May 29, 2000


The Protests in Washington:

What's Next?
BY JASON VEST

The Insider
BY DAVID MOBERG
Joseph Stiglitz challenges the Washington consensus.

Breaking Law to Keep Order
BY TERRY J. ALLEN
Free speech can be hazardous
to your health.

The Riot That Wasn't
BY DAVID GRAEBER

The Protest Next Time
BY LAURA FLANDERS


Christian Right Update:

Bench Press
BY HANS JOHNSON
Bush promises to stack the courts
for the far right.

Does God Hate Unions?
BY HANS JOHNSON

All the Right Moves
BY BILL BERKOWITZ
Bush is still beholden to religious conservatives.


News & Views

Editorial
BY SALIM MUWAKKIL
A common enemy.

Appall-O-Meter
BY DAVID FUTRELLE

A Terry Laban Cartoon

Seeking Justice
BY DAVE LINDORFF
The Supreme Court narrowly
defends habeas corpus

Atomic Reacton
BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
Officials use global warming
to save nuclear power

Mad Grads
BY KARI LYDERSEN
Graduate student unions are
gaining ground nationwide

Profile
BY TERRY J. ALLEN
Dyke to watch out for.


Culture

Red Gotham
BY KIM PHILLIPS-FEIN
BOOKS: Working-Class New York

Dinner and a Show
BY JASON SHOLL
BOOKS: The Invention of the Restaurant

Secrets and Lives
BY SCOTT McLEMEE
FILM: Joe Gould's Secret

Moms Rule
BY
BETH SCHULMAN
Ariel Gore, one hip mama.

 
All the Right Moves

By Bill Berkowitz

Out on the campaign trail, George W. Bush is hotfooting his way back to the center. Almost every day, he's either hawking a new education proposal, reassuring Catholics that his Bob Jones University speech was all just a big misunderstanding, or opening up the big tent for a meeting with a selected group of gay Republicans. All of this is being done to recapture last fall's halcyon days when Dubya was the king of "compassionate conservatism."

Now that Bush has sewn up the nomination - thanks to a surge of support from the Christian right - his brain trust wants to distance the governor from leaders like Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and Lou Sheldon. But the ambitious Election 2000 campaigns that this trio have in the works could make the path toward the center a pretty rocky road.

Bill Berkowitz is the editor of Culturewatch (www.igc.org/culturewatch), a monthly publication tracking the religious right and related movements.

 

 

 


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Vol. 24, No. 13