invoking cultural rela- tivism. Many have a "distinctly anti-Western ideological agenda." They are obsessed with the Arab-Israeli dispute. And "area studies" en- claves in universities very often fail to breed de- tached, critical judgment.
ECONOMICS, LABOR &BUSINESS
A NewBusiness Ethics?
'What's the Matter with Business Ethics?" Andrew Stark, in Harvard Business Review (May-June 1993), Boston, Mass. 02163.
Business ethics is hot in academia: More than 500 courses in...
loosening the credit reins), interest rates would drop. During the 1970s, however, after the Ford and Carter administrations greatly expanded credit to cushion the oil-price shocks, inflation soared. Investors decided that loose credit caused infla- tion. Interest rates rose. "Almost overnight," Morris writes, "the financial headlines executed an about-face: if the Federal Reserve loosened credit, itwas thenceforth taken for granted that interest rates would rise, not fall."
The...
' 'Better Citizens without the Ballot': American Anti- Suffrage Women and Their Rationale During the Progressive Era" Manuela Thurner, in Journalof Women's History (Spring1993), History Dept., Ballantine Hall 742, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, Ind. 47405.
Writing under the spell of late-20th century feminism, most recent scholars have depicted
Some women who fought against female suffrage did suggest that a woman's place was in the home.
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the Progressive-era women who f...
S. Philip Morgan, Antonio McDaniel, Andrew T. Miller, and Samuel H. Preston, in American Journal of Sociology (Jan. 1993), 5835
S. Kimbark, Chicago, 111.60637.
More than half of all black children today live in female-headed families, while nearly four in five white children live in two-parent families. In recent years, many conservatives and some liberals have concluded, as Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D.-N.Y.) presciently put it in his then-controversial 1965 report, The Ne- gro Family,...
S. Philip Morgan, Antonio McDaniel, Andrew T. Miller, and Samuel H. Preston, in American Journal of Sociology (Jan. 1993), 5835
S. Kimbark, Chicago, 111.60637.
More than half of all black children today live in female-headed families, while nearly four in five white children live in two-parent families. In recent years, many conservatives and some liberals have concluded, as Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D.-N.Y.) presciently put it in his then-controversial 1965 report, The Ne- gro Family,...
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During its heyday in the 1930s and '40s, radio was a national entertainment me- dium. Local stations belonged to net- works-the National Broadcasting Company and the Columbia Broadcasting System-that offered comedy programs, action dramas, soap operas, and variety shows, and America lis- tened, notes Boston College professor Marilyn J. Matelski in a special issue of Freedom Forum's Media Studies Journal (Summer 1993) devoted to the "forgotten" medium. But...
Walter Olson, in National Review (June 21,1993), 150 E. 35th St., New York, N.Y. 10016.
When NBC News admitted earlier this year that the dramatic crash test shown on a "Dateline NBC" broadcast last November had been rigged, the fiasco was widely portrayed as, in the words of the Los Angeles Times, "an unprec- edented disaster in the annals of networknews." The use of hidden toy-rocket engines to ensure that the GM truck burst into flames was "not something anybody at '60...
Dennis Prager, in The PublicInterest (Summer 1993), 1112 16th St. N.W., Ste. 530, Washing- ton, D.C. 20036.
"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with wom- ankind; it is an abomination" declares the Bible (Leviticus 18.22). The language is so clear and direct, in the view of Prager, the author and pub- lisher of his own quarterly journal, Ultimate Is-sues, that one need only be a serious Jew or Chris- tian to be influenced it. Nevertheless, he says, in the larger scheme of things, biblical...
Dennis Prager, in The PublicInterest (Summer 1993), 1112 16th St. N.W., Ste. 530, Washing- ton, D.C. 20036.
"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with wom- ankind; it is an abomination" declares the Bible (Leviticus 18.22). The language is so clear and direct, in the view of Prager, the author and pub- lisher of his own quarterly journal, Ultimate Is-sues, that one need only be a serious Jew or Chris- tian to be influenced it. Nevertheless, he says, in the larger scheme of things, biblical...