Policy Review articles from April 2003

Policy Review archives from April 2003

Democratic imperialism: A blueprint.
April 1, 2003... ALTHOUGH THE UNITED STATES is the preeminent power in the world, we are not yet an empire. Notwithstanding periodic foreign interventions and our considerable international influence, we have not used our military to secure direct and...

The new economy's sore losers.
April 1, 2003... THE BUSINESS SCANDALS that roiled the first two years of President George W. Bush's administration, not to mention the long boom that led up to the scandals, are best understood as an emblem of society's attempt to come to terms with a new...

Rage, hubris, and regime change.
April 1, 2003... THROUGHOUT THE 1990S, THE 1990S, intellectuals and journalists, partly in response to the proliferation of prefixes -- post-Cold War, post-communist, even postmodern -- engaged in a competitive and seemingly imperative quest to name an era. The...

The cosmopolitan illusion.
April 1, 2003... IS IT WRONG to teach our children to be patriotic? Or may we teach them to be a little patriotic, provided that we also teach them to value and respect the cultures of others? Should they be encouraged to be loyal to their own nation, or should...

Market reform: lessons from New Zealand.
April 1, 2003... ADECADE AGO, New Zealand was at the forefront of cutting-edge liberalizing economic reforms, an agenda that was pursued by both the country's main political parties. First, the left-of-center Labour party, elected in 1984, deregulated,...

Leo Strauss and the Conservatives. (Books).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... JOHN ALVIS AND JOHN MURLEY, EDITORS. Willmoore Kendall: Maverick of American Conservatives. LEXINGTON BOOKS. 278 PAGES. $24.95 IN AN ACT of piety towards a teacher worthy of it, John Alvis and John Murley have edited a collection of essays...

The Oblivious Voter. (Books).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... THOMAS E. PATTERSON. The Vanishing Voter: Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty. KNOPF. 256 PAGES. $25.00 DURING THE presidential election of 2000 Thomas E. Patterson, a political scientist and voter-turnout specialist who had...

The Failure in Forgetting. (Books).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... AVISHAI MARGALIT. The Ethics of Memory. HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 224 PAGES. $24.95 AVISHAI MARGALIT'S The Ethics of Memory opens with a story about a certain colonel in the Israeli army. As Margalit tells it, the colonel was consumed by...

The Most Elegant Thieves of All. (Books).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... TOD VOLPE. Framed: Tales of the Art Underworld. CUTTING EDGE PRESS (EDINBURGH). 271 PAGES. [pounds sterling]15.99 OVER THE PAST couple of years has come a steady flow of revelations about that perennially glamorous subject, the...