Latest by Robert Weissberg in Chronicles

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  Vital Signs

  September 1, 2001

  Who's Slave and Who's Massa?

  Of all the strange bedfellows that politics attracts, one of the oddest is the enduring liaison between the black civil-rights establishment and white liberal academics.

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  Views

  November 1, 1996

  Election Day: A Means of State Control

  Interpreting elections is a national spectator sport, offering as many "meanings" as there arc board-certified spin doctors. Nevertheless, all of these disparate revelations, insights, and brilliant interpretations share a common, unthinking vision: elections, despite their divisive, contentious character, exist to facilitate citizen power over government.

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  Views

  February 1, 1996

  Shadowmetrics

  The public opinion poll has become an ubiquitous feature of modern life. Seventy years ago, there were no professional pollsters. Fifty years ago only a handful—Gallup, Roper—served as takers of the public pulse.

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  Vital Signs

  June 1, 1994

  The Death of Natural Causes

  Let us begin with the obvious: sooner or later, everyone dies. Even Bill and Hillary say they know that. No amount of money will head off the inevitable. We cannot "cure" death like we might rebuild our inner cities or clean up the air. At best, we can use modern medicine to cheat death for a few years.

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  Vital Signs

  January 1, 1994

  Food, Felons, and Foreign Aid

  America's attempts to help the former Soviet Union have proven exceptionally frustrating. Nearly all government officials. Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, realize that something ought to be done.

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