'citizen legislators' and amateur administrators." That commentator's name? George Will.
Court Politics "The Supreme Court and Political Eras: A Perspective on Judi- cial Power in a Democratic Polity" John B. Taylor, in The Review of Politics (Summer 1992), ~kiv. of ~otre~ame,
P.O. Box B, Notre Dame, Ind. 46556.
Does the Supreme Court, as Mr. Dooley said, follow "th' iliction returns," or does it, as Jus- tice Robert H. Jackson complained in 1941, the very year he assumed...
some softer, albeit authoritar- ian, regime-like that, pre- cisely, of Singapore."
Unlike Japan, China seems
inclined to translate its eco- Human rights remains a hot issue dividing the United States and nomic gains into international China, but both nations want to avoid any disruption of relations.
influence. Despite the disap- pearance of the Soviet threat, Beijing has in- creased its official military budget 52 per-cent since 1989. It has exported nuclear technology to Iran and Pakistan,...
Thomas K. McCraw, in The American Scholar (Summer 1992), 181 1 Q St. N.W., Washing- OfNotions ton, D.C. 20009.
Communism has failed, capitalism has won, hour. Yet McCraw, a Harvard historian, doubts and Adam Smith (1723-90) is the hero of the that Smith's laissez-faire version of capitalism is the wave of the future.
Smith had a profound aver- sion to any form of collective action, McCraw notes. For him, individuals and markets were "natural," but institu- tions and organizational h...
Michael E. Porter, in Harvard Business Review
(Sept.-Oct. 19921, Boston, Mass. 02163.
Critics of America's economic performance Porter, who directed an extensive research have been saying for years that US. business is project sponsored the Council on Competi- too oriented toward the short term. Harvard's tiveness and the Harvard Business School,
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agrees and thinks he can explain the myopia.
The problem stems partly from the fact that publicly traded U.S. firms...
still only that. "The presence of knowledgeable major owners, bankers, customers, and suppli- ers on corporate boards has diminished," Por- ter notes. Nearly three-fourths of the directors of the largest U.S. corporations are outsiders, with little knowledge about or stake in the com- panies they oversee.
Lack of information about their businesses also hinders top corporate managers. Many
U.S. firms in recent decades have opted for a decentralized organizational structure involv- ing...
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947), an English-edu-cated Indian intellectual who spent the last half of his life in the United States. "The Coomaraswamian museum would showcase objects not as exemplars of eternal aesthetic values but as manifestations of a particular civi- lization's particular philosophical worldview or religious sensibility. It would, in short, resem- ble a museum of anthropology or comparative religion." Truth, not sensation, is the proper goal of art, after all, and...
Katherine BOO, in The Washington The News, Monthly (Nov. 1992), 1611 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Washington, With Feeling D.C. 20009, and "MO Knows" Leslie Kaufrnan, in Washing-
ton Journalism Review (Oct. 1992), 4716 Pontiac St., Ste. 310, College Park. Md. 20740-2493.
Washington correspondent Maureen Dowd is a talented and amusing wordsmith. During the Democratic primaries last year, Senator Robert Kerrey (D.-Neb.) emerged from her word pro- cessor with "large blue eyes and a light-bulb s...
Katherine BOO, in The Washington The News, Monthly (Nov. 1992), 1611 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Washington, With Feeling D.C. 20009, and "MO Knows" Leslie Kaufrnan, in Washing-
ton Journalism Review (Oct. 1992), 4716 Pontiac St., Ste. 310, College Park. Md. 20740-2493.
Washington correspondent Maureen Dowd is a talented and amusing wordsmith. During the Democratic primaries last year, Senator Robert Kerrey (D.-Neb.) emerged from her word pro- cessor with "large blue eyes and a light-bulb s...
two rival corporations, are a mixed lot. That very diversity, Clausen argues, suggests that the stereotype of the tabloid reader-"a gullible, semiliterate gum-chewer of lower-class origins and pathological tastesn-is just "a figment of the educated imagination, en- couraged the mainstream press to empha- size its superiority." If tabloid readers were that dumb, they would not be reading at all.
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What do the 3.8 million mostly female read- ers of the Nat...
1650 and Puritan govern- ments were highly democratic. "As the doc- trine of popular sovereignty gradually spread to most of the English colonies, it shaped Ameri- can mores, embedding the 'spirit of liberty' deep within the American character."
the 1830s, Tocqueville observed, that spirit of freedom had overcome the "spirit of religion" within Christianity itself. Orthodoxy became far less important, zealotry gave way to toleration, and the miraculous and other- worldly aspects...