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The Public Interest
Public Interest is a magazine specializing in Politics topics.
Articles from No. 110, Winter
Family Breakdown as Family Policy
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PROFESSOR CHERLIN'S critique can be summarized in three claims: 1) that my concerns about technical flaws in his Science article are "groundless"; 2) that my hypothesis that the increased availability and social acceptability of divorce may lead to...
Genetic Engineering: The Making of Monsters?
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IN 1973 scientists integrated a number of esoteric techniques in microbial and molecular biology, making possible the directed molecular recombination of DNA. By this method, fragments of DNA from any source could be spliced in the test tube and cloned...
In Praise of Pork
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IN A WHITE HOUSE address last March, President Bush challenged Congress to cut $5.7 billion of pork barrel projects to help reduce the deficit. Among the projects Bush proposed eliminating were such congressional favorites as funding for asparagus...
Nostalgia as Family Policy
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IN "For the Sake of the Children" [Summer 1992], Richard Gill criticizes a study several collaborators and I published on the effects of divorce on children.([dagger]) Gill first charges that our methodology and our interpretation are flawed, then...
Shakespeare-"For All Time"?
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THE CONTENT of the curriculum tends to be the focus of contemporary debates on the humanities in college education, as if our only concern should be exactly which books are being taught on our campuses. Many people, for example, are understandably...
Social Science and Minority "Set-Asides."
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FOR THE PAST half century, government agencies and the courts have relied on social scientists to define and measure discrimination. The most famous result was the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which cited the work of Kenneth...
What Infrastructure Crisis?
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JUST A FEW years ago, the term "infrastructure" held little meaning for most people. Today citizens and policymakers alike increasingly subscribe to the notion that we suffer from an "infrastructure crisis," marked by deteriorating highways, bridges,...
