FROM ISSUE NUMBER 159 - SPRING 2005 GO TO TABLE OF CONTENTS
Character and culture
IN The Public Interest’s twentieth anniversary issue, an essay appeared suggesting that Americans were increasingly concerned about the question of character. After many years of worrying about economic cycles, industrial management, and the negative income tax, we were beginning to be troubled by problems that seemed to arise out of a failure of character: poor school achievement, rising welfare rolls, a tolerance for deficits, and predatory crime.
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