The Abbe GalianiFrancis Steegmuller
"The Laughing Philosopher"
About MenJason DeParle
About cold beer, willing women, hazing, conformity--about fraternities.
Truman vs. Dewey: The 1948 Election
The Accidental PresidencyAlonzo L. Hamby
The activist PastorRuben Castaneda
Archbishop Roger Mahony heads Los Angeles' diverse and sprawling Catholic diocese with ...
Ada
Ada---A Software Engineering ToolRichard D. Riehle
No more waivers---the DoD, NASA, the FAA, et al mandate maintainable code
The Admiral Who Jumped ShipMichael Johns
Inside the Center for Defense Information
The Affirmative Action ComplexMitchell Bard
The illusion of societal responsibility.
Affirmative-Action AdmissionsJohn H. Bunzel
How it "Works" at UC Berkeley
Afghan Peace FlurriesAhmed Rashid
Can the Russians Find a Way Out?
AfghanistanZalmay Khalilzad
Anatomy of a Soviet Failure
AfricaSteven R. David
Moscow's Dubious Investment
Africa and the Difference Between Growing Food and Eating ItDavid Osterfeld
Economic development is the answer to Africa's food crisis.
The African Killing FieldsRobert D. Kaplan
You heard all about the Ethiopian famine. Here's the story that President Reagan, relie...
Reason Interview
After ApartheidWalter E. Williams
Leon Louw Frances Kendall
After the DebacleAndrew Kopkind
What's Next for the Democrats
In the World
After the Green RevolutionArthur R. Kroeber
The Struggle to Produce Food
After the PartyThomas E. Weisskopf
How Can We Overcome the Legacy of Reaganomics?
Agency Costs and Unregulated BanksCatherine England
Could Depositors Protect Themselves?
Agriculture in CanadaMichele M. Veeman and Terrence S. Veeman
AIDSJ.S. Taub
As a disease, AIDS has reached epidemic proportions. As a political issue, AIDS is frau...
Notes
AIDS and The Politics of MorbidityRobert D'Amico and A. Joseph Layon
AIDS in prisonMarc Lifsher
The California Department of Corrections has isolated AIDS-afflicted inmates at its med...
AIDS in the Information AGEJeffrey Chester and Barbara Tannenbaum
Air Defense InititiativeDavid Kattenburg
Sneaking Canada into S.D.I.
All the Hungry PeopleKarl Zinsmeister
How many millions more will die of hunger before the world wakes up to the politics of ...
Allan Bloom and the CriticsWerner J. Dannhauser
In the eighteen months since the release of the Closing of the American Mind, reactions...
Altered ImagesCaroline Harris and Jennifer Moore
Am I a Camera?David Herlihy
Other Reflections on Films and History
Books
The Amateur ProfessionJ.C. Furnas
Career Counseling for Writers
America in the Pacific CenturyJerry W. Sanders
Burden-Sharing or Economic Entente
American CompetitivenessRichard B. McKenzie
Do We Really Need to Worry?
Notebook
American EducationIrving Howe and David Bromwich
In These Times
American Jews and Israeli PolicyHillel Schenker
The Voices of Dissent Grow Louder
Americans and the PopeAdelle-Marie Stan
The Voices of Catholic Dissent
America's Economic FutureJeff Faux
The Austerity Trap and the Growth Alternative
America's Favorite Whipping BoysTom Clancy
Both Left and Right Misrepresent Our Military
America's "New Thinking"Daniel Yankelovich and Richard Smoke
Among the BarlowsVictor Bobb
Lessons learned among itinerant farm workers.
Among the IntellectualoidsCarol Iannone
Analyzing a Feminist Whine
The American Spectator, May 1988, pp. 30-31
Among the IntellectualoidsChester E. Finn, Jr.
The Social Studies Debacle
The American Spectator, May 1988, pp. 35-36
Among the IntellectualoidsMartin Morse Wooster
Nixon at the Kennedy Center
Among the IntellectualoidsWayne Michael Sarf
Russell Means on Custer Hill
...And Start Helping the UnderclassJason DeParle
What Robert Kennedy could teach today's Democrats.
Views
Andrew Lytle Talks to Madison Smartt BellAndrew Lytle and Madison Smartt Bell
AnnotationL.J. Davis
Holding It Together Until November
AnnotationGeorge W.S. Trow
A Grim Obligation That Might Be Made to Work
AnnotationFred Kaplan
Little Hope for Fewer Missiles
The Harpers Monthly, May 1988, pp. 52-53
AnnotationNick Kotz
Shedding Light on Stealth
AnnotationAlexander Cockburn and Ken Silverstein
The System That Brought Down Flight 655
AnnotationMichael Zimecki
Filling Out the Last Form
AnnotationVeronica Geng
Nicaragua, On the Back Burner
Approaching the BenchRobert A. Katzmann
Judicial Confirmation in Perspective
The Arab-Israeli Conflict---Are These the Solutions?Daniel J. Elazar
Do We Know The Problem---Are There Solutions?
The Arab-Israeli Conflict---Are These the Solutions?El Sayed Abdel Raouf El Reedy
An International Conference For Peace
The Arab-Israeli Conflict---Are These the Solutions?Abraham H. Foxman
Perspective and Patience are the Keynotes
The Arab-Israeli Conflict---Are These the Solutions?Leon Hyamson
Israel and the Arabs---A Talmudic Solution (With Apologies to Jacobowsky)
The Arab-Israeli Conflict---Are These the Solutions?Michael Lerner
End the Occupation and Show Respect for the Palestinian People
The Arab-Israeli Conflict---Are These the Solutions?Milton H. Polin
Ultimately, God Will Provide The Solution
The Arab-Israeli Conflict---Are These the Solutions?Henry Siegman
The Inescapable Consequences of Demography
Are Credit Card Interest Rates Too High?Jorge Amador
The value of maintaining s free market in credit card interest rates.
Are You Completely Bald?Richard Blow and Ari Posner
Arms and the CandidatesMichael T. Klare
The U.S. and the World After Reagan
Arms Wrestling Over EuropeMelvyn Krauss
Imagine a big, strong football player and a small, soft scholar, and you'll begin to se...
ArtMike Starn and Doug Starn
Portraits
ArtJames Gardner
Georgia O'Keeffe in Washington
ArtJames Gardner
Paul Gauguin in the Vanguard
Asians and UCElizabeth Aoki
The Asian community is at odds with the University of California over admissions polici...
AssessmentDave Roediger
The Secretary of Education's New Clothese
Assistant Secretary of What?Matthew Cooper, Jason DeParle, and Charles Peters, ...
The secret jobs that can really make a difference.
Averting DisasterDavid Moberg
The Choices Facing American Agriculture
Averting Disaster in the PhilippinesRichard G. Stilwell
What Government and Army Must Do to Defeat the Communists
Perspective
Avoiding DemocracyThomas Fleming
Is American citizenship a bill of rights and duties or just a bill of goods?
War and Peace in the Middle East
The Baghdad AlternativeLaurie Mylroie
The Banking CrisisHans F. Sennholz
The crumbling of our overregulated national banking system.
Base ManeuversDick Armey
The Games Congress Plays with the Military Pork Barrel
Bashing no-growthDonna Prokop
Developers are using large warchests to successfully fight initiatives sponsored by no-...
Articles
Basic DukanomicsAndrew Kopkind and Alexander Cockburn
Mike Dukakis's Political Economy
Bates' TuneSuzanne Moore
Interview with Simon Bates
Articles
Battling the F.D.A.Mark Gevisser
AIDS Movement Seizes Control
Bayou Billy, Dutch, and the DukeDavid Kleck
Michael Dukakis picks up in the Big Easy where Gary Hart left off.
Beauty and the BeastHoward Baetjer
A Hair-Raising Tale of Combs, Curlers, and Regulation 09.22.01.11 B
Inside Story
Behind the Burma CrisisDavid W. Brown
U.S. Policy from the '50s
Articles
Behind the Olympics FacadeBernard Stephens
Labor Resurgence in South Korea
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Columns
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Columns
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
BentsenDave Denison
The Duke of Oil Used to Be a McCarthyite
Public Interest Groups
The Best and WorstRita McWilliams
From lifting up the poor to shaking down the elderly.
Articles
Better Child CareNancy Folbre and Heidi Hartmann
A New Politics of Entitlement
Beyond Hayek: a Critique of Central PlanningTibor R. Machan
Shielding individual sovereignty from state intrusion.
Beyond Mr. GradgrindConstance Horner
The Case for Deregulating the Public Sector
Articles
Beyond the IntifadaDaoud Kuttab
The Struggle to Build a Nation
Beyond VictoryMatthew Countryman
Lessons of the Divestment Drive
Bicentennial BustJamie Kitman and Ruth Yodaiken
Celebrating (Yawn) the Constitution
The Big HeadacheCharles C. Mann and Mark L. Plummer
Big money initiativesCharles M. Price
The initiative process has become a captive of wealthy special interests, but big money...
The Big Sleazy: Love Canal Ten Years LaterAndrew Danzo
For the residents of Love Canal, it was bad enough dealing with 21,800 tons of toxic oo...
Biological WarfareCharles Piller
Lethal Lies About Fatal Diseases
BiotechnologyJames B. Rule
Big Money Comes to the University
Birth Control, Women's Health CareMaggie Garb
Tough Issues for the Next President
The bishops & their criticsWilliam M. Sullivan and Richard Madsen
Black and White Mischief in ChicagoAlgis Valiunas
Only lunatics can survive in this asylum.
In the Nation
The Black ElectorateSalim Muwakkil
Ignored by the GOP and Treated 'Like Pariahs' by Democrats
"Blat": Corruption in Eastern EuropeMichael Brewer
An exchange student learns how communist economies really work.
Blues and the Abstract TruthBarry N. Malzberg and Jack Dann
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1988, pp. 66-71
Board out of controlMax Boot
The state Board of Control is a small bureaucracy overwhelmed by a very big job - the V...
Board-and-care homesCatherine Hedgecock and Richard Hanner
There is a shortage of money and a shortage of space to care for those who can't care f...
The bond explosionEd Mendel
Governor George Deukmejian once tried to hold bond proposals to $1 billion per election...
California Journal, May 1988, pp. 215-220
Booker T. Washington: Apostle of FreedomRobert A. Peterson
"he lifted the veil of ignorance from his people and pointed the way to progress throug...
Departments
BooksAlgis Budrys
An Essay on Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1988, pp. 26-31
Books for ChristmasOnce again, bipartisan gift suggestions for the Holidays from eminent readers and writers.
Boom Time for Black AmericaJoseph Perkins
The Middle Class Is Surging under Reagan
The Border Closed at MidnightDagmar M. Anderson
One family's bold escape from Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia.
The Brady Report: Threat to Stock Market StabilityChristopher L. Culp
Proposals that would actually increase the likelihood of another crash.
Brave New WorldKarl Zinsmeister
How Day-Care Harms Children
Brawley and OthersJeff Jones
Justice in the Hudson Valley
Breaking Mr MaynardJames Taranto
He built a better egg cracker, and the regulators beat a path to his door.
Bring Back the Orphanage.Lois G. Forer
An answer for today's abused children.
Bringing the Pirates to BayGary McGath
Concerning property rights and software piracy.
Broadcasting, Property Rights, and the First AmendmentGordon T. Anderson
Federal control of the airwaves is antithetical to the principles of a free society.
The Budget Cutters' Missing LinkPeter J. Ferrara
Give Taxpayers an Incentive to Control Government Spending
Channel 5
Building BlocksJos Boys
Interview with Martin Pawley and Jules Lubbock
Bumper-Sticker EconomicsCecil E. Bohanon and T. Norman Van Cott
Who really pays those road-use taxes?
The Burden of BureaucracyM.E. Bradford
Fighting the war against an entrenched government "army."
Burden-sharing DebatedMichael Legge and Richard Perle
Bush Says "Shush"Angus Mackenzie and Eve Pell
Bush, Drugs and PakistanLawrence Lifschultz
Inside the Kingdom of Heroin
Campaign 88
Bush's BashJohn B. Judis
Grand Old Problems and Some Embarrassing New Ones
Articles
Bush's C.I.A.David Corn
The Same Old Dirty Tricks
The business lobbyMax Boot
Although they represent thousands of businesses and corporations, the state's business ...
Departments
The Business of AmericaIrwin M. Stelzer
Plant Closings and the Republicans
The Business of AmericaIrwin M. Stelzer
The SEC vs. Drexel Burnham Milken
The Business of AmericaIrwin M. Stelzer
OPEC and the Next President
Articles
Busting the BoomletDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Why Nunn Isn't the One
By the Late Morning's LightThomas Mallon
The first shuttle launch since Challenger raised questions about the future and purpose...
C.I.A. Off CampusEric Joselyn
Closing the Company Store
The C.I.A.'s WarMartha Honey and Tony Avirgan
Cable tangleDaniel Carson
The California cable TV industry may be new to legislative wheelings and dealings, but ...
In These Times
CaliforniaPaul Rauber
Duke Drools over the 'Big Enchilada'
California Dreamin'James Fallows
The trip West freed my father from the constraints of class and custom.
California's Prop. 71Peter Schrag
Turning Point on Fiscal Austerity?
California's puny primaryRichard Bergholz
Efforts to give the state more say in presidential politics have gone for naught as Cal...
BASIC
Call, Gosub, and Multi-line FunctionsEthan Winer
Which approach you should favor---when
Camelot and DallasJefferson Morley
The Entangling Kennedy Myths
Campaign 1988Richard Zeiger and A.G. Block
California Journal's district-by-district analyses of the June primary election.
Campaign 1988Campaign '88 was memorable for its dearth of substance, its distortions and its lack of...
Campaign softwareFaith Alchorn
Computers do in an hour what it once took campaign volunteers weeks to accomplish.
Departments
The Campaign SpectatorVictor Gold
Dirty Harry and the Whistle-Stop Caper
Campus Activities: Who Pays the Bills?Joseph S. Fulda
A remedy for some ills affecting student organizations.
CanadaDoug Smith
1988 Is Year of Living Dangerously
The "Canadian Stratagem"Tom Engelhardt
How to Create a Land of Liberals
Capital Takes to SpaceJ. Anthony Daniel
There's money to be made-if you can get around NASA and its empty promises.
Capitalism and the JewsMilton Friedman
Why is it that despite the historical record of the benefits of competitive capitalism,...
Capitol IdeasTom Bethell
The Blindfolded Synagogue
Capitol IdeasTom Bethell
Reagan, Armand, Gorby & Cockburn
Capitol IdeasTom Bethell
New Orleans Spells No Real News
The Case Against KidsJason DeParle
When parents sacrifice their ideals in the name of their children, both suffer.
The Case Against the SATJames Crouse and Dale Trusheim
The Case for DenialPaul Glastris
What the handicapped movement can learn from a Totally Normal Guy.
Pascal
A CASE of the JumpsTom Swan
Add fast jump table CASE statements to Turbo Pascal 4.0
Casey's Man in BeirutMark Perry
The "Burning" of William Buckley
The Catastrophic Health Care BlunderRobert S. England
The story of how Ronald Reagan, Otis Bowen, and a rogue Congress came up with what migh...
The Caucasian ImbroglioErik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Caught in the Tuna NetsAndrew Davis
The Slaughter of Dolphins
Cause and EffectAngela Cooper, Femi Otitoju, and Adam Mars-Jones, ...
To Cave Explorers from the WestGeorge Konrad
Some Words of Advice from Hungary
Caveat EmptorWalter Block
Has the notion of personal responsibility been banished from the legal scene?
Celebrating the Constitution-and Village FiresRichard R. Mayer
A closer look at last year's pageantry.
The Center for Defense MisinformationMichael Fumento
Admiral La Rocque and his crew at CDI have given new meaning to the bashing of U.S. nat...
A Challenge from withinPat Keeble
Contra Costa County Supervisor Sunne McPeak has tired of waiting for an opportunity to ...
California Journal, May 1988, pp. 200-214
Challenges to Democratization in BrazilGuillermo O'Donnell
The Threat of a Slow Death
Channel VisionsDavid Elstein, Claire Enders, and Nicholas Fraser, ...
Character AssassinsJoe Queenan
Today's short-story writers think life in America is dull, and so they fill their work ...
Charity, Faith, and HopeMichael Aeschliman and Ian Whitehead
Charles Schwab and the Steel IndustryBurt Folsom
The fall and rise of an entrepreneur.
Charter 88Charter 88
A Bill of Rights for Britain
Chilean PlebisciteCynthia Brown
Democracy vs. Fear and Propaganda
Chile's TransitionSergio Bitar and Juan Pablo Cardenas
Interviews by Roger Burbach
China's ChildrenVern L. Bullough and Fang-fu Ruan
Chinese-American PoliticsPeter Kwong and JoAnn Lum
A Silent Minority Tests Its Clout
Christianity and the Modern Political OrderWalter B. Mead
The Question of Functionality
Christic Mystics and Their Drug-Running TheoriesDavid Brock
An obscure Washington institute is filling America's head with nonsense and making a ki...
The American Spectator, May 1988, pp. 22-26
Articles
Christic's LawsuitDavid Corn
Is There Really a "Secret Team"?
Churches as Political CommunitiesKenneth D. Wald, Dennis E. Owen, and Samuel S. Hill, Jr., ...
American Political Science Review, June 1988, pp. 531-548
Citizen's GainsPaul Corrigan, Trevor Jones, John Lloyd, and Jock Young, ...
Perspective
Citizens of the Welfare StateThomas Fleming
If welfare is a civil right, what are its obligations?
The clash over couthJohn Raess
First-term incumbent Ernie Konnyu has a serious primary challenge from Stanford profess...
California Journal, May 1988, pp. 196-197
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