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Mr. Green's book, according to his host, "devotes a chapter of modest size to every problem in America with the possible exception of original sin."
The debate over maintaining the ban on women in combat had been sharpened by (a) the increasing recruitment of women for the Armed Forces and (b) the Gulf War, widely seen as showing, as Michael Kinsley puts it, that "high-tech warfare has blurred the distinction between combat and noncombat." This session is given extra authority by the presence of military people
Taped on Apr 27, 1993 (New York City, NY)
As Mr. Buckley points out, the rising rate of illegitimacy (17 per cent among whites currently, 62 per cent among blacks) is an issue not only morally, but also in terms of its fostering other pathologies--crime, illiteracy, drug use. Mr. Blankenhorn is earnest rather than sparkling, but he has a lot to say. "In our interviews we've found the most severe critics of the current welfare system to be the people who are on it. They'll tell you in unequivocal terms that it is a pretty terrible thing, and they'll tell you that one of the terrible things about it is that it's part of a system that effectively keeps men out of family life."
Guest(s):
1) Blankenhorn, David. - President of the Institute for American Values
http://hoohila.stanford.edu/firingline/programView2.php?programID=1361
Our guests approach the title questions obliquely but profoundly, getting at what liberal education is and who should receive it by talking about how liberal education is done.
Our guests approach the title questions obliquely but profoundly, getting at what liberal education is and who should receive it by talking about how liberal education is done.
A high-voltage debate that goes beyond the narrow question of the "Religious Right" to examine the whole place of religion in American life.
The nation was about halfway through the twenty-month-long marathon on health-care reform that had been set in motion by President and Mrs. Clinton.
The nation was about halfway through the twenty-month-long marathon on health-care reform that had been set in motion by President and Mrs. Clinton.
Yes, there's still more to say; these installments look at the subject more from the patient's and the doctor's point of view than the politician's.
Yes, there's still more to say; these installments look at the subject more from the patient's and the doctor's point of view than the politician's.
Anyone who has followed the political-correctness debate knows, as Michael Kinsley puts it, "that, by reputation at least, we are at the heart of the beast. It was here at the University of Pennsylvania last year that a white freshman was charged with racial harassment for calling a group of black women 'water buffalo.' " It was also here, Mr. Buckley reminds us, that a group of students stole and destroyed copies of a student newspaper that carried an op-ed piece they disagreed with.
