SIDELIGHTS News Scraps
Farrakhan’s latest con. Bunnies, crocodiles, and prison breaks. Jesse Jackson cracks on cops. Donahue dumps on Old Glory. Poles remember God. Euro's not a keeper, says Friedman. Hunchback crippled by feeble-minded.
SCAN Short News and Commentary
An Afghan democrat: exclusive interview. Individuals, not governments, change the world. Joycelyn Elders defends pedophilia. You'll regret chickening out of the stock market. Asians follow blacks on ethnic politics. Sickened by suits.
POLITICO The Conservative Calm
By Grover Norquist
Why George W. Bush remains popular with conservative voters and has strong support from conservative leaders.
"LIVE" WITH TAE Andres Duany
He’s a Cuban émigré, a popular author and lecturer, a fearless popper of radical pretensions, and the flamboyant leader of an influential movement to return American community and home design to its pre-World War II golden age.
TRANSCRIPT Defending Dignity
By Leon R. Kass , M.D.
Leon Kass, head of President Bush’s Advisory Council on Bioethics, ponders the biological revolution, the tough decisions we face today, and the truly frightening issues that will emerge tomorrow.
IN REAL LIFE First-person America
A police encounter gives Christine Parsons a flashback. Isabel Lyman discovers some second-generation homeschoolers.
WORKING LUNCH Freedom Fighter Radek Sikorski, an AEI scholar working to build trans-Atlantic ties, discusses his Polish heritage and the possibilities of democracy in Afghanistan.
BOOK TALK Reviews of New Books Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand / Principles and Heresies: Frank S. Meyer and the Shaping of the American Conservative Movement by Kevin Smant / The Funny Money Game by Andrew Tobias
DIGEST Summaries of Important Research
Computer programs that bug. Heal thyself with health care choices. Reward teachers. Practical vs. romantic environmentalism. Breakthrough on stem cell research.
NOW PLAYING Voter Poem
By Josh Larsen
Feeling jaded about voting? Here’s an antidote.
Feature articles
Rocky Mountain
By Scott Walter
A one-man alternative to the welfare state, Bob Coté is a charismatic ex-drunk Christian who runs a hard-nosed rehabilitation center for addicts in Denver.
The Real Bobby Knight
By Michael A. Ledeen
The public relations campaign against star basketball coach Bobby Knight grows out of a modern shortsightedness and intolerance of the true nature of the male sex. Meet the man behind the media portrayal.
Calamity in Klamath
By Blake Hurst
They helped save their country in wartime. They tamed a wasteland and built a productive community. Then Bill Clinton's environmental pals dropped an anvil on their heads. Now they’re fighting again.
No Thanks to Affirmative Action
By Linda Chavez
A glimpse into the harsh realities that drove an intelligent, left-wing Mexican American female into an implacable dislike for racial preferences.
On High
By Mick Conefrey and Tim Jordan
It took an eccentric missionary to find a way up America's highest mountain.
Latin America on the Brink
By Mark Falcoff
Nearly all of our major neighbors to the south are now teetering on the brink of a dangerous economic or political cliff.
