law rather than force-an cesses and failures." objective thy see as the ultimate guarantor of American security Altl~ouglithere may be more and prosperity, and zuhich has been dear to liberal hearts since the democratic, and fewer authori-
Enhghtemnent. . . . tarian, states in the new world, So strilcing has been the contrast between Gulf and post-Gulf that does not mean that "the stances of liberals, that some of their critics sardonically accuse Wilsonian vision of a peaceful, them...
1960, de- pendent wives and children for the first time outnumbered uniformed personnel in the active force. Today, about 60 percent of those on active duty have spouses or other dependents. A new twist was added wit11 the integration of women into the services, beginning in the 1970s. The changes raise difficult sexual and child-care is- sues, not to mention costs. I11 fiscal year 1994, outlays for dependent health care, family hous- ing, and other items may consume $25 billion, or one-tenth of...
early July 1991.
South Africa signed the NPT on July 10,1991, and two months later concluded a safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency. After next April's unprecedented non- racial elections, an ANC-led government is ex- pected to take office. There remains the question of what the new government will do with the country's stockpile of enriched uranium. The authors are hopeful: "ANC President Nelson Man-dela has declared that South Africa must never again allow its...
Alan Brinkley, in The Join-milofAmerican History (Sept. 1993),1125 E. Atwater Ave., Bloomiiigton, Ind. 47401-3701.
The antimonopoly movement was once one of the more potent forces in American politics. It seemed on its way to new heights when Thur- man W. Arnold (1891-1969) took over the Justice Department's Antitrust Division in 1938, during the New Deal. Arnold had a radical new notion of trustbusting, and while his tenure was quite successful in some respects, he failed to win the public over...
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Polls indicate that most American women strongly support the ideal of equality be- tween the sexes, yet do not call them- selves feminists. Do these women still just not get it?Ordoes modem felninism itself need to have its collective consciousness raised? Feminists of vari- ous hues have lately been pondering a number of such "state of the movement" questions.
"The widespread belief in equality . . . is a be- lief in equality up to a point-the point w...
Robert A. Selig,in The William and Mary Quarterly (July1993),Box 8781, Williamsburg,Va. 23187-8781.
Many visiting foreigners recorded their impres- sions of 18th-century America, but few, if any, had quite die qualifications of Georg Daniel Flolv. "Relatively unburdened book learning or pre- conceived ideas, he had fewer prejudices" than many well-born observers of American life, writes Selig, a visiting professor at Hope College, in Hol- land, Michigan.
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counselors and special classes. After three years, the youngsters had higher IQs and fewer behavioral problems than others born prematurely.
The lesson of these scattered experiences seems to be that intervention works best when it is deep and long-lasting. W11ic11 leads Wil- son to a radical proposal: Why not provide public subsidies to allow the poor to send their children to public or private boarding scl~ools? The well-to-do have always had this option for the upbringing of their children,...
"Bad News Bears" Robert Licliter and Ted J. Smith, in Media Critic (1993),P.O. Box 762, Bedminster, N.J. 07921.
Watching almost any batch of network televi- sion newscasts in recent years, one would come away feeling that the nation's economy was poised on the brink of ruin.
In fact, contend Lichter, codirector of the Center for Media and Public Affairs, and Smith, associate professor of mass comm~ini- cations at Virginia Commonwealth Univer- sity, the standard TV news portrait of t...
Stephen Hess, in Society (Jan.-Feb. 1994), Rutgers-The State University, New Brunswick, N.J. 08903.
Once a staple of front pages and nightly news shows, regular coverage of Congress is now scant, especially on TV. CNN is now the only TV news organization that has correspondents cov- ering both the House and the Senate full-time, observes Hess, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
One reason for the change, he says, is a shift in power within many "mainstream" news or- ganizations....