can speak with some authority on the narcissistic elements in today's twentysomething generation...
...The Genetically Endowed haven't faced what Dole has, true, but they realize that life is not the easy, rose-colored-glasses picture described by Clinton...
...It is evident in Huckleberry Finn and in the wild twists and turns of Richard Nixon's life...
...Podhoretz's throwaway lines also contain implications for the conservative movement and the Dole campaign: "The Genetically Endowed are conventional, in the deepest sense...
...In my book The Power of the Positive Woman (1977), I offered this suggestion: "Congress should amend the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 to authorize employers to give job preference in hiring and promotions and retentions during layoffs to the spouse designated as the 'principal wage earner' in each family...
...John Carney Chevy Chase, MD Starbucks, the Yuppie Dream Three cheers for Jackie Mason's courageous stand on Starbucks ("A Dissent on Starbucks," May 27...
...Ride with one of our law-enforcement officials on the third shift, or just come to court for a week or two...
...Clint Bolick Alexandria, VA Keep Dole Honest Fred Barnes certainly risked THE WEEKLY STANDARD s image with his fluff piece "The Born-Again Dole Campaign" (May 27...
...So Jerome Skolnick wants to know the conditions under which crime erupts...
...One of Dole's best speeches was his 1994 eulogy of Nixon...
...On a much deeper level, Podhoretz has exposed the Republican party and its revolution for what they have become, the most popular postmodern political illusion since the "Peace and Love" revolution so tightly embraced by many fellow "boomers" even today...
...Robert A George Washington, DC After reading John Podhoretz's penetrating article, as well as practically every other article ever written in your magazine, I realize that I must not be a conservative...
...Those of us who face juvenile predators, conscienceless and casual killers, purveyors of drugs, child molesters, and wolf-pack robbers know that DiIulio is telling the truth...
...It's too bad Podhoretz finds us poor conversationalists, because a lot of the people at these fund-raisers are not Johnnies-come-lately riding in on the conservative bandwagon...
...Does Barnes honestly think that Dole, or anyone else, can communicate the logic of a tax cut against a two-year Republican campaign for deficit reduction and budget balancing...
...We may still look good, but that doesn't mean we haven't been through a lot of battles...
...WR Watts Beverly Hills, FL The Reality of Crime Thanks to Tucker Carlson for his defense of John DiIulio ("Letting Him Have It," May 27...
...Once Quayle became comfortable with the rigors of a national campaign, you may recall that he shed his handlers and became his own "spin doctor...
...Even slight limits on these programs can have a big effect on expectations about the future value of dollar-denominated assets, including the shares of U.S...
...We will continue to be good partners, especially if Dole continues to show a measure of the "quiet desperation" he displayed in his resignation speech...
...Correspondence The "Whatever" Generation And Dole John Podhoretz's "Dole, the GOP and the Genetically Endowed" (May 27), while making some valid points about the importance of Bob Dole's freeing himself from the Senate, takes a rather snide tone about some of the younger members of the conservative movement and completely misreads the importance of pop culture in the American experience...
...By contrast, it returned more than 30 percent in 1995...
...He erred, however, by including the stock market in his analysis...
...When will the public realize that the Starbucks Emperor really has no clothes...
...The idea most quintessentially American is our belief in the capacity for perpetual rejuvenation and reinvention...
...Phyllis Schlafly Washington, DC...
...Why should the Genetically Endowed revere an old warrior...
...My only hope for a Dole victory in November was the constructive criticism directed at a truly inept campaign by honest conservatives on your editorial staff...
...As Podhoretz so eloquently illustrates, the "Genetically Endowed" are ideological adolescents who are part of the 90s pop culture...
...Because GOP electoral success raised the chances of curbing entitlement programs that are on a trajectory that could cause a fiscal collapse sometime in the next century...
...His work has inspired my policy choices as a prosecutor and has given me faith in moments when I am not sure I can endure another set of autopsy pictures...
...Does he believe that Dole can convince the voters that he can change policies toward affirmative action and gay marriage...
...Personally, I'm delighted that attractive young women are joining conservative ranks, that 30 of them formed "No Left Turn" and host fund-raising bashes for activist groups like my own Institute for Justice, and that they are bringing some fun and spirit to a movement that sometimes seems genetically dour...
...Paula Maras-Roberts Anderson, IN Stock-Market Sensitivity David Frum's "A Non-Pocketbook Election" (May 27) made some good points about how the economy can grow even in the face of bad economic policy...
Vol. 1 • June 1996 • No. 38
