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Why Ritalin Rules

Parents and Teachers Have Lost Patience with Childhood

by Mary Eberstadt

Policy Review, April 1999, pp. 24-44

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    3. Are Vouchers Constitutional? by Nathan Lewin, pp. 5-9
    4. Vouchers and Test Scores by Paul E. Peterson, pp. 10-15
    5. Public School Benefits of Private School Vouchers by Nina Shokraii Rees, pp. 16-19
    6. A Model of Cultural Leadership by Adam Meyerson, pp. 20-24
    7. Sending Public School Students to Private Schools by Jonathan Fox, pp. 25-29
    8. Paying the Piper by Joe Loconte, pp. 30-36
    9. A Choice for the Chosen by Jeremy Rabkin, pp. 37-40
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    11. A Question of Capacity by Samuel Casey Carter, pp. 43-47
    12. The Last Word by Floyd H. Flake, pp. 48-50
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    2. Gingrich Lost and Found by Tod Lindberg, pp. 8-23
    3. Why Ritalin Rules by Mary Eberstadt, pp. 24-44
    4. The Conservative Case for NATO by Bruce Pitcairn Jackson, pp. 45-58
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    2. Impeachable Defenses by John O. McGinnis, pp. 27-36
    3. Lessons Our 401(k)s Taught Us by David Mastio, pp. 37-46
    4. What Voters Want by David Winston, pp. 47-57
    5. Diversity on Trial, p. 58
    6. What Ever Happened to J.S. Mill? by Nick-Anthony Buford, pp. 59-61
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    12. Letters, pp. 87-98
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    1. The Culture War That Isn't by Jeremy Rabkin, pp. 3-20
    2. The Quadrennial Fear of Ideas by Daniel Casse, pp. 21-36
    3. Helmut Kohl, Giant by Jeffrey Gedmin, pp. 37-52
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    5. A User's Guide to Politics by Herbert E. Meyer, pp. 69-78
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      1. The First Partner by Joyce Milton
      2. Monica's Story by Andrew Morton
    8. Letters, pp. 91-98
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    1. The Schools They Deserve by Mary Eberstadt, pp. 3-18
    2. Military Supremacy and How We Keep It by Loren B. Thompson, pp. 19-38
    3. Beyond "Ancient Hatreds" by Stephen Schwartz, pp. 39-52
    4. The Golden Age of Cooking by Amanda Watson Schnetzer, pp. 53-66
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    3. Humanitarian Hawks? by Adam Wolfson, pp. 29-44
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