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Forget Gender and All Other Gaps: Think Growth
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
9.27.2000
Fred Siegel has a provocative and ominous theory about the dynamics of the current election campaign. For those who don’t know him, Siegel teaches at the Cooper Union in New York, and is the author of one of the best books on urban politics in the last 25 years (The Future Once Happened Here, recently released in paperback by Encounter Books). Fred is well worth paying attention to because he is usually right. He now sees an interesting correlation on the nation’s electoral map.
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An Olympic Moment
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
9.22.2000
The quadrennial jock-fest is in full swing down under, with nine drug disqualifications by day two, recalling the dictum of Joseph Brodsky, the Russian who became the poet laureate of the United States, that athletics has become a branch of veterinary medicine. The solution might be to follow drag racing and have separate classifications for “stock” and “modified.” Also calling for reflection is an event which took place just before the Olympics began.
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Energy Bills: Temporary Measures Versus Long-Term Relief
Action Alerts
By: Laura Steadman
9.22.2000
Earlier this month Governor Gray Davis signed AB265 and AB970, the culmination of weeks of scrambling by lawmakers to provide relief from skyrocketing utility bills in San Diego. These measures, however, provide only temporary relief.
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And The Bride Wore Irony
The Contrarian
9.13.2000
Gloria Steinem has finally come to terms with the radical concept that a man and a woman might possibly join together without the union taking place in some antiquated domination ceremony. Ms. Steinem has married, taking part in an institution she previously described as “designed for a person and a half.” It's about time this overexposed ideologue changed her tune.
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Last Stand for Race Preference Reactionaries?
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
9.13.2000
At a recent hearing before the California Supreme Court, the defenders of race and gender preferences looked like Custer at Little Big Horn. Surrounded by hostile justices firing legal and analytical arrows, the preference die-hards could only answer back with pop-gun claims and rhetoric. The consensus among observers: it was a massacre.
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The Stealth Campaign
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
9.7.2000
“Never in living memory have American politics been so unfocused,” wrote Irving Kristol two months ago. This lack of focus on the part of the electorate has been borne out by the wild swings in the opinion polls over recent weeks. Norman Ornstein has quipped that the U.S. at the moment is “a hotbed of social rest,” which is why The Kiss seems to be moving voters’ emotions more than any set of issues.
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