The Keystone Kops behind the cameras.
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Posted inMagazine, November 1997
You’ve Come a Long Way, Maybe
JonBenet, Diana, the princess fantasy, and what it has done to women.
Posted inMagazine, October 1997
Why Mitch McConnell Should Know Better
Campaign finance reform’s No. 1 enemy need look no farther than his home state to see why money and politics don’t mix
Posted inMagazine, September 1997
Where Are the Good Guys When We Need Them?
While the public interest groups fiddle, campaign finance reform burns.
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The SAT Meritocracy
Several years ago in these pages, IÂ reviewed a book by E. Digby Bakzell, the sociologist of the American elite (he invented the term WASP), and heartily endorsed Baltzell’s observation that the old American “Protestant Establishment” (another term Baltzell invented) had been replaced by a new “SAT meritocracy.” I suggested that the rise of the latter […]
Posted inJuly 1997, Magazine
The Real Class War
When it comes to taxes, it’s the rich against the rest of us.
Posted inJune 1997, Magazine
Mr. Smooth Comes to Washington
Vernon Jordan is the ultimate Washington insider—rich, powerful, and unaccountable.
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Apocalypse Later
By chance, two bits of writing on the Antarctic ice shelf recently crossed my desk on the same day. One was a galley of The Heat Is On, a new book by veteran journalist Ross Gelbspan. It begins by asserting that the vast astral ice field may soon topple into the ocean, raising sea levels […]
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It’s Not As Bad As You Think It Is
One of President Clinton’s main challenges in his second term is going to be trying to move the United States away from a self-conception as a nation in crisis. It’s a problem partly of his own making. In his 1995 State of the Union address, for example, delivered right on the heels of the big […]
