MTV used to be about ambition. Now it’s about hot tubs.
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The Agony of Ecstasy
How a suburban party diversion is becoming a dangerous street drug.
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Reassigning Tim Russert
Getting Washington reporters to cover the things that count.
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Was It Worth It?
A new book shatters many myths about Vietnam, but misses the larger point.
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The SAT Meritocracy
Several years ago in these pages, I 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endorsed Baltzell’s observation that the old American “Protestant Establishment” (another term Baltzell invented) had been replaced by a new “SAT meritocracy.”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 […]
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In Search of the Real Three Little Pigs
I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll make you pick up your trash…
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It’s Unreal
In this summer’s hit movie, Independence Day, the president oversees attacks against the aliens by watching fancy color monitors with live-action images of airplanes and spaceships. A Marine pilot brings down a trailing alien fighter by deliberately opening and releasing his F18’s tail parachute in flight so that it flops on the alien’s windshield and […]
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How Washington Tries to Strangle Even the Best Ideas
The inside story of how a bill became a law shows how the capital’s self-interested forces nearly derailed one of the most important reforms since the GI Bill.
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Governing Under the Influence
Washington alcoholics: their aides
protect them, the media shields them.
