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Legitimacy, At Last3
23/07/2010 17:29
The existential issue for those people was how to get by from one day to the next, and to the extent that one could do so, post '60s welfare was crucial in making the two-parent family an oddity in black inner cities. This is clear in observations that Patterson presents in passing,...
Legitimacy, At Last2
23/07/2010 17:29
Patterson’s theme is that the solution to the black family problem has remained an eternal headscratcher, with ideological posturing preventing effective solutions. This is a symptom of his faultlessly non-partisan approach, allowing all sides their say. (I cannot help wondering,...
Roots and Branches2
22/07/2010 17:11
Another question provoked by the genre is, when did the extremely particular become a universal obsession? There was a time when scholarship involved a quest for universal truths and norms, not for the most local forms of knowledge, and a Harvard professor would probably not have...
Roots and Branches1
22/07/2010 17:10
New, a professor of English at Harvard, comes from a family whose story is interestingly at odds with the usual clichés about Eastern European shtetl Jews—the platitudes that she herself believed before she set out to learn about her family’s past. The Levys and the Barons were not...
Do Not Obey
21/07/2010 16:56
The recession is forcing states to raise taxes and cut budgets, including education budgets, which is a wildly stupid national policy both on short-term economic grounds and in terms of investing in future human capital. The responses to this crisis have been maddeningly...
Today In The Soccer Wars
21/07/2010 16:56
The world is crazy for soccer, but most Americans don’t give a hoot about the sport. Why? Many years ago, my former White House colleague Bill McGurn pointed out to me the real reason soccer hasn’t caught on in the good old U.S.A. It’s simple, really: Soccer is a socialist...
‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ in the Great Lakes?
20/07/2010 16:44
One of the annual Great Lakes political rites of late spring is the leadership policy conference on scenic Mackinac Island, the car-less Great Lakes getaway, at w
The Shifting Geography of State Business Subsidies
20/07/2010 16:43
Every year states spend millions on subsidies to stimulate business activity. However, in far too many cases too little is known about either the geography of the
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19/07/2010 18:07
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Lawyer: Lohan staying at substance abuse facility
17/07/2010 15:18
Lawyer: Lohan staying at substance abuse facility
LOS ANGELES — Lindsay Lohan has moved to a substance abuse facility and signed legal papers hiring celebrity lawyer Robert Shapiro to represent her as she prepares to head to jail for violating probation in a 2007 drug case.Shapiro, a key...
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