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Policy Review articles from August 2005
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 2005
The Court, the Constitution, and the culture of freedom.(constitutional law)
August 1, 2005... IT IS NOT CONTROVERSIAL to contend that in the United States, constitutional law serves as a decisive battleground in the struggle over freedom's moral and political meaning. It is another matter to assess the impact of the battleground on the...
Making development work.(economic development)
August 1, 2005... "OUR DREAM IS A World Free of Poverty" reads the sign at the entrance to the World Bank headquarters. That's quite a lofty goal. So how do we achieve it? The short answer is that no one is certain. The long answer is that there is a way to...
The northern America fertility divide.
August 1, 2005... CANADA AND THE U.S. are more similar to each other than any two other large countries on the planet today. We share a language, a continent, and a colonial history. Our two affluent and resource-rich countries, moreover, have forged the largest...
John Howard's Australia.
August 1, 2005... SINCE 9/11, AUSTRALIANS have proven themselves once more to be "very satisfactory friends in peace, and the best of friends in war," as President John Kennedy described them in 1962, attesting to "this happy relationship between two great...
On death row in Japan.(Capital punishment)
August 1, 2005... IWAO HAKAMADA USED to be a promising prizefighter. Crowds cheered his name. Nowadays, his only regular human contact is with prison guards, who address him by number. He spends his time pacing the floor of his nine-by-nine-foot cell at the...
His world is flat.(Books)(The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX. 488 PAGES. $27.50
"ONE OF THE most enjoyable things about researching this book," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times...
Tammany's boss.(Books)(Boss Tweed)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... KENNETH D. ACKERMAN. Boss Tweed. CARROLL & GRAF. 437 PAGES. $27.00
TAMMANY HALL, the popular name of Manhattan's now-defunct Democratic machine, exerts an enduring fascination on the American imagination. From G.W. Plunkitt of the Very...
Orwell's Burmese enigma.(Books)(Finding George Orwell in Burma)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... EMMA LARKIN. Finding George Orwell in Burma. PENGUIN PRESS. 294 PAGES. $22.95
HAVING SPENT FIVE years in Burma as part of the Indian Imperial Police, Eric Blair decided to pack up and return home. To the great disappointment of his family,...
The great awakener.(Books)(Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelical)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... PHILIP GURA. Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelical. FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX. 304 PAGES. $24.00
OF THE EARLY American titans whose reputations have come down to us in condensed form, Jonathan Edwards may occupy the smallest pigeonhole....