Gore Vidal once said that the American political system has two right wings. Today's American left, or progressive element, could well adopt this as its slogan for 2000. At the recent Democratic convention in Los Angeles, they expressed—through a series of inflamed street demonstrations—their considerable displeasure at being, so to speak, left out of an increasingly centrist Democratic Party. Higher education fiscal policy is just another arena in which Democrats are starting to look more like Republicans, and radicals... More >>>