Oscar Handlin, in The American Scholar (Spring 1993), 1811 Q St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009.
Americans revel in their rights. Every educated American knows what the First Amendment says and even children know what it means to "take the Fifth." But nobody seems to know the Ninth Amendment, observes Handlin, the noted Harvard historian. They should, he argues, for it holds the key to a different, and wholly supe- rior, notion of rights from what we know today.
The Ninth Amendment states:...
the state be brought to an as a morally legitimate way of life, until outraged parents objected. end. That means, in his view, ending the ban on homosexuals in theWhlitary and allowing people of the same of equality, while leaving all the inequality of
sex to marry. "These two measures . . . represent emotion and passion to the private sphere, a politics that . . . makes a clear, public statement where they belong."
FOREIGN POLICY & DEFENSE
Vietnam: Who Served and Who Did Not?
A S...
~illiarnPfaff, in ForeignAffairs (Summer 1993),58 E. 68th St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
Many in the West believe that war in the Balkans stems from ancient and immutable hatreds, and that barbarism issomehow a natural state of affairs in that comer of the world. This fatalistic view has served to rationalize Western inaction in the former Yugoslavia, notes Pfaff, a columnist and author. Indeed, some of the combatants do see them- selves as avenging ancient wrongs, starting with the Battle of Kosovo...
Robert Eisner, in The Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (April 1993), Norton's Woods, 136 Irving St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138.
The sense of alarm over the nation's mounting national debt is now so widespread that it is re- freshing to read the occasional dissenter. One of these is Eisner, an economist at Northwestern University, past president of the American Eco- nomics Association, and a long-time critic of what might be called the "sky is falling" school of economics.
To...
Robert Eisner, in The Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (April 1993), Norton's Woods, 136 Irving St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138.
The sense of alarm over the nation's mounting national debt is now so widespread that it is re- freshing to read the occasional dissenter. One of these is Eisner, an economist at Northwestern University, past president of the American Eco- nomics Association, and a longtime critic of what might be called the "sky is falling" school of economics.
To...
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A Survey of Recent Articles
social scientists have gathered masses of evidence that confirm what was once con- sidered common sense about families, writes Barbara Defoe Whitehead in the Atlantic (April1993):Children in single-parent families
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are more likely to be poor, to have emotional or behavioral problems, to drop out of high school, to become pregnant as teenagers, to abuse drugs, to get in trouble with the law, and to be victims of physical or sexual abuse.
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iew (Feb. 1993). Over the past two centuries, since the Industrial Revolution began, there has been a shift away from the family as the basic unit of social organization. "As . . . many of its functions have moved outside the household [e.g., to the workplace], child rearing has moved increasingly out of the household as well. Con- structed social organization, in the form of the school, the nursery school, and the daycare cen- ter, [has] taken over many components of child rearing." These...
journalist (and future senator) Richard L. Neuberger, for ex- ample, Dorothy McCullough Lee was portrayed as both an "ethereally pale housewife" with a "frail, willowy" appearance and the hard-nosed mayor of Portland, Oregon, who had success- fully fought organized crime and was "headed for national distinction."
The magazines that set the tone of postwar America did not pretend that women were crea- tures only of hearth and home. In reality, Friedan, herself a veteran...
white society," explained a Warner as a very positive one, but one that was re- Brothers vice president.
RELIGION &PHILOSOPHY
The Secret Cabinet of Dr. Foucault
A Survey of Recent Articles
L ittle known outside the academy, Michel Foucault (1926-84) is an exem- plary figure to many tenured radicals within it and an influential one to many other scholars. 'Whatever else Foucault was, he was a great Nietzschean hero," Princeton's Alexander Nehamas writes in the New Republic (Feb. 1...
JeffreyK. Hadden, in The Annals (May 1993), the American Acad. of Political and Social Science, 3937 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19104.
Since the sex scandals of the late 1980s that brought down TV preachers Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart, evangelical religious broad- rhetoric. ...What positive conception he pos- sessed of a less oppressive society remains mys- terious."
some of Foucault's admirers fear that Miller's book will have an unwhole- some effect. It vividly demonstrates "why...