PREACHING HATE
What do Pat Buchanan and Khallid Abdul Muhammad have in common? Each demonstrates in his own way that these are hard times for demagogues. Each has played his usual tunes...
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GIVING `STRIVERS’ AN EQUAL CHANCE AT TOP COLLEGES
Sharpen your No. 2 pencils, class. We're having a pop quiz: Which of the following statements is true? (A) State and local school districts are using standardized tests more and...
EVALUATING RACISM
Are racists insane? Or just mentally ill? Or just, as we laypeople like to say, normal? That question takes on particular significance for Buford O. Furrow Jr., an avowed white...
ON THE RIGHT ROAD
If you pay much attention to the presidential campaign (and these days those of us who do seem to be remarkably few), you will hear a lot of talk about...
VENTURA’S VENTURE
It was strange enough when show business paved the way to politics. Now we have to contend with politics paving the way to show business. At least that's what some...
OH NO, NOT AGAIN
Like countless other Americans, I have been trying to figure out what to make of George W. Bush's reluctance to answer the cocaine question. Although "Dubyah," as the Republican front-runner...
THE DEATH OF `RETAIL POLITICS’
People really cared about Lamar Alexander's presidential campaign, once he decided to end it. "I seem to be attracting more attention getting out than I did getting in," the former...
KEEPING UP WITH THE HATE IN OUR MIDST
As the shooting tragedy unfolded in a Jewish community center in Los Angeles last week, unfolded on live television, I wondered how many episodes of hate-motivated violence it takes before...
TRIPPING UP LINDA SOUNDS LIKE A BAD IDEA
As a member of the multitude who felt President Clinton's dalliance with Monica Lewinsky was unsavory yet unworthy of federal prosecution, I was more than a little amused to see...
REDISCOVERING THE `UNDERCLASS’
Guess who still is with us, still trying to get some attention: poor people. With all of the exuberance that has greeted the economic boom of the 1990s--rising employment rates,...