Policy Review articles from August 2006

Policy Review archives from August 2006

Sustaining our resolve.
August 1, 2006... WE LIVE AT A time of unprecedented promise. Freer and more open economic and political systems of governance are gaining ground, and the evidence is clear that these developments lead to more prosperous and more hopeful lives. But...

The mismeasure of poverty.
August 1, 2006... FOR WELL OVER a century, with ever-expanding scale and scope, the United States government has been generating statistics that might illuminate the plight of society's poorest and most vulnerable elements. From the beginning, the express...

Breaking the oil habit.
August 1, 2006... WHEN HE TOLD Congress last winter that the the United States is "addicted to oil," George W. Bush joined every president since Richard Nixon in calling for some measure of energy independence. But Bush's goals were more modest than his...

War-Torn Democrats.(The Good Fight: Why Liberals and Only Liberals Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great)(With All Our Might: A Progressive Strategy for Defeating Jihadism and Defending Liberty)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... WILL MARSHALL, EDITOR. With All Our Might: A Progressive Strategy for Defeating Jihadism and Defending Liberty. ROWMAN AND LITTLEFIELD. 252 PAGES. $19.95 PETER BEINART. The Good Fight: Why Liberals--and Only Liberals--Can Win the War on...

Ambitious Eliot Spitzer.(Spoiling For A Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... BROOKE MASTERS. Spoiling For A Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer. HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY. 368 PAGES. $26.00 IT SEEMS INCREASINGLY likely that Eliot Spitzer--sometime scourge of the fund managers, the people's champion, part Rudolph Giuliani...