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Some environmentalists are in it for ideology others for profit. But the profit motive, and other attractions of Private Property, could be put to the service of a genuine environmentalism. [...]

There is a delicious moment when currency systems break apart. At the instant just before total collapse, political leaders must get up and tell transparent lies. They must declare that [...]

FRANCE is sliding into its new role as just another comfortably bourgeois European nation, a bigger Belgium or a flatter Switzerland. But you have to admire the way the French [...]

IF SOMEONE WERE to write a Cherry Orchard for the class of Soviet intellectuals that is anow vanishing, it wouls be set in one of Moscow's hundreds of research institutes, [...]

The Idea Brokers: Think Tanks and the Rise of the New Policy Elite THEY ARE CALLED think tanks, but if you work in one and all you do is think, [...]

Mr. Brooks, a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, is completing a book on upscale culture in America. Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy in an Era of Excess, [...]

In a sunlit hotel room in Studio City you settle onto the couch and put your tape recorder on the glass table, as one of the pretty, young publicity agents [...]

GOOD VIBRATIONS: THE NEW PEACE OFFENSIVE OH GOD. He's dead. I was at the Jung Foundation's symposium on U.S.-Soviet relations, checking out the latest in peace movement fads. The elderly [...]

The Young Pol's Guide To the Brave New World TELEPHONE MESSAGES in the Justice Department usedto be funny, but not any more. How would it look, twenty years from now, [...]

SUPPLY-SIDE SQUABBLES THE THING about supply-siders is that they don't get along. Jammed into their little movement is a dazzling array of zealots, geniuses, egotists, and malcontents. Robert Mundell, the [...]

PLEASE, MR. POSTMAN: THE TRAVAILS OF RICHARD VIGUERIE THE POSTMAN must have looked menacing to Richard Viguerie last fall. In late August he brought Viguerie notice of a law suit [...]

FORGET THE FIRE-JUST KEEP TEACHING IN THE MID-1970s, the National Institute of Education spent $2.4 million surveying disorder in American public schools. In 1978 it released the 'Safe Schools' study, [...]

IN FEBRUARY, French fishermen took to the streets. They rampaged through a Paris fish market with axes and clubs, destroying a day's catch of imported fish before doing battle with [...]

THE RUNAWAY best-sellers among businessmen over the past few years have been books by or about Lee Iacocca, Bobby Knight, Ravi Batra, and Donald Trump-outspoken men who wear their obnoxiousness [...]

GREEDY LIKE ME I HAVEN'T DECIDED if I want to go out and be good before it becomes trendy or hand back and enjoy being greedy until the last moment. [...]

Tales of a New America by RobertReich (Times Books, 290 pp., $19.95) ROBERT REICH'S Tales of a NewAmerica could inspire a Democratic Administration in 1989 (if there is one) the [...]

The Reckoning by David Halberstam(Morrow, 728 pp., $19.95) AS HAL SPERLICH rested in hisGrosse Pointe home with visions of fuel efficiency pounding in his head, he could not have known [...]

THE REAL LES ASPIN STORY ON THE MORNING of September 24, 1986, a few dozen congressmen, senators, and staff shoehorned themselves into the secure, constantly guarded conference room above the [...]

MOST ACADEMIC disciplines were born as philosophy and now seem to be marching toward physics. The humanities are the disciplines that have been left behind by the exodus to number [...]

IN THE BUSINESS of education, nothing succeeds like failure. Every commission report that rails against the mediocrity of our schools translates into a multimillion-dollar government program for education. Every time [...]

Came the Revolution: Argument in the Reagan Era HERE IS AN example of how Capitol Hill partisanship can turn a meticulous thinker into a reckless instigator. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, [...]

New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time by Thomas Bender (Knopf, 422pp., $25) NOT TOO LONG [...]

The Cycles of American History INTRODUCING WHAT he intends to be his crowning work, the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. writes, '[Change] has left the experience of elders useless to the [...]

THESE HAVE BEEN boom years for Adam Smith's 'other' book. In 1976, Irving Kristol wrote an essay, 'Adam Smith and the Spirit of Capitalism,' which reminded people that Smith's The [...]

NEW YORK TIMES coverage of Nicaragua is about to become less infuriating. The Times has recently hired Pulitzer Prize-winner Shirley Christian as its Nicaraguan correspondent. Miss Christian is no conservative--she [...]

THERE ARE three startling facts about the recent excellence-in-education movement. First, there is virtually unanimous distress over the soft curricula, permissive behavior standards, and trendy teaching philosophies that prevail in [...]

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE RIGHT KIND IT WAS A cool October evening in 1964 when two Harvard University freshmen were startled by a glowing object hovering near one of the [...]

FUNDING THE RIGHT DO CONSERVATIVE scholars betray their principles when they accept federal research grants? The question has set off a bit of a donnybrook in right-wing circles, the tone [...]

THE QUESTION IS: Can a conservative laugh at a column in a pinko magazine like The Nation if the columnist is intending to be funny? The answer is: Theoretically, no; [...]

A list of books considered among the 100 best non-fiction of the 20th century is presented. Number one in the list is "The Second World War," by Winston S. Churchill. Second is "The Gulag Archipelago," by Aleksander I. Solzhenitsyn. Third is "Homage to Catalonia," by George Orwell. Fourth is "The Road to Serfdom," by F. A. von Hayek. "The Open Society and Its Enemies," by Karl Popper is sixth on the list. Tenth on the list is Milton Friedman's "Capitalism and Freedom."

Several letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues, including "Great Black Hopes," in the August 12, 1996 issue, and "Salvaged From Schmaltz," in the September 2, 1996 issue, are presented.