SIDELIGHTS News Scraps
Who buys Peace Pops at the Pentagon? Michael Lerner makes [up] friends. Einstein's taxes.
SCAN Short News and Commentary
Lenin and Marx beat God. Timid Republicans. Who's too partisan? Welfare toughness works.Hazed and confused leathernecks. Anatomically correct Billy. Jane Fonda at Alcatraz.Health care Rx. Voodoo on campus. More runaway judges. Internet barbarism.
INDICATORS Reviewing Your Taxes
The tax dog bites harder. Theory vs. Practice: '60s ideas on crime, family life, drugs, sex, welfare spending, and education. Numbers on the home-schooling boom.
IN REAL LIFE First-person America
Policeman Raymond Wisher admires a citizen who defends herself. Farmer Blake Hurst sees the family home go up in smoke.
BOOK TALK Reviews of New Books
• Doug Bandow—The New Golden Rule by Amitai Etzioni• Briam Hook—The Divoice Culture by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead• Eric Marti—No Law Against Mercy: Jailed for Sheltering a Child from the State by Barbara Lyn Lapp and Rachel B. Lapp• Ernest Lefever—PBS: Behind the Screen by Laurence Jarvik• Robert Koch—Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
DIGEST Summaries of Important Research
Edited by Martin Morse Wooster
Islam as bogeyman...tear down public housing...living without arts subsidies...the war against homelessness flops...native romance...India sours on socialism.
Feature articles
Scenes from a Radical Life
By David Horowitz
A portrait of '60s activism by a founder of the New Left. Some dramatic, previously untold history— Berkeley to the American Viet Cong and beyond.
The Other 60's
By Glenn Loury
Not everyone became a hippie and manned the barricades 30 years ago.
Right in the 60's
By Karl Zinsmeister, Dana Rohrabacher, Bruce Chapman, Evan Gahr
The press ignored them, but lots of kids tuned in Barry Goldwater and turned on to "peace and freedom through superior firepower." And by the 1990s, they triumphed.
Where Radicals and Conservatives Almost Agreed
By Lynn Scarlett, Michael Barone, and Rebecca Klatch
Both Left and Right rebelled against bigness, centralization, and conformity in the 1960s. Too bad the radicals didn't want to cooperate.
Sleeping with the Enemy
By James Webb
Leading Vietnam War protesters weren't really interesting in saving American boys. They wanted the North Vietnamese to win.
A Ruined Life
By Dave Geisler
Let's not revive the '60s ideas that have almost killed my brother.
What Did You Do in the '60s?
By Fred Barnes
Secret personal histories of 1990s celebrities from James Carville to Tommy Hilfiger.
The Dysfunctional Generation
By Armstrong Williams
Speaker Gingrich and President Clinton are two of a kind— there are millions more.
The '60s Rules in Public Schools
By Karl Zinsmeister, Douglas Lasken
If you think the '60s are over and done with, pay a visit to your local public school.
