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Clueless
Most people don't pay much attention to the news--which makes you wonder about all those polls.
Reason, March 1996
During the federal government's first shutdown last fall, CNN sent a reporter out to get the proverbial man-in-the-street's thoughts on the subject. The reporter roamed what's usually referred to as "the affluent Westside" of Los Angeles, asking people why the government was closed and what Congress and the president were arguing about -
Pat Buchanan's South Carolina Problem
The Wall Street Journal, March 01, 1996
Yankee writers tend to think of Southerners as poor, backward souls who wave Confederate flags, worship their ancestors, and secretly long for the return of Jim Crow. Pat Buchanan is a typical Yankee writer. -
It's All in the Head
Forbes ASAP, February 25, 1996
"What is wealth?" the congressman asks the economist, and is unsatisfied with an answer involving gross national product. The congressman, who's spent most of his own career in nonpolitical pursuits, has other things in mind. He worries about an economy too dependent on trade and services. Farming, mining, and manufacturing, he believes, create wealth, transforming raw materials into something more valuable. Pretty much everything else--the work of physicians, for instance--only consumes wealth. -
Bloc Busters
Conservatives' sudden discomfort with markets threatens the GOP coalition.
Reason, February 1996
When he isn't busy defending the Unabomber's message in the pages of The Nation, self-styled "neo-Luddite" Kirkpatrick Sale gives speeches attacking just about every technological improvement since fire. The speeches end with a bang, as Sale hauls out a sledgehammer and smashes a personal computer -
Abreast of History
Why breast implants are bigger than the New Hampshire primary.
Reason, January 1996
The Very Important Conservative had read the October issue of REASON and had only one comment: "You had that eight-page article on breast implants." He has a very expressive voice, ironic and amused, so while he didn't actually roll his eyes, it seemed as though he had -
Hooray for Risk
Forbes ASAP, December 03, 1995
For its second conference on "Cyberspace and the American Dream," the Progress & Freedom Foundation decided to match the medium to the message. It not only brought various digerati to Aspen to discuss cyberissues. It also established a Web page and lined up co-sponsors, including Reason, to moderate on-line discussions and record and post the Aspen proceedings. -
Race to the Bottom
The conservative fixation on racial categories.
Reason, December 1995
It's been a strange season for race relations in America. -
Honest Admission
Even Progressive planners knew some migration defies regulation.
Reason, November 1995
California Gov. Pete Wilson officially declared his presidential candidacy with the Statue of Liberty in the background, then he hopped a ferry for Ellis Island. He talked about his Irish grand mother, Kate Barton Callahan, and how she'd cleaned hotel rooms to support her daughter after her husband, a Chicago cop, was killed in the line of duty -
Million Man March
Los Angeles Times, October 18, 1995
I was in Washington, quite by accident, for the Million Man March. And it was great. -
Overclass Rules
Forbes ASAP, October 08, 1995
All capital is vulnerable to confiscation and redistribution, to seizure in the name of fairness or popular will. Human capital is no exception. And for more than a decade, an intellectual campaign has been building for the confiscation of human capital.