E. DigBaltzell and Howard G.On the Bench Schneiderman, in Society (May-June 1991), Rutgers-The State University, New Brunswick, N.J. 08903.
America's aristocrats, Tocqueville ob- served, are to be found not among the rich, but rather occupying "the judicial bench and bar." Insulated from popular pressures and appointed for life, the jus- tices of the Supreme Court appear to be the cream of that aristocracy. It seems only natural that they would be people of privileged origins, especially c...
upper-class presidents." Still, Americans of more modest origins
may be glad to know, one of the chief jus- tices ranked the authors as among the very greatest, Earl Warren, rose from quite humble beginnings. He was, it seems, a true aristocrat.
Liberalism at Bay "Race" by Thomas Byrne Edsall with Mary D. Edsall, in The
Atlantic (May 1991), 745 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. 02116.
The Democratic Party, which has lost five of the last six presidential elections, has a serious...
Clark Clifford with Richard Holbrooke, in The New Yorker (May 6, 13, 20, Wise Men 1991), 20 West 43rd St., New York, N.Y. 10036.
On March 31, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson stunned the nation announc- ing that he would not seek another term in the White House. The surprise came at the end of a speech in which he unveiled a limited halt to the bombing of North Viet- nam and proposed peace negotiations. Was his sacrifice made in an effort to end a war that-after prodding by the fabled Wise Men o...
W. R. Connor, in The American Why the Experts Scholar (Spring 1991), 1811 Q St. N.W., Washington, D.C.
Were So Wrong 20009.
Despite prodigious intellectual labors (and prodigious sums spent to make them pos- sible), Western Sovietologists failed to foresee in any clear way the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and East- ern Europe. Where did the analysts go wrong? Connor, director of the National Humanities Center at Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. savs that it was in
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W. R. Connor, in The American Why the Experts Scholar (Spring 1991), 1811 Q St. N.W., Washington, D.C.
Were So Wrong 20009.
Despite prodigious intellectual labors (and prodigious sums spent to make them pos- sible), Western Sovietologists failed to foresee in any clear way the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and East- ern Europe. Where did the analysts go wrong? Connor, director of the National Humanities Center at Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. savs that it was in
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Ronald Radosh and Eric Breindel, in The NewExplosive Intelligence Republic (June 10, 1991), 1220 19th St. N.W., Washington, D.C.
Diehard defenders of Julius and Ethel Ro- senberg and other convicted Soviet spies have long dismissed the idea that espio- nage might have helped the Soviet Union learn how to make an atomic bomb. Now comes confirmation that that was exactly what happened, and it comes from an un- expected source: the KGB itself. Radosh, co-author of The Rosenberg File (1983), and Breindel,...
Robert B.Reich, in Corporations Without Issues in Science and Technology (Winter 1990-91), National Countries Acad. of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Ave., Washington, D.C.
20418.
Does improving U.S. "competitiveness" mean making American-owned corpora- tions more productive and profitable, and boosting their share of world markets? Not so much as it once did, contends Reich, of Harvard's Kennedy School of Govern- ment. With U.S. corporations increasingly employing foreign workers, and f...
Sally Clarke, in The Journal of Eco- nomic History (Mar. 1991), 21 1 Watkins Home, Hall Ctr. for the Humanities, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045.
Many Americans have come to believe that government interference with market forces always hinders economic growth. Clarke, a historian at the University of Texas, has come up with a case to the con- trary: New Deal intervention in the agri- cultural economy.
To be sure, setting prices and restrict- ing farm production Washington "dis-torted c...
James S. Coleman,
'Correct' SU~~Y~SS~O~
in National Review (Mar. 18, 1991), 150 E. 35th St., New York,
N.Y. 10016.
Whence comes the most serious threat to academic freedom? According to Univer- sity of Chicago sociologist James S. Cole- man, it comes not from craven university administrators or a philistine public, nor even from "politically correct" students, but from the very highest priests of the temples of learning-the professors. "There are taboos on certain topics," he say...
James S. Coleman,
'Correct' SU~~Y~SS~O~
in National Review (Mar. 18, 1991), 150 E. 35th St., New York,
N.Y. 10016.
Whence comes the most serious threat to academic freedom? According to Univer- sity of Chicago sociologist James S. Cole- man, it comes not from craven university administrators or a philistine public, nor even from "politically correct" students, but from the very highest priests of the temples of learning-the professors. "There are taboos on certain topics," he say...