Policy Review articles from April 2000

Policy Review archives from April 2000

Richard Rorty, Liberal Absolutist.(Review)
April 1, 2000... RICHARD RORTY. Philosophy and Social Hope. PENGUIN Books. 288 PAGES. $13.95. WHEN ARISTOTLE asserted that "man is a political animal," he meant many things. But above all he wished to draw our attention to the fact that man alone possesses...

Do-gooders and Double Standards.(Review)
April 1, 2000... JOHN B. JUDIS. The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of Public Trust. PANTHEON BOOKS. 320 PAGES. $26.00. BACK IN THE DAYS when the most popular self-help business book was called The One-Minute...

LETTERS.
April 1, 2000... Humanitarian War SIR, -- In "Humanitarian Hawks?" (December 1999/January 2000), Adam Wolfson criticizes mainstream Democratic thinking at the time of the Persian Gulf crisis and war. He is surely right that the votes of congressional...

The Coming Ascent Of Congress.
April 1, 2000... Honest AND PRINCIPLED he may not have been, but President Clinton seemed in 1999 to be the very model of an effective executive. He had turned impeachment against the congressional Republicans. He was setting the domestic agenda on issues...

Smoke, Fire, and What to Do in Asia.(militarization of Asia and its affect on the U.S.)
April 1, 2000... IT IS BY NOW widely acknowledged that the Asia-Pacific region is poised to become the new center of gravity in international politics in the twenty-first century. This transformation is truly momentous. For most of the modern era, the continent...

From Yeltsin to Putin.(Vladimir Putin left to finish what Boris Yeltsin started by integrating Russia into the West)
April 1, 2000... Milestones on an Unfinished Journey BORIS YELTSIN'S PASSING FROM the world scene demonstrates once again how one man can change history. If not for Yeltsin, Russia today might still be ruled by the Soviet Communist Party, either in...

Marijuana on the Ballot.(medical community divided over therapeutic use of drug)
April 1, 2000... WHILE IT HAS LONG BEEN CLEAR that chemical compounds found in the marijuana plant offer potential for medical use, smoking the raw plant is a method of delivery supported neither by law nor recent scientific evidence. The Food and Drug...

Tall Tales from The Family Farm.(farming not the serene, simple life that most outsiders think)
April 1, 2000... He sees not that sea of trouble, of labour, and expense which have been lavished on this farm. He forgets the fortitude, and the regrets. J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America ALL THIS HAPPENED On a...