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Policy Review articles from August 2000
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 August 2000
The Politics Of the Supreme Court.(Review)
August 1, 2000... LUCAS A. POWE JR. The Warren Court and American Politics. THE BELKNAP PRESS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 566 PAGES. $35.00
EARL WARREN CASTS a long shadow. Even if Warren had never been appointed chief justice of the United States, he still...
Women At Arms.(Review)
August 1, 2000... STEPHANIE GUTMANN. The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars? SCRIBNER. 300 PAGES. $25.00
LAURA FAIRCHILD BRODIE. Breaking Out: VMI and the Coming of Women. PANTHEON. 350 PAGES. $26.00
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The "Chineseness" of Taiwan.(Chen Shuibian and the future of Taiwan)
August 1, 2000... ON THE EVE OF THE VICTORY of opposition candidate Chen Shuibian in Taiwan's March presidential election, there were jitters aplenty. Chinese prime minister Zhu Rongji, usually cast as the mainland's "nice cop," waggled an admonitory finger on...
Justice to George S. Schuyler.(in-depth biography of conservative black journalist and author)
August 1, 2000... LAST YEAR, Random House republished Black No More, a satirical novel by George S. Schuyler (pronounced sky-ler). First published in 1931, the book is a clever story about what would happen if blacks could change their skin color at will. It...
Russia's Dysfunctional Media Culture.(how country's communist history affects mass media)
August 1, 2000... IN ALL THE RECENT WESTERN attention to the corruption and racketeering of Russia's leadership, one critical fact of life has gone largely overlooked. In the eight years since the dissolution of the U.S.S.R., all efforts to create a free press...
Bring Back the Laxalt Doctrine.(former Senator Paul Laxalt's approach to foreign policy in Reagan years applicable to current international issues)
August 1, 2000... IN THE ABSENCE of a clearly defined major threat to the United States -- a central characteristic of the contemporary post-Cold War world -- American foreign policy has drifted in recent years. Predictably, competing schools of thought have...
Death by Dietary Supplement.(Western countries' supplement industries in dire need of regulation)
August 1, 2000... IN HIS NEW BOOK Dr. Atkins' Age-Defying Diet Revolution, best-selling author Robert Atkins urges readers to take various dietary supplements -- vitamins, herbs, and minerals -- that he says will prevent or alleviate a host of ailments. Most of...
The Times of Our Times.(Review)
August 1, 2000... SUSAN E. TIFFT AND ALEX S.ROSE. The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times. LITTLE, BROWN AND CO. 870 PAGES. $29.95
IT IS UNLIKELY THERE will be another American newspaper with the prestige and influence of the...
The Surprising Roots of Fascism.(Review)
August 1, 2000... A. JAMES GREGOR. The Two Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century. YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 256 PAGES. $30.00
IANUS WAS THE ROMAN god after whom January is named. He was considered the guardian deity of gates and doors and...
Nearer My God To Me.(Review)
August 1, 2000... ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ. The Genesis of Justice: Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice that Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Law. WARNER BOOKS. 273 PAGES. $25.95
THAT THE PURSUIT of perfect justice tends to produce its own injustice is a...
LETTERS.
August 1, 2000... Medical Marijuana Works
SIR, -- James R. McDonough's attack on medical marijuana ballot initiatives comes as no surprise, coming as it does from a politically appointed drug bureaucrat dedicated to regulating what kinds of drugs Americans...