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Policy Review articles from April 2008
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 2008
Energy independence isn't very green.
April 1, 2008... THERE'S BROAD AGREEMENT that America should reduce its dependence on imported oil, but far less agreement on why. Are we combating global warming, or are we distancing ourselves from hostile and unstable regimes? The popular reply is that it...
Taxing private equity.
April 1, 2008... SINCE ITS INAUGURATION, the 110th Congress and its Democratic majority have been searching for additional revenue to pay for a controversial expansion of the state children's health insurance program (or S-CHIP), increased education subsidies,...
"Harmonious" in China.(Essay)
April 1, 2008... THESE GRAND WORDS sound like something Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Hu Jintao or Premier Wen Jiabao might say in explaining their agenda of "constructing a harmonious society" as they manage China's "peaceful rise" to great...
Religion and economic development.(Essay)
April 1, 2008... READING THE HISTORIAN Arnold Toynbee's lectures on the British Industrial Revolution, it is quickly apparent that conditions in England prior to 1760 were in many respects similar to those in developing countries today: Poor infrastructure and...
Religion and social order.(Essay)
April 1, 2008... WHAT DO RUSSIA, China, Afghanistan, and Iraq have in common? In nations where an authoritarian regime has collapsed, liberation is typically followed by explosive increases in anti-social behavior. This fact, which holds irrespective of whether...
The mufti and the holocaust.(Der Mufti von Jerusalem und die Nationalsozialisten)(Book review)
April 1, 2008... KLAUS GENSICKE. Der Mufti von Jerusalem und die Nationalsozialisten. WISSENSCHAFTLICHE BUCHGESELLSCHAFT. 247 PAGES. [euro]49.90
Germany stands for an uncompromising struggle against the Jews. It is
self-evident that the struggle...
Fighting jihad.(Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism: A Call to Action)(Book review)
April 1, 2008... GEORGE WEIGEL. Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism: A Call to Action. DOUBLEDAY RELIGIOUS PUBLISHING. 208 PAGES. $18.95
AMONG THE MANY issues that divide the nation, perhaps none is more consequential than that presented by jihadist...
Thwarted plots.(The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack)(Book review)
April 1, 2008... RONALD KESSLER. The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack. CROWN FORUM. 272 PAGES. $26.95
IN THE YEARS since 9/11, as elections have come and gone and come again, as the war in Iraq has raged and calmed, and...
Thicker than what?(The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters)(Book review)
April 1, 2008... CHARLOTTE MOSLEY. The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters. HARPER. 864 PAGES. $39.95
LIKE THE KENNEDYS, whose path they crossed briefly, the Mitfords of England live on in books and in legend, as one of those truths so much stranger than...