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Table of contents
BIRD'S EYE
When Black and White Turn Gray
By Karl Zinsmeister
Knee-jerk racial reactions and the bad habit of filtering all our thinking by race are politically dangerous as well as factually misleading. Worse yet, these practices will (if we allow them to root) doom efforts to elevate individual lives and improve American society.
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SIDELIGHTS
News Scraps
The Spice Girls fly Air Force One. Desperate Democrats. Gore's eco-crimes.
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SCAN
Short News and Commentary
By Ralph Reiland, Ted Rueter, David C. Stolinsky, Evan Gahr, Kevin Butler, Benjamin J. Stein, Kenneth Lee
Ben Stein on old racism and new. Hypocrites on parade. It didn't start with Monica.Al Sharpton, Democrat hero. Jews & guns. Deceased white males. Thanks for not voting!
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INDICATORS
Numbers etc.
Edited by Karl Zinsmeister
American tolerance. The disappearing white-black income gap. Race, crime, and class.
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"LIVE" WITH TAE
Leonard Garment
Richard Nixon's White House lawyer Leonard Garment talks about his boss, President Clinton, morality, and impeachment.
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TRANSCRIPT
The Great Divide
By W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois debate the best strategy for advancing the black race.
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IN REAL LIFE
The Daily Work of Americans
By Dale Anema, Michael Casper
Salesman Dale Anema has a searing meeting of the minds at a hotel bar. Meteorite-vendor Michael Casper describes his far-out business.
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THE ECONOMIST
The Environmental Racism Hoax
By David Friedman
The trendy crusade against "Environmental Racism" isn't just a fraud, it's a danger to the health and well-being of the urban poor.
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FLASHBACK
The Atheist Who Played in Peoria
By Bill Kauffman
The GOP's leading atheist.
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HOLLYWOOD REPORT
TBS Does RWR
By John Meroney
The Reagan story Hollywood won't tell.
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BOOK TALK
Reviews of New Books
By John McClaughry, Dave Kopel, Nicholas Stix, Clay Waters, Martin Morse Wooster
Coolidge, An American Enigma by Robert Sobel / Flawed Giant by Robert Dallek / Plagiarism and the Culture War by Theodore Pappas / A New Kind of Party Animal by Michele Mitchell / It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand by Jerome Tuccille
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DIGEST
Summaries of Important Research
Los Millionarios...falling prices...saving schools with big classes...new info on the hazards of divorce.
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THE MAIL
Reader Feedback
We miss DDT. Defending soccer. Echoes on day care.
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Feature articles
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The Greatest Story Never Told
By Deroy Murdock
Everyday America's racial harmony.
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Why is America's Black Middle Class Strangely Fragile?
By Richard Miniter
Meet some people who confound both liberal and conservative clichés.
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"We Want to Depend on Ourselves"
By Eli Lehrer
African immigrants reveal some of the many varieties of "blackness" in America.
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Out of the Box
By Bill Kauffman
Black intellectual Stephen Carter places his hope in local communities of the Christian faithful, not the civil rights establishment.
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The Rise of the Black Independent
By Andrew Peyton Thomas
The ranks of non-liberal blacks are growing. We profile some of the leaders, including Reggie and Sara White, Stanley Crouch, Ken Blackwell, Herman Cain, Kay Cole James, Ward Connerly, Ken Hamblin, J.C. Watts, and others. Plus: an excerpt from Clarence Thomas' powerful speech tot he black lawyers' association.
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When Race Matters and When It Doesn't
By Marvin Olasky, Hendrik Mills, Michael Lynch, Dinesh D'Souza
Firsthand reports on life in mixed-race families today.
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Black Racism
By Ying Ma
A Chinese immigrant describes the black racism she grew up with. Why are Asian civil rights groups silent?
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A Deadly Mix
By Hendrik Mills
Welfare state liberalism has brought devastation to American Indian reservations.
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The Fix: School Reform
By Nina Shokraii Rees
Radical school reform is the most compassionate thing anyone could do for poor minority kids.
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Bulworthless
By Evan Gahr
By serving up left-over platitudes and purposely ignoring America's real problems, Clinton's "Race Initiative" has turned into a miserable flop.
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What Clinton's Year-Long Rap on Race Left Out
By Jonetta Rose Barras, John Sibley Butler, Linda Chavez, John DiIulio, Larry Elder, Nat Hentoff, Ed Koch
A parade of iconoclasts sound off on race, markets, quotas, and heroes in America.
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