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...eventually enacted high tariff barriers. It took Pearl Harbor and then communist expansionism to make internationalism the basis of U.S. foreign policy. Even during the heyday of the effort to contain communism, "the public never fully bought the challenge," says Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution. "Only a bipartisan consensus among elites kept the country's latent isolationism...
...parties will air next year. The voters are mad as hell, and just about every candidate seems eager to harness that anger -- or at least deflect it to the other guy. Besides, TV ads are too expensive to waste on reasoned debate over the economy and the homeless. The bipartisan conclusion: keep it short -- and mean. Dan Quayle has appointed himself the "pit bull" of Bush's campaign. G.O.P. insiders boast that if Mario Cuomo runs, they've already located his Willie Horton: Arthur Shawcross, an upstate New York child killer who went on to murder 10 women after...
...Fear No Art" has, sadly, become another useless, unheeded cliche. The bipartisan attack on most forms of expression is largely sponsored by special interest groups. Unfortunately, the selective opposition to censorship by those groups that claim to be in favor of freedom of expression has further endangered this freedom. Unnoticed by most, our civil liberties are slowly disappearing. And the best recent example of this is the controversy surrounding Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho...
...Etzioni and his followers, the question is how best to promote responsibility before imposing it. "In the end, free people are going to decide for themselves how to act," says Roger Conner of the American Alliance for Rights & Responsibilities, a bipartisan public-interest group. "How they feel about a duty that may be imposed on them is crucial. Way before something like Norplant is coerced, there has to be serious education and the widespread availability of birth control. If those conditions are met, there is a far greater possibility that both the individual and society will accept imposition. A regime...
...this contention may make some citizens yearn for the earlier days of this century when the Senate Judiciary Committee was more deferential to the President's choices. One bipartisan panel even concluded in 1988 that the confirmation system had become so "dangerously close to looking like the electoral process" that candidates should not have to testify...