Suddenly serviceable: is this the moment for national service? (Gazette).

From: The American Prospect | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

FOR YEARS, CHARLES MOSKOS has been churning out impassioned arguments for creating an American system of compulsory civilian and military service. The Northwestern University sociologist is widely recognized as the intellectual guru behind the national-service movement. But until recently, his idea seemed doomed to remain one of those noble proposals with almost no political appeal. It made antigovernment conservatives cringe and civil libertarians shudder. No one knew quite how it could be sold to the young people of America who would be asked to serve. Throughout the 1980s, it ...

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