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Policy Review articles from December 1999
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 December 1999
Humanitarian Hawks?
December 1, 1999... Why Kosovo but not Kuwait
NOT TOO LONG AGO, a predominantly Muslim city-state of about 2 million was invaded by its more powerful neighbor to the north. The aggressor had some historical claims and ties to the small city-state, but the...
NATO After Kosovo.
December 1, 1999... Toward "Europe Whole and Free"
WHEN NATO's FOUNDING FATHERS convened in Washington to create the Alliance in 1949, their primary concern was protecting Western Europe from the Red Army -- not smothering ethnic quarrels in the Balkans. Lord...
Rails of Progress.(Review)
December 1, 1999... David Haward Bain. Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad. Viking. 775 pages. $34.95
AITH IN HUMAN "progress" has taken quite a beating in the twentieth century. The supposed progress of ideas brought us communist and...
Reagan Among the Professors - His Surprising Reputation.
December 1, 1999... ASKED HOW HISTORY would remember him, Richard Nixon once said: "I think history will remember me fairly. But historians won't. Because most historians are on the left."
Likewise asked about his own presidency, Ronald Reagan, ever the...
The Case for Supermajority Rules.
December 1, 1999... THIS CENTURY ENDS, as it began, with extraordinary ferment about the soundness of our constitutional structures. In a series of recent decisions, the Supreme Court has appeared to revive doctrines of federalism and carve out spheres of autonomy...
Of Bulls and Bubbles.(Review)
December 1, 1999... EDWARD CHANCELLOR. Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation. FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX. 386 PAGES. $25.00
JAMES K. GLASSMAN & KEVIN A. HASSETT. Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting from the Coming Rise in the Stock...
The Trouble With Tax Cuts.
December 1, 1999... IN RECENT YEARS, tax cuts have fallen sharply as an issue of concern to voters. Poll after poll puts cutting taxes well down the list of priorities. This is puzzling because taxes as a share of gross domestic product or personal income are at...