Policy Review articles from August 2007

Policy Review archives from August 2007

What the Beatitudes teach.
August 1, 2007... THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT has long been rightly understood as both a starting-point and a summation of Jesus's teaching. It begins with the Beatitudes (Mt. 5:3-12), in which Jesus delineates the categories of people he says enjoy special favor....

End of dreams, return of history.
August 1, 2007... THE WORLD HAS become normal again. The years immediately following the end of the Cold War offered a tantalizing glimpse at a new kind of international order, with nations growing together or disappearing altogether, ideological conflicts...

Held back: No Child Left Behind needs some work.(Company overview)
August 1, 2007... PASSED BY CONGRESS in late 2001 and signed by President George W. Bush one year after his inauguration, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is the most ambitious federal education statute ever. It overhauled and expanded Washington's role in...

Supply, demand & kidney transplants.
August 1, 2007... IN MAY 2002, Clois Guthrie, an 85-year-old retired osteopathic surgeon, got the phone call he was waiting for: A suitable kidney had just become available for him. A renal transplant would mean liberation from the dialysis machine to which he...

Marking intelligence smart.
August 1, 2007... ADISASTROUS "BOLT FROM the blue" attack kills thousands; enraged politicians and pundits point fingers; committees gravely recommend changes; a massive reorganization of the nation's security and intelligence organs follows. Sound familiar?...

Declinism.
August 1, 2007... THE WORRIES AND warnings come from across the political spectrum and across the oceans. New York Times critic Nicolai Ouroussoff calls America "an empire enthralled with its own power and unaware that it is fading." Former Clinton...

Vulgarizing the war debate.(Books)
August 1, 2007... STEPHEN HOLMES. The Matador's Cape: America's Reckless Response to Terror. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 384 PAGES. $30.00 WAR PLACES A premium on knowledge. Certainly it's better to have more troops, bigger guns, and more powerful bombs and...