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...Seven Fat Years, Bartley calls for a return to the policies that, he says, made the '80s a glorious epoch. Packed with statistics and sometimes eye-glazing arguments, the book tells how Bartley and such fellow supply- siders as economist Arthur Laffer and journalist Jude Wanniski cooked up the recipe for Reaganomics over meals at a Wall Street watering hole called Michael 1. The basic ingredients were tax cuts and a monetary policy capable of producing low and stable interest rates. "As 1982 drew to a merciful close," Bartley writes, "both sides of the Michael 1 prescription were finally coming...
Historian Geoffrey Blainey is among those who argue for reducing immigration, but other analysts find the notion unrealistic. "Human movement is the feature of our epoch. Nations that put up barriers will no longer be part of any world community," says Mary Kalantzis, a historian at Wollongong University's Center for Multicultural Studies. Kalantzis thinks old forms of national identity that seek to forge a nation around a single ethnic group are no longer viable...
Cattle ranching is destroying tropical forests. Without question, ranching is a factor in tropical deforestation, and a major one at that. But University of Pennsylvania biologist Daniel Janzen, for one, believes that this unfortunate epoch in the history of Latin America is rapidly drawing to a close. In Costa Rica, he says, "most of the pastureland that was easily cleared of forest has already been cleared." At the same time, the remaining forest has begun to rise in value. "Two decades ago," explains Janzen, "the choice was simple. Either the forest stood there, or someone tore it down to plant...
...inform Ms. Kerrigan that the Nazi flag also symbolizes--for fascists and Nazis--"a heritage of character, dignity and courage." But in our epoch and in our place (here at Harvard College), both the Nazi flag and Confederate flag symbolize two instances of the modern world's cruelest institutions and events. This latter symbolism should, I submit, take precedent over Ms. Kerrigan's school-boyish, immature and romantic identification with Southern feudalistic and racist traditions. Martin L. Kilson Professor of Government
...America's epoch is to last, the underlying character of American culture must remain true to itself as it is pulled toward a common global denominator by its entertainment engine. But danger signals are already present: too few movies characterized by nuance, or even good old American nuttiness; more and more disco-dance epics, sickly sweet romances and shoot-'em-up, cut-'em-up, blow-'em-up Schwarzenegger characters; rock 'n' roll that never gets beyond heavy breathing and head banging; blockbuster books that read like T shirts. The combination of the foreign marketplace and a young domestic audience nourished...