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James Q. Wilson |
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A scholarly proponent of “diversity” and its benefits has found that it fosters social distrust;is this surprising?
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October 2007 |
James Q. Wilson |
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The polarization in our politics is real; so are its damaging consequences.
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February 2006 |
James Q. Wilson |
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To commemorate COMMENTARY's 60th anniversary, and in an effort to advance discussion of the present American position in the world, the editors asked 36 leading thinkers to comment on the Bush administration's conduct of foreign policy.
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November 2005 |
James Q. Wilson |
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July/August 2005 |
Reviewed by James Q. Wilson |
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Liberal societies have been rare and fragile in the Muslim world; does Iraq have a chance to become one?
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December 2004 |
James Q. Wilson |
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October 2004 |
Reviewed by James Q. Wilson |
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In a bankrupt and divided California, direct democracy is at once solution and problem.
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December 2003 |
James Q. Wilson |
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Have recent rulings by the Supreme Court subverted fundamental elements of our constitutional order? Are there circumstances in which the Supreme Court is justified in reaching beyond its own precedents and the Constitution itself? What (if anything) should be done to contain or roll back the imperial judiciary?
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October 2003 |
Robert L. Bartley, William J. Bennett, Peter Berkowitz, Robert H. Bork and Alan M. Dershowitz |
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September 2003 |
Reviewed by James Q. Wilson |
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June 2003 |
Reviewed by James Q. Wilson |
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March 2003 |
Reviewed by James Q. Wilson |
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Among explanations for the rise in single-parent families, one--perhaps the most fascinating--is often overlooked.
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March 2002 |
James Q. Wilson |
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September 2001 |
Reviewed by James Q. Wilson |
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June 2000 |
Reviewed by James Q. Wilson |
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The conditions that permit self-government are easier to explain than to obtain, let alone to export.
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March 2000 |
James Q. Wilson |
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December 1999 |
Reviewed by James Q. Wilson |
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An ambitious and deeply insightful new history helps explain the riddle of our national uniqueness.
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April 1998 |
James Q. Wilson |
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For the past several decades, public and private institutions in the United States have operated under a system according to which designated minority groups receive special advantages in employment and education. Prominent intellectuals address questions on affirmative action. What is the nature of affirmative action? How would you weigh its costs and advantages? Is the policy on its way out?
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March 1998 |
William J. Bennett, Linda Chavez, Carl Cohen, Midge Decter and Terry Eastland |
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January 1998 |
Reviewed by James Q. Wilson |
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September 1997 |
Reviewed by James Q. Wilson |
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The war against the automobile is a continuation by other means of the war against the middle class and its (suburban) way of life.
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July 1997 |
James Q. Wilson |
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Our courts, which have mishandled abortion, may be on the verge of mishandling homosexuality.
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March 1996 |
James Q. Wilson |
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The Public worries that criminal trials, especially those involving murderers, have been hamstrung by the introduction of a number of implausible new legal stratagems.
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February 1996 |
James Q. Wilson |
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To commemorate Commentary's fiftieth anniversary, the editors addressed the following statement and questions to a group of American intellectuals:
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November 1995 |
Elliott Abrams, Joseph Adelson, Robert L. Bartley, Arnold Beichman and William J. Bennett |
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When the United States experienced the great increase in crime that began in the early 1960's and continued through the 1970's, most Americans were inclined to attribute it to conditions unique to this country.
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September 1994 |
James Q. Wilson |
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The success of William J. Bennett's admirable anthology of moral tales, The Book of Virtues1—which has become a major best-seller—is both heartening and puzzling: heartening because we want to think that people hunger for literature that teaches virtue, puzzling because it is not obvious why literature might have that effect.
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April 1994 |
James Q. Wilson |
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To the Editor:
The editors kindly invited me to comment on James Q. Wilson's discussion of my recent book, Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom (Knopf, 1993), in his own article, “On Abortion” [January].
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March 1994 |
Ronald Dworkin, Mary Ellen Bork, Guenter Lewy, Henry J. Hyde and Jean Bethke Elshtain |
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Abortion is a moral question.
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January 1994 |
James Q. Wilson |
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Almost every important tendency in modern thought has questioned the possibility of making moral judgments.
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June 1993 |
James Q. Wilson |
