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Policy Review articles from April 2006
A bimonthly journal of the Hoover Institution that promotes inquiry into the American condition, American and other government and political and economic systems, and the role of the United States in the world. For the academic audience.
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Policy Review archives from April 2006
Why spending has got to give.(federal budget)
April 1, 2006... FEDERAL SPENDING ROSE from about 18.5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) at the end of the Clinton administration to 20.3 percent by the end of George W. Bush's first term--during the watch, that is, of a Republican president and a...
Growing old the hard way: China, Russia, India.
April 1, 2006... OVER THE PAST decade and a half, the phenomenon of population aging in the "traditional" or already affluent OECD societies has become a topic of sustained policy analysis and concern. (1) The reasons for this growing attention--and...
Are doctors biased?(race discrimination?)
April 1, 2006... Two 50-YEAR-OLD men arrive at an emergency room with acute chest pain. One is white and the other black Will they get the same quality of treatment and have the same chance of recovery? We would hope so, but many experts today insist that their...
The shadow of the bomb, 2006.(nuclear weapons)
April 1, 2006... NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE unique in their terrifying destructive potential. Their energy release is a million times larger than that of previous explosives. Mass destruction is inevitable if they are used in conflicts. One primitive atomic bomb...
Progressives for growth.(The Moral Consequences of Growth)(The Pro-Growth Progressive: An Economic Strategy for Shared Prosperity)(Book review)
April 1, 2006... BENJAMIN M. FRIEDMAN. The Moral Consequences of Growth. Harvard University Press. 570 pages. $29.50
GENE SPERLING. The Pro-Growth Progressive: An Economic Strategy for Shared Prosperity. Simon and Schuster. 368 pages. $26.95
IS THERE A...
War powers.(The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs After 9/11)(Book review)
April 1, 2006... JOHN YOO. The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs After 9/11. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS. 378 PAGES. $29.00
JOHN YOO HAS become famous for the memoranda he wrote on various aspects of the war on terror while a...
The pain painter.(Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream)(Book review)
April 1, 2006... SUE PRIDEAUX. Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream. YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 391 PAGES. $35.00
AMONG A GROUP of eight paintings by the Norwegian master Edvard Munch sold at a recent auction at Sotheby's in London was a work from 1916 representing...
A hero's tale.(First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan)(Book review)
April 1, 2006... GARY C. SCHROEN. First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan, PRESIDIO PRESS. 379 PAGES. $24.95
ONE DEFINITION OF a hero is someone who races into a burning building to save the lives of...