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The legal and rhetorical overemphasis on race in the past generation (busing, affirmative action, quotas, punitive political correctness) has ended by compounding the oldest American melodrama. What should have been, at most, a temporary tactic (like Lincoln getting Congress to suspend habeas corpus during the Civil War) has become a...
Although Clinton seemed completely unprepared for the first rhetorical challenge from the emboldened G.O.P., for Gingrich to start off with the school-prayer amendment made political sense. It probably seemed like the perfect thank-you gift to the Christian right for its substantial role in the Republican triumph. Even though...
Known for his acid sense of humor, Armey has used his seat in the House as a duck blind from which to take potshots at the Administration. His weapon of choice is the rhetorical blunderbuss. The Clinton presidency is not merely flawed; it is a "train wreck." The health plan...
That's just how one thinks of Kael: as a nutty professor, the one you laugh at, fear and never forget. We see her prowling the classroom, badgering her students with scathing rhetorical questions, pinwheeling her provocative thoughts on what, when she talked about it, really was the liveliest art...
That proximity to the President makes her a formidable force for influencing the U.N.'s expanding role in the post-cold war era. "At this stage in world history," Albright says, "practically every foreign-policy issue has something to do with the U.N. It puts me in the wonderful position...